Nerd News for Friday November 9th 2018:
Captain Marvel star Brie Larson promotes phone sex line?
Although I'm pretty sure that it was by complete accident, it did happen.
She very recently Tweeted out an image of her standing at a phone booth with Rock The Vote posters all over it.
If you zoom in on the image however, you will see a number on the pay phone.
That number was once controlled by Disney and used on some of their cable channel shows.
It currently however is a phone sex line.
The shocking part of this story is that there are still working phone sex lines.
Have these people never heard of the internet?
https://www.cnet.com/news/captain-marvel-fans-uncover-sex-hotline-easter-egg/
Rogue One live-action prequel series announced!
During a fourth quarter earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger made the announcement that the name of the upcoming Disney streaming service would be simply Disney+.
It was also announced that Diego Luna will bring back his character Cassian Andor to lead the series.
This will of course join the already in production live action series from director Jon Favreau called The Mandalorian.
The Rogue One series will go into production next year and of course cover the time before Rogue One.
More details are coming out about the lawsuit from The Satanic Temple against the Netflix show The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
They are suing for $150 million in damages due to the use of their copyrighted version of religious icon Baphomet.
The Satanic Temple version has less nudity, two children, and is actually more family friendly than Baphomet is shown traditionally.
The lawsuit centers around how everything about the two children in the shows version of the statue is almost exactly like the Baphomet used by The Satanic Temple.
The religious organization tried to deal with the situation outside of court, but was ignored.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/the-satanic-temple-sues-netflix-warner-bros-for-150-million.html
Avengers 4 to possibly be 3 hours long according to director Joe Russo.
“The running time on Avengers 4 is currently sitting right at three hours. We’ll see if that holds.” Russo posted recently on Instagram.
Avengers: Infinity War was two hours, forty minutes and was the longest movie in the MCU.
Avengers 4 wrapped in October, they are now editing, and they still haven't told us the title.
Bryan Cranston has confirmed the news that broke yesterday about the Breaking Bad movie
"I have not gotten the script, I have not read the script. So there's the question of whether or not we'll even see Walter White in this movie. Think about that one."
Several outlets are reporting that the story will be centered around Jesse Pinkman trying to escape after being kidnapped, and his quest for freedom.
creator Vince Gilligan is involved so we expect it to be good.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/08/entertainment/bryan-cranston-breaking-bad-movie/index.html
Pacific Rim anime series coming to Netflix.
This will be part of several new anime shows including one for Altered Carbon.
The franchise has it's roots in mecha anime and received a live action sequel last year.
The story will be about a brother and sister who find an abandoned Jaeger and try to find their parents.