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  • Edgar Wright and Michael Cera are working together in ‘The Running Man’. We are so back | The Mary Sue

    Edgar Wright and Michael Cera are working together in ‘The Running Man’. We are so back | The Mary Sue

    Scott Pilgrim vs. The World fans, get HYPE. Michael Cera, who played the titular Scott Pilgrim in the Edgar Wright film, is working with the filmmaker again. This time, they’re tackling Stephen King together with The Running Man.

    News broke in an exclusive from The Hollywood Reporter that Cera would be joining the Glen Powell led movie along with Coda and Cat Person actress, Emilia Jones. Cera is set to play a rebel who is attempting to help Powell’s Ben Richards survive the game he has put himself in and take on those in charge. Jones will play a wealthy woman who does not grasp the reality of the world she’s living in.

    The Running Man was originally published under King’s pen name Richard Bachman. It was then turned into a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wright, who is directing the film and co-writing it with Michael Bacall, is hopefully bringing us a more truth adaptation of King’s work. The cast continues to fill up with some brilliant actors we know and love. Josh Brolin is set to be the film’s villain as a producer on the show. Lee Pace is another villain, the game hunter hunting down Ben Richards in the game show. Katy O’Brian will play another contestant.

    Recently, Jayme Lawson was announced as Shelia Richards, playing Powell’s wife and the mother of his sick daughter. Ben decides to put himself on the game show network because his family could not afford medicine for his sick child. Ben gets put into “The Running Man” where a hunter seeks to capture and kill contestants.

    Wright reuniting with Cera is exciting though. Recently, the two worked together again on Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. Wright was an EP on the project and Cera returned to voice Scott in the anime series.

    A reunion we’ve been waiting for

    Since the release of Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World back in 2010, fans have fallen in love with Wright and Cera’s work. As a fan of the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy myself, it was nice to have another Wright project to connect with. While Wright worked with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost often, he didn’t work repeatedly with Cera. That’s why this is so exciting!

    Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is beloved by fans. Based on the series of graphic novels, the film has become a cult classic. With fans constantly wanting more from the cast, it was only a matter of time before we got this reunion. Getting to see Cera tackle a role in a Stephen King story? That’s just an added bonus.

    I’m also extremely excited for Jones’ role in the film. She has always been brilliant in whatever she does but this role does seem like a departure for her. Whatever Edgar Wright has in store for us with The Running Man, I’m excited. This is the film I have been the most excited about recently and each new casting announcement rules. What next? Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Simon Pegg are going to show up?!

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  • The Week’s Hottest Takes, From Scott Pilgrim To TLOU 2

    The Week’s Hottest Takes, From Scott Pilgrim To TLOU 2

    Gamers are a passionate bunch, and we’re no exception. These are the week’s most interesting perspectives on the wild, wonderful, and sometimes weird world of video game news.

    The Top 10 Most-Played Games On Steam Deck: August 2023 Edition

    The Scott Pilgrim Anime Backlash, Explained

    Image: Netflix

    Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the new animated series based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels, is out on Netflix. The eight-episode series reunites the voice cast of the 2010 live-action movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and is a hilarious blend of the series’ quick wit and well-measured pop culture references. All of this sounds like a recipe for success, right? Well, it’s a little more complicated. Read More

    The New Division Game Has A Feature Every Game Should Steal

    An image shows Division characters being fast-forwarded.

    Image: Ubisoft / Kotaku

    Ubisoft’s new The Division game isn’t even out yet, as it’s still in beta testing and won’t launch officially until 2024. But after trying the beta, I already want one feature from the upcoming game to become standard in every video game I play in the future. Read More

    The Future Of ChatGPT Just Became A Circus [Update]

    Sam Altman appears at OpenAI Dev conference with a clown emjoi for a face.

    Photo: Justin Sullivan / Applle / Kotaku (Getty Images)

    OpenAI is the research organization behind ChatGPT, the AI-generated chatbot that took the internet by storm last year for its capacity to have really weird conversations with tech journalists. It’s at the center of Microsoft’s big bet on generative AI tools transforming the world, gaming, and more, and it’s now at risk of imploding after its CEO, Sam Altman, was mysteriously ousted by the OpenAI board of directors and Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear was desperately recruited to replace him. Here’s all you really need to know about OpenAI to appreciate what a clusterfuck the last few days have been. Read More

    Kotaku Asks: How Soon Is Too Soon For A Video Game Remaster Or Remake?

    A screenshot shows a sad Joel looking at Ellie in The Last of Us Part II.

    Screenshot: PlayStation / Naughty Dog

    How much time has to pass before it becomes acceptable to remaster or even remake a game? 10 years? 15 years? What about three-ish years? Is that enough time between the original and the remaster? Well, that’s what’s happening early next year as Naughty Dog is remastering 2020’s The Last of Us Part II.  Read More

    I’m So Tired Of Crossover ‘Skins’ Cluttering Up Video Games

    An image shows a collage of crossover video game skins from Destiny, Payday, and Rainbow Six.

    Image: Xbox / Epic Games / Bungie / Overkill Software / Kotaku

    Another day, another big video game crossover. This time it’s Bungie’s online looter shooter, Destiny 2, adding Witcher 3-inspired armor to its digital store. Are you excited? I’m not. In reality, I’m just really tired of every brand mixing together, regardless of whether it makes sense or is needed, as if concocting the world’s worst stew. Read More

    Admit It, You Don’t Understand Skill-Based Matchmaking (And Neither Do I)

    A man and a woman stand, scratching their heads in confusion, in front of a Modern Warfare III scoreboard.

    Image: Kotaku / Asier Romero / Luis Molinero (Shutterstock)

    Whenever a new blockbuster first-person shooter drops, gamers limber up so they can once again argue over how multiplayer matches get made and the algorithmic systems that determine who plays against whom and when. The recent release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is no exception—not long after its multiplayer servers booted on November 10, players began flocking to Reddit, X (Twitter), and everywhere in between to complain about the quality (or perceived lack thereof) of Activision’s matchmaking. But, as with so many issues in the gaming industry, there’s a serious lack of nuance and true understanding at play here. Read More

    I Can’t Miss The Last Of Us If It Won’t Leave

    The key art of The Last of Us Part II Remastered featuring Ellie and Abby.

    Image: Naughty Dog

    Remember when it took us seven years to get a new The Last of Us game? Remember when there was even a question about whether or not we’d ever get a sequel to Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic action game because the ending was so intentionally ambiguous and thought-provoking?

    Now, it seems we can’t go a year without being reminded that Sony thinks as many people should experience this series as possible, while folks associated with the HBO adaptation praise the game in ways that border on the absurd. Now, we’re getting a remaster of The Last of Us Part II, and it feels like we’re reaching peak Last of Us fatigue. Read More

    This Modern Warfare 3 Gameplay Feature Spices Up A Weak Campaign

    This Modern Warfare 3 Gameplay Feature Spices Up A Weak Campaign

    Open Combat Missions are a fresh idea worth carrying over to future Call of Duty games.

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  • The Video Game Characters That Made Us Gay

    The Video Game Characters That Made Us Gay

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    So the first game where I explored the option of romancing the same sex was Fallout 2, you can get married and explore the wasteland with your beau. She’s not all that useful, to be honest, and has never been the companion I’ve picked on replays. Yet at the time, as an impressionable teenager, it was mind-blowing, right? To be honest, though, I didn’t make a ton of it at the time. It was more, oh, this seems like some good mischief, let’s see where it takes me, let’s see how long I can keep her alive, even. It wasn’t charged.

    It wasn’t until Dragon Age, which I played as an adult, that the romance choices in games started signifying something different to me. Morrigan, the mysterious witch who joins your party early on, almost feels like a fake romance choice. She’s designed to grab your attention, there’s a recent (unfortunate) quote by one of the DA writers that really lays bare how much she’s meant to be the sex appeal option. There’s one in every game, really, Mass Effect had Miranda. But the way Morrigan is written, the coyness at her center, made me feel like I was getting away with something. Playing as a man probably contributed to that feeling, because IRL what I was doing was gay as hell but in the game, it was extremely straight. I’m sure it helped that the game forces you to choose between love interests, if you’re leading them both on, something that only enhances the drama.

    Mostly I appreciated that Morrigan is written in a way that makes it obvious she knows you’re looking, as it turns out, by the end you find out she was making sure of it the entire time. When the betrayal comes, it was weirdly satisfying: yes, I didn’t get what I wanted, but Morrigan having it her way was true to her character. And what’s gayer than yearning and tragedy, really? — Patricia Hernandez, editor-in-chief

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