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Michael Bay Proves He’s Not a Supervillain, Casts Lonely Shelter Dog in ‘Transformers 5’
http://collider.com/michael-bay-dog-transformers-5/

There’s a famous dog named Freya in the U.K., although she’s famous for an incredibly sad reason. Dubbed “Britain’s Loneliest Dog,” Freya has spent the entirety of her life thus far—six years—in animal shelters and has been passed over by 18,000 passers-by. She suffers from epilepsy and, as such, has had trouble finding a home. Bay saw the news item and promptly wielded the power presumably only someone like Michael Bay has, picking up the phone, finding the dog, and casting it in one of the biggest movie franchises of all time.

Yes indeed, Freya is now “Britain’s Loneliest Dog” and “Britain’s Most Famous Transformers Star,” as Bay has enlisted the adorable pooch for his Transformers 5 ensemble. Moreover, Bay says they’re going to find her a home, and if they can’t, she’ll live with him. Cue all the “awwwww”s.

So yeah, that’s pretty darn heartwarming. I mean look at that face! Sure The Last Knight is probably going to be incredibly dumb, but at least one good thing has come out of the Transformers franchise.
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Damn.
Well played Mr. Bay. I will leave you alone now.
 
John Boyega Teases ‘Something New’ With ‘Attack the Block’ Director
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c...something-new-with-attack-the-block-director/

Cornish previously teased a sequel to “Attack the Block,” saying Boyega had approached him with an idea for “a bigger alien attack on London, as if the attack we saw in ‘Attack of the Block’ was just the [first wave] and there’s another wave of bigger creatures.” Boyega’s idea also prominently featured his character Moses leading an entire army of South London kids.
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LetTigerIn said:
Also a fitting homage.
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apparently not...

George Takei Reacts to Gay Sulu News: 'I Think It's Really Unfortunate'
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/george-takei-reacts-to-gay-sulu-news-i-think-230139207.html

The idea came from Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in the new films and penned the Beyond screenplay, and director Justin Lin, both of whom wanted to pay homage to Takei’s legacy as both a sci-fi icon and beloved LGBT activist.

And so a scene was written into the new film, very matter-of-fact, in which Sulu is pictured with a male spouse raising their infant child. Pegg and Lin assumed, reasonably, that Takei would be overjoyed at the development — a manifestation of that conversation with Gene Roddenberry in his swimming pool so many years ago.

Except Takei wasn’t overjoyed. He had never asked for Sulu to be gay. In fact, he’d much prefer that he stay straight. “I’m delighted that there’s a gay character,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Unfortunately, it’s a twisting of Gene’s creation, to which he put in so much thought. I think it’s really unfortunate.”

He explains that Roddenberry was exhaustive in conceiving his Star Trek characters. (The name Sulu, for example, was based on the Sulu Sea off the coast of the Philippines, so as to render his Asian nationality indeterminate.) And Roddenberry had always envisioned Sulu as heterosexual.

Proving that is not so simple a matter, however. Sulu never had an on-screen love interest during Star Trek’s initial four-season run. He did mention a daughter, Demora, who appeared in 1994’s Star Trek Generations, the seventh film in the series (she was played by Jacqueline Kim).

But the only reference to how Demora was conceived appears in a secondary canonical source: the 1995 Star Trek novel The Captain’s Daughter. “It was, to put it crudely, a one-night stand with a glamazon,” Takei explains. “A very athletic, powerful and stunningly gorgeous woman. That’s Demora’s mother.”

Takei first learned of Sulu’s recent same-sex leanings last year, when Cho called him to reveal the big news. Takei tried to convince him to make a new character gay instead. “I told him, 'Be imaginative and create a character who has a history of being gay, rather than Sulu, who had been straight all this time, suddenly being revealed as being closeted.’” (Takei had enough negative experiences inside the Hollywood closet, he says, and strongly feels a character who came of age in the 23rd Century would never find his way inside one.)

His timeline logic, however, is enough to befuddle even the most diehard of Trek enthusiasts, as the rebooted trilogy takes place before the action of the original series. In other words, assuming canon orthodoxy, this storyline suggest Sulu would have had to have first been gay and married, only to then go into the closet years later.
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Wow. What a buzzkill. I love George...and I usually side with him. This is out of line though. I get his point, but man...talk about not only NOT saying thank you, but pissing in the punchbowl too.
 
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jerseydevil said:
apparently not...

George Takei Reacts to Gay Sulu News: 'I Think It's Really Unfortunate'
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/george-takei-reacts-to-gay-sulu-news-i-think-230139207.html

Wow. What a buzzkill. I love George...and I usually side with him. This is out of line though. I get his point, but man...talk about not only NOT saying thank you, but pissing in the punchbowl too.
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I think the first film of the reboot clearly established this new series represents a sort of alternate timeline, so anything should be fair game.
 
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