Writer and activist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has devoted her life to telling stories that properly represent Nigerian culture and now she wants to discuss the issues effecting her country. Upon winning the PEN Pinter prize, Adichie spoke openly about using art to humanize politics. For her efforts to speak out on the challenges her culture faces, the judges described her as “sophisticated beyond measure in her understanding of gender, race, and global inequality.” Adichie said in her lecture Shut Up and Write, Sometimes politics must be engaged with as politics. And this could not be any truer or more urgent today, with …
Sorry to disappoint all the impatient fans but there will be no spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones, mainly because the network hired a drone killer. Entertainment Weekly reports that The HBO production employed a “drone killer” to keep away snooping aerial cameras.” This past sunday at the New York City Comic Con, star Sophie Turner said “If a drone flies above sets, there’s a thing that can kill the drones, which is really cool,” she said. “It creates a field around it and the drones just drop. It’s very X-Men. Via Giphy …
Agatha Christie’s mysteries have always kept people on their toes. Dating back to the 1920s, her famed detective Hercule Poirot has made quite a name for himself in the twenty-five novels and most recent portrayal in 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express, he still has more to solve! Deadline reports Armie Hammer will be joining Gal Gadot for the remake of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile! Image via Amazon.com Murder on the Orient Express grossed over 350 million worldwide for Fox studios and Director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green have returned. Production will begin mid- 2019 and the film is set to …
Netflix keeps creating great adaptations of comics and books, for example, the upcoming The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and The Witcher series. Now, they are turning their attention to make The Chronicles of Narnia into a TV series! Image via Geektown Entertainment One is working with Netflix to make the novels into a series and films. Deadline reports that Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, Netflix says: C.S. Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia stories have resonated with generations of readers around the world. Families have fallen in love with characters like Aslan and the entire world of Narnia, and we’re thrilled …
Andrzej Sapkowski, author of The Witcher series is demanding for more than $16 million from royalties from CD Projekt Red game studios. After signing a contract in 1997 pertaining to the licensing agreements to his work, it’s been rumored that it was never clearly disclosed to Sapkowski how much he would gain from selling the rights. Image via Microsoft The studio turned The Witcher into a series of highly successful games and Sapkowski is not happy about it; quite frankly regrets it! An interview with Eurogame, the author said he didn’t think the game would do so well. Sapkowski said …
