WiC Weekly: December 6-12
By WiC Staff
Disney announces tons of new Star Wars and Marvel projects, HBO reveals casting for House of the Dragon, and much more! It was a busy week:
It was a busy week here at WiC. We were hosed with a deluge of sci-fi and fantasy news coming from an all angles as studios take the end of the year to was to prepare for the year to come.
First up, HBO pulled the curtain back on House of the Dragon, its Game of Thrones prequel show. Westeros, this is your life!
HBO reveals the cast of its Game of Thrones prequel show House of the Dragon, including the actors playing Alicent Hightower, Daemon Targaryen and Rhaenyra Targaryen: https://t.co/SA464a4NSC
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
Disney unveiled a ton of new shows and movies on the way, including some very interesting additions to the Star Wars universe:
Miss the metric ton of Star Wars news that dropped this week? We’ve got you covered. The galaxy far, far away is going to be very, very busy. https://t.co/knpBayacMD
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
We’ve met the human characters of House of the Dragon. Now for the interesting cast members:
The upcoming Game of Thrones prequel is all about the Targaryens, which means lots of dragons. And HBO has already introduced us to two of them. https://t.co/Ou7F4z0Cms
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
Disney has unveiled its new slate of Star Wars movies and show. But what about everything it’s done so far?
From The Force Awakens to the final Clone Wars season to The Mandalorian, Disney has done a lot with Star Wars in a few short years. How’s it holding up? https://t.co/yuPC1BGejy
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
I take a lot of walks. This makes it all feel worth it:
Imagine if you were just strolling around looking at flowers or hunting for mushrooms and you came on a 3,000-year-old archeological miracle. https://t.co/IrjeWGlHE2
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
Kingkiller Chronicle fans having been waiting as long for The Doors of Stone as A Song of Ice and Fire fans have been waiting for The Winds of Winter. Kingkiller author Patrick Rothfuss answers the eternal question: what’s the holdup?
Fans of the Kingkiller Chronicle have been waiting nearly a decade for the third and final book in the series. From the author’s lips to your ears: https://t.co/w0fBfOrzJm
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
We all know how Game of Thrones ended…but what if it DIDN’T?
In Game of Thrones season 9, the Red Priestess Kinvara resurrects Daenerys Targaryen, who gets her revenge…or at least that’s where our minds went looking at this image. https://t.co/TmOIFhpZRs
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
Apparently, every Marvel character who’s been in a movie in the past 20 years will be in the next Spider-Man film:
The cast of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 3 keeps getting bigger, with each new face more unexpected than the last. https://t.co/kutM1KWGyv
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies are classics, but they could have been very different:
Did you know Viggo Mortensen wasn’t the original choice to play Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings? In fact, the first guy trained for months before getting replaced. https://t.co/qKNeGG3Rxt
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
Only one episode of The Mandalorian season 2 left! The penultimate episode was as stuffed with easter eggs and references as ever:
The newest episode of The Mandalorian pulls from the Star Wars video games, the prequel trilogy, Game of Thrones, and more! Let’s dive in. https://t.co/IdEzsbYMvu
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) December 13, 2020
We need a breather. See you same time next week.
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