WiC Weekly: January 30-February 5
By WiC Staff
The Lord of the Rings hype train leaves the station! A Game of Thrones museum opened! More stuff happened! We round it up.
Time for WiC Weekly, where we pick through the latest goings-on in the worlds of fantasy, sci-fi, TV and movies. Let’s get to it:
First up, we look forward to the year in books:
There are a lot of amazing sci-fi and fantasy books coming out in 2022! Here are 40 that we're excited to read: https://t.co/WmRVkdOd8D
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
We’re still parsing through the first season of Amazon’s The Wheel of Time show:
The Wheel of Time made it a point to hide the identity of the mysterious villain known as The Man. Here's why they're doing it, and why it's a good thing: https://t.co/Is4cJh9FfG
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
The Last Kingdom is coming to a close with its upcoming fifth season! But there are plans for what happens after that:
Alexander Dreymon (Uhtred) announces that filming on The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die has begun filming. But what about season 5? https://t.co/iw76pnMbNo
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
Like The Mandalorian and other expensive sci-fi/fantasy shows, HBO’s Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon will make use of virtual sets.
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
Mark Hamill has once again turned up to play a young Luke Skywalker, but the internet is far from done asking Sebastian Stan if he’d take on the role.
Ah, this again: https://t.co/chzMSrJ8JM
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
Amazon has released a bevy of posters from its upcoming series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power:
Twenty-three posters, 46 hands, a whole lotta rings: https://t.co/w0G8WDtL1I
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
Doctor Who fans have been looking for this lost cache of classic episodes for a long time. Have they finally been found?
Reports have emerged that 17 missing episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s have been discovered, although such rumors have turned out to be false before. https://t.co/7KbQ80LEEY
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
Maybe Daenerys paid them a visit?
It looks like the Winterfell set at Moneyglass in Northern Ireland, which served well on Game of Thrones, has been burned down. https://t.co/Dvx0hYN8Y5
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
Speaking of Daenerys, the Game of Thrones Studio Tour — basically a Game of Thrones museum — has officially opened in Northern Ireland:
Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark), Kristian Nairn (Hodor) and Nathalie Emmanuel (Missandei) open up the new Game of Thrones Studio Tour. https://t.co/IB0K33efSq
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
Finally, we consider what would (or will) happen next on The Expanse should it ever return to TV to finish adapting its source material.
The Expanse ended with its sixth season, but there are three more books of source material. What WOULD have happened if the show kept going? (And it could always get revived.) https://t.co/pVU2klVSwC
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 6, 2022
We’ll be reading and writing all week! Stick around.
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