adaptation
Resident Evil's ending, answered: what Bryan becomes, who flies the helicopters and where the cure went — 10 questions
What started the outbreak, which virus it is, what chased Bryan all night and why there’s a blizzard: Cregger’s Resident Evil, explained.
September 20, 2026 3:27 pm
James Gunn teased 'the blackest night is yet to come' with three Lanterns episodes left — the comics event where dead heroes rise
Gunn’s post on Threads quoted the Lantern Oath, and fans now expect Sinestro, a bigger Blackest Night saga or Hal Jordan’s return.
September 20, 2026 2:11 pm
Zack Snyder's wife told him never to watch Joss Whedon's Justice League — he still loves the 'I tried' sign under his credit
On Happy Sad Confused, Zack Snyder said he never saw the theatrical Justice League, but a meme showed him the homeless man’s sign in the opening credits.
September 20, 2026 1:18 pm
At 96%, Cregger's Resident Evil has more than double the Rotten Tomatoes score of any Milla Jovovich film — the best of those managed 39%
Zach Cregger’s reboot sits at 96% from 80 reviews. The six Alice films scored between 18% and 39%, and Welcome to Raccoon City got 30%.
September 19, 2026 4:12 pm
We Need to Talk About Kevin ending explained
Lynne Ramsay shot her adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel in 30 days and scrambled the timeline on purpose, which is why the last twenty minutes catch so many viewers off guard. Here is what the closing sequence actually shows, how it diverges from the book, and why neither Ramsay nor Shriver will supply a tidy answer.
September 19, 2026 3:46 pm
Zack Snyder has sold his Fountainhead series twice — both buyers backed out within a week
Zack Snyder has written 10 of the 12 episodes of his Ayn Rand adaptation and told Happy Sad Confused why studios keep getting cold feet.
September 19, 2026 12:47 pm
Charlize Theron is behind the first live-action Webtoon series in English — a mafia nanny romance with 338 million views
Hulu’s adaptation of Violet Matter’s Webtoon, with 338 million views, follows an elite nanny guarding a Venetian mafia underboss’s son. Max Gill is writing.
September 19, 2026 10:18 am
The Virgin Suicides true story: Jeffrey Eugenides has traced the whole novel to a single conversation
Readers have hunted for the real Lisbon sisters since 1993. Jeffrey Eugenides has said the whole novel grew from one exchange he had while waiting for dinner at his brother's house — and from a five-word answer he never got past.
September 18, 2026 6:57 pm
How did Festus leave Gunsmoke? Ken Curtis played him for close to 300 episodes — and then never once appeared in the TV movies
Ken Curtis played Festus Haggen for 11 years and 304 episodes of Gunsmoke, then sat out every one of the five reunion films CBS made between 1987 and 1994. Here's how the series actually ended for him, and what kept him out of the movies.
September 18, 2026 6:11 pm
The Princess Bride ending explained: what the final kiss and the grandfather's last line mean
The Princess Bride ends on two words the film has spent ninety minutes teaching you how to hear. Here's what the final scene is actually doing, how it departs from William Goldman's novel, and why Rob Reiner shot an entirely different ending and then binned it.
September 18, 2026 3:32 pm
Meryl Streep will be the first woman to voice Aslan — Greta Gerwig wanted someone over 70 with a child's sense of wonder
Liam Neeson voiced the lion in the last three Narnia films. For Netflix’s The Magician’s Nephew, Gerwig told Empire she wanted gravitas without self-seriousness.
September 18, 2026 3:16 pm
Barbie 2 gets a big nudge after a major Warner Bros. business move
Warner Bros. pulled a canny bit of business that makes Barbie 2 all but nailed on — involving a big-name filmmaker ditching Netflix for a first-look deal.
September 18, 2026 3:12 pm
Zack Snyder won’t ever watch James Gunn’s Superman or other DCU projects — here’s why
Zack Snyder says he’s steering clear of James Gunn’s DCU for now — skipping Superman, Supergirl and Lanterns — and told the Happy Sad Confused podcast it isn’t about creativity.
September 18, 2026 1:40 pm
Charlize Theron is turning a hit mafia webcomic into a series — a nanny who babysits for the mob and fights like a spy
Hulu is adapting The Mafia Nanny, the Webtoon about a nanny-academy graduate hired to look after a mafia underboss’s son. Theron is on board as a producer.
September 18, 2026 1:05 pm
John Leguizamo goes bad for Miami Vice ’85 — Joseph Kosinski’s big-screen take
Heads up: Joseph Kosinski’s big-screen Miami Vice ’85 has lined up a new cast member — and they’re heading for a villain role.
September 18, 2026 11:41 am
Far Cry TV series ups the ante with Brendan Gleeson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hamish Linklater
FX's upcoming Far Cry series has beefed up its cast with a clutch of heavyweights — the kind of names that'll make you do a double take.
September 18, 2026 11:29 am
Zack Snyder told Variety he wants to make the Rick and Morty movie — Warner Bros. has already given it to Jacob Hair
Zack Snyder hasn’t given up on making a Rick and Morty film — never mind that another take is already quietly bubbling away elsewhere.
September 18, 2026 2:14 am
Flanagan has a season of The Dark Tower written and Stephen King's blessing — and still no studio willing to pay for it
Mike Flanagan has encouraging updates on two projects — one’s still alive, and the other he’s currently writing.
September 17, 2026 9:43 pm
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