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The Librarians The Next Chapter is the Next Instalment for this Beloved IP

The dedication fans have for this The Librarians The Next Chapter will no doubt have a lot of people guessing at what this instalment will truly be about. Will it acknowledge all the lore the series revealed in season four?

I’m honestly very surprised at how fast The CW is fast tracking reviving a series I wanted to see return for a long time. The Librarians The Next Chapter is a fantasy action adventure series that is one part Indiana Jones and another Carmen Sandeigo. Although the latter is a loosey goosey about with its globe-trotting and educational value, I’ve always loved this series back when it was a movie trilogy about searching for some lost treasure. Series creator Dean Devlin recently posted a picture on his Twitter/X account giving fans a tease on this latest instalment.

Dean Devlin Twitter Post

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My Hopes for Stargate: Origins, an Editorial

By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

The news arrived a few weeks ago during San Diego Comic-con (SDCC) about a prequel series for the Stargate franchise. Afterwards, I had to rewatch the movie, read the novels, see the entire television series to find clues to answer myself about what I loved from the franchise which defines the experience and maybe answer where Origins may go.

In the episode “Torment of Tantalus,” Catherine Langford (Elizabeth Hoffman) revealed how the science team managed to activate the wormhole transportation tube. She lost her fiancée, Ernest Littlefield (Paul McGillion) in those early experiments and I can see how the 10 episode series can expand on this central plot. No details were offered at SDCC other than Mark Ilvedson and Justin Michael Terry are attached to writing this pilot season. The only detail revealed is that it will revolve around the daughter of archaeologist Paul Langford (who discovered the mysterious metallic ring). The timeline is tight. Filming is supposedly starting in August.

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Where’s the Resurgence in Independence Day?

Independence-Day-2-poster By Ed Sum (The Vintage Tempest)

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Independence Day: Resurgence might be a lot more fun if Will Smith was back, or if Brent Spiner was given a larger role. As Dr. Brackish Okun, the kooky scientist, this character is very likeable. Unfortunately, he spent the last twenty years in a coma after he was freed from the tendrils of the alien, and in what he learned when the two mind-linked most likely could have helped develop better technology to fend off from the alien re-invasion. The governments who banded together to create a new defence force was ill prepared for anticipating what the next wave could do to their planet and they could have benefited from Okun’s knowledge.

They knew one year, they would come back. The planet Earth is rich with resources and is a target for any alien force. Whether their intentions are good or bad, only how this planet’s leaders react decides the fate for many instead of all. Unfortunately, one wrong call was enough to get the rest of the galaxy to notice.

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What Independence Day: Resurgence Means, An Analysis

Visiting the Warof1996.com website is required to fill in the blanks of what the Independence Day: Resurgence trailer is revealing.

Yes, the first Independence Day (ID4) is essentially a cheesy popcorn film extolling the virtues of what defines the American holiday. When looking at it in a broader perspective, it’s a story about bringing hope for the planet Earth. When aliens are out to pillage it for the resources and to exterminate the human race, humanity must gather to fight it. Enter Will Smith. He made this first movie a fun watch.

In Independence Day: Resurgence (ID42), he’s nowhere to be found. The story takes place 20 years later, and the explanation comes by way of a slickly made website, Warof1996.com, giving all the back story that’s needed before audiences flock to theatres to see what’s to happen next. I wonder when this trailer hits theatres, if this site will be well advertised?

A big deal fans of ID4 will ask is where is Smith’s character? The website reports:

While test piloting the ESD’s first alien hybrid fighter, an unknown malfunction causes the untimely death of Col. Hiller. Hiller’s valor in the War of ‘96 made him a beloved global icon whose selfless assault against the alien mothership lead directly to the enemy’s defeat. He is survived by his wife Jasmine and son Dylan.

Thankfully, stars Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, and Brent Spiner are back. Dylan will appear as a young man (now played by Jessie Usher) but his role is still to be determined. The trailer suggests he’s military at least.

Producer / director Roland Emmerich says this movie is a “reboot” of the franchise. If this new film does well, my hope is for spin-off products to emerge to fill out the back story in new ways. I’d love to see IDW Publishing print comic books, a video game company like Electronic Arts to create new flight simulators to recreate some of the epic air battles (or for Star Wars: Battlefront fans, combat scenarios) and maybe Palladium Books produce RPG material so fans can partake in reclaiming the Earth or taking on the next invasion!

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Date Due: The Librarians to Return by the End of Year

Good news, fellow adventure book lovers. TNT announced today that the series The Librarians is renewed for a second season! That means there will be ten new episodes featuring Rebecca Romijn, Christian Kane, Lindy Booth, John Kim and John Larroquette, and these episodes will broadcast sometime in the later part of this year.

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The Future for The Librarians Needs Rescue

MV5BNDI5NzMwMjAxNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTc2NDg1MzE@._V1_SX214_AL_ On TNT, The Librarians makes for some great Christmas time and mid-season filler material when all the prime-time shows are taking a break. But, fans of The Librarian trilogy will be sad that Noah Wyle is not helming the TV series.

Ten years ago, producer/director Dean Devlin created a light-hearted whimsical take of the pulp-action adventures of Indiana Jones. Instead of a globe-trotting professor of archaeology intent on preserving artifacts of the past, viewers are introduced to Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), an irrepressibly and socially awkward hero who tends to bumble into situations where his vast knowledge saves the day more often than his charm. Carsen is the type of guy who would prefer a life in academia, earning himself multiple PhD’s so he can be a storehouse of information. But if it was not for one particular professor who simply kicks him out of graduate studies to get a life, he would most likely there until he becomes chairman.

When he gets a letter from the Metropolitan Public Library, he gets a chance at doing what he loves. But there is more than meets the eye to what the job of being a bookworm entails. What a true ‘Librarian’ represents is essentially that of a Knights Templar — to protect the weak and uphold an ideal.

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