When it's spring and you just want it to be fall already...

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++ Céline Dion has a new song, "Ashes", which is a promotion for Deadpool 2 and the music video itself is absolutely delightful. It is both beautiful (with Celine herself singing) and hilarious (Deadpool dancing around dramatically, plus that ending), and I love how it's kind of a parody of the music videos commonly done for movies back in the 90s and early 00s. Very appropriately done for the sequel for Deadpool, because obviously, why not? lol

++ The official trailer for the second season of Luke Cage looks super dope, I'm here for it.

++ Richard Armitage has given us another short look into him voicing Logan in the Wolverine: The Long Night podcast serial. It's just another little bit of him discussing the character, but I love the footage accompanied with it too since it shows how interactive the recording process was which will no doubt provide much to the performances by the actors, which with every small snippet of these interviews we see bits and pieces of just what the recording sessions were like. Just a reminder that the podcast is available now only exclusively on Stitcher Preminum, and it will be released for a wider release on multiple platforms later this year in November.

++ Bryan Fuller has left The Vampire Chronicles television adaptation.

Honestly, I'm not entirely surprised. While I have no doubt that his vision would've been interesting to see, him being partnered with Anne Rice was rather strange to begin with considering they are total polar opposites of each other when it comes to their views of fandom, fanwork, and transformative works as a whole. Anyone who is aware of Rice's notoriously extensive history will understand how much of a controversial figure she is among fandom in general. So even in a professional work environment it's just not something that I can see working out well in the long run, imho. So I can't really say I'm disappointed that he's no longer attached to this. And I know that some are going to immediately scoff about go, "there he goes again abandoning projects" (which I personally think is a bit unfair since he's only left, like, a few things for different reasons, however since some of it happened very recently in a short amount of time it's unfortunately what he's now known for in some circles), but I definitely think there is more to the story than we know, and a lot probably had to do with the clashing of their personalities and conflict surrounding creative differences over adapting TVC for modern audiences.

I know that Bryan has been attempting to continue with finding a way of getting a fourth season for Hannibal and it's been reported multiple times that he's up for a Pushing Daisies reunion (in the world of constant revivals and reboots these days, it's not entirely improbable for either of these to work given the right opportunity). Although I selfishly still want him to go back to American Gods, like if anything that is something that I'm very bitter and disappointed he's no longer involved with.

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I'm curious how Rice herself is going to manage a TV show, given how she can't take criticism or fandom.

I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up in development hell or doesn't even get picked up to series.

And maybe everyone else on the other side is completely unreasonable, who knows, but it seems to be happening quite a lot.

I feel it only seems that way because these announcements of him joining on then leaving shortly thereafter are happening so close together in a short period of time, when in reality it's only been a few projects. But I understand the worry and frustration about this possibly becoming a pattern.

It's one of those things where we don't know the whole story, we're merely just outsiders looking in with the limited information we got so we're left with making speculations and assumptions about the situation. I've seen people get exasperated with Fuller now and calling him a "flake" because of these recent incidents of abandoning projects, which is kinda unfair but tbh makes sense when that's all we hear. The nature of the business is fickle and we don't know what happens behind closed doors, sometimes things just don't work out for whatever reason, and in this case I do want to know what transpired to make him do a complete 180 so quickly from being involved with TVC. I know it probably had something to do with Anne Rice herself, knowing her antics it wouldn't surprise me if she scared him away from doing something that he's been wanting to do since he was a teenager. But again, this is me just speculating because we don't know enough.

I think the only project I'm bitter about is American Gods, because I feel like he could have at least negotiated and compromised on that a bit more, especially if the main issue was the budget. And it's not like he's above compromising either, considering the things he had to do with Hannibal and all that. So, idk.

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I'm just worried that the rest of American Gods isn't going to feel anything like the first season, and could even lead to it not being renewed later. And yeah, if it was just budgeting, couldn't he have found a way to work around it? I don't think most actors/directors/writers/producers get everything they want all the time, unless they're one of the powerhouses. Other projects, like Dead Like Me, I know the network wanted to change story lines or characters, where it was major creative differences. I can't imagine the network wanting to change much of Neil's work, direction wise, given that that's the main selling point.