Chris Arrant

Chris Arrant
Editor-in-Chief
Chris Arrant: Chris Arrant is the Popverse's Editor-in-Chief. He has written about pop culture for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, Newsarama, TOKYOPOP, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. (He/him)
Features
Behold the jukebox biopic: the new subgenre Hollywood has on repeat, from Bohemian Rhapsody to upcoming films on Prince, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and more
The overnight success that's been in movies for decades, from Jimmy Stewart's Glen Miller story to Amadeus and Bohemian Rhapsody.
June 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
One of Neil Gaiman's Sandman TV series co-creators is downplaying the writer's involvement in season 2 - and the decision to end the hit Netflix show
According to Netflix's Sandman co-creator David S. Goyer, the show ending was decided well before the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman became public.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Jurassic World star Bryce Dallas Howard knows when a movie's going to bomb while she's making it, even things like Argylle, Gold, and Lady in the Water
Third-generation actor/director Bryce Dallas Howard has a nose for hits and misses.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Final Fantasy XIV is still Square Enix's biggest active hit, but its boss says he's aware fans believe the game is withering out
Square Enix boss says he's "aware" of growing fan displeasure over the MMO Final Fantasy XIV, but says the new expansion will fix it.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel still regrets accidentally publishing a phone sex line on a Captain America comic's cover, 20 years later
This isn't the Captain America hotline, but Marvel was advertising a different kind of hotline back in the 'Winter Soldier' era.
June 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Netflix's The Sandman was hoped to run for four seasons... but then they re-read the comic, and decided to end it at two
The Sandman comic is an ensemble story - but when Netflix decided to make the TV series all about Sandman, it suddenly became much shorter.
June 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Man bites Earth, Earth bites back: A fictionalized post-apocalypse as reported in a real-life newspaper in The End Times
Bury the lede, bury the Earth - but first, an obituary in newspaper form with The End Times.
June 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
After 23 years in development hell, Warner Bros. gives up on making a live-action Akira - but others are lining up to try
It took the Akira manga 39 years to recover from World War III. It might take that long for a live-action Akira movie to be made as well.
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Comics has a superhero problem solver, Jonathan Hickman, with a goal to create (or revamp) ideas that be their next Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four
After successfully reviving the Ultimate Marvel line, Jonathan Hickman comes forward with his new job at the company: building new franchises (by rebuilding old ones).
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Loki sells a soul - not his, of course - to Mephisto in his Bring on the Bad Guys comic from Marvel in July
Loki needs a favor - Mephisto needs a soul
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The great Spider-Man "rip-off:" Marvel artist says his work was "plagiarized" by another, and that artist says Marvel told him to do it
Marvel Comics published a Spider-Man cover homaging a classic one, but one of the original artists says it went to far and "plagiarized" the whole thing
June 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Prime Video's Reacher makes emergency recasting as How to Train Your Dragon's Jay Baruchel makes a sudden exit
Fanboys' Jay Baruchel is out of Reacher 13 days after being announced, replaced by his Fanboys co-star Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette.
June 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Star Wars & the murder of Yaddle by Count Dooku are being re-lived (and explored) in July's Jedi Knights #5
Witness the final turn of Count Dooku from Jedi to Sith Lord in Star Wars: Jedi Knights #5.
June 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Cyberpunk 2077 is outselling that Harry Potter game that's been the biggest hit in the past 5 years on the Nintendo Switch 2
Cyberpunk 2077 is the apogee of games for the Nintendo Switch 2, outside of Nintendo's inhouse games.
June 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Thanos' romance with Death was originally a big part of Josh Brolin's MCU story, but Kevin Feige thought fans weren't ready for that
MCU boss Kevin Feige thought fans weren't ready for a Thanos & Death romance in 2018, but it was in the original script.
June 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
There's one big problem with Star Trek's Prime Directive according to Captain Kirk himself William Shatner (and I kind of agree with him)
You can take Star Trek's Prime Directive too seriously says William Shatner - and when you do so, it ruins a good Star Trek story.
June 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Studios is quietly learning, mistakes and all, how to replace their heroes with Fantastic Four: First Steps, Ironheart, Captain America 4, and Daredevil: Born Again [Marvel Matters]
New MCU hero, who dis?
June 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Meet Eric Pearson: Marvel Studios' unheralded fixer that helps save movies like Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, and Blade [Marvel Matters]
Some call Eric Pearson the MCU script doctor, the Marvel Studios closer. But for Marvel Studios, they just call him... frequently.
June 17, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Donny Cates' Ultimate Spider-Man pitch was to create a Spider-Man for grown-ups and not the kids Marvel has with its other Spider-Men
Inside Donny Cates' goal to "break" Peter Parker "as hard as you can" with his Ultimate Spider-Man.
June 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
"Never try to kill the giant": Todd McFarlane maps out his industry-redefining gameplan that created Image Comics, McFarlane Toys, and Spawn
The driving manta that led Todd McFarlane to success with Spawn, Image Comics, and McFarlane Toys.
June 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The Rock's Black Adam action figure wasn't "ripped" enough for his tastes, so he had Todd McFarlane fix it before it was released
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson had one request when he first saw the Black Adam action figure from Todd McFarlane's toy company
June 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Why Doctor Doom isn't going to be in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and why its the right move again for Marvel Studios [Marvel Matters]
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps will be the first FF movie with no Doctor Doom, and the studio & the director have a good reason for that (but also a loophole).
June 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Meet the X-Men from a rejected early '00s manga reboot: A werewolf Wolverine, a genderswapped Angel, and a Professor X looking to 'cure' being a mutant
In the early '00s, Marvel published a manga-inspired reboot of all their major Marvel heroes - but this X-Men pitch never saw print.
June 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The real-life town behind The Truman Show now has an AI "concierge" - and it wants to come to your city too
This feels like a reboot of The Truman Show, but with AI.
June 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel Studios' Avengers movie "felt like a big mess" on set for the MCU heroes until one crucial moment (and its your favorite moment too)
Black Widow herself, Scarlett Johansson, revisits the Avengers film and remembers the bad, the good, and the great
June 05, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel could've had a Red Hulk in the '70s, as that was the original idea for CBS's Incredible Hulk movie & TV series
Marvel was pitched a Red Hulk (as the main Hulk) 47 years before Captain America: Brave New World - as a TV series!
June 05, 2025
Chris Arrant
Guides
Popverse Superfan pre-sale for NYCC 2025 tickets FAQ
Everything our Popverse Superfans need to know to get the NYCC 2025 tickets you deserve.
June 03, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
"I'm not the bad boy of comics anymore": Inside the life of Donny Cates
Donny Cates revamped Marvel's Venom and almost did the same for Ultimate Spider-Man - but instead he spent the last two years rebuilding himself.
May 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
God Country isn't dead - as Netflix movie deal was just renewed, and Donny Cates has ideas for a sequel
Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw created a otherworldly Texas fantasy in God Country - and Netflix is (still) developing a movie on it.
May 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
After two years, Marvel Comics' Knull co-creator Donny Cates begins his comeback this summer with a "very, very weird book" that is "the biggest thing I've ever done in my entire life"
Donny Cates talk about his Marvel past, his comics future - and if DC and Marvel are a part of it.
May 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Black Phone author Joe Hill is "sprinting madly for my life" with a new goal: to write a novel a year. To do it, he's having to say 'no' to himself
A certain famous author writes a new novel every four to five years - but he has a plan to write a book a year. Sounds ominous? This is the work life of Joe Hill.
May 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
DC Comics highlights the 100-year-old gay bar that has been in Gotham longer than Batman
Safe spaces, queer places: opening the doors to the 100-year-old gay bar you didn't know existed inside DC Comics' Gotham City.
May 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man reboot is a "weird and lonely experience" for Donny Cates as its original writer because he now sees himself as its star Peter Parker
Donny Cates says he was developing the Ultimate Marvel reboot for five years before a near-fatal car accident took it away from him, and there's unresolved feelings seeing it now without him.
May 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Fire Emblem star Brianna Knickerbocker dishes on her voice acting career, including Demon Slayer, Genshin Impact, Seven Deadly Sins, more at London's MCM
Brianna Knickerbocker talks about her VA career, ranging from videogames like Genshin Impact, Astral Chain, Catherine Full Body and anime like Demon Slayer, Re:ZERO and Carole and Tuesday.
May 27, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Ru Paul's Drag Race stars Arantxa Castilla la Mancha and Scarlett Harlett took over the MCM Comic Con stage - and we filmed it all!
Our Spanish Hannah Montana and everyone's favorite cockney princess did their thing in MCM's Meet the Queens: Arantxa Castilla la Mancha and Scarlett Harlett.
May 26, 2025
Chris Arrant
Guides
David Tennant, Hazbin Hotel, and more! Watch all of London's MCM Comic Con 2025 panels you missed
We filmed over 40 panels at MCM Comic Con May 2025, and we're uploading them every weekday for you!
May 25, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
NYCC 2025 is growing to 5 days - with a special Wednesday just for professionals again
A full day of pro-only panels, signings, giveaways, and more at New York Comic Con 2025.
May 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Remember the fantastical & the failures of SEGA's Dreamcast
Sega created the PS2 before the PS2 with its Dreamcast - but that wasn't enough to avoid the death of Sega's console dreams. Here is that story.
May 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Watch the Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon reunion from London's MCM x EGX
Watch as Zach Eisen (Aang), Jack De Sena (Sokka), Michaela Jill Murphy (Toph), and Jenie Kwan (Suki) talk all things ATLA.
May 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: The MCU has grown from movies to TV series & cartoons - but MCU comics? It's tougher than you think
The idea of MCU comics is as old as the MCU itself, but despite owning a comics company Marvel Studios hasn't been able to make it work (although they've tried).
May 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Popverse Free Preview Week: Celebrate our 3rd anniversary by seeing all the articles, columns, and panel videos you're missing!
Get a Popverse membership at a discount and see what you've been missing.
May 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Watch the Blue Lock anime reunion with the voice actors behind Yoichi, Rin, and Megura from MCM x EGX
Ricco Fajardo, Matt Shipman, and Drew Breedlove talk Blue Lock at London's MCM x EGX.
May 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Get the NYCC 2025 VIP ticket you deserve with a Popverse Superfan membership
Get more out of NYCC with less hassle with the Popverse Superfan + VIP Ticket experience.
May 16, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
NYCC 2025 Tickets onsale dates are here - as well as an exclusive pre-sale to get all the best badges!
Make your New York Comic Con 2025 experience extra CONvenient with a Popverse NYCC Superfan membership
May 14, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
One of my favorite bits of Final Fantasy is the tiered magic system - and Wizards of the Coast figured out a novel way to do it in Magic: The Gathering
Cure, Cura, Curaga... Fire, Fira, Firaga... how the tiered magic system of Final Fantasy made its way into Magic: The Gathering.
May 14, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy set has been in development for 4 years - and MTG's creators enjoyed FF XVI like fans to get a genuine feel for it
The sleepless weekend inside Wizards of the Coast offices (and employees' households) when Final Fantasy XVI was released.
May 12, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Get ready, player one: PAX East 2026 dates are here
You don't know games until you come to PAX East - and we have its 2026 dates
May 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Prepare for a new kind of Chocobo Racing that even Post Malone might play, as the Golden Chocobo will be the ultra-rare card in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy set
There are said to be only 77 Golden Chocobo cards in existence. If you find one, let me know.
May 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Affinity for complexity: A Wizards of the Coast executive revealed how they gauge how complex (or how simple) to make a Magic: The Gathering set like Final Fantasy
The Complexity Dial isn't a new card in Magic: The Gathering - it's an internal mechanic Wizards of the Coast uses to make the best product for fans.
May 11, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Imagine a 200-hour crash course on Final Fantasy XIV in just one month - this Magic: The Gathering designer just did it for all right reasons
Wizards of the Coast wants to make the upcoming Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy crossover as genuine as possible - so two employees went hardcore for a month
May 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Yoshitaka Amano returns to the Final Fantasy series to paint his favorite video game creation of all time for the upcoming Magic: The Gathering crossover
Yoshitaka Amano returns to Final Fantasy to paint his favorite character - and this time he's drawing her more realistically than he did when he first created her.
May 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
I have finally met the PAX Pin Man here at PAX East (and his iconic 40 pound trenchcoat full of over 1000 pins)
For 14 years, one man has sought to collect every pin that Penny Arcade & PAX has ever made. He has collected over 1600 in the past 14 years, and he wears it all on one trench coat - but he space for three last ones he's missing.
May 10, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
4,000 cans of Red Bull, live art & more: Inside the novel PAX East creator lounge for artists, streamers, and creators
Red Bull cans say they will "revitalize their body and mind", and here at PAX East, they're doing that with the drink and a lounge for creators.
May 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Final Fantasy sets for Magic: The Gathering aren't out yet, but I already nabbed official MTG x FF items for Arena at PAX East
Imagine MTG's Chandra as a Chocobo from Final Fantasy. Now, see it - and get the sleeves for Arena
May 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
How to be a D&D Dungeon Master, according to Wizards of the Coast's game director James Wyatt and principal game designer James Wyatt
At MCM x EGX 2024, Wizards of the Coast held a TED Talk-level explanation of how to be a D&D DM - and we have it for you.
May 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Donny Cates revealed as the original writer of Ultimate Spider-Man (and the entire Ultimate Marvel reboot), before Jonathan Hickman or Chip Zdarsky
Call him the Maker - Venom's Donny Cates was in line to write Ultimate Spider-Man before Jonathan Hickman or Chip Zdarsky.
May 09, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Watch the official Dragon Age panel talking Veilguard and more with BioWare lead producer Scylla Costa from London's MCM x EGX 2024
Return to Thedas with BioWare lead producer Scylla Costa as we share the Dragon Age panel filmed recently at London's MCM x EGX
May 08, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Watch Naughty Dog's Uncharted game cast reunite with Nolan North, Emily Rose & Richard McGonagle at London's MCM x EGX 2024
We have a treasure for Uncharted fans with an hour-long discussion about the Naughty Dog game franchise with stars Nolan North (Nathan Drake), Emily Rose (Elena Fisher), and Richard McGonagle (Victor 'Sully' Sullivan)
May 08, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Baldur's Gate 3 stars Jennifer English and Aliona Baranova go full-on squirrel with Popverse
In all seriousness... let's play the Squirrel Trivia game with part-time squirrel Aliona Baranova and Shadowheart's Jennifer English from Baldur's Gate 3.
May 08, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Watch the Kristian Nairn spotlight panel, talking Game of Thrones and Our Flag Means Death, with Nathan Foad from London's MCM x EGX
You know him from Game of Thrones. You love from Our Flag Means Death. Now, see (and hear) an hour of Kristian Nairn talking about himself.
May 07, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Critical Role's Travis Billingham and Laura Bailey duel over the ideal party leader, merchant haggler, and more in Popverse's Who is More Likely To?
Critical Role stars Laura Bailey & Travis Willingham face off in Popverse's Who Is More Likely To?
May 07, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Marvel Matters: What Thunderbolts* says about the MCU
How Marvel Studios' Beef-ed up the MCU Phase 5 with Thunderbolts* and what it means for the new Avengers movies to come.
May 06, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Watch the Tomb Raider reunion panel with Lara Croft voice actor Jonell Elliott and her Angel of Darkness co-star Eric Lauren
The primary voice of Tomb Raider's Lara Croft for the past 26 years, Jonell Elliott, opens up about the role at London's MCM x EGX 2024
May 05, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* creator credits include special attention to two of the Sentry creators
Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee don't get 'thanked' in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie credits - they get top treatment, and Jenkins got a job out of it.
May 02, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Livestream all of Boston's PAX East 2025 free with Popverse
Watch the big panels from Magic: The Gathering, Larian Studios, and more with Popverse's PAX East 2025 livestream.
May 02, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Star Wars: Andor actor Denise Gough says her Dedra character arc is showing how someone can become a fascist
During Star Wars Celebration, Denise Gough opened up about her Imperial officer Dedra Meero in Star Wars: Andor.
May 01, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
"One cool element" from Star Wars Expanded Universe to be "remixed and remastered" back into canon with Marvel's new Star Wars comic
A second chance at a sequel to Return of the Jedi will arrive in Marvel's new Star Wars comic book series, with one "cool element" from the original Expanded Universe set to return
April 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Who created Marvel's Sentry? The simmering Marvel Comics (and Marvel Studios) drama deepens as Paul Jenkins weighs in amid Thunderbolts* theatrical debut
In 2000, Marvel announced that Stan Lee and Artie Rosen created the Sentry. In the 25 years since, it's gotten more and more complicated
April 30, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch calls Marvel "the House of Stolen Ideas" after his stake in the character overlooked for past 25 years - including in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie
"Cut out" and "thrown under the bus": Marvel Comics' Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch opens up about his omission for the past 25 years and in the Thunderbolts* movie.
April 29, 2025
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Features
Marvel Studios needs to create an evil Avengers for RDJ's Doctor Doom to match all those heroes of Doomsday (and he has a gameplan already in comics with the Cabal) [Marvel Matters]
MCU fans have spent all this time speculating on the next Avengers, but we need to think about the villains creating their own Avengers.
April 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Matthew McConaughey & Christian Bale made a ferocious dragon movie 2 decades ago - and it's time you saw it
Years before we knew who he really was, Matthew McConaughey played the most American of Americans, complete with a shaved head, tribal tattoos, and his own personal tank, in Reign of Fire.
April 29, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
From Golden Boy to Stuntman actor & 'Serious' actor: The three eras of Tom Cruise movies across his career
The three faces of Tom Cruise, from Risky Business to Mission: Impossible and into his more serious movies like Born on the Fourth of July.
April 28, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
From Starship Troopers to Batgirl & SAW, Dina Meyer dishes on her favorite roles - and her favorite song to dance to
Popverse's Ashley V. Robinson talks with Dina Meyer about it all.
April 24, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
Star Trek vs. Star Wars as creators from both sides face-off in Popversus: The pop culture fight club
We boldly went to a galaxy far far away and goaded two Star Wars and Star Trek creators to fight it out.
April 24, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
Features
V.E. Schwab, Ella McLeod, & Veronica Roth face off in Celebrity Author Trivia at London's MCM x EGX
A live taping of Celebrity Author Trivia with Ella McLeod, Veronica Roth, & V.E. Scbwab recorded at MCM x EGX 2024 in London.
April 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The Haunting of Hill House star Kate Siegel aims to "nuture kindness" and fan the flames of excitement as she does more directing
Writer/director Mike Flanagan is "a lighthouse" for the kind of director Kate Siegel wants to be.
April 24, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Watch Divergent author Veronica Roth's spotlight panel from MCM x EGX 2024 in London
Veronica Roth talks about Divergent, her new series Curse Bearer, and how much her work owes itself to Chicago.
April 23, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
J.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis? Shades of Magic author V.E. Schwab reveals the two kinds of fantasy fiction, and which she writes
Watch Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil author V.E. Schwab's spotlight panel from London's MCM x EGX 2024.
April 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Marvel Matters: The cursed chalice of Marvel Studios' success, and the broken cinematic universe dreams it gave Hollywood
The Icarus effect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and how cost Warner Bros., Sony, Universal Pictures and more billions of dollars.
April 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The Boys' Garth Ennis imagines a nuclear war future in New York City with Becky Cloonan called The War
"As the world around us slides further into ruin, what better time to revisit the cheery subject of atomic obliteration?," Garth Ennis tells Popverse when talking about The War.
April 22, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The Donald Trump tariffs could scare off Halloween (and the costume industry) as we know it, with your favorite Halloween costumes set to double in price
Pixar's Inside Out characters were a big hit for Halloween 2024, and now in 2025 we may need to DIY it with these tariffs come October 31, 2025.
April 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The six Star Wars movies Lucasfilm says is still in development, and the six they avoided talking about at Star Wars Celebration 2025
These's aren't the Star Wars movies you're looking for - or are they?
April 21, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Yoda says the future is always in motion, but we know the next Star Wars Celebration dates are (and where it'll be)
Lucasfilm and ReedPop's Star Wars Celebration returns to the US in 2027.
April 20, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
"The dinner party from hell": Star Wars Andor dark power couple Kyle Soller & Denise Gough dish on one of their top 3 favorite scenes from the show
The mother-in-law is coming to visit Andor's Imperial power couple, and its going to get comedically crazy.
April 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Hayden Christensen is returning to Star Wars for Ahsoka season 2 - but is it as Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker?
Anakin Skywalker's coming back for Snips in Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2
April 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Ryan Gosling's Starfighter just overtook Daisy Ridley's New Jedi Order project to map the Star Wars future post-Rise of Skywalker
Inside the fight for the future of Star Wars
April 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Star Wars' Mon Mothma actor Geneveive O'Reilly has waited 20 years to stand up to the Empire, and with Andor season 2 she feels she finally has "this moment"
Geneveive O'Reilly is the longest-tenured Star Wars actor on the Andor series, and she's finally stepping up for her climatic scene
April 19, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
Our charming prince Hugh Dancy dishes on Hannibal, Ella Enchanted, Downton Abbey, and more
Hugh Dancy answers our questions - and one from one of our Popverse members.
April 18, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson
News
Expect "Easter Eggs" about DC Comics' future and a realignment of DC's past in New History of the DCU, according to Mark Waid
Mark Waid has the "blessing" of DC bosses to fix the DC Comics Universe with New History of the DCU
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Star Wars' mysterious Knights of Ren have a new female leader. Meet Tava Ren
Kylo Ren is vying for control of the Knights of Ren with a new Star Wars big bad named Tava Ren
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Disney & Lucasfilm are quietly planning a 50th anniversary Star Wars movie that's focused on all-new characters
Star Wars turns 50 in 2027, and there's a new movie coming for the occasion
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Longtime Star Wars fan Ryan Gosling sees 2027 Starfighter movie as a chance to "shine a light" into a part of the Star Wars Universe we haven't seen before
Ryan Gosling's been wanting to work with Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy for years, then he got offered to do a Star Wars together
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
I never realized how much I wanted to see Star Wars' Thrawn in a shoujo-style manga until now
Lucasfilm is bringing Timothy Zahn's Thrawn novel to manga.
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Cal Kestis is back as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting its own comic
We all need more Cal Kestis in our lives.
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Lucasfilm launches its first-ever Kickstarter to revive Star Wars: The Manga
Star Wars and Dark Horse Comics are giving this whole Kickstarter thing a try
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
The Star Wars: Starfighter movie will be the first Star Wars movie since 1977 that's not a sequel, a prequel to anything before - and Shawn Levy & Ryan Gosling are keying into that
Promising new characters, new adventures, and a new period of time, Star Wars: Starfighter is aiming to be its own thing in the Star Wars universe.
April 18, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
Stephen King's The Life of Chuck movie adaptation is one of the first "uncynical" projects writer/director Mike Flanagan has ever done
Writer/director Mike Flanagan is making his first movie for his children in The Life of Chuck.
April 17, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
How to write DC superheroes like Superman, The Flash, and more, according to Mark Waid
Justice League Unlimited writer Mark Waid opens up about how he writes superheroes after 30 years.
April 17, 2025
Chris Arrant
News
DC Comics loses its long-time publicity manager Michael Shelling
After 10 years of steering DC Comics' relationship with journalists, Michael Shelling is no longer with the company.
April 16, 2025
Chris Arrant
Features
The gentleman villain Mads Mikkelsen tells us how he balances being charming and despicable in our favorite movies & TV series
The Hannibal star sits down for a conversation with Popverse's Ashley V. Robinson.
April 16, 2025
Ashley V. Robinson