#be jones

[geekcavepodcast]

Wilderness Trailer

On the outside, Liv and Will have the perfect marriage. Then Liv discovers her husband's affair. On her dream trip, out in the wilderness, Liv wonders if maybe this might be the perfect place for a little accident.

Wilderness stars Jenna Coleman (Liv), Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Will), Ashley Benson (Cara), Eric Balfour (Garth), Claire Rushbrook (Caryl), Marsha Stephanie Blake (Detective Rawlins), Morgana Van Peebles (Ash), Jonathan Keltz (Detective Wiseman), Talia Balsam (Bonnie). The series is based on the novel by B.E. Jones.

Wilderness hits Prime Video on September 15, 2023.

[oswincoleman]

Beverley Jones, the author of Wilderness, shared some of her perspective on the upcoming release of the show!

She said that an Autumn 2023 airdate is confirmed!

Here are some other key points:

Every writer has an idea of who they’d like to see playing their protagonist and honestly, Jenna Coleman was not at the top of my list. Liv is quite a physical, dark character and I wasn’t sure the gorgeous and petite Coleman could embody her rage and betrayal. Then in Spring 2022, I was privileged enough to sit in on a Zoom ‘table-read’, where the actors, in their various houses and hotel rooms around the world, appeared in their digi-boxes to read through episode one, and I was blown away by her amazing performance. Just before Christmas 2022, I was back in London at the Firebird editing suite to see a bit of the post-production and some key scenes from the early episodes, still in a raw state. I can tell you, when I saw Liv and Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) in their convertible, cruising into view against the panorama of the desert it was all I could do to keep my composure. (I’m not crying, you’re crying. I just have something in my eye…)

If I’m impatient to see the finished product I had no idea how excited the legions of dedicated Jenna Coleman fans would be. One of the most enjoyable things over the last year has been watching the memes on Twitter and Instagram, chatting to the devotees about the paparazzi snaps of the New York shoot as they get more and more excited for a release date. Hopefully we’ll please all the fans but even if we can’t, one thing’s for sure, I know it’s been, and is going to be, a hell of a ride! 

[kittarts]

New Coraline design drop

[laurenillustrated]

Mystery Inc. but it’s the 1890s

Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?

The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe

[prokopetz]

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Onion, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

(EDIT: Fixed a sentence incorrectly suggesting that Clickhole is still affiliated with the Onion – it totally slipped my mind that they'd sold it back in 2020.)

[ajaxgb]

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

[casasupernovas]

shoutout to my favourite doctor who blooper ever

Doctor: Martha, you trust me don't you?

Martha: Of course I do.

Doctor: Because it all depends on you.

Martha: What does? What am I supposed to do?

David Tennant, breaking character and returning to his natural Scottish accent: Well there's a watch, but I've lost it.

transcript from @suz-blog

[buzzcutssn]

[clairekreads]

Bookish Small Screen Viewing - Wilderness

Today sees another instalment of my sporadic series Bookish Small Screen Viewing as I’ve finished watching the adaptation of B.E. Jones’ Wilderness which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. I have read the book so you can catch up on my review here. Continue reading Bookish Small Screen Viewing – Wilderness

[curlyhairedprince]

nick nelson is the head of the lesbians protection squad.

[skipppppy]

POV you are a guy in a monster suit and you are about to be meddled with so hard

[silverlunarella]

[kittarts]

[laurenillustrated]

Mystery Inc. meet Holmes and Watson!

I am having a lot of fun with this Victorian Scooby Doo au!!