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I went back and used my cover of The T-Rex Suite from Tomb Raider as a test for the new EW Hollywood Strings 2. Listening to it, I love the violins for having a very smiliar quality to the original synth versions, but I think I prefer the Hollywood Strings 1 cellos and basses.

I think this change was thought of for the 2019 film, if I'm being honest. There's a reason that, out of all the lines they could have changed, they changed Scar's resigned "... I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool." I'm certain that was not the writers' intent back in the 1994 film, of course. Then again, there's a lot that has happened in the various expansions since then that they didn't think of (IIRC Rob Minkoff said that it was a lion that gave Scar his scar, perhaps implying it was Mufasa who gave it to him, but we've had both a buffalo and a snake give it to him in two different popular spinoffs)

That actually addresses one of the biggest complaints about the previous film in that they've made the animals far more expressive. There's some interesting things from that and the press release: Mufasa is indeed an orphan, and not Scar's brother. His parents are Afia and Masego. Scar, whose name is Taka in a tip of the hat to 'A Tale Of Two Brothers', is actually a Prince. Taka's parents are named Obasi and Eshe. Rafiki, Timon and Pumbaa are telling this story to Kiara (played by Blue Ivy Carter) Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the songs, Mark Mancina is co-producing them with him, and Lebo M is also contributing. Beyonce is also contributing. Which means that, with previous announcements of Zimmer, Pharell Williams and Nicholas Britell, this is going to be one packed score.

I'll try to get a ticket myself too.

Samantha Davis, wife of Warwick Davis, died in March, but her death has only been announced today. She was 53. Source

Terry Matalas explains what went wrong with season 2, and also reveals some things that didn't make season 3. Some quotes that stuck out for me: Source

The weird thing there is that, by the rules of time travel that Dark Fate established (Skynet future stuff arriving into a timeline where Skynet does not exist any more for years afterward until the REV-9 and Grace appear) they actually had a way to sidestep John's death. All they'd have to have said was nobody else volunteered to be a protector, so John went back himself. Not that it matters now anyway. The next film looks to be a total reset, without any of the characters or settings of the previous films.

And since that post makes it seem like she genuinely didn't like it, here's the relevant quote: She doesn't say she hates it, just that she can't say she loved the film, and she's happy she got to do it anyway, even if it was a lot of hard work for her.

Wouldn't this just be a 'prequel', and not a 'prequel to the Kelvin films' given it's supposed to take place decades before? Therefore, it'd be a prequel to all Star Trek series bar Enterprise.

The Star Trek Prequel film is going ahead, aiming to release for next year. Filming starts later this year. Source

NGL, I have not had much luck with Bandit on MVSEP.

Yep. All I got to say to Sony about releasing it when they did is...

It was a huge mistake for Sony to release it when they did.

Well, that'd be better than the last guy they got, especially since there's 0% chance they get Don Davis back at this point. What's even more surprising is Lana agreeing to even be involved after the clearly miserable experience she had on Resurrections, and that WB would let her given the neon-illuminated middle finger the film gave them.