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The comic Enormous, by Tim Daniel and Mehdi Cheggour, has already been adapted to a new medium once, as Machinima financed a web series pilot written by André Øvredal (Trollhunter) and directed by BenDavid Grabinski (Cost of Living). But with Machinima’s changing fortunes that series didn’t go far, and now producer Adrian Askarieh has teamed with New Regency Television and 20th Century Fox Television to develop an Enormous event series. 

Deadline reports that the producers are looking for a showrunner now, after which a pilot script, cast and director will start to fall into place. So it’ll probably be 2016 at least before we see anything from this effort.

The story, as the official site says, goes like this:

Enormous tells the full tale of the aftermath of a vast ecological cataclysm which spawns colossal beasts unlike anything ever witnessed. Humankind stares down imminent extinction and the only law is to hunt or be hunted. It’s survival of the biggest as the earth-shaking sci-fi action adventure continues. As the last vestige of humankind spirals towards annihilation, Ellen Grace leads the only remaining North American Search & Recovery Team through the deadly giant monster infested streets of Phoenix. However, she soon encounters another predator far more dangerous than the other-worldly creatures stalking the desolate city: her fellow humans.

Here’s the Enormous web series pilot, which originally appeared just under a year ago, in March 2014.

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Well, it’s not like the show got Tom Cruise to reprise his role, but Fox’s TV version of Minority Report can now boast at least one actor from the original Steven Spielberg-directed film. Daniel London, who played the Minority Report precog caretaker — the tech who helped manage the three clairvoyant visionaries in the movie — will now play that same role in the Minority Report TV series.

Deadline reports that London will go back to the role of Wally the Caretaker. The show is a sequel to the original film, this time following a new detective who begins a sort of spiritual working relationship with one of the precogs from the movie. Deadline says,

[Minority Report] is set 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. One of the three Precogs, Dash, struggles to lead a “normal” human life, but remains haunted by visions of the future, when he meets a detective, Lara Vega, who is haunted by her past who just might help him find a purpose to his gift.

This time, Wally is “eager to help Vega and is assisting Dash in establishing a new identity.”

Also nabbing a role is Li Jun Li, who will play “Akeela, a Crime Scene Investigation technician who works closely with Vega.”

The crucial actors for the show will clearly be the actors for Dash and Vega, but they have not been revealed at this point. We do know that Mark Mylod is directing the pilot, which was written by Max Borenstein. Kevin Falls, who has experience on shows such as Sports Night, The West Wing, and Franklin & Bash, will be the showrunner.

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably heard about the special Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary special that aired this past Sunday night. It was a three and a half hour trip down memory lane, featuring a true dream-team of comedy’s elite.

Among the many highlights came early in the show when a 5-minute video montage was shown of cast members’ first auditions. Not fake auditions, like we’ve seen in the past. The actual, real auditions for stars like Will Ferrell, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon as well as classic cast members like Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner and John Belushi. Here, you can see them in the auditions that would change their lives forever. It’s pretty special.

As a bonus though, there are also auditions from people who didn’t make the cut. They’re people you’ve definitely heard of who auditioned, but didn’t make the show.

Below, check out the Saturday Night Live auditions video as well a few of the other highlights from the special including Celebrity Jeopardy, Wayne’s World and more.

Thanks to the SNL Youtube for the videos.

SNL 40: Saturday Night Live auditions

That was a pretty excellent moment. Here are a few of my other favorite moments from the show:

SNL 40: Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake Cold Open

SNL 40: Celebrity Jeopardy

SNL 40: Audience Q&A with Jerry Seinfeld

SNL 40: Digital Short

SNL 40: Wayne’s World

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After making X-Men: First Class, co-writer and director Matthew Vaughn teased that his sequel to that mutant movie might entail some political intrigue, with Magneto controlling the bullet that killed JFK. We know how that worked out in the film that became X-Men: Days of Future Past. Vaughn eventually moved on to make Kingsman: The Secret Service.

Now that he’s promoting that film Vaughn is talking about some ideas he had for his version of the X-Men sequel. One involved both another film in-between First Class and Days of Future Past, and eventually recasting Wolverine, choosing a new, younger actor in order to take the series into the future.

Vaughn spoke to MTV, and explained that the story outline he wrote after First Class also featured Wolverine, just like the final version of Days of Future Past did. It was just not the Wolverine we know — or at least not only the one we know.

I had a whole different idea of how X-Men should go. I thought Days of Future Past should be the next one and it’d be set in the ’80s. So, when I wrote the treatment, I then wrote Kingsman and got confused about which film I should direct next. I said to Fox, ‘Let me do Kingsman now, get somebody else in and we’ll do the ’70s version, recast Wolverine, and then we do Days of Future Past with the new Wolverine and Hugh [Jackman], and make it the biggest spectacle we’ve ever seen.

That’s an interesting concept; essentially we could have had another movie in between First Class and Days of Future Past, and then pushed forward to a point where a new actor for Wolverine could have been hired, with whom the series could continue moving through the ’80s and ’90s.

Vaughn also says,

That was my idea but Fox, quite rightly so, I mean, you know, they’ve got a bottom line to look after and went ‘no, we’re doing it.’ And Bryan [Singer], it’s Bryan’s franchise. I think he proved it’s his by knocking it out of the park.

You might also wonder if this was part of an idea to just get out of the series altogether. Propose an idea he knew the brass wouldn’t accept, especially with respect to accelerating the departure of Jackman from the Wolverine role, and in so doing have a semi-graceful path out, to Kingsman.

Jackman, of course, isn’t done yet. He’s doing another solo Wolverine movie, perhaps with Patrick Stewart once again reprising the Charles Xavier role, and Jackman will also appear in X-Men: Apocalypse, which shoots in April of this year for release on May 27, 2016.

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