James Corden Confirms Rumor He Auditioned For Lord Of The Rings
James Corden, who is perhaps best known for The Late Show with James Corden, is also an actor who has appeared in films like Into the Woods and Cats. In a new interview, Corden confirmed a popular rumor that he auditioned for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings–but it didn’t go so well.
Speaking to Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Corden confirmed that his try-out for Samwise Gamgee was one of his first auditions as an actor. How did it go? “Not good,” Corden said bluntly.
“Every single person in London auditioned for The Lord of the Rings–everybody. I auditioned for Samwise,” Corden said.
Corden recorded an audition tape in which he did the full-on Sam accent and belted out Sam’s popular line, “Mr. Frodo!” Corden said he got called back twice, but never made it further. The audition video and other details about his take on Sam will evidently be kept a secret, as Corden didn’t sound enthusiastic about sharing more details during the interview.<…
Hulu's How I Met Your Father Adds Veronica Mars And GLOW Star
The father has (possibly) been found. According to a report from Deadline, Hulu’s gender-swapped How I Met Your Mother reboot–How I Met Your Father–has found its male lead to star opposite Hillary Duff. Chris Lowell, who you likely remember most as Bash on Netflix’s GLOW or Piz from the final season of Veronica Mars and the movie that followed, has snagged the role.
How I Met Your Father sees Duff as Sophie, a woman telling her kids the story of how she met and fell in love with their father, using that storytelling device to explore love in the digital age, when everyone’s staring at their phone and dating apps are all the rage.
Per Deadline, Lowell plays Hesse, “who is smart, with a bit of an edge and cynical about love. He’s an aspiring musician who works as an Uber driver to make ends meet and lives with his best friend Tom.” Will he be the father? Nobody knows at this point.
Hopefully, though, this romance…
Jason Momoa Teases His Fast X Character- "He's Definitely Got Some Daddy Issues"
Actor Jason Momoa has teased his Fast X character, a villain that the Aquaman star said is “evil and quirky and androgynous.” Speaking to ET, Momoa shared what he could about the upcoming action movie.
“I’ve never played a character that, what’s the word–he’s evil and quirky and androgynous,” he said. “He’s very sadistic and fun. It’s very bizarre.”
In an interview with Variety, Momoa shared a little more. He said he had the “time of my life” making the movie, in which he turns the tables and portrays a bad guy.
“I’ve been the good guy for a while,” Momoa said. “He’s very sadistic and androgynous and he’s a bit of a peacock… He’s got a lot of issues, this guy. He’s definitely got some daddy issues.”
Fast X is scheduled to hit theaters in May 2023. In addition to Momoa and series star Vin Diesel, the movie brings back the rest of the main cast, including Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, and Sung Kang.
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John Cena Announces His Retirement From Wrestling In 2025
During a surprise appearance at WWE’s Money in the Bank live event, John Cena told fans around the world that he plans to retire from professional wrestling in 2025. But not before he goes out on one last run, including an appearance at next year’s Wrestlemania.
Cena debuted in the WWE in 2002, and he worked his way up the ranks before winning his first world title in 2005. He went on to hold the WWE Championship and World Championship belts 16 times, tying the record held by Ric Flair. However, Cena has only appeared sporadically in the ring since 2018, while his career as an actor took off.
The final run for Cena will begin in January when Monday Night Raw moves from USA to Netflix. Cena also mentioned that he plans to participate in 2025’s Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber. Other WWE events weren’t specified by Cena, but he noted that he intends to wrestle through the end of 2025 rather than ending his career at Wrestlemania.
There is also the possibility tha…
Cyberpunk 2077 Update Adds New Mode That Pretty Much No One Can Play
Cyberpunk 2077’s Overdrive mode is now available, and if you have the right hardware, you’ll be able to experience a technology preview that pushes the boundaries of what current hardware is capable of. You’ll need to own one of the latest–and expensive–Nvidia 40-series graphics cards to get Overdrive Mode working on your PC, but if you have it, expect a really, really ridiculously good-looking version of Cyberpunk 2077.
If you’re still stuck in last-gen, there is some good news here as CD Projekt Red says that a measly GeForce RTX 3090 GPU can run Overdrive Mode, but at 1080p and 30fps. Alternatively, CDPR has enabled the mode on older hardware, but with a neat twist. Ray-tracing-capable PC graphics cards with at least 8GB VRAM will be capable of rendering path-traced screenshots in Photo Mode. This is possible because it means that these GPUs just need to render one frame, as opposed to rendering several frames every second when playing the game.
“Note that the highe…
Life Is Strange Creator Is Now A Third-Party Publisher, Too
The French game developer Dontnod, which created the Life is Strange series, is growing its reach and becoming a third-party publisher. Dontnod announced this week that it will publish developer PortaPlay’s new game as a co-production effort. Under the terms of the deal, Dontnod will hold the “majority rights” of this new IP.
The Copenhagen-based PortaPlay is making an “original creation.” Little is known in the way of specifics, but Dontnod said the game “fits with the editorial vision and values of Dontnod.” It added: “These values federate a broad audience and resonate with our very committed community of gamers around the world.”
Dontnod’s publishing and marketing department was established in 2020, but this seems to be the first game that the company is taking on as a publisher.
“With this first partnership, Dontnod will provide to PortaPlay its know-how and experience acquired with its previous titles, in order to support this future creation in its developme…
Like A Dragon- Infinite Wealth Release Date Set For January 2024
Sega has confirmed that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will officially launch on January 26, 2024, for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. The direct sequel to the seventh mainline game in the series before its renaming made things slightly confusing, Like a Dragon once again stars former Yakuza Ichiban Kasuga as he heads to Hawaii to search for his long-lost mother. Kasuga won’t be alone in his mission, as he’ll be joined by longtime Like a Dragon protagonist Kazuma Kiryu, whose days might finally be numbered after he reveals that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
With a limited number of days left, Kiryu aims to help Kasuga find his mother so that he can atone for the sins of his past. The only catch here is that local gangs are out in force and are also hunting for Kasuga’s mother. Like Yakuza 7, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth uses an RPG battle system inspired by Kasuga’s love of Dragon Quest, which developer Ryu Ga Gotoku says has been refined to be mor…
Lost Ark- Here's The Latest On Server Queues; Free DLC Announced For Everyone
Smilegate’s newly released PC game Lost Ark is flying high right now and breaking records. It’s so popular that the game continues to have server queues, which isn’t an ideal situation for players who want to jump in and play as quickly as possible. Thankfully, Smilegate has now said it’s working “as quickly as possible” to spin up a new server region in Europe to accommodate players in that part of the world.
In a blog post, Smilegate said it’s been “blown away” by the volume of players who have jumped into Lost Ark since the game was released widely on February 11. To help get players into the game faster, Smilegate said it’s working around the clock to add the new European servers.
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Life Is Strange- True Colors' Alex Can Romance Before The Storm's Steph
Like the previous three Life Is Strange games, True Colors is a very choice-heavy, story-driven game. Among those choices is the option to romance one of two characters, one of which is a familiar face from Life Is Strange: Before The Storm’s Steph.
On her first day in Haven Springs, protagonist Alex Chen meets several folks in her brother Gabe’s life, including Ryan and Steph, both of whom can become good friends with Alex. But if you play your cards right, Alex can romance either one of them.
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Magic- The Gathering Lord Of The Rings- Tales Of Middle-earth Full Reveal- See The New Cards
After MagicCon Minneapolis earlier this month gave a few small teases about the upcoming set, this week’s WeeklyMTG livestream saw Wizards Of The Coast drop a motherlode of information on Magic: The Gathering’s upcoming Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Middle-earth set, with over 120 cards and card variants revealed.
The reveal showed 126 cards in total, with every Magic: The Gathering color and card type represented. The only new mechanic coming from this set is The Ring Tempts You, where a creature becomes the Ring-Bearer and gains abilities whenever a card includes that line of text. However, two other mechanics from Magic’s past will feature in the set as well:
- Amass, which lets a player create a creature token and power it up every time a card reads “Amass X.” In LOTR’s case, players will amass Orc Army tokens.
- Sagas, which are enchantments that have one action when the enter the battlefield, and then during the contro…