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Vanessa Armstrong

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Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Recent:
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Past:
  • Tor.com
  • Syfy
  • Strange Horizons
  • Timothy McSweeney
  • Los Angeles Times

Past articles by Vanessa:

Alan Cumming Might Bake You Into a Pie in Next Season of Schmigadoon!

Are you into musicals? If so, you’re probably already familiar with the Apple TV+ show, Schmigadoon!, a series starring Keegan-Michael Key and Cecily Strong. The first season had them living in a w… → Read More

Star Trek: Discovery’s Fifth Season, Now Coming Out in 2024, Will Be Its Last

The upcoming season of Star Trek: Discovery will be the final one for the series. → Read More

Jack Kesy to Take Up Hellboy Mantle in Mike Mignola’s The Crooked Man Adaptation

The latest Hellboy adaptation co-written by comic book creator Mike Mignola has found its titular character. → Read More

20 Newly Discovered Terry Pratchett Stories Will Be Published This Year

Terry Pratchett was adamant that any works in progress of his would be destroyed (by a steamroller, no less) after his death. And when he passed away in 2015, his former assistant and friend Rob Wi… → Read More

Heads Up, Foolish Mortals! We’ve Got a Haunted Mansion Trailer

We’ve finally got our first real glimpse of this year’s Haunted Mansion movie, a film based on the legendary Disney theme park attraction that centers around Rosario Dawson playing a woman who, alo… → Read More

Here's how 'Cowboys & Aliens' was a key step on Jon Favreau's journey to creating 'The Mandalorian'

Before Jon Favreau became deeply involved in the Star Wars universe, he directed the star-studded movie Cowboys & Aliens. → Read More

‘The Ark' co-creator Jonathan Glassner on how that Trust reveal ‘shakes things up’ on SYFY series

Turns out there’s a whole lot more to Ark One than we could’ve imagined. The latest episode of SYFY’s space thriller The Ark featured a big death and an even bigger twist — so we caught up with co-creator Jonathan Glassner to break it all down and find out what comes next. → Read More

Mike Flanagan Has a Nightmare on Elm Street Idea, But Doesn’t Know Who to Call

Mike Flanagan is certainly keeping himself busy. The Doctor Sleep and Midnight Mass director has several upcoming projects in the works, including a Netflix limited series adaptation of The Fall of… → Read More

Will Your Favorite D&D Creatures Show Up in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves?

The upcoming Dungeon & Dragons live-action feature film starring Chris Pine looks like it might be a fun romp, based on what we’ve seen in the trailers. If you’re looking to find out more of wh… → Read More

Dean Devlin & Jonathan Glassner explain that clone reveal on SYFY’s original series ‘The Ark’

SYFY’s new original series The Ark has been playing with all kinds of sci-fi concepts in its first season, from space exploration to global catastrophe, and now we can add clones into the mix after Episode 4. So what does that twist mean, and how does cloning fit into the world of The Ark? **Spoilers ahead for the fourth episode of SYFY’s The Ark** → Read More

We’re Getting Another R-Rated Hellboy Adaptation, Co-Written by Mike Mignola

There’s a new Hellboy adaptation in the works. This one is titled Hellboy: The Crooked Man and will be directed by Brian Taylor, the person behind the Brave New World adaptation that ran for one se… → Read More

Leigh Bardugo Shares Ninth House TV Adaptation Has a Pilot Script

While Shadow and Bone’s second season is about to premiere on Netflix, author Leigh Bardugo also has another adaptation of her work in development. I’m talking about Ninth House, Bardugo’s first fo… → Read More

Shadow and Bone Season 2 Trailer Gives Us More Glimpses of The Darkling, Nikolai, and More

The second season of Netflix’s Shadow and Bone adaptation is almost here, and we’ve got a trailer to prove it! The streaming platform released the new clip today, which not only gives us Ben Barnes… → Read More

Disney Has Pushed The Marvels Release Date to Later This Year

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has just invaded a theater near you, but if you’re already looking forward to what’s coming up after that in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then I have some news f… → Read More

Peacock Ups the Ante and Orders a Second Season of Poker Face

Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale will continue to find murder wherever she travels! Peacock has officially greenlit Poker Face for a second season. → Read More

‘The Ark’ stars open up about how they formed a ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ while filming SYFY series

The Ark, the new SYFY show from Dean Devlin and Stargate SG-1 creator Jonathan Glassner, centers around a group of survivors trying to stay alive on a damaged spaceship still a year out from its planetary destination. → Read More

For Their Penultimate Season, Outlander Recruits Sinead O’Connor for Theme Song

If you’re a fan of the Outlander television adaptation, you’re well-familiar with the show’s numerous renditions of its theme song. The seventh and penultimate season, set to premiere on this summe… → Read More

Prime Video’s The Peripheral Will Bring More Thrills In a Second Season

The future is coming back for a second season. Amazon has picked up another tranche of episodes for their television adaptation of William Gibson’s The Peripheral. → Read More

A Live-Action Spider-Man Noir Series Is in Development, With Mortal Kombat Writer on Board

Amazon Studios and MGM are working on a Spider-Man Noir live-action series, brought to us by Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, former Sony head Amy Pascal, and Oren … → Read More

New Scream VI Trailer Reveals a Ghostface Like No Other

We’ve got a new teaser trailer for Scream VI heading our way. And while sports fans and Super Bowl commercial fans will have to wait for the big game this Sunday to see it run on network television… → Read More