One big flaw with this theory is the clear age difference between Kevin McCallister and Jigsaw. While the «Home Alone» movies never explicitly mention their timelines, we can assume that their stories occur in the early 1990s, when the first two films were released. In the first movie, Kevin is 8 years old, meaning he’d be a teenager in 2001, when «Saw» is presumably set — if the date on Lawrence Gordon’s (Cary Elwes) cellphone is anything to go by. Jigsaw is clearly a seasoned adult in the first «Saw,» so based on that, he can’t be the kid from «Home Alone.»
Despite this, James Wan got a kick out of this fan theory. While speaking to HuffPost, he said he loves it when people have fun with his movies, and he didn’t rule out the possibility of Kevin McCallister and Jigsaw being one and the same. «I should’ve known all along that Macaulay Culkin would grow up to be John Kramer,» he joked.
Still, it’s unsurprising that «Home Alone» has been connected to a gruesome horror franchise. After all, the family holiday favorite has seemingly inspired horror filmmakers for years, and it may also have been influenced by a spooky home invasion flick from the 1980s.
The BBFC’s «U» rating is most analogous to a «G» rating from the Motion Picture Association — a seal of approval that a film’s content is appropriate for very young children. In the United States, all three original Star Wars films received PG ratings from the MPA upon release, so it makes sense that they’d share the equivalent demarcation in the U.K.
These days, Star Wars is skewed more toward older kids. In 2005, «Revenge of the Sith» became the franchise’s first entry to get slapped with a PG-13 rating, and every live-action theatrical outing since has received the same. The main sticking point for the BBFC seemed to be the violence in «Return of the Jedi,» with their website detailing a laundry list of specific moments: «A man is repeatedly electrocuted and reacts in pain. A villain’s hand is cut off at the wrist; however, there is limited detail. A woman is fed to a fantastical creature. A man is thrown to his death.»
Again, the new PG rating fits how the film has always been viewed in the U.S. As the label suggests, it isn’t a hard rejection of children watching Star Wars, but simply an extra note for parents and guardians to consider before putting it on the TV.
It didn’t take long for Ben Shapiro’s quip to be ripped apart by the denizens of X. Writer-director Joe Russo posted a simple comparison of all of Kennedy’s successes compared to Shapiro’s. «Kathleen Kennedy: Indiana Jones, Poltergeist, ET, Gremlins, Back to the Future, The Goonies, Batteries Not Included, Who Framed Roger Rabbit Cape Fear, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Twister, Star Wars (and more),» Russo wrote. «Failed Screenwriter Ben Shapiro: Lady Ballers.»
Trolls like to ignore all the work Kennedy was a part of prior to the «Star Wars» sequels began: her eight Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, her co-founding of Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg, and her status as the third-highest-grossing producer ever at the global box office. They also ignore the fact that «The Force Awakens’ is the fifth-highest-grossing movie ever made, that «The Last Jedi» is number 20, or that «Rogue One» and «The Rise of Skywalker» are both in the top 50.
Shapiro himself famously failed in an attempted screenwriting career — something that X users were quick to point out. «If Ben Shapiro thinks Kathleen Kennedy is the worst entertainment executive of his lifetime, wait until he hears about Ben Shapiro,» @Dreamking89 wrote in a post. User @IronGiante echoed the sentiment, calling Shapiro a «failed little screenwriter who couldn’t even make it in Hollywood.»
As it turns out, the von Trapps lived a very comfortable life in the United States eventually, though they arrived without much money to their famous name. After settling in America in 1939, they took advantage of their considerable talent and performed across the country as the Trapp Family Singers. Despite a brief interval when their American visas expired and they had to head to Scandinavia to tour, the von Trapps soon returned to America for good, buying a home in Stowe, Vermont.
The family led a music camp on their estate, and Maria and the von Trapp children went on to become American citizens (though records indicate Georg never became a citizen himself). After quite a lengthy career as the Trapp Family Singers, they collectively decided to stop touring in 1955 — in part because many of the children had left the group. Georg died in 1947, but Maria lived 40 more years. Their biggest legacy beyond «The Sound of Music» may be that the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe is still operating as of this writing.
In «Very Good Girls,» Dakota Fanning plays Lilly Berger, a young woman who falls in love with the same man as her best friend, Gerri Fields (Elizabeth Olsen). The film delves into issues of sexuality and does so with various instances of nudity, with one scene standing out without actually showing anything, through the use of careful camera placement and editing. It involves Lilly and Gerri running naked on the beach into the water.
Looking at the scene, it’s not unusual, nor is there any indication the actors weren’t actually naked. In truth, they wore bathing suits, which were edited out during post-production. Still, because it wasn’t clearly digitally altered, the press pounced on the young actor, as it was her first nude scene. She discussed it with MTV News at the Sundance Film Festival, saying, «I’ve never done that before, and I’m very newly allowed to do that. I was newly 18, so yeah, it’s kind of a sensitive thing, but it’s a part of life.»
Fanning spoke to Vulture about the scene, explaining, «It’s, like, complicated. It’s kind of mine,» referring to her exposed rear end. Director Naomi Foner expanded on Fanning’s comments, saying, «They weren’t actually naked,» explaining how they wore bathing suits. «They painted the bathing suit out — it’s CGI.» Fanning’s co-star, Olsen, also admitted to working with a body double for shots of her butt and explained that CGI took care of anything happening under the water.
While Benny Safdie may have denied a rift between himself and Josh Safdie, it’s always possible they’re not on speaking terms in their personal lives and don’t want their issues to surface publicly. Nevertheless, the only official word on the matter comes from Benny Safdie, who calls the split mutual.
He began describing their split as amicable in July 2023 after he departed the untitled Adam Sandler film. «It just felt like, okay, there’s things that I want to explore that don’t necessarily align right now with Josh,» he told GQ. «He wants to tell this story, he can go and do that. I’m going to go and do a couple of other things. It seems like a natural progression for how things have happened.»
At that point, Benny Safdie was clear he and Josh Safdie still ran Elara Pictures together. Now, the state of their working relationship seems murkier. Notably, Benny Safdie confirmed that the Sandler movie is on hiatus and told Variety he’s unsure whether or not he’ll direct alongside his brother again. Elara is also absent from the production credits of Benny Safdie’s upcoming collaboration with Dwayne Johnson. So, while there may not be any ill will behind their split, it appears the Safdies will remain separate entities for the foreseeable future.
Most of the superpowered events happening in the MCU have historically been monitored by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). Of course, with SHIELD in tatters and Fury’s second-in-command dead, it would make sense for a brand-new partnership to take over this responsibility, and there’s every chance the contessa and her assistant might be it. Between her role on «The Falcon and the Winter Soldier» and her appearance at the end of «Black Widow,» Fontaine is giving off the same vibe as our favorite spy, so Erin could just as quickly be her Hill-like backup when things go sour.
On the other hand, given that Fontaine’s methods are so shady she puts even Fury to shame, it’s a safe bet that she draws a similar crowd of people who are just as untrustworthy. With that in mind, is there a chance that Erin could double-cross her at some point in «Thunderbolts»? Taking on a talent like Ayo Edebiri for the role suggests that, hopefully, Erin isn’t just some lackey for Fontaine to order around during her daily to-do list of hatching schemes and blackmailing powerful figures. It’d be nice to see her grow into a prominent player in the MCU’s shadier areas, even if she has to stab Fontaine in the back to do so.
Steven Yeun is no stranger to comic book adaptations — he currently voices Mark Grayson on «Invincible,» a series that’s arguably much edgier than anything the MCU has produced since its inception. Creator Robert Kirkman has teased more seasons of «Invincible» too, so fans can potentially look forward to Yeun having his own superhero project for years to come.
Elsewhere, Yeun is set to star in Bong Joon Ho’s «Mickey 17» alongside Robert Pattinson, Mark Ruffalo, and Toni Collette. This one is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s sci-fi novel «Mickey7,» which is set in a future in which the members of a space colonization expedition who are deemed «expendable» get sent on dangerous missions and are cloned whenever they die.
Finally, Yeun will star in Sam and Andy Zuchero’s «Love Me» alongside Kristen Stewart. This story is set in a postapocalyptic world and chronicles the unlikely romance between a buoy and a satellite following the collapse of human civilization. It would seem that the actor is drawn toward sci-fi and dystopian projects, which explains why he’d be keen to get another chance with Marvel.
Despite the emotion surrounding Yaddle’s death, some «Star Wars» fans can’t help but feel she brought her downfall on herself. One such fan is u/Kevy96 on Reddit, who made a thread about how her and Dooku’s duel and her demise were avoidable. «She legitimately made the 1 billion IQ move to start fighting Dooku and Sidious, instead of running back to her ship for a minute, and getting every single Jedi master in the galaxy for backup in like 5 minutes,» they wrote, positing that she could’ve easily gotten reinforcements, saved her life, and potentially stopped the two Sith.
In the comments, several folks agreed with u/Kevy96, writing that Yaddle made a huge mistake in handling the situation the way she did. At the same time, some felt they could understand why Yaddle didn’t make the right call. For instance, a now-deleted Redditor posited, «Perhaps her relationship with Dooku blinded her. She thought she could bring him back from the dark side and turn on Sidious.» Meanwhile, u/Backpack78 also brought up the point that like so many other Jedi, Yaddle likely underestimated Sidious and the pull of the dark side, much to her detriment.
Regardless of the circumstances surrounding her death, the fact remains that Yaddle’s time in the «Star Wars» spotlight was cut short by Count Dooku, whose killing of her took him from a disillusioned Jedi to a full-on Sith.
While «Batman Returns» features several villains from the comics, Daniel Waters admitted that he and Tim Burton never strived to make the film faithful to the source material. He said they weren’t entrenched in the lore and didn’t fully grasp the concept of comic books. «It was a weird assignment in that I didn’t need to please anyone but Tim Burton,» Waters told IndieWire. «Before the internet, you didn’t have to go before a tribunal and say what you were doing — it was just two guys in a room riffing. We didn’t know s*** about Batman villains. We didn’t really understand the whole comic book thing. I just found out DC Comics stands for Detective Comics.»
The comments might seem surprising at first glance. Still, considering Burton’s story choices in the first two «Batman» films, it’s pretty clear the talented director didn’t believe following the comics was needed in most cases. In the first film, The Joker was given the real name Jack Napier, and in the second, Burton and Waters introduced an original villain in Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) who doesn’t appear in the comics. However, it’s clear that Burton tried to maintain the comic book aesthetic, even if his plot deviated from the source material, especially when embracing its sillier origins.
Despite the lack of meta-commentary on «Batman» and all those deviations from the comics, it’s hard to argue with the results of «Batman Returns» on the big screen. Indeed, Keaton made the right call in asking for the satire to be cut, as the film’s opening turned out just fine.
Of course, the most notable time Godzilla’s atomic breath turned red was in the final installment of the Heisei Era, «Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.» Meant to conclude the seven «Godzilla» productions released between 1984 and 1995, «Godzilla vs. Destoroyah» took the red atomic heat ray another step further. Instead of just recoloring Godzilla’s atomic breath and adding an electrical spiral, this time, Godzilla melts down. In the Heisei films, Godzilla’s heart doubles as a nuclear reactor, hence his atomic breath in the first place, but what happens when a kaiju melts down from the inside? Burning Godzilla is the answer.
Along with the red-orange glow of his atomic breath, this Godzilla glows from the inside out as his body breaks down. After absorbing too much energy from uranium deposits, Burning Godzilla is born, and his fiery appearance lies in stark contrast to the King of the Monster’s usual look. Eventually, Burning Godzilla defeats Destoroyah, but at the cost of his own life. Each time Godzilla uses his atomic heat ray while in meltdown, it negatively contributes to the process, ultimately leaving him in radioactive ashes. Though, Godzilla Junior is reborn just after his father’s death, so at least there’s that.
At the time «The Avengers» released, keeping comic book costumes accurate for their adaptation into live-action wasn’t a priority. Thus, fans saw such sights as the traditionally colorfully-clad X-Men running around in black leather. While the likes of Iron Man and Captain America weren’t too adversely affected by this trend, Hawkeye certainly was. In the pages of Marvel Comics, Clint Barton is known for his vibrant purple and blue suit with an over-the-top purple helmet. In Ryan Meinerding’s artwork, there isn’t even a hint of his classic attire, with neither a helmet nor a dash of color to be seen.
To somewhat honor the source material, Hawkeye’s final «Avengers» suit at least has a dash of dark purple to it, which isn’t much, but it’s better than giving him a generic all-black military look. Thankfully, it seems that Marvel Studios has finally come around on giving Clint a good, comic-inspired costume. On the Disney+ series «Hawkeye,» his protégé, Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), whips the two of them up some matching purple and black outfits. In fact, their new duds look like they were pulled straight from Matt Fraction and David Aja’s «Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon» story.
From concept art to his self-titled Disney+ series, Hawkeye has come a long way in the MCU, not only in terms of his arc but his costuming, too. All we can hope for now is that we’ll see some form of his gaudy yet iconic mask down the road.
Arrancamos el año con algunos de los eventos tecnológicos más importantes, siendo Unpacked uno de los más esperados. Es la oportunidad de Samsung de mostrarnos lo que tienen en su arsenal, y las sorpresas parecen estar orientadas en gran medida a la inclusión de inteligencia artificial. Por otro lado, la llegada del Samsung Galaxy S24 es un potente generador de incertidumbre, y aunque ya ha habido un par de filtraciones, solo es cuestión de días para conocer lo que la compañía surcoreana prepara.
La fecha definida para el Samsung Unpacked 2024 es el 17 de enero, y se ha confirmado oficialmente que el nuevo buque insignia de la marca será presentado ese día. Como en años anteriores, Samsung demuestra una tendencia a utilizar esta ocasión para revelar sus dispositivos más importantes. Así pues, conoceremos las características de la gama alta que promete llevar la batuta durante este 2024. Ante la llegada del sucesor del Galaxy S23, el mercado se ha mantenido a la expectativa, ya que las innovaciones pueden estar orientadas a mejor calidad en el procesamiento, optimización de pagos y la posibilidad de plegarse.
Los móviles con inteligencia artificial son una tendencia que puede cobrar fuerza para Samsung en este año, lo que representaría una importante evolución para los Smartphones. Por ejemplo, se ha hablado de Galaxy AI, una tecnología que nos presenta la empresa y de la que poco se sabe. Sin embargo, algunos datos revelados indican que al menos el uso del Zoom en las cámaras podría estar vinculado con un análisis mucho mas provechoso y potente por parte de esta tecnología captar imágenes más impresionantes.
Samsung no solo planea lanzar un nuevo teléfono, según los informes, sino que espera ingresar en el mercado un dispositivo que transformará completamente la manera en que interactuamos con ellos. Solo queda esperar al 17 de enero para conocer lo que nos depara el futuro de Samsung a través de su línea Galaxy S.
Court Corley leads the Center for AI @PNNL. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Photo / Andrea Starr)
Bringing artificial intelligence to bear on issues relating to nuclear weapons might sound like the stuff of a scary sci-fi movie — but at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, it’s just one of the items on the to-do list.
One of PNNL’s research priorities is to identify and combat complex threats to national security, and AI can help meet that priority by detecting attempts to acquire nuclear weapons or associated technology.
Nuclear proliferation detection is one of the potential applications that could get an assist from the Center for AI @PNNL, a newly announced effort to coordinate research that makes use of AI tools — including the generative AI tools that have captured the attention of the tech world over the past year or two.
“For decades we’ve been doing artificial intelligence,” center director Court Corley, PNNL’s chief scientist for AI, told GeekWire in a recent interview. “What we’re seeing now, though, is an exceptional phase shift in where AI is being used and how it’s being used.”
Historically, PNNL’s researchers have made use of data analytics in specific domains to provide deeper insights into special types of challenges, “But in the past 10 years since we started using modern AI, which includes deep learning and now generative AI and deep reinforcement learning, the number of our scientists and engineers that are using it in their day-to-day work has just continued to grow,” Corley said.
Corley said one-fifth of PNNL’s thousands of scientists and engineers are using AI. “These are power systems engineers working on electricity grid resilience, and scientists working to decode the biomolecular universe and understand biological function, and so many domains in between — where previously, the application of AI was challenged because either it wasn’t robust or it wasn’t resilient, but now it’s really beginning to work well,” he said.
The Center for AI @PNNL is meant to optimize how AI tools are employed at the national laboratory, which is based in Richland, Wash., but also has researchers working in Seattle and Sequim in Washington state, plus Portland, Ore., and even College Park, Md. Corley and his staff have the job of coordinating AI projects and championing technological innovations across the organization.
Among the AI-centric projects PNNL’s researchers have been working on are initiatives to speed up materials development for energy storage systems; to engineer microbes to produce next-generation biofuels; and to make use of a technique called autonomous experimentation to create new types of alloys.
“There are pockets of AI research and AI engineering all across the laboratory, and we’re at a point now to be able to aggregate our collective expertise and really champion our work,” he said. “It makes sense to bring everybody together in a virtual research hub. That way, we can have an entity that’s greater than the sum of its parts. We can better prioritize infrastructure, prioritize resources, prioritize tooling, upskilling, training and so forth.”
Corley is well-suited for his new role as the center’s director: He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of North Texas in 2009 and has been focusing on data analytics and AI research at PNNL ever since. Here’s a selections of quotes from our interview, edited for brevity and clarity.
On efforts to ensure the safe and secure use of AI for national security applications: “There’s a huge call-out in the executive order about AI that was issued by the president recently. It delves into how we as a nation can protect against revealing dangerous information — for example, recognizing the ability to extract dangerous information from these systems as to how they’re used, and building a response to that. Right now, the government is on a very short timetable to respond to those concerns. It’s a whole-of-government effort with many organizations involved, not just national labs like PNNL. We need to answer those specific questions: What are the safeguards? What are the mechanisms by which we’ll protect our infrastructure and high-consequence systems?”
On working with tech partners to make AI safer: “Tech companies are going to develop their own roadmap. But the folks from the tech companies are very clear. They say, ‘We shouldn’t be the one only ones developing safe and secure methods for these systems. We really need the government support.’ And you see that in Washington now. They’re having conversations with many organizations about partnerships to make sure these systems are developed in a safe, secure manner.”
On how generative AI being used at PNNL: “We’re in an exploratory phase right now. We’re trying to see where generative AI will have the most impact in the missions that we support. We have a new effort, using some of the tools provided by our hyperscalers, like Microsoft or Amazon, to see whether those tools are sufficient to do both computational chemistry and AI workloads. We have other efforts that we are just starting with the Department of Energy — for example, to accelerate permitting processes. The process for getting environmental permits for different types of electricity use is a very paper-heavy process. And so we have an exploratory project right now to see if can we accelerate that process, to remove some of the barriers to accessing government resources.”
On using AI for research in Earth science and biological sciences: “There are two applications there. One is speeding up the complexity of our climate models and our atmospheric models to get a better understanding of how climate change is affecting the United States. In the biological sciences, we’re thinking about how we can understand biological function in a way that we’ve never been able to before, by having an ‘-omics’ view that goes beyond genomics — by looking at the proteomics, metabolomics and all these other -omics, and integrating them in a way that hasn’t been possible before because of the sheer complexity. This is another area where we’re trying to bring AI into the fold.”
On areas of research where AI and quantum computing can work together: “One of the areas is in materials. If we can design better materials that can operate in the regimes that are needed for quantum computing, I think that’ll be game-changing. And we’re seeing that machine learning can be used in quantum chemistry. So, I would say the No. 1 area where AI is probably going to have an impact is in that materials chemistry space — which is where quantum computing is, because of the temperatures at which it needs to run and the types of materials it needs for its design.”
On the ways in which PNNL is improving how AI is done: “One example that we have worked on is in an area called scientific machine learning. It’s where we incorporate physics into deep learning itself, so you can constrain it or provide it with explainability and interpretability by saying, ‘Here are known governing laws about the physical universe.’ By constraining our models based on that, we add a layer of reducing the cost of training and computation time and data. We’re also increasing how interpretable AI is for the end users, because now it’s not an unbounded system, but it’s bounded by the laws of physics.”
On whether autonomous experimentation will ever replace human researchers: “The only thing that AI is going to do is accelerate the process. We still absolutely have to have human ingenuity in the loop for a lot of the designs and experiments. To have a deep theoretical understanding of the domain in addition to the ability to partner or use a co-pilot of some sort, I think is really going to be the game-changer for this autonomous experimentation.
“The only ones who will be left behind are those who don’t adopt the use of AI in some way. We’re still exploring where it should be used. But there are many applications that go beyond automation, where you’re just getting a repetitive process that’s done, maybe not in an intelligent way, and then you add some intelligence on top of it that says, ‘OK, now you could perform this next experiment based on the hypothesis that you just tested.’”
On the AI applications from PNNL that could be the first to change daily life: “In the next five to 10 years, we’re going to see a complete transformation in energy generation because of the ability to bring on new types of resources. The only way to do that in a reliable manner is through the use of AI, because now we’re talking about generation sources that are variable. They’re not consistent. They’re not dispatched easily. There’s a lot of operational control that needs to happen. AI is probably one of the solutions that will be used to help us get there.”
With @21xfour’s mock-up providing a convincing look at Alan Ritchson as Shazam, some fans might be wondering if there’s any chance the «Reacher» star could actually make his way into the DC Universe as a new version of the character. Unfortunately, it seems that the odds of it happening are pretty slim for the moment.
Ritchson was indeed once rumored to be replacing Zachary Levi as Shazam after news of James Gunn’s plans to reboot the DC film continuity first began spreading online. However, Gunn himself shot down speculation on this front when he took to X (formerly known as Twitter) and shared a post explicitly debunking the rumor. Nonetheless, with no concrete projects involving Shazam announced, it remains unclear whether Gunn intends to retain Levi or recast the role in the future.
While the rumors may not be true for now, it seems that Ritchson is at least open to the idea of playing Shazam. The actor has, on occasion, teased the idea of him taking on the role via social media. Before the release of «Shazam!,» he even went as far as to falsely confirm (in a now-deleted tweet preserved by ScreenGeek) that he would be playing the DCEU iteration of the character. He’s no stranger to the DCU either, having portrayed Aquaman on «Smallville» and Hawk on «Titans.»
La lucha por desarrollar el mejor chat de Inteligencia artificial continúa en su máximo apogeo, y esta vez, Microsoft es la empresa protagonista. Luego de saltar a este mercado con “Bing Chat” la empresa tecnológica ha decidido cambiar el nombre de esta herramienta a Microsoft “Copilot”, un chat al que se le puede preguntar casi cualquier cosa y obtener respuestas de gran precisión.
Se trata de una tecnología que nos resulta bastante familiar, ya que empresas como OpenAI se han dado a la tarea de posicionar este recurso como uno de los que mayor interés ha despertado en 2023. Lo interesante es que Microsoft no entra como un competidor, sino como un colaborador en esta carrera por la creación de un chatbot potente, puesto que se ha asociado con OpenAI para la creación de Copilot.
Pero antes que nada, es importante comprender el alcance y potencial de este software de inteligencia artificial, que no es más que un modelo conversacional. Es un modelo de lenguaje similar al que se emplea en ChatGPT, donde se incluyen recursos de GPT-4. Por ende, si quieres aprovechar parte del potencial que ofrece esta tecnología de manera gratuita, Copilot sin duda ofrece un desempeño bastante significativo en comparación con otros similares.
Para su funcionamiento, Copilot está conectado constantemente a la red, lo que evita que se comparta información desactualizada. Como resultado, Microsoft ha logrado crear una herramienta capaz de ofrecer datos actualizados en función a las referencias obtenidas en la internet.
Otro punto importante que hay que mencionar es el hecho de que Microsoft ha integrado en Copilot la herramienta DALL-E 3, a través de la cual se pueden generar imágenes. Es un punto favorable que solo requiere de texto para crear imágenes completamente originales. Con este arsenal de funciones, Copilot se perfila como una de las herramientas que dará mucho de que hablar en este año 2024.
With Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, the «Star Wars» Legends banner was created. Everything outside of a few select projects, such as the main «Star Wars» films and the «Star Wars: The Clone Wars» animated series, was deemed non-canon and placed under this label. The events of the «Force Unleashed» games were put into this category, along with Starkiller himself. As the new «Star Wars» canon has expanded, Legends elements have made their way into it, and Starkiller nearly made the leap himself.
According to the man behind Starkiller, Sam Witwer, «Star Wars» creative Dave Filoni once toyed with the idea of making the character canon. «I know that Dave, at one point, when he was doing ‘Star Wars Rebels,’ thought about including him as an Inquisitor,» Witwer shared in a Cameo video (via Colonel Useless on YouTube). Sadly, for one reason or another, Filoni decided against bringing the character into the new canon on the animated series as a Jedi-hunting Imperial agent. Thus, fans are left to speculate on how he could hypothetically fit within the current «Star Wars» framework if he’s to be introduced.
Starkiller may be an overpowered video game protagonist with an edgy attitude, but to so many «Star Wars» fans, he’s one of the franchise’s greatest creations. Time will tell if he’ll ever return to the forefront of the galaxy far, far away and what his canon story will entail.
Those eager to watch «Sound of Freedom» at home have the option to stream the movie completely free of charge — at least, they will eventually. Angel Studios, the film’s distributor, has made the thriller available as part of the content line-up on its app and website. At the time of this article’s publishing, the film is in an «early access» period, meaning that only paid subscribers can view it. However, once that period ends, «Sound of Freedom» will join the rest of the platform’s lineup of free content, making it far and away the most economical option for watching the movie.
On the other side of the spectrum, «Sound of Freedom» is currently available to stream with a basic Prime Video plan, so those who are already subscribed to the service can also watch the movie at no additional cost. Prime Video is also one of the various digital platforms that offer the option to rent or purchase the digital version of the film, along with storefronts like the iTunes store, the Google Play store, the Microsoft store, Vudu, and Redbox. High-definition and standard-definition versions are available.
Finally, viewers can also watch «Sound of Freedom» at home by purchasing a physical copy of the movie. The movie was released on both DVD and Blu-ray, with copies available through the Angel Studios website and major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Target. All editions of the Blu-ray release include both the Blu-ray version and the DVD version, while certain editions also include a redeemable code for a digital copy of the film.
