“When Avatar: The Last Airbender, one of the greatest animated series of all time, came to Netflix in May of 2020, the people started asking: What’s up with that new live-action series they were talking about? In 2018, Netflix announced that it would be retelling the story of the Gaang with real people, and fans were immediately piqued. They were also a little worried, and with good reason: M. Night Shyamalan directed a legendarily horrendous live-action film adaptation of the first season of the series back in 2010 that included one memorable scene where a team of powerful earthbenders move a pebble across the screen.” Read more at Thrillist Yeah, the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer was great, but it might ruin a particular part of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Read more at Inverse LeVar Burton won’t be hosting Jeopardy! permanently, but he is getting his own game show based on the famous Trivial Pursuit board game. “From Entertainment One, LeVar Burton will be hosting his very own game show (so stop asking him about Jeopardy!). News broke that Burton will be hosting a Trivial Pursuit game show of his very own! You know, the game that tests your knowledge in all things and usually results in families fighting with each other?” Read more at The Mary Sue Nostalgia galore, Taylor Swift takes us back to simpler times in 2012 with her re-recorded version of Red. Read more at The A.V. Club Let’s celebrate the monumental 1000th episode of One Piece as the actors reminisce on the series. “With its manga counterpart surpassing a thousand chapters and a live-action Netflix series coming, One Piece, one of anime’s longest-running shonen series, will make franchise history this week with the premiere of its 1,000th episode. The landmark episode will stream on Funimation and Crunchyroll on November 20. It’s been 22 years since Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat pirates first graced the screens of Japanese TVs in October 1999 and embarked on their journey to find the legendary pirate Gol D. Roger’s hallowed treasure, the one piece.” Read more at Kotaku Welcome to the life of being a billionaire, Peter Jackson! The acclaimed director recently sold Weta Digital for over 1 billion dollars. Read more at Mental Floss
