“Benedict Cumberbatch recently sat down with BBC Radio 1 to discuss his titular role in Marvel‘s latest film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The Sorcerer Supreme reveals that Marvel initially recruited him for a different part of the universe. He was first offered the role of the villain Malekith in the 2013 Thor sequel, The Dark World. The surgeon turned sorcerer ultimately passed on the role which later led to him becoming Doctor Strange. Cumberbatch breaks down how this happened in the interview.” Read more at HypeBeast After a barrage of internet hate for over a decade, Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, the stars of the Star Wars prequels, are finally feeling the love and support from the fans. Read more at The Mary Sue Marvel had a clear path in sight when they began the Infinity Saga back in 2008. Now that we’ve moved on from that story and started another, where is the MCU going from here? “In its first 10 years of moviemaking, Marvel Studios established something of a myth that persists to this very day: ‘In Feige We Trust,’ fans would exult as if a prayer to ward against evil rather than a parasocial relationship with a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The idea that Marvel’s movies were all building to a singular thing planned a decade in the making was almost as important to its success as its films—and now the lack of it in its current era feels notable.” Read more at Gizmodo Dan Stevens and Adam Wingard are set to team up for the first time since The Guest in the latest Godzilla movie. Read more at The A.V. Club After over two decades of release, the iconic iPod is now officially dead, but let’s remember the good times we shared. “Pour one out for every kid who one-strapped a backpack in middle school, as they’re likely in mourning today. With Apple’s discontinuation of the 7th-generation iPod Touch, announced yesterday, it’s official: the iPod is dead. Ostensibly, the iPod was a music device, meant to digitize song libraries and move listeners away from the limitations and galactically better sound quality of physical media. (Whether such a shift was good for the music industry is, of course, another story.) But over its many iterations, the iPod also heralded another revolution: that of mobile gaming.” Read more at Kotaku The HBO Max drama Winning Time depicts a young Kobe Bryant attending a Lakers game, but did this really happen? Read more at Mental Floss
