The Dune sequel will be eating the release date of a recently vacated Marvel movie and will arrive a few weeks earlier.

It was announced earlier today that Marvel will pause Blade as it searches for a new director, removing the vampire movie from its November 2023 release date. Now, Dune Part Two will be jumping in to take its place. The sequel will be released on November 3, 2023, instead of the originally announced date, November 17, 2023.

This is a two-week jump forward for the sequel and exciting news for fans who enjoyed Denis Villeneuve's cerebral take on the classic sci-fi novel.

Dune Part Two has already begun filming and will include new cast members like Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, and Christopher Walken. The sequel will premiere exclusively in theaters, and will not be released simultaneously on HBO Max like Dune Part One.

In an official plot synopsis, the sequel will explore "the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family."

The film was originally set to be released in October 2023 but was delayed to November 17. Now the sands shift again as Dune Part Two moves forward two weeks.

Check out IGN's review of Dune Part One here for our take on one of the best movies of 2021.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

House of the Dragon is a different beast than Game of Thrones, following the civil war of a single family across the years and generations. This timeline required the show’s creators to utilize time jumps, something George R.R. Martin defends while saying the series will need four seasons at its current pace.

In his most recent personal blog, George R.R. Martin wrote about the most recent episode of House of the Dragon, “The Lord of the Tides,” praising the writer, director, and actor Paddy Considine — whom he personally texted to congratulate.

He also took the time to address the time jumps that the show has done over the course of the first season to move the timeline close to 20 years from when it started. This also means certain actors like Milly Alcock (young Rhanyra) and Emily Carey (young Alicent) have been replaced with Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke respectively.

Martin praised the use of the time jumps as a necessity resulting from the shorter seasons. House of the Dragon only has 10 episodes a season, as opposed to shows like The Sopranos which had 13 seasons just a decade ago.

“The Sopranos had 13 episodes per season, but just a few years later, Game of Thrones had only 10 (and not even that, those last two seasons). If House of the Dragon had 13 episodes per season, maybe we could have shown all the things we had to “time jump” over,” Martin says.

But Martin also says that the added storylines “would have risked having some viewers complain that the show was too “slow,” that “nothing happened.”

So with 10 episodes, House of the Dragon needed to make some story decisions, but at the current rate “It is going to take four full seasons of 10 episodes each to do justice to the Dance of the Dragons, from start to finish,” Martin admits.

Luckily, House of the Dragon has already been renewed for a second season. For more, check out how the emotional scene between Daemon and Viserys came to be, and read IGN’s review of House of the Dragon episode 8.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

House of the Dragon is a different beast than Game of Thrones, following the civil war of a single family across the years and generations. This timeline required the show’s creators to utilize time jumps, something George R.R. Martin defends while saying the series will need four seasons at its current pace.

In his most recent personal blog, George R.R. Martin wrote about the most recent episode of House of the Dragon, “The Lord of the Tides,” praising the writer, director, and actor Paddy Considine — whom he personally texted to congratulate.

He also took the time to address the time jumps that the show has done over the course of the first season to move the timeline close to 20 years from when it started. This also means certain actors like Milly Alcock (young Rhanyra) and Emily Carey (young Alicent) have been replaced with Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke respectively.

Martin praised the use of the time jumps as a necessity resulting from the shorter seasons. House of the Dragon only has 10 episodes a season, as opposed to shows like The Sopranos which had 13 seasons just a decade ago.

“The Sopranos had 13 episodes per season, but just a few years later, Game of Thrones had only 10 (and not even that, those last two seasons). If House of the Dragon had 13 episodes per season, maybe we could have shown all the things we had to “time jump” over,” Martin says.

But Martin also says that the added storylines “would have risked having some viewers complain that the show was too “slow,” that “nothing happened.”

So with 10 episodes, House of the Dragon needed to make some story decisions, but at the current rate “It is going to take four full seasons of 10 episodes each to do justice to the Dance of the Dragons, from start to finish,” Martin admits.

Luckily, House of the Dragon has already been renewed for a second season. For more, check out how the emotional scene between Daemon and Viserys came to be, and read IGN’s review of House of the Dragon episode 8.

Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. You can reach him @lawoftd.

Mission Impossible and Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise is set to star in a movie shot in space thanks to a partnership with NASA, and Universal wants to make him the “the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

In an interview with BBC, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Chairwoman Donna Langley spoke about the project, which will have Cruise and the rest of the film crew take a rocket to the International Space Station to shoot parts of the movie in space.

Cruise and director Doug Liman pitched the film to Langley over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she says the movie's overarching plot "actually takes place on Earth, and then the character needs to go up to space to save the day.” Some scenes will include Cruise’s character walking outside of the space station itself, which will give the movie something other movies set in outer space have only been able to emulate.

“Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s taking the world to space. That’s the plan,” Langley told BBC. “We have a great project in development with Tom, that does contemplate him doing just that. Taking a rocket up to the space station and shooting and hopefully being the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

The as-of-yet-unnamed film was announced back in 2020, with Cruise and Limen’s collaboration being a major tentpole of the announcement. Cruise and Limen previously worked together as actor and director on Edge of Tomorrow and American Made.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Mission Impossible and Top Gun: Maverick star Tom Cruise is set to star in a movie shot in space thanks to a partnership with NASA, and Universal wants to make him the “the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

In an interview with BBC, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group Chairwoman Donna Langley spoke about the project, which will have Cruise and the rest of the film crew take a rocket to the International Space Station to shoot parts of the movie in space.

Cruise and director Doug Liman pitched the film to Langley over Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic, and she says the movie's overarching plot "actually takes place on Earth, and then the character needs to go up to space to save the day.” Some scenes will include Cruise’s character walking outside of the space station itself, which will give the movie something other movies set in outer space have only been able to emulate.

“Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s taking the world to space. That’s the plan,” Langley told BBC. “We have a great project in development with Tom, that does contemplate him doing just that. Taking a rocket up to the space station and shooting and hopefully being the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.”

The as-of-yet-unnamed film was announced back in 2020, with Cruise and Limen’s collaboration being a major tentpole of the announcement. Cruise and Limen previously worked together as actor and director on Edge of Tomorrow and American Made.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned decades and several major Disney roles, has died. She was 96.

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," Lansbury's family said in a statement, which was reported by NBC News.

Dame Angela Lansbury, a beloved actress known for her roles in Murder She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast, has died at the age of 96. pic.twitter.com/wNi02kdRW4

— IGN (@IGN) October 11, 2022

While Lansbury's most significant role was in the long-running Murder, She Wrote, which ran from 1984 to 1996, she was known among younger audiences for her turn as Mrs. Potts in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Her role in that movie included singing the movie's title track, which is remembered as one of its most famous songs.

Born in 1925 in London, Lansbury moved to New York City in the 1940s. Her movie career spans 1944 to 2018, with her final appearance being Rose in Buttons, A New Musical Film.

Apart from Beauty and the Beast, Lansbury had several roles in Disney movies through the years, including Bedknocks and Broomsticks and Mary Poppins Returns. She also played the Dowager Empress Marie in 1997's Anastasia, and was the main villain in the original Manchurian Candidate.

George Takei was among those to pay tribute to Lansbury. And as MSNBC writer and editor Hayes Brown noted, she nailed Beauty and the Beast in one take. A perfectly sweet note on which to remember a legendary actress.

Angela Lansbury, who graced the stage for decades winning five Tony awards and brought the sleuthing Jessica Fletcher into our living rooms for a dozen years, has passed. A tale old as time, our beloved Mrs. Potts will sing lullabies to us now from the stars. Rest, great soul.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 11, 2022

Never forget that Angela Lansbury wasn’t sure she was the right person to sing the title song in “Beauty and the Beast” — and then nailed it in one takehttps://t.co/DVzWzY4iTj pic.twitter.com/CtRv18SJDT

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) October 11, 2022

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.

Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned decades and several major Disney roles, has died. She was 96.

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," Lansbury's family said in a statement, which was reported by NBC News.

Dame Angela Lansbury, a beloved actress known for her roles in Murder She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast, has died at the age of 96. pic.twitter.com/wNi02kdRW4

— IGN (@IGN) October 11, 2022

While Lansbury's most significant role was in the long-running Murder, She Wrote, which ran from 1984 to 1996, she was known among younger audiences for her turn as Mrs. Potts in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Her role in that movie included singing the movie's title track, which is remembered as one of its most famous songs.

Born in 1925 in London, Lansbury moved to New York City in the 1940s. Her movie career spans 1944 to 2018, with her final appearance being Rose in Buttons, A New Musical Film.

Apart from Beauty and the Beast, Lansbury had several roles in Disney movies through the years, including Bedknocks and Broomsticks and Mary Poppins Returns. She also played the Dowager Empress Marie in 1997's Anastasia, and was the main villain in the original Manchurian Candidate.

George Takei was among those to pay tribute to Lansbury. And as MSNBC writer and editor Hayes Brown noted, she nailed Beauty and the Beast in one take. A perfectly sweet note on which to remember a legendary actress.

Angela Lansbury, who graced the stage for decades winning five Tony awards and brought the sleuthing Jessica Fletcher into our living rooms for a dozen years, has passed. A tale old as time, our beloved Mrs. Potts will sing lullabies to us now from the stars. Rest, great soul.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 11, 2022

Never forget that Angela Lansbury wasn’t sure she was the right person to sing the title song in “Beauty and the Beast” — and then nailed it in one takehttps://t.co/DVzWzY4iTj pic.twitter.com/CtRv18SJDT

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) October 11, 2022

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.

Paddy Considine, the actor playing Viserys I Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon, spoke to GQ about embodying the character in the television adaptation, and revealed Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin told him he preferred his interpretation to the one he wrote in the books.

In the interview, Considine talked about how he interpreted Viserys as less passive than he was described in the books, and that he wanted the character to be more driven as a leader who desired peace.

“What I found really interesting about him was that he wasn't corrupted by power,” Considine told GQ. “He just wanted peace. He wanted people to be happy at the end of the day, but that makes him weak. So what would have made him more relatable, if he was a dictator? If he was a tyrant? Would that be more satisfying? It's not who he is.”

According to Considine, it took time for other members of the show’s production to get on board with his interpretation, but he also says Martin was so pleased with how Viserys’ live-action iteration turned out that he told the actor he portrayed the superior character in the end.

“I got a text message that simply said: ‘Your Viserys is better than my Viserys’," Considine said. "It was from George R. R. Martin. And I thought: that’ll do it. Thanks for trusting me.”

House of the Dragon is eight episodes into its 10-episode season. For more on the show, check out IGN’s review of the latest episode.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Paddy Considine, the actor playing Viserys I Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon, spoke to GQ about embodying the character in the television adaptation, and revealed Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin told him he preferred his interpretation to the one he wrote in the books.

In the interview, Considine talked about how he interpreted Viserys as less passive than he was described in the books, and that he wanted the character to be more driven as a leader who desired peace.

“What I found really interesting about him was that he wasn't corrupted by power,” Considine told GQ. “He just wanted peace. He wanted people to be happy at the end of the day, but that makes him weak. So what would have made him more relatable, if he was a dictator? If he was a tyrant? Would that be more satisfying? It's not who he is.”

According to Considine, it took time for other members of the show’s production to get on board with his interpretation, but he also says Martin was so pleased with how Viserys’ live-action iteration turned out that he told the actor he portrayed the superior character in the end.

“I got a text message that simply said: ‘Your Viserys is better than my Viserys’," Considine said. "It was from George R. R. Martin. And I thought: that’ll do it. Thanks for trusting me.”

House of the Dragon is eight episodes into its 10-episode season. For more on the show, check out IGN’s review of the latest episode.

Kenneth Shepard is a writer covering games, entertainment, and queerness all around the internet. Find him on Twitter at @shepardcdr, and listen to his biweekly video game retrospective podcast Normandy FM, which is currently covering Cyberpunk 2077.

Jonathan Majors may have already played Kang the Conqueror once in the Loki: Season 1 finale, but it's safe to say we've only seen one side of this complicated Marvel villain. Now Majors is offering more insight into his hopes for the role and why he wants Kang to be "an imposing figure" in future Marvel movies.

In an interview with Men's Health, Majors notes that Kang's complexity is what attracted him to the part originally.

“It was the character and dimensions of Kang [that drew him to the role]," Majors said. "And the potential that it had. I thought, I’ll take a chance on that.”

Majors specifically hopes to mold Kang into a nuanced, multi-layered villain over the coruse of the Multiverse Saga, specifically pointing to Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger and Josh Brolin's Thanos as sources of inspiration, though he also points out, "“Killmonger, Thanos, and Kang are not related, and that’s good for the MCU. It adds diversity.”

The article is also a chance for Majors to show off his impressive superhero movie physique. Majors makes it clear he knew putting on some extra muscle would be a requirement of joining the MCU, and looked to the role as an opportunity for personal growth.

“I look at Kang and I go, Okay, cool. It’s a certain IP where people expect this at a bare minimum,” Majors said. “No one should put themselves or their families in a place where they’re hurting, but your own discomfort is not necessarily a bad thing. That’s growth. It’s not comfortable, but you’re here to save the world, aren’t you? Or take over the world.”

Majors' strength and conditioning coach Jamie Sawyer also weighed in on the training process, revealing that the goal for Kang is less to present him as a sleek, musclular supervillain than to paint a portrait of a hardened warrior who has traveled the timestream and trained with the best warriors of every era.

“He is the warrior version of Kang, so there was a focus on what that warrior would look like who’s been around through the ages and has developed every type of combat skill,” Sawyer said. “It was about making him look like an imposing figure.”

Majors will return as a new version of Kang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which his theaters on February 17, 2023. Marvel fans at D23 got an early look at the sequel via a new teaser, though that footage has yet to be released online. Director Peyton Reed teases that Quantumania will be "a hard left turn" for the series, balancing the Lang family dynamic with the threat posed by Kang.

Majors is also expected to be the lead villain in 2025's Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, which will be directed by Shang-Chi's Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Quantumania's Jeff Loveness.

Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.