‘Life Is Strange’ video game becoming a series for Prime Video
Still from ‘Life Is Strange’ video game. (Courtesy Prime Video)
The popular video game franchise Life Is Strange is being adapted into a TV series for Prime Video.
The story revolves around a photography student named Max who discovers she can rewind time when she saves the life of her childhood best friend, Chloe.
“As she struggles to understand this new skill, the pair investigate the mysterious disappearance of a fellow student, uncovering a dark side to their town that will ultimately force them to make an impossible life or death choice that will impact them forever,” the description reads.
Charlie Covell is on board as the creator, executive producer and showrunner. Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap is among the show’s producing partners, along with Amazon MGM Studios.
“It’s a huge honor to be adapting Life Is Strange for Amazon MGM Studios,” Covell says in a statement. “I am a massive fan of the game, and I’m thrilled to be working with the incredible teams at Square Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap. I can’t wait to share Max and Chloe’s story with fellow players and new audiences alike.”
The game was first released in 2015. No word yet on casting or when the show will premiere.
Rian Johnson is sharing an update about his scrapped Star Wars trilogy.
The director, who helmed the 2017 film Star Wars: The Last Jedi, had been set to direct a trilogy of films set in the Star Wars universe. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Johnson said he had been developing a three-film saga with Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy, but that plans were eventually scrapped.
“Nothing really happened with it,” Johnson said. “We had a great time working together, and they said, ‘Let’s keep doing it.’ I said, ‘Great!’ I would kick ideas around with Kathy.”
Johnson said the main reason his new Star Wars trilogy never got off the ground was the success of his 2019 film Knives Out.
“The short version is Knives Out happened. I went off and made Knives Out, and was off to the races, busy making murder mysteries,” Johnson said.
The director also said the scrapped trilogy was “all very conceptual” and that there was never even an “outline or a treatment or anything” for the series of films. Even so, Johnson said he would be happy to reenter the galaxy far, far away at some point.
“It’s the sort of thing if, down the line, there’s an opportunity to do it, or do something else in Star Wars, I would be thrilled,” Johnson said. “But right now I’m just doing my own stuff, and pretty happy.”
Olivia Munn is opening up about her mom’s breast cancer diagnosis.
The Your Friends and Neighbors star, 45, took to Instagram on Wednesday and revealed that her mom was diagnosed with Stage 1 HER2 breast cancer after Munn’s own breast cancer diagnosis in 2023.
“Going through cancer is really hard,” Munn wrote in a statement shared in the post. “But there’s something about watching a loved one go through it that is even more heartbreaking.”
In the statement, Munn wrote that she “urged my mother and sister to take the Breast Cancer Lifetime Risk Assessment test” after receiving her diagnosis in 2023.
According to the Susan G. Komen foundation, the test is a tool “often used by health care providers to estimate breast cancer risk.”
Dr. Jennifer Ashton, former ABC News chief medical correspondent and a board-certified OB-GYN, said in a 2024 interview that the test “helps to provide an actual numerical risk for lifetime risk of breast cancer and breast cancer diagnosis in the next five years.”
“It is what we use in medicine to stratify a woman’s individual risk in a more precise way,” Ashton added.
According to the American College of Radiology, people with 20% or greater lifetime risk of breast cancer are considered high risk.
Munn said that her mother scored 26.2% on the IBIS, or the Tyrer-Cuzick Risk Assessment test, and because of that score, she wanted her mom to get an MRI, which led to learning about her Stage 1 HER2 breast cancer diagnosis.
The American Cancer Society describes HER2 as a “protein that helps breast cancer cells grow quickly.”
“Breast cancer cells with higher than normal levels of HER2 are called HER2-positive,” the ACS states. “These cancers tend to grow and spread faster than breast cancers that are HER2-negative, but are much more likely to respond to treatment with drugs that target the HER2 protein.”
Munn said her mom “completed 12 rounds of chemo” after her diagnosis “and will continue monthly Herceptin transfusions this fall.”
“I spent many nights taking care of my mom when the chemo became too much, wishing I could fight the fight for her, even if only for a day to give her a little break,” she continued. “It’s no small feat to realize you can’t do it for them. To anyone out there who is taking care of someone or has made it their profession to do so, thank you. These fights can feel near impossible without you.”
Munn said the Tyrer-Cuzick Risk Assessment “saved my life and now my mom’s.”
The Tyrer-Cuzick model, or IBIS, is a type of breast cancer risk calculator. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, this calculator is one of a few options that physicians can use to calculate lifetime risk of breast cancer.
“My mom wanted me to tell you that she hopes by sharing her story it will save someone’s life,” Munn said.
“I want to say how proud I am of my mom,” she added. “She’s handled all of this with bravery and humor while still driving us crazy (just days after her double mastectomy she tried to do laundry and make dinner — she’s insane).”
She thanked “the hospital nurses, patient coordinators and staff who have taken care of my mother,” as well as her mother’s primary care physician and oncologists, before thanking her own doctors as well.
Munn previously opened up about her private battle with breast cancer in a 2024 Instagram post. At the time, she revealed she had been diagnosed with Stage 1 aggressive Luminal B breast cancer in April 2023 and underwent a double mastectomy 30 days later.
Since then, Munn has been open about her experience, sharing her story to urge other women to get tested and to raise awareness about the disease.
“I’m lucky,” she said in her 2024 Instagram post about her diagnosis. “We caught it with enough time that I had options. I want the same for any woman who might have to face this one day.”
We now know who will play Snoop Dogg in his upcoming music biopic.
Jonathan Daviss has been cast in the lead role of Snoop Dogg in the upcoming film about the hip-hop legend for Universal.
Daviss and Snoop Dogg confirmed the casting in separate posts shared to Instagram on Monday.
“Let’s go nefew !!” Snoop Dogg captioned his post, which included a screenshot of the Deadline article about the casting news. “it’s time,” Snoop Dogg continued, next to a praying hands emoji and a green check mark emoji.
“Bow wow wow,” Daviss captioned his own post announcing the news.
Coming 2 America helmer Craig Brewer will direct Daviss in the role. Brewer is revising the script that was penned by Joe RobertCole. It tells the story of Calvin Broadus Jr.‘s life and his journey to fame as the musician Snoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg serves as a producer on the film.
Daviss is known for his role as Pope Heyward in the Netflix series Outer Banks.
