Keanu Reeves’ Action Comic BRZRKR Offers Sneak Peek at Final Issue
Keanu Reeves’ action comic book series BRZRKR is coming to its explosive end, and here’s a preview of the final chapter. Launched in March 2021 with writer Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney from publisher Boom! Studios, BRZRKR became one of the best-selling original comics released in recent years. Though this final installment marks the end of the original BRZRKR series, additional stories in the BRZRKR world are already planned for later this year. A new standalone story is already set to be released this summer. BRZRKR #12 goes on sale March 15.
Book Thief Who Stole More Than 1,000 Manuscripts “Wanted to Cherish Them Before Anyone Else”
Filippo Bernardini, the former publishing employee who stole manuscripts of books by Margaret Atwood, Sally Rooney and Ian McEwan, plead guilty to wire fraud in January, encompassing the theft of more than 1,000 manuscripts. In court papers released last week, Bernardini claimed he never leaked the manuscripts, but “wanted to keep them closely to my chest and be one of the fewest to cherish them before anyone else, before they ended up in bookshops.” Bernardini said that he knew his actions, impersonating hundreds of people in the world of publishing, were “egregious, stupid and wrong.” But when reading these manuscripts, he says he felt a “special and unique connection with the author, almost like I was the editor of that book.” Bernardini will be sentenced on April 5.
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan Reunite in Disney+’s American Born Chinese
Academy Award-winning actors Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are reuniting in the upcoming Disney+ series adaptation of American Born Chinese. Released Sunday morning by Disney+, the series’ first teaser trailer announces a premiere date of May 24. The series is an adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel of the same name. The cast also includes Yeo Yann Yann, Chin Han, Daniel Wu, Sydney Taylor and Poppy Liu — and we can expect a guest starring role from Yeoh and Quan’s Everything Everywhere All At Once co-star Stephanie Hsu.
Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin vs. Paul Tremblay’s Cabin at the End of the World
A reader unpacks the differences between Paul Tremblay’s Cabin at the End of the World and its 2023 film adaptation, Knock at the Cabin.