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Ms. Marvel Movie is “Definitely, Sort Of” Happening

In a tweet over the weekend, news broke that Marvel Studios is planning to add Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan to the MCU after the audience meets Captain Marvel. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige says, “Ms. Marvel [the movie] is definitely sort of in the works. We have plans for that after we’ve introduced Captain Marvel to the world.” Ms. Marvel is a fan favorite, and our fingers are crossed at BR HQ that she gets her own movie.

Nancy Drew Gets a Intersectional, Queer Makeover

In more comics happenings, Dynamite Entertainment has introduced a new, modern Nancy Drew series with characters of color, an openly feminist main character, and an openly queer best friend George. “Our Nancy is all sass and brains and indomitable will. She’s ultimately the hero that saves the day. And that’s important. I think she’s absolutely a hero for young girls to look up to, as Nancy has always been,” says writer Kelly Thompson.

New Teasers for George R. R. Martin Stuff Over at SyFy

George R. R. Martin’s 1987 novella Nightflyers is being adapted over at SyFy, and the teaser trailer is now available. “The series follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer – a ship with a small tightknit crew and a reclusive captain — in the hope of making contact with alien life.” Of course, things go badly. Take a look.

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This Could Be The Future Of Books

Serial Box serializes books like podcast episodes so they are bite-sized and release weekly for about 10 to 16 weeks. They also have a print edition you can read on ereaders so you can switch between listening and digital reading. I don’t know, this sounds a lot like an audiobook you have to wait for chapters of and pay as you go along ($1.59 per episode) but everyone reads differently so this may totally work for you–in which case, get your serialized reading on and enjoy!

Test Your Literary Quote and Geography Knowledge

It’s the weekend, let’s play a literary game: The Guardian has a fun quiz for you to guess the city based on a literary quote. Which city did Margaret Atwood describe as ‘New York without the garbage and muggings’? Which writer called one London area ‘ungentrified, ungentrifiable’?

Let’s Roundup This Week’s Adaptation News

Between the world news and all the adaption news that drops during the week it’s easy to miss announcements so I’ve collected for you some of the things we found out this week. The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (Irish crime thriller releasing July 3rd) has been optioned for film. Ryan Coogler, the Black Panther director, is totally here for a film centered on the women of Wakanda. Annette O’Toole (Mama Kent!) and Corbin Bernsen (Shawn’s Papa!) have been cast in season 2 of The Punisher. Annette Bening (Heart eyes emoji) has been cast in the Captain Marvel film. And John Green’s Looking for Alaska is in final deal stage to be an eight-episode series on Hulu.

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The Hard-to-Find Stephen King Novel

King’s 1977 novel Rage, published under his pen name Richard Bachman, is about a young man who murders two faculty members at his school and then takes his algebra class hostage with a gun. King “let the book fall out of publication in 1998 after real-life tragedies allegedly inspired by ‘Rage'”, but the book is still findable on Amazon…for $500-$700. I read the book in high school when it was in a second-hand copy of Bachman stories I found at Goodwill. Which I gave away after I finished reading it. Of course.

Ronan Farrow to Publish Book About Sexual Abuse Reporting

Ronan Farrow will expand on his reporting on sexual abuse in a new boo to be published by Little Brown. Called Catch and Kill, the book will “reveal the full extent of his reporting, and what he discovered about how far private investigators, former spies, high-priced lawyers, and embattled executives allegedly went to terrorize, intimidate and silence the women whose stories helped launch an international conversation on sexual misconduct and the abuse of power.” Can’t wait to rage-read this one.

Is Handmaid’s Tale Merch Going Too Far?

The popularity of the adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has led to the inevitable explosion of THT-themed merchandise available for purchase, and a conversation has begun about whether commodifying a show about violence against women is a capitalist bridge too far. “Looking at the Handmaid’s swag, I’m reminded of my time as a health-care marketing writer, when I interviewed women in breast-cancer support groups; these women loathed all things pink ribbon.” Something to think about.