First some good news: Legendary director George Miller is finally making another movie in the Mad Max franchise. Some news you may find even better: It will be about Furiosa, the one-armed badass who all but stole the last outing, the delightful Fury Road. Some less good news: It won’t star Charlize Theron.

Friday the 15th marks the five year anniversary of Fury Road, which revived the long dormant franchise to the tune of boffo box office, a whipping 11 Oscar nominations, and instant cult status. To celebrate, The New York Times ran an oral history of the next-level actioner, and on Thursday they confirmed with Miller — who’s been talking follow-ups ever since the movie’s release — that he’s indeed working on a Theron-less Furiosa project.

Why no Theron? Because it’s a prequel. As per NYT, the film will explore Furiosa’s history, with Miller searching for an actress in her 20s. He says he did consider using CGI tech to de-age his star, now 44, but that he decided recasting was a better route.

Just don’t expect it any time soon. Miller has another film to finish first, the drama Three Thousand Years of Longing, which stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba — which, alas, has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Still, be excited: Production designer Colin Gibson promises the next Mad Max movie, presumably sans Max Rockatansky, will be even bigger, with crazier cars.

(Via NYT)

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Well before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered movie theaters entirely, action stars and filmmakers had already started flocking to Netflix. They gave Michael Bay a ton of money to make the nutty 6 Underground, and they let Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg reboot a classic character with Spenser Confidential, released earlier in March. Wahlberg apparently had such a good time that he’s heading back to the streaming giant for another go.

This comes from Variety, which reports that Wahlberg is in early talks to produce and star in Our Man in Jersey, in which the actor would play, as they put it, “a blue-collar 007 James Bond-type character.” The title is a twist on Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene’s classic comedic spy novel, about an agent who starts making up reports that he sends to his superiors. It’s not clear what the plot will be, but the script will come from David Guggenheim, who penned the 2012 Denzel Washington-Ryan Reynolds thriller Safe House as well as another, very different Netflix movie, The Christmas Chronicles, starring Kurt Russell.

Spenser Confidential was, as per Netflix, a big hit, watched by over 85 million households in its first six weeks, although since they only release select streaming data — and only when something does well — such claims are to be taken with a grain of salt. Still, if they’re willing to give Wahlberg more money to make the kind of fare that once filled multiplexes, it’s safe to assume at least someone’s watching him.

(Via Variety)

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The two Percy Jackson arrived with mixed results, but fans of the books have long hoped that the beloved series would get a live-action adaptation that’s on par with the Harry Potter films. You might not know it, but the two series are neck-in-neck in popularity with young readers, so there’s a very good reason why news of a Percy Jackson series coming to Disney+ was met with a groundswell of excitement.

The reveal was delivered by Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan, who has been petitioning Disney to give his books a faithful adaptation once he learned the House of Mouse would acquire the live-action rights through its purchase of Fox, and it looks like his campaigning worked. Riordan posted a video on his Twitter account announcing the new series along with the following statement:

Hey Percy Jackson fans, for the past decade, you’ve worked hard to champion a faithful on-screen adaptation of Percy Jackson’s world. Some of you have even suggested it would be a great series for Disney Plus. We couldn’t agree more! We can’t say much more at this stage but we are very excited about the idea of a live-action series of the highest quality, following the storyline of the original Percy Jackson five-book series, starting with The Lightning Thief in season one. Rest assured that Becky & I will be involved in person in every aspect of the how. There will. be much more news in the future, but for now, we have a lot of work to do! Buckle up, demigods. It’s going to be a fantastic, exciting ride!

In an especially classy move, actor Logan Lerman, who played Percy in the films, offered his support for the project and joined fans in hoping for a series that will stay true to the books this time around.

Lerman is no doubt aware of Riordan’s displeasure with the Fox films. In a lengthy 2018 blog post, Riordan got very candid about how his attempts to “save” the first movie and even shared his emails to producers where he derided their attempts to “sex up” his books that were aimed at a 9-12 year old audience. The author also revealed a little known secret that even the biggest authors have very little say in Hollywood adaptations of their works. In the same post, Riordan expressed his hope that Disney would take another stab at the Percy Jackson series even while acknowledging that this could lead to yet another scenario where he’s not creatively involved. But it certainly looks like that’s not the case, and the author appears to be jazzed to bring the series to Disney+.

You can watch Riordan’s announcement video below:

(Via Rick Riordan on Twitter)

On May 11, 2020, a reporter from the Washington Post asked President Trump:

“Mr. President, in one of your Mother’s Day tweets you appear to accuse President Obama of ‘the biggest political crime in American history by far.’ Those were your words. What crime exactly are you accusing President Obama of committing, and do you believe the Justice Department should prosecute him?”

President Trump answered with the most tremendous non-answer in the history of non-answers:

“Obamagate. It’s been going on for a long time. It’s been going on from before I even got elected. And it’s a disgrace that it happened. And if you look at what’s gone on, and if you look at now, all of this information that’s being released. And from what I understand, that’s only the beginning. Some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again.

And you’ll be seeing what’s going on over the next — over the coming weeks. But I — and I wish you’d write honestly about it, but unfortunately, you choose not to do so.”

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Miraculously unfazed by this response, the reporter asked again: “What is the crime exactly that you’re accusing him of?”

Trump refused to say what Obama did wrong, saying only, “You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers—except yours.”

Take that, lamestream media! How dare a reporter ask the president questions? It’s only his job. And why would you expect the president to directly answer a question about something as mundane as accusing a former president of committing the worst political crime in history?

Clearly, if you’re a sitting president and you believe your predecessor committed a serious crime, a Tweet on Mother’s Day is exactly the place and time to announce it. Not.

And why would Trump have to even know that the crime is? We have thousands of conspiracy theory-pushing minions and Russian bots and ranting YouTubers to take care of those pesky details. Duh.

Besides, we don’t need an answer. We have ample photographic evidence of the heinous crimes Obama committed while he sat in the Oval Office. In fact, his own White House photographer has leaked a bunch of them on Instagram. (Thank goodness for social media or we’d never know what’s true!)

Pete Souza shared two collections of photos that are so damning you might want to sit down before you look at them.

Reaching over a glass shield at Chipotle? HE’S the one responsible for the spread of this pandemic, isn’t he? I bet he had the novel coronavirus dripping off of that finger. #ThanksObama

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Feet on the desk? How dare he?!

LOCK HIM UP!

LOCK HIM UP!

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He used a selfie stick, people. A SELFIE STICK. It’s unprecedented. How is anyone okay with this? Wake up, America!

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And this hat? This hat is A CRIME THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

Pete Souza/Instagram

And just look at how sneaky he is. Did he not think we were going to notice him holding his wife’s hand? Does he think we’re all a bunch of gullible sheep? We can see the truth with our own eyes. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE HERE?

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That’s not even the half of it.

Sitting on a desk? So immature and unpresidential. Thank goodness he’s not around to embarrass the nation and sully the office of the presidency with his press briefing meltdowns, Twitter tantrums, and cyberbullying anymore.

Oh wait…just scratch that last part.

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And look at him riding a bike without a helmet. Why does he think he’s above the law?

Pete Souza/Instagram

Even when he did wear a helmet, he wore belted khaki shorts with socks and soccer slip-ons, which has to be illegal.

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These dad jeans—who does Obama think he is?

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But this right here, this is the final straw. A tan suit? Does he think that just because he’s finer than fine, he can get away with whatever he wants? No. The American people will not stand for this affront to the rule of law.

Pete Souza/Instagram

If you swipe through the Instagram collections and view all of the evidence with an open mind, there’s no way you can say that the man doesn’t deserve hard jail time. He and everyone who was conspired with him in these outrageous crimes should be locked up.

After all, who would know better than the White House photographer—who also happened to be White House photographer for President Reagan—who followed the President around day in and day out for eight years and took 1.9 million photos? Nobody, that’s who.

Thank you for revealing the truth at the heart of Obamagate, Pete Souza. America deserves it.

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The NBA wants to come to a resolution on restarting the 2019-20 season some time in the next 2-4 weeks. It’s a monumental task, one that involves figuring out a location (or locations) for games and acquiring the sheer number of COVID-19 tests necessary to make sure the league is 100 percent on top of any possible spreads of the virus that has touched every corner of the world over the last few months.

Of course, there is still a ton that we do not know about the virus and won’t know for some time, a gigantic hurdle for the league in its efforts to get back onto the floor. To that end, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban believes that the NBA will have look to its response to a previous pandemic for inspiration on how it can proceed safely.

Cuban will appear on Vice’s Shelter in Place with Sam Smith on Thursday evening. At one point, the Mavs owner was asked about how the league’s shutdown will hurt franchises, owners, and players, and while Cuban made clear he does not have a total number, there was a serious impact. He has no clue when that will change, but he does believe that some alterations to how basketball is played could be on the horizon.

“Back when Magic Johnson announced he had AIDS, there were a lot of players who said that they would not play with him,” Cuban said. “They didn’t understand how it could be transmitted, so they were all afraid. There was a rule that was put in place called the Blood Infection Rule. And what it says was any player that had blood on their uniform, that uniform had to be cleaned or changed out before they could return to play. That rule came into play in 1991 or 1992, it’s still in effect today. We’re going to see comparable things happen where there are rules established that we think are necessary in order to maintain the health and safety of everybody involved. We’ll figure out what those are and we’ll implement them.”

Cuban didn’t go into what these potential changes could entail, which makes sense, because there just is not enough that we know about this virus. Regardless, this is something that the league will assuredly have to figure out before getting into any sort of return to play, and if the proposed timeline for coming up with a plan is to be believed, it’ll have to figure this all out sometime in the next few weeks.

Future’s new album High Off Life releases in just a few short hours, but he’s still finding innovative ways to push its buzz. But rather than simply putting out a music video for a song from the album, Future found a more interactive way to tease the release, going as high-tech as he went lo-fi for the album’s cover.

The Atlanta star shared a link to a website that teases a “leaked track” from the new album, but there’s a catch; you have to find the right URL from a list of 149 along the left side of the screen. The URLs include http://www.highoff.life, http://www.highoff.love, http://www.highoff.porn, and http://www.highoff.work, but the song jumps from link to link, so we couldn’t give it away for you if we wanted. What we can reveal is this: The song in question features Lil Uzi Vert and only plays for 30 seconds before skipping to a new URL. Good luck.

Meanwhile, there’s still plenty of music from Future out there that’s much easier to get to. “Life Is Good,” the Drake-featuring lead single is out there, along with its DaBaby and Lil Baby-featuring remix. You can also check out Future’s verse on RMR’s “Dealer” remix and Future’s own “Tycoon.”

Try your hand at finding the right URL here.

If nothing below suits your sensibilities, check out our guide to What You Should Watch On Streaming Right Now.

The Wrong Missy (Netflix movie) — Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions has unleashed it’s latest outrageous comedy upon the streaming giant. This film stars David Spade as a guy attempting to text-woo his dream lady at a corporate-island retreat, but then a blind date (Lauren Lapkus) shows up instead, and this ends up being an example of texting gone wrong. Will there be a happy ending from Happy Madison, though? Gotta watch to find out.

Katy Keene (CW, 8:00 p.m.) — Katy’s attempting to gain some clarity to nab some new opportunities, but unexpected opportunities prevail, which doesn’t sound like a bad thing. Pepper’s also attempting to make things work with Jorge and Josie.

In The Dark (CW, 9:00 p.m.) — Jess is growing suspicious of Felix’s meeings with Murphy, and Dean’s attempting to keep Chloe away from Murphy as well. This Murphy sounds like bad news!

Blindspot (NBC, 9:00 p.m.) — Tattooed Jane’s attempting outreach to gain access to a high-level conference, where tattoo intrigue probably awaits, or maybe just a nice trip outside the pandemic universe.

How to Get Away with Murder (ABC, 10:00 p.m.) — Analise must contend with a surprise witness, and Connor’s trying to persuade the K3 to adapt to a different plan.

Desus And Mero: Jesse Williams

Conan: Nikki Glaser

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon: Chris Evans, Mo Willems, Maroon 5

The Late Late Show With James Corden: Tracy Morgan, Bazzi