The Cait Corrain Review Controversy Explained, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week

Somehow fans of ’ Kylo Ren and Rey Skywalker made the news for different reasons this week. But outside of big drama in the sci-fi book world, we also got the last of ’s anniversay specials, a new trailer, and more in the list of our most read stories, so here’s you might have missed this week! Late last week, the found itself in disarray following allegations of an author several other authors in the community. The end result has seen writer Cait Corrain lose her deal with Del Rey Publishing, and other partnerships she had in the works also canceled.

has had a long road of private and publicly processing his time on —for many years, the actor simply refused to talk about why, having helped turn the series when it returned in 2005, he left and never looked back. But, while still largely reserved, Eccleston is now more open about his experience than ever—and clearer about what it’d take for him to return. Alex Garland has written or directed several excellent, terrifying, disturbing films.

Films like and . Films that show familiar worlds in unfamiliar, and often times unfathomable, circumstances. His new film seems as if it’s going to do that too, but it’s somehow much scarier than all of those combined.

Because, well, the dystopia feels a little too real. is Hollywood’s white whale. The a young man who is recruited to defend a planet because of his video game skills , in recent years, has been the frequent subject of speculation and excitement.

It seems everyone in Hollywood has back to life and there’s even been talk, and development, of that It’s certainly disappointing that but sometimes waiting is the best part. Case in point, today we’ve been graced with a brand new trailer, and it’ll make you somehow even more excited for the sequel than you already are. Although the X-Men have been returning to the in fits and starts recently—a few characters in the here, a there—2014 was the last time Marvel’s mutants actually got to star in a more traditional Lego set.

That’s now changing. . .

but it’s not an entirely joyous turn of events. here at io9, and when we’re not writing about them, we’re probably playing with them. It’s been a killer year for cool nerdy collectibles, so here’s just a few of our favorite things we picked up in the proverbial toy aisle this past year.

For a show that is often so —and where change is baked into its hearts— often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of the key to its longevity is that its main character dies every few years. But as a wise Time Lord once said, every once in a while, just occasionally, everybody lives.

io9 chats with director James Mangold about a particular Indy 5 chase scene. As if the movies themselves didn’t make it more than obvious, fans have long come to understand that the sequel trilogy changed drastically throughout development. Multiple writers and directors as well as , sometimes with , while stayed true to itself in between, with even more polarizing results.

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