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Gemma Chan is the star of Marvel’s Eternals, and her performance as Sersei is one that shows just how amazingly talented she is. On top of being a star and constantly giving us her all onscreen, Chan also has an incredibly active social media presence—one that is, currently, wonderful for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Chloé Zhao’s cinematic masterpiece.

Taking to Instagram, Chan posted some behind the scenes looks at the cast enjoying their time while filming, including pictures of them on the beach in costume or filming or just … sitting on a dock? All this to say that the behind the scenes pictures that the cast members have been posting makes it look like Eternals was just as fun to film as it was to watch, and that they really are like a big family.

 

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And, obviously, I have a favorite picture…

but daddy, i love him pic.twitter.com/e4VyIcwsOf

— it was rachatha all along (@RachelLeishman) November 10, 2021

Not that I mind the picture of Richard Madden on a dock, though. But thank you Gemma Chan for giving fans what we want: pictures of the cast of Eternals just having a ball making the movie!

(image: Marvel Entertainment)

Here are some other things we saw out there today:

• Meghan Markle served us a gown with a train, and we’re here for it. 😍🥵 https://t.co/w8i0NjE3I6

  — POPSUGAR (@POPSUGAR) November 11, 2021

• Lizzie Caplan to star as Alex in a new Fatal Attraction show for Paramount+! (via Collider)

• “SANTA INC” premieres on HBO Max on December 2. From @LionsgateTV, the 8 episode adult stop-motion animated holiday series stars @SethRogen as Santa and Sarah Silverman as an elf named Candy Smalls, the executive VP of Santa Inc who wants to become Santa’s first female successor. pic.twitter.com/NXOXvPe68n

  — Animation on HBO Max (@AnimationOnMax) November 10, 2021

• Demi Lovato is a paid promoter for the Lizard People? (via Pajiba)

• When you find out your driver is the biggest Discovery fan, you got to offer him a pic at the end of the ride! 🖖🏽👩🏾‍🚀🚀#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/N1ZaFAMjO5

  — Patrick Kwok-Choon (@KWOK_ROCK) November 10, 2021

Anything we missed, Mary Suevians? Let us know what you saw in the comments below!

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The Department of Justice has filed a federal civil suit against Uber, accusing the rideshare company of overcharging passengers with disabilities.

Uber offers passengers a two-minute window after their driver arrives and then charges a wait time fee for passengers who take longer than two minutes to load into the vehicle. USA v. Uber alleges that Uber’s practice of issuing this fee to passengers whose disability causes them to need longer than two minutes to load into a vehicle constitutes discrimination and is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

According to the suit, Uber has in the past issued refunds to passengers who were charged the fee because of how their disability affected their ability to load into a vehicle. But they also denied other passengers refunds, even after being informed of the circumstances. The refunds seem to have been issued arbitrarily.

The suit describes an unnamed “Passenger A,” who is a 52-year-old woman with a spinal injury resulting in quadriplegia. While taking part in a clinical study and rehabilitation program for her injury, she took Ubers to the rehabilitation facility about 10 times a week, both ways. The ride was short, only about five blocks. But about three months after beginning the program, she realized she’d been consistently charged a wait time fee for exceeding the two minutes. (She estimated her load-in, which included having an aide fold up her wheelchair and put it in the trunk, time was approximately five minutes.)

She tried unsuccessfully to get a refund through a number of means before finally getting in touch with an Uber employee who told her the wait time fees were automatic and therefore there was nothing they could do.

At 20 rides a week, these extra fees would really add up. But even more important is the principle of the issue.

“Passenger A felt angry and upset that Uber has charged her wait time fees for her daily rides to her rehabilitation appointments. Uber’s refusal to refund her money or to change its wait time fee policy makes Passenger A feel like a second-class citizen,” reads the suit.

I’m guessing Uber is going to argue that the fee is applied in order to make sure drivers get paid for their time. And they definitely should. But that should not come out of the pocket of people with disabilities; it needs to be built into Uber’s cost of doing business. (It’s also not clear how much of the wait fee goes to the driver directly and how much goes to Uber.)

As the DOJ says, charging disabled people extra to access the same services as able-bodied people is discrimination.

“Uber and other companies that provide transportation services must ensure equal access for all people, including those with disabilities,” says Kristen Clarke, leader of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

(via CNN, image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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We have curated a perfect list of baby blankets, teethers, nightlights, art prints, and everything else needed to create a darling nursery room full of iconic characters and series to truly bring out the passion of gaming within!

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While Frank Herbert wrote the Dune series, every director that has taken on the project to some degree has had their name attached to the story and its history. For example, in the 1980s there was David Lynch’s Dune (so panned, the director disowned it). In 2021 we experienced Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One.

Before Villeneuve and Lynch, there was another man whose attempt is so infamous that an entire documentary was made out of his vision and (kinda) failure. I’m talking about Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune.

One of the very few copies of the storybook detailing Jodorowsky’s Dune is set to go up for auction at Christie’s later this month. Christie’s estimates the book’s worth at about $28,000 – 40,000. This is before accounting for the 25% buyer’s premium to pay for shipping, taxes, processing fees, and more. That’s a whole lot for a book.

So what’s the big deal about this book?

For one, the rarity. Christie’s (a major art dealer company) claims there are 20 or fewer copies in existence. Between Jodorowsky and Lynch’s attempts, for a long time, Dune was dubbed an impossible book to adapt for film. That is until this year’s movie, which has had mostly positive (but not without valid critiques) of Villeneuve’s adaptation, which primarily focuses on the beginning of the original book’s story.

While Jodorowsky’s Dune never happened, the mounting amount of art and creativity from those involved made a lasting impact on science fiction and its subgenres in Hollywood forever. Yes, it is fascinating to know Pink Floyd was attached to the project, as well as a cast that included Salvador Dalí, Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, and more. But the behind-the-scenes talent is one of the reasons the never-made film remains hugely relevant to film history.

Artists like Christopher Foss, Jean Giraud-Moebius, and H.R. Giger worked on the visual elements of Jodorowsky’s Dune that would never come to fruition (at least in a Dune movie). Later, they found success in franchises such as Star Wars, Aliens, and more, sometimes using similar frames and designs.

From the pages shared and animated in the 2014 documentary, Jodorowsky’s Dune alone, this storybook is a treasure trove of information. The plans for costumes, scenes, camera direction, set design, ship design, and much more—all are in this book.

The first many heard of the book (myself included) is when Jodorowsky shared in the 2014 documentary.

Jodorowsky and Moebius

Another fascinating element of this whole saga was the fact that (as the trailer shows) Jodorowsky never read Dune, but adored it conceptually. He also had some sort of a working relationship with Herbert during pre-production, where millions were spent, until the studio eventually nixed the project and later sold it. Jodorowsky loved the story (his development of it, at least) so much he wanted to put together a 14-hour science fiction event. Once you go over 4 hours, we have to call it “an event” at that point.

Even though it seems like Jodorowsky at times is frustrated that his efforts aren’t as well known, he doesn’t seem to harbor any ill will with the creatives that continue to work beyond Dune. For example, over a decade later he released the graphic novel The Incal with Moebius. The graphic novel takes visual and story elements from Jodorowsky’s Dune that I guess were never used because that would put them in a copyright situation possibly? In a way, The Incal may be the closest we can get to the storybook up for auction at Christie’s because it features two of its prominent creatives.

The Incal made news a few days back because it too is getting adapted. This time by none other than our New Zealand fave Taika Waititi. Jodorowsky is calling it “Waititi’s Incal.”

To the future owner of this book

Please, please, if you are reading this, upload a PDF of this book online or donate it to an institution that can navigate opening it to the public. Consider it a gift to science fiction nerds, film historians, archivists, and artists. I’m not sure if what I’m asking for is even legal, but it definitely sounds like a tax write-off. Think of your fellow Dune fans!

(via Gizmodo, image: screenshot from trailer.)

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