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No, Carrie Fisher hasn ;t actually confirmed she in Star Wars: Episode VII after all. Shane Black is taking Iron Man right back to his origins. Another Captain America costar might return for a flashback. Sam Mendes is leaving Bond behind 8230; for now. Plus the latest details on Neil Gaiman Cyberman-centric episode of Doctor Who! It nothing but spoilers from here on out! Top image from Doctor Who. Star Wars: Episode VII I think we all knew this was coming, but a representative for Carrie Fisher has clarified to CNN that no, Fisher didn ;t rea stanley cup lly confirm her Star Wars return to Palm gourde stanley Beach Illustrated, even though it totally sounded like she did: She was joking. Nothing has been announced. Let just cut to the chase here, which is that, regardless of whether Fisher was actually joking 鈥?and I think we can safely assume she was joking about Leia being in an intergalactic old folks ; home, if nothing else 鈥?it still probably more likely than not that, yeah, she and Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill are going to make some appearance in Episode VII. But until Disney and LucasFilm are damn good and ready to announce that, nothing 鈥?even confirmation from the actors themselves 鈥?is going to be official. [CNN] Iron Man 3 The interviews just keep on rolling out from writer-director Shane Black and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. First up, here Black explaining h stanley cup ow he adapted
In early April, a luxury ocean liner set off across the Atlantic. The boat didn ;t carry enough lifeboats to hold its 3,000-odd passengers, but that didn ;t matter since the liner was deemed to be unsinkable. One fateful night, the liner struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, causing the boat to sink and most of its passengers to perish. No, this wasn ;t the sinking of the Titanic. It the plot of the novella Futility, which was published in 1898, 14 years before the Titanic s stanley cup ank. Written by Morgan Robertson, a former sailor, Futility was a stanley us condemnation of humanity hubris. The story centered around an allegedly unsinkable ocean liner, which ventures from the US to England stanley cup on its maiden. Because the ship is deemed unsinkable, it carries as few lifeboats as the law permits and is permitted to go at full speed through even the worst fog and storms. Of course, when the boat, incidentally named Titan, strikes an iceberg, the ship goes down, killing all but a handful of passengers. At the time of its publication, Futility was not a popular book. At a time when Americans were feeling optimistic about technology and Jules Verne and HG Wells were in vogue, technological pessimism found not the way to win critical or popular acclaim. In fact, despite a respectable career spinning sea yarns and proto-pulps, Robertson might be a largely forgotten author if not for the Titanic disaster. By the time the Titanic was in its design pha Nijq Google Play Just Gave Google TV a Reason to Exist
No, Carrie Fisher hasn ;t actually confirmed she in Star Wars: Episode VII after all. Shane Black is taking Iron Man right back to his origins. Another Captain America costar might return for a flashback. Sam Mendes is leaving Bond behind 8230; for now. Plus the latest details on Neil Gaiman Cyberman-centric episode of Doctor Who! It nothing but spoilers from here on out! Top image from Doctor Who. Star Wars: Episode VII I think we all knew this was coming, but a representative for Carrie Fisher has clarified to CNN that no, Fisher didn ;t rea stanley cup lly confirm her Star Wars return to Palm gourde stanley Beach Illustrated, even though it totally sounded like she did: She was joking. Nothing has been announced. Let just cut to the chase here, which is that, regardless of whether Fisher was actually joking 鈥?and I think we can safely assume she was joking about Leia being in an intergalactic old folks ; home, if nothing else 鈥?it still probably more likely than not that, yeah, she and Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill are going to make some appearance in Episode VII. But until Disney and LucasFilm are damn good and ready to announce that, nothing 鈥?even confirmation from the actors themselves 鈥?is going to be official. [CNN] Iron Man 3 The interviews just keep on rolling out from writer-director Shane Black and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. First up, here Black explaining h stanley cup ow he adapted