In a new interview with GQ UK (opens in new tab), the actor – who recently reprised the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi for the first time onscreen since 2005 in the eponymous Jedi’s Disney Plus series – suggested that those tasked with reviewing the trilogy simply “didn’t get” what they thought they were going to.

“I think the critics just wanted to feel like they were seven or eight again,” McGregor explained, reflecting on the negative reception to The Phantom Menace and its two follow-ups. “So I was left with that [reaction] for years and years, and it took [until I started] meeting people, and I realized how important our films have been to them.

“To begin with, all we heard really was the critical side of things,” he recalled. “That was the only voice I remember hearing, and they were not liked. I admire George for having tried to do something different with them. He didn’t just set out to make another three Star Wars films that felt like the original ones. I respected him for that. I think that’s ballsy and interesting.”

Set ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi catches up to the titular hero as he watches over Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. Before long, though, Obi-Wan finds himself looking after Leia Organa, as the pair try and evade the clutches of Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader.

It is available to stream on Disney Plus now. While it’s unclear whether a second season is on the cards, the show has sparked enthusiasm for a couple of spin-offs, mainly centered on Reva and Darth Vader – and you can read our argument for the latter here. While we wait for more news, check out the upcoming Star Wars movies and shows currently in the works.

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Last week, the US channel confirmed it would not be moving forward with the historical drama – which is a co-production between the two broadcasters – following its second season. The announcement prompted the cast to reflect on their involvement in the series on Instagram, while fans took to Twitter to launch a #SaveGentlemanJack hashtag. 

“It’s been a bit of a surprise really because it’s been doing really well, certainly in this country,” Wainwright explained to Radio Times (opens in new tab). “We were ready to go again, the BBC certainly [is] up for going again.

“I think if HBO had been up for it, there’d have been no question. It’s been a very successful show in all areas for them – it’s had fantastic reviews, it’s had a very respectable audience and on top of that it’s had an impact on the community of gay women. We have the most extraordinary fanbase, they organise all sorts of events.”

Having premiered in 2019, Gentleman Jack centers on real-life Yorkshire-based landowner Anne Lister (Suranne Jones), retroactively dubbed “the first modern lesbian”, as she strikes up a romance – and eventually navigates a secret marriage – with the wealthy Ann Walker (Sophie Rundle), all while juggling male-dominated business ventures in the early 1800s. 

Season 2 focused on Ann’s move into Shibden Hall, and the new wives’ efforts to divide their estates – much to the dismay of Ann’s meddling brother-in-law Captain Sutherland (Derek Riddell). Their relationship is tested elsewhere, too, by money troubles, public scrutiny, and Anne’s entanglement with her ex-lover Mariana Lawton (Lydia Leonard).

“I think [it] wouldn’t want to continue with it without it having the same production values,” Wainwright replied, when asked whether the BBC would ever entertain the idea of producing the show on its own.

“So we would need to find another partner who would stream it globally. You know, I think all those other options are being explored at the minute given that there is a desire to go on with it amongst quite a lot of people – the BBC, Lookout Point, myself, you know.”

Gentleman Jack is available to stream on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and HBO Max in the US. If you’ve already binge-watched, then be sure to check out our roundup of the best TV shows of all time for some viewing inspiration.

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“Next week is the scene where I have the heart attack,” Odenkirk told The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab). “And probably about three-quarters of the scene was shot before I had the heart attack, the day of the heart attack, and then the other quarter scene was after.”

He added that he feels “very good” about his health currently, as he opened up about the scare. “I’m in great shape. I’m gonna go to a workout right now,” Odenkirk said. “I didn’t go back to shoot for five weeks. I had a five-week break to recover. And then when I went back, we limited our shooting to 12-hour days… And so they took care of me and I was able to do it, and hopefully, you can’t tell when I had the heart attack and when I didn’t.”

Odenkirk said that the “strangest” part was that he lost “basically about a week and a half” of memory following his heart attack. As a result, he doesn’t remember filming the episode, entitled ‘Fun and Games’, much at all. 

The actor was recently nominated for his fifth Emmy for Better Call Saul, marking his 17th overall nomination at the awards. The final season of the show was also nominated for Outstanding Drama Series, with Odenkirk’s co-star Rhea Seehorn, who plays Kim Wexler, landing a nod as well.

Better Call Saul is airing weekly on AMC and Netflix. To make sure you don’t miss an episode of the series, check out our Better Good Saul release schedule.

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To help make sense of it all, we’ve provided an overview of the Resident Evil timeline’s main events – including where exactly the new Netflix series fits in. 

When does the Resident Evil Netflix series take place?

The Resident Evil Netflix series takes place both in 2022 and 2036. That makes them the latest events chronologically on the Resident Evil timeline. 

In 2022, Umbrella is still alive and kicking, with Albert Wesker (who has seemingly returned from the dead) living with his daughters Billie and Jade in New Raccoon City.

14 years later and an adult Jade is surviving in a post-outbreak world. Flesh-eating zombies have overrun much of the population, with various corporations carving out their own regions and city states. It is also heavily implied that the outbreak started in 2022.

These events, as is revealed in the show, all take place decades after the Raccoon City Incident in 1998. There, a zombie outbreak was covered up by Umbrella and the US Government, with the city eventually being nuked to hide the truth of what really happened. If you’re new to the series and keen to see how that played out, be sure to play the Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 Remakes.

Showrunner Andrew Dabb has already told us “everything that happened in the games exists in this world,” so here’s how the rest of the series fits alongside the Resident Evil Netflix show.

• Resident Evil Zero (July 1998) 
• Resident Evil (July 1998) 
• Resident Evil 2 (September 1998) 
• Resident Evil 3 (September 1998) 
• Resident Evil: Code Veronica (December 1998) 
• Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness [Penamstan Civil War flashbacks] (2000) 
• Resident Evil 4 (2004) 
• Resident Evil: Revelations (2004-2005) 
• Resident Evil: Degeneration (2005) 
• Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (2006) 
• Resident Evil 5 (2009) 
• Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2011) 
• Resident Evil: Damnation (2011) 
• Resident Evil 6 (2012-2013) 
• Resident Evil: Vendetta (2014) 
• Resident Evil 7 (2017) 
• Resident Evil: Village (2021)
• Resident Evil Netflix series (New Raccoon City scenes, 2022)
• Resident Evil Netflix series (2036)

For the TL;DR crowd: the Resident Evil Netflix series takes place both 24 years and 38 years after the first three games. Wesker arriving in New Raccoon City in 2022 comes 13 years after his supposed death in Resident Evil 5.

If applying ‘games are canon’ as a blanket theory across the entire series, Resident Evil: Village is the closest in date to the Netflix series, technically taking place a year before the events of the new show. What that means for Umbrella’s resurgence both as Blue Umbrella in the latter games and as an evil corporation in the Netflix series is unclear, and there are likely to be some discrepancies if you map out every game in relation to the Netflix series. 

To keep things as straightforward as possible, we can be sure that the genesis of the story began in 1998 with the first three games; the Resident Evil Netflix series builds upon it decades later. Phew. We made it.

Resident Evil is now streaming on Netflix. For more from the streamer, be sure to check out the best Netflix shows and the best Netflix movies you should be watching right now.

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Rotten Tomatoes’ Jacqueline Coley broke the news on Twitter (opens in new tab), revealing that Kaluuya has not returned for the Marvel sequel due to scheduling conflicts with Jordan Peele’s upcoming film Nope. Kaluuya will star in the sci-fi horror film alongside Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun. 

In the Black Panther sequel, Gurira is returning as Okoye, and Letitia Wright’s Shuri, Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia, Winston Duke’s M’Baku, Angela Bassett’s Ramonda, and Martin Freeman’s Everett Ross are also back. Newcomers include Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, AKA Ironheart, and Tenoch Huerta in a mystery role – speculation has focused on Atlantean prince Namor, but Huerta has poked fun at people who think pictures of him as the character have leaked. 

The plot of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is pretty much entirely a mystery, but Freeman has teased that we should expect the unexpected. “Some of it was really – some of it’s very odd, and I think [director Ryan Coogler] could see by the reaction on my face some of the things he was saying… He kept sort of stopping, and going… He kept on saying, ‘Stay with me, but this is going to work.'”

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever arrives this November 11. Before then, She-Hulk will land on Disney Plus beginning this August 17.  In the meantime, check out our ultimate guide to Marvel Phase 4 for everything else the MCU has in store for us. 

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Season 5 premiered back in 2019, and consists of only three episodes, with notable cast members including Anthony Mackie, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Miley Cyrus, and Andrew Scott. The new episodes will be “even more cinematic in scope” with each installment essentially being treated as an individual film.

Paul, best known for his starring role in Breaking Bad, currently plays Caleb on HBO’s Westworld and recently starred alongside Karen Gillan and Jesse Eisenberg in Riley Stearns’ satirical sci-fi thriller Dual. Beetz plays Van on FX’s Atlanta and can be seen next in David Leitch’s upcoming action flick Bullet Train. Ramirez appeared in blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick and will next star in Netflix’s Look Both Ways alongside Luke Wilson and Riverdale star Lili Reinhart.

Essiedu stars as George in Sky TV’s action drama time loop series The Lazarus Project, Thorton plays Lucy Damon in NBC’s This Is Us, and Vasan can be seen on Channel 4 and Peacock’s “We Are Lady Parts.” Former teen heartthrob Josh Harnett is set to play Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Ernest Lawrence in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

For more, check out our ranking of the best Black Mirror episodes.

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Set years before the events of the 2009 hit, the sequel-turned-prequel centers on Leena Klammer, who went by Esther in the first flick – a woman suffering from a hormone disorder that stunts her growth – as she travels to the US after orchestrating an elaborate escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility. There, she impersonates the missing daughter of Tricia (Julia Stiles) and Allen Albright (Rossif Sutherland), Esther, and quickly moves into their home, but Tricia soon becomes convinced that Esther isn’t who she claims to be. 

Judging from the synopsis and the teaser, which you can watch above, what follows is pretty standard horror movie stuff: Allen, the husband, doesn’t believe his wife’s concerns, while Leena/Esther splits her time between painting eerie pictures and trying her best to separate them (or worse). If its predecessor is anything to go by, though, it’s sure to have a few surprises in store.

What’s perhaps most impressive about the clip, however, is how they’ve managed to de-age Fuhrman. The 25-year-old actor was just 12 when she made the twisty original, and word on the street is that no visual effects were used to make her look younger. Esther isn’t actually as young as she presents herself to be, either, so it’s kind of wild to think about how Fuhrman was once a pre-teen, playing a 33-year-old disguised as a nine-year-old, and now she’s in her mid-20s, playing an even younger version of that same character.

“I love the challenge of being able to play a kid because that’s never historically been done in cinema — I was like looking all this up, because I love looking up old movie history and things like that, and I was like, ‘Oh, an adult has never reprised the role that they played as a child,'” she told The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab) last year. “Will Smith, for example, recently did that movie [Gemini Man] where they de-age somebody, but to reprise a role that you literally did as a kid as an adult has never been done before. It’s kind of impossible. And we did it.

“We didn’t use special effects, we didn’t use any crazy makeup tricks. And I think that’s what makes the movie work, is because you really can’t figure out how I look like a [9-year-old], but I do. It’s really creepy.”

Written by Scream’s David Coggeshall and directed by The Boy’s William Brent Bell, Orphan: First Kill is set to release in select theaters, on Digital, and on Paramount+ on August 19. In the UK, it will be coming out exclusively in cinemas.

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“What an incredible honor!” Boseman’s team wrote on his Twitter account. “Thank you to the [Television Academy] for Chad’s posthumous #Emmys nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over for his role as T’Challa in the animated series #WhatIf…? from @DisneyPlus and @MarvelStudios.” The official Disney Plus Twitter account replied with an emoji of two hands making a heart. 

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What If…? star Jeffrey Wright is also nominated in the same category for the eighth episode of season 1, while Moon Knight actor F. Murray Abraham, who voiced Khonshu in the Disney Plus show, is nominated for that series’ third episode.

Marvel has been clear that Boseman will not be recast in the upcoming Black Panther 2, officially titled Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. That film will see the return of Letitia Wright as Shuri, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Winston Duke as M’Baku, Daniel Kaluuya as W’Kabi, Angela Bassett as Ramonda, and Martin Freeman as Everett Ross. Dominique Thorne joins the cast as Riri Williams, while Tenoch Huerta is reportedly set to play a mystery role – and he’s poked fun at fans who think pictures of him as Namor have leaked. 

You can check out the full list of 2022 Emmy nominations through the link, and get up to speed on Marvel Phase 4 with our ultimate guide. 

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Netflix also had success with Ozark and Stranger Things both landing 13 nods. In the comedy categories, Hacks and Only Murders in the Building got 17, Barry landed 14, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel received 12. The big winners in the drama categories were Euphoria (16), Dopesick (14), and Severance (14). The awards will take place on September 12, exactly two months after the nominations were announced.

The full list of nominees are listed below: 

Outstanding Drama Series

• Better Call Saul
• Euphoria
• Ozark
• Severance
• Squid Game
• Stranger Things
• Succession
• Yellowjackets

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Abbott Elementary
• Barry
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Hacks
• The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
• Only Murders in the Building
• Ted Lasso
• What We Do in the Shadows

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series

• Dopesick
• The Dropout
• Inventing Anna
• Pam & Tommy
• The White Lotus

Lead Actress in a Drama Series

• Jodie Comer – Killing Eve
• Laura Linney – Ozark
• Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets
• Sandra Oh – Killing Eve
• Reese Witherspoon – The Morning Show
• Zendaya – Euphoria

Lead Actor in a Drama Series

• Jason Bateman – Ozark
• Brian Cox – Succession
• Lee Jung-jae – Squid Game
• Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
• Adam Scott – Severance
• Jeremy Strong – Succession

Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

• Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
• Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
• Kaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant
• Elle Fanning – The Great
• Issa Rae – Insecure
• Jean Smart – Hacks

Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

• Donald Glover – Atlanta
• Bill Hader – Barry
• Nicholas Hoult – The Great
• Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
• Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
• Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso

Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie

• Toni Collette – The Staircase
• Julia Garner – Inventing Anna
• Lily James – Pam & Tommy
• Sarah Paulson – Impeachment: American Crime Story
• Margaret Qualley – Maid
• Amanda Seyfried –The Dropout

Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

• Colin Firth – The Staircase
• Andrew Garfield – Under Banner of Heaven
• Oscar Isaac – Scenes from a Marriage
• Himesh Patel – Station Eleven
• Sebastian Stan – Pam & Tommy
• Michael Keaton – Dopesick

Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

• Patricia Arquette – Severance
• Julia Garner – Ozark
• Jung Ho-yeon – Squid Game
• Christina Ricci – Yellowjackets
• Rhea Seehorn – Better Call Saul
• J Smith-Cameron – Succession
• Sarah Snook – Succession
• Sydney Sweeney – Euphoria

Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

• Nicholas Braun – Succession
• Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
• Kieran Culkin – Succession
• Park Hae-soo – Squid Game
• Matthew Macfadyen – Succession
• John Turturro – Severance
• Christopher Walken – Severance

Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Hannah Einbinder – Hacks
• Janelle James – Abbott Elementary
• Kate McKinnon – Saturday Night Live
• Sarah Niles – Ted Lasso
• Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary
• Juno Temple – Ted Lasso
• Hannah Waddingham –Ted Lasso

Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

• Anthony Carrigan – Barry
• Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso
• Toheeb Jimoh – Ted Lasso
• Nick Mohammed– Ted Lasso
• Tony Shalhoub – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Tyler James Williams – Abbott Elementary
• Henry Winkler – Barry
• Bowen Yang –Saturday Night Live

Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie

• Connie Britton – The White Lotus
• Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus
• Alexandra Daddario – The White Lotus
• Kaitlyn Dever– Dopesick
• Natasha Rothwell –The White Lotus
• Sydney Sweeney – The White Lotus
• Mare Winningham – Dopesick

Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

• Murray Bartlett – The White Lotus
• Jake Lacy – The White Lotus
• Will Poulter – Dopesick
• Seth Rogen – Pam & Tommy
• Peter Sarsgaard – Dopesick
• Michael Stuhlbarg – Dopesick

Guest Actress in a Drama Series

• Hope Davis – Succession
• Marcia Gay Harden –The Morning Show
• Martha Kelly – Euphoria
• Sanaa Lathan – Succession
• Harriet Walter– Succession
• Lee You-mi – Squid Game

Guest Actor in a Drama Series

• Adrien Brody – Succession
• James Cromwell – Succession
• Colman Domingo – Euphoria
• Arian Moayed – Succession
• Tom Pelphrey – Ozark
• Alexander Skarsgård – Succession

Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

• Jane Adams – Hacks
• Harriet Sansom Harris – Hacks
• Jane Lynch – Only Murders in the Building
• Laurie Metcalf – Hacks
• Kaitlin Olson – Hacks
• Harriet Walter –Ted Lasso

Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

• Jerrod Carmichael – Saturday Night Live
• Bill Hader– Curb Your Enthusiasm
• James Lance – Ted Lasso
• Nathan Lane – Only Murders in the Building
• Christopher McDonald – Hacks
• Sam Richardson – Ted Lasso

Outstanding Competition Program

• The Amazing Race
• Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls
• Nailed It!
• RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Top Chef
• The Voice

Outstanding Variety Talk Series

• The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Late Night with Seth Meyers
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Want something to watch right now? Check out the best Netflix shows available to stream this instant.

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Stallone will play Joe Smith, AKA Samaritan, a superhero who went missing after an epic battle two decades ago. Javon Walton, who’s known for his roles in Euphoria and The Umbrella Academy season 3, plays Joe’s young neighbour Sam, who discovers the secret alter ego he’s tried to leave behind. The three newly released stills show Joe walking along a street with Sam, in the midst of a fight that he seems to be winning, and facing off against Cyrus (played by Game of Thrones’ Pilou Asbæk). 

The movie also stars Dascha Polanco, Martin Starr, and Moisés Arias. Samaritan was helmed by Julius Avery, who previously directed the 2014 crime thriller Son of a Gun and thr 2018 action horror Overlord and was originally meant to have a theatrical release in November 2020, before being delayed to December 2020 and June 2021 due to the pandemic. It’s finally arriving on our screens, on Prime Video, this August.  

Screenwriter Bragi F. Schut penned the script around a decade ago, before adapting the story into a series of graphic novels published by Mythos Comics in 2014. The story is being described as a dark, new take on the superhero genre. 

Samaritan arrives on the streamer on August 26. In the meantime, check out our picks of the best movies on Amazon Prime Video that you can watch right now. 

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