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Saturday, 31 August 2019
Where every 2020 candidate stands on guns
Ten of the Democratic presidential candidates during the first 2020 debate. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The candidates agree on universal background checks and an assault weapons ban. There’s less agreement on other proposals.
In response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and now Odessa and Midland, Texas, and Mobile, Alabama, supporters of stricter gun laws have voiced a simple mantra: “Do something!”
So, after little federal action on guns for more than two decades, what would the 2020 presidential candidates actually do?
President Donald Trump, for his part, doesn’t seem interested in much. He has supported a federal red flag law, which would allow police to take away someone’s guns if there’s some proof of a risk of violence (a “red flag”). But on other measures, from universal background checks to an assault weapons ban, Trump and Republican lawmakers have resisted, instead talking up questionable connections between violence, mental illness, and violent media.
Democratic candidates, however, have taken more comprehensive stances on guns. For the most part, they’re sticking to common Democratic themes like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban (which is typically paired with a ban on high-capacity magazines), and federally funded research into gun violence. But the campaigns’ plans do include some new ideas here and there — including red flag laws, which campaigns ranging from Cory Booker’s to John Delaney’s back, and requiring a license to buy and own a gun, which Booker in particular brought to the presidential stage but others, like Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg, also support.
As I’ve argued before, even the most ambitious of the candidates’ gun control proposals don’t go far enough to seriously dent gun violence. America leads the developed world in gun violence, with gun death rates nearly four times that of Switzerland, five times that of Canada, 35 times that of the United Kingdom, and 53 times that of Japan. The core problem is the US simply has way too many guns and too much access to firearms, letting just about anyone obtain a weapon to carry out a mass shooting or more typical types of gun violence, whether suicides or homicides.
But none of the Democratic proposals do anything to swiftly address that core problem and significantly reduce the number of guns in the US.
Still, the research suggests that stricter gun laws, particularly licensing, would reduce gun deaths. So the Democratic proposals would make some progress, even if they wouldn’t be enough to bring down America’s rate of gun deaths to that of its developed peers.
Some proposals show a little movement
Most of the Democratic candidates at least mention gun violence on their campaign websites and other networks (like Medium), though just a few — Booker, Warren, Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, and Kamala Harris in particular stick out — go into a lot of detail.
The Democratic candidates are in general agreement on at least two proposals: universal background checks and an assault weapons ban. When it comes to other issues, there’s a bit less agreement, or at least less attention.
The big common proposal is universal background checks. Under federal law, licensed gun dealers have to run a background check, looking at factors like criminal record and mental health history, to sell someone a firearm. But unlicensed sellers — think a family member, or perhaps someone over the internet or at a gun show — don’t have to run a check. Universal background checks attempt to stamp out the unlicensed sellers by requiring a background check for all or nearly all gun transactions.
An assault weapons ban has also received more attention with the rise of extremely deadly mass shootings, as the shooters have used weapons like AR-15s and WASR-10s (a variant of an AK-47) to carry out the attacks. There are questions about how it would be implemented and enforced, but the idea is to ban military-style semiautomatic rifles. Some Democratic candidates frame this as bringing back a previous federal assault weapons ban, which was enacted in 1994 but expired in 2004, that kept existing weapons in circulation but tried to restrict future sales. Others want to go further, mandating that gun owners actually turn in the banned weapons.
Beyond those two proposals, candidates have also supported red flag laws, which could allow a family member, neighbor, close friend, teacher, or cop to report an “extreme risk” of violence to the courts. The court could then order the seizure of a person’s weapons.
The candidates also favor closing loopholes in existing gun laws. That includes the “boyfriend loophole,” which lets people get a gun even if they have a protective order against them due to a dating relationship, and the “Charleston loophole,” which allows a small number of people to obtain a gun without completing a background check if the check takes too long. (This is how the self-described white supremacist who killed nine people at a predominantly black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 got his gun.)
There’s also a lot of support for federally funded research into gun violence, as well as the repeal of special legal protections for gun companies.
Some candidates have moved to the left by calling for gun licensing, which would require a license to purchase and own a firearm. Typically, obtaining a license would involve a background check, but also a more extensive vetting process that can require submitting fingerprints and a photo, interviews with law enforcement, and a gun safety training course. Some would pair this proposal — as is done in, for example, Massachusetts — with mandatory registration of firearms. (This, in theory, allows police to pull up a database of weapons to seize if someone loses a license.)
Several candidates, including Booker, Warren, Buttigieg, and Yang, support gun licensing. But others, including Joe Biden and Michael Bennet, have been critical of it.
Otherwise, there’s been little significant movement from the typical Democratic mantras of universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
Even the boldest proposals don’t go far enough
The Democratic proposals on guns show how stuck the debate over this issue has been for decades. In 1993 and 1994, a Democratic-controlled Congress passed federal background checks and a 10-year assault weapons ban. In the 25 years since, the debate has largely been relegated to … more background checks and an assault weapons ban. As the party has moved left on everything from single-payer health care to the Green New Deal to taxes on the wealthy, it hasn’t really moved on guns.
One reason is that Democrats’ philosophy on gun policy has remained largely the same: to prevent certain kinds of people from getting guns, and at most prohibit only a small fraction of firearms.
But America’s problem is much broader: It simply has too many guns, regardless of whether they’re in a “good” guy’s hands or a “bad” guy’s hands. The US has far more guns than any other country in the world — more guns than people, according to the Small Arms Survey. That makes it easy to get a firearm, legally or not, leading to more gun deaths.
Research compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center backs this up: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths — not just homicides but also suicides, domestic violence, violence against police, and mass shootings.
Another way to look at this: Everywhere in the world, people get into arguments. Every country has residents who are dangerous to themselves or others because of mental illness. Every country has bigots and extremists. But in America, it’s uniquely easy for a person to obtain a gun, letting otherwise tense but nonlethal conflicts escalate into deadly violence.
Yes, stronger gun laws can help. A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives.
But the types of gun control laws matter. Some of the recent research on universal background checks has been mixed, and studies on the last assault weapons ban found it ineffective for reducing overall levels of gun violence, in part because the great majority of gun deaths involves handguns, not assault weapons. But studies on licensing have been very consistent in significantly reducing gun deaths — in urban counties, Connecticut, and Missouri, including for suicides.
One reason licensing might work is that it addresses America’s core gun problem. On its face, licensing might seem like an extension of the background check model, since the idea is still to filter between qualified and unqualified people.
But a licensing process can go way further: While a background check is more often than not quick and hassle-free, gun licensing in, for example, Massachusetts is a weeks- or months-long process that requires submitting a photograph and fingerprints, passing a training course, and going through one or more interviews, all involving law enforcement. That adds significant barriers for even a would-be gun owner who has no ill intent or bad history.
“The end impact is you decrease gun ownership overall,” Cassandra Crifasi, a researcher (and gun owner) at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, previously told me, discussing Massachusetts’s laws. “Lots of folks think, ‘Well, it’s probably not worth going through all these hoops to buy firearms, so I’m not going to buy one.’ And then you have fewer firearms around, and less exposure.”
This, however, could only be a start: the kind of thing that ensures fewer people get guns now and in the future. But in a country that already has so many firearms, something also needs to be done to take out a lot of guns more quickly.
That could require rethinking the Second Amendment, possibly by appointing judges who interpret it differently — an inversion of the NRA’s campaign to portray gun ownership as an individual right. It might even mean beginning an effort to repeal the amendment, a project that could admittedly take decades but has gotten less serious consideration and support than packing the Supreme Court or even abolishing the Senate.
Significant change could involve imposing bigger hurdles to owning a gun — requiring that people provide a stronger justification, besides self-defense or recreation, to obtain a license.
It could mean banning more types of guns — perhaps all semiautomatic weapons or all handguns — and coupling that with an Australian-style mandatory buyback program, which the research supports. If the key difference between America and other countries is how many more guns the US has, then something has to be done to quickly reduce the number of firearms here.
Democrats aren’t there yet. Until that changes, there will be little voice in the presidential stage to the kinds of policies that could get American gun violence down to the levels of the US’s developed peers.
Where the Democrats stand
Former Vice President Joe Biden: Biden does not yet have a dedicated gun policy platform on his website, though his campaign said one is coming soon. In other proposals, he’s stated his support for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban. He has also indicated that he’d be for prohibiting firearms that aren’t “smart guns,” which try to ensure the person pulling the trigger is the firearm’s owner by, for example, verifying a fingerprint. But Biden has also spoken unfavorably about licensing plans, saying “gun licensing will not change whether or not people buy what weapons — what kinds of weapons they can buy, where they can use them, how they can store them.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Sanders’s campaign website includes a gun safety platform, and he released a separate plan to combat white supremacist extremism. He promises to make background checks universal, ban assault weapons, and crack down on “straw purchases” of firearms. On licensing, his campaign also told the Trace that he “supports the right of states, localities and tribal governments to implement licensing programs.” Sanders has historically taken more moderate stances on gun control, but he’s shifted to the left in recent years; for example, he originally voted for special legal protections for gun companies in 2003 and 2005, but has since come out against them.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Warren’s campaign website includes a plan to fight gun violence. The plan aims to reduce gun deaths by 80 percent. Warren calls for executive actions to expand background checks, close loopholes in existing laws, and target gun traffickers and licensed gun dealers who break the law. She also proposes sweeping legislation that includes universal background checks and an assault weapons ban but also gun licensing as well as support for urban gun violence intervention programs. And with federally funded gun violence research, she promises to return to the issue of firearms annually, “adding new ideas and tweaking existing ones based on new data — to continually reduce the number of gun deaths in America.”
Sen. Kamala Harris: Harris’s campaign website promises “action on gun violence.” As president, she plans to give Congress 100 days to pass stronger gun laws, including universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and the repeal of special legal protections for gun companies. But if Congress doesn’t act, she promises to sign executive orders to expand background checks, crack down on bad gun companies and dealers, make it more difficult for some people with criminal records (including domestic violence) to buy firearms, and ban the importation of some assault weapons into the US. She also said, on gun licensing, “I like the idea.”
South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg: Buttigieg’s campaign website includes a section on gun laws, and he also released a separate plan to “combat the national threat posed by hate and the gun lobby.” In the plans, Buttigieg says he supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, gun licensing, closing the “Charleston loophole,” closing loopholes in gun laws related to domestic violence and hate crimes, red flag laws, federally funded research on gun violence, and investing money into urban gun violence intervention programs.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke: O’Rourke’s campaign website includes a section on gun safety. He supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, red flag laws, closing loopholes in gun laws like the “Charleston loophole” and those linked to domestic violence, and funding for trauma support and community programs related to firearm education and disrupting gun violence. He also told the Trace he supports gun licensing.
Sen. Cory Booker: Booker’s campaign website includes two proposals to combat gun violence and gun suicides. He emphasizes gun licensing and registration as his main proposal, but his plans also include the typical mainstays of Democratic gun policy: universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, closing loopholes in existing laws and regulations, red flag laws, safe storage requirements, and more funding for gun violence research. He also vows to take executive action to tighten gun laws as much as possible if Congress doesn’t act.
Andrew Yang: Yang’s campaign website includes a gun safety plan. He supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, gun licensing, closing loopholes in existing laws, repealing special legal protections for gun companies, federally funded research on gun violence, and creating financial incentives for firearm owners to obtain smart guns.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Gabbard’s campaign website includes a section on gun safety legislation. She supports universal background checks, closing loopholes in laws regarding domestic violence and suspected terrorism, and an assault weapons ban.
Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro: Castro’s campaign website does not include a gun policy platform, and his campaign did not return requests for comment. He has voiced support for universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and red flag laws.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar: Klobuchar’s campaign released a plan on gun violence. She backs universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, closing loopholes in existing laws, repealing special legal protections for gun companies, and federally funded research on gun violence.
Tom Steyer: Steyer’s campaign website does not include a gun policy platform, and his campaign did not return requests for comment.
Marianne Williamson: Williamson’s campaign website includes a section on gun policy. She supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, gun licensing, mandatory waiting periods, stricter laws regarding children’s use of guns, child safety locks for all guns, red flag laws, and federally funded research into gun violence.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock: Bullock’s campaign website does not include a gun policy platform, and his campaign did not return requests for comment. He has voiced support for universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and red flag laws.
Former Rep. John Delaney: Delaney’s campaign website includes a gun safety platform. He supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, closing loopholes in existing laws, red flag laws, and federally funded research on gun violence.
Rep. Tim Ryan: Ryan’s campaign website does not include a gun policy platform, and his campaign did not return requests for comment. He has voiced support for universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: De Blasio’s campaign website does not include a gun policy platform, and his campaign did not return requests for comment. He’s voiced support for universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, and urban gun violence intervention programs (some of which he implemented as mayor of New York City).
Former Rep. Joe Sestak: Sestak’s website includes a section on violence prevention. He supports an assault weapons ban, closing loopholes in existing background check laws, and federally funded research on gun violence.
Sen. Michael Bennet: Bennet’s campaign website does not include a gun policy platform, and his campaign did not return requests for comment. He told the Trace he supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, red flag laws, repealing special legal protections for gun companies, and federally funded research on gun violence. But he opposes gun licensing.
Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam: Messam’s campaign website includes a section on gun reform. He backs expanded background checks.
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Natalie Portman wants to get back to space in the first trailer for 'Lucy in the Sky'
Does Lucy Cola desperately want a return trip to outer space because the experience is just that amazing? Or is there something she's trying to get away from in her life back on Earth?
This first trailer for Lucy in the Sky, starring Natalie Portman, raises exactly that question. She's clearly a star of NASA's spaceflight program, but she's also reckless enough to cast aside her family obligations and start an affair with a veteran astronaut (Jon Hamm). So we have to wonder: what's propelling Lucy's intense, seemingly manic desire to hop back in a shuttle?
We'll find out this fall when Lucy in the Sky hits theaters this fall. Read more...
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ICE shuts down the immigration hotline featured on 'Orange is the New Black'
On July 26, Freedom for Immigrants' toll-free hotline was featured on one of the episodes of Orange Is The New Black's final season. Just a week and a half later on August 7, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shut it down. Almost three weeks after the shut down, calls for the re-opening of the Freedom for Immigrants hotline persist, per NBC News.
OITNB has been praised for its ability to represent stories that mimic those of real, incarcerated women on-screen. In line with the show's overarching activist narrative, Diane Guerrero's character Maritzia has a true-to-life deportation storyline in the show's final season. With an immigration hearing looming on the horizon, Maritzia calls Freedom for Immigrants' toll-free hotline in search of a pro-bono lawyer. After its hotline was featured on the show, the California-based organization proudly made sure to affirm the hotline's existence. Read more...
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Get a free Echo Plus when you buy a Samsung Galaxy Note 10
TL;DR: Amazon will give you a second-generation Echo Plus smart speaker for free (normally $149.99) when you order a brand new Samsung Galaxy Note or Note 10+.
The hype for the release of Apple's newest iPhone is very real — but if you don't feel compelled to wait in hours-long lines to buy a smartphone with few marked differences from its predecessor, we can't really blame you.
Maybe it's time to explore your options and start seeing other operating systems. For what it's worth, Amazon would love to set you up with the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 or Note 10+, which came out just last week: The retail giant is giving its customers a free second-gen Echo Plus smart speaker (valued at $150) with the purchase of every Note 10 or Note 10+. (Seems like it's meant to be, TBH.) Read more...
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Katie Couric, Mara Hoffman, Connie Britton to join Greta Thunberg and others as speakers at 2019 Social Good Summit
As global citizens, we all want to change the world for the better — but in anxious times, it can be difficult to know how to join the conversation about solutions to the world’s major issues. That’s where the Social Good Summit comes in.
Now in its tenth year, the Social Good Summit brings together leading thinkers — activists, politicians, scientists, diplomats, artists, and more — for a day of inspired conversation on how we can all help our global community achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the target year of 2030. These goals seek to improve the quality of life for all people, lifting up everyone and leaving no one behind. Read more...
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As Hurricane Dorian approaches, scooters are removed from the streets
Lime, Spin and other companies are pulling scooters off the streets in Florida over concerns they could become dangerous projectiles during Hurricane Dorian.
Miami officials told scooter companies to retrieve their vehicles by Friday. Dorian is forecast to make landfall along the Atlantic coast of Florida as early as Labor Day weekend, or early next week, as a Category 4 storm with winds of up to 140 miles per hour.
Yes, ALL #scooters will be removed from @CityofMiami streets by Friday. Winds expected to increase on Saturday evening#HurricaneDorian #scooternado
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Ring video doorbell is on sale for $50 off at Amazon
TL;DR: Snag the essential Ring video doorbell for $119 at Amazon (refurbished). It's typically $169, so you'll save 30%.
As much as you may wish you could stay at home 24/7, for most of us this fantasy is basically unattainable. Unfortunately this means going outside, commuting, and worst of all, missed packages. No really, nothing is worse than ordering something, constantly tracking it, and then missing the damn thing.
Feel like you’re always at home and never miss a package again with the Ring video doorbell. The Ring is a video doorbell that acts as your eyes and ears at home while you are away. See, hear, and speak to visitors from your phone or tablet. Equipped with motion sensors, this device lights up and sends alerts whenever someone is near your door, so whether its an UberEats delivery or a thief (!!!), you’ll basically know whatever is going on at your door, 24/7. Read more...
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Find out if you're actually dating anyone with the 'ur single to me' meme
Think you're in an unshakeable relationship? This meme might tell you otherwise.
A number of "if ur dating a ___, ur single to me" posts have popped up on Twitter in the past few days. They are very tongue-in-cheek (so don't get mad), and posit the idea that if you're dating a certain kind of person — an egirl, a romantic poet, an Instagram model — you basically qualify as single. As in, the person tweeting doesn't see them as a threat.
In the case of a tweet about a touring musician, for example: "what's he gonna do, FaceTime you?" Fair point!
Anyway, at the risk of over-explaining a meme, thereby making it less funny, please enjoy the following tweets. Read more...
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Become an expert in Microsoft Office from your couch
TL;DR: Get access to the comprehensive Essential Microsoft Office 2019 course bundle by simply naming your price. Valued at nearly $250, this group of classes is a steal you don't want to miss out on.
Whoever coined the phrase “fake it 'til you make it” has clearly never needed to make a PivotTable appear out of thin air.
Sure, there are plenty of ways to get by in the workplace while learning on the fly, but when it comes to key Microsoft Office tools, your boss will expect more. There are a ton of complex features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook that are critical to modern business operations and which take expert knowledge to understand. And no, Clippy won’t be there to help if you have a question. Read more...
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This award-winning coffee maker is on sale for 75% off — save $300
TL;DR: Get the state-of-the-art Wilfa Precision automatic coffee brewer for $99.99 or $84.99, depending on your color/material choice. Since it's usually listed from $349.99-$399.99, you'll be keeping a pretty big chunk of change in your pocket — up to $300, to be exact.
For a lot of us, going about our day without coffee is not an option. They make funny t-shirts depicting this very fact for a reason.
And while there are many ways to brew java — french press, pod machine, percolator, espresso maker — the most important thing is that it churns out a damn great cup every single time you press brew. Read more...
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Thursday, 29 August 2019
Hilary Duff will return as Lizzie McGuire in sequel series for Disney+
Your favorite Disney Channel sitcom is making a comeback.
Announced Friday as part of Disney's D23 Expo, Lizzie McGuire will return with a sequel series made exclusively for Disney+. Hilary Duff will reprise her role as Lizzie, supported by original series' creator Terri MinskyDeadline first broke the news.
This is what dreams are made of! @HilaryDuff is here to announce she is starring as an “older, wiser” Lizzie in the new series! #D23Expo #DisneyPlus
— Disney D23 (@DisneyD23) August 23, 2019
“It is so great to be home,” Duff said of the reprisal. “The good news is just like me and everybody who loved her, Lizzie grew up. She’s older and wiser and has a much bigger shoe budget.” Read more...
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Full-length 'Terminator: Dark Fate' trailer: more Arnie, more plot, more callbacks
On Aug. 29, 1997, Skynet became self-aware. On Aug. 30, 2019, a new trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate became available. And as in the teaser released in May, it would very much like to emphasise that the Rise Of The Machines/Genisys/Salvation timeline is as dead as... well, all of humanity in the future.
If you'd like to be surprised, look away now, because this trailer is packed with details designed to reassure you that this is the Terminator franchise, classic flavour. We get Mackenzie Davis's I-come-from-the-future exposition explaining that Sarah Connor did not, in fact, avert Judgement Day; Linda Hamilton's Connor smirking and wisecracking like the apocalypse-averting veteran she is (complete with a callback I'd rather have been surprised by); and some absolutely wild-looking fight scenes — including a moment where Gabriel Luna's evil new-model nanomorph appears to split itself into two separate humanoids. Read more...
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Hacked sites attacked thousands of iPhones every week for years using undiscovered exploits
In what's being touted as potentially one of the biggest attacks on iPhone users ever, Google has revealed that a collection of websites were hacked to deliver malware onto iPhones, with the iOS vulnerabilities involved going unchecked and undiscovered for years — as well as subsequent attacks.
The hacks installed zero-interaction malware into unnamed sites that received thousands of visitors every week. Simply visiting the sites, without clicking or scrolling at all, could deliver a monitoring implant onto users' iPhones.
Google demonstrated that the implant could "steal private data like iMessages, photos and GPS location in real-time"; it also had access to users' keychains and password data, as well as database files containing plaintext of messages sent and received in messaging apps such as Google Hangouts, and even end-to-end encrypted apps including WhatsApp, iMessage, and Telegram. Read more...
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Tanya Gersh Was The Target Of A Neo-Nazi 'Troll Storm.' Then She Fought Back And Was Awarded $14 Million
Tanya Gersh Was The Target Of A Neo-Nazi 'Troll Storm.' Then She Fought Back And Was Awarded $14 Million
Now, she's ready to tell her story.
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Ewan McGregor will return as Obi-Wan Kenobi for Disney+
Crank up the cantina song and pour the blue milk — Ewan McGregor is making his return as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Confirmed Friday at Disney's D23 Expo, the Star Wars veteran is set to reprise his role as the iconic Jedi Knight in an Obi-Wan centric series for Disney+. The not-yet-titled project reportedly began as plans for a film spin-off in 2017, but was later used as the basis for the streaming service's third televised Star Wars property.
The Obi-Wan series joins Disney+'s confirmed plans for The Mandalorian and an untitled prequel to Rogue One, both already in production.
"We have all the scripts written, we are going to start filming next year, and we are so excited to get started," noted Lucas Films president Kathleen Kennedy. Read more...
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Disney+ fires up a thrilling first trailer for Star Wars spinoff 'The Mandalorian'
Holy smokes, it's finally here.
At D23 Expo Friday, Disney unveiled a trailer for The Mandalorian, the first-ever live-action Star Wars series — and one of the first-ever original shows for their streaming service, Disney+.
Created by Jon Favreau, the series is set between Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and Episode VII: The Force Awakens and follows "a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy."
Pedro Pascal stars alongside Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, Giancarlo Esposito, Nick Nolte, and Werner Herzog. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, hits Disney+ November 12. Read more...
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Disney+'s 'Lady and the Tramp' just got an im-paw-ssibly cute trailer
Fans of Disney's remake wave, rejoice! Lady and the Tramp finally has a trailer — and it is unspeakably charming.
Starring Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux, the Disney+ film chronicles the musical romance of two dogs living in the big city. Sam Elliott, Ashley Jensen, Benedict Wong, and Janelle Monáe join the canine cast, with Monáe composing a new version of "He's A Tramp" for the remake.
How the plot will change from the 1955 original remains to be seen, and no word yet on how director Charlie Bean got live dogs to politely share a plate of spaghetti.
Lady and the Tramp premieres on Disney+ Nov. 12. Read more...
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Moon Knight and She-Hulk Disney+ shows announced at D23
The Disney+ side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe just keeps growing.
At D23 Friday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced three new series coming to the service: Moon Knight, She-Hulk, and (as previously reported) Ms. Marvel.
Moon Knight will be an action-adventure series about Marc Spector, who is left for dead in the Egyptian desert. Per Feige, while there, he encounters the Moon God, who leaves him with superpowers... or maybe he just starts harboring delusions.
She-Hulk is about Jennifer Walters, a lawyer who gains certain superpowers. "Bruce Banner is no longer the only Hulk in the MCU," said Feige, who described the series as "unlike anything we've done before." Read more...
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