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Jarrod Saunders

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Cape Town
As seen in: Fortress of Solitude, Sneaker Fortress, MSN, Flipboard, Thought Catalog, The Direct
Covers:  Entertainment News, Sneaker News, Lifestyle
Filmmaker. Chief of Fortress Entertainment - @FortressZA, @SneakerFortress, @23JumpmanStreet

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Jarrod Saunders’s Biography

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Jarrod Saunders is an award-winning creative director, filmmaker, and entertainment journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. As the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Fortress Entertainment — home to Fortress of Solitude, Sneaker Fortress, 23 Jumpman Street, and Lifestyle Fortress — he has spent nearly two decades building one of South Africa's leading pop culture media networks.

He began his career as a film and gaming critic for Vision Magazine in 2007 and has since written thousands of artic…

Jarrod Saunders’s Journalist Portfolio

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Cape Town 48hr Film Project - The Prospects

Cape Town 48hr Film Project - The Prospects

The Prospects - A man claiming to be a time-traveler is interrogated by a South African police officer during…

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James Gunn's 'Superman' Draws Inspiration From These 3 Japanese Classics

James Gunn's 'Superman' Draws Inspiration From These 3 Japanese Classics

Director James Gunn isn't just rebooting Superman for the DCU, he's Frankensteining it with love, using parts…

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James Gunn's Superman Drops Its Tarantino Inspiration At The Last Minute

James Gunn's Superman Drops Its Tarantino Inspiration At The Last Minute

James Gunn cut a Tarantino-style structure from Superman during final edits just weeks before release.

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'I'll Take 3 Weeks at #1 Over Good Reviews Any Day': The War of the Worlds Producer Has Zero Regr...

'I'll Take 3 Weeks at #1 Over Good Reviews Any Day': The War of the Worlds Producer Has Zero Regr...

Critics trashed War of the Worlds, but Timur Bekmambetov says the film's run at No. 1 on Prime Video means fa…

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Shrinking Just Gave Us TV's Best Sneaker Moment - And Harrison Ford's Jordan 3s Are Entirely to B...

Shrinking Just Gave Us TV's Best Sneaker Moment - And Harrison Ford's Jordan 3s Are Entirely to B...

Harrison Ford personally picked the Air Jordan 3 Doernbecher for Shrinking Season 3 - and it's TV's most mean…

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She Was Dr. Quinn 33 Years Ago. At 75, Jane Seymour Is Putting Women Half Her Age to Shame

She Was Dr. Quinn 33 Years Ago. At 75, Jane Seymour Is Putting Women Half Her Age to Shame

At 75, Jane Seymour looks half her age and says she's busier than ever. No surgery, no fad diets - just one s…

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God of War TV Show Recasts Lead Actor, But Fans Think They Know the Real Reason

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By Jarrod Saunders
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Deadline has reported that actor Ryan Hurst won’t be the one carrying the Blades of Chaos when Amazon Prime Video’s live-action adaptation of God of War resumes filming. The actor has, unfortunately, had to step down from the role after he tore his bicep while performing a stunt for the show. The injury was so serious that it required surgery and will render him unfit to continue in the role for at least another year. So God of War‘s Kratos needs to be recast.
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Christopher Reeve Pitched a Superman Cameo in Batman ’89 — And Warner Bros. Laughed Him Off

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By Jarrod Saunders
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Long before James Gunn began introducing and tying together all the DC comic book characters and locations in the DCU, Superman actor Christopher Reeve tried to do it himself with a single joke pitched at a dinner table. During a time when shared comic book universes didn’t exist, Reeve stood in front of a crowd at the 1994 Dixie Trek convention and revealed that he actually pitched the idea of a Superman cameo while Tim Burton’s Batman was in production.
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Anne Hathaway Says She’s Dory in Hilarious Finding Nemo Comparison to The Odyssey

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By Jarrod Saunders
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been sold as an IMAX-scale epic starring Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope. But while the film adapts Homer’s ancient Greek poem, British TV host Lindsey Russell boiled down the entire plot to something any 5-year-old would recognize: Finding Nemo.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Movie critic for Vision Magazine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Clark Kent?