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Lin-Manuel Miranda almost took flight as Adrien Toomes/Vulture in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The acclaimed creator of Hamilton and In the Heights revealed that Kevin Feige personally offered him the villain role in Spider-Man: Homecoming. The Marvel Studios head honcho told him the entire plot of the movie over the phone as Miranda was nearing the end of tenure as Alexander Hamilton on Broadway in the summer of 2016.

Could The End of Oak Street be hiding a connection to the Cloverfield franchise? That's the question fans have been asking ever since the upcoming sci-fi thriller was announced. Now, director David Robert Mitchell is shedding some light on one of the movie's biggest mysteries—though he's keeping plenty of secrets. Speaking with SFX Magazine, Mitchell addressed speculation that The End of Oak Street is secretly part of J.J. Abrams' interconnected Cloverfield universe.

It's hard to imagine anyone other than the late Sam Neill playing paleontologist Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, but he was not director Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role. The filmmaker actually hoped to reunite with Indiana Jones collaborator, Harrison Ford, who politely declined after reading the script, stating it wasn't his "cup of tea," Spielberg recalled in Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History.

The original Twilight Zone has no shortage of creepy moments—from the big reveal in "Eye of the Beholder" to Talky Tina's ominous threats in "Living Doll." One of the anthology’s most unsettling moments comes in season three's "The Jungle,” when a taxi driver suddenly collapses behind the wheel.

Steven Spielberg is paying tribute to Sam Neill. After the Jurassic Park actor died July 13 at age 78, the director spoke out to honor Neill, who passed away in Australia from a sudden illness.

Since Billy West talks for a living, it never really crossed his mind to pursue a career in writing. But then COVID happened. "I wasn't going to just sit there and do nothing for two years, because I couldn't go to a studio," the prolific voice actor known for Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Space Jam, Futurama recently told SYFY Wire over the phone.

Even the best ideas can sometimes start out a little wonky. Take, for instance, the season two episode of The Twilight Zone, "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?". Series creator and host Rod Serling first pitched the story in 1958, a year prior to the show's CBS debut, to the network's head of West Coast programming, William Dozier.

Star City has revealed humanity landed on Venus long before Mars.

The Dark Crystal may not have been possible without a little help from the galaxy far, far away. As Jim Henson was developing his ambitious and cult favorite tour-de-force of practical puppetry, he received a request from producer Gary Kurtz to consult on the creation of wizened Jedi Master Yoda for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms may venture outside the realm. After scoring nine 2026 Emmy nominations—including Best Drama Series—the Game of Thrones spinoff’s future is looking brighter than ever, begging the question if the series will go beyond the source material in George R. R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg.