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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mark Hamill Was Asked If Luke Will Appear In The Rey Movie, And His Response Was Unexpectedly Hilarious
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. If you were wondering how much Mark Hamill keeps up with upcoming Star Wars movies ever since Luke Skywalker died in The Last Jedi, this might be your answer. The former star of the franchise was asked about his character returning for the previously announced movie centered around Rey, and his unexpectedly hilarious response might've told us all we need to know. While we've seen Mark Hamill pop up a few times as Luke in Star Wars shows available with a Disney+ subscription, it appears his time in the movies may be coming to an end. caught up with the actor during his press tour for The Life Of Chuck, and asked him if he'd return as a Force Ghost in Daisy Ridley's return to the franchise. Surprisingly, the actor said he had no clue about the project: In what? Oh, I don't know about that. Now we play the game of whether or not Mark Hamill is being genuine, or he's doing the classic thing he's built a career on, and "acting." Was he oblivious to the fact Daisy Ridley was returning to Star Wars, or is he playing coy because he can't say anything of substance about his involvement? Disney+: from $9.99 a month w/ ad-supported planStar Wars is at home on Disney+, so pick up a subscription and catch up on all that's available. Wholesome entertainment for all the family, starting at $9.99 a month for its new ad-supported plan. Go ad-free and pay $15.99 a month or save 16% and pre-pay $159.99 for a Deal One thing that I would find hard to believe is that if Disney is bringing Rey back to the big screen, Mark Hamill would not be approached to reprise his role in the same way Alec Guinness served as the Force Ghost Obi-Wan for Luke. More On Star Wars 13 Star Wars Movie Facts You Probably Didn't Know Even if Mark Hamill said no to returning, and there's a chance he might have, considering his comments a couple of years back about going back to movies, but I can't imagine no one reached out to him with an offer. Star Wars fans love Luke Skywalker, and I would imagine it's expected that he'll be part of the fun. Perhaps we should prepare ourselves for the possibility that he's not involved? I think that it's hard to say. While it may be strange that Mark Hamill allegedly hasn't heard about this movie, it's worth noting that we still have a long way to go before the Rey movie is actually in theaters. The movie isn't on the 2026 slate and has not begun filming as of yet. I think it's fair to say there'd be no reason to bring Hamill into the mix at this point, especially if his role is as minor as a Force Ghost in the picture. We will see for sure whenever filming for the Rey movie actually gets rolling. Before that, now would be a great time to watch every Star Wars movie in order, as we prepare for the grand return to theaters with The Mandalorian and Grogu, which is out in 2026.
Metro
6 days ago
- Metro
New train spans 745 miles linking five European countries — and tickets are £40
A brand-new sleeper train is set to connect five European countries in one route for the first time, spanning an impressive 745 miles. Starting in the Polish capital of Warsaw, the new link will run all the way to the Croatian city of Rijeka, known for its glistening beaches, waterfalls, and 13th-century castle. It'll pass through multiple cities along the way, including Opoczno, Katowice, Rybnik, Chałupki, Vienna, Ljubljana, Postojna, and Opatija. At the moment, train travellers journeying from Warsaw to Rijeka can't travel directly; instead, they currently need to swap services three times (in Breclav, Graz, and Zagreb), an arduous option that can end up taking more than 30 hours. Yawn. It might still take 19 hours from door to door, rolling out of Warsaw at 2.00pm and calling at Rijeka at 9.00am the next day, but the new PKP Intercity service will shorten the journey drastically, shaving off more than a third of the current travel time. Fuel your wanderlust with our curated newsletter of travel deals, guides and inspiration. Sign up here. Tickets will be relatively affordable, with prices starting around 200 Polish złoty (£39.53). Interested? Services will be running four times a week during the summer months, operating on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. The first is scheduled in just under a month's time, departing Warsaw on Friday, June 27, while the final routes will take place at the end of August, leaving Warsaw on August 29 and Rijeka on August 31. The path itself is guaranteed to be packed with breathtaking scenery, passing through the diverse landscapes of Poland, Czechia, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. More Trending Though it doesn't stop at any Czech destinations along the way, it'll stop at Vienna at roughly 10.00pm, where a few carriages will diverge and head off directly to Croatia on a different route. Reaching Slovenia just after midnight, the train will partner up with the Istria service – which starts in Budapest – and plod on towards Croatia just in time for breakfast. Warsaw, Poland Opoczno, Poland Katowice, Poland Rybnik, Poland Chałupki, Poland Vienna, Austria Ljubljana, Slovenia Postojna, Slovenia Opatija, Croatia Rijeka, Croatia. Passengers will be able to travel in style too, as the carriages are fully air-conditioned, with couchette cars available with beds. Sheets will be fully provided, so you needn't pack your sleeping bag. Feeling peckish? There'll be a dining car serving up hot food between Warsaw and Vienna, while passengers living it up in the couchette cars will have a Wars staff member on hand to assist them throughout their voyage. This isn't the only new train journey on the block. A service between Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok will be returning by the end of 2025, building on the existing infrastructure that once operated between the two cities and destinations including Padang Besar and Butterworth. Malaysia's transport minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook confirmed that the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTM) and the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) would be looking at plans over the next few months. And closer to home, a new 'Tube for Europe' could completely revolutionise travel across the continent, connecting 39 stations, with at least one in every country along five main routes. The proposals for the Starline service envisage that replacing short-haul flights with a high-speed rail network could slice emissions by a whopping 95%, while a total of 424 major cities will be connected to ports, airports and rail. Do you have a story to share? Get in touch by emailing MetroLifestyleTeam@ MORE: I thought British holidays were boring, but this underrated island changed my mind MORE: EasyJet launches new holidays to 'charming' but underrated Italian seaside destination MORE: Europe's first airport Five Guys to open in UK's busiest travel hub
Mint
27-05-2025
- General
- Mint
What really happens to everything you recycle
Waste Wars. By Alexander Clapp. Little, Brown; 400 pages; $32. John Murray; £25 What happens to that single-use plastic bottle after you, a conscientious citizen, place it in a recycling bin? Most people, if they think about it at all, assume it really will be recycled, probably at a facility not far away. Much more likely is that the bin is only the departure point on a long journey to the other side of the world, where that bottle will, at best, be washed, dried, sorted by material, turned into pellets and then reconstituted into something flimsier, such as packaging. Consider that a victory. If it is packaging itself that has been chucked, it will probably end up as a filthy form of fuel, powering the production of cement or even tofu. Or it may go all the way just to sit in Asia or Africa, blighting the landscape, clogging rivers, entering the ocean, being swallowed by marine life—and perhaps finding its way, via the global fish trade, back into your home and even into your body. It is recycling, but not as people traditionally think of it. The broad facts of the fiction of recycling are no secret. But Alexander Clapp, a journalist (who has contributed to 1843, The Economist's sister publication), does something engrossing, if not entirely appealing, in his book. He follows rubbish, travelling to some of the world's most unpleasant places to chronicle the effects of consumption: villages in Indonesia buried under mountains of Western plastic, a ship-breaking yard in Turkey where men tear apart the toxic hulls of American cruise ships with hand tools, a fetid slum in Ghana where migrants extract valuable metals from the rich world's discarded computers and mobile phones. 'Waste Wars" also contains jaw-dropping but forgotten stories, such as that of the Khian Sea, a vessel carrying a season's worth of ash from garbage incinerators in Philadelphia, which set sail for the Bahamas in 1986. The ship and its toxic cargo were denied entry, forcing the crew to look for alternative dumping sites. After 27 months of being turned away from every conceivable port, it arrived in Asia with an empty hold. The captain admitted years later to dumping the ash in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Mr Clapp's aim is not just to display his ample reporting chops, but to trace the rise of a controversial form of globalisation: the growth of the global trade in waste. As Western countries put in place stricter environmental regulation, the job of disposing of their waste fell to poorer ones. Take the ostensibly green European Union: in 2021 it produced 16m tonnes of plastic waste, less than half of which was recycled within its borders. Some exports are well-meaning and welcomed. Used electronics arrived in Ghana as donations to bring people online. China imported plastic waste to use as feedstock. Turkey turned imported scrap metal into highways and skyscrapers. Some of the steel from New York's twin towers, shipped to India as scrap metal, now holds up several buildings, including a college and textile showroom. But too many transactions are exploitative and even dishonest. Shipments of supposedly recyclable paper have turned out to be full of dirty plastic. Diapers soiled by American infants have arrived in batches of supposedly recyclable plastics to stink up the outskirts of Beijing. The Basel Convention, which came into effect in 1992, dealt with the shipment of hazardous waste but left plenty of loopholes. Poor countries have been trying to stop the flood ever since. In 2017 China, which then received half the world's plastic waste bound for recycling, banned its import. Much of that waste travelled to South-East Asia instead. Similar bans in Thailand and Indonesia went into effect this year, fuelled by environmental concerns. If they are enforced, the garbage will find its way somewhere else, such as Malaysia, another big recipient of plastic. Trash talk What is to be done? In a world where humans produce their own weight in new plastic annually, there are no easy solutions. After hundreds of pages describing the problem, Mr Clapp is light on prescriptions. He suggests making rich-world companies financially liable for 'the fate of that which they insist on overproducing". He points the finger of blame at globalisation, weak international co-operation and Western overproduction. There are problems with this. The first is that tightening regulation in the West will only make countries more likely to find workarounds involving poor ones. Global action is also probably a non-starter at a time when long-standing alliances are being tested. As America withdraws from the Paris Agreement (again) and guts the Environmental Protection Agency, the idea that it would impose measures to prevent the export of waste or require firms to do more for the environment globally is unrealistic. Meanwhile, Mr Clapp barely mentions China's role as a manufacturing power, as though importing Western waste absolves it of its own sins of overproducing cheap goods. To portray China as a faultless victim is wrong. At times Mr Clapp's rhetoric sounds suspiciously like a call for de-growth. It is all very well to tell Americans to be less wasteful. But try telling that to the hundreds of millions of Asians emerging from poverty and buying consumer goods for the first time. The West has spent centuries lecturing the East on what is good for it. 'Don't be like us," however well-intentioned, rings the same discordant note. For more on the latest books, films, TV shows, albums and controversies, sign up to Plot Twist, our weekly subscriber-only newsletter
Hypebeast
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
SAG-AFTRA Files Complaint Against 'Fortnite' Over AI Recreation of James Earl Jones' Darth Vader Voice
Summary Epic Games'Fortniteis facing a complaint fromSAG-AFTRAover its use of AI to recreate the lateJames Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice. As perVariety, the recreated voice was done for the game's recentStar Wars-themed Battle Royale mini-season. The actors union further stated that Epic's Llama Productions 'chose to replace the work of human performers with AI technology,' and 'did so without providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.' SAG-AFTRA has since filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. SAG-AFTRA shared in a statement, 'We celebrate the right of our members and their estates to control the use of their digital replicas and welcome the use of new technologies to allow new generations to share in the enjoyment of those legacies and renowned roles.' The union continued, 'However, we must protect our right to bargain terms and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our members, including those who previously did the work of matching Darth Vader's iconic rhythm and tone in video games.' The newest Battle Royale mini-season allows players to speak with Darth Vader via conversational AI. Disney shared that Epic 'securely processes the voice audio to generate Vader's responses, but audio and transcriptions of the conversation are not stored.' Prior to Jones' death in 2024, he had signed an agreement allowing the use of his archivalStar Warsvoice recordings for future Lucasfilm Epic Games were also given permission to use his voice forFortnite. 'James Earl felt that the voice of Darth Vader was inseparable from the story ofStar Wars, and he always wanted fans of all ages to continue to experience it,' the Jones family said in a statement. 'We hope that this collaboration withFortnitewill allow both longtime fans of Darth Vader and newer generations to share in the enjoyment of this iconic character.' Epic Games did not immediately respond for comment.
Business Insider
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
We compare Prime Hydration and Energy in the US and UK
From calorie count to portion sizes, we wanted to find all the differences between Prime in the US and UK. This is "Food Wars."
