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IN THIS ISSUETHIS MONTH AT EMPIRECover: Illustration by Jacey This page: Illustration by David Mahoney THE WORLD HAS officially gone mad. It’s turned upside down. It’s wearing its skin inside out. And everything we thought we knew, we don’t know. The bad guys are the good guys. Or still the bad guys, sitting in the good guys’ chair. Life should be easier, somehow. The greys should be splashed over by the whites and the blacks. Thankfully, for us, there is one place where the good old villain is still, without debate, a bad old villain. Where the guy with the breathing issues and black helmet is on the wrong side, and there he’ll remain. For me, the simple structure of heroes and villains offered up by the cinematic world is something I can cling on…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETHIS MONTH AT EMPIRETHE WORLD HAS officially gone mad. It’s turned upside down. It’s wearing its skin inside out. And everything we thought we knew, we don’t know. The bad guys are the good guys. Or still the bad guys, sitting in the good guys’ chair. Life should be easier, somehow. The greys should be splashed over by the whites and the blacks. Thankfully, for us, there is one place where the good old villain is still, without debate, a bad old villain. Where the guy with the breathing issues and black helmet is on the wrong side, and there he’ll remain. For me, the simple structure of heroes and villains offered up by the cinematic world is something I can cling on to when I can’t quite see the world through the…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETALK TO USON MORTAL ENGINESWHEN THERE’S ONE BOOK YOU ALWAYS WISHED COULD OR WOULD BE TURNED INTO A LIVE-ACTION MOVIE... WELL, THIS IS BOTH MINE AND MY ELDEST DAUGHTER’S!GORDON BEATTIEPORGS UNLEASHEDThe Last Jedi — what’s with the invasive species? Sure, Porgs are cute. But so are Tribbles. Scotland’s Northern Lighthouse Board would never allow one of their ships to pick up an infestation the way Chewbacca does on the Millennium Falcon. What’s going to happen when they pitch up at a compatible planet? It’ll be an ecological disaster of the first order!RUTH LEWIS, VIA EMAILHopefully Episode X will be about a Jawa animal-control officer trying to catch it with a net.YE OLDE MIX-UPI read with excitement Jimi Famurewa’s article on the new Mary Queen Of Scots film, my interest piqued in no…1 min

IN THIS ISSUECOMMENT OF THE MONTHREADER, SHE MARRIED HIMI’ve been an avid reader of Empire since my university days 12 years ago, which is where I met my husband-to-be. We got married on 22 September, and I thought you might like to see photos from the wedding. As I was having my hair and make-up done I had that month’s Empire to peruse — reading Snoke conspiracy theories really calms a girl down! I walked down the aisle to Hans Zimmer’s You’re So Cool theme from True Romance and throughout the day we had themes from Harry Potter, Star Wars and Jurassic Park. Our tables naturally had film names and our table was dedicated to Empire’s Film Of The Year 2016 — Hunt For The Wilderpeople. Thank you all for doing a fantastic job —…1 min

IN THIS ISSUETALK TO USON MORTAL ENGINES WHEN THERE’S ONE BOOK YOU ALWAYS WISHED COULD OR WOULD BE TURNED INTO A LIVE-ACTION MOVIE... WELL, THIS IS BOTH MINE AND MY ELDEST DAUGHTER’S! GORDON BEATTIE PORGS UNLEASHED The Last Jedi — what’s with the invasive species? Sure, Porgs are cute. But so are Tribbles. Scotland’s Northern Lighthouse Board would never allow one of their ships to pick up an infestation the way Chewbacca does on the Millennium Falcon. What’s going to happen when they pitch up at a compatible planet? It’ll be an ecological disaster of the first order! RUTH LEWIS, VIA EMAIL Hopefully Episode X will be about a Jawa animal-control officer trying to catch it with a net. YE OLDE MIX-UP I read with excitement Jimi Famurewa’s article on the new Mary Queen…1 min

PRE.VIEWRaising the stakesBEFORE INTENSE CARTEL thriller Sicario had even reached the screens in 2015, a follow-up was already being mooted. Talk of a sequel began “about three-quarters of the way through making the first one,” says producer Ed McDonnell. “We loved the story so much and everybody embraced the characters,” he says of the original. Starring Emily Blunt as an FBI agent drowning in murky moral waters, critics and audiences alike were taken by the cartel thriller’s unflinching brutality, gorgeous cinematography and unconventional structure, while it made industry darlings of director Denis Villeneuve and writer Taylor Sheridan.As talks progressed, though, Villeneuve found himself otherwise engaged on 2049-shaped things. “He wishes he had been available,” says McDonnell. “We even talked about him maybe coming back for the third one, should there be one.…2 min

Issue March 2018 - Empire (2024)

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