Zach Cregger on his 'Resident Evil' movie 🧟♂️
"I wanted this movie to tell the story of what would happen if some idiot like me were dropped into the world of a Resident Evil game. So Austin plays not some badass with combat experience like Leon but just an average dude. That makes his experience of moving through this hellscape way more interesting to me than somebody who’s psychologically equipped"
"A pistol [is] the first weapon he acquires in the movie. Just like in the games, as he progresses through the world he’ll get better weapons. It’s such a fun moment when you’re playing RE and you finally get the shotgun or the machine gun and I wanted that sense of progression to be in the movie"
"Resident Evil is of course a franchise that’s got a ton of zombies but it’s also got all sorts of weirder monstrosities. Really wanted to make sure that we never got a handle on what kind of dangers we’d find. It’s not just a zombie movie. The T-Virus can have a lot of different effects and I wanted to make sure we had a variety of adversaries"
"The slow discovery of horrific elements is something I really love about Resident Evil. It’s not a run and gun action game. It’s about tension and atmosphere and so I really wanted to lean into that. As much as there’s plenty of action in the movie it’s equally important to honor the dread. That moment when you look down a dark passage and you know something awful is waiting in that darkness for you. You don’t want to go forwards but you can’t go back. That’s the sweet spot"
Jeremy Hansen became an astronaut in 2009. He waited 17 years to go to space. His first trip off Earth is a flight around the Moon.
He grew up on a farm near a small town in Ontario, Canada. As a kid, he saw a photograph of Neil Armstrong standing on the lunar surface and wondered what it would feel like to be up there. He joined the Air Cadets at 12. Earned his glider wings at 16. Had his pilot's license at 17, before he could legally drink or vote in Canada.
He went to military college and studied space science. Got a master's in physics. Then he spent six years as a fighter pilot flying CF-18 Hornets (Canada's version of the F-18) out of Cold Lake, Alberta, protecting North American airspace under NORAD, the joint US-Canada defense system that monitors every aircraft entering the continent's skies. He flew Arctic missions. Logged more than 4,000 hours in the cockpit across 25 different aircraft.
The Canadian Space Agency picked him in 2009. Two spots opened up out of the entire country. He got one. Moved to Houston. Finished NASA's astronaut training in 2011.
Then he waited. And waited. Canada only gets a crew seat on the International Space Station about once every five or six years because of how funding is split among countries. His colleague David Saint-Jacques, who was selected the same year, flew to the station in 2018. Hansen kept training. He lived underground for six days in a cave in Sardinia, Italy. Spent a week on the ocean floor in a small habitat off the coast of Florida, simulating what deep space isolation feels like. Joined a geology expedition in the Canadian High Arctic, studying rock formations that look like the surface of the Moon. In 2017, NASA asked him to lead the training of an entire class of new astronauts, the first time they had ever given that job to someone who wasn't American. He did all of that without ever leaving Earth.
Canada earned its seat on Artemis II because of the Canadarm, the robotic arm that flew on every Space Shuttle mission for 30 years and now runs on the Space Station. Canada put roughly $2 billion toward building the next version for future Moon operations, and NASA gave them a crew spot on the first flight back. Hansen was the pick.
Five days ago, on April 1, he launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. His three crewmates, Wiseman, Glover, and Koch, have all been to space before. Hansen hadn't. His first time feeling weightlessness, his first time seeing Earth from outside it, his first time in a spacecraft at all, is a ten-day trip around the Moon, roughly 252,000 miles from home, farther than any human has ever traveled. He told reporters from orbit that it "makes me feel like a little kid." He is 50 years old, with three teenagers and a wife named Catherine, who is a doctor back in Houston.
On flight day one, as Orion swung back toward Earth before the engine burn that would send them to the Moon, Hansen turned to his commander and said, "It feels like we're going to hit it. It's amazing that we're actually going to go around and miss this thing."
Hegseth tells us that every soldier he’s spoken to overseas told him they support the war, as if some corporal is going to say something different to SecDef with his Sgt Maj, Company Commander and Commanding General standing right there. Dog & pony shows as old as the military.
CALL TO ACTION:
Tell President Trump, your Congressional Rep, & your Senators that you don't support American boots on the ground in Iran.
White House Comment Line:
(202) 456-1111
Congress Switchboard:
(202) 224-3121
This is how We the People make our voices heard. 🇺🇸
Joe Kent is a heavily decorated combat veteran who served with the 75th Ranger Regiment and U.S. Special Forces. He served eleven combat tours, primarily in Iraq, and retired in 2018, becoming a paramilitary officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His wife, Senior Chief Shannon M. Kent, was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria in 2019. I very much doubt that he was leaking anything, and I think it’s disgusting that members of the Trump Administration would attempt to circulate something like that without providing any kind of evidence, all because he decided to resign in protest of yet another war - which he has seen plenty of - in the Middle East.
In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails showing the face of war and recounting it through the eyes of victims.
Patrick Ricard on what blocking for Cam Skattebo will look like:
"It's going to look like a lot of yards and a lot of touchdowns. It's gonna be physicality all over the place. It's gonna just be exactly what the people want to see"
@bryan_johnson English Mastiff should be one - perfect balance to a more energetic breed. Wants to lay on the couch (on you) like a lump on a log most days. About 200lbs.
#Platoon director Oliver Stone says Americans “haven’t learned anything from Vietnam.”
“It’s just ridiculous that we’re back in this state of loving war again,” he tells Variety. “We just continue to militarize and build up our defense budget. We continued to dominate and bully and threaten. The war in Iraq was the greatest disaster since Vietnam. George Bush, the worst single president we’ve ever had. What did Iraq get us? It drained our wealth and made us callous as a nation. And now Mr. Trump is [starting] a war in Iran, and he’s playing the same game with Cuba and Venezuela. It’s like the Roman Empire. We never learn our lesson.”
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