Star Trek: Discovery boldy arrives! Arrested Development is coming back, The Dark Crystal is revived, and Okja trailer footage!
Star Trek: Discovery is back on tv! Plus big Netflix announcements on Arrested Development and The Dark Crystal! Plus Okja is ready to debut! Check it all out below!
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Star Trek: Discovery
These are the voyages of the USS Discovery! The first trailer for the highly anticipated series, Star Trek: Discovery, arrived this week! The series is set in a pre-Kirk era, and follows first officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin Green) and Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs). The trailer looks amazing, plenty of space action, aliens, and mystery. The series will have 15 episodes in this initial season. Star Trek: Discovery debuts this fall on CBS All Access.
Arrested Development
Never nudes rejoice! The Bluth family will return for season five on Netfilx in 2018. All original cast members are set to return, as well as creator Mitchell Hurwitz. No word on an official air date as of yet. Season five is about a year away at least, plenty of time to get the banana stand ready.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Big news from Netflix! The iconic 1982 film, The Dark Crystal, is getting the television treatment as a new series to appear on Netflix. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will be a prequel series, set decades before the events from the original film. It will feature state of the art puppets, not CGI! Set for 10 episodes, the series begins shooting this fall. Check out the teaser for the series here.
Okja
More Netflix goodies! Okja, the fantasy film by director Bong Joon-ho, premeires at Cannes this week, and Netflix has released a trailer in advance. Take a look at the cute titular character, Okja, here. Tilda Swinton stars as the evil creator of Okja, whom she designed to be eaten. The animal befriends a girl, Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun), and when they are separated Mija fights to get Okja back. The film will debut on Netflix June 28, and get limited theatrical release after.
Courtney Martin is a graduate of Indiana University and works in publishing. She’s an avid Star Wars fan and wrote the recipe blog Courtney Cooks Star Wars on suvudu.com. When not enveloped a science fiction or fantasy novel, she is watching television with her husband and son, doing crossword puzzles, or playing with her Shih Tzu, Burt.