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IN MOVIEMAKING THERE IS ONE GOD—AND FOR most of Hollywood history it has been blas- Is the Age of the phemous to suggest otherwise. That deity is the director, from whom all creation springs. But the balance of power can shift, and right now, producers are Director Over? increasingly seizing it. Lucasfilm’s abrupt removal of directors Phil Lord and For decades, directors have been the most powerful Christopher Miller (The LEGO Movie) from the Han Solo voice in film. But now, as Marvel and Lucasfilm dominate screens, it is often the producer who rules. film currently shooting in England calls to mind other By Anthony Breznican filmmakers who have either quit or been forced out of major studio films: Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) departed Marvel’s Ant-Man after eight years of develop- ment; Patty Jenkins left Thor: The Dark World during

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© 201202010 7, Hormoormememel FoFoodsoods LLCLLLLCL HEAT IT UP. EAT UIT. UP. Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy and Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige, among others, have elevated the role of producer into an artis- tic one, mapping out overarching and inter- connected story lines not just for one film but for entire extended universes. They

have often come to supplant the director as LTD.; LUCASFILM, © & TM FETT: BOBA OLLEY; JONATHAN GROUP: SOLO HAN JAY MAIDMENT/DISNEY; HEMSWORTH: PICTURES; BROS. WARNER GADOT: the dominant force in the filmmaking pro- cess, telling the stories while the directors execute them. In a way, movies are adapting a model pioneered in TV. Think of the creative ambi- tion of executive producers Shonda Rhimes on Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get LORD AND MILLER: BEN A. PRUCHNIE/GETTY IMAGES FOR WALT DISNEY STUDIOS; TRANK: ALBERT L. ORTEGA/GETTY IMAGES; MCLAREN: TODD WILL TODD MCLAREN: IMAGES; ORTEGA/GETTY L. ALBERT TRANK: STUDIOS; WALT DISNEY FOR IMAGES PRUCHNIE/GETTY A. BEN MILLER: AND LORD Away With Murder, or Ryan Murphy bringing his twisted sensibility to American Horror Story, American Crime Story, and Feud. Rhimes and Murphy are brands, and few would disagree that they’re artists. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the result of many stars and storytellers, but would it exist without Feige? Would Star Wars have rebounded (after the moribund  ( Clockwise from top left ) Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman; prequels ended in 2005) without Kennedy? Chris Hemsworth as Thor; Boba Fett; the cast of the Han Solo movie with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller To crib a line from Steve Jobs, these produc- ers don’t play the instruments, they play the orchestra. That may be ego-bruising for script development, instead taking on Wonder PRODUCERS VS. directors, but it’s hard to argue with results. Woman after Michelle MacLaren (Game of DIRECTORS Audiences are happy. Box office has been Thrones) left over her own creative differ- In the era of superheroes and strong. Critics have been generally positive. ences. And after the chaotic production of extended universes, producers win The exception had been the DC films, but Fantastic Four, Josh Trank dropped out, under last year, after poor reaction to Batman v SUPERPRODUCERS pressure, of a planned Boba Fett movie. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the studio

In animation, Pixar replaced directors on brought in comics veteran Geoff Johns and FILM; IN WOMEN FOR IMAGES DAVIS/GETTY MARK KENNEDY: IMAGES; BLANCHARD/GETTY JOSHUA FEIGE: Brave, The Good Dinosaur, and Ratatouille; and producer Jon Berg to provide guidance and DC’s upcoming movie version of The Flash unity. If Wonder Woman is any indication, has already lost two directors and one direct- they’re back on track. ing team. (In an ironic twist, that project KEVIN FEIGE KATHLEEN So where does this leave directors? Those Marvel Studios KENNEDY may now go to Lord and Miller. Ron Howard, president Lucasfilm who succeed in this new model can adapt to a president meanwhile, will take over the Han Solo film.) franchise’s existing tone and still maintain IAMSON/INVISION/AP IMAGES; WRIGHT: KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE KARWAI WRIGHT: IMAGES; IAMSON/INVISION/AP If all of this upheaval seems unusual, it is. DEPARTING DIRECTORS their creative freedom. James Gunn, for Ever since 1960s Hollywood, the “auteur example, did just that with the Guardians of theory” has held that the director is the the Galaxy movies. It’s also why J.J. Abrams author of a film, its single voice. That’s still (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Rian true for indie and mid-budget movies, of Johnson (Looper), writer-director of the next course, but those films are no longer the Star Wars film, The Last Jedi, have had little PHIL LORD AND JOSH TRANK core box office drivers. Of the 20 highest- CHRISTOPHER trouble thriving in the Lucasfilm atmosphere. grossing films last year, more than half were MILLER Sources close to Lord and Miller tell EW franchise installments and/or based on that the duo came aboard the Solo movie comic-book characters. Those 12 films alone expecting to make “a Phil and Chris film.” accounted for almost one-third of the total But when it comes to the Star Wars uni- tickets sold in 2016. And almost all of them verse, the one who wields the Force is were overseen by powerful producers. MICHELLE MACLAREN EDGAR WRIGHT Kathleen Kennedy.

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Next on Bachelor in Paradise After a scandal stopped production, filming on the reality series has resumed. Here’s what happens now. BY SAMANTHA HIGHFILL ••• On June 11, Warner Bros. announced that filming on the fourth season of ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise had come to a halt following allegations of miscon- duct, and the cast was sent home so that the studio could investigate an alleged sexual encounter between con- testants DeMario Jackson and Corinne Olympios. On June 20, Warner Bros. DESPICABLE ME 3 released a statement saying it had found no evidence of misconduct, and now a source close to the show confirms to

TREY PARKER’S DESPICABLE DEBUT EW that filming has resumed in Mexico, : ILLUMINATION/UNIVERSAL PICTURES (3); PARKER: DAVID LIVINGSTON/GETTY IMAGES; OLYMPIOS: MITCH HAASETH/ABC; DEMARIO: CRAIG SJODI adding that the production shutdown The South Park co-creator lends his voice to someone else’s animated

will be addressed when the series re- CANADIAN PRESS/AP MARKTRUDEAU: BLINCH/THE IMAGES; FIONA THE CINCINNATI HIPPO: ZOO; IMAGES THE TARA BABADOOK: ZIEMBA/GETTY movie for the first time—yes, really—in Despicable Me 3. BY MARC SNETIKER turns: “They’re real people with real feelings, so we’re not going to do any- With 25 years of the answer. For years, Parker, to characters like Stan, Cart- thing that is egregious or hurtful, but animation work and 47, believed that his associa- man, Mr. Garrison, and Randy we’ll certainly address the fact that the more than 500 char- tion with the lewd Comedy Marsh, but for DM3,hehad principal cast had to be sent home and acter voices under his belt, Central cartoon he co-created only one job—to act. “[1998’s] come back.” The show will air footage you’d think South Park with Matt Stone in 1997 BASEketball is the only other shot prior to the break in production, co-creator Trey Parker would rendered him incompatible thing I did where we didn’t have fielded hundreds of with most kids’ movies—”You write and direct, so it was according to the source, though there’s voice-over offers through the throw Trey Parker up there, definitely tables turned,” says no word on whether that footage will years. Or dozens. Or even... maybe some adults go, ‘Nuh- Parker. “The funny thing is, include Olympios or Jackson, neither of one? “This was the very first uh,’ ” he says—so taking the as a director on South Park whom is currently set to return. As for pitch I ever got,” Parker says opportunity to be Despicable I’m always telling people to new on-set regulations in light of the of his role as manic ’80s vil- was a no-brainer: “My daugh- do it bigger. And on the first scandal, “nobody wants to have another lain Balthazar Bratt in Despi- ter was 2 at the time, and day, they gave me the exact stop-down. It was horrible for everyone cable Me 3 (out June 30). “I I saw it as something I could same speech that I always involved, so we will take measures immediately thought, ‘Wow, do that she could actually give to actors: ‘Don’t get dis- to make sure that never happens.” someone actually asked me see.” The experience also couraged, but we’re probably to do something.’ I was really showed Parker a different going to ask you to bring the The season, originally slated to pre- flattered. And also I was like, side of himself as a per- energy level up.’ And I did miere Aug. 8, will now likely be pushed ‘Well, why the f--- has no former: On South Park he the first couple of Bratt’s lines until the week after the Bachelorette one ever asked me to do this wears the hats of writer, and they go, ‘Oh! Okay…so… finale, according to the source. before?!’” He already knows director, producer, and voice let’s bring it down a little bit?’ ” —Additional reporting by Robyn Ross

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Lennon Parham : MGM/PHOTOFEST; Jammers, rejoice! The Playing House costars are back for a third season of their hilarious and heartfelt USA series (Fridays, 11 p.m.)—and taking our totes kewl entertainment test. BY AMY WILKINSON CBC/PHOTOFEST; PARHAM AND ST. CLAIR: ROBIN VON SWANK/USA NETWORK; SWANK/USA VON ROBIN ST. CLAIR: AND PARHAM CBC/PHOTOFEST; HOME ALONE 1 3 4 A B If you could play house in a pop cul- Jessica, we learned in the season 3 You’ve both guest-starred on Parks “Clear eyes, “What you ture abode, it would be the one from: premiere that your character, Emma, and Recreation and Veep (albeit not full hearts, can’t talkin’ ’bout, : PHOTOFEST; has never seen Jurassic Park. Name at the same time). What other show lose” from Willis?” a big blockbuster you’ve never seen. would you both like to guest-star on Friday Night from Diff’rent (albeit not at the same time)? Lights Strokes DOWNTON ABBEY JESSICA Every single film. Most X X movies that are remotely scary I’ve had Lennon tell me the plot of. A B LENNON Jess is totally Friday Night I haven’t seen…what’s the one Gone With Home Alone Lights, a thousand percent. LIMITED/ & TELEVISION FILM BRIGGS/CARNIVAL : NICK the Wind with Bruce Willis? I know there’s JESSICA Anything that is related to X something about an ex-wife. Tami Taylor, that is what I’d like LENNON “I know there’s something to adopt in life. And Lennon’s about an ex-wife”? That’s your is “What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis?” description of Die Hard? She’s the quiet one in the corner JESSICA Does the building explode? that every time I’m telling a story

I’m sure it does. Right? LENNON Anne of Green Gables! and it doesn’t have any relation FRIDAY LIGHTS NIGHT C D I’d love to be the nosy neighbor to the truth, she tells everyone Downton Abbey It’s Complicated that gives Anne a mouthful and that’s not what happened. She’s X then gets puts in her place. like a New York Times fact-checker. JESSICA I’d like to be her head- LENNON Tara from Gone With the strong co-teacher when she goes REDIN; : VAN MASTERPIECE Wind, because I’m from Atlanta to Charlottesville. 6 and will never go hungry again. But probably the Tara in the Carol Which two celebrities do you consider #BFFgoals? STROKES DIFF’RENT Burnett sketch where I’m walking IMAGES; LOCCISANO/GETTY MICHAEL GARTEN: INA IMAGES; J HOGAN/GETTY DAVE ; ELBA: down the stairs with the curtains JESSICA Cameron Diaz and on my shoulders—a combination  of the South and comedy. Drew Barrymore. Their bodies Lennon be bangin’, and they’re boss

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TOM HOLLAND AS SPIDER-MAN OUR S TO GRYS ABENG ALL-TOO-FAMILIARINS WITH A MODERN TABLEAU: A TEENAGER olny hisrecording phone. eventsHe’s excited as theyl unfold in front of him before hed hputsho jump down into the thephone frame. to Of course, this is not exactly your averageParker, teen—he’sa.k.a. Spider-Man. Peter P And what he’s filming is the hAvengersk k he as stuffing they knoc outk tofhe one another on a tarmac in Berlin, a clash aofst titans year’s we witnessed in la Captain America: Civil War. But this time we’re hseeingfunique the perspective—through action from a u the eyes (and iPhone lens) yofunces a 15-y hisear-old presence who afterannou the off-camera cue “Underoos.” This is not a dddude dworri aboute danger, or one grappling with larger existential bquestionswer and responsibility. about great po Peterw simply can’t believe his good f ortune: thhhhat he hashe th eamazingse abilities, that he’s in this heady company, that hhe hhasds uit.a new Here souped-up is a kid whos is ready to have a good time. ¶ The (PREVIOUS SPREAD) COLUMBIA PICTURES sbamedf can be said of Spid deer-Man: Homecoming (July 7), which puts the youthful fizz and d pop backbk hintodventures the ad of our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. This nnewdl Spidbdey,om p Holland,layed by Toprovides vicarious thrills like never before. ““The h fact fhker that is 15 Peter allows Par mek to have fun with it,” says Homecoming director Jon Watts (C op Car), who also co-wrote the screenplay. “Yes, there’s a lot fdof dramadflbut moreand conflict, than anything, b it’s about, ‘If you were that age aan d coulldd ddohh whaatn he do? ca That would be really fun.’ ” SPIDEY SQUAD MEET THE WEBSLINGER’S NEW FRIENDS—AND FOES. BY SARA VILKOMERSON

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT NED LEEDS Laura Harrier JACOB BATALON and Holland; Jacob Batalon Peter’s best friend and and Holland; Jon Spidey secret keeper, Favreau, Holland, Ned feels at his most and Robert Downey confident in a fedora Jr.; Spider-Man in action and is almost as excited about Peter’s alter ego as Peter is.

MICHELLE ZENDAYA The Disney Channel star is nearly unrecog- nizable as the grungy Michelle, a snarky smarty-pants on Peter’s Academic Decathlon team.

FLASH TONY REVOLORI Traditionally a bullying jock, the The franchise has endured some growing new Flash is also a teammate on the pains of its own. Way back in 2002, Sony’s Academic Decathlon Spider-Man, directed by Sam Raimi and star- team, though he ring Tobey Maguire, had been an industry is always getting bested by Peter. revelation: the first film to surpass $100 mil- lion in its opening weekend. But a decade LIZ ALLAN later, the webslinger seemed to peter out (so LAURA HARRIER to speak). A 2012 reboot and its sequel, both One of the prettiest Homecoming picks up after the events of starring Andrew Garfield, met with declining girls at school and the object of Peter’s Civil War, with Peter itching to hang with his box office and critical shrugs. affection, she has mentor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), and Marvel, meanwhile, had not been able to an intense admiration for Spider-Man. save the world. Instead, he is sent home, get its mitts on its swinging boy hero. At the which means high school back in Queens. In time of the first movie, Marvel was not its AUNT MAY fact, Peter shares more DNA with John own studio, so Sony owned the rights to the MARISA TOMEI Hughes’ adolescent heroes than some Chris- character and held on to them with a vise grip. As Tony Stark topher Nolan crusader. While Spidey indeed As the years passed, Marvel would become a says, Peter has an unusually attractive ends up facing a supervillain, Vulture culture-shifting behemoth. With Iron Man in aunt, and the film (Michael Keaton), he is every bit as invested 2008, Marvel Studios launched a cinematic takes great pleasure in acknowledging it. in winning the favor of the girl he likes in universe populated by many of its most school (Laura Harrier). “That’s what being a famed characters—but not Spider-Man. ADRIAN TOOMES teenager is,” Watts says. “Everything is the In 2014, Sony and Marvel reached a deal. MICHAEL KEATON highest stakes. So whether it’s going to a Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, and The inverse of party, or talking to the person at school you then Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal sat down Stark in almost every way, Adrian has more have a crush on, or joining the Avengers to for lunch and built a bridge for Spidey to in common with fight a supervillain, it’s all at an 11. You cross. “I said, ‘Forget the two different corpo- Queens-bred Peter— even when they find haven’t learned to differentiate yet. That’s a rate giant studios involved,’ ” Feige says. themselves at odds.

(THIS SPREAD) HOLLAND: COLUMBIA (9) PICTURES PICTURES; ZLOTNICK/COLUMBIA CHUCK OTHERS: ALL big part of growing up.” “ ‘Wouldn’t this be cool?’ ”

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 21 It was. Two years later, Marvel and Sony care that you’re even a speck when you’re on gave comic-book fans what they’d always screen with Robert Downey Jr. is a tall order,” dreamed of: an Avengers movie with a new Pascal says. “It was magical from that very Spider-Man as its secret weapon. “We never first test.” The young Brit—19 at the time, thought of it as a third casting,” Feige says. now 21—had been dancing and acting since “When we introduced him in Civil War, it was childhood, starring in Billy Elliot on the West like—surprise! There’s been a Peter Parker End stage and in films like The Impossible. In here in this universe the whole time. You just him, the filmmakers found a kid who pos- hadn’t met him yet.” sessed the same infectious enthusiasm as his character. “He’s as excited to be playing Peter IT’S A BRIGHT, BLUE-SKY DAY IN SEPTEM- Parker as Peter Parker is about getting to be ber 2016, and the Homecoming team has taken Spider-Man,” Watts says. over New York City’s Staten Island Ferry for The fact that Holland could backflip on what will end up being one of the film’s big- command didn’t hurt either. “Oh yeah, he gest—and coolest—scenes (see below). Hol- does that stuff,” Downey says. “But what CLOCKWISE Logan Marshall- land, however, is not webbed up for duty. I remember is that Tom demonstrated a nat- Green and He’s nursing a tweaked knee. Toward the end ural internal conflict. It’s hard to get to the Holland; Michael Keaton; Jon Watts of a grueling production in which the former real meat and potatoes of what makes and Holland gymnast performed a mind-boggling number [a character] tick. I feel that he’s experienced of his own stunts, he managed to injure him- enough to be able to enjoy all the stuff that’s self in the most ordinary of ways. “I’ve done about to happen to him.” sat in my trailer and looked at each other like, so much dangerous stuff here,” he says It started happening to him a little faster ‘What is happening to our lives?’” Holland cheerfully, “and then when I do hurt myself, than anyone planned. Holland discovered says. “Jon is like, ‘I’m directing the next it’s just from falling down the stairs at home.” he’d been cast in the film on Instagram, Spider-Man, and I’ve only ever made one Marvel sifted through more than 7,000 thanks to an internet leak. The news broke movie.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude. I’m playing aspiring Spideys, so by the time Holland on a Friday, and by Monday he was on the Spider-Man, and I’m 19 years old.’ ” screen-tested with Downey, the powers that Civil War set. It was there he met his Home- More than a year later, he’s still just as be knew they had found someone special. coming director, Watts, who had gone wowed by the whole thing. “This has truly “Having the charisma to have the camera through his own long audition process. “We been a dream come true,” Holland says with

THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOMECOMING’S MOST SPINE-TINGLING SCENE. A FERRY TALE BY SARA VILKOMERSON

To stage Spider-Man and Vulture’s battle on the Staten Island Ferry, which is split in half during the fight, a third of the ferry was con- structed in Atlanta and was then digitally combined with footage from the actual thing. “The only real flaw is that [in our movie] there are cars on the ferry, and there haven’t been cars allowed since the ’90s,” director Jon Watts says. While other filmshavefeaturedthe ferry (think Working Girl or Trainwreck), Homecoming was the first to shoot on an actual vessel. Says Watts, “I like to think it’s because it’s Spider-Man and he’s a hometown hero.” such sincerity that you half expect him to put his hand over his heart. “The most surprising thing about it all is that it’s not only met my expectations but exceeded them.” To help prep, Holland briefly went under- cover at the Bronx High School of Science, attending classes by using his acting coach’s Cinematic Universe. “There’s a scroll [Mar- one else who could do it.” In Keaton’s hands, name as an alias. The film’s version of Peter’s vel] unrolled for me,” Watts says. “It’s the Vulture is deeply sympathetic (“Michael high school is populated by students—played MCU version of the history of time, and you won’t even call him a villain,” Feige says) and by newcomers—who, laudably, are as diverse can see where the events line up. It is amaz- yet still pretty intimidating. “He was terrify- as they would be in a real urban school. ing and begins with the beginning of time.” ing,” Holland says. “He basically came to set In many ways, Homecoming is a love letter In this film, Peter has grown up with that like, ‘I want to be the most badass villain to the Other New York City that exists timeline. He knows about the existence of Marvel has ever done.’ And that’s what he beyond the isle of Manhattan. As in the origi- Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America—and did.” Keaton also looks to be having the time nal ’60s comics in which he debuted, Peter is he vividly remembers how they saved his city of his life. “You think of him on [Tim Bur- an outer-borough kid, and Watts’ film pays from destruction. This is also true of Keaton’s ton’s 1989] Batman watching Jack Nicholson homage to that—from a soundtrack that fea- Adrian Toomes, a.k.a. Vulture. Toomes is a having so much fun and thinking, ‘Well, that tures Queens rockers the Ramones to a scene blue-collar businessman who runs a salvag- looks fun to do,’ ” Watts says. that includes an only–in–New York bodega ing company contracted to clean up the mess The movie created several full-circle cat and buildings tagged by spray-paint art. in Manhattan after the battle at the end of moments like that for the people who made (Sharp-eyed viewers will see the names of The Avengers—a huge, lucrative job. But he it. Watts was a student at NYU when the first former Spider-Man comic artists in the graf- loses it courtesy of Tony Stark. Tired of being Spider-Man was filming. He would sit and fiti sprawled across the rooftops.) “Peter the little guy who’s jerked around by the one- watch the bright lights blazing on the set Parker is from Queens,” Watts says. “All the percenters, Toomes decides to steal pieces of from his dorm room. And Feige, now one of other [Spider-Man] movies were in Times alien tech from the wreckage—and plan his the most powerful men in the film industry, Square or the Financial District. That’s the revenge. “Vulture is the first supervillain that was on that set as a young production execu- tourist version of New York City.” Peter encounters in the comics,” Watts says. tive just starting his Marvel career. “My first Manhattan represents the uptown play- “The idea of Vulture literally scavenging from week of being employed at Marvel, the script ground of Tony Stark and where the Avengers the battle scenes from those other movies to came in for [2002’s] Spider-Man,” he says. battled aliens in 2012’s The Avengers. Home- build his own arsenal felt very cool.” “That movie is what launched us and allowed coming picks at a thread from that blockbuster Especially when he’s played by a man who us to become Marvel Studios. Not to get too to set its plot in motion. Like all the Marvel knows his way around a superhero costume. sappy, but to have these 17 years bookended Studios films, the narrative of Homecoming “Kevin [Feige] and I basically stalked Michael by Spider-Man?” He pauses. “It feels amaz-

FERRY, KEATON: COLUMBIA PICTURES (2); MARSHALL-GREEN AND HOLLAND, WATTS AND HOLLAND: AND CHUCK PICTURES ZLOTNICK/COLUMBIA (2) HOLLAND, WATTS AND COLUMBIA MARSHALL-GREEN PICTURES (2); KEATON: FERRY, syncs up with every other film in the Marvel Keaton,” Pascal says. “We knew there was no ing.” A homecoming, indeed.

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EW TAKES YOU INSIDE THE RING OF NETFLIX’S Bashir Salahuddin and Alison Brie

DELIGHTFULLY AUDACIOUS ’80S WRESTLING SHOW. By Kelly Connolly @_KELLYQ ESPITE WHAT YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, women don’t GLOW without a little sweat. Net- flix’s buzzy new comedy—inspired by the real-life Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a televised female-wrestling showcase that ran in the late ’80s—is a bruiser encased in spandex and hair- spray. In one corner: Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), an aspiring actress who claws her way into a wrestling pilot despite knowing nothing about the sport. In the other: the friend she betrayed, Debbie Eagan (Betty Gilpin), a former soap opera queen who’s spurred to take control of her life—and deliver a few smackdowns—after Ruth has an affair with her husband. Debbie takes on the role of all-American hero opposite Ruth’s communist Cold War heel, and their best-friend breakup bleeds into the ring. “Halfway through shooting,” Brie recalls, “I realized and said to Betty, ‘You know, we are the will-they-or-won’t-they of the show.’” In that dynamic, Ruth is difficult to root for but impossible to root against, and costar Marc Maron, who plays the director whose quest to film the pilot serves as the season’s backbone, credits Brie with pulling off such a contradictory role. “That weird balance of desperation and persistence and charm—earnest charm—it’s a tough character to put together,” he says. Unlike Maron’s Sam Sylvia, who instructs the wrestlers on the show- ALL THAT GLITTERS within-the-show to masquerade as stereotypes, GLOW trusts fans to relate to the women in all their complexity. “It’s a great time for a show that  Costume designer Beth Morgan flexed her muscles pumps up women and reminds them what they’re capable of,” says Brie. to keep the show’s fashion grounded—despite its being set in the decade of more is more. For the charac- Judging by the series’ knockout debut, viewers feel the same. “The thing ters’ street style, Morgan looked to magazines, family that’s so cool is everyone’s watching the show and seeming to get what we photos, and two 1985 films, A Chorus Line and Girls Just intended,” says executive producer Carly Mensch. Fellow EP Liz Flahive Want to Have Fun. As Morgan explains, the women says she’s relieved the details aren’t being lost in the rush to binge the of GLOW “maybe don’t have the means to get amazing 10-episode first season: “People are paying attention to the big shiny wres- things, but they have the creativity and the grit to put tling stuff and also the tiny, tiny moments.” EW talked to the creative minds great stuff together.” That creativity also manifested in behind GLOW to get the scoop on how those moments—from the killer the wrestlers’ dazzling DIY costumes. Here, Morgan takes us behind the seams of four knockouts. 1980s soundtrack to Debbie’s glorious costume reveal—keep fans coming back to the pink-roped ring.

WALKMAN 1 234 REWIND “SEPARATE WAYS “HEAD OVER HEELS,” “DARE,” STAN BUSH “INVINCIBLE,”  GLOW turns up the volume with (WORLDS APART),” TEARS FOR FEARS EPISODE 7 “Live Studio PAT BENATAR a neon-hot soundtrack—just JOURNEY EPISODE 5 “Debbie Does Audience” EPISODE 10 “Money’s in don’t mistake that heat for lack of EPISODE 1 “Pilot” Something” One of the show’s the Chase” heart. “There’s so much ironic Sam’s vision of Ruth GLOW goes John editors suggested set- For Ruth and Debbie’s about the ’80s now. I didn’t want and Debbie’s fierce Hughes when teen ting Ruth and Debbie’s epic battle in the fight—and what his Justine (Britt Baron) training montage finale, Gilbert saw this

to be part of that,” says music super- (PREVIOUS SPREAD) ERICA PARISE/NETFLIX fledgling GLOW could locks eyes with her to the song (from the fist-pumper as “a visor Bruce Gilbert. “I felt like the be—almost sounded pizza-boy crush, and soundtrack to 1986’s bookend to Journey at music had to land so you could take a lot more dramatic. Gil- this nostalgic favorite animated The Trans- the top of the season.” these characters seriously, even bert considered some gives the scene formers: The Movie), He’s happy to have though you were having the time of “unexpected” options, emotional heft. “It’s and Gilbert was played a part in the your life with them.” To avoid an like opera or a choral cute and it’s kind of surprised to find it melding of scene and piece, for the slo-mo funny, but you’re also brought the right inten- song, but in the end ’80s-jukebox vibe, Gilbert relied on fantasy sequence. taking her perspective sity. “That song is he admits, “You can’t a handful of deliberately placed But “Separate Ways” fit seriously,” Gilbert says. weirdly inspiring,” he take much credit classics to set the mood. Here’s like spandex: “It soars “You feel like you’re says. “You feel like for it because it’s how a few standouts made the cut. and expands,” he says. watching a movie.” you’re making progress.” ‘Invincible.’ ”

26 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017  ZOYA THE DESTROYA/RUT H ALISON BRIE ( As seen on previous spread ) Morgan imagines Method actress Ruth researching her villainous Russian alter ego as if she were “doing a Chekhov play.” Her wool coat is thee type Ruth could track down at an Army-Navy surplus, but once it comes off, looking “like a badasss” is still top-priority. The high collaar on Zoya’s leotard mirrors a soldier’s collar, while her sleeves evoke gloves tough enough to LIBERTY BELLE/DEBBI E withstand a Moscow winter. BETTYBETTY GILGILPINPIN To create an ensemble fit for a soap star, Morgan took inspiration from divas like Dolly Parton and Cher— then packed their glitz into a costume compact enough to hide under street clothes. Details like gauntlets were scrapped; jewelry was retooled to work for both out- fits. What’s left is a shimmery leotard with a heavy bodice remi- niscent of armor. “She’s our hero,” Morgan says. “She’s America.”

SHEILA THE SHE-WOLF GAYLE RANKIN Unlike her fellow wrestlers, Sheila wears her identity—and costume—in and out of the ring. JUNK CHAIN/CHERRY “It’s all hand-knit pieces inter- SYDELLE NOEL woven with fur and then put on Like the terry-cloth jumpers she wears to work a corset, and then I hand-stitched out, Cherry’s gold bodysuit is a callback to over it,” explains Morgan, who a decade gone by. “She’s locked in her heyday worked hand-in-paw with Rankin of the mid-’70s blaxploitation,” Morgan says. on the look. “We made sure to “It makes her feel like she’s from another time leave some pieces, like it’s not from some of the girls.” Fashion, after all, finished. Like she hasn’t totally traveled more slowly in the days when GLOW- finished her transformation.” bot was the height of technology.

TV audiences actually meet the very, very complicated, and NEXT UP IN outrageous personas that Sam it’s a long road. We wanted to (Marc Maron) has bestowed upon signal that we knew that the THE RING! the wrestlers. “It means one thing trauma to that friendship was to play a stereotype in practice,” deep, and we’re excited to  SEASON 1 OF GLOW says Mensch. “It means another explore more.” concludes with the wrestling pilot thing to play it on television.” But don’t look to the real-life finally airing, and co-creators Outside of the ring, one of the GLOW for any clues to a Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch say most pressing questions raised by possible second season. “We the neon is just warming up. the finale is the fragile status of knew pretty early we wanted “Honestly, we take it so slow in the show’s central frenemyship. to split from the original season 1—they’ve shot a pilot in Debbie’s final line to Ruth before and create our own fictional front of an audience, but it hasn’t the credits roll—“We’re not there version, so we’re kind of on our gone beyond that in terms of peo- yet”—isn't exactly how viewers own,” Mensch says. “We’re ple watching,” Flahive explains. expect a show to wrap up. “Just done with the ‘learning the “The idea of how these characters because a television season ends basics’ part of the show. What’s are in the world and how that hits after 10 episodes, that doesn’t next is the big question mark. our women will be an interesting mean that that’s all water under But we’re definitely not going part of our story.” Case in point: the bridge,” says Mensch. Flahive back. We’re going forward.”

: ERICA PARISE/NETFLIX (4); SKETCHES: COSTUME DESIGNER: BETH MORGAN, Expect big reverberations when adds, “Female friendships are —MARC SNETIKER Marc Maron and GLOW contenders GLOW COSTUME ILLUSTRATOR: KAREN YAN/COURTESY OF NETFLIX OF COSTUME KAREN (4) ILLUSTRATOR: YAN/COURTESY

Additional reporting by Sara Vilkomerson JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 27 For decades, she has epitomized spitfire wit and emotional grit. The Oscar winner, now in The Big Sick, reflects on her career of positively true adventures.

BY Joe McGovern @jmcgvrn

At a nearly empty restaurant in Brooklyn, a waiter nervously approaches the petite woman with long, wheaty-blond hair. “Miss Hunter, as soon as I heard you speak,” he tells her with ashakeinhisdelivery,“I knewit was you.” He’s not alone. Holly Hunter’s voice—that dazzling, invigorating Georgia twang—could have limited her 37-year career, but she tricked that assumed weakness into an invin- cible strength. Her first big break came in 1982 when she replaced Mary Beth Hurt in Crimes of the Heart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Beth Henley. “I kinda had a backdoor Broadway debut,” she says. “I was able to sneak in and learn on the job in a way that was a little less noticed.” Two audience members did noticeher,however:upstart filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who would cast Hunter in Raising Arizona five years later. Physically diminutive but possessing a towering intensity, she’s been a beacon for a generation of audi- ences (plus actors and directors) who are forti- fied by her power, in work as singular as Broadcast News and The Piano. “People achieve their dreams in unorthodox ways, man,” she says. “I’m one of those people.” She’s still achieving. Hunter has earned raves for her (what else?) tough-as-nails perfor- mance in the acclaimed comedy The Big Sick (out now), and she also toplines the indie drama Strange Weather (July 28). At 59, Hunter’s still in peak form—as she proved dur- ing our look back at her extraordinary career. WITH FRANCES Hunter’s friendship with Frances McDormand altered the course MCDORMAND of both women’s lives. “I met Friends since 1981 Fran on a trip to Yale in 1981, and it was an immediate hookup,” Hunter says. “My boyfriend at the time was best friends with her boyfriend.” Later, after they became roommates in a Bronx apartment, Hunter introduced McDormand to the MY LIFE IN PICTURES Coen brothers, who then cast McDormand in Blood Simple. Joel Coen and McDormand married in 1984. “Fran was a great roommate,” Hunter says, smiling at the memory. “We were both smoking back then, and it was a pleasure to wake up, hang out at the kitchen table, and drink coffee and smoke cigarettes together. And then sometimes we would smoke and drink coffee until it was time to smoke and drink wine. Those were magical days.” Hunter and McDormand in 2000

RAISINGARIZONA 1987 Hunter had appeared in just a few TV movies when the Coens cast her in Raising Arizona. The baby-crazy police officer named Ed was a role they’d written for her. “I was not an entity at all. I had no profile,” she says. “We were all living in a house in L.A. together, and they gave me this script. I could hear my voice in it, and I could almost see the movie. Then they cast Nic Cage, who I’d seen in Valley Girl and I totally adored.” ( From top )

(BOTTOM): 20TH CENTURY FOX/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION EVERETT FOX/COURTESY CENTURY 20TH (BOTTOM): She recalls Raising Arizona’s theatrical Raising release: “It was not a big hit. You know, Joel Arizona; with Nicolas and Ethan’s success has been very cumula- Cage tive. It’s a much more recognized movie

HUNTER: JEFF VESPA/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES; WITH MCDORMAND: BEI/SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY WITH BY IMAGES; VESPA/CONTOUR JEFF HUNTER: ARIZONA RAISING now, but it took it a while to gain legs.”

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 33 Mary Steenburgen, Hunter, and Alfre Woodard

MISS FIRECRACKER 1989

Hunter played a beauty pageant contestant in BROADCAST NEWS Beth Henley’s 1984 Broadway play and then transferred it to the screen. “How about that hair, huh?” she says. “Those were the days.

I’ve never gotten so much attention on the FOX/PHOTOFEST; CENTURY : 20TH street as when I was that color. You say blondes have more fun? No, I’m telling you—red!” Hunter, William Hurt, Joan Cusack, BROADCAST NEWS Steven Spielberg and Hunter and Albert 1987 Brooks MISS FIRECRACKER Her role as the terrier-like tele- opened the door with cham- vision news producer Jane Craig pagne in his hands. That’s how scored Hunter her first Oscar I got the part.” Director Brooks nomination and rocketed her changed Craig’s background to , to Hollywood’s A list. “I’d been accommodate Hunter’s Georgia ROE VS. WADE told I was totally wrong for it, accent. “There is prejudice but [director James L.] Brooks against people from the South,

verged on obsession when it that they are ignorant or lack (2); : MOVIESTORE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK came to casting. He opened the education. So it was so fantas- floodgates, and I was one of tic to play a Southerner who the floodgate actresses. After was intellectual and lightning auditioning I was invited to his fast and actually was the smart- ALWAYS apartment, and Albert Brooks est person in the room.” 1989

“Oh, man, there he is: Spielberg. Steven Spielberg has absolutely no conflict about enjoying himself on a movie set. I’m not ROE VS. WADE saying it’s his social hour or something, but ALWAYS he loves the engagement. He’s doing what he 1989, NBC : ALAMY truly, deeply always wanted to do. And he’s “Now that’s a cool photo,” an Everyman. That’s the soul of his movies.” Hunter says. “That’s a ’70s shirt, ’70s hair, defi- nitely a ’70s belt.” Hunter Gary Busey, Hunter, and Tom Cruise won her first Emmy for this NBC movie about the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized a woman’s right to abor- tion. “I had no sense that going to TV was a punitive action. In fact, the success of Broadcast News afforded me the chance to do this. I loved doing it. I just wish we could say the story was an anachronism.” Anna Paquin and THE PIANO Hunter 1993

Few actors have ever enjoyed 19th-century New Zealand. used voice-over, Hunter has Actress—and Hunter was a year as fruitful and rewarding “I was certainly not alone in my no dialogue in the film. Her also nominated (for The Firm) performance is a wonderment

: SNAP STILLS/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK SNAP : as Hunter’s 1993. No achieve- recognition of how beautiful against her 11-year-old costar. ment could eclipse Jane Cam- and intimate Jane’s script was,” of gestures and messages “Oh, God, that’s right! I’d pion’s The Piano and Hunter’s she says. “But I just worried that delivered via her mischievous forgotten that. Talk about sur- THE FIRM THE transcendent, Oscar-winning the movie was going to be so daughter, played by Anna real, huh? But yeah, obviously performance as a mute tiny that maybe nobody would Paquin. On Oscar night in 1994, I wanted Anna to win. I loved Scottish woman dislocated in see it.” Apart from sparingly Paquin won Best Supporting her to no end.” : MIRAMAX/PHOTOFEST; THE PIANO THE

THE FIRM THE POSITIVELY For this crackling fact-based 1993 TRUE ADVENTURES HBO satire, Hunter won OF THE another Emmy as a hyper- In a small role that might have been ALLEGED TEXAS verbal woman embroiled a throwaway in less adventurous hands, CHEERLEADER- in a tabloid melee of her Hunter adds jazz notes to the John Grisham MURDERING MOM own making. “I finished The adaptation, playing a bleach-blond, chain- Piano and came back to 1993, HBO smoking secretary. In the movie’s best scene, the United States, and I so David Strathairn (as Tom Cruise’s brother) badly wanted to talk on tells her, “I love your crooked little mouth.” camera,” she says. “I had a “Well, it’s not my best feature,” Hunter’s lot to say, and this girl defi- character responds. “I think it was [director] nitely had a lot to say. It was Sydney Pollack who came up with that,” a great antidote, a wonder- Hunter says. “He loved little improvisations.” ful yin-yang that I got to do.”

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 35 THIRTEEN 2003

Her portrayal of the mother of a wayward teen (Evan Rachel Wood) in this gritty indie nabbed Hunter her fourth Oscar nod. “Oh,

I love this photo,” she says. “Evan was 14 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS at the time, and she’s been showing off her acting chops ever since. But she was too young to hang out on the set for the number of hours we worked. So often I did my work opposite [director] Catherine Hardwicke.” : COLUMBIA PICTURES/PHOTOFEST;: COLUMBIA

Hunter and Robert HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Downey Jr. 1995

“Believe me, it was a lot of fun Robert Downey Jr. and Anne THIRTEEN having Downey as my brother Bancroft. “Whenever I’m in a

for a couple months,” she says hotel during the holidays, it’s on SEARCHLIGHT; FOX/FOX MARIE : ANNE of this family comedy directed TV. It got a lukewarm reception by Jodie Foster, costarring at the time, but it really works.” Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood

THE INCREDIBLES 2004 THE INCREDIBLES “In Europe I’m recognized mostly for James Spader and Hunter The Piano and Crash,” Hunter says. “But here in the U.S., it’s Elastigirl.

CRASH CHRISTOPHEL/ALAMY; : COLLECTION 1997 Animated movies are still a big mys- tery to me, but I loved it how [director] Rated NC-17 and a scandal upon release, this Brad Bird didn’t pick from the top sex-and-car-accident provocation appealed five actors or actresses. He said, ‘I want to Hunter. “I really pursued that one, Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter,’ entirely because of [director] David Cronen- aand th at’shhg wh” at he got.” berg,” she says. “I had a bit of scar makeup, though I was hardly defaced at all for a Cronenberg movie.” She remains proud of CRASH the film but is miffed that it shares a title : TRI STAR/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; with the 2005 Best Picture winner: “For the record, how could another movie be called Crash? Come on, what the heck is that?”

LIVING OUT LOUD LIVING OUT LOUD 1998

Hunter starred opposite Queen Latifah and Danny DeVito, : MOVIESTORE/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK as a New Yorker who starts marching to her own beat after being dumped by her husband. “One of my rare totally non- Southern roles,” she says. “But I just fell in love with that charac- ter. And I felt that movie was a very private expression for me.”

36 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 SAVING GRACE TOP OF THE LAKE 2013, Sundance Channel 2007–10, TNT Hunter reunited with The Piano beautiful Moke Lake behind me As a hard-drinking police detective on director Jane Campion to play in this photo. We would finish TNT’s hit crime drama, Hunter reached a huge new audience. “The schedule an oddball ashen-haired guru all this filming s--- and then was hellacious; it was otherworldly,” she in this six-hour TV drama set in we’d all go jump in the lake. Me says of doing a weekly series. “However, New Zealand. “How much fun and all these postmenopausal I had a huge appetite for playing a cop. is Jane?” she asks rhetorically. women. And Jane, of course, Maybe it goes back to Raising Arizona.” “Well, here you go: There’s leading the charge.” : NICOLE RIVELLI/LIONSGATE THE BIG SICK BIG THE : PARISA TAGHIZADEH/SUNDANCE CHANNEL; TAGHIZADEH/SUNDANCE PARISA :

Kumail Hunter and Ray Romano costar as ramifications,” Hunter says, “but it’s Nanjiani and nerve-jangled parents who develop served up as such a charming Hunter

TOP OF THE LAKE THE BIG SICK a relationship with the Pakistani- rom-com. You are laughing every 30

: TNT; 2017 born ex-boyfriend (Kumail Nanjiani) to 45 seconds, even though it’s of their comatose daughter (Zoe about the hardest chapter in these Kazan). “The movie works magically people’s existence. In the smallest

SAVING GRACE SAVING because it has profound political comic details lies the universe.” MORE POWER TO YOU POWER IS BACK. STARZ’S NO. 1 HIT SERIES WITH ITS (ANTI)HERO GHOST LOCKED UP FOR A CRIME HE DIDN’T COMMIT, SEASON 4 BECOMES A BLOODY, EXPLETIVE-FUELED RACE FOR SURVIVAL—FOR EVERYONE.@LYNETTERICE BY LYNETTE RICE Omari Hardwick JAMES “GHOST” ST. PATRICK DOESN’T DESERVE YOUR LOVE AND RESPECT. And yet the central character in Power—a crime drama about a conflicted drug king- pin who runs a nightclub in New York City—is one of the primary reasons the gritty drama (Sundays, 9 p.m.) has become It’s a question that more than 3 million people wanted to know the answer to Starz’s most viewed original series. “I’m when they tuned in to Power’s fourth-season premiere on June 25. With Game flattered and beyond humbled that people of Thrones-level sex and violence and enough F-bombs to blow up the Queens- still root for a quote-unquote bad guy,” boro Bridge, Power creator and showrunner Courtney Kemp—a 40-year-old admits the sexy man who plays him, Omari African-American woman who cut her teeth on The Good Wife—is often asked Hardwick. “Ghost is as dark as Walter White why a nice Ivy Leaguer like herself ended up making a drama like this. and Tony Soprano. But for people to still “I always say the same thing,” explains Kemp with a sigh. “Mary Shelley wrote root for him is freaking awesome.” And Frankenstein, Patricia Highsmith wrote the Ripley novels. Get it together! Women freaking crazy, considering all the bad deeds can write anything.” She also dismisses any notion that her drama reinforces he’s committed since the show’s launch in negative stereotypes. “I think we, as African-Americans, should no longer try to 2014: He helped to cover up the murder of sell a message or write our own advertising,” insists Kemp. “It used to be that (PREVIOUS SPREAD AND THIS SPREAD) MYLES ARONOWITZ/STARZ (5) his best friend’s girlfriend. He gunned down black people in TV were always two black kids in the first nine minutes of Law & his drug connect. And most recently he Order who, like, didn’t do something. Then the pendulum swung and we were broke up his longtime marriage to briefly the judges, the lead detectives, the attorneys. We only had professional jobs. No hook up with his childhood sweetheart– group of people is all bad or all good. What’s great about Ghost is that he gave up turned–federal prosecutor before crawling on a legit life because he thought the only way he was going to get out of the hood back home. Now behind bars for a murder was by selling drugs. Compromised judgment makes for great characters.” he didn’t commit, Ghost must face a life It also makes for loyal fans. Though initial reviews were mixed, Power reached sentence or try to cut a deal by ratting out a previously untapped audience: It’s now the most watched show on premium his partner in crime. “Every season, there’s cable in African-American homes, due in no small part to the heavy involvement more confusion,” explains Hardwick of of executive producer and costar 50 Cent, whose haunting theme song sets the Ghost’s long, dark journey. “How is he going drama’s potent tone. He’s also been a consultant to Kemp on story lines since to get out of problems that he created?” season 1. “We usually hop on the phone and it usually goes for more than an

40 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 ( Clockwise from top left ) 50 Cent and Rotimi Akinosho; Brandon Victor Dixon and Lela Loren; Hardwick and Naturi Naughton; J.R. Ramirez and Joseph Sikora

his closest associate, Tommy (Joseph Sikora), Ghost’s teenage son Tariq (Michael Rainey Jr.) finds an unlikely father figure in Kanan (50 Cent), a gang- ster foe of Ghost’s who was believed dead. “Kanan, he’s worse!” says 50 Cent. “He’s the guy who went to jail, came home, and views things exactly the way they were before he went away.” In the meantime, as Ghost attempts to rebuild his relationship with wife Tasha (Naturi Naughton), Tommy gets a little too cozy with her best pal LaKeisha (La La Anthony), and Ghost’s ex-flame Angela (Lela Loren) continues to wrestle with the notion that her love for him led to the death of her colleague and former boyfriend, federal agent Greg Knox (Andy Bean). “Because she could have been implicated, she didn’t really pursue Ghost.… She didn’t stop hour,” says Kemp of their writing collabora- him, and now an innocent person is dead.” tion. “He just talks, and I will then say to He certainly won’t be the last. As Kemp continues to ratchet up the death toll him, ‘Okay, wait, stop, that’s really good.’ in the fourth season—including a man who could possibly help with Ghost’s Basically, I interview him. Some of the case—50 Cent admits that no one is really safe. “Everybody in this series could things he says I don’t even put in Ghost’s die,” he promises. “This is not an old-school Bruce Willis movie.” mouth or Kanan’s mouth. Sometimes the For all the Tony and Carmela comparisons, it’s also no Sopranos, as Kemp things he says and feels come out of Tasha, wants to make very clear: “Even though Starz is nowhere near declaring out of LaKeisha.” when it will end, I know who the last person left standing will be,” she says. And speaking of Tasha and LaKeisha, “Once the last episode has aired, I’m probably going to have to move because season 4 promises to be more complicated people are going to be calling me and saying, ‘This is not what I signed up than ever for just about everyone close to for!’ People are going to be hating. But it’s not going to end with a blank Ghost: While he decides whether to turn in screen. You will know.” X

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 41 REEL NEWS

It’s a Wonderful Milestone Patty Jenkins’ Wonder

Woman is the highest-grossing live-action film directed by a woman. • My Kingdom for a T. Rex The new Jurassic Movies World sequel has a title—Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. EDITED BY KEVIN P. SULLIVAN @KPSull

 Steve Carell (voices)

But what becomes of a Respectable Him? Despicable Me 3 Sustaining the cinematic arc (and endless merchandising opportunities) of a bad Gru STARRING DIRECTED BY gone good is the tricky, sometimes thankless Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda Julie Andrews, Jenny Slate task faced by Illumination Entertainment’s giddy but scattershot sequel. Their solution RATING LENGTH REVIEW BY comes straight from the playbook of ’80s PG 1 hr., 30 mins. Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats soap operas and Schwarzenegger comedies: Give the man a long-lost twin—separated at birth, Parent Trap-style, in a postdivorce cus- IT’S NOT EASY BEING GRU. ONCE HE WAS A PROUD tody deal between his spectacularly callous supervillain, a stealer of moons and a master of Minions, mother (Julie Andrews) and the dad he never blissfully Despicable in every way. Then came three knew. (“But I thought you said my father Bambi-eyed orphans, Margo and Edith and Agnes, and died of disappointment when I was born,” a paternal love he had never known: Suddenly, he was an Gru—voiced once again by Steve Carell in overseer of bedtime stories and ballet recitals; a man who droll, dinner-theater-Dracula undertones— voluntarily threw princess-themed birthday parties and says mournfully when he hears the news.) made sure tiny teeth got brushed. In the final scenes of Though Dad may be gone, Dru survives: 2013’s Despicable Me 2, he even found true romance with a fun-house mirror of his brother blessed Lucy (Kristen Wiig), the lady who once lipstick-tased him. with the same Spongebob Square-bod and

42 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 THE BEST A Ghost Story GHOST STORIES OF STARRING Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara ALL TIME DIRECTED BY David Lowery Unlike A Ghost Story, these RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 33 mins. ghoulish tales are for everyone REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashawaty

DAVID LOWERY’S A GHOST STORY WAS 1 easily the most divisive movie that played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. And there’s no reason to think that it THE INNOCENTS (1961) won’t spark the same heated love-it-or-hate-it Deborah Kerr garden-spade nose, except he looks less like emotions back at sea level now. The film opens anchors this beyond- Lurch than a lost Bee Gee, all creamy knit- with a couple (Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara) creepy Turn of the wear and feathery golden mane. He is also living in a nondescript suburban home haunted Screw adaptation. very, very rich, the scion of a pig-farm dynasty by bumps in the night. Before we learn anything in faraway Freedonia, a magical land of spar- about them, the man dies in a car accident, rises kling fountains and soft cheeses. But Dru’s from the slab in the morgue underneath a white 2 dearest wish, now that they’ve been reunited, sheet, and slowly wanders back to the home they

is to have Gru teach him how to carry on the shared, looking like the wearer of the laziest THE SIXTH SENSE family’s felonious legacy. Opportunity arrives Halloween costume ever. There, he lurks, draped (1999) in the leering, mulleted form of Balthazar in white like Casper the creepy ghost, watching Yes, everyone knows the twist, Bratt (Trey Parker), a former child star laid Mara mourn and go through the various stages but it’s still a low by the cruelest villain of all, puberty. Still of grief, which include slumping on the floor and genre classic. hopelessly stuck in the passé fashions of his numbly scarfing down an entire pie. Rather than ’80s glory days—he never strolls when he can convey any real emotions, though, this Method

moonwalk, and shouts catchphrases like eating scene goes on for so long that it starts to 3 “Son of a Betamax!” when he’s mad—Bratt feel like a bad joke—worse, a bad joke that plans to wreak havoc on the Hollywood that doesn’t know when to wrap up. After Mara GHOST rejected him, and finance his nefarious plan moves out, Affleck’s sheet-covered specter stays (1990)

: PHOTOFEST (2); by stealing a diamond as pink as a panther in the house, silently waiting for her to come back. What other haunting and big as the Ritz. The wait spans years, then centuries. A Ghost movie has a murder Like most sequels, Despicable 3 works hard Story tiptoes around some poignant ideas about mystery, pottery, and Whoopi?

THE SIXTH SENSE THE to chase the easy charm of the original, and the long tail of time, the eternality of love, and , the flop sweat often shows in its hectic pacing the spiritual weight of regret and longing. And and disjointed script. The girls are mostly some, no doubt, will find Lowery’s playfully sur-

: REX/SHUTTERSTOCK sidelined by unicorn quests and the quirks of real experiment (a ghost story told from the 4 THE INNOCENTS THE Freedonian marriage customs, and the Min- POV of the ghost) haunting, lyrical, and moving.

ions, those jabbering, thumb-shaped apricots Others (ahem, guilty as charged) will just find it THE OTHERS : A24 FILMS; in overalls, shear off almost entirely, caught maddening, inscrutable, and alienating. Check (2001)

THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE DEVIL’S THE up in their own Escape From Alcatraz subplot. it out, then take your side in the debate. C Gothic horror joins What shines through is the visual wit and the 21st century in this underrated A GHOST STORY innate sweetness of the storytelling, and Car- Nicole Kidman film.

: TERESA ISASI; ell’s cackling, cueball-skulled misanthrope— a (mostly) reformed scoundrel who can still B THE OTHERS THE have his cake, and arsenic too. 5

THIS FILM CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING: THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE (2001)

: ILLUMINATION/UNIVERSAL PICTURES (3); ILLUMINATION/UNIVERSAL : Guillermo del Toro’s DF DANCE FIGHT BG BABY GOAT spiritual tale sets action during the : S. KARIN EPSTEIN/PARAMOUNT; Spanish Civil War. RC RUBIK’S CUBEK KEYTAR DESPICABLE ME 3 ME DESPICABLE GHOST  A ghostly Casey Affleck

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 43 Movies BEHIND THE SCENES

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets  Dane DeHaan as Valerian Director Luc Besson reveals how he built the first action in his parallel- scene for his new film, a multidimensional chase unlike dimension anything that’s come before. BY JOE McGOVERN goggles.

We’ve all seen movies in 3-D, but director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Lucy) raises the bar on the whole extra-dimensions craze in his new sci-fi spectacle. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (out July 21) is set in the year 2740 and centers on space cops Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) as they solve a mystery involving the extinction of a peaceful humanoid alien race called the Pearls. But what triggers the story is a Besson special: one wild, twisty, visionary 18-minute action sequence  that takes place in two parallel dimensions at once. BREAK ON THROUGH “I had this idea 15 years ago, during conversations This shot with crazy friends,” Besson says. “Then the next question reveals the is, ‘How can we have fun?’ ” He imagined a place called parallel dimen- sion hidden the Big Market, which looks like a desert until Valerian in the desert. plugs into a machine and puts on tinted glasses that Valerian’s reveal a vast supermall with thousands of shops stretch- opening action scene, an ing into the sky and 500 floors below the surface. 18-minute A chase ensues between the minions of a three-nosed chase, occurs in both Jabba-type beast named Igon Siruss (voiced by John dimensions Goodman) and Valerian, who has inadvertently trapped at once. his arm between dimensions. If this sounds complicated, Besson understands that. “After I wrote the sequence, I explained it to the crew for an hour,” he says. “They were smiling, but I could see on their faces that they didn’t understand a thing.” And so at his L’École de la Cité in Paris, a free film academy the director opened in 2012, Besson recruited the whole student body to shoot a demo of the action scene’s 600 storyboarded shots as part of their curriculum. “They did everything in three weeks, and then we edited,” Besson says. “And then the crew understood the scene.” Thus concluding Multidimensional Action 101.

44 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 STX FILMS/EUROPACORP (5)  PAINTED DESERT “It’s easy for the desert to look like Earth very quickly,” Besson says. “So I came up with the idea of colored stripes on the rocks, which is based on coral. And no red sand or else it looks like Mars.” In this scene, Cara Delevingne as Laureline watches the chase unfold.

 MAGIC BUS The school-bus hovercraft is a nod to the yellow taxi in Besson’s The Fifth Element. “The visual-effects guys told me that they hid several more visual winks to The Fifth Element in this sequence,” Besson says. “So far I’ve only noticed five.”

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 45 Movies

HOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST UNTOLD STORIES MAKING WEST SIDE STORY’S “AMERICA”

Fifty-five years after winning an Oscar for West Side Story, Rita Moreno looks back on the musicalmusical’ s iconic and subversive number. BY JOE MC GOVE RNN

In 1961, Rita Moreno achieved [choreographer movie immortality with her and codirector] performance as the no-nonsense Jerome Rob- Puerto Rican immigrant Anita bins, though he in West Side Story. The film would absolutely win 10 Oscars, including for drove the danc- Moreno and Best Picture. The ers. Wow, how actress, now 85 and earning raves cruel he could be. flying off whenever named Felisa de Gautier, and she for her work on Netflix’s One Day I did a high kick. But condemned the movie: “Gangs? at a Time, talked to EW about the That’s been said. they were very cute, That’s terrible!” She was an outlier. barnstorming song-and-dance A lot of the dancers hated that’s what was important. What was the trickiest part of number “America,” in which him—but loved him. He would “America” to nail? she jousts with her boyfriend think nothing of making us do one The lyrics focus on the virtues of living in America versus (George Chakiris) about the pros step over and over until we broke The end. The girls end up on Puerto Rico. As a Puerto Rican, the boys’ shoulders. But we and cons of their adopted home. down in tears or pulled some- TARAMORENO: ZIEMBA/FILMMAGIC; how did you feel about that? thing. Shin splints for days. He hadn’t counted on me wearing Do you ever get tired of being was a tough and demanding It’s interesting. In the play Anita a silk dress and George asked about West Side Story? daddy, but if you got a smile out sings, “Puerto Rico, you ugly [Chakiris] wearing a silk jacket. PHOTOFEST (2); RITA MORENO Of course not, of him, you floated on air for days. island, island of tropical diseases.” Slippery! Plus, George’s shoulders never. It’s lovely to talk about it. When I got the part in the movie, slope. Plus, my ass was bigger Youmusthavebeensweating. I thought, “I cannot do this to than his shoulder. We did an inor- What do you notice when you Up a storm. Between takes they my little island.” But before I said dinate amount of takes because CITY OF GHOSTS watch it now? had buckets of ice water with anything, to my great relief, the I would land on his shoulder The dialogue is dated, but it was shammies for us. And my stocking line was rewritten. It became and slide off. You could hear me: WEST SIDE STORY dated when we shot it. I’d think, rotted very quickly because of “Puerto Rico, my heart’s devotion, “Oh...oh...oh...s---!” “God, old farts are writing this.” the sweat. It was murder. let it sink back in the ocean.” FILMS STUDIOS/IFC : AMAZON But the musical numbers are just Which at least is more benign. What was your solution? so delicious. What are your memories about One cheek was sitting on his that dress? Have you ever gotten pushback shoulder. He held me with ARTISTS/ : UNITED “America,” especially, is so Oh, the lavender dress. It’s not from Puerto Ricans? one hand, and my leg was stuck unbound and energetic, isn't it? a very blingy costume—we didn’t No, they love the movie. They love into his back to get balance. Unfettered! It’s a killer show- use that word then—but it’s so the Sharks. Although the then I stabbed him with that shoe. stopper. And you have to credit iconic. I remember the shoes kept mayor of San Juan was a woman But we got the shot!

46 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 City of Ghosts

DIRECTED BY Matthew Heineman

RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 30 mins.

REVIEW BY Chris Nashawaty @ChrisNashwaty

THE CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA HAS NOW BEEN blazing for six years. Nearly half a million people have been killed. Roughly 11 million have been displaced. The end is nowhere in sight. The only hope at this point is to get the word out to the rest of the world so that they will be guilted into action. Matthew Heineman’s urgent and timely new docu- mentary, City of Ghosts, attempts to do just that, thankfully without resorting to the kind of didacticism that can undermine advocacy films like this one. Heine- man, the director of the gripping Oscar-nominated 2015 drug-war exposé Cartel Land, finds his way into the sprawling conflict by chronicling the work of citizen- journalist collective Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, an anonymous group of Syrians who coura- geously gather and disseminate grim news and video shot on the sly from inside the city they once called home—a formerly bustling place that became the main base of ISIS. One by one we meet these inspiring reporters as they risk their lives (and the lives of their families) to stand up to the barbarity of terrorism and totalitarian rule, armed with nothing more than stealth, their wits, and the globe-spanning reach of the internet. Even the lucky ones who manage to get out of Syria to  Rita Moreno safe houses in Germany or Turkey keep resisting, performs reporting, and publishing in exile. As the world slowly “America” in West Side wrestles with how to fight ISIS, here’s a story of a hand- Story ful of intrepid individuals who don’t have the luxury of waiting. City of Ghosts shows us what journalism can do in the face of evil. Its message is haunting, humane, and ultimately hopeful. A–

 A view of Raqqa, Syria

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 47 Movies

The Little Hours

STARRING Aubrey Plaza, Dave Franco

DIRECTED BY Jeff Baena

RATING R | LENGTH 1 hr., 30 mins.

REVIEW BY Devan Coggan @devancoggan

A 14TH-CENTURY CONVENT isn’t the most expected setting for a raunchy sex comedy, but with The Little Hours, writer-director Jeff Baena adapts parts of Boccaccio’s Decameron into an absurd and hysterical tale of nuns gone wild. After getting caught in bed with his master’s wife, servant Massetto (Dave Franco) hides out by posing as a deaf-mute gardener at the local convent (run by John C. Reilly, as a boozy but well-meaning priest). There Massetto attracts the attention of Jason Mantzoukas three repressed and slightly unhinged nuns: Alessandra (Alison Brie), Genevera (Kate Bets On The House Micucci), and Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), all of The Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor plays a degenerate gambler in The House whom descend on the hapless gardener with (out June 30). The riskiest part of the shoot? “Jeremy Renner got lit on fire!” a crazy-eyed ferocity. (Think The Beguiled, BY CLARK COLLIS with more witchcraft and drunken sing- alongs to Catholic hymns.) The dissonance between the austere setting and the filthy In The House,youplayagambling Is that ever awkward? addict who persuades Will Ferrell Of course it’s awkward! It’s insane! jokes brings to mind some of Mel Brooks’ or andAmyPoehler’scoupletohelp But I do take it as a compliment Monty Python’s most famous efforts, and set up an underground casino. Let’s that people can’t imagine that character the result is a screwball farce that’s heavy on start with an easy question: Who is a performance. I must be doing behavedworseonset,WillorAmy? something right that, when people see the improv and the creative insults. JASON MANTZOUKAS As I’m sure you me, they’re like, “Uh-oh, I’m about to Despite the medieval setting, The Little know, they have the reputation in Holly- get stabbed!” Hours can occasionally be poignant in its wood for being the least nice people in town. They are just horrid, horrid You cohost a podcast about bad observations about modern femininity and people. No, they’re the best. What was movies called How Did This Get Made? repression. But really, this wacky comedy is nice about this movie was, everybody Have you ever had any uncomfortable encounters with actors or filmmakers knew each other already—not just little more than an excuse to watch Plaza asaresultofthat? the three of us but Nick Kroll, Rob hurl expletives at a local farmer or Fred Huebel, Michaela Watkins. From day one, It’s the opposite. I’ve met a lot of people Armisen strut around as a holier-than-thou it was a very comfortable ensemble. in the business who are fans of the show and are like, “Oh my God, you bishop. At a slim 90 minutes, it’s well worth Jeremy Renner also appears in the film. guys talked about that movie I was in!” THE HOURS LITTLE it to get thee to this nunnery. B What was it like working with him? Or what happens more frequently He was great, man. The guy gets lit on fire is that I’ll meet actors, or even writers in the movie. I’m like, “They’re pouring or directors, who will be like, “I want flammable liquid on Hawkeye over there. to come on your show and talk about” I am concerned.” But he was like, “I got this.” whatever movie they were in that they : GUNPOWDER & SKY; MANTZOUKAS: MATT DOYLE think is terrible. You’ve appeared in so many films and TV shows, from Neighbors and Dirty Aboutwhichofyourownfilmsdoyou Grandpa to Transparent and Brooklyn most wonder, “How did that get made?” Nine-Nine. What do people say when There’s certainly been projects that they recognize you on the street? weren’t great. But I do understand how I’m most well-known for playing a socio- they got made.  path lunatic called Rafi on [now defunct Dave FX sitcom] The League. For the most Would you mind if I wrote that your Franco part, people just either scream the answer was “Dirty Grandpa”? and Aubrey name Rafi or they scream Rafi lines like I would mind. How dare you! How dare Plaza “Let’s all get the same girl pregnant!” you, Clark! [Laughs]

48 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 “Jon Snow won’t be MORE ON NOW PLAYING EW.COM For Critical Mass and to read full the only YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO FILMS IN THEATERS THIS WEEK reviews, head to ew.com/movies ‘bastard’ EW

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Edgar Wright’s adrenaline-heavy heist flick about a getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) hits the gas with an exhilarating car-chase opening and doesn’t let up name until the credits roll. A– WONDER WOMAN readers will Starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen  Directed by Patty Jenkins

B+ THE BEGUILED Starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst  Directed by Sofia Coppola remember.” B+ THE BIG SICK WATCH IT NOW WATCH Starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter  Directed by Michael Showalter – Entertainment B+ CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC MOVIE Starring Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch  Directed by David Soren Weekly B+ SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY Directed by Matt Schrader

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Starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves

If Mad Max felt just a little too soft and fancy for you, The Bad Batch may be the desert-dystopia hellscape you’re looking for. If, however, rampant cannibalism, feces, and DIY amputations freak you out, stay home.

B IT COMES AT NIGHT Starring Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough  Directed by Trey Edward Shults

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Starring Demetrius Shipp Jr., Danai Gurira, Kat Graham

All Eyez on Me tries, in its own sturdy, earnest way, to fit Tupac Shakur’s extraordinary arc into

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ALL EYEZ ON ME Starring Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Chris Cooper  Directed by Brian Fee

B– THE MUMMY : NEON; Starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson  Directed by Alex Kurtzman

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 Malcolm Mays, Damson Idris, and Isaiah John

I’m not sure FX’s Snowfall is the show to Snowfall do that. It wants to be a big-saga historical fiction chronicling the origins of the early-

DATE TIME NETWORK REVIEW BY ’80s crack epidemic in Los Angeles. For now, SNOWFALL Debuts July 5 10 p.m. FX Jeff Jensen @EWDocJensen it’s a good-looking collection of clichés, dull

sensationalism, and echoes of better pulp. DAVIS/FX; : MARK Franklin, played by Damson Idris, is the HASN’T TV OD’D ON DRUG DRAMAS YET? I KNOW I ostensible center. A brainy and boyish black

have. From The Wire to Better Call Saul and every dime- man educated at white schools, he sports THE BOLD TYPE bag-dealing drama in between, I’ve taken in enough preppie collared shirts suggesting super- smoke and blow to make me ready for rehab. At this responsible squareness. In truth, he’s bring-

point, even the best-intentioned treatments of the drug ing home dough for his single mom (Michael : JOHN MEDLAND/FREEFORM trade—the ones that aspire to tell us something about Hyatt) by peddling weed in his South Cen- race, class, or American materialism—still perpetuate tral neighborhood, and is looking to make stereotypes and romanticize nihilism. The subject more by selling coke obtained from Israeli matter remains relevant; television needs to find expat Avi (Alon Moni Aboutboul), a deca- fresher ways to light it up. dently eccentric nutjob. He parades around

THE 20-WORD REVIEW The Bold Type (Freeform, July 11, 9 p.m.) This SFW Sex and the City follows three twentysomething mag staffers as they navigate

50 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 LOGLINES TV FACT CHECK Girlboss Gets Canned The Netflix series starring Britt Robertson has been canceled after one season. • Ripped From the Space Is Coming Syfy has ordered a pilot adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s 1980 novella Nightflyers. Hıstory Books? There’s been a recent rash of series chronicling the early—and often- times sexy!—years of noteworthy historical figures. And with TNT’s young-Shakespeare drama Will entering stage right on July 10 (9 p.m.), we rate the show’s authenticity, measure for measure, against its fresh-faced peers. BY CHANCELLOR AGARD

YOUNG WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE in his undies, he uses champagne bottles for bowling Will, TNT pins, he shoots people for pumped-up kicks. He should Will barely holds a mirror up be scary. Instead, he’s amusing. This is a problem. to history. It’s set in 1589, yet Franklin’s story recasts the coming-of-age yarn of the Bard (Laurie Davidson) battles rival playwrights in Boyz N the Hood—written and directed by Snowfall poetry slams and quotes plays co-creator John Singleton—into Breaking Bad serial. His he hasn’t even written yet. journey is an increasingly violent, damning descent ACCURACY : GIANNI FIORITO/HBO into the underworld (he gets assaulted; he witnesses a sadistic rape; he’s tempted to kill) that tests his resolve YOUNG QUEEN ELIZABETH II and character, but to superficial effect. Franklin comes The Crown, Netflix

THE YOUNG POPE to the old what have I become? crossroads in episode 4, Though we’ll never know for well directed by Hiro Murai (Atlanta). But by episode 6, sure if Philip (Matt Smith) hated kneeling before his wife he’s back to slinging, for a simple reason—he’s gotta (Claire Foy), we’re pretty keep earning—but the writing and performance don’t certain this heavily researched make it interesting. You feel Franklin does what he drama hews close to reality. does because there’d be no show if he didn’t. ACCURACY

: BEN MARK HOLZBERG/THE CW; Snowfall’s other stories mirror Franklin’s arc, and

REIGN they’re mixed bags too. Lucia (Emily Rios) and her YOUNG ALBERT EINSTEIN cousin Pedro (Filipe Valle Costa) are young bucks in a Genius, National Geographic Mexican crime family pulling a scam to assert them- As this miniseries correctly reveals, there’s more to selves as coke dealers. Their struggles are persuasive, Einstein than E=mc2.Hehada, but their quiet enforcer, Gustavo (an excellent Sergio shall we say, eventful love life, Peris-Mencheta), a former Mexican wrestler, is the best including two marriages and a tryst with a Russian spy. character. He’s a moribund mound of muscular pudge ACCURACY who blossoms to life as he gets dirtier and draws closer to Lucia. Their tale intersects with another that helps : DUSAN MARTINCEK/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; MARTINCEK/NATIONAL DUSAN : frame the show’s sociopolitical worldview. Teddy YOUNG MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS Reign, The CW

GENIUS (Carter Hudson) is a CIA operative eager to get a Our professors never said derailed career back on track with a black op: selling anything about Mary coke to Americans to fund commie-fighting rebels in (Adelaide Kane) being in a Nicaragua. Teddy, played with wit and puppy-dog eyes love triangle, or King Henry II (Alan Van Sprang) humping by Hudson, is a bunch of tics designed to beard a queasy : ALEX BAILEY/NETFLIX; a woman out of a window.

protagonist with likability. All these plots work together ACCURACY to sketch a history lesson showing how cocaine THE CROWN THE morphed from a rich white person’s drug to the cheap YOUNG POPE PIUS XIII crack that decimated poor minority communities. This The Young Pope, HBO is important to know. But Snowfall itself isn’t important, Fine, Jude Law’s conservative, not yet—it’s a just-okay crime drama about people Cherry Coke Zero-drinking, American-bred pontiff didn’t

: AIDAN MONAGHAN/TNT; AIDAN : selling out everything sacred, just to say “Ain’t that actually exist. But we couldn’t

WILL America?” Let me know when it gets more dope. B– resist one more opportunity to utter the words young pope.

ACCURACY careers, relationships, and social media. #LoveIt B+ —Samantha Highfill

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 51 What to MONDAY JULY 3 Antiques SWEET U.S. OF A. Roadshow

8–9PM* PBS Cake Boss: Epic Patriotic Cakes The show heads to Austin to inspect 9–10PM DFC an item that’s Ever wanted to eat gained $165,000 Abe Lincoln? This in value since its last special features appraisal. Experts cakes that pay hom- say it might be the A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE TO NOTABLE PROGRAMS* BY RAY RAHMAN @RayRahman age to icons like most expensive Mount Rushmore, Watch breakfast taco the Statue of in American history. Liberty, and more. *check local listings

American Ninja Warrior

8–10PM NBC The competitors tackle new obstacle courses named “Hang Glider,” “Broken Pipes,” and “Crank It Up.” Mean- while, I’ll be at home taking on such challenges as “Open TOUR DE PHARMACY Bag of Chips,” “Eat Chips,” and “Don’t Choke on Chips.” : JOHN P. JOHNSON/HBO;

MUST  TUESDAY JULY 4 WATCH Andy OF THE Samberg WEEK

TOUR DE PHARMACY CAKE BOSS: EPIC PATRIOTIC CAKES

SATURDAY, JULY 8 10–10:50PM HBO

It takes only two minutes for this lovingly crafted and extremely goofy mockumentary to show us the prosthetic penis of a dead man, played by Orlando Bloom, flopping off the side of a bicycle. : TLC; This is what happens when Andy Samberg spoofs the Tour de MACY’S 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR France. Working with the same team behind 2015’s tennis comedy Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular 7 Days in Hell, Samberg & Co. mercilessly ridicule the prestigious 8–10PM NBC If there’s fireworks, patriotism, and warm contest’s long history with doping. The action centers on a core weather, you can always count on one thing: group of colorful, easily distracted riders, played with utmost sil- Country music will be there too. This year, that means the likes of Brad Paisley, Sheryl liness by Samberg, Bloom, John Cena, and Daveed Diggs. You Crow, and Lady Antebellum will take the don’t have to know or care much about the sport to enjoy the stage at the annual Independence Day shin- broad sight gags, amusing tangents, and cartoonish accents. It’s all dig in New York City. Hailee Steinfeld will play

as well, while, in a bit of a twist, American : CRAIG BLANKENHORN/NBC buttressed by short but joke-packed cameos from Maya Rudolph, Ninja Warrior stars will serve as hosts. Of course, all of that is second fiddle to the Jeff Goldblum, James Marsden, Kevin Bacon...well, it would be evening’s main attraction: so many explo- quicker to name the people who aren’t in it. Even Lance Armstrong sives. We’re told the event will launch more than 60,000 firework shells from five barges shows up—though, honestly, his involvement might be one of the around Manhattan. If Francis Scott Key few things going against an otherwise breezy fun time. B+ were still alive, he’d surely raise a beer to that.

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Nightcap Series Debut Castlevania 8–8:30PM POP STREAMING NETFLIX Guests on the show- within-the-show Here’s an animated include Rachel adaptation of a Bloom, the Naked horror-fantasy video Cowboy, and Cedric game, proof of the Fully Dressed Netflix’s plan to Entertainer. stream every piece of pop culture ever. Kingdom Erik Griffin: The 8–9PM AT&T AUDIENCE Ugly Truth Nate offers to help 9–10PM SHOWTIME Alvey with press for his upcoming The stand-up bout, a blatant viola- special touches on tion of the first two Mosquito modern horrors rules of fight club. like The Purge and 9–10:30PM DISCOVERY social media. The Carmichael Fans of zombie-apocalypse movies, here’s the nonfiction version. As Show any globally minded citizen knows, the risks posed by mosquitoes The Great British can be far-reaching. This thorough, sometimes alarmist documentary Baking Show 9–9:30PM NBC uses Zika as the launchpad to discuss what mosquitoes, referred to 9–10PM PBS* Jerrod discovers as “vectors for diseases” in the film, can inflict on humanity (which, an old family secret in turn, is referred to as “one big seething mass of potential food”). The bakers make thanks to a Face- The doc may pack in one too many red-tinged maps à la those zombie various pastries in an book message. flicks, but don’t let that trick you into thinking this is nonsense. episode that, sadly, “Grandma invited Just ask Bill Gates, who appears throughout the special: A mosquito- is not titled “Well, who to play Farm- borne pandemic is at the top of his list of concerns (just above getting I Do Éclair!” *check Ville with her?!” rid of that pesky paper clip in Microsoft Word). B+ —Dan Heching local listings

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SEASON PREMIERE Series Debut The Defiant Ones

School of Rock 9–10PM HBO

: ANDREW: BANK/GETTY ECCLES/NBC/NBCU PHOTO IMAGES/CNN 8:30–9PM NICK Industry titan Jimmy Iovine and producer- mogul Dr. Dre have worked with icons The band is in dan- from Springsteen to Snoop—but how much ger when Freddy THE NINETIESTHE do you care about the guys behind the learns he might be jams? A lot, this four-part docuseries hopes. moving from The project tackles Iovine’s and Dre’s lives, America, home of from their hardscrabble roots to Apple’s Jimi Hendrix and lucrative Beats deal, adding in heavy praise Bob Dylan, to Series Debut from Bono, Puff Daddy, and more. It’s an Canada, home of The Nineties instructive deep dive, sure, but one that too Crash Test Du mm ies. often veers into hagiography. (“Jimmy 9–11PM CNN

: JOE PUGLIESE/AUGUST/HBO; Iovine is the levitator; Dr. Dre is the innova- The network resumes its popular documentary series tor,” Eminem explains in one montage.) from Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman by focusing Put on one of Iovine’s or Dre’s multiplatinum the spotlight on everything that made the last decade artists instead. B– —Eric Renner Brown of the 1900s so freaking memorable, like Bill Clinton, THE DEFIANT ONES DEFIANT THE the grunge revolution, the rise of hip-hop, and envelope- pushing TV shows like Seinfeld, Sex and the City, and The Sopranos. And as far as Goetzman is concerned, The Nineties, which uses lots of archival footage and interviews, couldn’t be coming at a better moment. “I think in these times we strive to find a connection to our past, looking for a through-line from yesterday to today. Does it help us make some sense of it all? Does it : ISABELLA VOSMIKOVA/BRAVO; inspire us? I’m not sure, but we love illuminating our his- tory and finding some gems along the way.” Ha, gems:

MOSQUITO That’s one way to describe some of them. —Lynette Rice

ILLUSTRATION BY HENRY KAYE JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 53 Music EDITED BY KEVIN O’DONNELL @ODtron ED SHEERAN The hitmaker, 26, opens up about his massive summer tour, his love of “trashy” food—and his take on that Taylor-Katy feud. BY MADISON VAIN

Your tour to promote the album ÷ we go out we keep tallies on there was this band that wanted kicked off in Europe before coming our hands so that when we wake a f---ing lobster dinner once, and to the U.S. How’s it going so far? up the next morning, we know from then on, there was always how bad it got. Yesterday a lobster dinner for them. There’s

It’s always weird realizing that [the I only had three, but the day only so many times that you’re MONTY BRINTON/CBS VIA IMAGES GETTY crowd] wants to hear new songs before I had about 18—but that going to want a lobster dinner! more than old ones. But I’m glad was throughout the whole day. that they do. I’m in Mexico at the Your tour stretches into 2018. moment. It’s my first time here and Do you have any over-the-top How do you keep your energy up? I’ve eaten my body weight in tacos! rider demands? We’re all into really trashy food. I’ve Based on your Instagram, you’ve I don’t really have one. I feel it’s got, like, 40 people in my touring also been drinking margaritas. a waste of money. Like, I read that party and we’ll all go out to, like, a Buffalo Wild Wings. We’re actu- We do this thing now where when ally having that tonight. [Laughs]

54 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 NOTEWORTHY Last but Not Least With his One Direction bandmates What to having successfully launched solo careers, Louis Tomlinson is ramping up his own: The 25-year-old will Stream release the single “Back to You” later this year. EW’s guide to essential new releases

CALVIN HARRIS Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 Need a soundtrack to your summer block party? Look no further. Frank Ocean, Future, Nicki Minaj, and nearly a dozen more stars pop in for the EDM producer’s latest, which What’s the most unpredictable might be his most organic song to play live? collection yet. (Out June 30)

“Galway Girl” [off ÷] is a weird one; I’ve never put out a song before BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE that’s polarized people so much. Hug of Thunder The Canadian indie-rock People really, really hate it! It, like, collective—which counts offends them that the song exists. Feist and Metric as alumni— But I do think, in five or 10 years, hasn’t released an LP since those same people will be danc- 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record. Here, they prove ing to it on St. Patrick’s Day, drunk they’ve still got their knack at the bar. for sweeping, dynamic anthems. (Out July 7) Eric Clapton and Elton John are both fans of yours. Who’s been the most surprising guest at a show? FLOATING POINTS Reflections—Mojave Desert I can’t remember where I was Producer Sam Shepherd’s latest release as Floating playing—Boston or Philadelphia Points fuses innovative elec- or something—but after, my tour tronica with psych-rock manager said, “Paul Simon wants freak-outs. And he has to have a drink with you.” I’m like, a major cosigner: Talking Heads’ David Byrne is releas- “What?! Surely someone would ing the album on his Luaka have said, ‘Can we put Paul Simon Bop label. (Out June 30) on the guest list?’ ” But nope, he bought a ticket and came with his daughter, who is the sweetest. JAY-Z 4:44 As a close pal of Taylor Swift’s, The hip-hop titan’s hyphen what’s your stance on the beef with is back—and so are the rhymes. JAY’s 4:44 is his Katy Perry? first since 2013’s Magna Carta...Holy Grail, and I’ve learned one thing from this it’s equally epic: The LP industry and it’s to stay away from comes with a visual com- panion that features Oscar drama. I can be supportive to my winner Mahershala Ali. friends privately, but I want to stay (Ou(O t J une 30)30) away from it publicly. And I don’t know enough about it to get into You now have three platinum it, but I’m always available to albums, including ÷. What’s the one ‘GALWAY GIRL’ IS be supportive when it’s needed. song you can’t omit from a set list? A WEIRD ONE; You went on hiatus in 2016 and “Thinking Out Loud” is the song, I’VE NEVER got rid of your cell phone. Are you worldwide, that if I didn’t play, PUT OUT A SONG still device-free? people would be like, “That was weird!” But as long as people BEFORE THAT’S Avoiding [my phone] has been react well to a song, I don’t care POLARIZED really helpful. And I’ve stopped how many times I play it. I’m PEOPLE SO smoking and started exercising, always going to be in love with it. MUCH. PEOPLE which I’ve never done before. I think, yeah, not going out and REALLY, REALLY [partying] in a bar until 6 a.m. HATE IT!” and then tweeting [all day] until

TAYLOR HILL/FILMMAGIC —ED SHEERAN 6 p.m...that helps!  JAY-Z Music DOUBLE TALK TwoRockIconsHopon a Conference Call... With their bands kicking off the coheadlining Rage and Rapture tour on July 5, EW asked Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Garbage’s Shirley Manson to interview each other about teaming up for one of summer’s hottest bills. BY NOLAN FEENEY

DEBBIE HARRY Hi, Shirley! HARRY Oh God, that’s a horror HARRY What about Transcen- Where are you? in itself, isn’t it? [Laughs] dental Meditation?

SHIRLEY MANSON I’m in Los MANSON What’s the next step MANSON I’ve heard it’s Angeles at home. I’m in my bed, for you after the tour? incredible but I’ve never tried it. actually—half dressed, truth be told! We’re so f---ing excited HARRY I’m the last one HARRY I’m curious about it! about this upcoming tour. who knows, believe it or not. It’sgoodforme,inaway. MANSON Let’s do a session HARRY I think the song we I don’t really memorize every when we’re on tour together! (H MANSON (11); IMAGES CATTERMOLE/GETTY GARETH (HEAD) HARRY TAYLOR HILL/FILMMAGIC; HARRY: IMAGES; HARRISON/GETTY FRAZER MANSON: did together for the American little thing I have to do because Gods soundtrack [“Tehran then I start to think about it too 1979”] is so wonderful. Do you much! I like to keep it in the HARRY We should invite Jerry think we could play that live? here and now. I’m a Buddhist. Seinfeld [who practices TM] and get him to explain it to us. He’s adorable and very brilliant. MANSON If you want me to. I am MANSON Are you really? your Huckleberry, you know that. What a great show, though, no? MANSON He can be our HARRY No! teacher! I’m in. Let’s do it. HARRY I really love it. Last night I also caught a bit of MANSON You totally had Fargo with Ewan McGregor. me going there for a minute! He’s so good. I’m interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions,, that, to me, is the only onne MANSON More importantly, that makes even vaguess.ense. have you been watching I just don’t have the discipline. The Handmaid’s Tale?

HARRY Ooh, yes! It’s too timely. It’s terribly scary. Have you been playing a lot of shows?

MANSON No, that’s why we’re so nervous! When we’re at rehearsal everybody groans when I say, “Let’s play that again.” I’m like, “We’re going to be sharing the stage with f---ing Blondie, and they’ve been playing all year. We need to get our s--- together!”

HARRY [Laughs] Oh, come on, youhavesuchagreatband. EAD): SCOTT DUDELSON/WIREIMAGE (11) DUDELSON/WIREIMAGE SCOTT EAD): MANSON They’re very excited to meet you. You know how much you’ve influenced us and how you, Debbie Harry, continue to inspire me and light the way for me and all the women who follow in your footsteps. On the days you feel tired and a little despondent and your crown may have slipped a little, I just want you to remember this conversation. We are all looking at you. Haim

TITLE Something to Tell You

LABEL Columbia | GENRE Rock

REVIEW BY Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern

WHEN HAIM ARRIVED IN 2013 with Days Are Gone, a stylish yet accessible blend of electronic beats and classic rock shredding, the trio of sisters released one of that year’s most con- fident debut albums. It’s taken them four years to craft a follow-up—an eternity in today’s churn-and-burn culture. But after touring the world and opening up for Rihanna and Taylor Swift (and joining one very famous squad), Alana, Danielle, and Este return with the impeccable Something to Tell You (out July 7). Here, Haim deliver 11 songs of expert songwriting and fine-tuned studio trickery that sharpen their jukebox classicism; percussion-based, harmony- heavy West Coast pop-rock is once again the dominant theme. But compared with their debut, Something is less cluttered with ideas and more deliberate about its influences: The R&B strut of “Walking Away” and “Ready for You” nods toward ’90s girl groups, while melodic, richly produced gems like “Noth- ing’s Wrong” and “Found It in Silence” are adorned in ’70s AM gold. It’s not all SoCal sunshine, though: On “Night So Long,” Danielle displays her roots as a singer- songwriter with bare-bones emotion—it’s the most gripping tune on an album that explores the contours of heartbreak, desire, and abandonment. But mostly Haim zero in on what they do best, and the result is a simple and staggering ode to the joy and craftsmanship of American pop. A– Podcasts EDITED BY CRISTINA EVERETT @cristinaeverett

What kind of artwork will you and QU PORTRAIT; IMAGES BOER/GETTY DE MAARTEN GEVINSON: IMAGES; WILLIAMSON/GETTY TODD BURESS: (2); RYAN MUIR BURESS: WITH JACOBSON, your guests discuss on the show? A lot of them are more abstract, so we’re looking at paintings that are just one color, or we’re looking at video art, and we’re talking more about the intentions of the artist. I didn’t invite Hannibal [Buress] to come to the museum to give me historical facts about art, I invited him because to have a conversation about artwork with him is so fun. Sometimes the art world can be a scary place and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it’s okay to not know everything!

A common reaction to modern art for a layperson is “I could do that.” How do you respond to that notion? I think that is a natural reaction. You go to a restaurant and there’s the most simple dish on the menu but it’s incredibly delicious and you’re like, “Well, that’s just a carrot.” But they managed to make it Star Students incredible! Something Questlove Hear from these famous faces said that I thought was so powerful during the podcast’s 10-episode run was “Well, did it spark debate? ABBI GETS Are we talking about whether or not this white painting belongs in a museum?” It really comes down to: It’s there. It’s on the wall. ARTSY You think you could have done it, but you didn’t do it. HANNIBAL BURESS Broad City star (and art-school alum) Abbi Jacobson is A Piece of Ep. 1, Everyday Objects Work—at least her new podcast is. BY ISABELLA BIEDENHARN Ep. 7, Video Your character on Broad City is an aspiring artist. Will she make head- way in her art career this season? KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC JON RUPAUL: IMAGES; TOTH/GETTY ANDREW ESTLOVE: Abbi’s job takes some major turns. If you’ve ever stared Congrats on your first podcast! We’ll see her try her hand at a bunch at a piece of modern What made you want to do it? of things, including selling her art. art and pretended like When I did [Phoebe Robinson’s] She’s trying to make that happen. crazy to understand it, Abbi Sooo Many White Guys earlier this TAVI GEVINSON Jacobson feels your pain. And year, I was thinking about how much Ep. 2, Abstraction In the end, what do you hope to Ep. 8, Pop Art she’s here to help. In a new I like podcasts and enjoy talking to get from this podcast experience? podcast from WNYC Studios new people. I don’t know who would To make art a little more accessible and MoMA, the actress will say no to an opportunity like this. It’s to people—or just to have people perfect for me: I went to art school, guide listeners to better appreci- be curious about something that and I’d been wanting to get back ate contemporary works from they might not be. I am really on this into the art world after being away artists such as Andy Warhol, journey with the audience, and from it. When [WNYC and MoMA] QUESTLOVE that’s not how I usually approach Jackson Pollock, and Yoko Ono, approached me, at first I felt like Ep. 3, Monochromes a project. I usually go in with a lot of among others. Along for the ride I should refresh myself in the basics Ep. 9, Design control and knowledge about the will be curators, creators, and of modern art history. And then I thing I’m doing, and this was outside some celebrity pals. Ahead of decided not to, because I wanted of my comfort zone. I was like, “I’m the podcast’s July 10 launch, to go in like I would now, and like here to learn.” I hope when Jacobson gives EW a preview. most of the people listening. you listen, you feel that way too.

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1 2 TAKE OUT THE SWITCH Margaret Maron Joseph Finder SUMMER’SCHILLIEST As NYPD detective In this of-the- Sigrid Harald moment political grieves her lover’s saga, a layperson death, she’s puzzled and a U.S. senator by a new case: accidentally swap When two homeless laptops in airport THRILLERS men die from security—and one poisoned takeout contains top secret food, a seedy neigh- files that sure The latest crop of suspense novels will conjure goose bumps even on borhood history don’t belong on a July’s steamiest days. BY ISABELLA BIEDENHARN AND LEAH GREENBLATT comes to light. personal computer.

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The Fault in Our Reptiles John Green will write about

mental illness in his next book, Turtles All the Way Down. • Dream Catcher Oprah’s Book Club chose the 2016 immigrant novel Behold the Dreamers as its next read. FIRST LLOOKOOOO K

4 PERSONS UNKNOWN Susie Steiner Steiner returns with this saga about a pregnant detective drawn into a murder case that ends up having surprising links to her own life. ANEWDARK MATERIALS 5 THE PARTY Robyn Harding TRILOGY BEGINS A sweet-16 takes On Oct. 19, Philip Pullman returns to his famed fantasy world with a very dark turn La Belle Sauvage, the first of three Book of Dust novels. Here in Harding’s taut he explains what lured him back to the Dark side. BY NIVEA SERRAO domestic drama, set in smugly bour- geois San Francisco. Published from 1995 and the story of the of the imagination, to 2000, Pullman’s difference between which I think is a truer 6 best-selling His Dark a free and open way way of understanding THE DESTROYERS Materials trilogy was of thinking about our life and the Christopher Bollen part fantasy, part things and a limited universe we live in. While the Mediterra- coming-of-age saga. and controlled way. nean sun blazes, a It followed inquisitive The world has not The new trilogy starts freeze comes on fast Lyra Belacqua across become any nicer and before the original in this stylish literary fantastical worlds, more tolerant in those books but ends after introducing concepts study of the games 20 years, and that’s them. Why? like dæmons, part of part of the story too. moneyed people play. The story I found a person’s soul that myself telling had appears as an animal, The original trilogy a beginning that 7 and Dust, a life-giving touched on science, closely involved THE LONG DROP particle. Now Pullman philosophy, and Lyra, but it happened Denise Mina returns to the universe religion. How are when she was about The author of the he created. you approaching 6 months old. Then Alex Morrow series these themes now? came an interval, dur- turns to true crime What made this the My guide in these ing which some of the in her rich retelling right time to come matters has always consequences of the of a real-life serial- back to this world? been the English poet first part were worked 3 killer case in I’ve been thinking and painter William out in the story of Blake. He was very His Dark Materials, THE SILENT CORNER 1950s Glasgow. about Lyra and her much opposed to when she was about Dean Koontz world, and the impli- cations of Dust and what he called “single 11 or 12. But because A new series begins 8 of dæmons, for 20 vision,” by which he they’re not really with widow Jane THE BIRDWATCHER years. And my under- meant the cast of a consequence Hawk, as she’s com- William Shaw standing of life, and of mind that embraces of His Dark Materials, pelled to inves- A rugged coastal stories, and of what it fundamentalism I don’t want to call tigate the shocking village; a brutal mur- feels like to be alive, of any kind: a narrow, them a sequel; numbers of presum- der; a gruff, solitary has been developing literal-minded, fero- and because I don’t ably happy, healthy detective with a too. There seemed to ciously mechanistic like the word prequel, people (including her damaged past: The be another story wait- viewpoint. I’m I didn’t want to call own late husband) outlines are familiar, ing to be told. I say writing a defense and the first book by that who have recently but Shaw’s prose still “another story,” but it’s a celebration of the word.SoIcallThe

PULLMAN: MICHAEL LECKIE PULLMAN: died by suicide. sinks its hooks in. really still Lyra’s story, immense variety Book of Dust an equel.

JULY 7, 2017 EW.COM 61 Books JOYCEPOP CULTURE OF MYCAROL LIFE OAT

Afterlife

BY Marcus Sakey

PAGES 318 | GENRE Thriller

REVIEW BY Clark Collis @ClarkCollis COHEN; DUSTIN OATES:

WHAT AWAITS US AFTER we die? If you believe Marcus

Sakey’s gripping new novel, SHETLAND which mixes science fiction and police

procedural, we face death all over again. HIND/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; : ROBERT Afterlife, which Da Vinci Code producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have already optioned, follows Chicago-based FBI agent Will Brody, who is murdered by a serial killer. He finds himself in the “echo,” a sort of Xerox of our world where people are slain for their life force, ON THE WATERFRONT and where there is neither electricity nor My favorite books as a child a young writer, Henry David Thoreau’s fire. (Foodies can decide for themselves Walden and Emily Brontë’s <1> Wuther- Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland ing Heights are prominent. But it whether a world without Chicago-style and Through the Looking-Glass, and was William Faulkner and James Joyce deep-dish pizza would be better or Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret who excited me with the possibilities PICTURES/MPTV : COLUMBIA Garden. All are about young girls of literary experimentation. worse than our own.) Matters do heat making their way in worlds of mystery— up, however, with the arrival of Brody’s utterly beguiling to a young reader. The book I’ve read over and over boss and lover, Claire McCoy, and of the The books that cemented me as a writer The poems of Emily Dickinson. man responsible for their deaths. The Dickinson is like Shakespeare: You can rest of the book expands into more Cemented? That’s a grim metaphor. read her extraordinary poetry through- Among books that inspired me as out your life and never tire of it. cosmic realms while still staying tethered to its thriller roots. Author > > Sakey is clearly aiming for Stephen King 1 2 3 territory here: King’s Dark Tower saga receives numerous shout-outs. Even if > > > Sakey’s tale doesn’t always reach that high bar, Afterlife—unlike the echo—is far more than a mere copy. B

KEY = E-BOOK =CD = AUDIBLE MORE ON The much-lauded writer—whose BEST NEW BOOKBOOKSS EW.COM collection of mystery stories, For reviews, author interviews, and pub- DIS MEM BER, hit shelves in YOUR GUIDE TO GREAT READS IN STORES NOW lishing news, head June—shares her love of poetry, to ew.com/books TES British television, and the magical books of her childhood. EW

A EVERYONE’S A ALIEBN WHEN UR A ALIEBN TOO By Jomny Sun GRAPHIC NOVEL Twitter star Sun—who counts Lin-Manuel Miranda and Patton Oswalt among his fans—spins a beautiful, peculiar, and intentionally misspelled tale about an alien My literary hero exploring Earth for the first time. YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT No fictional character is likely to be A– my “hero.” I know too well how fictional By Daniel Kehlmann NOVEL characters are created [and] out of what This riveting pocket-size novel, translated by Ross Benjamin, depths they spring. Prose fiction is a is told through its protagonist’s journal entries. A writer and his matter of the author’s voice, and there wife rent a remote house with their baby so he can finish are no more riveting, fascinating voices a screenplay—but the house itself seems to have other plans. FICTION than Shakespeare’s Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello; Melville’s Moby-Dick; B+ THE IDENTICALS By Elin Hilderbrand NOVEL James Joyce’s myriad voices in Ulysses. Hilderbrand is the queen of the smart beach read, and her latest, about twins who swap beach houses on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, is no exception. The TV show that doesn’t get its due B BEREN AND LÚTHIEN By J.R.R. Tolkien FANTASY The British series <2> Shetland—an excellent mystery/detective program This book, compiled by the legendary Lord of the Rings author’s son Christopher, set in the austere, very beautiful focuses on the star-crossed romance of the human Beren and the elf Lúthien. Shetland Islands off the northern coast of Scotland. A– SURPASSING CERTAINTY By Janet Mock MEMOIR My all-time favorite movie Following up her best-selling memoir, Redefining Realness, Mock returns with I don’t have a single “all-time this heartfelt, compulsively readable reflection on her 20s—from her college favorite” anything. There are films years working as a stripper in her home state of Hawaii, to the pain and joy I’ve admired and may have seen more of her first love, through her journey into the magazine world in New York City. than once: <3> On the Waterfront, The Conformist, The Conversation, A– WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE. The Big Lebowski, Fargo… By Samantha Irby ESSAYS

The last book I gave as a gift Some of comedian and blogger Irby’s lines, like “hopefully lesbian bed death is real and not another unattainable fantasy the Internet A wonderful biography of one of our has lied to me about, like poreless skin,” will make you laugh; oth-

NONFICTION ers will make you cry. greatest American comic-strip artists: <4> Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in B+ OFF THE CLIFF By Becky Aikman NONFICTION Black and White, by Michael Tisserand. The surreal, Kafkaesque adventures Thelma & Louise may be a classic now, but in the male-dominated landscape of besotted Krazy Kat and the indifferent of late-1980s Hollywood, it was almost a miracle that the film got made. Here Ignatz are examined in this massively Aikman tells the whole story, from Callie Khouri’s screenplay to that heart- researched book as commentary on stopping final scene, and all the star power in between. the artist’s racial identity and the uneasy place of African-Americans in U.S. society in the early 20th century. A– THE BOOK OF MISTAKES By Corinna Luyken What I’m reading now In this whimsical (and kind of meta) book, Luyken shows how a little creativity can turn inky mistakes—like making a character’s eye too big—into new ideas. A brilliant book, a literary treasure— Robert Hass’ <5> A Little Book on Form: B THE QUEEN’S HANDBAG By Steve Antony An Exploration Into the Formal Imagina- When a mischievous swan swipes the Queen of England’s tion of Poetry. It’s a book that all poets purse, the monarch and her trail of frantic policemen embark and poetry lovers will want to own. on an epic chase across the U.K.—from Stonehenge to

PICTURE BOOKS Edinburgh Castle—to get it back.

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BY MARC SNETIKER @MarcSnetiker The X-Files season 11 fills Kelly Osbourne pees in writers’ room with all men. her pants, blames it on The truth is out there, Starbucks. Our thoughts apparently stuck some- are with Starbucks where in the 1950s. at this troubled time. JOHNSON/HBO; OSBOURNE: JAMIE MCCARTHY/GETTY IMAGES; ZOO : CBS; Downton Abbey will

become a movie, or as the GIRLBOSS Dowager Countess would call it, a what? : KAREN BALLARD/NETFLIX; : KAREN DOWNTON ABBEY : NICK BRIGGS/PBS; : NICK BABY DRIVER

Audiences reportedly fainting, vomiting at 1984 on Broad- way. TBD whether it’s because MOUNTAIN; PETER POTTER: HARRY IMAGES; MAZUR/GETTY KEVIN DAY-LEWIS: DANIEL WEBB/SONY; : WILSON of Tom Sturridge’s haircut. Meet Beyoncé’s protégéess Chloe x Halle, or as they’re known- world- YOUNGER wide, Destiny’s Grandchildren. : TV LAND; CHLOE X HALLE: ALLEN BEREZOVSKY/WIREIMAGE; BLEDEL: GEORGE KRAYCHYK/HULU; CHRIS PRATT: KAPP, MJTB, WAHS; MJTB, KAPP, PRATT: CHRIS KRAYCHYK/HULU; GEORGE BLEDEL: BEREZOVSKY/WIREIMAGE; ALLEN X HALLE: CHLOE LAND; : TV JONES: C FLANIGAN/GETTY IMAGES; TOM STURRIDGE: WALTER MCBRIDE/WIREIMAGE; WALTER STURRIDGE: TOM IMAGES; C FLANIGAN/GETTY JONES: We’re jonesing for Alexis Bledel is returning Leslie’s red-carpet look. to The Handmaid’s Tale— possibly the only person who would voluntarily Congrats go back to Gilead. on season 4 2, Younger!

Fast Times at Ridgemont High gets theatrical rerelease. Critics hail it as a classic comedy; vapers, a historical docudrama. We’We’vevve never been so jealous of a piece of blue Ha ppy 20th anniversary, Harry A character we’ll miss. tape in our entire lives. Sideburns we won’t. PPotter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. HIGH RIDGEMONT AT TIMES FAST Or hPilosopher’h s , for those

off youyo who studied abroad in THE X-FILES Londonon once yet still talk about it. Baby becomes one of our

favorite Drivers, right up there with COLLECTION FOX/EVERETT CENTURY : 20TH Minnie and Adam. : EVERETT COLLECTION;: EVERETT LESLIE SILICON VALLEY

No anianimammaals were harmed in the P. : JOHN Just give him a Day-Lewis or two making of Zoo, but unfortunately the to come to his senses. same cannot be said for viewers.

R.I.P. Girlboss, the worst reflection of 64 EW.COM JULY 7, 2017 millennials since front-facing cameras “ A crime so diabolically clever, I had to create a brilliant new detective to solve it.” —James Patterson

Meet Dr. Dylan Reinhart. Plan to spend the rest of the day and night with him.