Kit Harington and Dave Bautista to star in Netflix drug war drama

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 03: Kit Harington attends “Game Of Thrones” Season 8 Premiere on April 03, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Kit Harington and Dave Bautista might not be the first names you think of putting together in a Netflix drama about the drug war in New York in the ’50s and ’60s, but let me lay out what’s happening and see if you’re convinced.

According to What’s On Netflix, the streamer is making a TV show out of Dean Unkefer’s best-selling book 90 Church: The True Story of the Narcotics Squad from Hell. It’s about the formation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which was established in the ’50s in New York City on 90 Church Street (hey, that’s the title). The show, simply called Church Street, will tell the “real story of a young agent’s downward slide into hell as he falls victim to addiction, deception, violence, and shifting loyalties.”

I assume that’ll be Harington’s character. Poor guy.

Kit Harington and Dave Bautista to fight organized crime in 90 Church

Per What’s On Netflix, Harington will play Daniel Danvers, a new agent who gets into the Federal Bureau of Narcotics after he’s rejected by the FBI over a failed Psych exam. (Apparently narcotics weren’t taken terribly seriously at this time. Meanwhile, Bautista will play Micahel Crecci, the hardened veteran who takes Danvers under his wing.

I assume this means a lot of Kit Harington talking with an American accent. That I would watch.

There’s no word on when 90 Church Street will premiere, but it’s set to begin filming this year.

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Game Of Thrones’ ‘Jon Snow’ Kit Harington Once Literally Swung With His Testi*les Trapped While Filming!

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Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Peter Dinklage, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and more became globally loved stars thanks to their portrayal of various characters on HBO’s Game Of Thrones. While the show wrapped up on May 19, 2019, it’s always interesting to read about what went into making the show and the memories the actors had making it.

In today’s throwback piece about GoT, we bring you a video of when Kit opened up about being swung around by his testi*les while shooting the show’s finale season. Want to know more about it? Well, scroll down to read and hear the actor talk about it too.

In a behind-the-scenes video released by HBO on April 15, 2019, Kit Harington opened up about riding the mechanical dragon for the first time. While revealing and reliving the experience, Game Of Thrones’ Jon Snow also spoke about the time his right testi*le was trapped while filming a scene on the dragon (before effects).

While filming a key dragon scene for a finale Game Of Thrones episode, Kit Harington aka Jon Snow was left fearing the worst as he sat atop the mechanical dragon. Recalling the moment when the mechanical dragon made a violent turn and swung him around, the actor said, “Buck work is not easy. I think what sums up the buck for me was there was a bit where Jon almost falls off. The dragon swings around really violently, like this, and my right b*ll got trapped.”

The GoT actor continued, “I didn’t have time to say ‘Stop!’ And I was being swung around.” He added, “In my head, I thought, ‘This is how it ends, on this buck, swinging me around by testi*les, literally’.” While trying to hold back his laughter, he added, “Sorry. Probably too much information.”

Check out Kit Harington confessing about this here:

Well, kudos to Kit for still doing the stunt and riding the dragon.

Did you get goosebumps seeing Jon Snow riding the dragon in the finale season of Game Of Thrones? Let us know in the comments below.

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Marvel’s ‘Eternals’ Ending, Explained

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Warning: This article contains major Eternals spoilers. Scroll at your own risk!

Eternals doesn’t introduce a new superhero into the Marvel Cinematic Universe — it introduces 10 of them.

Helmed by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, the film centers on its titular team of ultra-powerful beings, who have secretly protected Earth for thousands of years (yes, even when the whole Thanos situation went down). After drifting apart, they’re forced to join forces once again when their ancient foes, the Deviants, return. Eternals’ all-star cast includes Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Gemma Chan, and many more familiar faces.

If you’d rather read up on Eternals spoilers before checking out the movie on Disney+ — or if you saw the movie and walked away confused — check out Decider’s Eternals plot summary, as well as the Eternals ending explained, below. Wondering how Eternals ends? Or maybe you’re just wondering, when does Harry Styles show up in Eternals? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE ETERNALS PLOT? ETERNALS PLOT SUMMARY:

Just like another recent Marvel release, Shang-Chi, Zhao’s film opens thousands of years ago — more specifically, in the year 5,000 BC as the godlike Celestial Arishem sends the 10 Eternals to defeat the Deviants (aka muddy, robot-looking monsters). Once that’s taken care of, they live largely separate lives for 500 years, awaiting Arishem’s return.

In the present day, powerful Eternal Sersi’s new life with human boyfriend Dan (Kit Harington) is upended when (gasp!) the Deviants suddenly return. So she and fellow Eternals Sprite (Lia McHugh) and Ikaris (Richard Madden, playing Sersi’s ex-lover) decide to convene with Eternals leader Ajak (Salma Hayek), only to find that she’s been murdered by the Deviant Kro (Bill Skarsgård).

Things take a turn when Arishem admits to Sersi that the Eternals weren’t actually sent to Earth to protect it. Instead, they were sent to prepare the planet for the “Emergence” (aka the birth of a new Celstial called Tiamut), which will wipe out all life on Earth.

Horrified, Sersi and her friends set out to reunite the rest of the Eternals and save humanity from the Emergence. But guess what? There’s another big twist: Ikaris reveals that Ajak warned him about the Emergence six days earlier, but he chose to side with Arishem and is her real murderer. After Sprite joins Ikaris due to her unrequited love for him, the rest of the Eternals are left to fight against them.

HOW DOES ETERNALS END? ETERNALS ENDING EXPLAINED:

Ikraris ultimately surrenders due to his love for Sersi, allowing her to vanquish Tiamut. Filled with guilt, Ikaris flies directly into the sun. Sersi decides to turn Sprite into a human, which gives her the chance to finally grow out of her perpetual childlike appearance. Meanwhile, Eternals team members Thena (Angelina Jolie), Druig (Barry Keoghan), and Makkari (Lauren Ridloff) set off in search of other Eternals spread across the galaxy.

The film ends on a cliffhanger, as Arishem drags Sersi and her fellow Eternals Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) and Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) into space. He agrees to spare humanity by combing through the Eternals’ memories and deciding for himself whether or not humans deserve to exist.

ETERNALS END CREDITS SCENES EXPLAINED: WHEN DOES HARRY STYLES SHOW UP IN ETERNALS?

During Eternals‘ mid-credits scene, Thena, Druig, and Makkari encounter Thanos’ brother, Eros (Mr. “Watermelon Sugar” himself, Harry Styles). He and his assistant Pip the Troll (Patton Oswalt) offer to help the gang out with their Eternals search.

And don’t worry, Sersi’s irrelevant human boyfriend is about to get way more relevant! In the film’s post-credits scene, Dan opens an old chest from his ancestors containing an ominous-looking sword. “Sure you’re ready for that, Mr. Whitman?” a mysterious voice asks.

That voice belongs to Blade the Vampire Hunter, who’s set to be played by Mahershala Ali. With Blade and Eros joining the mix, the MCU is about to get bigger than ever before!

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Kit Harington is Henry V, Donmar Warehouse

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He became a household name playing Jon Snow in long-running HBO series Game of Thrones, now Kit Harington takes on Henry V’s mission to seize the French throne in the Donmar Warehouse’s modern-day retelling of Shakespeare’s famous history play.

The production comes just months before Harington’s fellow GoT star Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut in the Jamie Lloyd Company’s take on Ibsen’s The Seagull, opening at the Harold Pinter Theatre in June.

The final instalment of the Eponymous tetralogy, which also concerns the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, the play charts Henry V’s surprise victory over the French army at Agincourt – a real-life siege which led to the king claiming the French throne.

As part of its reopening season, the recently renovated Donmar Warehouse presents a fresh look at the story’s themes of ‘nationalism, war and the psychology of power’. The theatre’s associate director Max Webster (Life of Pi, The Lorax) helms the production, which aims to explore the UK’s fractured relationship with mainland Europe, raising the question of whether we ever get the leaders we deserve.

Henry V is not the first time the small but influential West End theatre has revamped Shakespeare in recent years. In 2019, the Donmar’s artistic director Michael Longhurst directed an all-American high-school update of Richard III, renamed Teenage Dick.

Before that, in 2013, former artistic director Josie Rourke presented a searing look at political manipulation with her take on Coriolanus, starring Tom Hiddleston in the title role.

The Donmar is a small theatre – just 251 seats! – and thanks to the weight Harington lends this production, its two-month run is almost entirely sold out. If you miss it, don’t worry: the show is being broadcast in UK cinemas as part of the National Theatre’s NT Live scheme from June.

Eternals’ Hottest Romance Is Druig and Makkari

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With Oscar winner Chloé Zhao at the helm and a new cosmic mythos for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with grand practical effects and a cast of diverse superheroes, Eternals should have been unlike any MCU story before it. And so should have the centuries-spanning romance at its heart between Ikaris (Richard Madden) and Sersi (Gemma Chan). But as the rest of the film turned out to be mostly pretty on the surface but emotionally inert, these two immortal beings’ supposedly sweeping romance did, too.

The MCU is no stranger to couplings that range from “aw” to “ehh” to completely forgettable. (I still cringe at whatever Marvel was trying to do with Sharon Carter and Steve Rogers’s short-lived fling.) But Ikaris and Sersi’s relationship achieves a new level of sexless, doll-like faux intimacy for the franchise — truly something, considering the pair star in the MCU’s first-ever sex scene.

Out of Eternals’ ten heroes, the plot most closely follows Chan’s Sersi, a manipulator of matter who loves Earth, iPhones, and her fellow Eternal Ikaris. Sersi and Ikaris’s special moments together across time play out in a highlight reel — professing their love, marrying, breaking up (inexplicably, Ikaris just sort of leaves), then reuniting. In the present day, after her breakup from Ikaris, Sersi dates Kit Harington’s Dane Whitman, a (not so) seemingly ordinary human with whom she shares some cute moments. But the film clearly wants us to invest in Sersi and Ikaris, especially once he reenters her life, creating a tensionless love triangle of sorts. Chan and Madden are fine actors, but they seem bored by each other’s presence. And what’s the point of pairing two beautiful romantic leads when they’re as emotive as chiseled stone?

All the while, Barry Keoghan’s character Druig and Lauren Ridloff’s Makkari spend Eternals endlessly flirting in the fringes of the plot, igniting the hottest chemistry ever seen in the MCU. After thousands of years apart, Druig and Makkari melt into each other with such envious ease that Ikaris and Sersi’s reunion feels all the more stifled by comparison. The latter couple may get a ten-second missionary-sex scene on the beach, but when Keoghan’s Druig says, “My beautiful, beautiful Makkari”? That’s when I began to feel unwell.

Who knew Keoghan was this smooth? He’s always played such weirdos — the creepy, pasta-eating teen in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the little thief who drives Dev Patel to tears in The Green Knight — that I guess I never noticed. So thank you, Chloé Zhao, for opening my eyes and for personally ensuring that his bangs never budged from his forehead. Keoghan’s energy paired with Ridloff’s kinetic charm is just so thrilling. Their stolen glances, their little shoulder punches and smiles; the matching leather jackets they wear in a mid-credits scene; even the way they rest their foreheads together is so emotionally charged, they don’t need to say a word. Their eyes just spill affection.

Imagine if Eternals had centered their relationship, or literally anyone’s apart from Sersi and Ikaris’s. Gilgamesh (Don Lee) and Thena (Angelina Jolie) share an intimacy more intense than theirs, and they never even kiss. Hell, even the hilarious rapport between Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo and Harish Patel as Karun is more magnetic.

So much of Eternals hinges on Sersi and her competing feelings for earthlings and for Ikaris. Yet when a devastated Ikaris flings himself into the sun at the end of the movie, the moment feels empty enough that not even Sersi seems to care much. But I’m relieved that their dim romance sorted itself out, to be honest. All one can hope is that it paves the way for a more passionate relationship between Chan and Harington’s Dane Whitman — and more importantly, more time for Druig and Makkari.