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‘Marvel’s Wolverine’ Star Liam McIntyre Video Game Interview

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August 11, 2026

There’s a particular challenge that comes with playing Wolverine: The character has to sound like he’s been through hell, look like he’s been through hell and, preferably, move like he could walk away from hell without so much as a scratch.

For Liam McIntyre, bringing Logan to life through voice and motion capture performance in Insomniac Games’ Marvel’s Wolverine meant figuring out all three.

During a three-hour preview event of the game at Insomniac’s Burbank headquarters, McIntyre talked to Deadline about the process of finding a Logan who still carries the grit that audiences expect from the iconic mutant while feeling grounded and distinctly his own.

“We wanted to make sure that this felt grounded and real, not too cartoony,” McIntyre said. “Something that still feels like Logan.”

What exactly does that process look like? McIntyre explained that he and the team worked through different vocal styles and degrees of gruffness to find the right sound for Insomanic’s Logan. As it turned out, however, he came to the role with a built-in advantage.

“Fortunately, his attitude and demeanor sort of fit in my rough-and-tumble kind of voice,” he said, adding with a laugh. “Years of asthma. Everyone else had to smoke, I just got asthma.”

The physical performance presented a different challenge. McIntyre had previously tackled demanding physical work on Spartacus, so when it came time to play Wolverine, his instinct was understandably to go all in.

“I was like, ‘Stunts. Let’s go. I’m going to do all this slice and dice,’” he recalled.

But motion capture isn’t quite the same as traditional stunt work. With face cameras also capturing his performance, McIntyre had to be conscious of how much he moved and how that movement affected the footage. Much of Logan’s physicality ultimately became a collaboration with stunt performer Seth Austin, who had also worked on Insomniac’s Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

“It was a real team effort,” McIntyre said. “My face and a lot of his body and his work in there. So, together, I think we made a pretty sweet character.”

What McIntyre found particularly compelling about this Logan, however, wasn’t simply the opportunity to put on the claws. This is a younger version of the character — “younger” being relative for a man who is roughly 200 years old — and one who begins the game having lost much of his memory.

After the amnesic event, Logan knows there is something buried in his past, but not exactly what it is. He doesn’t understand the source of his rage or why certain feelings continue to surface. He joins Team X alongside Mystique (Nicole Pacent), Sabretooth (Brett Gipson) and Nathaniel Essex (Troy Baker), while trying to make sense of himself and the baggage induced from his nightmares as he tries to form bonds with his found family – including Jean Grey (Krizia Bajos).

“He knows there’s something big behind him, but he doesn’t know what or why,” McIntyre explained. “He doesn’t know why he feels the way he feels or where this rage comes from a lot of the time.”

This uncertainty, McIntyre admitted, makes Logan more human. And he’s excited that the game will ultimately show fans of the character that “beneath the claws and healing factor is a character struggling with the question of who he is supposed to be.”

This isn’t to say that it’s all emotions and vulnerability. During the gameplay, Logan certainly gets his fair share of bloody kicks, deadly swipes, and claw impaling punches. McIntyre references them as a “bottomless rage.” He explains jokingly that sometimes the violence is necessary to prove a point. “Logan wants to protect people who cannot protect themselves, and perhaps most importantly, he doesn’t particularly like the person he can become when that rage takes over.”

Which, admittedly, is unfortunate, because it’s one of the coolest parts of the game’s mechanics. The angrier the Wolverine, the better the bloody visuals and power moves onscreen.

“I like that Insomniac and Sony started with the, ‘I ain’t no hero. I’m Wolverine,’” McIntyre said. “But, somewhere there’s a little bit of hope in him that maybe he could be someone better than that. I loved exploring that.”

With this being the first big solo Wolverine title, I ask what it feels like to be stepping into the pop-culture zeitgeist alongside Hugh Jackman, whose performance (even in the video game space) has defined the character for well over two decades.

McIntyre isn’t pretending that he has shoes to fill.

“Everyone on Earth knows Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, as you should because he’s phenomenal,” he said. Acknowledging that audiences will now be experiencing his story from inside the character, in an intimate fashion, guiding him along a journey instead of just watching how his story plays out in a cinematic universe onscreen is where the magic lies in his performance alongside Jackman. “What I’m really excited about for people now is that we get to tell a Wolverine story where you get to be Wolverine,” McIntyre says. “You get to experience being Wolverine.”

But when the fighting stops, he wants Logan’s story to stay with the player.

“I know this combat’s going to be sick. I know the experience is going to be sick,” McIntyre added. “But when you put that controller down, what do you feel? Are you going to feel something? Is it going to mean something?”

For a character who has spent centuries trying to outrun his past, perhaps the most interesting question is what happens when Logan finally has to face it.

Marvel’s Wolverine arrives September 15 exclusively on PlayStation 5.

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‘Verity’ Trailer: Anne Hathaway Lures Dakota Johnson Into Darkness

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August 11, 2026

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UPDATED, August 11: The full trailer for Amazon MGM’s Verity film adaptation is here.

Based on Colleen Hoover‘s best-selling psychological thriller novel, the film stars Anne Hathaway as the titular author Verity Crawford, who has remained nonverbal and unable to walk since a devastating accident left her in that state.

Josh Hartnett’s Jeremy Crawford recruits Dakota Johnson‘s Lowen Ashleigh to finish the final novel in Verity’s book series, but she has questions, like “Why can’t your wife finish her book series?”

The whine of her wheelchair mechanism strikes a creepy cord as a limp, unresponsive Anne Hathaway. Jeremy tells Lowen that “doctors don’t think she’ll ever walk or talk again.” This is important information for later. According to Jeremy, Verity called Lowen a “brilliant, undiscovered voice” and “the only writer who can finish this last novel.”

Lowen desperately needs the money, but she doesn’t realize what she’s walking into by taking the deal, as soon she gets romantically involved with Jeremy, but she has glimpses of Verity looking at her from outside the window of their reclusive mansion or standing in the doorway when Lowen’s kissing Jeremy.

“Her fans know her voice,” Lowen tells Jeremy. “The would know it’s not her.”

Then, we get to hear Hathaway’s Verity narrate what is on a flashdrive engraved with the initials V.C., a chilling note to Lowen under the Word Doc with the file name “Autobiography.”

“This is my confession, my autobiography,” Hathaway’s voice says. “A writer’s words should be honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying.”

Flashes of Verity in a glamorous red dress with lipstick to match intercut with a version of her wearing less makeup in a darker setting as these words settle into Lowen’s mind.

“I was his drug, and he was mine,” Hathaway continues in reference to Jeremy. “This is your final warning, only darkness ahead.”

Michael Showalter directs from a screenplay by Nick Antosca. Antosca and Showalter also produce alongside Alex Hedlund, p.g.a., Stacey Sher, p.g.a., Jordana Mollick, p.g.a., Hathaway and author Hoover. Executive producers include Johnson, Lauren Levine and Kerry Orent.

PREVIOUS, April 27: Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first teaser for Verity, its adaptation of the bestselling psychological thriller by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover.

The film, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson and slated to hit theaters October 2, follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling writer who is hired to complete a successful book series after its author, Verity Crawford (Hathaway), is incapacitated. Once inside the Crawford home, Lowen becomes entangled with Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) and uncovers an unfinished manuscript that may reveal disturbing truths about the author.

While Amazon MGM recently unveiled a trailer for the film at CinemaCon, as we reported, the teaser unveiled today is different.

It finds Lowen walking into the darkness of Verity’s home, with the author lying ill, in bed. The camera pans over to Jeremy, who promptly begins making out with Lowen with his wife in the room — and eventually, when Lowen pulls away, we see that it’s somehow Verity herself that she’s getting intimate with.

“Even with my generous warning, you’re going to continue to ingest my words,” Verity tells Lowen in the trailer. “But know one thing: there is no light where we’re going. Darkness ahead.”

Directed by Michael Showalter, a frequent hire of Amazon MGM’s who reteamed with Hathaway on the heels of their rom-com The Idea of You, Verity also stars Ismael Cruz Córdova and Brady Wagner.

The film is one of a number of book-to-film adaptations based on the work of BookTok phenomenon Hoover, on the heels of Sony’s It Ends with Us, which broke out as an outsized commercial success at a worldwide gross exceeding $351 million, even as a legal battle between the film’s key creatives Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni threatened to overshadow that success. Paramount followed that film up quickly with Regretting You, a Hoover adaptation starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco and Mason Thames, which grossed over $90 million. After that came Universal’s Reminders of Him, starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers, which did more than $84M in theaters earlier this year.

Check out the first trailer for Verity below.

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‘The Odyssey’ Actor Josh Stewart Signs With Gersh (EXCLUSIVE)

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August 11, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Following work on Ang Lee‘s new film Gold Mountain, actor Josh Stewart has inked with Gersh for representation in all areas.

Gold Mountain, which recently wrapped production, is an adaptation of C Pam Zhang’s novel How Much of These Hills is Gold, with a script adapted by Pulitzer Prize finalist Chang-Rae Lee. Stewart shares the screen with Chedi Chang, Sophia Xu, Yao, Zine Tseng and Owen Teague.

The actor can currently be seen in two of the most talked about projects of the summer: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, where he plays Antiphates, the king of the giant Laestrygonians, and Paramount+’s Yellowstone spin-off sequel Dutton Ranch, where he plays Sheriff Handy Wade opposite Kelly Reilly and Annette Bening.

Stewart has previously worked with Nolan on Tenet, Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises. Other film credits include Insidious: The Last Key, Transcendence, The Finest Hours and The Mustang, as well as playing the main protagonist in The Collector series.

In television, the actor has appeared in Criminal Minds, Manhunter, The Punisher and Shooter. He continues to be repped by Authentic Talent and Literary Management and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.

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Watch Trailer For ‘Top Of The World,’ Doc About Famed WTC Restaurant

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August 11, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: For 25 years, an international clientele dined in spectacular fashion at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center’s north tower, where guests were served by an equally international staff.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, 91 guests and 79 World employees would perish in the devastating terrorist attack on the twin towers. As the 25^th anniversary of that chilling day approaches, CNN Films, TIME Studios, and Tribeca Studios are set to release Top of the World, a documentary short about the famed restaurant directed by Oscar nominated filmmakers Julie Cohen and Betsy West.

We have your exclusive first look at the film in the trailer above.

Diners at Windows on the World in 1976, the year the restaurant opened.

“Through intimate firsthand accounts from the former staff who made Windows on the World extraordinary,” notes a release, “Top of the World recreates the magical world that existed 107 stories above Manhattan, where fine dining, hospitality and the American dream converged.”

The documentary will hold an Oscar-qualifying run at DCTV Firehouse Cinema in Manhattan from Aug. 28-Sept. 3. The film premieres on CNN on Monday, Sept. 7 (8:00 p.m. ET/PT); Top of the World will stream at CNN.com/Watch and on the CNN app starting Tuesday, Sept. 8.

Windows on the World host Nathalie Tolentino at the restaurant in 2000. — Windows on the World hostess Nathalie Tolentino at the restaurant in 2000.

Among those interviewed in the film are renowned chef Michael Lomonaco, longtime cellar master Kevin Zraly, hostess Nathalie Tolentino, and prep cook Sekou Siby, as well as food writer Ruth Reichl and former WNBC anchor Carol Jenkins.

Actor Dennis Leary has joined the project to voice the words of Joe Baum, the man who created Windows on the World, which opened 50 years ago this year. “Drawing from Baum’s own words preserved in decades of archival recordings,” the release states, “Leary gives voice to the restaurateur whose ambition and imagination helped shape the restaurant into a defining New York institution.”

Windows on the World restaurant in 1976.

Top of the World is a production of CNN Films, TIME Studios and Tribeca Studios, in association with Montalto Pictures, and Storyville Films. The film is directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West, whose credits include RBG (2019 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song), Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down (2022), Julia (2021), and My Name Is Pauli Murray (2021).

(L-R) Filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen on January 18, 2024 in Park City, Utah.

The short is produced by Ryan Biegel, Vicky Liu, and Holly Siegel. Executive producers include Amy Entelis and Roxanna Sherwood for CNN Films; Ben Bitonti and Loren Hammonds for TIME Studios; Katie Lee Biegel and Ryan Biegel for Montalto Pictures; Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh for Tribeca Studios; Kerianne Flynn for New Plot Films; Regina K Scully for Artemis Rising Foundation; and Oren Jacoby of Storyville Films.

Top of the World is edited by Ilya Chaiken; director of photography is Claudia Raschke. The film is inspired by the book The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World, by Tom Roston.

Watch the trailer for Top of the World above.