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News Hell Followed With Us Lilly Wachowski Adapting Andrew Joseph White’s Hell Followed With Us Into Animated Feature The 2022 novel has a bevy of intriguing producers attached to the project. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 11, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share Andrew Joseph White’s debut novel Hell Followed With Us has been picked up by a bevy of production houses that plan to adapt it into an animated feature. According to Deadline, Trustbridge Entertainment, Anarchists United—the company of Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix) and Sarah Marie Flores—and several other studios including Circle M+P, Powerhouse Animation Studios, and Line Mileage will be involved. “Anarchists United and Circle M+P are beyond thrilled to be a part of this amazing team in support of Andrew Joseph White’s harrowing novel,” Wachowski, Flores, and Circle M+P Founding Partner Lawrence Mattis said in a statement. “Hell Followed With Us shines a much-needed light on the power of found family and the imperative to protect our LGBTQIA+ siblings in the fight against dogmatic hate.” Hell Followed With Us came out in 2022 to great popular and critical acclaim. Here’s the summary of the book, per Goodreads: Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. “Hell Followed With Us is such a visceral combination of dystopian fantasy, action, and horror that turning it into an epic anime-inspired feature was a no-brainer,” Trustbridge Entertainment President Bob Higgins said in a statement to Deadline. “The gut-wrenchingly honest personal journey that is truly the heart of this story requires filmmakers with an authentic point of view to translate, and that is exactly what we’ve got with this dream team of producers and writers.” White (pictured above) will also consult on the development and production of his book. “From working with queer and neurodivergent artists to tackling the book’s hardest topics with enthusiasm, the production team has such an amazing vision for Hell Followed with Us,” he said in the same statement. “I can’t wait to bring the book’s rage at a transphobic world to a new audience, right when we need it.” The project is still in its early days, though we know that Alvaro Rodriguez (Machete, Seis Manos) and Warren Wagner (The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark) are penning the script. No news yet on casting or if/when the feature would make its way to a screen near you. [end-mark] The post Lilly Wachowski Adapting Andrew Joseph White’s <i>Hell Followed With Us</i> Into Animated Feature appeared first on Reactor.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post When the Watchdogs Are Watched: Challenging The DOJ’s Surveillance Tactics appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Microsoft founder Bill Gates continues with his crusade, as part of the mission of the Gates Foundation, to not only proliferate the use of vaccines but find new justifications to in effect, force them onto those skeptical or unwilling. One of the methods Gates has clearly identified as helpful in achieving this goal is hitching his “vaccine wagon” to the massive, ongoing scaremongering campaign and narrative around “misinformation” and “AI.” Gates spoke for CNBC to reveal he may be a vaccine absolutist – but not a free-speech one. He also didn’t sound convinced that America’s Constitution and its speech protections are the right way to go when he brought up the need for “boundaries” allowing some new “rules.” Gates’ argument incorporates all the main talking points against free speech: misinformation, incorrect information (aka, fake news), violence, and online harassment. And, he sneaked in vaccines in there, while making a case for “rules” in the US as well. “We should have free speech, but if you’re inciting violence, if you’re causing people not to take vaccines, where are those boundaries that even the US should have rules? And then if you have rules, what is it?” Gates is quoted as saying. He was evasive on who the authority to introduce that might be, but he clearly wants censorship and wants it to act swiftly. “Is there some AI that encodes those rules because you have billions of activity and if you catch it a day later, the harm is done,” he said. In case somebody happens to not like Gates, and his lecturing the entire world what it should and shouldn’t do, they’re out of luck: he appears to be on a press tour to promote a Netflix “docuseries” that will have no less than five parts, and is called, “What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates.” But looking back at “the past with Bill Gates”  is never a bad idea. We can see Windows, which he now tells CNBC he was allegedly naive about and thought it would only be used for “productive and responsible purposes” as most people would want to have a computer at home. What they got with Windows, however, is a virus-laden operating system, “a menace to society” in its own way, going decades without proper innovation, while Microsoft was seen by critics as going after open-source competition like a monopolistic, anti-competitive corporate bully. But here is Gates now, to tell us what our future should look like. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Bill Gates Wants AI-Based Real-Time Censorship for Vaccine “Misinformation” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. How about this “next pandemic”: the political virus of drastic showdowns with social media platforms that’s spreading in Europe, and beyond – in the wake of Telegram CEO Durov’s arrest in France. A number of “ideas” are cropping up from various politicians, and now in Germany, the discredited (when it comes to supporting censorship) Greens have a solution for “online radicalization” – and it’s more radical censorship. Greens MP and chair of the German parliament (Bundestag) European Affairs Committee Anton Hofreiter has told Funke Media Group over the weekend that as far as extremism goes – “one of the biggest problems is online radicalization.” To make sure social companies align with whatever the government in Berlin decides is “anti-constitutional” and falls under the online radicalization category, Hofreiter is not ruling out blocking major platforms. (A similar “solution” was recently floated in Denmark.) Naturally, this refers also (or perhaps, principally) to X and Elon Musk, who must “follow the rules.” And look at Brazil, says the German press reporting about Hofreiter’s remarks. X has been banned there, with over 22 million users in the South American country cut off from the platform – but X has 106 million in the EU, and that business is “much more lucrative.” The suggestion is that in order not to lose that market and avoid paying heavy fines, Musk might decide to agree to censorship demands. More “gems” came out of Hofreiter, who, in truth, might be simply saying out loud what most of the elites in the EU are thinking (or doing): for example, infiltrating encrypted messengers with spies (“virtual agents”) who would report about the goings on in various chat groups. That’s to help catch “possible criminals,” said the German MP. Or anyone the government dislikes, in reality. The pretext for such (somewhat unusual even for the Greens) narrative now being pushed has been an incident in front of the Israeli diplomatic office in Munich. As was the case with the recent serious rioting in the UK, the authorities seem willfully blind to the deep-running real-world issues and causes of radicalization and are trying to use the ensuing turmoil to push for ever more online censorship – that supposed panacea for all of society’s ills. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post German Lawmaker Anton Hofreiter Proposes Blocking X and Taking Action Against Elon Musk for Non-Compliance with Censorship Demands appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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If it had been up to Kasie Hunt, host of CNN This Morning, the rest of today's show could have been ditched, replaced by a non-stop loop of Trump making his claim, during last night's debate, that migrants are eating the pets of residents of Springfield, Ohio. She cited leftist late-night jester Stephen Colbert, and smirked at Trump "spouting baseless allegations about migrants eating pets." After playing it once, Hunt begged a show director: "Can we, can we just, Jimmy in the control room, can we play the pets bite one more time? Can we just watch that one more time?" Sadly for Kasie, Jimmy didn't have the bit cued up. Instead, they moved to a clip of a CNN post-debate focus group in Erie, Pennsylvania of supposedly undecided voters. Hunt said "we do have sound of undecided voters talking about this pet-eating conspiracy." The one participant who was shown was a self-described pastor. Saying Trump's pet comment turned him off, the pastor said: "What really bothers me about it is what the underneath message I get from that. As a pastor, I hear, kind of, the dismissing the other, keeping the other away, giving bad impressions about other people." On Monday, we noted the phenomenon of the left's creation of "lingo." High on that lingo list is "other/othering." And here, the pastor managed to get the phrase into his brief comment three times. If he was an "undecided voter," I'll . . . eat a cat! PS: Much is being made of Kamala's facial expressions in reaction toTrump's debate comments.  But as you'll see in the screencap, Kamala couldn't come close to topping Kasie's expression of dubiousness about Trump! Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 9/11/24 6:17 am EDT KASIE HUNT: Late night host Stephen Colbert, weighing in on one of several eyebrow raising moments from Donald Trump's debate performance last night, from praising Hungary's controversial leader, to spouting baseless allegations about migrants eating pets. And then, the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Trump made a number of comments over the course of last night that, let's say, may be outside of the mainstream for many voters. DONALD TRUMP: Viktor Orban, one of the most respected men. They call him a strongman. He's a tough person, smart, Prime Minister of Hungary. He said the most respected, most feared person is Donald Trump. In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. I said during my speech, not later on, peacefully and patriotically, and nobody on the other side was killed. HUNT: So, that last bit there was about January 6th.  But can we, can we just, Jimmy in the control room, can we play the pets bite one more time? Can we just watch that one more time? Oh, we just have the VO [voice over] of it? All right, okay. Well, the laughter and the pets, guys.  The way that that moment played, we have, we do have sound of undecided voters talking about this pet-eating conspiracy. Because the way he talks about it, just like directly, they're eating dogs, they're eating cats, takes this very sort of complicated internet conspiracy meme and makes it very direct. Let's watch what voters had to say about it. FOCUS GROUP MEMBER: I'd not heard anything about it before, so I thought it was just another one of these kind of crazy things that he comes up with that kind of turned me off.  And what really bothers me about it is what the underneath message I get from that. As a pastor, I hear, kind of, the dismissing the other, keeping the other away, giving bad impressions about other people.