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News Tesseract Sam Esmail’s Next Sci-Fi Movie Will Star Glen Powell And that’s about all there is to know about Tesseract—so far By Molly Templeton | Published on January 16, 2026 Screenshot: Universal Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Universal Pictures If you, like me, are a lightly obsessive fan of Sam Esmail’s series Mr. Robot, you are probably always curious about what the man is going to do next. He didn’t get far with his Battlestar Galactica reboot (which I very much wanted to see). His take on Metropolis got scrapped during the 2023 writers’ strike. He did manage to make an eerie adaptation of Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind—a movie which crops up in my mind every time I see too many Teslas on one block. But that was in 2023. I have been waiting for a new Esmail project ever since. And now that, if slightly vague, news has come. The Hollywood Reporter says that Esmail has a new sci-fi project in the works called Tesseract, and it’s set to star the now-ubiquitous Glen Powell (Twisters, pictured above). Esmail will write and direct, and the film “has landed at Amazon MGM and United Artists” (producer Scott Stuber recently signed a deal with Amazon MGM). THR offers only one other detail: “The project does call for two other lead roles, both females, according to sources.” The movie is not greenlit, but may shoot over the summer in Europe. It’s not a lot to go on, but that title is intriguing, at least to Marvel fans and Madeleine L’Engle readers (and, I guess, geometry fans?). This is simply Tesseract, not The Tesseract; that title belongs to an existing film based on an Alex Garland novel. Esmail has one project to finish before Tesseract gets going: the thriller Panic Carefully, which he also wrote and directed. It stars Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Elizabeth Olsen, Joe Alwyn, Aidan Gillen, Brian Tyree Henry, and Ben Chaplin, and reportedly involves the hunt for a cyber-terrorist. No release dates have been announced for any upcoming Esmail projects. Yet.[end-mark] The post Sam Esmail’s Next Sci-Fi Movie Will Star Glen Powell appeared first on Reactor.

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Renee Good should be alive. The activist, killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, met her end in tragedy. What has happened since, predictably, saw people rush to their tribal corners. ICE “murdered” Good. Good was the villain. Your politics positioned your stance. What got left behind were the facts and a press corps that proved again it cannot be trusted. On the day of Good’s death, those who took ICE’s side claimed Good hit the ICE agent with her car. Others denied it. Some insisted ICE agents were sending mixed signals, some telling her to drive off and others telling her to get out of her car. Democrat politicians insisted Good had just been dropping her son off at school. The New York Times compiled a compilation of the videos from the scene and concluded that Good had not hit the ICE officer. Here is what we now know. Good had been harassing ICE agents much of the day. In one video filmed from a cell phone, Good continuously blared her car’s horn for more than three minutes as she attempted to block ICE agents. Good had been involved in a progressive activist group called ICE Watch that encouraged not just obstruction of ICE, but also something they call “de-arrest,” which means helping detained illegal immigrants escape. We also know ICE agents did not send mixed signals. The person yelling for Good to drive off was her lesbian partner, who participated in the effort to stymie ICE. As ICE agents at Good’s car told her to park and get out, her partner yelled, “Drive, baby, drive.” Good turned her wheel to avoid the ICE agent who had walked around her car and, at that point, was in front of her. She accelerated on an icy road and did, in fact, hit the ICE agent. We now have his medical records. He was injured. The New York Times and other media outlets seeded lots of conjecture claiming Good was an innocent bystander and also that the agent was not hit. The initial press coverage turned out to be wrong. The New York Times was wrong, but it was relied on by numerous people to claim ICE was lying.      Now, with the agent’s medical records public, the goal posts have moved from “he was not hit” to “it is just a bruise” and also, “well, the president said he was run over.” The president also says he wants to invade Greenland. He says things. Many more said the agent was hit by the car and The New York Times insisted it was not so. None of this is to say Good deserved this. It was a tragedy, but the agent does have a plausible claim of self-defense. Beyond the tragedy of a press we can no longer trust for truth, there is another tragedy. A large portion of the nation would rather protect illegal aliens from deportation than cooperate with the federal government. ICE agents are swarming Minneapolis because the local and state governments have not just refused to cooperate with federal deportation efforts, but have provided safe havens for illegal aliens. According to the federal government, over 75% of those deported have existing criminal records. In Minneapolis alone, the federal government has rounded up illegal aliens from Mexico, Laos, Burma, Somalia and elsewhere who were charged with rape, child abuse, manslaughter, murder and other crimes. The local government refused to hand over even those people. These scenes are not happening in Texas, Georgia, Florida and other red states. ICE is in those states and deporting people, but those states are cooperating with ICE. Partisans in blue states have decided it is virtuous to protect illegal aliens, regardless of the length of their rap sheets. Believing the cause righteous and herself virtuous, Renee Good entered the fight to stymie ICE. After her death, her partner screamed out, “You used real bullets?” The answer is because the deportations are not a game or virtue signaling. ICE has detained and deported dangerous criminals who shoot guns at law enforcement agents and, tragically, because President Donald Trump is president, Renee Good decided to defend those illegal aliens against her own government and died. To find out more about Erick Erickson and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM

The late night comedians love the idea that they can trigger President Trump into posting lengthy Truth Social posts about them. This is especially true of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, but on his Thursday show, Kimmel had a hard time wrapping his head around the idea that Trump may be trolling him and his fellow liberals when he recently mused about canceling elections. Kimmel began a nearly three-minute lamentation by declaring, “And now he's floating the idea of skipping the next election. Trump had an interview with Reuters in which he confessed that he's worried about how his party will fare in the midterms. He admitted that Republicans are likely to lose the midterm elections through no fault of his own, of course. In fact, he said he accomplished so much that, and this is a quote, "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." No. When you think of it, we shouldn't have an election. When we think of it, we can't have one soon enough! We want an election.”     He then introduced a clip of that day’s White House press briefing, “And it's not—it's not the first time, by the way, that Trump has mused about doing away with elections. During his campaign, he told—he had a rally. He said, ‘If I win, you'll never have to vote in another election again.’ And this kind of talk, it's disturbing, even for him. So, he left it to his lady chipmunk, Karoline Leavitt, to try to reel that one back in.” In the video, Leavitt explained that Trump was “simply joking” and “speaking facetiously,” leading Kimmel to tee up a second clip of Leavitt, “A word he can neither spell nor define. He was joking. He was joking. He was joking. Like when he wishes Eric a happy birthday. He's joking, okay? If there is one thing we've learned about this guy is that he doesn't joke. He insults people. But bringing laughter to others is not typically at the top of his list.” This clip showed a somber U.K. Independent’s Andrew Feinberg not appreciating the joke, “Are you saying that the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny?” Leavitt responded, “Andrew, were you in the room? No, you weren't. I was in the room. I heard the conversation. And only someone like you would take that so seriously and pose it in a question that way.” Predictably, Kimmel sided with Feinberg, “Yeah, Andrew, you buzzkill stiff! To be fair to Andrew, sometimes it's hard to tell when he's joking.” Kimmel concluded by unveiling a four-point conspiracy theory: You know, I never believed there was some big master plan, but maybe there is. Maybe it goes like this. Step one: You call your opponents vermin and violent, the enemy within. You say they're part of a group of paid protesters called Antifa. Step two: send a bunch of poorly-trained, heavily-armed goons into cities that don't need or want them there. Step three: when the people inevitably protest being occupied by their own government, you accuse them of starting an insurrection. And then step four: invoke the Insurrection Act, you call out the military, cancel elections, and take charge for good. Oh, and also pretend that what's going on is just business as usual. Kimmel wants an election, and he will get one in under 10 months, and when they aren’t canceled, viewers should not expect an apology. Here is a transcript for the January 15 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1/15/2026 11:39 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: And now he's floating the idea of skipping the next election. Trump had an interview with Reuters in which he confessed that he's worried about how his party will fare in the midterms. He admitted that Republicans are likely to lose the midterm elections through no fault of his own, of course. In fact, he said he accomplished so much that, and this is a quote, "When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." No. When you think of it, we shouldn't have an election. When we think of it, we can't have one soon enough! We want an election. And it's not—it's not the first time, by the way, that Trump has mused about doing away with elections. During his campaign, he told—he had a rally. He said, “If I win, you'll never have to vote in another election again.” And this kind of talk, it's disturbing, even for him. So, he left it to his lady chipmunk, Karoline Leavitt, to try to reel that one back in. KAROLINE LEAVITT: I believe you're referring to the president's interview at Reuters last night. I was in that interview. It was a closed-door interview. Obviously, there was not audio or video. The president was simply joking. He was saying we're doing such a great job. We're doing everything the American people thought. Maybe we should just keep rolling. But he was speaking facetiously. KIMMEL: A word he can neither spell nor define. He was joking. He was joking. He was joking. Like when he wishes Eric a happy birthday. He's joking, okay? If there is one thing we've learned about this guy is that he doesn't joke. He insults people. But bringing laughter to others is not typically at the top of his list. ANDREW FEINBERG: Are you saying that the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny? LEAVITT: Andrew, were you in the room? No, you weren't. I was in the room. I heard the conversation. And only someone like you would take that so seriously and pose it in a question that way. KIMMEL: Yeah, Andrew, you buzzkill stiff! To be fair to Andrew, sometimes it's hard to tell when he's joking. Like remember when he said they were eating the cats and dogs? We still don't know what that was. And by the way, a few months ago, we thought he was joking about invading Greenland. Now Marco Rubio's driving around on a snowmobile looking for a spot to build a golf course casino. You know, I never believed there was some big master plan, but maybe there is. Maybe it goes like this. Step one: You call your opponents vermin and violent, the enemy within. You say they're part of a group of paid protesters called Antifa. Step two: send a bunch of poorly-trained, heavily-armed goons into cities that don't need or want them there. Step three: when the people inevitably protest being occupied by their own government, you accuse them of starting an insurrection. And then step four: invoke the Insurrection Act, you call out the military, cancel elections, and take charge for good. Oh, and also pretend that what's going on is just business as usual.