Living Avengers Scripts + Sacrificial Chickens

I bought a 42-piece precision screwdriver kit because one cabinet handle wiggles. The case unfolds like I’m about to defuse a satellite, and somehow the single screw in my kitchen is still the wrong size. I spent fifteen minutes trying increasingly smaller bits until the handle became looser, at which point I stopped before accidentally inventing an open-concept cabinet. The toolkit is back in its foam cradle looking expensive and disappointed. Good.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Avengers: Doomsday went into production without a finished screenplay, but Joe Russo says that’s part of how he and Anthony Russo work. He called the script a “living organism,” explaining that they’re rehearsal- and improvisation-based directors and sometimes don’t get actors until days or weeks before shooting.

I also work better when the plan remains theoretical. This is how I cook: pan first, ingredients second, recipe third. I once learned halfway through making chili that cinnamon and cumin occupy very different departments of the spice cabinet.

Marvel has RDJ. I had beef that smelled like a Christmas candle.

Until Dawn 2 launches on PS5 January 28, 2027, following fake ghost-hunting YouTubers called Dead True and their “plucky chicken companion.” One choice shown in the new trailer is spectacular: the network demands a ritual sacrifice live on camera, leaving players to kill the chicken or free it and risk using their own blood instead.

A network demanding ritual sacrifice from its paranormal creators may be the most believable part of the supernatural plot.

I once tried making a haunted video with an $18 fog machine that immediately set off a smoke alarm, so we replaced the fog by throwing flour toward a desk lamp. The carpet coughed up flour every time someone walked across it for the next month.

Evan Rachel Wood says she wanted to return as Kylie Owens in Practical Magic 2 — even for one scene or one line — but the role was recast with Joey King. Director Susanne Bier said the decision “was not personal,” explaining that the younger Owens characters are now right out of college, necessitating new actors.

Hollywood has finally discovered a spell it won’t attempt: making a former child character still be college-aged thirty years later. I respect the boundary. I still carry my expired university ID because one sandwich shop accepted it for 10% off years after graduation. One day they’ll notice.

Until then, I remain canonically 21.

A live-action adaptation of The Apothecary Diaries in 2028, with Mana Ashida starring as palace apothecary and amateur poison magnet Maomao. The series will stream worldwide, following a franchise that has now passed 57 million copies in circulation globally.

Maomao can identify poisons from tiny clues while navigating imperial conspiracies. I spent eleven minutes yesterday reading a laundry-detergent cap because it has four fill lines and none appear to correspond to measurements used by humans.

Eventually I poured until it FELT correct.