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Some new details about Amazon’s upcoming TV series adaptation of the “God of War” games have been revealed by executive producer Ronald D. Moore (“Battlestar Galactica,” “Outlander,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”), who appeared at Comic-Con today to discuss his career.

Moore reportedly confirms (via Culture Crave) that the show’s first season will run ten episodes and be set in the more recent Norse era of the games as opposed to the Ancient Greek setting of the earlier titles.

Thus, the story will focus on Kratos and his son Atreus, with the aim being to emulate the tone of the game. Scripts are still being written for the show, which won’t begin shooting until next year at the earliest.

Game director Cory Barlog is actively involved, and the series has already been renewed for a second season. Talking with IGN, Moore spoke about the show’s tone:

“The tone of the show is trying to emulate the tone of the game, which is there’s this epic journey, this heartfelt story of these two men setting out on this thing to honor the memory of his wife, Atreus’ mother. So, it has this emotional heart, but there’s also a sense of history about who Kratos is, a mystery about his past, what he represents, and the emotions he’s going through. So there’s a weight to it, but not so much weight that there’s not enjoyment along the way and there’s spectacle and there’s lots of things going on in this world.”

He also confirmed he’s tried, unsuccessfully several times, to play the game. It was watching the cut scenes edited together that drew him to the project; he “really responded to the characters,” and the story of father and son was “just emotional, and it was different, and I hadn’t seen anything like that before”.

Sony Pictures Television is producing the project for Amazon Prime.

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HBO Max has set next week, specifically Thursday November 19th, as the premiere date for “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion” unscripted special exclusively on that streaming service.

The special brings the Banks family back together thirty years after the sitcom’s debut. Actor Will Smith broke the news himself on his social media feeds and dropped the trailer for the special.

Smith is joined in the special by Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Alfonso Ribeiro along with recurring co-star DJ Jazzy Jeff. Janet Hubert, who played Aunt Viv, also sits down with Smith for the first time in 27 years for an emotional and candid conversation.

HBO Max is the exclusive subscription VOD home of the full original “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” series library in the United States.

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In July 1968, ethologist John B. Calhoun built a “mouse utopia,” a metal enclosure 9 feet square with unlimited food, water, and nesting material. He introduced four pairs of mice, and within a year they had multiplied to 620. But after that the society began to fall apart — males became aggressive, females began neglecting their young, and the weaker mice were crowded to the center of the pen, where resources were scarce. After 600 days the females stopped reproducing and the males withdrew from them entirely, and by January 1973 the whole colony was dead. Even when the population had returned to its former levels, the mice’s behavior had remained permanently changed.

There were no predators in the mouse universe; the only adversity was confinement itself. Calhoun felt that his experiment held lessons as to the potential dangers of human overpopulation, and he urged his colleagues to study the effects of high population density on human behavior. “Our success in being human has so far derived from our honoring deviance more than tradition,” he said. “Now we must search diligently for those creative deviants from which, alone, will come the conceptualization of an evolutionary designing process. This can assure us an open-ended future toward whose realization we can participate.”

(Thanks, Pål.)