20th Century Studios Dishes on Possible Speed 3, Master and Commander Prequel: 'We Have a Great Script'

Oceans could be battlefields again if 20th Century Studios has its way. In an interview with THR, studio president Steve Asbell hinted at a possibility of a prequel to the 2003 cult classic."I’m trying so hard," Asbell says. "It’s the first movie I worked on at Fox twenty years ago. We have a great script. It just needs the right director."20th Century Studios really wants to do a Master and Commander prequel. Image source: 20th Century Studios.Asbell's comments will be music to the ears of Master and Commander fans who have been waiting more than 20 years now for a new movie. A prequel makes sense in light of how much time has passed, but there's plenty to mine from the original source material as well, which spans more than 20 novels. We wrote in our rev…

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Responds to Steam Review Bomb Campaign Over Nerf Patch

It’s been a turbulent week for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, its developer, its publisher, and its players. In the same breath as it announced an incredible 4.5 million sales in just over a month, publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive sparked an angry backlash with the release of the hotly anticipated Update 4.0.IGN has reported on the details of this update and why it’s caused so much upset, but in short, it makes a number of significant nerfs to the Space Marines' ability to fight back against the Tyranid horde and Thousand Sons Chaos Marines. The popular PvE co-op mode Operations was made harder, deliberately so, Focus said in the patch notes, after it deemed the missions too easy. The new Lethal difficulty, via a new mechanic that forces players to …

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