Week in Geek: ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 trailer is here

The Last of Us Season 2 trailer is here, and we don’t get to rush this. Here’s the week in geek.

Zuck is in hot water yet again after he announced Meta is doing away with fact-checking. The LA fires has put a stop to filming for multiple projects. The latest Assassin’s Creed has faced another delay. And we finally get to see Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby in all her glory in the very first trailer for The Last of Us Season 2. 

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Cynthia Erivo wants to play Storm, Armie Hammer is playing “The Dark Knight”, Meta is saying goodbye to fact-checking, and The Last of Us Season 2 trailer is here. Here’s what you may have missed this week in geek. 

Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta is ending fact-checking on its platforms

In a move that many have seen as bowing to the misinformation the incoming Trump administration is set to proliferate, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will stop using third-party fact-checkers on its social media platforms. That means Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Instead, it will take its lead from Musk’s X, already a big red flag, and “rely on its users to correct inaccurate and false posts” as The New York Times put it. Many have decried the situation. Even President Joe Biden called it “shameful”.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed again

Ubisoft took to its social media last week to announce that the upcoming Assassin’s Creed game has been delayed yet again. The launch date has been pushed back to March 10. It was originally slated for release on November of last year before being pushed back to February of this year, and now March. “We believe a few additional weeks are needed to implement that [community] feedback and ensure an even more ambitious and engaging day-one experience,” said their statement. 

Filming has halted for multiple shows due to the LA fires

The wildfires are continuing to ravage LA, displacing many of its residents, destroying many homes, and taking many lives. Also affected, though definitely not priorities right now, are the production of shows like Fallout Season 2 and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The Critics Choice Awards has also been postponed as well as the voting for the Oscars. With firefighters still trying to get the fires under control, it’s unclear when production will resume again.

Armie Hammer is playing The Dark Knight directed by Uwe Boll

Perhaps the scariest collection of words one could read or write, Variety reported that Armie Hammer will star as a crime-fighting vigilante in a movie directed by the infamous Uwe Boll titled The Dark Knight. The movie is not about the DC superhero though the character being a vigilante sounds suspiciously similar. The pairing of Boll and Hammer also doesn’t help the film’s popularity even if it hasn’t been made yet. Boll’s films have been widely panned and Hammer has been the centre of controversy for the past few years. It bear mentioning though that Hammer was set to play the actual Batman years ago in the canceled Justice League: Mortal, which was set to be directed by George Miller. 

The first trailer for The Last of Us Season 2 dropped

We got our first harrowing and heartbreaking glimpse of the upcoming second season of The Last of Us, which is set to premiere sometime in April. The trailer gives us our first good look at Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby and a few glimpses at Joel and Ellie played by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. 

Cynthia Erivo wants to be the MCU’s Storm

It seems like Cynthia Erivo wants to continue defying gravity but as another character this time. At the gala of the National Board of Review, Erivo said, “I really want to play Storm. I know it sounds frivolous but I think we haven’t uncovered how grand she is and all of that inner turmoil that she has, so I think there’s a world where we could do something like that.”⁠