Lucasfilm takes out Matt Smith from the cast list of ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’

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Doctor Who star Matt Smith might be out of the upcoming Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker. Or is he? Well, for now, he has been taken out by Lucasfilm from the cast list on the film’s international website. We’ve seen most of the new cast in a recent feature on Vanity Fair but Smith was nowhere to be found. But since rumours of the actor being involved in the film surfaced about a year ago, he has remained coy about his involvement in the film. Some fans are speculating that his role might involve the return of Emperor Palpatine. It came as a shock when the villain showed up in the first trailer for the film, but director J.J. Abrams confirmed that we will be seeing him in this film. Now, as for Smith, at this point, we’re going to have to wait and see if he does indeed show up.

‘The World’s End’ director Edgar Wright slams Netflix for spoiling a major plot twist of the film

The trailers on Netflix are particularly useful for when you want to decide what to watch next. Unfortunately, these don’t seem to be spoiler-free. And that’s what writer/director Edgar Wright is complaining about. His film The World’s End got a major plot twist revealed in the auto-playing trailer. If you haven’t seen it yet, Wright claims this “would definitely ruin the first time for anyone watching it.”

The 2013 science fiction film stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, and Rosamund Pike. They are out on a hometown pub crawl when they were forced to deal with an alien invasion. The film is the final entry in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy.

@Netflix also shows the key twist to ‘The World’s End’ as the automatic trailer on the page. So tough shit if you wanted to go in blind.

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) May 25, 2019

Source: Deadline

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Huawei has also been barred from the SD Association

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The latest organization to take Huawei out as a member is the SD Association, a trade group that helps standardize SD and microSD card specs. The group confirmed that the Chinese company was taken out because of Trump’s executive order. What this means is future Huawei phones and laptops wouldn’t get official SD or microSD card support. Of course, these devices can still work. But the company won’t be able to use the standard for future products.

The SD Association joins a growing list of companies and groups to cut ties with Huawei. At the moment, we list down Google, ARM, Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and the Wi-Fi Alliance. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, Huawei has also voluntarily left the JEDEC, which is a semiconductor standards group known for defining RAM specifications.