Things We Saw Today: John Boyega Would Kiss C-3PO’s “Golden Lips” and Other “Kiss, Marry, Kill” Revelations

While promoting Pacific Rim: Uprising, IGN sat down with John Boyega for a round of “Kiss, Marry, Kill.” The one stipulation? His choices were all robots or aliens from cinematic history. I’ve gotta say, I love how game Boyega is for just about anything, and the seriousness with which he considers his choices is hilarious.

• Archie Comics goes Bollywood thanks to a partnership with Graphic India (so, hopefully it will be fun and not ten different kinds of appropriative). (via Film School Rejects)
• The constant discrimination trans people face on a regular basis from their own government is actually harming their mental health on a large scale. (via The Daily Dot)
• Square Enix announced who they’re hiring to work on their Final Fantasy VII remake! (via Kotaku)
• Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole believes that if 2008’s Iron Man came out today, Tony Stark would not nearly be as popular or acceptable. (via CBR.com)
• The City of Baltmore renamed a park that once held a confederate statue that has since been removed after Harriet Tubman. (via Jezebel)
• Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Westworld, a mobile game based on the show, is now accepting pre-registration for its 2018 release! Doesn’t look like anything to me. (via SyFy Wire)

What have you seen out there?

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Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.

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