The Force is strong with this Eleven. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown discussed her wish-list roles during a recent Rhode Island Comic-Con panel, and she revealed that she would love to play a young Princess Leia in a Star Wars prequel, reports AV Club.
Brown brought up how more Star Wars films are being made and mentioned that she wants a role like Princess Leia. Having starred on multiple paranormal shows — Netflix’s Stranger Things and the BBC’s Intruders — she is interested in pursuing something different.
“I want to do something that’s far from Eleven or Madison,” she said, referring to her best-known characters.
A young Princess Leia seems like an intriguing possibility. After all, Disney is currently working on multiple Star Wars spinoff projects, including a Han Solo-centric prequel starring Alden Ehrenreich. If all goes well, who’s to say that Disney won’t give Leia a prequel of her own?
The film franchise currently offers only pieces of Leia’s backstory. After being born at the end of Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, we know that she was adopted by the Queen Breha of Alderaan and Senator Bail Organa. Then there’s a big gap before her story picks up in the original film, Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope. That definitely leaves a lot of interesting years to fill in.
Brown looks enough like Carrie Fisher to pull off being a young Princess Leia, and she has the acting chops, too. She has proven herself in her role as everyone’s favorite Eggos-loving character, and we expect her to continue doing so when Stranger Things returns for its second season. The actress also starred in Intruders and has appeared in episodes of NCIS, Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, and more.
Watch Brown discuss roles she is interested in below, starting around the 3:20 mark.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?