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Things We Saw Today: Please Stand By Trailer Will Make Your Trekkie Heart Feel All the Feels

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I really, really need to see this movie. Please Stand By tells the story of a young woman with autism (played by Dakota Fanning), who’s super-into Star Trek and “runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood.” This trailer totally appeals to me as a Star Trek fan, as a writer, and as someone with autism in her family. Also, female lead and mostly-female main cast. My seeing this movie is totally logical. It comes to theaters, On Demand, iTunes, and Amazon on January 26th.

  • Christiane Amanpour’s show will be replacing Charlie Rose’s show on PBS. Good. I mean, sexual harassment allegations against Rose aside, he’s also a terrible interviewer and journalist. This is long overdue. (via The Huffington Post)
  • In “of course they knew” news, here’s more about the inside story behind Matt Lauer and his ousting from NBC. Of course they knew. (via Vanity Fair)
  • So…Disney could be buying Fox; the latest piece in their plan for global media domination. (via ComicBook.com)
  • LGBTQIA-positive manga My Brother’s Husband is getting the live-action TV treatment. (via Kotaku)
  • Are you a teen writer who writes smart feminist pieces that would be worthy of Ms. Magazine? Well Ms. Magazine is looking for YOU! CLICK HERE for the deets! (via Ms. Magazine)
  • Need another podcast to listen to? Marvel is getting into the scripted podcast game with a Serial-like podcast called The Long Night, starring Richard Armitage as Wolverine. (via io9)

What have you seen out there today?

(image: Magnolia Pictures)

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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.