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Mass Effect 3’s ‘Fall of Earth’ Trailer Makes Me Homesick
Homesick for the Normandy, that is. The Mass Effect series is easily one of my favorites; the story, characters, powers, and world that BioWare has created are all incredibly impressive and I just can’t seem to get enough of it. I’m like a Mass Effect junkie at this point, but a proud one at that. With Mass Effect 3, the world, or in this case, worlds, that many of us have grown to love over the last two games have officially been plunged into war. I remember how difficult it was to take out a single reaper, requiring many of the galaxy’s races to come together to take it out, so the thought of hundreds of Reapers invading seems utterly hopeless. Fortunately, we have Commander Shepard, and he/she is capable of pretty much anything.
Mass Effect 3, the end of Shepard’s trilogy (though you can bet they’ll keep the brand going through spinoff’s and/or another series), is due out on March 6th, 2012. If there wasn’t already so many fantastic games waiting to jump into my open arms this year such a long wait would be painful, but we can make it together. Oh, and that one, two, punch maneuver Shepard uses when he freezes an enemy before shattering them with that nifty blade? Yeah, I can’t fucking wait to do that.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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