Joe Manganiello Says He 'Will Never Give Up Hope' on His D&D Dragonlance TV Series (IGN)

GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: Joe Manganiello says the Dragonlance door will never close.

GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news this evening. Joe Manganiello says he will never give up hope on his Dragonlance TV series. This just landed. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: The show was cancelled several years ago. He told IGN at Lucca Comics and Games 2026 that the door will never close. ▶

ROXY: Roxy Reel at the drive-in. Five years of work, one cancelled series, and a hope that refuses to be cancelled. I'm already crying. ▶

ROXY: Our file footage shows a tabletop game night, pixel dice mid-roll. He was hired as showrunner and screenwriter for a live-action D&D adaptation. ▶

ROXY: He says the projects were put on the shelf after a change of leadership at Entertainment One. They became nobody's child, in his words. ▶

ROXY: His old boss from HBO, Michael Lombardo, hired him to create the next Game of Thrones. Then Lombardo was gone, and so was a producing partner. ▶

ROXY: He also teased a documentary. My rating for hope: four reels out of five. The fifth is waiting for a trailer. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: A cancelled show with a door that never closes. Greta, is that a hinge problem? ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: It's a hope problem, Grant. ▶

Ghostly statue of 'shrine maiden' discovered at 1,500-year-old burial mound in Japan (Live Science)

GRETA FOOTNOTE: A ghostly clay priestess turns up at a 1,500-year-old Japanese burial mound.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Archaeologists in Japan have unearthed a ghostly human-shaped clay figure at a fifth-century burial mound. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: A statue of a shrine maiden. Greta, is she wearing the little hat? ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: The article doesn't say, Grant. It says the figure may represent a female shaman who guarded a tomb. ▶

NOVA: Nova Quark at the dig site. This figure is about 1,500 years old. In cosmic terms that's a blink, and I'm thrilled. ▶

NOVA: It was found at Nishikaminomiya, northwest of Tokyo, according to a translated statement from Gunma prefectural government. ▶

NOVA: File footage of the site: nearly a dozen burial mounds known as kofun, dated to the fifth and sixth centuries. ▶

DIRECTOR MARGE: Nova, we are off in thirty seconds. Wrap the shrine maiden. ▶

NOVA: The Kofun period ran from about A.D. 300 to 710. And the figure's look suggests a priestess who guarded the tomb. ▶

GRANT BRICKMAN: Guarding a tomb for 1,500 years. Now that's a night shift. I respect that. ▶

Pixels in Brief (PXL)

GRANT BRICKMAN: Three quick headlines, one nightmare face.

GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. ScienceAlert revisits Loab, the nightmare face from 2022. Still no word on its newsletter preferences. ▶

GRETA FOOTNOTE: A former volunteer is suing the Skyblivion mod team, which seeks pro bono aid. Even mods now need lawyers. ▶