Nathan Fillion Stars In & Produces Uncharted Short Film, Bringing Dream Casting To Life

Nathan Fillion, the actor known for his roles as Captain Malcolm in Firefly and as the title character in the crime-comedy Castle, has regularly appeared as the dream choice to play Nathan Drake in the elusive live-action Uncharted film from Sony Pictures. The most recent rumors suggest that Spider-man Homecoming's Tom Holland will be playing a young Nathan in the film, but Fillion has embraced the role in a fan-made short film. Watch the short, which comes to almost fifteen minutes, before Sony inevitably shuts it all down.

The short, spotted by Kotaku, is directed by Allan Ungar and written by Unger and Jesse Wheeler. Producer credits include Ungar, Wheeler, Louis Sallerson, Bruno Marino, and Nathan Fillion himself. In a bit of surprise, Stephen Lang also stars in the short as Victor "Sully" Sullivan. Fillion has a lot on his plate these days with the debut of his new cop show The Rookie, but potentially having Tom Holland build the series of films before a time-jump to an older Drake with Fillion in the role would be interesting.

Holland is related to another instance where a fan-casting was brought to life. Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) was the focus of an online campaign to cast him as Miles Morales and ended up getting a role as Miles's uncle in Spider-man: Homecoming. Whether this is Fillion's official campaign for a role in the movies or simply a treat for fans, we should be glad its here.

Enjoy and let us know what you think in Chatty. Stay tuned to Shacknews for more!

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How Long Is Amazon Prime Day?

While it pales in comparison to Black Friday or even Boxing Day, Amazon’s Prime Day offers customers enrolled in Amazon’s Prime membership program access to a variety of exclusive deals. The event began back during the summer of 2015 when the internet commerce giant promoted the event to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Prime Day features constantly changing deals that run throughout the promotional period. If you are an Amazon Prime member, you’ll have a limited time to act if you want to secure some of these member-exclusive deals for yourself.

How Long Is Amazon Prime Day?

The fun begins for Prime members on July 16 at 3:00 PM ET (12:00 PM PT) for North America. The promotion is expected to run for 36 hours in total. If you have plans to do some discount shopping during Prime Day, you’ll need to complete your purchases by July 18 at 3:00 AM ET (12:00 AM PT). Any product that enjoys a Prime Day discount will return to its normal price beyond this time.

Amazon is offering early access to a variety of deals ahead of the official Prime Day start time. The majority of these offers are for its own products like Fire TV boxes or Alexa-enabled smart speakers, but the deals are hot. Additionally, you can find exclusive offers on things like Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscriptions or discount Prime Video rentals.

Prime Members can get a sneak peek at upcoming deals by visiting the Prime Day landing page. Under the upcoming deals, members can click on the “Watch This Deal” button and Amazon will send a notification when the deal for that specific item goes live. Good luck to all those planning on taking advantage of the Prime Day deals.

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The Council's Third Episode Release Date Announced

In our review, we confirmed that Big Bad Wolf laid a solid foundation for the episodic mystery The Council in its first episode. The review for the second episode will be added to that evolving review soon, but players can go ahead and start preparing for the next step in this thrilling tale. Episode 3 of The Council, called Ripples, releases July 24, 2018.

The new screenshots for Ripples don't reveal too much about the next episode, but the press release says that Louis de Richet will have to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control as characters reach their breaking points. There are more unexplored areas of the mansion in this episode as well.

Episode 3 of The Council releases on July 24, 2018, if you're playing with the season pass. The individual episode will be available two days later on July 26. Stay tuned to Shacknews for additional updates.

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Shacknews Staff Select: Ozzie Mejia

Greetings, travelers. It's resident Hearthstone Legend, esports follower, and all-around good guy Senior Editor, Ozzie Mejia.

As Greg Burke ever-so-tactfully pointed out, I'm the longest-tenured member of the Shacknews staff. This is a fact that's still tough to wrap my head around, considering I got my start as a GameFly intern back in 2010. Working around some of the best in the business like Garnett Lee, Xav de Matos, and Andrew Yoon (RIP, my friend), it's still hard to fathom that I wound up the last person standing out of that crew. I was one of the few to make it through the transition from the GameFly sale to the Asif Khan regime and have been a part of the team ever since. (Well, except for that one year that I went to work for Yahoo, which I returned from with a new perspective on the growing world of esports.)

Arguably, that's probably the biggest difference between me now and when I first began. I attended my first SoCal Regionals back in 2012 and saw the appeal of competitive Street Fighter. Competitive gaming only grew from there, as I've gotten into the world of Overwatch, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Hearthstone, and Rocket League. My first love remains fighting games, primarily Street Fighter, but I do love Super Smash Bros. (both Melee and Smash 4), which has completely changed how I approach those games.

I am the Southern California Shacknews presence and I've had the pleasure to meet several members of our Chatty community. (Megara9, let's meet up whenever I go to NorCal!) I hope to meet more of you soon and take awesome pictures, like the time I met sparkly and his entourage. Enjoy yourselves, be good, and enjoy the Shacknews Select video above. Meet the rest of the staff on our YouTube channel.

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Xbox Games with Gold Live Now, Featuring Death Squared, Splinter Cell Conviction

July's Xbox Live Gold deals are out, and you can snap up some sweet Games with Gold titles right now, if you're an active Xbox Live subscriber. There's a set of four new titles up for grabs that you can start playing today, including Assault Android Cactus, Death Squared, Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, and Splinter Cell Conviction.

Both Death Squared and Assault Android Cactus are Xbox One titles, so unfortunately Xbox 360 owners won't be able to get in on the fun, but they'll be available throughout the entirety of July. Death Squared will only be available starting today and going throughout August 15.

Virtual Fighter 5 Final Showdown and Splinter Cell Conviction are free for Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners throughout July 31, however, so Xbox One owners get the better end of the deal here, by far. As a reminder, you can download these games and play them as long as you're an Xbox Live member, so you may as well go ahead and download them and add them to your collection, even if they're not really your thing.

Out of this batch, you should absolutely check out Splinter Cell Conviction, which is one of the best adventures we've ever gotten out of Sam Fisher. Where's our latest Splinter Cell game, anyway?

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Target Offering Limited-Time Flash Sales During Prime Day

Gamers and online shoppers alike are eagerly awaiting time when all of Amazon's many Prime Day discounts will begin to roll out, but Amazon isn't the only company with plans for big sales that will start today. Target will also be offering its own flash sales on a variety of different products, and we've got a look at some of of the more interesting discounts on televisions, mobile devices, headphones, and other electronics that will be on sale at Target's online store during Prime Day today.

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Target One Day Flash Sale Notable Discounts

Some of the more interesting discounts to be featured during Target's one day flash sale include lowered prices on Apple phones, Google branded electronics, LG and TCL televisions, headphones, video games, and more. Here are some of the highlighted discounts that may be of particular interest to Shacknews readers:

Apple:

• Apple iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone 8 - free gift card up to $250 with qualifying purchases

Google:

• Google Home Mini - $34.00 ($15 discount)
• Google Home - $99.00 ($30 discount)
• Google Chromecast Audio - $25.00 ($10 discount)
• Google Chromecast Ultra - $49.00 ($20 discount)

Headphones:

• Logitech Wired Stereo Headset - $5.49 ($9.50 discount)
• Sony Stamina Wireless Headphones - $59.99 ($20 discount)
• Sony Extra Bass Wireless Bluetooth Headphones - $149.99 ($30 discount)
• Skullcandy Crusher Bluetooth Headphones w/ Microphone - $129.99 ($70 discount - must add to shopping cart)
• Beats X Wireless Earphones - $99.99 ($50 discount - must add to shopping cart)

Televisions:

• LG 55" 4K HDR Smart OLED TV - $2,299.99 ($700 discount)
• LG 65" 4K HDR Smart OLED TV - $3,199.99 ($800 discount)
• TCL 49" 4K HDR Roku Smart TV - $319.19 ($50 discount)
• TCL 55" 4K HDR 120Hz Roku Smart TV - $379.99 ($70 discount)
• TCL 65" 4K HDR 120Hz Roku Smart TV - $599.99 ($150 discount)

Video Games:

• Grand Theft Auto 5 PS4/Xbox One - $19.99 ($40 discount)
• NBA 2K18 PS3/PS4/Xbox One/Switch - $19.99 ($20 discount - includes Early Tip-Off Edition)
• WWE 2K18 PS4/Xbox One/Switch - $29.99 ($10 discount)
• New Nintendo 2DS XL Black/Teal - $129.99 ($20 discount)
• New Nintendo 2DS XL White/Orange - $129.99 ($20 discount - must add to shopping cart)
• Nintendo Switch Super Mario Metal Stand - $15.99 ($4 discount)

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While most of these deals are slated to end later today, readers will note that the deals on Google products are set to run all the way through Saturday, July 21. For everything else, interested buyers should certainly move quickly, as Target will be removing the discounts and introducing new ones tomorrow. For everyone else, of course, there are still plenty of massive Amazon Prime Day discounts to be found.

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Amazon Prime Day: SNES Edition New 3DS XL with Super Mario Kart for $149

Looking for a new addition to your 3DS collection? Look no further, because there's a great deal going on right now via Amazon Prime Day 2018 that'll get you together. Right now, you can pick up the Nintendo New 3DS XL - Super NES Edition with Super Mario Kart for just $149, $50 off its normal asking price.

You can pick up the retro-vicious New 3DS XL via Amazon's Prime Day deal listing, including an AC adapter, since Nintendo doesn't include those pesky things with the systems anymore. Weird! Who'd want to charge up their newly-acquired console, right? No one uses electricity for anything!

Here's the inside of that bad boy, just in case you needed another reason to be interested. 

For more Amazon Prime Day 2018 deals, make sure to keep checking back at Shacknews. We're going to be keeping an eye out for all the goodies on offer today so you don't have to. That's us, doing the dirty work for you!

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