Movies love a prophetic hero. It's not enough that a protagonist does good deeds and sacrifices to save the many, but they must have greatness thrust upon them. These are the leads of movies that ...

How do you like your chosen ones? Dead by the end of the book? A ladies’ man? Fighting the institutions that put them there in the first place? The trope of the chosen one is very popular in the ...

Everyone has seen this story in movies: an ordinary character discovers they’re special, gets handed an impossible mission, and suddenly has the fate of the world in their hands. The Chosen One has ...

Lucas’ sequel trilogy plans went through many different iterations; he even wrote proposed scripts before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, believing these would increase the studio’s value and help him ...