Collier Jennings
Location
Seattle, Washington
School
Texas Wesleyan University
Expertise
Comics, TV, Movies
- Collier has a near-encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture including comics, anime, sci-fi, fantasy, and film and TV.
- He's always looking for new angles on pop culture projects to explore.
Experience
Collier Jennings is a freelance writer currently residing in Seattle, Washington. His father introduced him to science fiction at a young age, and it led to his love for all facets of pop culture as well as writing. He uses his knowledge of pop culture to unearth little-known facts and new angles on film and television projects. Prior to joining /Film, he served as a freelancer for Comic Book Resources and also currently contributes to But Why Tho? A Geek Community.
Education
In college, Collier took several film classes and learned more about storytelling and filmmaking. He also wrote and directed a short film that sadly remains lost to time.
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Stories By Collier Jennings
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Star Trek: First Contact hit a few bumps in the space-road during production.
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Season 3 of The Boys will be introducing the original Supe, Soldier Boy. Here's how the character, played by Jensen Ackles, differs from the comics.
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Who could play Kratos? You, perhaps? Probably not. Unless...
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Kate Mulgrew returns as a Captain Janeway hologram in Star Trek: Prodigy, and while it's the perfect role for the actor, she had her doubts about taking it.
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"Star Trek: Nemesis" is a strange film. But if the studio had its way, things could have gotten much weirder for Picard and his crew.
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Even though The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series on Disney+ had a respectable reunion, it was still missing a few key Ducks. So what happened?
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The origins of Akira lie in another manga that Katsuhiro Otomo wrote but never completed.
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Spaghetti Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars are now thought of as quintessentially American, but director Sergio Leone broke a lot of Hollywood rules.
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You can't go wrong with referencing The Fugitive.
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Can you imagine those famous feathered locks dodging laser blasts in space?
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The Star Trek: Voyager two-parter "Year of Hell" was originally envisioned as a full season story arc, according to Bryan Fuller.
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Hiromu Arakawa revealed a major manga series that inspired her — and it happens to come from another legendary manga artist.
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Considering how much Star Wars draws from Akira Kurosawa, this comes as no surprise.
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'And they said, "No, no, no, no! Absolutely not."'
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Had Brad Bird hewed closer to the musical adaptation's roots, The Iron Giant would have been a vastly different movie.
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Kevin Feige watched this Kurosawa classic during the making of Spider-Man: Homecoming, and some of its thematic observations rubbed off on the Spider-flick.
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Star Trek and Star Wars: forever opposites, forever chasing each other.
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The dance scene in To Sir, With Love was improvised by Sidney Poitier and his co-star Judy Geeson, who had very little dance experience.
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You won't see Colin Trevorrow in Jurassic World, but you can definitely hear him as a familiar character with roots in Jurassic Park.
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Let's give it up for Jim Gordon, folks!
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'The Tommyknockers is an awful book.'
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A cornball '80s action movie was born from a frightening Stephen King novel.
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Ghostbusters may not have happened if it wasn't for an eager party with $25 million to spare on the film's budget. Here's how it happened.
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'It influenced me a lot with the contrast between beauty and brutality.'
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Jordan Peele made a couple stealthy cameos in Get Out, and one of them actually started a trend that carried on over into his sophomore film, Us.
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'I had never seen a scene from a kung fu fight, and I had never seen a martial artist on film.'