Devin Meenan
Expertise
Film History, Marvel Comics, Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Devin makes a habit of tracking every movie he watches for the first time each year and bringing the count up the following year.
- While writing for /Film, Devin interviewed Dan Perri, title sequence designer for "Star Wars," "Taxi Driver," and a dozen other classic films.
- Devin's essay on Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter" was published in print by Film Matters Magazine, "The Magazine For the Future Film Scholars."
Experience
Devin's writing ranges from entertainment criticism to news reporting. To pursue his passion, he first wrote movie reviews recreationally at Letterboxd and for his university's student paper, "The Denisonian." He has since taken up freelancing and has written for IGN, Comic Book Resources, Film Matters Magazine, and of course /Film.
Education
Devin holds a Bachelor of Arts in cinema and English. He graduated cum laude from Denison University, located in Granville, Ohio.
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Stories By Devin Meenan
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Mutant school is back in session for the X-Men and the young Outliers in our exclusive preview of Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men #6.
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This Winona ryder movie from the late 1980s was a box office flop, but the actress appeared to be unaware of this at the time.
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Matt Damon was not pleased with Tony Gilroy's first draft of the script for The Bourne Ultimatum, calling it "terrible," "embarrassing," and "a career-ender."
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It's hard to imagine Tropic Thunder working as well without Tom Cruise playing Les Grossman, but that's almost what happened.
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Sandor Clegane was played by Rory McCann throughout Game of Thrones, but three different actors played his brother Gregor 'The Mountain' Clegane.
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Did you know The Boys comic series featured a cameo from a main character from another popular comic by writer Garth Ennis?
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The Boys comic books pay their respects to a classic Clint Eastwood Western that explores similar themes about masculinity and violence.
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Comic books are usually synonymous with superhero stories, but the robots in disguise are currently giving cape culture a run for their money.
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James Marsters, who played fan favorite vampire Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, once had a disastrous audition for a Star Trek movie.
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Futurama originally had another robot as a main character in addition to Bender, but he only became a minor robot with a couple appearances on the show.
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We've got an exclusive preview look at the Marvel Comics issue Phoenix #5, and you're going to want to scoop this one up!
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Zapp Brannigan wears quite the short miniskirt throughout Futurama, but the original design actually didn't intend to have him showing so much leg.
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The Transformers comics are re-imagining a classic storyline from the original Transformers cartoon involving the treacherous Decepticon Starscream.
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Marvel fans have been eagerly hoping for the return of Scarlet Witch, but Elizabeth Olsen has said she'll only return under one condition.
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Stephen King once lent his talents as a writer to Marvel Comics on a special X-Men issue featuring a very scary (and very King-esque) villain.
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Family Guy creator and song-and-dance man Seth MacFarlane's favorite movie is an Oscar-winning 1960s musical he's parodied several times in the animated comedy.
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Actor Hugh Grant researched a real serial killer to better play his villainous role in the new A24 horror movie Heretic.
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Mass Effect, only one of the best sci-fi video game properties of all time, is finally being adapted into a TV series for Prime Video.
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Our exclusive preview for Uncanny X-Men #5 reveals what happens to Rogue after battling a pretty terrifying new Marvel Comics villain.
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Black Adam and Superman are both super-strong, nearly invulnerable, and capable of flight - but who packs more of a punch? Let's investigate.
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Working on this 1993 Batman comic is when Mike Mignola realized the types of stories he wanted to tell, and that experience inspired him to create Hellboy.
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In our exclusive preview of X-Men #7, Cyclops gets some tough love from Magneto as he struggles to become a leader to the X-Men.
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It's impossible to think about Star Trek without Spock, but studio executives were afraid of something truly absurd and almost changed the iconic character.
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Harley Quinn was famously created for Batman: The Animated Series, but she's far from the only Batman villain to originate in the realm of animation.
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Before The Boys stars Erin Moriarty and Colby Minifie played Annie and Ashley, they portrayed two rather different characters on a Marvel TV show.
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Jason Alexander thinks he, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Michael Richards damaged the economics of TV when they made a deal for more money at the height of Seinfeld.
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One of Marvel's greatest heroes is crossing over with one of 20th Century Studios most formidable foes and we have the first look at the comic's third issue.