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A new take on 'Pretty Little Liars' is officially coming to HBO Max, Zack Snyder is proceeding with his plans for a new 'Justice League' shoot and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss is adapting 'The Three-Body Problem.'

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00:00Here today's top stories first got a secret. Can you keep it? A new take on Pretty Little Liars is

00:05officially coming to HBO Max. As THR exclusively reported earlier this month, a new take on the

00:11former Freeform hit has been picked up straight to series at HBO Max. Riverdale showrunner Roberto

00:16Aguirre-Sacasa is spearheading the series which is titled Pretty Little Liars Original Sin. The

00:21series will take place miles away from Rosewood but within the existing PLL universe in a brand

00:26new town with a new generation of Little Liars. This take is said to lean into suspense and horror

00:31and weave in new unexpected elements. Next, director Zack Snyder is proceeding with his plans for a new

00:37Justice League shoot for his Snyder Cut version of the film amid star Ray Fisher's claims against

00:42Joss Whedon, the director who took over for Snyder. THR's Neha Joy has more. Snyder is working with

00:47Warner Media's HBO Max on restoring his version of the 2017 film he had to exit due to a family

00:53tragedy. The shoot, which will turn the Snyder Cut into a four-episode limited series, is expected

00:58to bring back Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, as well

01:04as Fisher as Cyborg for new scenes. The latter is noteworthy because Fisher is in a public dispute

01:09with Warner Media's sister division Warner Brothers, which he accuses of permitting Whedon, who took over

01:14from Snyder, to engage in misconduct and abuse while reshooting Justice League. Fisher also claimed

01:20that executives John Berg and Geoff Johns, who both have since left the studio, enabled Whedon's

01:25behavior. Netflix's high-profile plan to have Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss

01:30adapt the best-selling sci-fi trilogy The Three-Body Problem as being challenged by a group of

01:35Republican senators. In a letter sent to Netflix chief content officer and co-CEO Ted Sarandos

01:40on Wednesday, the lawmakers allege that the streamer would be, quote, normalizing China's

01:44mass imprisonment of Uyghur Muslims in the country's northwestern province of Xinjiang if it were to

01:49work with the trilogy's author. The senator just quoted a link the interview the author gave to

01:52The New Yorker in 2019, in which he responded to a question about China's mass internment of

01:57Muslims by saying, Would you rather that they be hacking away at bodies at train stations and

02:01schools in terrorist attacks? If anything, the government is helping their economy and trying

02:05to lift them out of poverty. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Netflix for comment.

02:09For more on all these stories, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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