It starts as an interest, then you're a fan, now you're a geek.
As the Star Wars Celebration gets underway today in Anaheim, California, for those of us who could not join in on all the festivities, the fine folks at StarWars.com have given us this live stream! The opening panel, featuring J.J. Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy discussing Episode 7: The Force Awakens, will be brought to you live!
Enjoy!
A new version of Flash Gordon is coming from 20th Century Fox. The script is being written by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay (Star Trek 3) with John Davis (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Predator) and George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau) set to produce the film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, Kingsman: The Secret Service) is in discussions to become the director of the film.
With Daredevil having been a complete and udder success (in this writer's humble opinion, see my review), production for the second Marvel series under the Defenders banner is under way. Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones has begun filming and some images from the set have emerged on Twitter and Instagram:
There was great excitement when DC Comics and Warner Bros. announced that Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones) would be directing the first official live action Wonder Woman film starring Gal Gadot and Diana Prince/Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is to be DC's first female led film and is a very important film in the DC Universe. Unfortunately, however, they will have to find a new director for the film. MacLaren has left the film, according to a statement from the studio.
Marvel Studios has always done a great job in hiring talented writers and directors for its Cinematic Universe. It seems Captain Marvel is following suit. According to The Hollywood Reporter, writers Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) are in talks to write the script about Carol Danvers becoming a super-powered heroine. With Captain Marvel scheduled to be Marvel's first female led film, its important that the story is done very well and sets the table for her joining the Avengers in films to come.
With pre-production ramping up for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse, we're getting news nearly every week. Today we found out via Singer's twitter account that Betsy Braddock aka Psylocke had been cast for the film. Olivia Munn officially joins the already huge cast of mutants for Singer's third installment into this series of X-Men films.
April 10th, 2015 was a momentous day. Netflix and Marvel gave us all thirteen episodes of the first Marvel series to hit the streaming service, Daredevil. The series stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and is just the beginning of a universe designed for Netflix but one that is still tied in with the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. Eventually we'll see A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron First and finally The Defenders. All of that will come in time, today I'm here to tell you what I thought of the first season of Daredevil and yes...it did wash away that horrible taste of the Ben Affleck film of the same name.
In probably the coolest and best news of the day, Variety is reporting that Arrow's own, Stephen Amell has landed the role of Casey Jones for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 film.
After news broke of the casting of Hawkgirl in the upcoming Arrow/The Flash Spin-Off series, we also found out that another new character had been cast as well. Doctor Who alum Arthur Darvill has been cast as Rip Hunter. Who is Rip Hunter? Well, he's a time traveler who's looking to get back to his original timeline. He's the character that was described as "The Traveler" when we heard previously about three new characters we hadn't yet seen on live action television.
With Arrow and The Flash beginning their runs to the season finale, we're starting to get news on casting for the spin-off series that CW has planned for next season. What do we know? We'll see Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller), The Atom (Brandon Routh), and at least one half of Firestorm in the form of Doctor Martin Stein (Victor Garber). We also know that Caity Lotz will be returning in an unknown role. We also now know that the character Kendra Saunders aka Hawkgirl will be joining the super team! She'll be played by Ciara Renée, a Broadway star and recently made an appearance on Law & Order: SVU.
We live in a world where we must be very careful of what we say and who we say it towards. We have to be ever careful of offending every single person who may read our work, see our images, or watch our films. We must be sensitive to everything and everyone. So I’m not surprised to hear that the cover of a comic book has struck a nerve with so many people. The upcoming variant cover to Batgirl issue forty-one shows an image many Batfans will recognize. It’s a callback to the extremely seminal and important book The Killing Joke. It’s in this book that The Joker shoots and paralyzes Barbara Gordon in front of her father, Commission James Gordon. For a very long time after this incident Barbara was confined to a wheelchair and operated as a hero under the name Oracle.
It has felt like time slowed to a crawl as fans of Outlander (Starz) wait for the second half of season one. The midseason finale left us with quite the cliffhanger as Claire is held by the twisted Black Jack.
So on March 12th, all those eager fans had the opportunity (care of PaleyFest) to get excited for the April 4th premiere.
Even without an official name for the series, going only by the name 'Cobalt' during production, the companion series to The Walking Dead has already been given a two season order. The series, which will star Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, and Alycia Debnam Carey, will be set in Los Angeles and focus on these new characters and storylines. The first season will consist of six episodes and premiere on AMC this summer. The second season will air in 2016.