X-MEN '97 CREATOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT 5TH EPISODE04/14/24 @ 11:47 am EST
Source: Twitter | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentEven though he is no longer working on the series after being let go by Marvel Studios,
X-Men ’97 creator
Beau DeMayo broke his silence to speak about the shocking fifth episode of the series. DeMayo wanted to give context to the ending and how everything was specifically done to set this up. He posted on Twitter: “Lotta questions and so I’ll momentarily break silence to answer. Episode 5 was the centerpiece of my pitch to Marvel in November 2020. The idea being to have the X-Men mirror the journey that any of us who grew up on the original show have experienced since being kids in the 90s. The world was a seemingly safer place for us, where a character like Storm would comment on how skin-based racism was ‘quaint’ in One Man’s Worth [the season 4 premiere of the OG series]. For the most part, to our young minds, the world was a simple place of right and wrong, where questions about identity and social justice had relatively clear-cut answers.” DeMayo then shifts to how everything changed after September 11th, 2001. “Things weren’t so safe anymore. Grassroots populist movements began to rise around the world as a whole nation struggled to deal with collective trauma and fracture at the seams of every diverse demographic. The effects we still feel today, and have only been exacerbated by more collective traumas like COVID or several recessions.” His plan for the series was to reflect on similar attacks in American history. “Yes, it looked like Gambit’s story was going a specific direction. The crop top was chosen to make you love him. Him pulling off his shirt was intentional. There’s a reason he told Rogue any fool would suffer her hand in a dance, even if it ended up not being him suffering. But if events like 9/11, Tulsa, Charlottesville, or Pulse Nightclub teach us anything, it’s that too many stories are often cut far too short. I partied at Pulse. It was my club. I have so many great memories of its awesome white lounge. It was, like Genosha, a safe space for me and everyone like me to dance and laugh and be free. I thought about this a lot when crafting this season and this episode, and how the gay community in Orlando rose to heal from that event. Like many of us who grew up on the OG cartoon, the X-Men have now been hit hard by the realities of an adult and unsafe world. Life’s happened to them. And they, like we did, will have to decide which parts of themselves they will cling to and which parts they’ll let go of in order to do what they’ve been telling humanity to do: face an uncertain future they never saw coming. As Trask told Cyclops in the premiere: ‘you have no idea what it’s like to be left behind by the future.’ Now the X-Men do, and like each of us, they’ll have to weigh whether this is a time for social justice — or as Magneto preached at his trial — is it a time for social healing.”
A PEEK AT 'BLOOD SQUAD SEVEN' #1, NEW SERIES SPINNING OUT OF 'DUTCH'04/29/24 @ 3:22 pm EST
Source: Image Comics | Categories: Image | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentImage Comics is pleased to reveal a sneak peek at the highly anticipated
Blood Squad Seven by Joe Casey (
MCMLXXV, Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker) and Paul Fry (
Spider-Man 2099, Star Wars) set to hit shelves this May from Image Comics. Spinning out of the recent
Dutch miniseries, this upcoming launch will explore ’90s superteam dynamics through a contemporary lens and feature surprise cameo appearances from some recognizable fan-favorite Image characters.
Thirty years ago, Blood Squad Seven was America’s most popular superhero team. Its members were seen on television, on magazine covers, scoring million-dollar endorsement deals…. They were celebrities and they were everywhere.
But that was then... this is now. And so, a new generation of modern-day heroes takes up the mantle—or perhaps, the poisoned chalice—fulfilling a promise made decades ago: to be the heroes that a fractured America needs.
While deconstructions of superhero nostalgia typically center around the classic characters of the Silver Age,
Blood Squad Seven will delve deep into ’90s comic book themes with this reimagining of what would happen if heroes from that decade returned to action after a 30-year absence.
Variant covers for each issue of Blood Squad Seven will be provided by an army of celebrated artists, including: Chris Weston (
Ministry of Space), Nick Pitarra (
The Manhattan Projects), Jim Rugg (Street Angel), Chris Cross (Captain Marvel), Elizabeth Torque (Captain America: Secret Empire), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Cory Walker (Invincible), Ryan Quackenbush (Junior Baker the Righteous Faker), Mirko Colak (Punisher MAX), Chris Sprouse (Tom Strong), Dustin Nguyen (Little Monsters), and many more.
Blood Squad Seven #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, May 22:
Cover A by Paul Fry - Lunar Code 0324IM161
Cover B by Chris Weston - Lunar Code 0324IM162
Cover C (1:10) by Nick Pitarrra - Lunar Code 0324IM163
Cover D (1:20) by Jim Rugg - Lunar Code 0324IM164
Cover E (1:50) by Fry - Lunar Code 0324IM165
Blood Squad Seven will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
Check out DYNAMIC FORCE'S interview with BLOOD SQUAD SEVEN writer JOE CASEY by Byron Brewer.
https://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/interviews.html?showinterview=IN04112484115 'MUFASA: THE LION KING': DISNEY REVEALS FIRST PREQUEL TRAILER04/29/24 @ 3:09 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Categories: Disney | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentDisney has dropped a teaser for
Mufasa: The Lion King, a prequel for the studio’s 2019 photorealistic version of the animated 1994 classic
The Lion King.Directed by Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins (
Moonlight), the film sees the baboon Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to his granddaughter Kiara. According to the trailer description, the story will be told in flashbacks and follows Mufasa (meaning ‘king’ in Swahili) as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka—the heir to a royal bloodline. The film is being released December 20, 2024. (via
Deadline)
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/MjQG-a7d41Q ANOTHER STORE WILL STOP CARRYING PHYSICAL MEDIA04/28/24 @ 3:00 pm EST
Source: Variety | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentIs the future of physical media coming to an end? It used to be that DVD and Blu-Ray sales were the saving grace for some movies and you could walk into various stores and browse by genre in the same way you could for music. But like the music stores of the past, the days of swinging by your local shop and picking up the latest release are fading fast. Last year Netflix announced they were no longer doing the movie-by-mail program, so they wouldn’t be buying any more DVDs and Best Buy announced they were removing their Music/Movie sections as well. Now Target has come out and said they would be doing the same this year. A lot of studios have moved away from creating physical media, the exception being Disney who just made a deal with a third party to create their media and it has led to releases of
WandaVision,
Loki,
Moon Knight, and
the Mandalorian with SteeleBook editions. And when you purchase a movie or album digitally, there is always the chance that the hosting service you bought it on goes out of business, you will lose your purchases. While I don’t think there are any clear-cut answers here yet, I think the discussion definitely needs to be had. Physical media may seem antiquated to some, but when you computer crashes, your internet goes out or a company files bankruptcy… physical media may start looking a whole lot better.
MORE SOCIAL MEDIA DRIVEN SPECULATION FOR DEADPOOL AND SUPERMAN04/28/24 @ 2:37 pm EST
Source: Threads | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentThe ouroboros created by the success of Marvel Studios is continuing with the latest round of speculation driven by nothing. With Marvel and other superhero films becoming so popular that it led to websites and YouTube channels focused on them and now those places need to keep feeding content to their viewers. So, when
Michael B. Jordan reposts the trailer for the upcoming
Deadpool & Wolverine, we get stories of how this means he is going to return as Johnny Storm from the 2015
Fantastic Four film. Jordan did play a version of the Human Torch, but he’s also played Kilmonger in
Black Panther so he could return as either character… or he could just be promoting the next movie from Marvel because he feels connected to the studio? This is the same type of thing as
James Gunn posting the original Superman logo to social media last week and everyone running around trying to figure out what it means. It could just mean that Gunn had some free time and wanted to post something Superman related. This week he posted the bloodied fist of a Green Lantern as drawn by
Dave Johnson. There are now articles trying to figure out what this means. He also posted a picture of his cat and then his two dogs… I’m sure this is supposed to mean we’re getting a Krypto & Streaky movie soon…
GUNN HAS TO DEBUNK YET ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY04/28/24 @ 2:13 pm EST
Source: Bleeding Cool | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentIn an interview the other day,
Nathan Fillion told the story of how he found out that he was going to be playing Guy Garner / Green Lantern in the upcoming
Superman movie. The problem is that he made a slight error in his story, and it has led to a lot of online controversy. In the interview he said he ran into
James Gunn at the premiere of
Suicide Squad and was told there. Gunn took to social media to correct the statement, saying that it took place at the
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 premiere instead. This made
Zak Snyder fans come out and claim that Fillion’s story proves that Gunn had been lying about
Henry Cavill and that now he was just trying to cover it up with his post. Supposedly the lie came about when Gunn said that he had no interest in taking over the DCU until
Peter Safran came on board to do the “exec stuff” and could leave Gunn to do the creative stuff. Gunn stated he was confused and not sure who is supposed to have lied, he also made it clear that his Superman pitch was always geared for a new Superman from the beginning so it doesn’t really matter at which event Fillion found out, Gunn was never lined up to make a Cavill lead film.
LATE 90S RADIO CHARACTER TO 2024 ANIMATED SERIES04/27/24 @ 11:36 am EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentBeing in Los Angeles in the late 90s gave you access to a local radio station, KROQ and their morning show Kevin & Bean. While the show was on for just shy of thirty years, it is notable for a couple of the people who made their name there before moving on. Impressionist and frequent Kevin Smith collaborator Ralph Garman was on the show from 1999 to 2017 and Matt “Money” Smith was on from 1999 to 2006 before going to work at ESPN. But the two biggest names were Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel was “Jimmy the Sports Guy” from 1994 to 1999 before leaving with Carolla to start The Man Show before creating Win Ben Stein’s Money and eventually getting his own late-night variety show on ABC. Comedian Carolla was on the show from 1995 to 1997 as a character named Mr. Birchum, a woodshop teacher who would call in to give messages to his students. That character is coming back in a new animated series for the Daily Wire. And joining Carolla will be a voice cast that includes: Megyn Kelly, Brett Cooper, Roseanne Barr, Danny Trejo, Rob Riggle, Patrick Warburton, Tyler Fischer, Alonzo Bodden, Kyle Dunnigan and Jay Mohr. It was recently announced that Sage Steele would be replacing Candace Owens who recently left the news platform. The show is set to premiere on May 12 on the DailyWire+.
HOW THE DEAD BOY DETECTIVES WORK IN THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE04/27/24 @ 11:12 am EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentNew on Netflix is the
Dead Boy Detectives, based on the comics from
The Sandman creator
Neil Gaiman. It follows a pair of ghosts who instead of crossing over into the afterlife, decide to stay and help other phantoms with their problems. In the comics, the boys exist in the same world as Morpheus and the other characters from
The Sandman, which is the plan here as well, but because of timing the producers needed to tweak a few things. Showrunner Steve Yockey said: “We knew we wanted to hang on to the boys’ backstory as much as we could. We obviously couldn’t do the full “Season of Mists” backstory, because they have not done that on
The Sandman yet. And we were trying to exist within
The Sandman universe without stepping on any toes. So we had to slightly tweak their backstories. We held on to the friendship as the core thing, and obviously the detective agency. And then Crystal, to a certain extent, has the same backstory from the comics. Everybody else is either a new creation or a new version of something that was in the comic books. We did a lot of reappropriating and moving things around. So it will feel familiar to readers of the comic book, but also hopefully surprise them in good ways.” But they did keep how the ghosts work directly from the comics. “The rules about how ghosts operate are laid out like in a two-page spread in the comic book, where it’s like, ‘Here are the ghost rules.’ So we took that and we ran with it. Then we did everything in our power to just work that internal logic pretty rigorously. But these rules are the rules.” As for the theme of the series, Yockey gave what might be the best elevator pitch line ever, “I’ve said from the beginning that we were trying to make
The Hardy Boys on acid.”
RUSSO BROS REACT TO RDJ'S COMMENTS ABOUT RETURNING TO MCU04/27/24 @ 10:44 am EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentRecently we reported that
Robert Downey Jr. has shown interest in returning to the role of Tony Stark / Iron Man in the future. The problem is that Iron Man sacrificed himself at the end of
Avengers: Endgame, something that the directors of the movie mentioned when asked about RDJ’s comments.
Anthony Russo told
GamesRadar, “I don’t know how they would do it. I don’t know what the road to that would be.”
Joe Russo added, “I mean, we closed that book, so it would be up to them to figure out how to reopen it.” And previously
Kevin Feige had said, “We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again. We all worked very hard for many years to get to that, and we would never want to magically undo it in any way.” So, that’s the end of that, right? Probably not as anyone who reads comics know that a character death only lasts until the sales start to drop and if the MCU continues to have a few underperforming films, I would expect the writers would come up with a way for RDJ to suit up again.
‘KRAVEN THE HUNTER’ HEADS TO DECEMBER, ‘KARATE KID’ TO CHOP NEXT SUMMER IN SONY RELEASE CHANGES04/26/24 @ 9:41 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Categories: MIsc | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentSony has pushed its reboot of
Karate Kid from December 13 this year to May 30, 2025. This has created a bit of a backward domino effect but won’t rob the year of theatrical releases. Backfilling
Karate Kid‘s spot is Sony/Marvel’s
Kraven the Hunter, which goes from August 30, the Labor Day weekend frame, to December 13. The Aaron Taylor-Johnson movie will have Imax and PLF screens.
Kraven the Hunter will be the only R-rated movie during the holidays, directed by J.C. Chandor, it will go up that frame against Warner Bros’ animated
Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim. The plus here on
Karate Kid‘s move: The movie will now follow the sixth and final season of
Cobra Kai, which was delayed due to the strike. The summer date will see 50% K-12 out on its opening day with great family-film spacing. Warner Bros has the weekend reserved for an untitled movie. Through five movies, the
Karate Kid cinema franchise counts north of $620 million worldwide. (via
Deadline)
'DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: WWIII' #1 HITS STANDS WITH SPECIAL VARIANT04/26/24 @ 9:35 pm EST
Source: Marvel | Categories: Deadpool and Wolverine | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a Comment The two most talked-about comic book icons of the year are co-starring in their latest team-up-series—DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: WWIII. Brought to you by two of the characters’ most legendary creators, writer Joe Kelly and artist Adam Kubert, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: WWIII is a three-issue epic that’s a must-have for fans and a perfect entry point for newcomers to Wade and Logan’s comic book adventures. The debut issue hits stands next week, and to celebrate this highly-anticipated launch, comic shops will receive a special surprise DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: WWIII variant cover! The Promo Surprise Variant Cover is an all-new take on acclaimed artist Gabriele Dell’Otto’s regular variant cover that features Wolverine in his beloved brown costume. WADE WILSON AND LOGAN AT THE ENDS OF THE EARTH - AND EACH OTHER'S THROATS! The most intensely mismatched team-up in comics and pop culture - the best there is and the merc with the mouth - undergoes a radical change in this three-part, globe-spanning saga for the ages! The mysterious Delta believes in change. Change is good. But as he sets his sights on Deadpool, and Wolverine is caught up in the plot, is the third time really the charm, or the curse? Get ready for WWIII to erupt on the scene with the wildest duo in comics! The DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE: WWIII Promo Surprise Variant Cover is the latest complimentary cover delivered from Marvel to show appreciation for retailers and build excitement for readers. Check out Dell’Otto’s variant cover below and inquire with your local comic shop regarding availability.