Worlds of DC replaced the DC Extended Universe as a label for the shared universe of DC films. The idea seems to be replicating the DC multiverse, allowing the films to exist in the same universe without directly affecting one another, at least initially. This could explain the multiple Jokers, Miller & Gustin’s different Flash portrayals, & a new Batman (replacing Ben Affleck).
Batman: Hush and Justice League vs. the Fatal Five animated series are coming in the Fall. Hush was Mark Waid and Jim Lee’s beloved early 2000’s Batman story about an obsessive childhood friend of Bruce’s. The Fatal Five is something I don’t know about but I presume you can google as well as I can. Sounds boring though.
Aquaman was well-received but downplayed Momoa’s performance. To be fair, he’s a known commodity and the rest of the cast is as if not more talented than he, so featuring those actors and actresses makes sense from a marketing perspective. Much attention has been placed on the tonal change from dark BvS and JL to this, more consistent w WW. I didn’t love WW, but it was clearly massively improved over the terrible Snyder era.
WW 1984 also had footage but it showed neither Kristen Wiig nor Pedro Pascal’s villains. Patty Jenkins did hint that more of her powers will be on display since she’s now “at full power” whatever that means. Hard to imagine her going nuclear on Cheetah who is more of a hand-to-hand combatant than the GOD she was fighting in the last film. But here we go.
I just watched the Shazam trailer and I have to say that this looks awesome. Zach Levi was a blast in Chuck, a show that ended way too soon. He appears to have the same pathos here. The kids seem great. It reminds me a bit of Spider-Man and the Ant-Man franchise which, to me, is the most consistent Marvel product atm. I’m here for it. Check out the trailer.
First looks for a live action Kim Possible & the second Godzilla film featuring Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown & completion of Robbie Williams pilot for a Judge Dredd tv show were all news at SDCC on Saturday.
Luke Cage, Iron Fist, & Daughters of the Dragon (Misty Knight & Colleen Wing) are getting Marvel Digital Firsts series from no one you’ve ever heard of. The Vision is getting a sequel to the Tom King/Gabriel Walta story from “Ask me about my feminist agenda” Mockingbird scribe Chelsea Cain. Something is happening with Gwenpool, a character that exists for no apparent reason.
Rumors of an Ironheart treatment script surfaced over the weekend. Obviously Robert Downey Jr. can’t continue in the role of Tony Stark forever. Someone will have to take over the suit at some point. No word from Marvel to confirm or deny and nothing approaching a release date or start date even exists.
Slow news day on Saturday but we have an X-Men panel later today. I’d expect at least one more major announcement from the House of Ideas beyond the obvious X-Men announcement.
Not much out of Image this weekend. Could be a couple of things from them today too. I wouldn’t be shocked if the comics folks want their news to come out late Sunday so it shows up as front page news on Monday rather than being drowned out by movie and TV news releasing Friday and Saturday.
Update:
Uncanny X-Men is back in the Fall, but no team is announced today. What. The. Fudgesicles. The Fall is only a couple of months away, Cebulski. You should probably make a gosh darned decision on the team. I’m annoyed in Cade you couldn’t tell.
X-Men Black: a series of one shots running in October w J. Scott Campbell covers.
Chris Claremont & Dalibor Talajic on Magneto, Juggernaut by Robbie Thompson and Shawn Crystal, Mojo by Scott Auckerman and Nick Bradshaw, and Mystique by Seanan McGuire and Marco Failla.
Most intriguing, Leah Williams (X-Men Gold Annual) & Chris Bachalo on Emma Frost. Leah has been leaking Frost info for a couple of weeks on Twitter & is pumped for the project. Bachalo is a fan fav.
Update 2:
Update 2:
Tim Seeley is writing Shatterstar. Womp womp.
Astonishing X-Men will bring back Banshee, who has been dead but apparently Beast put him in a freezer bc what could possibly go wrong w that?
X-Men Red will be in Atlantis. It sounds dumb but Tom Taylor is writing it so I’m a believer.
Wolverine will have a team. That’s all of the Wolverine news from the panel. But hooray McNiven, who we found out about Friday.
More news as it breaks today...we’ll mark it as update.
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