Bleeding Fool |
- Sony’s ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Film May Have Found Its ‘Calypso’
- Cultural Ground Zero: Defusing the Pop Bomb pt 2
- Confirmed: Jodie Whittaker & Chris Chibnall Leaving ‘Doctor Who’
- Flash Film Set Pics Offer a Look at Batfleck’s New Suit & Batcycle
| Sony’s ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Film May Have Found Its ‘Calypso’ Posted: 31 Jul 2021 05:25 AM PDT
Sony Pictures is reportedly eyeing Jodie Turner-Smith for the role of Calypso in Kraven the Hunter. Set to open in theaters in January 2023, Kraven the Hunter is Sony’s next installment in their own cinematic universe, SPUMC (Sony Picture’s Universe of Marvel Characters), and will feature Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the title role. Kraven the Hunter is one of Spider-Man’s most recognizable villains, and he tends to have his own group of supporting players, one of them being Calypso.
Introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man #209 in 1980 by Denny O’Neil and Alan Weiss, Calypso is a voodoo priestess who is often an ally and love interest of Kraven. Calypso was the main villain in Todd McFarlane’s five-issue opening arc “Torment,” whose first issue sold 2.65 million copies and was at the time the best-selling comic book of all time. Calypso has been featured in both Spider-Man: The Animated Series and The Spectacular Spider-Man as well as video game adaptations of Spider-Man 3 and Spider-Man: Shattered Dimension. No other details are known about the character or who else the studio is considering, but the role of Calypso is expected to be a major one in the film.
via Screen Rant The post Sony’s ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Film May Have Found Its ‘Calypso’ appeared first on Bleeding Fool.  |
| Cultural Ground Zero: Defusing the Pop Bomb pt 2 Posted: 30 Jul 2021 04:20 PM PDT
Folks seemed to enjoy my previous look at what might have been if Cultural Ground Zero hadn't happened. Today felt like as good a time as any for a second glimpse at an alternate timeline, but instead of video games, this "what if?" will focus on the music industry.
Specifically, one rather large node in that particularly hard-hit industry, the former Christian band turned Pop Cult high priests known as U2.
For those who're wondering why this band keeps turning up in this blog's Ground Zero posts, it's because I used to follow their career closely before they turned hideously evil. A major consequence of Music Ground Zero is that there will never be another Biggest Band in the World, and U2 are noteworthy as the last group to hold that title.
Sharp readers will recall that I cited the band's 1997 album Pop as a Ground Zero landmark. Musically, it epitomizes the phenomenon of reliably brilliant acts from the 80s and early 90s suddenly marring their stellar track records. Only Metallica's Load rivals Pop for late 90s fan disappointment.
As I did with the Sega Saturn and Final Fantasy VII, today I'll speculate on how U2 might have delivered a superior ninth album, which in turn may have averted a subsequent quality drop in the aughts.
To get you up to speed, we'll have to start with Pop.
Hot off their successful early 90s experimental period kicked off by Achtung Baby, U2 spent the High 90s putzing around on collaborations with opera singers and Scottish DJs on soundtracks for nonexistent movies. When they finally slouched back into the studio, they decided to reinvent their sound yet again. To achieve this feat, they brought in a motley army of new producers and sound engineers. What followed was two years of playing around with tape loops, sequencers, and drum machines while their actual drummer spent lengthy stretches of studio time out with back trouble.
The absence of Larry "The Hanging Judge" Mullen left the other band members free to indulge their technological excesses. The lack of focus left U2 scrambling to mix and edit the album during mastering and tour rehearsal time.
Result: some of the lowest long-term sales in U2's catalogue and unanimous dissatisfaction with the final product among the band.
Pop's negative effects on U2 didn't stop there, though. The relative flop of their last experimental album and the massive success of their follow up "return to form" taught the band the wrong lesson. They've basically been rehashing their 1983-1987 albums ever since.
A quick jaunt through U2 history reveals that events could have taken a number of drastically different routes. Pop's track list–and even some of the tracks themselves–weren't finalized until the last minute. The hodgepodge of unfinished new songs, plus tracks going back to The Joshua Tree that still never quite gelled, could conceivably have featured a better lineup of more polished songs.
How might U2's ninth studio album have turned out if the band had kept legendary producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, then heeded Eno's advice to wait for Larry before going into the studio, and thus had people to rein in and focus their vision?
Under those conditions, we might have gotten something like the proposed Pop alternate Godzilla, which I took my best stab at assembling.
Take a listen and tell me what you think:
With its heady mix of driving tunes that wouldn't see release until later albums or as b-sides, along with more refined versions of songs from Pop, my contention is that Godzilla would have been better received on release and in the long run. What do you think?
The Butterfly Effect dictates that one change inevitably leads to countless others. What forks inU2's career path do I speculate may have taken place had they released Godzilla instead of Pop?
First, All That You Can't Leave Behind would still have come next, since more than a few of its songs were already in development, and it's not nearly as retrograde as everybody says it is. About the only difference I could see would be the replacement of "New York" with "Love and Peace Or Else", the latter of which appeared on How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb in our timeline.
Which brings us to how the "No Ground Zero" Atomic Bomb would have differed from our rather hackneyed version.
If anything, the alternate reality iteration of Atomic Bomb would have differed from the Clown World version even more than Godzilla departed from Pop.
Here's my take on what a "No Ground Zero" version of Atomic Bomb might have been like.
Note that I assembled this playlist from tracks that were proposed for but cut from the finished album, or alternate versions of HtDaAB tracks.
Give it a listen below, and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments!:
The post-future's secrets revealed
Originally published here. The post Cultural Ground Zero: Defusing the Pop Bomb pt 2 appeared first on Bleeding Fool.  |
| Confirmed: Jodie Whittaker & Chris Chibnall Leaving ‘Doctor Who’ Posted: 30 Jul 2021 01:55 PM PDT
The BBC has finally confirmed one of the worst kept secrets in television: Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall are quitting Doctor Who.
The duo have been in charge of the Tardis since 2017 and will be leaving BBC Studios' iconic sci-fi franchise next year, Deadline reports. Before they exit, they will bring fans Season 13 this fall and three feature-length specials in 2022, the last of which will mark the end of the Thirteenth Doctor.
Whittaker will be remembered as the first woman to play the Time Lord, bringing warmth and comedy to the role. Her departure has long been speculated and is in line with her predecessors, including David Tennant and Matt Smith, who also completed three seasons before moving on to other projects.
The first of next year's specials will screen on New Year's Day, while it will be followed by a second episode in the spring. Whittaker's last spin in the Tardis will broadcast in fall 2022 and will form part of the BBC's centenary celebrations. The show is co-produced by BBC America in the U.S.
No news yet on who will take over from Whittaker and Chibnall, though we know it won't be It's a Sin star Olly Alexander, who denied reports in June that he is set to play the Time Lord.
Meanwhile, Whovians cheered the news.
The post Confirmed: Jodie Whittaker & Chris Chibnall Leaving ‘Doctor Who’ appeared first on Bleeding Fool.  |
| Flash Film Set Pics Offer a Look at Batfleck’s New Suit & Batcycle Posted: 30 Jul 2021 11:15 AM PDT
Several shots of Ben Affleck’s Batman on the set of the upcoming DC film, The Flash, have recently emerged, offering a better look at The Dark Knight and his monster Batcycle. The photographs are from on location of The Flash film set, which is now taking place in Glasgow. The DC hero will presumably be thrown into the multiverse in the film, with the amount of Ben Affleck’s return as Batman yet unknown.
According to these photographs, Ben Affleck will don the massive Batman suit that has been popular with fans since his debut in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, with his method of transportation maintaining the same monster style as his Batsuit and Batmobile.
DC fans have been left to wonder how involved Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton will be, with director Andy Muschietti having offered some clues regarding the former and calling him “a very substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie,” especially as it relates to his relationship with Barry Allen, played once again by Ezra Miller. “It’s Barry’s movie, it’s Barry’s story,” the filmmaker added. “But their characters are more related than we think. They both lost their mothers to murder, and that’s one of the emotional vessels of the movie. That’s where the Affleck Batman kicks in.”
While not much is yet known about the extent of either actor’s involvement, Muschietti has stated that The Flash in “inclusive” with regards to previous franchises saying, “This movie is a bit of a hinge in the sense that it presents a story that implies a unified universe where all the cinematic iterations that we’ve seen before are valid. It’s inclusive in the sense that it is saying all that you’ve seen exists, and everything that you will see exists, in the same unified multiverse.”
In spite of some complaints, The Flash is scheduled to be released this November.
The post Flash Film Set Pics Offer a Look at Batfleck’s New Suit & Batcycle appeared first on Bleeding Fool.  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Bleeding Fool. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
No comments:
Post a Comment