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- YA Superhero High Series Spin-Off of ‘The Boys’ is Underway
- What If…? Marvel Just Did a Clever Ultron / Vision Mash-Up
- Is a Director’s Cut of Thor 2: The Dark World in Our Future?
- Director Calls Venom & Eddie Brock’s Relationship a “Gay Romance”
- Babylon 5 Reboot at The CW with Creator J. Michael Straczynski
- Laughable Outrage at Chris Pratt’s Super Mario Cartoon Casting
- Finally Time for ‘No Time to Die’ – What’s Next for 007?
| YA Superhero High Series Spin-Off of ‘The Boys’ is Underway Posted: 01 Oct 2021 04:45 AM PDT
The Boys spinoff is still moving forward at Amazon, THR reports.
The retail giant/streamer has handed out a series order for its college-set spinoff from Eric Kripke's breakout superhero drama. As part of the pickup, Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters — who previously oversaw ABC Marvel drama Agent Carter — have boarded the untitled series as showrunners. The longtime writing duo take over for Craig Rosenberg, who departed the drama following creative differences with Amazon and producer Sony Pictures TV.
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In the works for more than a year, the untitled series is set at America's only college exclusively for young-adult superheroes (run by Vought International). It's described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive superheroes as they put their physical, sexual and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. It's part college show, part Hunger Games — with all the heart, satire, and raunch of The Boys.
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Jaz Sinclair (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Lizze Broadway (Here and Now), Shane Paul McGhie (Unbelievable), Aimee Carrero (Elena of Avalor), Reina Hardesty (Brockmire) and Maddie Phillips (Teenage Bounty Hunters) will play the young superheroes. Additional castings are expected to be announced later. The post YA Superhero High Series Spin-Off of 'The Boys' is Underway appeared first on Bleeding Fool.  |
| What If…? Marvel Just Did a Clever Ultron / Vision Mash-Up Posted: 30 Sep 2021 03:25 PM PDT
After the big reveal at the end of the most recent episode of What If…?, Marvel Studios has released a new episode poster showcasing and giving us our best look at Ultron/Vision, whose appearance surprised both Thor and the Watcher when he and his drones appeared in that universe. The character appears to be taken from a variation on Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Ultron is able to complete the building of the Vision's body and then uploading his "consciousness" into it.
One can extrapolate from there that he met Thanos when he came to Earth to get the Mind and possibly Time stones and was able to defeat the Mad Titan, allowing him to have access to all six stones. But this leaves some questions that hopefully the next episode will answer… like how do the Infinity Stones from one universe work in another when we see specifically in Loki that they don't? Does having all the stones make one a Nexus Being, allowing them to exist the same in all realities? And how does one stop a synthetic man with the Infinity Gauntlet as a chest plate?
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| Is a Director’s Cut of Thor 2: The Dark World in Our Future? Posted: 30 Sep 2021 01:35 PM PDT
There's a lot of buzz about the upcoming Many Saints of Newark film, the prequel to the hit HBO series The Sopranos, and a lot of attention is going to the film's director Alan Taylor. And while he is celebrated for his work on that series as well as Mad Men, Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire… he is also known for making what many consider the worst of the MCU films, Thor: The Dark World. Even know, while out supporting his new film, Taylor discussed with Inverse just what happened on his one Marvel film and while he has great respect for Kevin Feige, he'd really like to have his own "Snyder-Cut" moment.
“First of all, I have huge respect for Kevin Feige. I think he's doing something that no one else has ever done before and that nobody thought was possible until he did it. Now, everyone’s trying to imitate it. For me, the process was not fun. I focused all my attention on making a certain movie. And then in the editing process, decisions were made to change it a lot. He's got an empire he's running and things have to be changed to fit into other things. My regret was that the movie that got released was changed quite a bit in a way that I couldn’t shape really. I mean, I shot all the material that we put in the movie, but we set out to make one movie, and then major plot points were reversed in post. It's not the ideal way to work.”
Taylor believed he was brought in to gritty up the franchise, to go from Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones. “I have a great fondness for some of the things that went away in the original cut. There was a kind of quality a wonder to the thing that was beautiful to me. I think I was brought in to bring some Game of Thrones-iness to it in reaction to the first Thor, which was a little too shiny, was my feeling. And then partway through, they started to realize that they wanted to hit in a different direction. So it was kind of a stumbling process.”
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And while he would love to get a chance to do what Snyder did on Justice League, he doubts Disney will make it happen. “I was cheering for Snyder when he was doing that and thinking, Will he pull this off? I think every director was kind of rooting for that. I would love to, I mean to. Can you imagine that? They give me however many millions of dollars they gave him to go back in. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to get that phone call.”
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| Director Calls Venom & Eddie Brock’s Relationship a “Gay Romance” Posted: 30 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT
Sony Pictures has released a new vignette for the upcoming Venom: Let There Be Carnage film that premieres this weekend. In the video, director Andy Serkis discusses the relationship between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom (also Tom Hardy).
“In this movie, it’s like the seven-year itch cycle of a relationship. You got two characters that are literally stuck with each other. That odd couple relationship is what this movie was always going to be about, as a progression from the first one. It’s like living with an oversized toddler. They have had enough of each other. They can’t be together, can’t be apart. Eddie’s far too selfish. Venom just wants to be the hero.”
The last line there might be the most interesting of the entire clip. It's always seemed that Eddie controlled Venom by giving him rule of who he can attack, similar in the way Harry gave Dexter Morgan rules of who he could kill. But here Serkis seems to be implying that the urge to be a hero comes from Venom and not from the restrictions place on him by Eddie.
Breitbart also has the following from an interview with the director:
In one scene, the alien symbiote that had bonded with Brock (Tom Hardy) has an argument with Eddie, separates from the reporter, and then attends a rave party to drown its sorrows. At one point, the symbiote delivers a heartfelt speech to the crowd talking about how much he misses Eddie. This, Serkis says, is to symbolize the queer relationship the symbiote and Eddie have. It is, Serkis added, a gay love story. Serkis told Uproxx that the original idea for the scene was that it was like "the carnival of the damned," but that focus changed. "Well, Tom and [co-writer] Kelly [Marcel] were always about Venom coming out and going to a party that was a very sort of an LGBTQIA kind of festival, really, I'd call it, and so this is his coming out party basically. This is Venom's coming-out party," Serkis said. Serkis insists that during the scene, Venom begins to "speak for the other" — "inadvertently" advocating for the LGBTQ community. "Well, what is interesting is that it's just like, here he is kind of, he says in the movie, 'We must stop this cruel treatment of aliens.' He said, 'You know, we all live on this ball of rock,' you know? And so, he inadvertently becomes a kind of… he's speaking for the other. He's speaking for freedom of the other," Serkis enthused. The director, also famous for giving life to the Lord of the Rings character Gollum, then claimed that the movie is really a "love affair" between the symbiote and Eddie. "Absolutely they do love each other and that's the kind of the center of the movie is that love affair, that central love affair," he said.
The studio has also released a new clip, which reveals the scene in which Woody Harrelson’s character, serial killer Cletus Kasady, transforms into the evil symbiote, Carnage. It’s the sort of “money shot” that Marvel Comics fans have been waiting years for, ever since Carnage made his debut in Amazing Spider-Man #361 in 1992. Now, despite a long wait and numerous delays, Carnage is getting his live-action debut on the big screen, and from the look of the scene below, Carnage will indeed be getting his due — and Harrelson’s going to have a lot of fun hamming it up as the Marvel villain.
No word from Srrkis on the relationship status of Kasady and Carnage… Venom: Let There Be Carnage will be in theaters tomorrow, October 1st.
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| Babylon 5 Reboot at The CW with Creator J. Michael Straczynski Posted: 30 Sep 2021 08:25 AM PDT
A Babylon 5 reboot is in development at The CW, Variety reports. Original series creator J. Michael Straczynski is onboard to write the project. He will also executive produce under his Studio JMS banner. Warner Bros. Television, which produced the original series, will produce the reboot.
The new iteration of the sci-fi series is described as a "from-the-ground-up reboot." In the series, John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.
The original Babylon 5 ran in syndication and on TNT for five seasons, 110 episodes, and seven TV movies, including the 1993 pilot film. The show is considered one of the best sci-fi series ever made by many critics and won numerous awards throughout its run, including two Hugo Awards and a Saturn Award.
Straczynski followed up Babylon 5 with the TNT spinoff series Crusade. The Babylon 5 franchise also includes novels, short stories, and comic books.
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| Laughable Outrage at Chris Pratt’s Super Mario Cartoon Casting Posted: 30 Sep 2021 06:15 AM PDT
Breitbart’s reporting that a new animated film based on Nintendo’s famous mascot is being criticized by Italians for casting the non-Italian Chris Pratt to voice Mario:
You’d think most Italians would know better than to follow the example of POC doing the same, but reality can say otherwise, proving white characters are not immune to politicized controversies by people of white backgrounds. That said, there are signs and suggestions not all the outrage culture advocates behind this are actually Italian, nor are they being altruistic. As the article states:
This is so incredibly stupid. Italians are white, for heaven’s sake! So maybe it’s not really a case of Italians supposedly taking offense at all, but just more incredibly brainless, poorly educated cybertrolls on Twitter looking for excuses to brew up a storm in a tea kettle for nothing, over a cartoon they’re unlikely to see in theaters. Which is only doing Italians a terrible disservice.
I should hope Universal and Nintendo remain firm on their casting choice for Pratt. Besides, Mario is the brainchild of a very fine video game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, and it would be doing a terrible disfavor to him if they turned his creations into political footballs. That should not happen, just like many other nontroversies of the past decade shouldn’t have. I decidedly hope this new cartoon is better than the catastrophous 1993 live action movie starring the late Bob Hoskins, which thankfully didn’t undermine the popularity of the franchise a bit, and it continued to thrive on Nintendo systems for many years after. With the right ingredients, a cartoon can prove far more engaging than a live action film.
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| Finally Time for ‘No Time to Die’ – What’s Next for 007? Posted: 30 Sep 2021 04:45 AM PDT
The long-awaited, and frequently delayed No Time To Die film will finally hit UK theaters in a few days. But, as Daniel Craig steps down as 007, what preparations do the producers have for the next James Bond? The franchise’s producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, have teased what might be in store and how the upcoming star will play a role.
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Wilson told The Sunday Times:
"Daniel's made an indelible impression. "So it's inevitable that what he brought will be, in some way, incorporated. We don't have any frontrunners — we haven't even thought about it — but whoever it is will take on the role and adapt the character to their personality. It's always been the case."
Broccoli added: "It's a great compliment people take it so personally. But it's tough on the person that steps in. It's not fair, but it's the way of the world, with the internet being the way it is. Somebody sitting at a computer seems to carry the same weight as the most respected journalist. It's a big decision for us because we're entering into a partnership with an actor."
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The producer and daughter of Cubby Broccoli said how casting Bond isn't like finding the best actor at the time, but about resetting the entire template for the movies to come.
Broccoli weighed in: "He's brought humanity. When we used to construct these stories we'd ask, 'What is the mission?' "But with Daniel, we also discuss what we will put Bond through emotionally. "Not just physical sacrifice but betrayals, broken hearts. It's a three-dimensional character as opposed to, as Bond is described in books, a silhouette."
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