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• Four Long Overdue Movie Sequels that MUST Be Made
• Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell Says He’s Writing His Own Comic Book
• 10th Doctor David Tennant Speaks on Possible Doctor Who Anniversary Return
• Shooting Up: The Religious Zeal of Pop Culture Consumers
• Indie Comics Showcase #161: Crazy 9, The Embrace, & Bardic Fury 3
• Common Ground: How are Disney’s Hawkeye and Netflix’s Daredevil Connected?
• It’s Marvel Studios, Not Star Wars, That’s the Backbone of Disney+

Four Long Overdue Movie Sequels that MUST Be Made Posted: 02 Dec 2021 04:00 PM PST Ghostbusters: Afterlife hit theaters last month and it's apparently amazing, or at least good enough to wash the bad taste of 2016’s abomination out the minds of Ghostbusters fans. That's a big relief to fans of 1984 original, which is today considered one of the great horror-comedy sci-fi films of all time. After the Lady Ghostbusters took a dump on the franchise, the 2021 sequel simply had to be made.   So that got me thinking: what other sequels do I think must be made?     ALIENS: EARTH WAR   This was what fans were all hoping for when we heard Alien 3 was coming out in the early 1990s. In fact, one of the trailers clearly implied the setting of the film would be Earth. Instead we got what we got: a meh offering not all that different from 1979’s Alien. A few years later, we still didn’t get what we wanted as Alien: Resurrection focused on, well, whatever it did.    In the superb Dark Horse Comics sequels to Aliens, the deadly xenomorphs make it to Earth via a derelict space freighter whose pilot has been impregnated by an Alien queen. The Company quickly takes advantage and whisks the pilot off into its secret labs; needless to say, things don’t go exactly how it planned. Why hasn’t a version of this story been done for the silver screen? The comic’s writer, Mark Verheiden, has worked in Hollywood after all.      Why a Sequel Would Rock: The four Alien films all relied on basically the same premise: Humans fighting xenomorphs in a more-or-less closed setting. Only the sequel to Aliens vs. Predator approached the idea of a planet-wide catastrophe, but by then fans were bored, and besides — the Predators took care of the Alien scourge for us. Ever see the climax to 1985’s Lifeforce? Imagine scenes like its London worldwide as the xenomorphs inexorably spread across the planet.      THE THING 2 It’s going on forty years since John Carpenter’s phenomenal remake of the 1951 classic. And what have we gotten? A rather lame prequel in 2011. C’MAHN!! Carpenter’s horror/scifi winner just screams sequel given its final scene: MacReady and Childs sit among the flaming wreckage of the American Antarctic base just waiting to die of cold. We were all wondering “WHAT IF ONE OF THEM IS THE THING??”    I’d lose my HEAD if a true sequel was ever made.   How easy is it to pick up virtually right after the “deaths” of these two? Have the occupants of another research station come upon their base …or an American rescue team a few weeks later. The prospects and plot twist possibilities are endless.    Sure there have been some attempts though other media to answer these questions. Back in 2002 The Thing video game served as a sequel to Carpenter’s film, and seemed to definitively answer some of these questions, and in 2005, Syfy had a four-hour sequel miniseries named Return of the Thing planned, but it was cancelled. That’s probably a good thing. And since I’ve been so impressed with Dark Horse Comics‘ Aliens comics, I really ought to check out their attempt at a sequel with Thing From Another World.      Word is that a reboot of The Thing by Blumhouse Productions and Carpenter himself seems to be in talks, but is still its initial stages. Although it is unclear if it’s going to be a prequel, sequel, or a remake, the narrative of The Thing, it should definitely be crafted as a full-fledged sequel in its own right, instead of simply revamping it as the prequel tried to do. And just a bit of advice: Do not rely exclusively on CGI for the F/X — that was one of the pitfalls of the prequel (see below). Despite the cheese, the 1982 film’s F/X outclass those of the prequel.       Why a Sequel Would Rock: I mean, what fan of this film doesn’t want to see a definitive resolution? Is Mac the thing now? Was Childs? Something/someone else somewhere in the slowly freezing camp? We wanna know!!!     STAR TREK: THE RETURN OF DECKER-V’GER Given that “Star Trek” offerings since the last Next Generation film in 2002 (Nemesis) have pretty much sucked (that’d be “Discovery” and “Picard”), here’s a terrific opportunity to make everything right again. In 1979’s Star Trek: TMP, the newly refurbished Enterprise warps off to stop a massive energy cloud on its way to Earth. It turns out the brains behind the cloud is the 300-year-old Voyager 6 spacecraft, aka “V’Ger,” which got sucked into black hole and emerged on the far side of the Milky Way. While out there, it encountered a mechanistic race which set it back on a course to its home planet, and to fulfill its mission along the way: “Learn all that is knowable.”      The film’s conclusion features First Officer Will Decker joining with V’Ger via his love Lt. Ilia. The question remains: What happened to them? Where did they/it go? Now, it’s basically a deus ex machina, but to save the Star Trek franchise from the I-don’t-give-a-f***-about-continuity-or-common sense creators (I mean, seriously — 900 years into the Federation’s future and everyone is still using warp drive?), the Decker-V’Ger being can come back to its old stomping grounds to see how things are going. After going “What the f*** ???” Decker-V’Ger can begin cleaning up the wreck that Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon and Kirsten Beyer set in motion with their, er, “contributions” to the Trek ethos.     Why a Sequel Would Rock: It would allow the Trek franchise to get back to what it should be — that is, no SJW bullshit and a hearty respect for continuity once again. If Kurtzman, et. al. wanna keep that garbage going, there’s the whole Kelvin timeline out there to mess with.     STAR TREK: TNG “CONSPIRACY” Speaking of Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the biggest unresolved cliffhanger in the series, the second-to-last episode of the first season featured Puppet Masters-style alien “parasites” (below) which had taken over key members of Starfleet and the Federation. An old colleague of Jean-Luc Picard contacts the Enterprise captain privately and eventually convinces the highly skeptical Frenchman of the threat. Picard reveals the matter to Riker and crew, who head back to Earth against standing orders.     The episode is tied into the earlier “Coming of Age” in which Admiral Quinn and Lt. Commander Remmick — who obviously knew of the parasite conspiracy at the time — come onboard the Enterprise to “feel out” Picard and crew. Unfortunately, once the Enterprise arrives at Earth in “Conspiracy,” Quinn and Remmick have fallen victim to the organisms. Picard beams down to Starfleet HQ alone to ascertain the situation, while Quinn boards the 1701-D to infect Riker with a parasite.    Dammit, I KNEW I should’a stayed in bed!   Riker and Picard, however, turn the tables on the invaders and eventually stumble upon the parasites’ “mother creature” who has taken up shop inside Remmick. Once Remmick is phasered to death, all the remaining parasites perish and the conspiracy appears to be thwarted. Or … does it? At episode’s conclusion, Data reports to Picard that before being incinerated, Remmick sent out a homing beacon to, apparently, the parasites’ home planet (in a previously unexplored part of the galaxy).      Why a Sequel Would Rock: Unlike just about every other TNG thread, this particular one was never touched on again, even in subsequent series. I think I read that a Trek novel brought the parasites up — something about them being an offshoot of the Trill — but that’s it. Just think: If the first season of “Picard” had used the parasites instead the thoroughly worn-out theme of artificial intelligence getting out of control, it would have been a hell of a lot more interesting and intriguing. If the show’s dopey creators were smart, they’d do just that. But they’re not, so they won’t.   Well, this is my list of sequels I’m demanding Hollywood make. What are some you’d like to see? Sound off in the comments below. The post Four Long Overdue Movie Sequels that MUST Be Made appeared first on Bleeding Fool.

Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell Says He’s Writing His Own Comic Book Posted: 02 Dec 2021 01:15 PM PST   Bruce Campbell may be done with his role as Ash Williams in The Evil Dead, but the renowned character actor still has a number of projects in the works, including being a producer on the upcoming Evil Dead Rise.   Campbell said during a podcast interview with Bloody Disgusting that, in addition to forthcoming acting jobs, the first of which was his recent horror-comedy Black Friday, he has also been working on a comic book series for one of the major comic book companies.   “I’m writing a comic book for a major comic book company right now,” Bruce Campbell said while discussing his writing process. “And it’s six issues that you’ve gotta plot out. And I cannot just sit there with a pen in my mouth… looking at a blank page… I want to figure it out scene by scene and know where the story’s going.” He continued, “Cause I can actually step back from that board and look at the entire story and go, ‘Hmm, that first part’s a little lopsided… ohh that middle’s a little fat over there.’ So you can get to it before you even write a word. It still may suck, granted, but I like going in with some kind of discipline. I’ll start early in the morning and by noon my brain is leaking out through my nose and it’s time to cut the grass or go swimming or something physical.”    Campbell has a sizable fan following that would likely respond well to this comic, potentially making it a smash hit in the same vein as his film and television career over the previous four decades.   My only question now is, Marvel or DC? My bet is that it’s neither, but more likely Dark Horse or another notable indie imprint. The post Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell Says He’s Writing His Own Comic Book appeared first on Bleeding Fool.

10th Doctor David Tennant Speaks on Possible Doctor Who Anniversary Return Posted: 02 Dec 2021 04:45 AM PST   David Tennant has spoken to Digital Spy about whether he’d return to Doctor Who. The Tenth Doctor actor technically hasn’t left the world of Doctor Who, as he continues the character’s adventures through Big Finish and is even teaming up with Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor in a new video game.   Tennant, who is next starring in the BBC’s latest adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days as adventurer Phileas Fogg, hasn’t returned to Doctor Who on TV since the 50th anniversary special and suddenly there are a few reasons why he might want to come back.   To begin with, the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who is only two years away, to be masterminded by his former boss Russell T. Davies in his own major comeback to the show.   When Digital Spy recently broached the subject of the Tenth Doctor coming back to screens, Tennant was understandably cryptic, though pointedly did not shut the door.   “It all depends. The moment you say yes to Doctor Who, even before you’ve done an episode, you’re being asked whether you’d go back after you finish,” he told us. “I don’t know if this happens to James Bonds. I don’t know if Pierce Brosnan gets asked if he’d go back to James Bond.   “Because there’s that element of fantasy, anything is ultimately possible. You should never say never to anything. I think that way madness lies.”   Doctor Who: Flux‘s final episode airs this Sunday, December 5th on BBC America. The post 10th Doctor David Tennant Speaks on Possible Doctor Who Anniversary Return appeared first on Bleeding Fool.

Shooting Up: The Religious Zeal of Pop Culture Consumers Posted: 01 Dec 2021 03:55 PM PST   A striking phenomenon increasingly on display as the generation raised by Nickelodeon turns 40 is the redirection of man's natural religious impulse to pop culture artifacts. A while back, I termed those who make idols of action figures, comics, and video games the Pop Cult.   The reason Generation Y is especially susceptible to recruitment by the Pop Cult is their upbringing in materialist consumerist households defined by transactional relationships. They may have gone to parochial schools as kids or to church services on Sunday. But their parents' self-absorption, all too often manifested in divorce, scandalized them away from the God who made them and who alone can make them happy.   As a result, many Ys are spiritual nomads, left to wander the alien landscape that replaced the world they were raised to survive in. They were never taught the self-mastery or courage needed to fully engage with Clown World, so they cling to scraps of flotsam from the shipwreck of Cultural Ground Zero.   That's not to mock or belittle Gen Y. Remember that they are the Mugged by Reality generation, raised in gilded pleasure domes only to be cast out of paradise into Purgatory without the tools to adapt.     If you think that's an exaggeration, consider that more than two close Gen Y friends recently gave me almost identical accounts of their rude coming-of-age. In both cases, their transaction-minded Boomer parents kicked them out of the house at 18. Both lived in vermin-infested flophouses which required them to walk for miles to dead-end fast food jobs to pay rent. They endured that loathsome existence for years.   Today, both are successful, with families of their own. Their parents pat themselves on the back and say, "See? The school of hard knocks did you good!"   Both of my friends disagree. What the school of hard knocks did was nearly destroy their ability to trust anyone–including God. In reality, they credit the friends who banded together to lend them a hand when their own flesh and blood turned their backs.   Not all Ys found their way back to healthy relationships and a place in society. Not all found their way back to God.   If you want a perfect case study in what happens when a member of Gen Y is utterly consumed by the Pop Cult, watch the first three minutes of this video:     For the video-averse, here is a partial transcript:   Shooters weren't just part of that era; they were that era. Watching Big Trouble in Little China on my living room floor on VHS, then popping in Life Force on the NES and playing it into the night, that was the 80s.   The video starts innocently, if a bit hyperbolically, enough. Only a plain mush-eating stick in the mud would deny that those products made for good fun and better times.   Shooters were part of the culture of the era. The peak of their popularity intertwined with our most cherished memories of a time we'll never forget. There is no separating Gradius from Ghostbusters, Thunder Force from Thundercats, Soldier Blade from Spawn. It was all one experience.   Yes, those IPs were a lot of fun. Note, however, the gradual onset of wild-eyed snake-handling fervor of the kind Hollywood loves to caricature Christians with.   When Ripley yelled "Get away from her, you [bitch]!" we laughed and cheered. When Optimus Prime gave his life, we cried. Heck, I still do.   If you listen closely, you will hear a young boy crying out from the man he never wanted to become. He pleads for a solid rock to cling to in the tempest of pop ephemera that is his life.     And know that you live in a country where Ellen Ripley and Optimus Prime played foster mother and father to a lost generation. Now you understand everything.   The best wrestling rivalries, the weirdest sitcoms, the greatest cartoons and anime, legendary comic arcs, Dungeons and Dragons in the corner of every schoolyard, and yes, a golden generation of gaming. We were there for the very first Super Mario, Zelda, and Metroid, the first Castlevania, Contra, and of course, Ninja Gaiden, the first Gradius R-Type and Thunder Force.   Behold the litany of the Pop Cult saints!   Something grasping and desperate lies beneath the religious zeal on display above. It is the thirst of the addict, forever seeking his next fix and forever needing to consume more and more to get it.   An entire video game genre that references shooting up. This poor heathen's channel couldn't be more aptly named.   Do not despise him. Instead, take warning from the spiritual void of his life and offer prayers for his–and your–conversion.   Why people need to leave dead franchises   The post Shooting Up: The Religious Zeal of Pop Culture Consumers appeared first on Bleeding Fool.

Indie Comics Showcase #161: Crazy 9, The Embrace, & Bardic Fury 3 Posted: 01 Dec 2021 01:10 PM PST     Welcome back to another installment of Indie Comics Showcase, the weekly blog where we signal boost a few truly independent comics that are currently crowdfunding their projects, crowdsourcing their funding in some way, or just completely self-publishing on their own. Every little bit of support for these creators matters, from a single dollar pledge to the twenty-five dollar bundle, and of course the higher tiers are usually fun too! Even if you can’t back a campaign or buy a book, you can share or tweet about these projects to your friends and followers.    On Indie Comics Showcase, we interview the creators, show off some art, and tell you how you can check out the product for yourself. Below we have some outstanding crowdfunding campaigns this week for you to learn about, enjoy, and hopefully support by backing one or more of them! Thanks for checking these out and for being the best part of Indie Comics Showcase. Let's jump in!   Oi! Bardic Fury 3 by Daniel de Sosa Check out the campaign here! Chris Braly: Tell our readers your elevator pitch for Oi! Bardic Fury. Briefly catch our readers up on your comic series. Daniel de Sosa: Oi! Bardic Fury is a fantasy comic set in Ancient Ireland about a bard named Bryan who gets sent to a village that never heard music before, called Oi. Volume 3 is about a battle of the bands between Oi and rival village Banshee Vale.   CB: This isn’t your first adventure in crowdfunding. How did you first get into this and how did it lead to hitting three volumes? DdS: I started crowdfunding Oi in 2015 with a campaign for Volume 1 and have been using crowdfunding ever since to help produce the series. I have kept up with making new Oi comics and now seven years and 400 pages later, I’m up to volume three.     CB: Where did the idea for Oi! Bardic Fury originate? DdS: I wanted to make a badass fantasy comic where rockstar bards, ancient idols and hippy cult leader druids are the heroes. I love history and wanted to tell a story that shows people back then weren’t that different from people around today, we just had different tech.     CB: What kind of comic fans do you expect this comic will entertain the most? DdS: If you like Asterix, Love and Rockets and Shonen manga, Bardic Fury is for you. It’s a fantasy comic with elements of comedy, horror romance and fun and entertaining characters.     CB: Have any creators contributed to this? Or is it a fully solo project? DdS: I write, draw and letter Oi and also design the book files for prepress. It is a lot of work but saves money and gives me full quality control over the project.     CB: What else are you learning from crowdfunding and creating through this process? DdS: Promotion and marketing is hard. More and more talented creators are entering the crowdfunding field every day, which makes competition tougher. It is good motivation to keep improving!   CB: Are the previous installments required to get the most out of this issue? Are those available on the campaign page? DdS: It is best if you have read the previous installments to get the most out of Volume 3. All three books are available on the campaign page in the $50 tier. Volume 1 and 2 are both 216 pages each and Volume 3 is going to be 120 pages, so you get a lot of content for your money. You can also order both volume one and volume two of Oi! Tales of Bardic Fury on Amazon if you want to read them before volume 3 ships.     CB: Thanks for chatting with us! Good luck and we are rooting for you! DdS: Thank you Bleeding Fool for supporting indie comics. Back Bardic Fury 3 today. STAY TUNED.   Check out the campaign here!   _________ ELYSIAN FIELDS & THE EMBRACE by Michael Oden Check out the Patreon and Webtoons pages or signup for the crowdfunding page here!   Chris Braly: You had some success with your indie comic Elysian Fields on Indiegogo, and The Embrace, but have since made the move to Patreon and Webtoons. Tell me what led to that decision?   Michael Oden: The reason overall is growth. Crowdfunding is great, and I am very happy with the support I have built on IGG via books like Elysian Fields and The Embrace, but I also feel like I have hit a plateau in terms of that audience. The biggest names in crowdfunding right now, are the way they are because they have built up their own platforms. The Patreon and the Webtoon are an attempt to do just that: build our market and monetize it. Free and, in some cases, exclusive, content on Webtoon and a Patreon to turn that webtoon audience into a supporter of our brand. It’s all very experimental at this point, but that is the goal.      CB: Have you been pleased with the results of these new platforms? MO: I mean it’s really too soon to say, we have just started. Our Webtoon has had the most success so far, and we have great feedback and a strong following on that platform. Patreon on the other hand is still relatively new and it’s very difficult to maintain and be effective, I am still learning the ins and outs of that platform. This is an industry of adapt and overcome though, so I am confident that given time these two tools will greatly aid in overall goals of growing our market.     CB: How does it work exactly? Can anyone join? MO: Absolutely, that’s kind of the whole point. Webtoon is a completely free platform anyone can use, and Patreon is a support platform to become a patron of creative projects and the like. Webtoon it’s as simple as subscribing to the stories we have up there: Elysian Fields and Errand of the Sable Knight, and for Patreon, you just go to the Patreon page and pick a level at which you wish to pledge at. We offer a variety of support tiers that start as low as one dollar which gains you access to sneak peeks at future projects and early access to certain Webtoon Content.      CB: Tell me about your work (describe Elysian Fields in 2-3 sentences, and then shift to describe any other works you’re working on) MO: 9 Realms Publishing has really been about showcasing diversity in storytelling. I’d like to think we have stories for just about any audience of comics. Currently, we have 3 IPs with available content: Elysian Fields, a fun comic that’s effectively Mortal Kombat with Heroes from Epic Mythology. In this story Achilles joins a team of other Greek Mythological characters in an underworld tournament against other mythic heroes from different cultures. The Embrace, is a dark take on the superhero genre inspired heavily by works like The Crow and Haunt. This story focuses on a unique dynamic between a mourning father and the ghost of his son who turn into a spectral superhero to bring his son’s murderers to justice.      Errand of the Sable Knight, is my Webtoon first series which serves as my love letter to Arthurian lore. The story serves as somewhat of an epilogue of “The Tale of the Questing Beast” and has Pellinore seeking redemption for his failings in that particular story.  CB: Have you decided to abandon printing the books or moving into the retail world or is this part of your larger strategy? MO: Abandoning printing books is honestly career suicide in this industry I feel. The demand for printed books will never go away, and with comics, limited runs are a massive market. All of our current efforts are a part of a growth strategy: we are growing a digital presence in Webtoon that can hopefully be transferred to monetary backing on Patreon; we are attempting to reach out to retailers to get books in stores and build a bridge between retailer and independent creators; we are offering ad space in our retail books to other creators to purchase so that, again, they get seen in stores.      CB: Are you connecting with other creators who might be able to signal boost, or join your efforts? MO: Absolutely, I am frequently on a lot of promotional streams which in a way brings my own audience to other platforms, but as I also mentioned, I am actively trying to incentivize collaboration in the industry by allowing other creators the ability to purchase ad space in books that are intended to be exclusively for retailers. I also began a campaign charting service through 9 Realms that offers affordable rates to aiding new creators at reasonable rates in the design and layout of their campaigns.   CB: Thanks for your time, Michael! Please let us know how Webtoons works out.   Check out the Patreon and Webtoons pages or signup for the crowdfunding page here!   _________ CRAZY 9 by Joe Spicer Check out the campaign here!   Chris Braly: Welcome back to Indie Comics Showcase, Joe. Briefly tell our readers about Crazy 9! Joe Spicer: Crazy 9 is a drug that can unlock a distinct superpower that resides inside everyone, encased in a bullet and administered via a shot to the head.     CB: What was the genesis for this project? JS: About 15 years ago I came up with the concept while explaining to someone how I come up with story ideas. Ironically I ended up making a short story and publishing it in an anthology series. I always intended to make more and give them a proper book with all the “case files” that became the CRAZY 60 pg book. CB: What kind of comic fans do you think would enjoy this the most? JS: Fans of Vertigo books like 100 Bullets and Image Comics similar to Powers.   CB: What is your purpose for telling this story and what are your plans beyond this book? JS: Many of these “case files” were based on news stories I read about that I felt ended tragically and if someone could gain superpowers to turn things around for the better how much better that would be. Crazy 9 the drug will come up again in our other Star Cross Comics titles due to our connected universe and will remain part of the criminal underworld. It’s already playing a part in our Biblical Proportions miniseries but I can’t say too much about that. CB: Let’s get into the creative and production side a little. Tell me a bit about your team. JS: So I drew the original short story way back, but in these stories, I had specific artists that I wanted for each chapter’s story. Jacob Elijah set the bar with the cover and his short story, Noah Whyler’s wild style was exactly what I wanted for CRAZY 9 and I also wanted Samax Amid to draw the inner-city kid’s story, Brian Dawson helped me tie up some vacant stories. I wanted a limited color pallet of violets, and purples so that took a while to make it wild-looking enough and also it brings the multiple artists into one overall look.   CB: This isn’t your first campaign. Can you tell me what you’ve been learning from crowdfunding and creating through this process? JS: Star Cross Comics does almost a campaign or two a month, but this one has been a long time coming. It’s still very difficult getting the word out in terms of crowdfunding. I just want everyone to be able to check out this very unique book.     CB: Thanks for chatting with me again, Joe! Good luck with Crazy 9! JS: Thank you and I promise people won’t be disappointed.   Check out the campaign here!     _________       That’s it for this installment! Support indie comics!!!     Follow Indie Comics Showcase on Twitter at @Indie_Comics and reach out to them if you want us to consider featuring YOUR crowdfunding comic project!   The post Indie Comics Showcase #161: Crazy 9, The Embrace, & Bardic Fury 3 appeared first on Bleeding Fool.

Common Ground: How are Disney’s Hawkeye and Netflix’s Daredevil Connected? Posted: 01 Dec 2021 10:55 AM PST   Has the new Hawkeye series already made a connection to the Netflix Daredevil series? And does it prove any of the rumors of Vincent D'Onofrio's return as Wilson Fisk aka the Kingpin? The Disney+ series is introducing Echo/Maya Lopez as played by Alaqua Cox, who is tied directly to Fisk and Matt Murdock in the comics, but another connection we saw already could be quite telling.   According to Pierre Chanliau at The Direct:   the hotel we see in the first episode, the one with the ballroom and then the black-market auction going on downstairs in the wine cellar is the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in real life. And while it doesn't get a name in Hawkeye, it does get a name in Daredevil, the Presidential Hotel and it's a prominent set piece in season three of the Netflix series. This is the hotel where Fisk serves his house-arrest, and it becomes his de facto headquarters throughout the season.     This makes the hotel a prime spot for criminal activity and a good place to host a black-market auction if you're hoping the Kingpin will be in attendance. In the comics the Track Suit Mafia is run by Fisk, and I could see him deciding to use his muscle instead of his wallet if there was something at the auction he really wanted. While this is just speculation, and the hotel could just be a great place to shoot… it otherwise makes a good connection between the two series if they wanted to go that route.       We first reported back in January that Vincent D'Onofrio was in talks to reprise his role as Wilson Fisk AKA Kingpin in the MCU. Could this be another confirmation that the talks ended with a deal? The post Common Ground: How are Disney's Hawkeye and Netflix's Daredevil Connected? appeared first on Bleeding Fool.

It’s Marvel Studios, Not Star Wars, That’s the Backbone of Disney+ Posted: 01 Dec 2021 08:25 AM PST   In a recent survey by Whip Media, it has become pretty obvious that Marvel Studios is the backbone of Disney+. Variety broke down the numbers in the survey of TV Time app users where 96% of them said they had used Disney+ before. The big question was how important are the Marvel TV series to you when deciding to subscribe and 55% said it was the main reason they subscribe with an additional 8.5% saying it was the only reason and another 26.1% who say its not the main reason, but they do watch.   Only 10.3% said it wasn't important to them at all. That means that Marvel is a deciding factor for almost 90% of the subscribers. They went on and asked about series that the respondents have completed watching and 72.4% had finished WandaVision, 66.7% finished Loki and 64.7% finished The Flacon and the Winter Soldier. That number drops significantly for the animated What If…? with only 42.5% having finished watching. Even 31% had finished watching Agent Carter and another 18.8% watched the Inhumans.     80% of respondents had finished at least one of the Marvel series. As for upcoming series like the recently debuted Hawkeye, 65.9% of respondents said they were definitely intended to watch the series with another 11.5% likely to. Only 9.8% said they wouldn't be watching. Marvel has been carrying the streaming service this year since their other big series, The Mandalorian, wrapped it's second season at the end of 2020 and the only new offerings in this year for Star Wars was the animated series The Bad Batch and we'll get one episode of Book of Boba Fett right near years end.     So, while Disney will definitely want more Star Wars series to get subscribers on board, the Marvel series are currently doing the heavy lifting for the streaming service. The post It’s Marvel Studios, Not Star Wars, That’s the Backbone of Disney+ appeared first on Bleeding Fool.

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