…As we await news on the return of Gotham, executive producer Danny Cannon has taken to social media to reveal a new image of Cameron Monaghan’s Jerome from the midseason premiere ‘Pieces of a Broken Mirror’; check it out here…
…Castle alum Seamus Dever has signed on for a recurring role in Warner Bros.’ new live-action Teen Titans show Titans, although details of his character are being kept under wraps for the time being. Dever joins a cast that includes Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) leading the cast as Dick Grayson, alongside Teagan Croft (The Osiris Child) as Raven, Anna Diop (24: Legacy) as Starfire, Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) as Beast Boy, Alan Ritchson (Smallville) as Hawk, Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) as Dove and Lindsey Gort (Lucifer) as Detective Amy Rohrbach…
…With pre-production on HBO’s Watchmen pilot moving full steam ahead, Patrick Wilson – who played Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl in Zack Snyder’s big screen adaptation – has spoken about whether he has any interest in appearing in the series: “It was such a joy shooting that movie, I wanted there to be more of them. I certainly think we’re all more age appropriate now! I’m sure they want to stay as far away from us as possible, but I love Damon Lindelof. I’m so excited to see what they will do.” As yet, there’s been absolutely nothing in the way of details regarding the series, but Ricky Church has put together a feature looking at what we might expect from the TV adaptation of the seminal graphic novel; read his article here…
…DC’s chief creative officer Geoff Johns has suggested that we may soon be seeing another DC project on the small screen, stating that “we are talking about Hitman” when asked if there are any further DC properties under consideration for the TV treatment during an appearance at the Television Critics Association Press Tour earlier this week…
…On the animated DC front, Warner Bros. has released a trailer for the next DC Universe Animated Original Movie release Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, as well as announcing a voice cast that includes Christian Slater (Deadshot), Billy Brown (Bronze Tiger), Liam McIntyre (Captain Boomerang), Kristin Bauer van Straten (Killer Frost), Gideon Emery (Copperhead), Tara Strong (Harley Quinn), Vanessa Williams (Amanda Waller), C. Thomas Howell (Zoom), Dania Ramirez (Scandal Savage), James Urbaniak (Professor Pyg), Julie Nathanson (Silver Banshee), Jim Pirri (Vandal Savage and Vertigo), Greg Grunberg (Maxum Steel), Dave Fennoy (Blockbuster and Tobias Whale), Cissy Jones (Knockout), Natalie Lander (Darma), Trevor Devall (Punch), Dave Boat (Harvey Dent/Two-Face) and Matthew Mercer (Savage Gunman). You can watch the trailer here, and check out the Blu-ray cover art and special features here…
…It seems that Warner Bros. may be eyeing another animated Elseworlds adaptation, with Bruce Timm revealing at the premiere of Batman: Gotham by Gaslight that the next story he’d like to tackle is Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son. This follows previous rumours that WB was inviting pitches for a live-action big screen adaptation of the story, which takes place in an alternate world where Kal-El’s rocket ship landed in the Soviet Union as opposed the United States, with Superman raised as “the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact”…
…With the film now in post-production, Stranger Things star David Harbour has been chatting about the Hellboy reboot, and the opportunity to reinvent the character: “It was very hard, in that way, but it’s also really thrilling ‘cause I get to carve out an entirely new mythos to this guy and I get to play on this big palette of witches and giants and demons. To me, it’s very Shakespearean. I grew up doing regional Shakespeare and when Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, there’s something about that that you don’t really do in film anymore. We rarely see an indie film where you have an emotional pathos where somebody sees a ghost. This is a palette where you can have demons and ghosts and big creatures and things that are epic, in that way. That was super fun!” You can read the rest of Harbour’s comments about the gruelling makeup process here…
…Another comic book movie reboot is gearing up to go into production this year in Spawn, and creator and director Todd McFarlane has been chatting about how the title character will communicate in the film, as well as speaking about its hard R-rated tone: “It’s funny in Hollywood, if you say you want to do an R-rated movie, they go like ‘Oh like Deadpooland like Logan?’ For me, no. Deadpool, to me, was a PG-13 action movie. It just had some naked butts and a couple f-bombs. Other than that, I thought it was the same PG-13 formula. I’m talking R, I’m talking that there will not be a lot of fun, there will not be be any stupid lines in it… I never like my hero to make a joke right when the jeopardy was at its highest. So if I felt that my hero wasn’t afraid right now, why should I be?… I want my heroes to go ‘Shit, what do I do now..?'”
…Netflix has announced that production is now underway on its TV adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s The Umbrella Academy, which follows the dysfunctional family of the Hargreeves, a group of young superheroes that come together in order to solve their father’s mysterious murder. Ellen Page (Flatliners) stars as Vanya, Tom Hopper (Black Sails) as Luther, Emmy Raver-Lampman (Broadway’s Hamilton) as Allison, David Castañeda (Soldado) as Diego, Robert Sheehan (Misfits) as Klaus and Aidan Gallagher (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) as Number Five. The series will run for ten episodes, with Fargo’s Steve Blackman serving as showrunner and The Exorcist’s Jeremy Slater penning the pilot…
…After casting Erin Moriarty (True Detective) in the role of Starlight last month, Amazon has now found the rest of the superhero team The Seven for its upcoming small screen adaptation of The Boys, with Antony Starr (American Gothic) portraying team-leader Homelander, alongside Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon) as Queen Maeve, Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl) as The Deep, Jessie T. Usher (Independence Day: Resurgence) as A-Train, and Nathan Mitchell (iZombie) as Black Noir…
…And finally, Amazon has announced that it has renewed its superhero comedy series The Tick for a second season of ten episodes. “I am so excited that Amazon wants to continue this wildly fruitful collaboration and that this amazing cast gets to stay together, and that we get to build this mythos further, wider, deeper, and taller,” said creator Ben Edlund, who will once again return alongside Peter Serafinowicz and Griffin Newman. “We got a good ball of mud spinning with the right tilt of axis, I’m very happy we have this opportunity to keep peopling it.”
Gary Collinson is a writer and lecturer from the North East of England. He is the editor-in-chief of FlickeringMyth.com and the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.
