Monthly Archives: July 2018
Glass is the Third Act We Always Wanted for Unbreakable
Warning: Spoilers for Unbreakable and Split follow...
Long before the MCU, and even before Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film, M. Night Shyamalan followed up his massive breakout hit The Sixth Sense with a really solid take on the old "what if superheroes were real?" story.
Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, didn't reach the heights of Sixth Sense but in looking back, fans still herald it as one of the writer/director's best and most satisfying projects. The way the story unfolded definitely seemed to set up "adventures to come," though it also managed to stand very well on its own, as an isolated island work, without franchise goals. You could certainly imagine Willis' David Dunn continuing his work as Philadelphia's super strong rain-poncho'd vigilante while Jackson's Elijah "Mr. Glass" Price rotted away in a psychiatric care facility...and that was enough for most.
Why Venom Is Missing His White Spider Chest Symbol
Venom director, Ruben Fleischer has explained why Venom is missing his white spider chest symbol in the upcoming movie.
When asked by IGN about the lack of symbol in new footage revealed exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con, Ruben explained that a spider logo wouldn't make sense as this iteration of Venom didn't start with Spider-Man.
"If you look at the comics, in Venom, there is just elements of white within his suit. Because our character does not originate from Spider-Man, it makes no sense to put a spider on his chest. We tried to be as accurate as we possibly could, even though some people feel it's inaccurate, but there is a lot of white and we wanted to give him a distinctive pattern."
The Flash Reveals a Terrifying New Villain for Season 5
Warning! FULL SPOILERS for The Flash Season 4 ahead.
At Comic-Con 2018, The CW unveiled a new trailer for Season 5 of The Flash, that hints at a terrifying new threat whose powers will "present a problem for Team Flash that they've never had to deal with before," according to showrunner Todd Helbing. You can check out the trailer below.
The new villain that will be giving The Flash a run for his money is called Cicada, portrayed by Chris Klein (American Pie). In the comic books, Cicada is described as someone who worships The Flash and has a group of followers that are hell-bent on killing everyone the speedster has ever saved, using daggers shaped like lightning bolts.
Deadpool 2 Deleted Time-Travel Scene Revealed
With Deadpool 2 now available on Digital, fans can finally see the deleted scenes that were originally shown at the Deadpool 2 Super Duper $@%!#& Cut panel at last month's San Diego Comic-Con.
Our original report from SDCC follows.
Ryan Reynolds, his co-stars and director David Leitch revealed two deleted scenes from the Deadpool 2 Super Duper $@%!#& Cut panel at Comic-Con.
Spoilers ahead!
The sequel’s time-traveling coda set to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time” bow features a scene where Deadpool goes back to 1899 and wrestles with killing baby Adolf Hitler.
The future Fuhrer is in his crib in the nursery of an Austrian hospital when 'Pool walks in. He wrestles with the choice, realizing it’s not as easy as he thought it would be. Deadpool, after all, did just spend the whole movie showing that he could save a kid (Firefist) from growing up to be an evil mass murderer.
Huge Dumbledore Mystery Answered in New Fantastic Beasts Trailer
In the new trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald revealed at Comic-Con 2018, one key moment finally reveals what Dumbledore sees when he looks into the Mirror of Erised, answering a mystery that has puzzled Harry Potter fans since the first entry in the series, The Sorcerer’s Stone, first published in the UK as The Philosopher's Stone in 1997.
If you haven't already, check out the new trailer:
In the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry discovers the Mirror of Erised, a magical mirror that, when looked into, shows the individual what they most desire. “Erised” spelled backwards is “desire,” get it? When Harry looks into the mirror, he sees his parents who he longed to have in his life but were murdered by Voldemort when he was a baby. Dumbledore takes notice that Harry is making repeat visits to the mirror, so he advises Harry to not linger on what he cannot have, lest he go mad like others who have become obsessed with what the mirror shows them. Harry takes his advice, but not before asking Dumbledore what he sees in the mirror. Dumbledore answers that he saw himself holding a pair of socks because he wasn’t given any for Christmas.
The Man in the High Castle: Season 3 Release Date Announced
Alongside a renewal for Season 4, Amazon announced Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle will premiere on October 5.
Season 3 follows Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) and Trade Minister Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) as they work together to interpret the last of the remaining films. Returning from Berlin, Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank) is sent on a diplomatic mission to San Francisco and Helen (Chelah Horsdal) works to protect her family following the aftermath of the previous season.
Jason O’Mara joins as a series regular to play Wyatt Price, a hustler in the Neutral Zone whose family immigrated from Europe to New York to escape the war.
The announcement came during the Amazon Studios panel at San Diego Comic-Con where attendees previewed a clip of the upcoming season. The Season 2 finale aired over a year ago back in December of 2016.
New Trailer Debuts for The Purge TV Show
Update 7/25: Read on for all of our coverage of The Purge TV Series panel, interviews, activation and footage that happened at Comic-Con last weekend.
“For the next 58 minutes all questions will be legal.”
That’s what it said on the big screens in the room when The Purge hit San Diego Comic-Con today, though this time it was the TV version of the popular horror franchise that producer Jason Blum and creator James DeMonaco were touting. A new trailer was shown from the show, which is coming to the USA Network this fall.
Watch the new trailer here:
Also on hand were The First Purge star Lex Scott Davis and members of the cast from the TV series, including Gabriel Chavarria (East Los High), Amanda Warren (The Leftovers), and Fiona Dourif (Curse of Chucky), plus the show’s director/executive producer Anthony Hemingway (Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.), showrunner/executive producer Thomas Kelly and producer Brad Fuller (A Quiet Place, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
Constantine Shakes Up the Legends of Tomorrow in Season 4 Trailer
DC's Legends of Tomorrow gave fans a sneak peek at Season 4 during the show's Saturday Comic-Con panel, teasing what the dynamic will be like when John Constantine (Matt Ryan) joins the team. And with the release of Mallus - and countless other creatures - at the end of last season, magic and monsters will very much be a part of Season 4. As the trailer shows, there's even a unicorn.
Check out the Season 4 trailer below:
The biggest news from the panel is that Season 4 will also see Nate "reconnecting with a father he's been estranged from" for most of his life, who will be played by Back to the Future's Biff, aka Tom Wilson.
And while Maisie Richardson-Sellers will still be a season regular despite Amaya going back to the past, the actress revealed that she won't be playing Amaya next season, instead she'll be Charlie, one of the "magical fugitives" who slips through the mystical door the Legends opened. "She's British, she's a rebel without a cause, she's a trickster, she's on her own mission," she teased. "The Legends stumble upon her and have to decide whether she's friend or foe... she's been locked up for as long as she can remember, she's going to shake the ship up again."
Trailer Debut: RZA’s New Movie Cut Throat City
When Marvel takes the year off from Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, it only makes sense that RZA would step in to help fill the space! He's of course known for his work with the Wu-Tang Clan and as a rapper, musician and record producer, but he's also an actor and director, having made his helming debut with The Man with the Iron Fists in 2012. And now RZA has a new movie coming out called Cut Throat City.
The filmmaker was on hand to talk about Cut Throat City along with castmembers Shameik Moore, Wesley Snipes, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Denzel Whitaker, Keean Johnson and Kat Graham to show off the trailer from the film.
Cut Throat City tells the story of four childhood friends from New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward who return to the city after Hurricane Katrina. Having lost everything, they wind up working for a local criminal and are tasked with taking on a heist. But things aren’t as simple as they seem…
Oliver Takes the Fight to Prison in Arrow Season 7
Warning. FULL SPOILERS for Arrow Season 6 below.
At Comic-Con 2018, the CW revealed a new trailer for Season 7 of Arrow, showing a somber-looking Oliver imprisoned after the events of the Season 6 finale. You can check out the trailer below:
During the Panel, Stephen Amell foreshadowed the trials that Oliver will have to endure in "prison with a bunch of people that he put in prison." Amell said this is going to be a much darker version of the titular hero, because "There's nothing heroic about him at all," Amell said, adding, "I really hope the premiere really pisses you off."