Monthly Archives: July 2019
The Flash: Season 6’s First Major Villain Is Bloodwork
The CW has released the first teaser trailer for The Flash: Season 6, which reveals the next major villain stirring trouble in Central City. Team Flash's new nemesis is Ramsey Rosso, aka Bloodwork. Rosso will be played by Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes).
The reveal came during The CW's The Flash panel at Comic-Con (moderated by IGN's own Laura Prudom). Check out the teaser below for an exclusive first look at Bloodwork:
Bloodwork is a relatively newer addition to Flash's rogues gallery in the comics, first appearing in 2017's The Flash #29. In the comics, Rosso is a morgue attendant who suffers from severe hemophilia. His experiments with blood eventually granted him superhuman abilities, including invulnerability and the power to manipulate the blood in other people's bodies.
Death Stranding Character Trailer and Box Art Revealed
Update: PlayStation has just released the Heartman character trailer that debuted at SDCC, showing Heartman speaking with Sam, Norman Reedus' character. Heartman explains how his strange medical condition works, while pontificating on the things he can do with each 21-minute cycle. Check out the trailer above.
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Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Too Old to Die Young) took the stage at Comic Con 2019 to talk Death Stranding, storytelling, and more.
Among the anecdotes shared was some new information on Refn's character Heartman, first revealed in Death Stranding's release date trailer which debuted during PlayStation's pre-E3 2019 State of Play presentation.
WandaVision Release Date Announced for 2021
Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany joined Kevin Feige on stage in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con to announce that WandaVision will be coming to Disney+ in Spring 2021.
Feige said the show is strange, with Olsen adding in that, "We’re going to get weird, we’re going to go very deep."
Olsen also said, "We’re going to finally understand Wanda Maximoff as Scarlet Witch."
“Every time we do one of these the stories get richer and richer and this is the richest yet,” Bettany said.
WandaVision takes place after Endgame, and other MCU characters will appear, such as
Monica Rambeau’s daughter, ‘Lieutenant Trouble’ from Captain Marvel. Rambeau herself, played by Teyonah Parris will also appear in the show.
Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Release Date Revealed
Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings will be released in theaters on February 12, 2021, and further cast members were revealed.
Shang-Chi will be played by Simu Liu, who has starred in Kim's Convenience and the Taken TV series and, during Marvel's SDCC panel, he said he was "screen tested on Sunday,
was cast on Tuesday."
The Mandarin will be featured in this film, played by Tony Leung, and will most likely be the real one following Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery acting as him in Iron Man 3. Awkwafina will also be joining the cast, but no character name was given.
Marvel Reveals Six New X-Men Comics in ‘Dawn of X’ Relaunch
Marvel Comics finally revealed what's in store for the X-Men franchise after writer Jonathan Hickman wraps up House of X and Powers of X this fall. As revealed at the Marvel next Big Thing panel at Comic Con, Hickman will be spearheading a full relaunch of the X-Men line that includes six new titles
Hickman will be writing the core X-Men title with artist Leinil Yu and co-writing the first story arc of New Mutants with permanent writer Ed Brisson and artist Rod Reis. Other titles include Excalibur (from Tini Howard and Marcus To), The Marauders (from Gerry Duggan and Matteo Lolli), Fallen Angels (from Bryan Edward Hill & Szymon Kudranski) and X-Force (from Ben Percy and Joshua Cassara).
Westworld Season 3 Trailer Revealed at Comic Con 2019
A new trailer for Westworld's upcoming third season debuted today during a panel for the series at San Diego Comic Con.
The nearly three-minute trailer provides a better look at life outside of the parks, which seems to be filled with just as many violent delights. Check it out below:
The trailer gives us a better idea of what to expect from Season 3, following the shorter teaser released in May, which focused on Aaron Paul's new character, Caleb. We see Evan Rachel Wood's Dolores, Jeffery Wright's Bernard, and Tessa Thompson's Hale in the real world after the events of the Season 2 finale. Thandie Newton's Maeve, meanwhile, appears to still be within Delos Destinations, in what seems to be a Nazi-filled, World War II-themed park.
Why The Witcher Will Focus on the Original Short Stories
The cast of Netflix's The Witcher talked with IGN about details of the adaptation, and how they chose what to focus on within the franchise for the upcoming series.
Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich specifically spoke about the books and original short stories.
"We're all big fans of the books. We're all big fans of the video games as well, but this is solely based on the books and that's really where we drew our inspiration from – starting with the short stories," Hissrich said.
When asked how they decided to focus the theme around the original stories, Hissrich elaborated, saying, "One of the first things that we did was basically tackle that question. Is do we want to do the short stories or do we want to do the saga, I mean, hopefully we have space and time to do it all."
Amazon’s The Expanse Season 4 Release Date Announcement
Amazon's The Expanse blasted its way into Comic-Con 2019 with a new trailer and an official release date for the upcoming season. You can watch all 10 episodes of Season 4 on Prime Video on Friday, December 13, 2019.
Per Amazon, "Season 4 of The Expanse, its first as a global Amazon Original, begins a new chapter for the series with the crew of the Rocinante on a mission from the U.N. to explore new worlds beyond the Ring Gate. Humanity has been given access to thousands of Earth-like planets which has created a land rush and furthered tensions between the opposing nations of Earth, Mars and the Belt. Ilus is the first of these planets, one rich with natural resources but also marked by the ruins of a long-dead alien civilization. While Earthers, Martians, and Belters maneuver to colonize Ilus and its natural resources, these early explorers don’t understand this new world and are unaware of the larger dangers that await them."
The Simpsons Spoofs Stranger Things at Comic-Con
The first footage of The Simpsons: Season 31 debuted at Comic-Con today. The Simpsons panel offered attendees an exclusive first look at this year's "Treehouse of Horror XXX" special, which also happens to be the series' 666th episode.
The first clip comprised the entire cold opening of this year's Halloween special, delivering a rapid-fire parody mash-up of The Omen and The Exorcist. It begins with Marge giving birth to her third child, with Homer alarmed to discover he's about to have a second son. Dr. Hibbert comes to the rescue by offering to swap out their new son for a girl named Maggie, though he warns Homer "She tested positive for evil."
Homer and Marge bring Maggie home, and right away Maggie begins showing Satanic powers and tormenting her family members and other Springfielders. Flanders vows to rid the town of her evil, attempting to sacrifice her inside the church. When Homer and Marge arrive to stop him, Flanders show them the Mark of the Beast on Maggie's head, which turns out to be a Mickey Mouse logo. Clearly, the Simpsons crew are having fun lampooning their new corporate overlords.
Surprising No One, Marvel’s Avengers Footage Leaks From SDCC
Attendees of the San Diego Comic-Con 2019 Marvel Games Panel were treated to an early look of Square Enix's Avengers game and, surprising no one, the footage has leaked.
This early footage was only meant for those in the room, although Crystal Dynamics did confirm that it will be released to the general public a week after Gamescom this August. However, not everyone obeyed the rules and grainy footage taken on cell phones has leaked to the internet at large.
The footage shows Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk gameplay as they fight on and around the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco during the A-Day celebration, which was mostly the same demo shown behind-closed-doors at E3 2019.