• SDCC: Who watches the ‘Watchmen’ trailer?

    Over the years, Alan Moore has made it clear of the distaste he has for others’ adaptations of his works. His experience with the troubled The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was the last straw (Warner Bros. settled an alleged plagiarism suit aimed at the movie from a third party,...
  • SDCC: ‘Snowpiercer’ trailer looks set to track well…

    As fans of the original genre-twisting film, we’ve been pretty excited about the progress of the tv version of Snowpiercer which is set to debut on TBS next year and has already been renewed for a second run. The original 2013 film, based on French graphic novel Le Transperceneige,...
  • SDCC: HBO’s WWIII goes WWII and beyond…

    The first season of Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld for HBO was as much a masterclass in misdirection as it was an examination of what it is to be human or robot. The second season built on those ideas, but its multiple timelines and skewed chronology  were less effective this time...
  • SDCC: Shang-Chi! Blade? FF? Mutants? Marvel Phase 4 plans…

    Away from Asgard, Marvel had a ton of other news to announce… 6th November 2020 is the date for the much-anticipated Eternals movie from Marvel, based on the galaxy-wide conflicts and cosmic concepts created by Jack Kirby for Marvel‘s publishing empire. The story deals with the powerful Celestials and...
  • SDCC: Marvel’s Asgardian plans – alt-Loki, female Thor…

    Spring 2021 will see Loki return to tv  screens with the popular anti-hero/villain getting his firstsolo adventure on Disney+.  But the set-up could provide you with something of a headache… This will be the version of Loki, once again played by Tom Hiddleston that we saw make an unscheduled...
  • SDCC: Engage! ‘Picard’ trailer proves past is prologue…

    There’s been a resurgence in Star Trek over the last year or so and though you can’t please everyone all the time, the line-up of projects (the current Discovery, the upcoming animated Lower Decks and the character-driven Picard) undoubtedly has a diverse enough tone to attract a wide audience....
  • SDCC: Rick goes to movies, third ‘TWD’ series starts shooting…

    The Walking Dead comic may have come to a surprisingly sudden end this past month, but its televisual cousin shows no signs of slowing down. The SDCC panels for The Walking Dead franchise were as popular as ever with a mixture of expected and unexpected news.  The expected aspect...
  • SDCC: Russo Brothers’ AGBO cherry-picks new projects…

    Being the directors of the film which is nanoseconds away form being the most successful of all time (Avengers: Endgame for those of you hiding under a rock) gives you a certain amount of clout and the ability to quick and choose what your next projects will be. The...
  • SDCC: Brandon Routh to return as screen Superman…

    When Bryan Singer cast Brandon Routh as the ‘Last Son of Krypton’ for 2006’s Superman Returns, it was perhaps the one thing that film got entirely right. In a production that otherwise sought to mine some of the goodwill and continuity of the Christopher Reeve / Richard Donner era,...
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