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Show Notes Episode 90: Strange New Worlds, Familiar Old Format & Episode 91: FanDome, ThunderDome, DomeDome
Tonight! Ewan McGregor's costly divorce, Strange New Worlds with an old format and we remember actor Ben Cross. All that and more on this edition of Multiverse tonight!
Hi Welcome to Multiverse Tonight, I'm your host Thomas Townley.
Disney's Rogue One prequel series has a co-star for Diego Luna, Adria Arjona has joined the Disney Plus series. Arjona is known for Netflix's 6 Underground and will be in Sony's Morbius movie. The series still has yet to be granted a title.
And while we're on the subject of Disney Plus Star Wars series, According to making star wars dot com, production sources familiar with the Obi-wan series production have indicated that the series will start filming next month with exterior shots filmed somewhere in Southern California.
Maybe production is being sped up because of Ewan McGregor's divorce settlement. According to various sources, The actor has agreed to split his royalties from all the movies and tv shows he made before May 2017 with this ex-wife, Eve Mavrakis. He will also be handing her alimony to the tune of 35, 868 a month, and 14, 934 a month in child support. He will also be giving her five of his cars, their LA home, and half a million dollars in cash. Ouch.
This Christmas, Disney Plus is gifting us with a new Star Wars Holiday Special, this time instead of a goofy live-action one it will be The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special. The forty-five minute show will feature the animated Legos in the spirit of the original 1978 special. According to executive producer Josh Rimes quote "We wanted to give a wink and a nod to the original," "It's a celebration of the saga. A lot of characters will be interacting with different characters and perhaps even different versions of themselves at different ages." unquote The story will involve Rey and BB-8 heading out on a quest to quote "gain a deeper knowledge of the Force, but their visit to a mysterious Jedi Temple sends them careening through time and space." unquote The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special will be released on November seventeenth on Disney Plus.
The Clone Wars might be over but there's still more to be told in audiobook form. The animated cast members are providing their voices to the audiobook edition of Star Wars The Clone Wars Stories of Light and Dark anthology. Returning to reprising their roles are Corey Burton (Cad Bane and Count Dooku), Nika Futterman (Asajj Ventress), Matt Lanter (Anakin Skywalker), Catherine Taber (Padmé Amidala), James Arnold Taylor (Obi-Wan Kenobi), and Sam Witwer (Maul). The book has ten stories retelling episodes from Clone Wars and a new Nightsisters story. The book goes on sale on August twenty-fifth.
If you're in the mood for more Picard, there are plenty of tie ins to go and things to buy. First off is the Picard season one soundtrack on oldfashioned vinyl.. The limited-edition release is pressed on two 140 gram 'Transparent Green W/ Splatter' vinyl platters, and features printed inner sleeves and a gatefold jacket. The vinyl release comes out on October 9th and can be bought for $32.98. There will also be a 2021 calendar so you can mark the time till next season. And the show is coming to Blu-ray, it arrives on October sixth. In November, we get the book Star Trek The Wisdom of Jean-Luc Picard from Simon & Shusters Adams Press and edited by Chip Carter. The book has 208 pages and will be out on November tenth.
Star Trek Strange New Worlds will be a different format than Picard and Discovery, one that's more familiar to older Trek fans. Episodic. Alex Kurtzman participating in the Deadline Emmy Contenders panel updated everyone about the new series taking place on Pike's Enterprise quote I think Strange New Worlds, under the guidance of Henry Myers and Akiva Goldsman, it's going to be a return in a way to TOS [Star Trek: The Original Series]. We are going to do stand-alone episodes. There will be emotional serialization. There will be two-parters. There will be larger plot arcs. But it really is back to the model of alien-of-the-week, planet-of-the-week, challenge-on-the-ship-of-the-week. With these characters pre-Kirk's Enterprise. I think what people responded so much to in all three characters is this kind of relentless optimism that they have. And that they are at the young phase of their careers. unquote, He also spoke about Pike keeping his optimism despite having knowledge of his fate learned during his time on Discovery. Quote That Pike, who has experienced this extraordinary trauma, which he is famous for. It is how he knows how he is going to die. The idea is, how does a character who knows how he is going to die live optimistically from that point on and lead a ship? It's a great question. I have never seen a show where a character knew that already. You have to have an inherent optimism in your world view in order to say, "I am going to get up every morning knowing how it is going to end for me." And still, lead everybody to be the best versions of themselves. Unquote
Alex Kurtzman in an interview with Gold Derby noted that writing is ahead of schedule on the Trek Productions at the moment. The Discovery writer's room has already started on season four of the series and that Strange New Worlds is scheduled to begin production next year. He told them quote "We've been running all of our writers' rooms on Zoom, and the silver lining is that we've been actually been able to get quite ahead on the scripts for upcoming seasons of Discovery, and Picard, and Strange New Worlds, which is going to be shooting next year, and Section 31." unquote He also talked about how the pandemic slowed post-production on Discovery, including having the musicians recording their instruments individually and having Jeff Russo having to mix it all together. Season Three of Discovery starts on October fifteenth.
Next year might see more Trek and a new name for CBS All Access. A new profile on Financial Times about ViacomCBS Chairperson Shari Redstone reports that the media conglomerate has a shortlist for a new super streamer and the leading contender is Paramount Plus. The apparent motivation for rebranding CBS All Access is that management believes that the CBS name skews older and that the Paramount name might have a broader appeal. After all, they did rebrand the SpikeTV channel into the Paramount Network.
David Tennant, during a Reddit AMA session, said that he would like to have a part in the Star Trek Universe. This wouldn't be too far to go for Tennant after all he's been Doctor Who, he's been a part of the Marvel universe on Jessica Jones and a part of the Harry Potter universe as well. Maybe they can make him a part of Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds, or a part of Section 31. Anywhere they could put him, he'd probably be great.
Nichelle Nichols's family has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to help sue her former caretaker who they allege financially abused her while pretending to protect her interests. All funds raised will pay for the legal fees and has a goal of 100,000 dollars, right now it's about 64 percent to its goal. For more information about it look up the Shields Up, Nichelle Nichols! GoFundMe campaign or click on the link in the show notes. https://www.gofundme.com/f/shields-up-nichelle-nichols
Well while we're on legal news, we have a final judgment in the Star Trek Discovery Tardigrade case. If you'll recall in my past episodes, I talked about how Tardigrade video game Anas Abdin claimed that the Tardigrade story in the first season of Star Trek Discovery was similar to the story in his video game Tardigrades. The US District Court in the Southern District of New York dismissed his claims back in September, it was appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and they have come back affirming that CBS and Netflix did not infringe on the work of Mister Abdin because the works aren't similar enough and that the use of Tardigrades aren't enough saying quote "Abdin's space-traveling tardigrade is an unprotectable idea because it is a generalized expression of a scientific fact—namely, the known ability of a tardigrade to survive in space," the court said. "By permitting Abdin to exclusively own the idea of a space-traveling tardigrade, this Court would improperly withdraw that idea from the public domain and stifle creativity naturally flowing from the scientific fact that tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space." The court also found that the elements of the Tardigrade game were uncopyrightable stock themes from scifi and that his human characters weren't similar enough to the Discovery ones. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/cbs-beats-copyright-claims-over-star-trek-discovery
The next Star Trek novel is up for preorder, Greg Cox brings us Star Trek A Contest of Principles, the book sees the crew of the Enterprise split between competing missions. While Captain Kirk is observing elections on a newly democratic planet, while Spock is searching for Doctor McCoy after Bones is kidnapped from a nearby planet and is being forced to study a deadly sickness. Here's the blurb quote "An epic new Star Trek saga by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox set during the original five-year mission!
The planet Vok is holding its first free elections after years of oppressive military rule. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have been dispatched by Starfleet to serve as impartial observers, but remaining neutral proves a challenge, as Kirk confronts a tangled web of scandal, conspiracy, and assassination plots—with the stability of an entire sector at stake.To make matters worse, Dr. Leonard McCoy has vanished while on a mission of mercy to Braco, a nearby planet only a system away. With Kirk unable to abandon his vital mission on Vok to hunt for his friend, it's up to First Officer Spock and Christine Chapel to lead a team in search of the missing doctor, even if it means risking whatever fate befell McCoy.
Unknown to his friends and crewmates, however, McCoy has been spirited away to another world, Ozalor, where he's expected to find a cure for a mysterious ailment plaguing a member of the planet's ruling family. Torn between his Hippocratic oath and his desire to escape, McCoy finds himself at the center of deadly palace intrigues—and a struggle for power that may ultimately consume all three worlds! Greg Cox is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous Star Trek novels and short stories. He has also written the official movie novelizations of War for the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla, Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Rises, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and the first three Underworld movies, as well as books and stories based on such popular series as Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, Farscape, The 4400, Leverage, The Librarians, Roswell, Terminator, Warehouse 13, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Zorro. He has received three Scribe Awards from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, as well as the Faust Award for Life Achievement."
Star Trek: A Contest of Principles goes on sale on November 10th.
Oscar-nominated director Garth Davis will be directing the second sequel to Tron. The movie has been languishing in development hell since 2017 with Jared Leto attached to star. Mr. Leto on Instagram posted quote "I'm struck with such gratitude for the opportunity to bring this movie to life, especially as both the original video game and the film affected me so deeply as a young child," "The fact that I get to be a part of this new chapter is mind-blowing." unquote Tron Legacy made 400 million and enough interest to make a sequel. No expected release date yet.
Netflix has bought a trilogy of Fear Street movies from Disney. The movies are based on the RL Stine teen horror series. The movies are already complete having been produced by Fox and originally intended for release this past June, but they were pulled due to the pandemic. The Fear Street books are based in a fictional Ohio city. No word on when they will be released.
The Nutty Professor is getting a reboot, Project X Entertainment's James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein have landed the rights to it, they previously rebooted the Scream franchise. No studio is attached to it yet.
Hey, there's actually a box office to report on. Let's start at number 9. Back to the Future with 140,000. 8 is Jurassic Park with 180,000 7. Peninsula with 210,000. 6. Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back with 230,000. Number five Cut Throat City 240,000. Number four the Goonies with 260,000. Number 3 Words on Bathroom Walls with 462,000, number two The SpongeBob Movie Sponge On the run with 550,000 and number one with a bullet Unhinged which comes in with four million 60 thousand.
Tonight we remember actor Ben Cross, who passed away after a battle with cancer on August eighteenth from cancer. He will best be known for movies like 1981's Chariots of Fire, 1995's First Knight, 2004's Exorcist The Beginning, and his role as Sarek in 2009's Star Trek. His television credits include The short-lived remake of Dark Shadows in 1991, appearances on the 80's Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theater, Tales from The Crypt, Poltergeist The Legacy and Twelve Monkeys. He is survived by his wife and two children from his first marriage. He was 72.
Tonight! What came from DC's first Fandome, Marvel puts Wolverine in three colors and theaters open up, but is it a good idea? All that and more on the comics edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Welcome to episode 91 of Multiverse Tonight!
DC Fandome. Here are the highlights.
The Batman had a trailer and it was revealed that the movie is only 30 percent shot, the film is scheduled for 2021.
A trailer was shown for Wonder Woman 84.
A trailer was shown for Justice League The Snyder Cut and it looked damn good. But be prepared for a long show it will be put up on HBO MAX in four hourlong installments.
The new game Gotham Knights was revealed, it's a co-op adventure game starring Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl, and Red Hood fighting to protect Gotham City after the apparent death of Batman. They will face the Court of Owls and other members from the Dark Knights' rogue gallery.
The Flash movie was revealed. With Barry Allen getting a new Batman made costume and confirmation that The Flash will be time traveling in order to change the DC Multiverse. They also hinted at revisiting classic DC Movies with concept art showing the flash teaming up with Michael Keaton's Batman.
At the Suicide Squad panel, James Gunn revealed every character for the movie Idris Elba plays Bloodsport
Margot Robbie plays Harley Quinn
Viola Davis plays Amanda Waller
Sean Gunn plays Weasel
Pete Davidson plays Blackguard
Daniela Melchior plays Ratcatcher 2
Joel Kinnaman plays Colonel Rick Flag
Nathan Fillion plays TDK
Jai Courtney plays Captain Boomerang
Steve Agee plays the on-set King Shark and John Economos
Mayling Ng plays Mongal
David Dastmalchian plays Polka-Dot Man
Alice Braga plays Sol Soria
John Cena plays Peacemaker
Juan Diego Botto plays Presidente General Silvio Luna
Peter Capaldi plays The Thinker
Michael Rooker plays Savant
Flula Borg plays Javelin
Joaquín Cosío is Mayor General Mateo Suarez
Jennifer Holland plays Emilia Harcourt
Storm Reid plays Tyla
Gunn said that this was quote "by far the most fun I've ever had making a movie," unquote He also confirmed on twitter quote I can confirm #TheSuicideSquad is 100%, zero interference, no-holds-barred ME, &, again, I can't wait for you guys to get a glimpse of it at #DCFanDome. (Yes, I'm pimping FanDome a lot, but that's because I know how exciting it's going to be – for my film & other stuff too!😬) unquote
A Suicide Squad game was already reveled from Rocksteady Studios. It's another co-op game and will be out in 2022 for PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC.
Black Adam was teased with Dwayne Johnson revealing that along with Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher we will see the Justice Society of America, no casting news year but the cast will include Hawkman, Cyclone and Doctor Fate.
Conversely, Shazam 2's panel revealed that it will be called Shazam Fury of the Gods and will be out in November of 2022.
Aquaman w was teased only with a note from James Wan that it was quote "a little bit more serious, a little bit more relevant to the world that we're living in today." unquote
Sandman on Netflix's panel had Neil Gaiman saying that the show will be faithful to the books, but slightly looser and that the pandemic has allowed for more work on the scripts.
Titans season three will see Jason Todd becoming the Red Hood and will see Barbara Gordon becoming GCPD commissioner and Dr. Jonathan Crane's Scarecrow making an appearance on the show.
The Milestone imprint is making a return
All isn't sunshine and lollipops at DC WarnerMedia has laid off dozens from the company including editor-in-chief Bob Harris, senior VP of publishing strategy and support services Hank Kanalz, VP of marketing and creative services Jonah Weiland, VP global publishing initiatives and digital strategy Bobbie Chase, senior story editor Brian Cunningham, and executive editor Mark Doyle, who oversaw the rollout of the Black Label graphic novels. Jim Lee remains the CCO. According to sources about a third of the editors are getting laid off. Insiders have also told the Hollywood reporter that a majority of the staff at DC Universe are gone as well, seeming to indicate that the streaming service might not be long for this world. Also gone is DC Direct, the in house merchandising and collectibles arm, ending its 22-year long history of making green lantern rings and batarangs.
In the interim DC Comics has named Marie Javins and Michele Wells as Interim Editors in Chief. Javins was in charge of digital strategy at DC and Wells was head of the Young Adult Imprint. In an interview about that change with the Holly wood Reporter, DC Publisher Jim Lee said quote "We thought it would be a great pairing to bring them together to help draft and organize the content we're doing along these lines," Lee said. "Across digital, across global, we want to make sure we have diversity and inclusivity and making it in a way that we have authenticity to the storytelling that we're doing.
"It's really about consolidating all of our efforts and having every editors involved in all these directives and also organizing, broadly speaking, in content that is for kids 6 to 11 and then 12 to 45," he continued. "It's about consolidating format and oversight to a smaller, more concentrated editorial group.". Unquote He also confirmed that comics at DC aren't dead and that they are very much in the business of making comics. They will just be making less comics saying quote …we will be reducing the size of the slate. But it's about looking at everything and looking at the bottom 20 percent, 25 percent of the line that wasn't breaking even or was losing money. It's about more punch for the pound, so to speak, and increasing the margins of the books that we are doing. It was about aligning the books to the franchise brand content we've developed and making sure that every book we put out, we put out for a reason. unQuote He also disputed the rumor that DC will be only selling trades and that Marvel will start publishing DC's comics.
There's a lot more of this interview, if you want to read it, I'll have a link to it in the show notes. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dcs-jim-lee-companys-future-we-are-still-business-publishing-comics-1307413?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
The Joker's new sidekick Punchline is getting her own origin story one-shot. Punchline number one arrives in November. The issue is written by Batman writer and Punchline co-creator James Tynion IV and Sam Johns and has art from Mirka Andolfo with a cover by Yasmine Putri and a variant cover by Frank Cho. The story follows the consequences of her role in the joker war. Quote Punchline is the story of Alexis Kaye, and how she'll take Leslie Thompkins, Harper Row, and Cullen Row on a harrowing journey that reveals her radicalization to The Joker's ideology. Unquote It'll be out on November tenth.
This December DC Comics is releasing Through the '80s The end of eras hardcover and it will include the entire text of Alan Moore's unproduced Twilight of the Superheroes proposal… Twilight of the Superheroes was something that Moore proposed before he left DC in 87. Twilight would have restored the Multiverse and would have taken place in a future ruled by superhero dynasties and chronicled the final battle between heroes, villains and aliens. The hardcover will also feature issues from various 80's DC comics as well as essays. It comes out on December fifteenth and costs 49.99.
Swamp Thing will premiere on The CW on October sixth with a 90-minute premiere. It was canceled by DC Universe, but don't expect it to get a second season on The CW. CW President Mark Pedowitz said in May quote "At the moment, it's just the one season," "I do not know if it would come back. Obviously that would be a discussion for Warner Bros. and The CW. But at this time, Swamp Thing is just the episodes we have." unquote, In other words, big ratings might be enough to get a second season. So if you really want it, show up for it.
Marvel Comics is exiting the Age of Khonshu and is welcoming us to Enter The Phoenix. Here's the official teaser quote "Keep an eye on Jason Aaron and Javier Garron's latest Avengers epic, THE AGE OF KHONSHU for startling revelations about Moon Knight amidst a thunderous clash with a disgruntled god bent on reshaping the world in his image! Then, gear up for the grand return of the cosmic chaos-bringer of life and death in Jason Aaron and Javier Garron's ENTER THE PHOENIX, on sale in December!"
Marvel Comics is making a new anthology series, Wolverine: Black, White, and Blood. The series will see stores drawn in Black and White with just a splash of Red. Launching in November, each issue has three stories taking place at various points in our heroes life. Episode one will have a story with Gerry Duggan and Adam Kubert taking place at Weapon X, Matthew Rosenberg and Joshua Cassara show Wolverine undercover with Nick Fury and Declan Shalvey gets Logan into a deadly trap. Future issues of Wolverine: Black, White & Blood include stories by Vita Ayala, Chris Claremont, Saladin Ahmed, Donny Cates, Ed Brisson, Kelly Thompson, Greg Land, Salvador Larroca, Kev Walker, Chris Bachalo, Leonard Kirk, and others. The series starts this November.
Theaters are opening back up and it looks like new movies like THe New Mutants and Tenet will finally hit the big screen, but is it such a good idea to go? Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson doesn't think so. He took to twitter to push for everyone to stay home instead quote "Don't go see Tenet or any other movie in theater. There, I said it," unquote. I think he might be right, I frankly won't be going unless it's a matinee with very very few people or if we can get this under control with a vaccine.
New York Comicon is …yep…you guessed it going virtual. The online event will take place from October 8th to the 11th via their Youtube channel, the first panels to be announced are Star Trek American Gods and Hulu/FX. Fans will get to interact with the panels via Youtube live chat and ReedPops Discord channel. Reed Pop will also have a virtual marketplace for autographs, videos, and professional workshops.
Brandon Lee's costume from The Crow has sold at auction for 25,000 according to Kruse GWS Auctions. The distressed black shirt, leather pants, and trench coat were worn in multiple scenes in the 1994 classic. The star died after being accidentally shot during the making of the film.
Apple and Google have both banned Fortnite from their respective app stores. Publisher Epic Games is now suing both Apple and Google. In a statement to Deadline dot com Apple said quote "Epic enabled a feature in its app which was not reviewed or approved by Apple, and they did so with the express intent of violating the App Store guidelines," Apple said in a statement provided to Deadline. "We will make every effort to work with Epic to resolve these violations so they can return Fortnite to the App Store." unquote Apparently this is over Epic allowing people to skip the Apple and Google stores and allow players to pay Epic directly.
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Show Notes: Episode 76: An All Access Pike & Episode 77: A Little Sandman in Your Ears
Tonight! Pike rides again! The Mandalorian gets some new actors and we remember two funny men. All that and more on this scifi edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Things are going okay here in Kansas. Restrictions are starting to lift a little bit, but frankly not enough people are wearing masks. People, until we have a vaccine or a cure for this, we need to ensure that we don't spread anything around. Anyway, I'd like to give a shout out to the guys over at Pop Goes The Culture. They are allowing me to boost the signal so to speak and get out in front of more people. So, thanks guys. Now let's get to the news.
The adventures of Anson Mount's Captain Pike won't end with season two of Discovery. CBS All Access has announced that it has ordered Star Trek Strange new worlds straight to series. The new show will follow Pike and the crew of the Enterprise in the decade before Kirk takes the reigns. Returning will be Anson Mount of course as Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Una aka Number One and Ethan Peck as Mr. Spock. Akiva Goldsman will be writing the series premiere based on a story he co wrote with Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. Goldsman, Kurtzman and Lumet will serve as the main executive producers with Henry Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth also as executive producers and . Aaron Baiers, Akela Cooper, and Davy Perez as co-executive producers. Akiva Goldsman in a statement said quote "This is a dream come true, literally," said Goldsman. "I have imagined myself on the bridge of the Enterprise since the early 1970s. I'm honored to be a part of this continuing journey along with Alex, Henry and the fine folks at CBS. unquote This makes the fifth new Star trek series, joining Discovery, Picard, Short Treks and Lower Decks. There are a couple more still in development including a Nickelodeon series and a Section 31 series.
CBS All Access will be getting a makeover with a new name. In a first quarter earnings call with investors, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said that the rebranding will happen quote "as soon as [CBS All Access] expands to incorporate more of the company's cable brands and library programming." The streaming service already incorporates content from CBS and Paramount, but soon the service will bring in content from ViacomCBS' cable brands like Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, BET, Smithsonian, MTV and Paramount Network. No definitive details on when a name change might be affected. Or when more Trek content is coming? Where is that Lower Decks series!
There has been now specific word on when the show will arrive and in an interview with Inverse dot com Show runner Mike McMahan said that quote "I can't give you a specific answer on when that's coming out," "but we're still working on it and we're on track for when we have planned, which is this year." unquote. Well I guess that's something. While we wait, Check out his other new show, Solar Opposites on Hulu.
A Star Trek Voyager novel is coming out this October. In "To Lose The Earth ", quote "As the crew of the Full Circle fleet works to determine the fate of their lost ship, the Galen, a struggle for survival begins at the far edge of the galaxy. New revelations about Species 001, the race that built the biodomes that first drew the fleet to investigate planet DK-1116, force Admiral Kathryn Janeway to risk everything to learn the truth." unquote The book is written by Kirsten Beyer.
Patrick Stewarty is echoing the hope for more Next Generation cast appearances in future episodes of Picard telling Gold Derby quote "In meetings when we talked about bringing in members of The Next Generation crew, that was one of the things I was most passionate about, which was not only should Picard have changed during the 18 years that had passed, but the same has to be applied to Counselor Troi, to Commander Riker, to whoever it is," he says. "And by the way, I am very hopeful we will see more of The Next Generation crew before we say goodbye to Picard. And that is just what they did, and there is no better example than the episode."
Star Trek Online has announced the Year of the Klingon with a new major multipart 2411 story focused on the Klingons. Existing Klingon content will also be getting a much needed overhaul. In a post on the STO website quote "[A]s part of this long-planned, face-of-the-game changing story, we're taking a little time to focus on our most honorable allies. We love our Klingon content – who doesn't love a story that involves descending into Grethor and fighting a god? – but a lot of it is old, and doesn't contain the technical improvements we've made to the game over the years. So we're spending time and resources to give these pieces of content visual and gameplay facelifts. Over the next twelve months (maybe more), you'll see new Klingon character models for some of our classic characters like J'Mpok, updated skins for the classic Klingon ships like the Bird of Prey, new environments and cutscenes to refresh this old but beloved content." unquote
Happy Anniversary to the Empire Strike Back! The arguably best part of the original trilogy turns 40 this week. It opened in theaters on May 21, 1980. Made on a budget of 18 million dollars, it went on to gross 547.9 million by the end of it's run. It was rereleased with a Special Edition back in 1997.
The Mandalorian will have a visit from the original man in the Mandalorian armor, Boba Fett. The bounty hunter will be making an appearance in the second season of the hit Disney Plus series. Boba will be played by Temuera Morrison who portrayed Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones.
Also reportedly cast for season two is Katee Sackoff. According to Slash Film dot com, Katee will be appearing as Mandalorian leader Bo-Katan Kryze, who Katee has voiced in both the Clone Wars and Rebels animated series. According to the site, Sackhoff and Lucasfilm are keeping the news under wraps. Also cast is actor Timothy Olyphant. His character is unknown at this time.
Dave Filoni will be returning to the directors chair for the Mandalorians second season, Filoni, who also serves as executive producer directed the first and fifth episodes of the first season will be directing just one this season. Speaking with Deadline he said quote "I just did one episode this coming season," "I'm really excited about it, I wrote it and directed it, so you know, that'll be a fun thing for me, and I've been learning from Jon [Favreau]. He's a great mentor. You know, to be in that situation in a live-action show with someone like him and a fantastic team of people, it's a really fortunate place for me to land because you're with people that can really help you and realize the things that you're trying to do story-wise." unquote
CBS has picked up the Silence of The Lambs sequel series Clarice, Clarice will follow Agent Starling, six months after the events of the movie have taken place. Here's what the official press release says quote "CLARICE, from acclaimed executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, and starring Rebecca Breeds ("Pretty Little Liars") in the title role, is a deep dive into the untold personal story of brilliant and vulnerable FBI Agent Clarice Starling as she returns to the field in 1993, six months after the events of "The Silence of the Lambs." Kal Penn, Nick Sandow, Michael Cudlitz, Lucca De Oliveira and Devyn A. Tyler also star. Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet and Heather Kadin are executive producers for MGM Television and CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout. Aaron Baiers is a co-executive producer." unquote Not the first time the Hannibal story events have been touched upon, NBC did Hannibal, which took place in and around the events of the first novel in the Hannibal series Red Dragon.
Stephen King's 2014 novel Revival will be getting a big screen adaptation from Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy, the guys behind last year's Doctor Sleep adaptation. Flanagan is writing the script and might possibly direct. The novel centers around the relationship between a heroin addicted musician and a dubious minister with an unknown agenda.
Jerry Bruckheimer is bringing back National treasure, this time for tv. If it's given a go it would go to Disney Plus. Mr. Bruckheimer told Collider quote "We're certainly working on one [National Treasure] for streaming and we're working on one for the big screen. Hopefully, they'll both come together and we'll bring you another National Treasure, but they're both very active. … The one for Disney+ is a much younger cast. It's the same concept but a young cast. The one for theatrical would be the same cast," unquote He went on to tell Collier that the pilot script and season outline have been presented to Disney Plus. So it sounds like no Nick Cage. Either this is a prequel or a total reimagining.
A Disney Plus series based on the Percy Jackson series of books is currently in the early stages of development according to author Rick Riordan. IN a statement he said quote
Unquote Hopefully this will have a better reception than the movie got.
Disney Plus is moving around the release dates for some movies. Avengers Infinity War is coming to the service on June 26th, Solo A Star Wars Story is comin on July 10th and Ant-Man and the Wasp will debut on Disney Plus on August 14th.
Now to something everyone wants to see, Disney Plus announced that a filmed production of Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton will hit the streamer on July 3rd, over a year before it was slated to be released to theaters. In a statement Mister Miranda said quote "I'm so proud of how beautifully Tommy Kail has brought 'Hamilton' to the screen. He's given everyone who watches this film the best seat in the house," Miranda said in a statement. "I'm so grateful to Disney and Disney Plus for reimagining and moving up our release to July 4 weekend of this year, in light of the world turning upside down. I'm so grateful to all the fans who asked for this, and I'm so glad that we're able to make it happen. I'm so proud of this show. I can't wait for you to see it." Disney paid 75 million for the rights to the filmed rendition and there are still plans for a fully produced big screen version, but that's not in the immediate future.
Now let's close out this podcast remembering those who have left us in the past couple of weeks or so. First off, Fredd Willard passed away on May fifteenth. From natural causes. Fred was popular for acting as an affable but goofy character; he has more than three hundred eleven acting credits to his name. Appearing in everything from tv shows like Get Smart, Laverne & Shirley, Fernwood tonight, America 2-Night, The Love Boat, Fame, Married with Children, Roseanne, Sister Sister, Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman, Mad About You, Hercules, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy,Modern Family and many many more, his last tv role will be in the series Space Force. He starred in such films as Silver Streak, Fun With Dick And Jane, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Idle Hands, Austin Powers the Spy who Shagged Me, Best In show for which he was nominated for five awards ,winning two, A Mighty Wind, Anchorman the Legend of Ron Burgundy, Wall-E, Mascots and many more, his final film role in 2018's The Bobby Roberts Project. He is survived by his Daughter and grandson, He was 86 years old.
We also remember Jerry Stiller,Comic and Father of Ben Stiller. He was half of the husband and wife comedy team of Stiller and Meara and portrayed Frank Costanza's dad on Seinfield and the dad on the King of Queens. He also acted in his son's films Zoolander, Zoolander 2 and The Heartbreak Kid, he died of natural causes at the age of 92.
We also lost Little Richard, one of the pioneers of rock and roll. Little Richard came to prominence in 1956 with Tutti Frutti and followed that up with songs like Long Tall Sally, Rip It Up, Lucille and Good Golly Miss Molly. Born Richard Wayne Penniman on December fifth 1932, in Macon Georgia, he became a teen idol. In 1986 he became one of the first ten inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won a lifetime achievement Award at the 1993 Grammys. MST3k fans will best remember him for his appearance in the Catalina Caper episode. Little Richard passed away from bone cancer in Nashville Tennessee, he was 87.
Tonight! Swamp Thing rises again, Mark Waid and Neal Adams join their powers for the first time and we take a moment to remember Martin Pasko, all that and more on the comic book edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Hello and welcome to episode 77 of Multiverse Tonight! So how's the past couple of weeks been. For me, it's been interesting, I bought myself the newest car I've ever had a 2014 Ford Focus Hatchback, my health is well and I hope yours is too. Comic books are slowly coming back. Stores are starting to slowly reopen. Things are okay for now. Are things great? No, but I think people are adjusting.
Are you ready for Batman to get…darker? According to one of the stars of The Batman Andy Serkis, get ready for darker. Speaking with LADbible, Serkis said that the movie will be more intense than previous DCU movies and that his Alfred Pennyworth and Bruce Wayne will have a real emotional connection at the center of the script. He also said that his Alfred will be a very different take from previous versions. Saying quote "He [Caine] was fantastic. His Alfred was legendary, I couldn't even begin to go there, really. You find it for yourself. It's like playing these iconic roles in Shakespeare, you go back, you revisit them and you have to make it your own, and see what it is about the character that connects with you and your personal venn diagram," unquote Andy also revealed that they were only halfway finished when production halted due to the pandemic and a restart has not been set yet. You know, I don't want a darker Batman, I want a detective Batman. Can we see that instead? Please?
Swamp Thing has always been able to rise from the swamps..now he's arisen from cancelation as the CW has picked up the series from DCUniverse. No details have been given as to new production on new episodes.
Season Two of Doom Patrol will be coming to both DC Universe and HBO Max on June twenty fifth. The first episode of the season sees quote "DC's strangest group of heroes — Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Matt Bomer), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (April Bowlby), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade) — are back again to save the world. That is, if they can find a way to grow up…both figuratively and literally. Following the defeat of Mr. Nobody, the members of the Doom Patrol now find themselves mini-sized and stranded on Cliff's toy race car track. Here they begin to deal with their feelings of betrayal by Niles Caulder aka The Chief (Timothy Dalton), while confronting their own personal baggage. And as each member faces the challenge of growing beyond their own past traumatic experiences, they must come together to embrace and protect the newest member of the family: Dorothy Spinner (Abigail Shapiro), Niles' daughter, whose powers remain a mysterious but real threat to bringing on the end of the world."
Neil Gaiman's The Sandman is coming to Audible and it's a bit of an all star cast. James McAvoy will provide the voice of Morpheus, also known as Dream of the Endless. Dream's sister, Death, is played by Kat Dennings. Taron Egerton takes on the role of John Constantine. Andy Serkis is Matthew the Raven. Michael Sheen plays Lucifer. Bebe Neuwirth is the Siamese Cat. Riz Ahmed plays the nightmare called the Corinthian. Gaiman will serve as the narrator. Supporting cast includes Justin Vivian Bond as Desire, Arthur Darvill as William Shakespeare, William Hope as Doctor Destiny, Matthew Horne as Hob Gadling, Reginald D. Hunter as J'onn J'onzz, Sue Johnston as Unity Kinkaid, Paterson Joseph as the Demon Chronzon, Josie Lawrence as Mad Hettie, Anton Lesser as Doctor John Hathaway, Joanna Lumley as Lady Johanna Constantine, and Miriam Margoyles as Despair. The cast will be adapting the first three Sandman graphic novels with Dirk Maggs directing the adaptation. Here's the blurb quote "When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus—the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination—is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three "tools" that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence. As the multi-threaded story unspools, The Sandman descends into Hell to confront Lucifer (Michael Sheen), chases rogue nightmares who have escaped his realm, and crosses paths with an array of characters from DC comic books, ancient myths, and real-world history, including: Inmates of Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, Doctor Destiny, the muse Calliope, the three Fates, William Shakespeare (Arthur Darvill), and many more."
The Sandman audio drama debuts on Audible on July 15th.
Some sad news, The Flash actor Logan Williams, who died at the of sixteen last month, died of an overdose of the opioid fentanyl. His mother revealed to the New York post that her son had been battling addiction for three years. She told the outlet quote "His death is not going to be in vain," "He's going to help a lot of people down the road." unquote If you or someone you love is addicted to opiods, get help.INthe united states call 1800 662 Help
THE CW'S FOURTH QUARTER 2020 PRIMETIME SCHEDULE
8-8:30 PM — Whose Line Is It Anyway?
8:30-9 PM — Whose Line Is It Anyway?
9-10 PM — Penn & Teller: Fool Us
8-9 PM — Swamp Thing
9-10 PM — Tell Me A Story
8-8:30 PM — Two Sentence Horror Stories
8:30-9 PM — Dead Pixels
9-10 PM — Coroner
8-9 PM — Supernatural
9-10 PM — The Outpost
8-8:30 PM — World's Funniest Animals
SUPERMAN & LOIS — In SUPERMAN & LOIS, after years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, the world's most famous superhero, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin, "Teen Wolf") and comic books' most famous journalist, Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch, "Grimm"), come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever – dealing with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society. Complicating the already daunting job of raising two boys, Clark and Lois must also concern themselves with whether or not their sons Jonathan (Jordan Elsass, "Little Fires Everywhere") and Jordan (Alexander Garfin, "The Peanuts Movie") could inherit their father's Kryptonian superpowers as they grow older. Returning to Smallville to handle some Kent family business, Clark and Lois are reacquainted with Lana Lang (Emmanuelle Chriqui, "Entourage"), a local loan officer who also happens to be Clark's first love, and her Fire Chief husband Kyle Cushing (Erik Valdez, "Graceland"). The adults aren't the only ones rediscovering old friendships in Smallville as the Kent sons are reacquainted with Lana and Kyle's rebellious daughter, Sarah (Inde Navarrette, "Wander Darkly"). Of course, there's never a dull moment in the life of a superhero, especially with Lois' father, General Samuel Lane (Dylan Walsh, "Nip/Tuck") looking for Superman to vanquish a villain or save the day at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, Superman and Lois' return to idyllic Smallville is set to be upended when a mysterious stranger (Wolé Parks, "All American") enters their lives. Based on the characters from DC created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, SUPERMAN & LOIS is written and executive produced by Todd Helbing ("The Flash") and executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Geoff Johns. The series is from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
WALKER — a reimagining of the long-running series "Walker, Texas Ranger," stars Jared Padalecki ("Supernatural") as Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there's harder work to be done at home. He'll attempt to reconnect with his creative and thoughtful son (Kale Culley, "Me, Myself and I") and his headstrong, somewhat rebellious teenage daughter (Violet Brinson, "Sharp Objects") and navigate clashes with his family – an ADA brother (Keegan Allen, "Pretty Little Liars") who stepped in during Walker's absence, his perceptive mother (Molly Hagen, "Herman's Head") and his traditional rancher father (Mitch Pileggi, "The X-Files"). Walker's former colleague is now his Ranger Captain, (Coby Bell, "The Game"). Walker finds unexpected common ground with his new partner (one of the first women in Texas Rangers' history) played by Lindsey Morgan ("The 100"), while growing increasingly suspicious about the circumstances surrounding his wife's death. The show also stars Jeff Pierre as Trey Barnett. WALKER is written and executive produced by Anna Fricke ("Being Human," "Valor"), and executive produced by Dan Lin and Lindsay Liberatore and Jared Padalecki. WALKER is from CBS Television Studios in association with Rideback.
KUNG FU — A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman, Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to San Francisco, she finds her hometown is overrun with crime and corruption and her own parents (Tzi Ma and Kheng Hua Tan) are at the mercy of a powerful Triad. Nicky will rely on her tech-savvy sister (Shannon Dang), pre-med brother (Jon Prasida), Assistant District Attorney and ex-boyfriend (Gavin Stenhouse), and new love interest (Eddie Liu) as well as her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice … all while searching for the ruthless assassin (Gwendoline Yeo) who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her. Inspired by the original series created by Ed Spielman, KUNG FU is from Warner Bros. Television in association with Quinn's House and Berlanti Productions, with writer/executive producer Christina M. Kim ("Blindspot," "Lost") and executive producers Martin Gero ("Blindspot," "LA Complex"), Greg Berlanti ("Arrow," "The Flash," "Riverdale") and Sarah Schechter ("Arrow," "The Flash," "Riverdale").
THE REPUBLIC OF SARAH — The bucolic tranquility of Greylock, New Hampshire is upended when a massive vein of coltan – an incredibly valuable mineral used in tech – is discovered under the town. State-backed mining company Lydon Industries swoops in with plans to extract the mineral … plans that include wiping Greylock off the map. With her friends and family in danger of losing their homes, rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper (Stella Baker) vows to stop Lydon's bulldozers. It won't be easy. Leading Lydon's efforts is Sarah's estranged brother, Danny Cooper (Luke Mitchell). After enduring a difficult childhood at the hands of his mother, former state senator Ellen Cooper (Megan Follows), Danny is eager to exact his revenge on a community he feels abandoned him. Sarah enlists her friends – fellow teacher Corinne Dearborn (Hope Lauren), police officer Amy "AJ" Johnson (Nia Holloway), and diner manager Grover Simms (Ian Duff) – in the fight against Danny, but there seems to be no way to stop the town's impending demise … Until Sarah proposes an oddly intriguing solution: Greylock could declare independence. Citing various historical maps, she explains that the land on which Greylock sits was never properly claimed by the United States. If Sarah and her friends can convince the town to vote for independence, Greylock would gain international sovereignty and could protect its land for good. With the help of a group of supporters that includes three of her teenage students – LA transplant Maya Jimenez (Izabella Alvarez), introspective outsider Tyler Easterbrook (Forrest Goodluck), and preppy "popular girl" Bella Whitmore (Landry Bender) – Sarah and her friends win the vote. And after a federal judge agrees that Greylock isn't – and never was – part of the United States, the town becomes a new nation. Now, Sarah and her allies must confront an even more daunting task: building a country from scratch. Executive Produced by Jeffrey Paul King ("Elementary"), Marc Webb ("Why Women Kill), Mark Martin ("Rendition"), Jeff Grosvenor and Leo Pearlman, THE REPUBLIC OF SARAH is a production of CBS Television Studios in association with Fulwell 73 and Black Lamb.
THE CW'S NEW SEASON PRIMETIME SCHEDULE EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2021
(New Programs in UPPER CASE)
8-9 PM — All American
9-10 PM — Black Lightning
8-9 PM — The Flash
9-10 PM — SUPERMAN & LOIS
8-9 PM — Riverdale
9-10 PM — Nancy Drew
8-9 PM — WALKER
9-10 PM — Legacies
8-9 PM — Penn & Teller: Fool Us (New Night)
9-9:30 PM — Whose Line Is It Anyway? (New Night)
9:30-10 PM — Whose Line Is It Anyway? (New Night)
8-9 PM — Batwoman
9-10 PM — Charmed (New Night)
Rob Liefeld Creator of Deadpool and lots of other things, is someone who likes to freely share his opinions. Speaking with Comicbooks doe coms Talking Shop. It's been two years since Deadpool 3, so what's the hold up on the third one? Rob puts the blame on Marvel, quote "I blame Marvel…blame Marvel that that hasn't happened yet," Liefeld says. "They are the reason it isn't happening. Whatever conundrum or it didn't fit into your master plan, just commission it. Okay, commission it. You know if Frank Frazetta was still around, you would say, 'Frank paint for me.'"
"If Ryan(Reyonlads) is making Deadpool 3 right now, that's because Marvel hasn't allowed it to be yet and that's all I'm saying," he adds. "So, do I have a lot of faith in that system? Dude, I have no idea. So this is where I'm not that, I'm not giving you the answers you want. I'm like yeah, yeah. Look if it happens, terrific."
Liefeld also thinks that Hugh Jackman will return to the cim=nematic X-Men franchise. When asked if he could see another actor in the role he said in an interview with Inverse quote "I'm stuck on Hugh Jackman," "Having met Hugh, having loved Hugh, there is only Deadpool because of Wolverine… I was doing Deadpool [in the comics] to get to Wolverine. Wolverine was always the goal." unquote, what would your choice as a new Wolverine be?
Fox's final X-Men production, The New Mutants has been given a theatrical release date of August 28th in the year 2020 …or will it? This movie has been in the can for more than 2 years now. First slated for release in april of 2018, then getting pushed to February of last year, then to August of 2019. Then Fox was sold to Disney and it was moved to April 3rd of 2020…and then the pandemic. Yep, it's been a long strange trip…maybe Disney should just put it out on Disney Plus and digital? Do they really think this will be a great money maker?
Marvel Entertainment is shuttering it's digital comics shop. The publisher in an email to subscribers announced that digital comics purchased on the site will will automatically be available under your account in the Marvel Comics app. The company is also integrating a function where you can sync up the Marvel mobile app with your comiXology account so that your purchases are available both mobile and on a computer, without having to double-dip. This is an interesting move considering that Marvel and DC have been pushing digital hard during the pandemic.
Speaking of comics, Marvel Comics have announced a new series teaming up writer Mark Waid with artist Neal Adams for the first time ever. The series titled Fantastic Four Antithesis will introduce a new villain as well as giving Adams a crack at the Silver Surfer. Mark in a statement said quote "Working with Neal Adams has been a dream of mine since I was a kid. To share the page with a man of his talent is an honor," Waid said in a statement provided by the publisher. "The story begins with the Fantastic Four struggling to prevent an extinction event on Earth and just goes more cosmic from there. We all know of Galactus, but until now, no one has met his Antithesis." Adams added quote "I have always had the sense of missing the chance to draw the Fantastic Four," Adams added. "It was a quiet sense, since I've had every opportunity to do my favorites. More, I felt Kirby and Buscema had done it all, hadn't they…? When Marvel's Tom Brevoort asked if I'd like to do the Fantastic Four, I knew I had to ask for Galactus and the Silver Surfer as well. I am humbled and thankful to Tom for the opportunity." Here's the official synopsis quote The soaring sentinel of the space-ways may have finally met his match in the all-new series FANTASTIC FOUR: ANTITHESIS – the first full-length Fantastic Four story ever illustrated by industry legend Neal Adams! Adams is joined by Eisner Award-winning writer Mark Waid (Daredevil, Captain America, Fantastic Four), who jam-packs this tale with a fan-favorite roster of Fantastic Four heroes and villains! Together, this celebrated creative team created a new nemesis for the Fantastic Four guaranteed to send shockwaves throughout all of fandom. Who or what is the Antithesis, and will the combined might of the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, and Galactus himself be enough to defeat it? Find out more when FANTASTIC FOUR: ANTITHESIS #1 hits comic shops in August! Unquote
Disney Plus' new short form improvisational comedy series, Muppets Now has finally been given a time frame for it's premiere on the streamer, Buried in a press release for the Disney Family Sing Along Volume 2 was mentioned quote "fans of The Muppets can also see more of Kermit, Miss Piggy and friends in the upcoming Disney+ series, Muppets Now, premiering this summer." unquote Well I guess that's better than the nebulous soon.
Now an update on the Spawn Kickstarter. If you;ll remember in a past episode I talked about how Todd McFarlane was raising money on Kickstarter to make a new Spawn Action Figure. Well that kickstarter finished with 3.4 million dollars. Congratulations Todd and all those who backed him.
A new Smurfs video game is in the works from game publisher Microids and developer OSome Studio. The game will be a 3D action adventure game with a brand new story inspired by the comics of The Smurfs creator Peyo. In a statement Microids Vice President Elliot Grassiano said quote "We are delighted for concluding this new partnership with IMPS! Thanks to this trans-generational license and the talent of OSome Studio, a long time Microids partner studio which worked on several family games, we are confident in bringing together all gamers in the wonderful world of the Smurfs," Elliot Grassiano, Vice-president of Microids, said as part of the announcement. "The worldwide success met by the Smurfs will also allow us to increase our brand awareness overseas and position Microids as a major player internationally." unquote
The Mallrats Sequel Twilight of the Mallrats has a new actor as Kevin Smith tweeted that actress Aparna Brielle will star in the movie Smith tweeted quote "Aparna will play Brodie Bruce's daughter Banner Bruce in the movie I hope to shoot next – TWILIGHT OF THE MALLRATS." unquote Smith also confirmed that Shannen Doherty will be back to play Rene, earlier this year Shannen revealed that she has Stage four cancer.
Tonight we remember Comic and tv Writer Martin Pasko, who passed away on May tenth.He was born in Quebec in 1954. He started his comic writing career in 1972 writing for Superman, DC Comics Presents, Superman Family, Justice League of America, Wonder Woman and Saga of Swamp Thing. He also wrote for Disney Comics' Roger Rabbit comic, and Marvel's Gargoyles and Star Trek. His tv work began in the 80's writing for shows like Max Headroom, Buck rogers in the 25th century, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gi Joe and others, in the 90's he worked on Batman the Animated Series as well as the movie Batman Mask of the Phantasm. He won a Daytime Emmy for his work on Batman. In a facebook post former DC president Paul Levitz wrote, "[T]he odds are you've read his work, credited or not, or enjoyed a comic or cartoon or tv show or even a theme park event he made better, even as he relentlessly complained about the difficulties of making it as good as it 'should' be. Marty didn't have a genius for making anything easy (especially for him), but he had a real genius for making creative magic." Martin Pasko was 65.
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Show Notes: Episode 66: Let The Child waffle about Picard & Episode 67:That Batmobile is not street legal
Tonight! The Why of Picard, The Child makes waffles and we remember the Man who brought Ming The Merciless to life! All that and more on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Welcome to Episode 66 of Multiverse tonight. I have some sad news to start this episode. I've had a death in the family. Our dog Fanny has passed away. She stopped eating and drinking a few days ago and then on Sunday she passed away. It hurts, but I know I'll get over it. To quote George Carlin, "Life is a series of dogs." unquote And Fanny was a very good dog.
So you've been watching Star Trek Picard, but you have concerns about the violence in darkness especially the recent scenes in the episode Stardust City rag where we saw poor Icheb getting unwanted surgery and Seven of Nine deciding to go all Dirty Harry on the person who killed her friend. Some fans have even taken their concerns to Showrunner Michael Chabon on his Instagram. His answer quote "I am not unambivalent about the violence, myself," Chabon writes on Instagram. "The choice was not made lightly, though it was made collaboratively, and therefore with a good deal of conversation and debate among the creators. And so I assure you that it is not there simply 'because we can,' or because we are trying, as you somewhat uncharitably put it, to be 'in.' My partners would all have their own reasons for its presence in this story, as some of us had our own reasons for shying away from it. For me, it came down to this: there has always been violence (and even torture) in Star Trek. Sometimes that violence has been implicit, sometimes explicit, according to the dictates of censorship, the nature of the situation being depicted, the aesthetic of individual creators, or technical and/or budgetary limitations. And the reason that there has always been violence in Trek is that Trek is art, and there has always been violence—implicit and explicit—in art. It belongs there. It belongs in any narrative about human beings, even human beings of the future. Violence, often, *is* the narrative. Its source. Its engine. The question of whether it's "too much" or not is ultimately a matter of taste. Personally, I come out closer to the "less is more" end. But that is just me. In the end, I saw how little time and space we had to convey a sense of Seven's history post-Voyager, and the things that drive and haunt her. I decided, with my partners, that intensity was warranted. Seven lives outside the rationale confines of the Federation, because that is where she finds her sense of purpose. But life is hard, out there. If it wasn't, people wouldn't need her help so badly. And she wouldn't have found such a compelling reason to carry on, in spite of her history of trauma. But, I hear you." unquote
In other words, it was a necessary evil in order to tell the story
However Mister Chabon wasn't finished, he also talked about the show's tone and how it reflects our current reality. Quote "First of all, I think that the phrase (or a version of it) 'Star Trek has always reflected its time" is open to multiple, potentially conflicting interpretations,' he writes. "It can mean, 'Individual Star Trek series have always (consciously) reflected thematically many of the most pressing issues of the time when they were made.' I think that's the sense intended by people involved with making the two current series, and it's pretty obviously true—starting with persistent themes of nuclear annihilation, racial prejudice, mechanization, totalitarianism vs liberal democracy, on TOS, through DS9 with its themes of individual vs group identity, chosen family, reason vs faith, and the inevitable moral compromises of war. (That's only the *conscious* ways in which Trek has reflected the times in which it was made.) But the phrase could also be taken the way (I think) you take it: that the world, the milieu depicted by Star Trek—the characters and their interactions, their capabilities and limitations as individuals, the social institutions and mores and technologies and economics and culture—reflects the world and era in which it was made. I think you're saying that this is wrong, that here is exactly where Trek doesn't, hasn't. and *shouldn't* reflect the world and times. That it has always presented its crews, Starfleet, and the Federation as improvements, as realizations of our best potential, as aspirational. If Trek has reflected our world, it's in a kind of utopian funhouse mirror, where everything looks better. I would say that by and large that has been true, though possibly not as to the degree that many Trek fans claim, or feel. But there's another side to the world—the people and society—depicted in Star Trek, which is all the characters, planets, cultures, mores and interactions that take place outside of Starfleet, the Federation. Many of these "outside" cultures and characters—the empires and alliances and unions— *have* deliberately reflected aspects of our world, with its all imperfection, intolerance, brutality, its humiliations and injustices, its evils. I don't mean just in a thematic sense, but in the behavior of individual non-Federation, non-Starfleet characters, in the construction of societies around prejudices and inequalities, violence, lust for power, etc.
"That brings us to Picard. In the one, long, ten-part story we're telling, we're asking two questions about the greater world of Star Trek (i.e, the Federation *and* everything outside the Federation). One—a venerable Star Trek question, with a long pedigree in previous series and films: What happens when the Federation, the Roddenberry Federation with all its enlightened and noble intentions, free from want, disease, (internal) war, greed, capitalism, intolerance, etc., is tested by forces inimical to its values? What happens when two of its essential principles; (security and liberty, say) come into conflict? The answer has to be—at first, it buckles. It wobbles. It may, to some extent, compromise or even betray its values, or at the very least be sorely tempted to do so. If not, there's no point asking the question, though it's a question that any society with aspirations like ours or the Federation's needs to ask. If nothing can ever truly test the Federation, if nothing can rock its perfection, then it's just a magical land. It's Lothlorien, in its enchanted bubble, untouchable by the Shadow. And, also, profoundly *inhuman*. To me it's the humanity of the Federation—which means among many admirable things, its imperfection, its vulnerability and the constant need to defend it from our own worst natures—that makes it truly inspiring. The other, related question we're asking is: What about the people who live outside, at the edges (or even within) the Federation but who, for various reasons, aren't quite *of* it. Ex-Starfleet officers, refugees, people like Seven who served on a Starfleet ship but was never actually in Starfleet. People who have fallen through the cracks, or fallen victim to their own weaknesses. What is life like for people who, for whatever reason, live beyond the benevolent boundaries of the Federation—where, for example, post-scarcity is a dream, and there is a monetary economy? Again, there is precedent for this kind of story on Trek, but the fact that our story only resolves over ten episodes, not one, or two, or four out of a season of 23, might make it feel, sometimes, that there is more darkness, more trauma in our characters' lives. More *struggle.* This show unquestionably has darker tonalities than some others (DS9 is the standout exception). It lives more in the shadows, where the Federation's light can't always reach. That isn't to condemn, criticize, undo, break or, god knows, betray the Federation or Gene Roddenberry's vision. Shadow defines light.
Every new Trek series since TNG has sought to escape what can feel like the confines of previous series, not simply of canon (which can also be a strangely liberating force) but of the kinds of stories, about the kinds of characters and societies, that have already been told. Each new series has expressed this impulse to "light out for the territories" in a different way. TNG went a century into the future of TOS. DS9 went onto a station full of aliens that was both beyond the edge of the Federation and next to a wormhole that led to the Gamma Quadrant. VOY put 70k light-years between it and its predecessors, and introduced a raft of new species and worlds. ENT went deep into the early past of the Federation. Next season's DIS goes to the Trek universe's far-future.
"The space we found for Picard is not 'dark Federation.' It's one of people who live and work at or beyond the margins of the Federation who travel beyond its boundaries to find the truth." unquote Well we can definitely say he's a writer, that was a lot of words.
He also had more to say on Twitter when asked if there was a connection between the state of the Federation in Picard and the state of the Federation in the 32nd century that Discovery season three will take place in. Mister Chabon replied quote "'Federation downfall?' What Federation downfall? The Federation is still very much alive and well and home to trillions (quadrillions?) of safe, housed, fed, educated citizens with the potential to lead fulfilling lives," Chabon said. "There was a crisis 15 years ago, in the wake of the costly Dominion War and the Romulan emergency, which had a negative impact on the lives of many people, including most of our principal characters, in one way or another, during which Starfleet (and by extension the Federation) did not acquit itself well – in Picard's eyes. From Admiral Clancy's viewpoint, which is likely the mainstream view, Picard's attitude was unrealistic, quixotic, and even dangerous. She may be right! They may both be right, and both wrong. But that was fifteen years ago, and the Federation is still going strong. Perhaps in the eyes of some it lost its luster, its air of invulnerability, its claim to the moral high ground, a process that began during DS9 times. That is hardly a 'downfall', though." unquote
As to another fans question as to why Picard doesn't make reference to the Dominion War in the show Chabon answered that he had planned to originally but was convinced not to by colleagues that doing so might confuse newer fans. Bad move Chabon, for one. Fans know about it. New fans will go back and watch DS9 to find out about it or they'll find out about it from the internet. It's all right to have continuity that not everyone has seen. People are adaptable. You're kinda telling us that we're not smart enough to do the homework. Again, bad move. Trust your audience.
Robert Picardo says that he's in talks to appear in season two of Picard. He could either appear as the EMH creator Lewis Zimmerman, an EMH, or The Doctor. He's quoted as saying "I am pleased that they (CBS) have expressed interest in me," "They have reached out to my agent about next season. So I'm looking forward to seeing what it is. As you know I play two characters, primarily the Doctor but also Lewis Zimmerman. Lewis Zimmerman, the engineer who created the Doctor's program, certainly would have aged. He's in the same timeline as Patrick Stewart and all the [Star Trek: The Next Generation] folk. The Doctor, of course, like Data doesn't age, but there are ways to address that, as we all know. I joked the other day that my daughter does visual effects, that's exactly what she does is digitally correct actors so I said, 'If they hire the two of us, she could make me look 25 years younger. Anyway, it will interesting to see when something happens, if something but, but I might have a chance to be onscreen with Jeri again. It would be an honor and a delight, obviously, to have scenes with Patrick Stewart so, you know, we'll keep our fingers crossed."
Star Trek Voyager is turning twenty five, so far we've seen Jeri Ryan return as seven of nine on Picard and a group getting a monument erected in Captain Janeway's hometown of Bloomington Illinois. Now 455 films is producing a documentary about the series. 455 films has previously done the Star Trek documentaries, the Captains, Chaos on the Bridge and For the Love of Spock. Studio president David Zappone hinted about what was coming on twitter saying quote "Okay. Who likes Star Trek Voyager, and thinks it deserves to have a documentary to commemorate its 25th anniversary?" unquote He also confirmed that they will be filming during Star Trek : The Cruise IV filming testimonials from Voyager fans. The cruise this year has a Voyager theme and guests on the cruise include Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Robert Picardo, Roxann Dawson, Ethan Phillips, Tim Russ, and Garrett Wang. No word on when the documentary will be out, but I'm guessing this fall.
So, have you ever been watching the classic episode The Trouble with Tribbles and wondered how long it would have taken to fill up the ship with the cooing balls of fur? No? Well someone has to answer questions like this. So a group of undergrads at the University of Leicester in the UK calculated the growth rate of the tribbles and published a paper on it. It was a relatively simple calculation involving an exponential formula. Spock gave the initial set of variables in teh episode estimates that each tribble (born pregnant) can give birth to ten more tribbles in 12 hours and puts the number of tribbles on board after just three days at 1,777,561. The students, assuming that Spock's assessment was correct and presuming that no tribbles died. They came to the estimate that it would take 18.4 x10 to the 9th power and also estimated that it would take 18.4×109 tribbles to entirely fill the USS Enterprise. That's 18 billion, 400 million tribbles. So under those conditions, they came to the conclusion that it would take 4.5 days for tribbles to completely fill the ship. That's a lot of tribbles. Of course, in the episode the tribbles had been poisoned to death by contaminated quadrotriticale. In that case the authors proposed a further paper saying quote "A further calculation including a 'death term' could be done, to find out how long it would take for the population to become extinct, if there was an unlimited supply of toxic grain," unquote
Some sad news. Star Trek Discovery actor Kenneth Mitchell, who has played three different Klingons in Discovery's first two seasons: Kol, Kol-Sha and Tenavik has revealed that he has been diagnosed with ALS aka Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was originally diagnosed back in 2018. A few months ago in October, he was forced to use a wheelchair. In an interview with People magazine he said quote "The moment that they told us it was [ALS], it was like I was in my own movie," "That's what it felt like, like I was watching that scene where someone is being told that they have a terminal illness. It was just a complete disbelief, a shock." "I'll never forget, one of my Star Trek co stars told me, because they had dealt with some trying times with illnesses and stuff, and I remember them communicating to me, saying, 'You have a choice. You can look at this in many different ways, but maybe try to look at this like a gift where you get to experience life in a way that most people don't," unquote However, he's not going to try to be down about it, he told People that he and others are looking into new roles with his diagnosis in mind.
Are you gonna be in Las Vegas anytime soon? If you are, hop on down to Immersion Vegas at Fashion Show mall. To see "Fans Strike Back" a 10 thousand square foot exhibition showcasing superfan Daniel Prada's collection that includes more than 600 collectivles, figurines,costumes, models and light sabers. The exhibit will also showcase a sixteen foot Jabba the hutt and a recreation of an Imperial I – class Star Destroyer main bridge. No opening date for it yet. But tickets will be priced at twenty nine dollars plus taxes and fees for adults and fifteen plus for kids 11 and younger. I'll have a link to it in the show notes. https://thefansstrikeback.vegas
Chewbacca actor Joonas Suotamo has a new baby daughter. Joonas and his wife Milla Pohjasvaara welcomed their second child on Friday the twenty eighth. The man who took over the role of Chewy during the final movie in the sequel trilogy posted an announcement on Instagram with a caption on a photo of his daughter saying quote "We have some exciting news: we were blessed to welcome the newest member of our family!""Our little princess (or senator, or general, or whatever she wants to be!) was born this week and is doing great. Unquote He went on to thank the hospital staff. And ended it with quote Welcome to the world Princess Bacca! Unquote He would later clarify that she has not been named yet and that Bacca is just a nickname. When her and her brother are older, maybe they should all go trick or treating as the Chewy family…or show up at Star Wars celebration in costume….or film an all new Star Wars holiday special….nah.
One of the complaints about the rise of skywalker was the feel of missing scenes. By the way, as an old timer, as someone who's been around the block, the one thing I can tell you if you want different takes of scenes or missing scenes, check out the novelization of the comic adaptation. And sure enough, the novelization for The Rise of Skywalker has something that was missing when Ben Solo passed away. His last words. According to the book it goes like this quote "A voice came to her through the Force, clear and strong. I will always be with you, Ben said, "She smiled. Let the truth of it wash over her. 'No one's ever really gone,' she whispered." unquote Bly the way, if you're wondering if Ben's force ghost "shows" up in the book? Nope. It's been confirmed that there's not a ghost of a chance of that. The novelization of Star Wars the rise of Skywalker comes out on March seventeenth The comic adaptation which sounds like it will have some added material as well, will come out this summer in June and the movie comes out on digital on that date and the disc versions hit shelves on March thirty first.
The Mandalorian will be premiering on ProSieben in Germany on MMarch 22nd prior to the launch of Disney Plus on March twenty fourth. The First episode will air as part of a Star Wars night on the broadcaster that ends with the German Free t premiere of The Last Jedi. However there is bad news for Amazon Fire users in germany as according to German tech News Site Heise Onlinen, Disney recently removed the Amazon media player from it's supported device list. If that changes before launch I'll let you know.
The Mandalorians Visual Production Supervisor for ILM Visual effects Ian Milham gave some behind the scenes explanations of how some of the scenes were brought to life. On twitter he wrote quote, For space fights, we populated the scene with lasers and explosions in different quadrants and distances, hooked them up to custom buttons on the iPad, and let the director go to town. Like playing X-Wing vs. TIE on a 70 ft screen. Season two of the Mandalorian comes out in October.
By the way there is now an official The Child Waffle Maker, although since it prints The child and The mandalorian logo on it, it looks more like a pancake than a waffle. A relatively flat waffle is always a pancake. If you want one they cost about 40 dollars and can be preordered from Gamestop. Gamestop, it's still a thing.
Lucasfilm is preparing to launch new adventures in an old point in Star Wars history. Star Wars The High Republic takes place at the Galactic republic and Jedi Order's high point some 200 years before the events of The Phantom Menace. Since this unexplored section of Galactic history is untapped the creators have free reign to make what they want. New adventures, new characters and new merchandising. In a statement Lucasfilm Publishing creative director Michael Siglain about this new venture said quote "Star Wars: The High Republic features the Jedi as we've always wanted to see them — as true guardians of peace and justice. This is a hopeful, optimistic time, when the Jedi and the Galactic Republic are at their height. But of course, into this glorious new era something wicked this way comes," says Lucasfilm publishing creative director Michael Siglain. "This initiative will give readers young and old a new corner of the galaxy to explore through rich, meaningful stories. Plus, readers will learn what scares the Jedi."
The first books and comics are set to debut at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim in August with Star Wars The high republic ight of the Jedi being a massive interconnected story that's told across various formats by various publishers. Including Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray, Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage by Justina Ireland, Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures by Daniel José Older (IDW Publishing comic book series)Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures by Daniel José Older (IDW Publishing comic book series), Star Wars: The High Republic by Cavan Scott (Marvel comic book series) and Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule (Adult novel,
Syy has announced that the Magicians will be ending this April. THe show's fifth season will be it's last. The show, based on the series of novels by the same name, premiered back on Syfy in January of 2016 and has been one of the most consistent shows Syfy had on it's schedule. In a statement the channel said quote "'The Magicians' has been a part of our Syfy family for five fantastic seasons. As we near the end of this journey, we want to thank John McNamara, Sera Gamble, Henry Alonso Myers, Lev Grossman, and our entire brilliant cast, crew, writers and directors for their beautiful creation. But most of all, we thank the fans for their tremendous support and passion. Because of you, magic will be in our hearts forever,"
SYFY is definitely on a streak now, they've also canceled the third annual Leprechaun St. Patrick's Day Marathon. The past couple of years, the network has aired all the Leprechaun movies back to back, this year it will just show Leprechaun's Revenge and Leprechaun Returns. Well I guess you can always stream the rest.
Jason Blum would love to build himself a Frankenstien….movie. Talking with the Evolution of Horror Podcast the producer said quote "I'd love to do Frankenstein. I've tasked our filmmakers with trying to figure out just straight Frankenstein,""Again, I don't know if someone else is doing it, I don't know anything about it, but I would love to try and I'm waiting for the great idea. The Invisible Man, I agree, the best ideas feel like, 'My gosh, it's so obvious, why didn't that happen before?' If we could come up with something as good for Frankenstein, I'd love to try that." unquote
Octavia E. Butler's novel Dawn will be made into a tv series for Amazon. The drama has been given a direct to series order will be written and directed by Victoria Mahoney who was the second unit director on The Rise of Skywalker, she will be teaming up with Ava DuVernay, the director of Disney's big budget A Wrinkle in Time adaptation. The novel was published in 1987 and follows s
around an African American woman who works with aliens to resurrect the human race some 250 years after a nuclear war. There is no word on when it will be produced or aired.
The tenth season of American Horror Story will have Macculy Culkin joining the cast for the new story. Ryan Murphy shared the news of the casting with an instagram video of what resembled the opening credits to the tune of Orville Pecks' Dead of Night. Season ten will premiere in the fall of 2020.
Stranger things Finn Wolfhard is set to star in the thriller movie Rules For Werewolves based on a short film of the same name that also started Finn. The film will be based on writer Kirk Lynn's debut novel which he also adapted for the screen. Deadline reports that the film quote "investigates the rituals and rhythms of a pack of wild teens as they break in and loot a new home, leaving someone (or something) behind for the cops to find." unquote/ It's also being reported that the movie will be done in one single take, mostly.
Well we're gonna have to wait to find out about the new shows coming out in the Fall 2020 season. Due to fears about the spreading CoVid 19 corona virus, a lot of upfronts have been either cancelled or postponed. Also the new James Bond film No Time To Die has been pushed back from April to November and Peter Rabbit 2 has been pushed back from April to August. I'm guessing we'll have to learn about what will get quickly cancelled some other way.
Actor Max Von Sydow has passed away. The man born Carl Adolf von Sydow was born on April 10, 1929 in Lund Sweden He grew up to star in more than 100 films and tv shows, including eleven films by famed director Ingmar Bergman including The Seventh Seal which saw him playing a chess game with death. Modern movie fans might know him as Father Lankester Merrin from The Exorcist and The Exorcist II, Ming The Merciless from Flash Gordon, King Osric in Conan the Barbarian. Doctor Kynes in Dune. The voice of Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II, Judge Fargo in Judge Dread, Director Lamar Burgess in Minority Report and Lor Saan Tekka in Star Wars The Force Awakens and many many more.
He was married twice and had two sons. Max Von Sydow died on March eighth at the age of 90.
Epidsode 67
Tonight! Lucifer's sixth season might be reality, The Sandman becomes an audio drama and Etch A Sketch goes variants. All that and more on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Welcome to Episode 67 of Multiverse tonight. I've had quite a month. Got my tax refund, bought a second monitor for my studio, grieved over the loss of a favorite dog, now I have Planet Comicon in Kansas City in a week. I don't exactly know what I'll get from Planet Comicon, some photos, definatly an interview with Author Dayton Ward, maybe an interview with an author or comic book person or two. We will see. This Con isn't just a work thing for me, it's really the only true vacation I get. Now if you'd like to see me go to more cons, you have to help fund me. Just go to my website Mutiversetonight.com.
It looks like Lucifer might just get that sixth season. TV Line is reporting that Tom Ellis finalized a new deal for season six and a couple of weeks ago co showrunners Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson have inked season six deals. Netflix is currently in talks with Warner Bros TV to bring about one more season of the show. The show was rescued by Netflix back in 2018 after three seasons on Fox. Come on Warner Bros, just one more time!
Nathan Fillion is well traveled. He's been in lots of franchises. Firefly, Buffy, the MCU and animated green lantern, etc. His upcoming appearance in the Suicide Squad will be new franchise. So why join the DC Universe easy. Two words quote "James Gun." Nathan told ET Canada quote "James Gunn (is) one of the people in my life that when he calls I just pick up the phone and say 'yes to whatever you're about to say, it's yes, the answer is yes,'" "James Gunn is an amazing storyteller, that guy understands story and he loves to tell story. So when he wants to do something you know it's gonna be fun, you know it's gonna be satisfying… So here he is with Suicide Squad 2, he asks me to come down. What can I say about it? It's so secret, I get stressed when people talk about it. Here's what I can tell you though, huge scope. I've never done anything so big." unquote.
The movie is still filming, having wrapped the Panama part of its production and is scheduled for release August sixth 2021.
Also wrapped work on the movie is actor David Dastmalchian. That news came via James Guns instagram saying quote "And that's a wrap on @dastmalchian who gave me this amazing art by @lukas.ketner as a wrap gift! I happened to be wearing my @countcrowley T-shirt (Dave and Lukas's great comic series). Thanks David – you've been amazing to work with in every way. I can't wait for people to see what we've cooked up. ❤," unquote
Police in Moscow towed a homemade Batmobile. The replica on the Batmobile from Batman v Superman. According to a Moscow interior ministry spokesman, the vehicle was too wide for the city streets and had not been certified as roadworthy. The vehicle and it's 32 year old driver was stopped in Moscow on a Saturday in western Moscow and towed away wrapped in tape and black plastic. The cost of the vehicle was about 842,100 american.
The Batman has moved along the past couple of weeks. A photo of a batsuit has leaked as well as a pic of the batmobile. Too say I'm just not impressed yet….eh. Well now a new member has joined the cast, Gill Perez-Abraham is in another unknown role. Gil has appeared on Orange is the New Black and Pose and he will also be seen in The walking Dead's NEW spinoff The Walking Dead World beyond. Yep. Dear Warner Bros, I need more info than that. And while we're on it AMC? STOP IT WITH THE WALKING DEAD, we're tired of it already. Anyway.
FX's Y The last Man is still around and it has a new Yorick Brown. Variety has learned that Ben Schnetzer will be taken over the role. Originally Barry Keoghan was slated to star in the show based on the DC Comics series of the asme name. But he left earlier this month. Mr. Schnetzer joins a cast that includes Diane Lane, Imogen Poots and Amber Tamblyn. The show will start production in April.
Statues of Batman and Wonder Woman have been erected in London's Leicester Square. To commemorate the three hundred fiftieth anniversary of the London landmark, bronze statues commemorating various cinematic icons have been put in the area. Batman's statue depicts him on a rooftop standing triumphantly as he looks down at the ground below. Wonder Woman showcases the warrior princess charging forward and busting through a wall. Leicester Square have become synonymous with the british film industry for years. Movies have premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square Cinema, the Prince Charles Cinema has become famous for screening various cult favorites. Other statues include Paddington Bear, Mr. Bean, Mary Poppins, Laurel and Hardy, Bugs Bunny and Don Lockwood from Singin' in the Rain. The statues will stay there until June.
Jim Lee says Dan Didio is irreplaceable. During his panel at C2E2, by the way for coverage of that, head on over to Scifi4me dot com. Jason and his wife were there all weekend and have some interesting takes, so go check it out. Anyway, at the panel DC last publisher standing and Chief Creative officer Jim Lee indicated that Didio will not be replaced quote "There's continually new things going on, and I look at being sole publisher now and the team I'm working with. Much more in trenches now than ever before." "We've been with Warner Bros. for decades," "The actual strategy for DC is to put publishing at center of what we do. It's the engine of all the movies, TV, cartoons, we do. And so its my intent going forward as the Publisher, to lean into the collective years of my team." unquote.
By the way, those who have been concerned about DC's demise. Lee said quote "To address some of the stuff that is out there, there's rumors… speculation," Lee explained. "I wouldn't put any credence into it. DC has been around for 85 years, and we'll be around for another 85 years. I hope to be doing this panel in 85 years." unquote. Unless he's a head in a jar, my guess is no.
DC's The Sandman will be adapted into a multipart audio drama for Amazon's Audible. The series will be narrated and executive produced by Sandman co creator Neil Gaiman and written and directed by Dirk Maggs. In a statement Neil said quote "Almost 30 years ago, Dirk Maggs approached DC about adapting The Sandman into audio form," Gaiman said in a statement. "I'm glad it didn't happen, because we are in a Golden Age of audio drama right now, and Dirk and I are much better at what we are doing. This is a rich audio adaptation of The Sandman graphic novels, brilliantly crafted by Dirk Maggs, with an all-star cast." The audio drama is scheduled to come out this summer with plans for French, German, Italian and Spanish editions soon after.
Production on any level is demanding. But it's really demanding if you're making an action packed series like The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Star Anthony Mackie spoke with The Daily Beast about the demands on Marvel's newest series and if there was any pressure. He told them quote . "Not at all. I feel like, if we're going to fail, we should fail 100 percent. Don't fail halfway," Mackie said with a laugh. "But it's been fun, man. There's so much stuff going on in the Marvel Universe since Disney has gotten involved, and we have a really supportive team. It's Victoria [Alonso] and Louis [D'Esposito] and Kevin [Feige] and all the other guys over there—we always have people we can talk to if we feel like stuff isn't going right. So it's been great. We've definitely stumbled a few times, but we're running full steam ahead to get these shows done." unquote The Falcon and The Winter Soldier comes to Disney Plus this August.
Speaking of the Disney Plus family of Marvel shows. Moon Knight is still a ways away…and it looks like it might be much later. According to Geeks WorldWide dot com, the filming date for the series has been pushed back to mid november at Pinewood Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. The lead has also not been casted yet for the role of Marc Spector, apparently they're looking for a Zac Efron type.
Checking in with the She Hulk Show. Mark Ruffalo has confirmed that he's in preliminary talks to appear in the show, which makes sense since Jennifer gets her powers because of a blood transfusion with her cousin. Marvel hasn't cast She Hulk Jennifer Walters yet, but they are looking for an Alison Brie type. I don't know maybe just hire Alison Brie?
Whoops. I'm guessing Vin Diesel wasn't supposed to talk about this, but the actor in an interview to promote the Bloodshot movie, said quote "I am waiting and excited for my friend James Gunn to knock this next one out of the park," Diesel said during an interview in promotion of his upcoming Bloodshot movie. "He took The Suicide Squad so he's about to embark on it. Thor will also, the director talked to me about Thor will incorporate some of the Guardians of the Galaxy." "That'll be very interesting, nobody knows, maybe I shouldn't have said anything." unquote Now, yes, the news isn't too much of a surprise as Thor did leave Earth with the Guardians, the question becomes how much of the Guardians we will see as the story is supposed to surround Jane Fosters gaining the power of Thor. Thor Love and Thunder comes out on November fifth, 2021.
The latest issue of Production Weekly reports that Spider-man Three will shoot under the title Serenity Now. Which is apparently taken from the sitcom Seinfeld. Which is appropriate because Homecoming shot under the title Summer of George, while far from home shot under the title Fall of George. Co Producer Eric Hauserman Carroll has said that the pick code names that make them giggle. Production is set to get underway in July.
Tom Holland,on the press tour for Pixar's Onward has revealed to MT International that Sony had a contingency plan in case Sony and Marvel Studios did take Spiderman from the MCU quote "The future of Spider-Man was still very bright with Sony we had a really, really wonderful idea of how we could sort of transition into a Spider-Man without the MCU," "Tom Rothman and Amy Pascal were really confident they were going to do justice and make a film that was the caliber that Spider-Man requires." "But that said, I'm really glad to be back in the MCU and to have the team back together because I kind of feel that's where he belongs now. I'm really grateful that Bob Iger and Tom Rothman allowed me to be a part of the process of bringing him home. It was a pretty cool experience and also the best bragging rights ever: I saved Spider-Man." unquote Don't give yourself a big head Tom. You won't be able to fit in your Spider suit. Stay humble.
Black Panther was a huge success, not only was it a great movie, but it had a great soundtrack and a real chart topper thanks to the song Pray for Me by Kendrick Lamar and The Weekend. However, they're in trouble now as TMZ reports that a lawsuit has been filed against Kendrick and The Weekend for an alleged eight count of illegal sampling in the track with quote intent to conceal the infringement"" unquote. The lawsuit was filed by Yeasayer which claims that the samples were taken from their 2007 song Sunrise. The band claims that Sunrise uses a distinctive choral performance that incorporate the bands own voices in a high falsetto. Yeasayer are asking for all the profits from Pray for me, Damages and an injunction blocking further sales and airplay of the song.
In a big announcement, Marvel Entertainment announced their creative team for a new comic series based on Tsuburaya Productions Ultraman. Riters Kyle Higgins and Mat Groom will be co writers with Francesco Manna and Ed McGuinness on art. No launch date for the series has been given yet, but more info is due in the near future.
The Silence of the Lambs sequel series pilot Clarice has found it's lead. Rebecca Breeds from The Originals and Pretty Little Liars will play the FBI Agent. The series is being shepherded by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. The series will take place in 1993 and will tell the story of Clarice as she goes into the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of washington.
The Boys is coming back and it's not the tv series, it's the comic. It's been eight years since the last issue and now Garth Ennis is teaming back with Russ Braun for The Boys: Dear Becky. CBR dot com asked Garth how getting back into the series has been. He said quote Terrific. I hadn't quite realized what an appalling mood I was in about the state of the world until I began to write about it in this series, and of course, there's no better character for me to write when I'm pissed off than Billy Butcher. He's even better than Frank Castle, whose problem is that he doesn't know how to enjoy life. Billy does. Unquote . By the way Garth has no involvement with the second season of the Amazon show except reading the scripts. The Boys: Dear Becky #1 from Dynamite Entertainment goes on Sale in April.
The Official Pokemon Youtube channel has released this years top ten Pokemon, according to Pokemon fans. This year's top Pokemon went to Greninja, a water/dark type Pokemon that first appeared back in 2013 in Pokemon X and Y.
So, did you see the Sonic the Hedgehog movie? It looks like redoing the look of Sonic did the trick as it's generally gotten good reviews. Now you might ask yourself, why was it just Sonic and Dr. robotnik? Why not say a character like Knuckles is a part of the movie? Comic book dot cm had an interview with director Jeff Fowler. He told them quote "For this first film, we really were just looking at the 1991 game and just see where it all started and just keep it simple," "Just really try to nail Sonic and Robotnik and just set up their rivalry because you don't … I mean, I love … There's a lot of great characters in Sonic universe, but it's the most important thing is just to get Sonic set up and just tell a little bit of an origin story with him, and just do it in a way that really makes everyone fall in love with him as a character and just be rooting for more. And then, if all that goes well, then we can kind of open it up and bring in some of these other characters that fans know and love. And yeah, I mean, no one's more excited than me to have that opportunity." unquote Which you gotta admit, it's the right approach. Knuckles or Tails can always show up in the sequel.
Monopoly has done well with it's umpteen different versions of Monopoly, so I guess it's etch a skech's time At New York Toy Fair 2020, Spin Master announced a series of limited edition etch sketches to celebrate the drawing toys sixtieth anniversary. There's the diamond edition with black diamond contoured frame and clear diamond knobs, a Stan Lee edition with a colorful comic border and stan lee face knobs, the monopoly edition with a game board frame and go and go to jail square knobs, a nasa edition with a space themed border and planet knobs and a rubiks cube edition with a mosaic border and rubik's cube shaped knobs. They will cost between 21 and 29 dollars and will ship in June.
Boom Studios has announced that Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance, a twelve issue miniseries based on the netflix series will have a new creative team series. With issue number nine comes writer Matthew Erman and artist Mi-Gyeong Jo. The comic is designed to introduce the untold histories of key characters from the show. The new arc will give the origin story of All Maudra Mayrin, the Gelfling leader. In the story, Mayrin takes her place as the leader of all Gelfling clans, but she feels unprepared for the great responsibility before her. When whispers of a Gelfling rebellion reach her, she must decide who she can trust—and if she herself is truly worthy of this responsibility. The print comic will be on store shelves on May 27th.
Paramount is making a movie based on the cartoon series MASK. F. Gary Grey will direct and they have tapped Chris Bremner, who co wrote the latest Bad Boys movie to write it. MASK was a toy and cartoon from 1985. MASK stands for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, an elite strike force that fought crime and terrorism. Their opponents were VENOM which stand for Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem. No possible release date has been given.
Dark Horse comics has announced a Prequel mini series for The Umbrella Academy. The six issue series titles You Look Like Death will focus on Seance aka Klaus and will be written by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon with art by INJ Culbard. Garbriel Ba will draw covers. The official blurb reads quote "Roughly ten years before the events of Apocalypse Suite, 18-year-old Séance gets himself kicked out of the Umbrella Academy. With his allowance discontinued by Hargreeves, he takes to a place where his ghoulish talents will be appreciated––Hollywood. After a magical high on a vampire-drug-lord's stash, Klaus needs help, and doesn't have his siblings there to save him." unquote In a statement Gerard Way said quote"For a long time, I had wanted to tell the story of Klaus Hargreeves' life after the Umbrella Academy disbanded and before the events of Apocalypse Suite," Way said in a statement. "I imagined a pretty wild decade for Klaus– full of ups and downs, seedy places, supernatural excursions, and internal battles within himself. I am thrilled to finally be able to tell this story with my co-writer Shaun Simon, who sees the world of the UA as clearly as I do. Also thrilled to work with such an amazing art and lettering team in I.N.J. Culbard and Nate Piekos." unquote
The first issue of You look like Death comes out on June seventeenth 2020 and season two of the Netflix series comes out later this year.
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Show Notes: Episode 62: Jedi Record Keeping & Episode 63: Parasite sucks The Jokers Oscars away
Tonight! Picard breaks records, Mark Hamill gets reunited with a record and we remember Orson Bean and others on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Hello and welcome to episode 62 of Multiverse Tonight!
Picard is doing great. And they finally got the old man into space at last. And there are so many backstories that need to be told. All told all the episodes so far leave me in a happy place.
Star Wars fans, I feel bad for you, no Oscars, but it's an honor just to be nominated right?
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Star Trek Picard is breaking records over at CBS All Access. Picard along with the Grammy's and the end of the NFL season led to record high new signups for the streamer beating it's previous record se in February of 2019. In fact, the first week of Picard was the second best signup week, the best being the 2019 Super Bowl week. The premiere of Star Trek: Picard also set a new record for total streams, driving the highest volume of subscribers streaming a CBS All Access original series ever. The Picard premiere was up more than +115% and +180% over the previous record set by Star Trek: Discovery, making Star Trek: Picard the service's most-watched premiere ever.
According to Marc DeBovise, Chief Digital Officer at Viacom CBS and President and CEO of CBS Interactive quote "We've seen tremendous continued growth in the service, and the new records we've experienced due to Star Trek: Picard, the Grammys and a fantastic season of football are a phenomenal way to kick off what will be a fantastic year for CBS All Access," "CBS All Access continues to build upon its great mix of programming – from original series, to sports and special events – and we've strategically programmed 2020 to bring subscribers an 'always on' calendar of must-watch series and events." unquote Picard has also been declared fresh by rotten tomatoes.
If your in LA between April 30th and September sixth, why not head on down to the Skirball Cultural Center in Westside for Star Trek Exploring New Worlds, which will be a visual examination of the sci fi franchises impact on culture, art and technology as well as its futuristic vision of inclusiveness. The exhibit was originally organized by the Museum o fPop Culture in Seattle and will bring 100 artifacts, set pieces and props . Including Captain Kirk's captains chair, Leonard Nimoys, Nichelle Nichols and Patrick Stewart's costumes, filming models of the Enterprise, Excelsior, and Deep Space Nine and a bunch of stuff showcasing Star trek's impact on culture, art and technology.
Picard isn't the only thing that's premiered, Star Trek Online has celebrated its tenth anniversary with Star Trek Online Legacy, which has a new mission featuring Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine and Sonequa Martin Green has Michael Burnham. Jeri Ryan has been in STO for a few years now, having voiced her character for the Delta Rising expansion. Now she's back as her Picard version of the character. Legacy will have two new featured episodes based around the Excalbians featured in the TOS episode The Savage Curtain. A new 5 person Task Force Operation called To Hell with Honor, the Mycelium TFO and the Anniversary Celebration with a new T6 Khitomer Alliance Battlecrusier. It is available now on PC and on Xbox One and Playstation 4 on March 3rd. And as always, its free to play. If you want to join a Fleet, join The Multiverse Tonight Fleet, do it today.
Blurbs have been released for the new Simon & Schuster Star Trek novels. First off in June is Dayton Ward's Agents of Influence, an Original Series novel. Here' the blurb quote For years, Starfleet Intelligence agents have carried out undercover assignments deep within the Klingon Empire. Surgically altered and rigorously trained in Klingon culture, they operate in plain sight and without any direct support, while collecting information and infiltrating the highest levels of imperial power. Their actions have given Starfleet valuable insight into the inner workings of the Klingon government and its relentless military apparatus.
After three of Starfleet's longest serving agents fear exposure, they initiate emergency extraction procedures. Their planned rendezvous with the USS Endeavour goes awry, threatening to reveal their activities and the damaging intelligence they've collected during their mission. Tasked by Starfleet to salvage the botched rescue attempt, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise must discover the truth behind a secret weapons experiment while avoiding an interstellar incident with the potential to ignite a new war between the Federation and one of its oldest adversaries. Unquote
Next up is John Jackson Miller's Discovery novel Die Standing coming out in July quoteNo one in the history of histories has lost more than Philippa Georgiou, ruler of the Terran Empire. Forced to take refuge in the Federation's universe, she bides her time until Section 31, a rogue spy force within Starfleet, offers her a chance to work as their agent. She has no intention of serving under anyone else, of course; her only interest is escape.
But when a young Trill, Emony Dax, discovers a powerful interstellar menace, Georgiou recognizes it as a superweapon that escaped her grasp in her own universe. Escorted by a team sent by an untrusting Federation to watch over her, the emperor journeys to a region forbidden to travelers. But will what she finds there end the threat—or give "Agent Georgiou" the means to create her old empire anew? Unquote
August brings us a new Kelvin Timeline book, More Beautiful Than Death from David Mack quote Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock's father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planet called Akiron. They arrive to find this world under siege by creatures that some of the planet's denizens believe are demons. Sarek orders Kirk to abandon the mission, but the young captain won't turn his back on people in danger. After a harrowing encounter with the dark-energy "demons," Kirk's belief in a rational universe is challenged by a mystic who insists that it wasn't coincidence that brought Kirk to Akiron, but the alien equivalent of a Karmic debt.
Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise, Sarek's young Vulcan aide L'Nel has a sinister agenda—and its chief objective appears to be the cold-blooded murder of Spock! Unquote
In October, we have Kirsten Beyer's next Voyager novel, To Lose the Earth, this book has been delayed because of her other work on Discovery and Picard, here's the blurb quote As the crew of the Full Circle fleet works to determine the fate of their lost ship, the Galen, a struggle for survival begins at the far edge of the galaxy. New revelations about Species 001, the race that built the biodomes that first drew the fleet to investigate planet DK-1116, force Admiral Kathryn Janeway to risk everything to learn the truth.unquote
Well happy reading or in my case listening, I don't have much time to actually read.
We close out Star trek news with the passing of actress Marj Dusay at the age of 83. She would be best known to Star Trek fans for her guest appearance on the Spock's Brain episode in the third season.
She played Kara, the girl who put the crew to sleep and then stole Spock's grey matter. She was born in Russell, Kansas in 1936, The role on Star Trek was one of the first she had, se also had roles on the Wild Wild West, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-o, The Odd Couple, The Facts of Life, Dallas and soap operas Stana Barbara, The Guiding Light, Days of OUr Lives, All my Children. She won five Daytime emmys for her soap opera work. She was twice married and had a son and a daughter.
She passed away from natural causes in her Manhattan home.
Kahless has returned to Sto-Vo-Kor. Actor Kevin Conway, the actor who played the returned Kahless in the Next Generation episode Birthright has passed away from a heart attack. Kevin was a vetern actor who started acting at the age of twenty four. His first major role was as Roland Weary in 1972's film adaptation of Slaughterhouse five, he would go on to play such memorable movie roles as Crum Petree the crazy mailman from the Chevy Chase movie Funny Farm, Frank Papale in Disney's Invincible and Sgt. Buster Kilrain in Gettysburg and the sequel Gods and Generals. His television work included a guest star role on an Episode of Homicide Life on the Street, the Control Voice on the 1995 reboot of The Outer Limits, The Good Wife, JAG and HBO's Oz. He was 77 years old.
Star Wars actor Jake Lloyd has had many struggles with mental health. The actor best known for his role Anakin Skywalker i nThe Phantom Menace. And has had many struggles including run in with the law and the unexpected passing of his younger sister a couple of years ago.
In a statement with Geek News Now, Jake's mother talked about her son's present state quote "We would like to thank everyone for their kind words, their support, and goodwill," the statement reads. "Jake has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but unfortunately he also has a symptom called anosognosia which causes a lack of insight into his illness. This only adds to the struggle he faces, which has been very difficult after the tragic loss of his younger sister, Madison. He has moved closer to his family and we are all working hard to help him with this. He is still a kind and caring person and we hope to have him back to his fun and entertaining self as soon as possible. Jake will continue to make progress with the love and support you continue to show." unquote My heart goes out to him. I wish him peace and long life.
The Mandalorian second season comes to Disney Plus this October. In the First quarter earnings call CEO Bob Iger , The show has been very successful for Disney with 65 percent of viewers of the show going on to try at least ten other offerings on the streamer.
Mark Hamill got a surprise last month. An Arizona bookstore tweeted the actor saying that it had found his original copy of the Star Wars soundtrack and wanted to send it back to him.. How did they know it was his, the record sleeve was personally inscribed by John Williams to Mark. In an interview with the New York Times on Monday Mark said quote I wasn't completely sure that it was mine,""But I know that I'd had an album signed by John. How would they know that?" Mark didn't even know that it was missing and had assumed it was still in the basement of his California home with the rest of his record collection. How it got to Bookmans Entertainment Exchange in Flagstaff, Arizona, who can say. All the store knows is that it showed up in a collection a lady brought in from her deceased father's collection. The record had even been temporarily [but on sale before it was taken down, it was posted on twitter soon there after where Mr. Hamill saw it. Within days, it was in the mail back to it's Jedi owner.Mark said quote "This is so above and beyond, considering they could've sold it." Unquote Mark made his grattitude clear encouraging his twitter fans to visit the store and he signed some memorabilia for the store incudingg a Star wars DVD and a replica of the medal given to Luke and Han at the end of A New Hope.
The Star Wars A Galaxy Far far Away Show at Disney's hollywood studios is closing. The show , which featured classic moments from the Skywalker Saga brought to live on stage will be closing soon, however there apparently is no set end date. However there are rumors that the show will close a week after the scheduled opening of Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway on March fourth I'm guessing it's no longer needed with Galaxy's Edge.
Taika Waititi is downplaying the rumors that he was offered a Star wars film. When asked about it by entertainment weekly, the Oscar award winning director slash actor said quote "Listen, what does 'approached' even mean?" "I've seen Star Wars, that's about as far as it got." Pushed on the subject further he said quote "Look, I'm not an idiot," "Who would actually say no to Star Wars? Of course, I didn't send that idea very seriously, it's more that in light of all the things that were happening over the last couple of months, it would make me a little nervous." unquote. So it sounds like no, but he wouldn't say no. So come on, Lucasfilm. Balls in your court, unless this is all a big lie? But let's just deal with facts and not rumours.
Some more sad news to report actor Alan Harris has passed away after a battle with lung cancer. His career mostly was as an extra or stand in. But he is known to Star Wars fans as the bounty hunter Bossk in the Empire Strikes Back, he was also a security guard on Bespin. Over his career he showed up in the Living Daylights, Doctor Who, Top Secret!, Return of the Jedi, . Flash Gordon, The Shining, Superman: The Movie, Return of the Jedi and The Avengers among others usually uncredited. He was 81 years old.
Disney Plus is doing well. The service has 28.6 million subscribers which is nearly half way to it's five year goal of 60 to 90 million subscribers. This March the service will expand to the UK, Western Europe and India. It will come to the rest of the planet in 2021.
And some more good news for those of you outside the US, Hulu will be expanding outside of North America next year. Hulu will also now be the exclusive streaming service for all new FX Original Programming, plus it will start offering in season streaming of current FX shows and back seasons for almost all of its shows.
Lethal Weapon 5 is now in development. According to It Chapter Two producer Dan Lin it will be the last one. Speaking with the Hollywood reporter an Said quote , "I'm going to knock on wood, because I don't want to jinx myself, but we're trying to make the last Lethal Weapon movie, and Dick Donner's coming back," Lin told The Hollywood Reporter. "The original cast is coming back, and it's just amazing. The story itself is very personal to him. Mel [Gibson] and Danny [Glover] are ready to go, so it's about the script."
Actor Orson Bean has passed away after being hit by two cars while walking in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. Orson, who was originally born Dallas Frederick Burrows in 1928 began acting in 1952 on the Goodyear Television Playhouse. He would go on to act in dozens of shows including the twilight zone episode Mr Bevis, 1977's animated the Hobbit and the sequel The Return of the king. , The Love Boat, The facts of Life, Murder She Wrote, Tiny toon Adventures, 146 episode of Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, 23 episodes of Desperate housewives, Modern Family, and Superstore. His final tv show appearance is in an episode of Netflix's Grace And Frankie. He's also done quite a few movies including InnerSpace, Being John Malkovich and The Equalizer 2. He was nominated for a grammy in 1979 for The Hobbit and for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2000 for Being John Malkovich. Orson Bean was 91.
Episode 63: Parasite sucks The Joker's Oscars away
Tonight! Owen Wilson might be coming to an MCU show near you, Wonder Woman has a new weapon and who won the Oscars much more on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!
So did you watch the Oscars this past Sunday. It was…okay. There were a few surprises like Eminem , the fact that Joker didn't sweep the awards and John Williams not winning. Really thought that Mister Williams should have won. Anyway, if you missed it apparently you're not alone, the Oscars Viewership sank to a new low this year. And I've noticed a lot of the usual complaints. Lack of diversity in the acting categories. Too much politics. Which is surprising because there weren't a lot of big moments of politics, a few speeches, maybe not as much as a few years ago. Too long? Eh. It was about three and a half hours. Pretty typical. I could shorten it by not having the best songs all performed during the course of the evening, but having them shown in clips or maybe a medley of some kind? Maybe no confusing performances by Eminem? I've also seen some complaints about how so and so was missing from the In Memoriam section. Folks, they only have so much time to do that and a lot of people can die in the course of the year and it's not just actors, it's all members of the Motion Picture Association of America. Plus, some of these people will be remembered at other award shows. Just as long as YOU remember them, that's the important part.
Rick And Morty are known to exist in multitudes of universes on the show, but did you know they exist in other franchises universes? Or rather the show does, In Marvel's Marauders number six, Rick and Morty gets a mention when Yellowjacket mentions that Pyro has quote made himself a couple of Long Island iced teas and now he's in the yacht's movie theater watching Rick and Morty." unquote Well that makes me wonder, Oni Press currently makes the Rick and Morty comics, perhaps Marvel and Oni can come together for a Marvel/Rick & morty crossover? Anyone wanna start a tweet hashtag for that?
Marvel Comics will have a new wanna be Captain America character in its upcoming Falcon & Winter Soldier miniseries. The Natural is described as a Captain America superfan vigilante who will pose a threat to the duo. Falcon and Winter Soldier writer Derek Landy told comic book dot com quote "In combat, no matter how good you are, there will always be someone better than you,""Someone who's stronger, or quicker, or who's trained that little bit more. Even someone who's luckier. That's where the Natural came from — that fear in a fighter's mind that, maybe, their next opponent will be the one to outclass them." Artist Federico Vicentini added quote "He wants to be Captain America, his idol, his hero, but he does that from the wrong side of the barricade, unaware of his mistakes," "Bucky and Sam will have to do their best to show him what it really means to be Captain America. For his costume I tried to keep some details from Cap's old one (the boots, for example), but I also added something new, like the black logo on his chest and mask, to point out the dark traits of his behavior." Unquote
Falcon and winter Soldier number one comes out on February 26.
Actor Owen Wilson is in talks to join Disney Plus' Loki series according to sources close to the Hollywood reporter. What character he possibly could be playing is unknown. Rick and Morty writer Michael Waldron is writing the plot for the show and will be acting as show creator and executive producer.
While we don't have a release window for the series yet, The Falcon and The WinterSoldier will be coming in August and WandaVision will debut in December.
Fast 9 star Tyrese Gibson gave an update on his character in Sony's Morbius and how the film is progressing. Tyrese will be playing Agent Shroud. He told Comic book dot com at the F9 event in Miami quote "I play a character named Agent Shroud, Agent Simon Shroud, opposite Jared Leto. It's the Spider-Man spinoff, Morbius, Venom, Marvel. I'm just excited to be a part of this franchise. I love the Fast & the Furious but I've been wanting to be a part of another franchise. Because, the last time I was in a franchise was Transformers, which is not too shabby." unquote
Fast and Furious, Transformers. Well he does have a knack for being in successful franchises. Could Tyrese rub off on the extended Spider-man franchise?
Sooner or later the X-Men movie franchise will get rebooted, so what advice would former Cyclops actor James Marsden give to the next man who fills the role, Collider, talking with Marsden while he's promoting Sonic The Hedgehog gave some quote The biggest challenge was that, the audience and other actors never being able to see your eyes. Definitely was a handicap in bringing a persona to the character, and an energy to the character. To a character who is also very, by nature, very by-the-books. Kind of a Boy Scout, 'do the right thing.' He's a foil to Wolverine's character, who is more fly by the seat of his pants, a little more unpredictable, and aggressive.
I would just say lean into it. Own it. And carve out your own thing. The fans of the books are going to tell you 'it needs to be this'. Find a new way to make it interesting. Because it is tough to like get something interesting and cool and different across when no one ever sees your eyes. Which is obviously, you know, the main part of the character." unquote
Well Arrow is officially done. However it kind of looks like a lot of people said goodbye earlier than others. The Ratings for the final episode are out. 723,000 tuned in to the episode, which was an almost 20 percent drop from the week before. It also wasn't helped by the fact that it wa moved back an hour for an arrow special. Plus, who watches tv shows when they're actually on anyway, that's so twentieth century.
The Batman has begun principal photography and we now know what role actres Jayme Lawson is playing in the movie. Business Wire lists her as Candida Bella real. Since there is no character in known batman lore by that name, she is either a new character that plays some role in the film or that character's name is false and she is actually playing another role. Some suggestions have been Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this pans out.
We are also learning that Peter Skarsgaurd will be playing the role of Gotham City District Attorney Gil Colson, which is…you guessed it. Another name that has no known usage in the DCU. Could it be a new character or a different character, who knows. NEXT.
On comics news, Scott Snyder has given Wonder Woman a new weapon. The writer posted on his twitter a link to a Newsarama article showing Wonder Woman wielding a chainsaw-like device. Scott added quote It's called the chainsaw of truth quote The weapon will show up in the sequel to Dark Knight Metal. Not much is known about the new series only that quote "the mayhem is imminent." unquote
In John Constantine: Hellblazer number four, John Constantine gets introduced to Tommy Willowtree a street mage who's been guarding Endland from mystickal threats since Constantine's been away causing a new era of peace in London using white magic. Tonny is quote "a gentleman, a scholar, a clean-living, vegan acolyte of love." unquote In other words every thind Constantine isn't and that's something that John can't stand. Unfortunately, Constantine is gonna have to suck it up and team with him.
John Constantine Hellblazer number four will have new artist Matias Bergara taking over for Aaron Campbell joining writer Simon Spurrier and colorist Jordie Bellaire. It's coming to comic stores on February twenty sixth.
Writer artist Any reeder will be bringing a new character to the DC Universe in her upcoming Amethyst series. In an interview with CBR.com She said quote "I can't wait for everyone to meet Phoss. Creating new characters is always on my radar; it's fun and necessary to keep things fresh. I got a chance to do this at Marvel with Moon Girl, and I'm so glad she took off the way she did. For the sake of this miniseries Phoss is tied to Gemworld only, but I would love if she really takes off into the general DCU. Is it strange that I haven't thought about that yet?""Phoss is the first new teen friend Amy makes, a commoner from Turquoise, the warrior realm," "She's maybe a little too easy going, and too honest, but she's a great foil to Princess Amethyst and keeps her grounded. Oh and no biggie, but Phoss is a lesbian animal lover with four forearms and she rides a giant caterpillar named Stan. WHATEVER. Anyway, the strength of friendship is a major element to the story, so you'll see a lot of Phoss and that other upcoming character, Maxixe.
Amethyst is not a new character, she was created by Dan Mishkin, Gary Cohn and Earnie Colon of 1983's Legion of SuperHeroes issue 298. Where the character otherwise known as Amy Winston discovered that she was a princess of the House of Amethyst on Gemworld. Here's the plot quote Following her triumphant reintroduction in the pages of Young Justice, the new Amethyst miniseries follows teenager Amy Winston—a.k.a. Princess Amethyst—as she returns to her magical kingdom to celebrate her 16th birthday in style. The only problem? Her kingdom is missing, her subjects have vanished, and none in the realm of Gemworld—even her best friend, Lady Turquoise—remain loyal to her house! Alone and dejected, Amy's forced to find new allies and confront dark secrets on an all-new quest to the farthest reaches of Gemworld. Unquote
Amethyst #1 releases Feb. 26.
Comic writer Steve Orlando is stepping out. The writer who has been working for DC Comics for the past four years is moving away from the Distinguished Competition. To a number of other publishers. To mark the end of his contract he had an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
It's a good interview. When asked why he signed exclusively with DC he said quote
I mean, look, I grew up as a DC guy. I was, you know, knocked over when they offered me that contract after Midnighter. And of course it's nice to have that reliability and a home for most of your work. But I mean, you know, young Steve, who is reading DC books out of flea markets in the 1980s and early '90s, you know, it's a dream job. And by the way, working for DC's still a dream job.
You know, when you're an adult, you realize that dreams have to evolve and change. So at the time, you know, there was no way that I would stay away from that, because it's like playing for the Yankees. (Laughs) So of course I would take it. And it's still a company that I have, and characters that I continue to have, great affection for.
I'm excited to continue on Wonder Woman for that reason. These are icons, and to be asked to become a lasting part of those things, you know, it's an honor, it's a huge responsibility, and there's just no way I wouldn't do that. Unquote
In other words, he's not leaving DC completely, he's just going to be a free agent.
He also announced that he will be working with TKO, Studio Arancia and for his prose work with Fuse Literary.
Birds of Prey is flying in a little lower than expected in its opening weekend. The movie only debuted to a Friday box office of 33 to 35 million. Warner bros had been aiming for a 45 to 50 million dollar opening. There could be several factors for this including its r rating causing the younger kids from seeing the movie, it's february opening date or something else. However, it's ratings and reviews can't be blamed as it's gotten largely positive.
Could a new Green Hornet movie be in the offing? The Green Hornet movie rights have been acquired by Amasia Entertainment a company run by former Marvel Studios President Michael Helfant and Bradley Gallo. In a statement Helfant said quote "This is one of the only stand-alone classic superhero franchises," "We're a bunch of fan geeks at Amasia and are thrilled about creating something fresh and truly worthy of this legacy property. A new world that is relevant and thrilling, while respecting and honoring the original vision.""When I was a kid, The Green Hornet was one of my favorite television series," he added. "I loved everything about it: the Green Hornet, Kato, and of course, the Black Beauty. They were the coolest! It was personally painful to leave them all behind when I left Dimension. So I tried to option the property again at Marvel before it went over to Sony, and then again in 2017 before the rights landed at Paramount." unquote The rights have been bouncing from studio to studio for years now. The last time it was made into anything was 2011's The Green Hornet starring Seth rogen, which did poorly.
Speaking of projects that might come again. The Crow is back in active development. According to Bloody Disgusting.com, Davis Films, Highland Film Group and Electric Shadow's planned reboot of The Crow might be moving forward after nearly eighteen months of no movement. The reboot had originally been planned for release in October of last year, but development fell apart in Summer of 2018 when star Jason Mamoa and director Corin Hardy left the project causing Sony Pictures to pull it. So far no new director or actor has surfaced.
Ron Howard has given an update on Disney Plus' Willow series. Ron talked to Variety about the project, quote "We're working on it, it's not greenlit, but I was just on the phone today discussing it with Jonathan who has written the scripts," "It's in serious development, but there's nothing to announce quite yet." unquote Ron also confirmed that talks are ongoing for Willow star warwick davis to return. Saying quote "If it happens, Warwick will definitely be a part of it,"
Disney Pixar's new movie Onward has a lawsuit on its hands. The Hollywood reporter reports that artist Sweet Cecily Daniher is suing Onward producer Kori Rae over the design on the van driven by the movie's main characters. Her design called Vanicorn shows a white unicorn in front of a blue and purple sky with bolts of lightning extending behind it. In the movie the characters van shows a white Pegasus in front of a blue and purple sky with lightning bolts in the background.
According to Daniher, Disney contacted her to use Vanicorn as a showpiece for a festival . Not long after, she noticed the similarity and pointed it out online.
Onward producer Kori Rae apologized for not making her aware there were plans to use the Vanicorn design in the movie because, at the time of the festival, the movie didn't have a title and without a title Disney couldn't have Daniher sign a non disclosure agreement.
Ms. Daniher is now suing Disney for Copyright infringement as well as violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the visual Artists rights act and the California Artists Protection Act. Onward hits theaters on March sixth.
The fortieth Golden Raspberry Awards aka The Razzie nominations have been announced and Cats ran away with it like well a cat from a dog. Cats got nominations for worst picture, director, actress, supporting actor for James Corden, Supporting actress for Dame Judi Dench and Rebel Wilson, Worst Screen Combo for any two characters in Cats and Jason Derulo and his CGI neutered bulge,and screenplay. Hellboy received 5 nods including worst director, actor for David Harbour, worst prequel, remake, rip off or sequel, screenplay and reckless disregard for Human Life and Public Property. Dark Phoenix received two nominations worst prequel remake, rip off or sequel and worst supporting actor for Jessica Chastain. But it's not all thumbs in the eyes, They also give out The razzie Redeemer Award for those who have come back from bad. This year's nominations are Jennifer Lopez for Hustlers, Eddie Murphy for Dolemite IS my Name, Keanu Reeves for John Wick 3 and Toy Story 4, Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems and Will Smith for Aladdin. The ceremony date has not been announced yet.
But we do know who won the Oscars
Parasite walked away with four sucking the awards away from the front runner Joker, It won best director for Bong Joon Ho, Best original screenplay for Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won and both best picture and best international picture. Marking the first time a forign film won the best picture award.
Joaquin Phoenix won best actor for Joker, Taika Waititi won best adapted screenplay for Jojo Rabbit. Toy Story 4 won for best animated feature film. And I was hoping randy Newman or John Williams would have won this catergory but Best Original score went to Joker's Hildur Guðnadóttir (pronounced Hill-dur Guth-nah-door-tier). If I pronounced that right, please donate a dollar. Thank you.
Archie Comics Editor in Chief Victor Gorelick has passed away. An announcement was made on the Archie Comic twitter account this past Saturday.Quote "We are extremely heartbroken and devastated to inform the Archie family of the passing of Archie Comics icon and Editor in Chief, Victor Gorelick, who made Riverdale his home for over sixty years," the statement read. "No person embodied the Archie spirit more than Victor, who was a leader, friend, and mentor to everyone that walked through the doors of Archie. A lifelong friend and mentor to Archie Comics Co-CEO, Jon Goldwater – and an inspiration to the entire Archie Comics family – Victor will never be forgotten. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Kathie, his family, his friends, and his many fans." Gorelick first joined Archie Comics when he was 16 as an art assistant over the years he picked up skills and moved up the ladder until he was named editor in chief in 2007. He was honored with the Inkpot Award in 2008. During his tenure, he oversaw collaborations with Kraft, radio Shack and the FBI. IN addition to his day job at archie comics, he served on the Comics Code Authority Guidelines Committee and a member or the Board ofAdvisors of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He was 78 years old.
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Show Notes: Episode 60: What Comes After Picard & Episode 61: Howard the Duck Gets No Respect
Tonight! Picard comes back big,Obi-Wan goes back to the hanger and the Peacock is coming. All this and more on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Have you seen Star Trek Picard. Here's a non spoiler review. It felt well put together, a lot of what I thought happened. Especially in regards to Data. One of the few gripes I have was the theme music was…well…let me just put it this way. I don't think anyone is going to be humming this tune. But I'm very interested to see where the show goes, I hear that the first three episodes act as the pilot episode in whole.
We start Star Trek news with Picard's Jeri Ryan, the actress talked with GamesRadar about how Seven of Nine has changed since the last we saw of her and what she thinks of Picard quote "I wouldn't say there's a huge affinity because Seven's gotten pretty jaded over the last 20 years," "She's seen a lot of bad stuff, and she's very much hardened from when we saw her 20 years ago. The universe has kind of gone to hell in a handbasket and she holds Starfleet and the Federation in a large part responsible for that. Initially, I think she sort of sees Picard as a representative of that, so she's not in 'idol worship/he's a hero' mode when we first meet her. I think that makes it more interesting."
GamesRadar also spoke with the other major Borg character on the Picard Show, Jonathan Del Arco. He told them Quote "In the story you'll see it's a very logical conclusion to where Hugh ends up," But what I didn't know were the circumstances of the world or how that affected how he ended up. He's changed so much physically, and emotionally, and grown up like other people grow up. How many people do you know from high school who are the same in their forties and 50s? Not many. But I wanted for the audience to have a thread because he was beloved as who he was." Unquote
The also asked what he thinks his character has been doing since we last saw him in Descent parts one and two? quote "There's lots of novels about what happened to the Borg and possible stories that could have developed," "So [creating Hugh's backstory] was a combination of talking to producers that had deep knowledge on the canon, but also some of my own imagination, because you know when you're an actor you don't have to tell anybody how you got there – you could make up anything you want in your head!" unquote I'm looking forward to seeing who their stories unfold in this season.
Patrick Stewart's been on a press blitz promoting Picard and one stop was The Graham Norton Show ,while there he told the story about the time he was caught by a room service waiter, watching himself in an episode of The Next Generation. Quote "I don't look for it, but occasionally I'll happen upon it," "There was one night in a hotel when I was flicking through the channels and there was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, so I watched it for a few minutes, and I got hooked.
"Then the waiter came in with my room service order and he looked at me, then looked at the television and I thought, 'He is going to go away and tell the entire kitchen that it was the saddest thing he had ever seen – this guy upstairs alone, having room service and watching himself'." unquote Well Patrick, if you don't watch yourself who will?
And we will be seeing much more of Sir Patrick and Star Trek Picard as the series has already earned a renewal for Season two, but this time it'll be with a new showrunner, Terry Matalas will be taking up the reins for the next season, Mr. Matalas previously was the showrunner for Syfy's 12 Monkeys, but he's not new to Trek having worked as a production assistant for Voyager and enterprise.
Show writer Michael Chabon sat down for an interview with Rolling Stone,in the interview he laid down his Trek Bona Fides. Such as how he and his wife both got into the next Generation. He also talked about a dinner he had with Rick Berman quote I had dinner with [Next Generation showrunner] Rick Berman a few weeks ago. I said something like, "Oh, it was so remarkable that they cast such a great actor, and someone who was so well-known on the England stage." He said, "You have to remember, when we started that show, we actually cast two really well-known, talented actors: LeVar Burton and Wil Wheaton, who had been in Stand By Me." That was the casting coup of The Next Generation in the beginning. It was viewed as: They got LeVar Burton and Wil Wheaton, who was this hot, young actor. Patrick Stewart was so unknown at that time, he wasn't viewed as a coup in the sense that he was, say, when they cast him to play Professor X. unquote He also discussed about what it's like writing for the Next Generation characters. And how it was to write for an older Picard quote It's incredible, the things he does over the course of the season. Because it's not just him playing the Picard that you know when you think of Picard. He's playing Picard who's decades older, has been through a lot, has aged physically, is looking at his life in the way that someone who's middle-aged wouldn't. In canon in our story, Picard is I believe 92. So he's older than Patrick is, but someone who's been alive that long, looking at his life, is going to be behaving very differently than someone who's however old Patrick was when he started doing TNG. Patrick had all of that. He presents the character of Picard very much as the same guy. And yet, he's changed, inevitably. He's older, he's wiser, he's sadder, he has more regrets and more to regret. All of that just emerged on day one of shooting. Unquote It's a very long interview, I'll have a link to it in the show notes. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/star-trek-picard-michael-chabon-interview-937028/
One of the best parts of the series premiere of Picard was Jean-Luc's dog Number One. I have a feeling we won't see much of him until the end of the season, since I'm sure Picard is going on the road in the next episoe or two. On the Picard after show The ready room with host Wil Wheaton, Showrunner and Executive Producer Michael Chabon talked about how they came to give the Bulldog his name. Quote "Pretty early on," "As soon as the first draft was getting written I think it appeared at that point. It's meant to be…it's an Easter egg, and it's cute and charming, but there's something also kind of poignant about it, to me at least. He doesn't have a Number 1, those days are behind him. Riker's long gone in his life and there's almost something sort of touching that he's trying to recreate in the form of a dog, which is not a bad thing to try to do. (It's) So much that he's lost, so much that he's left behind." unquote
We might have a special guest star already lined up for Picard season 2. While appearing on The View to promote the show, Sir Patrick said this to host Whoppi Goldburg quote "Something that I need to bring up. I'm here with a formal invitation – and it's for you, Whoopi. Alex Kurtzman, who is the senior executive producer of 'Star Trek: Picard', and all of his colleagues (of which I am one), want to invite you into the second season." unquote The crowd applauded and Whoppi responded with a big quote "Yes!" quote https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1220028276879568897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1220028276879568897&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcomicbook.com%2Fstartrek%2F2020%2F01%2F22%2Fstar-trek-patrick-stewart-invites-whoopi-goldberg-picard-season-2-guinan%2F
It'll be good to see Gunian back in Picard's life.
CBS's day at the Winter 2020 TV Critics Association Press Tour gave us some jaw dropping news nuggets, specifically that there are two more live action projects in the pipeline. Now of course, there is nothing to indicate what these two projects are, though speculation seems to hover around a StarFleet Academy series and a Pike's Enterprise show bringing back Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn for the further adventures of the characters .
These two new shows would be in addition to the Section 31 show, which is still in active development.
So where are the Discovery season 3 and the animated Lower Decks? TrekCore got to ask producer Heather Kadin about the shows and she revealed that both should be ready to go by May. As to which one goes first, that's up to the All Access execs. And Might I suggest to these execs, if they wanna keep me paying for all access after picard is over, you might wanna put out Lower Decks. Just saying.
Well if looks like the Kelvin timeline just might be dead. As Director Noah Hawley has told The Hollywood reporter that his project will be an original story with a new cast. Quote"To call it Star Trek IV [the placeholder the trades have been using] is kind of a misnomer. I have my own take on the franchise as a lifelong fan."
"Yeah, I think so. Yeah. It's early days. I don't know. But new characters often involve new cast." As an example of what he plans to do he told them quote It's William Shatner putting on his reading glasses and lowering Khan's shields, which cost like $9.50. There's no big action sequence. He's just more clever, there's something really uplifting about that feeling. I went to Paramount and just had my own ideas for what I wanted to do with it. So that's the direction that I'm going in. It's still very early days, so I can't really be more specific. But it's going to be different. Unquote
In a different interview with Deadline he said quote "I have my own story and want to make sure as I did with Fargo and Legion that I'm respectful to the underlying material. That I'm not unintentionally changing things that people love or feel passionate about. So, it's important to do that research as I go." unquote
So it sounds like we're actually gonna see something original on the big screen. No rehashes of old episodes, we're gonna leave the Enterprise crew behind and tell a story that's just set in the Star Trek Universe. Good idea. Especially now that it seems that the Tarantino movie is still up in the air.
I guess we'll just have to watch and see.
Deep Space Nine is getting some comics love. IDW has announced that a new Star Trek Deep Space Nine miniseries called Too Long a Sacrifice will be out in April. The series is being written by David and Scott Tipton and will have artwork by Greg Scott. It's being described as a noir thriller centering around Odo. David Tipton said in a press release quote "Set during the most difficult hours of the Dominion War, Too Long a Sacrifice shows the station during trying times: a series of mysterious and seemingly unsolvable terrorist attacks just as the war has everyone strained to the breaking point," "We'll get to see the darker side of life on the station as Odo leads the investigation, with increasingly desperate conditions forcing him and others to deal with new and unexpected allies and to use unusual tactics in their efforts to stop the attacks." unquote Scott Tipton added quote "We're so excited to return to the world of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. With its 'frontier setting' and precarious place in the galaxy, Deep Space Nine offers the opportunity to tell truly unique tales of intrigue and suspense. Combine that with one of the best character ensembles ever assembled, and you get something no other Star Trek series can offer." unquote
Star Trek Deep Space nine Too Long a Sacrifice number one will be available with various covers including Ricardo Drumond and JK Woodward as well as a photo variant. Look for it in April.
Looks like we're one step closer to the Star Trek biobed. Nanox, a company out of Israel has created a medical machine called the Nanox Arc. It resembles the Star Trek biobed and promises to make medical scanning available to people around the world at a significantly lower cost. Instead of a huge CT machine, The acr is a portable bed. Ran Poliakine, founder and CEO of Nanox told Digital Trends quote "Nanox has achieved the world's first commercial-grade digital X-ray source, without the use of heat," "This X-ray device enables pulsating electron beams, versus the continuous radiation of X-rays used today. Building a silicon-based 'electron nano gun', placed on a silicon chip, has made Nanox's method more efficient than the traditional way of heat-based filaments." unquote
Basically since the device doesn't need to produce heat, the device can be made seventy to ninety percent smaller, reducing the cost. Nanox believes that this could make medical imaging more accessible to people around the world.
As to its resemblance to the Star Trek biobed, it's not a coincidence Polkaine told digital trends quote "The Starfleet's unsung hero allowed doctors to assess and diagnose their patients in minutes, and allowed them to conduct any medical imaging scan necessary, efficiently," "The biobed served multiple purposes, and that is exactly what we are aiming to achieve. We want the Arc to be accessible, portable, easy to operate and focus on what's important: the patient." unquote
Rumors of the Obi Wan series demise are a bit premature. Apparently on the January seventeenth rumors started being spread about that the plug had been pulled on the Ewan McGregor led Disney Plus series. Reports appear to have traced this rumor back to a parody Twitter account. Comic Book dot com reports that sources close to the production say that it has not been cancelled. But is going back to the drawing board. Unknown Sources have told the Hollywood reporter that the story has been scrapped and a new writer is being sought to write the series. The source also indicated that it might go from a six part series to a four part series. Star Ewan McGregor told IGN that filming would shift to next year quote "It's just slid to next year, that's all. The scripts were really good," "Now that Episode IX came out and everyone at Lucasfilm has got more time to spend on the writing, they felt they wanted more time to write the episodes." unquote I'm guessing that the Star Wars franchise will continue being more of a tv franchise for the near future. Probably just putting out a new movie project every couple of years.
The Rise of Skywalker has finally passed the one billion dollar mark, twenty eight days after being released in theaters. This was slower than Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, which took 12 and 19 days respectively. Now while this shows a trend, I don't think the Walt Disney company is worried, after all the only Star Wars film that really didn't do as expected was Solo.
Let's take a quick look at the box office for this past weekend. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2020W04/?ref_=bo_wey_table_1
Composer extraordinaire John Williams walked away from the Grammys with his twenty fifth career Grammy Award Victory. Mister Williams won the Best Instrumental Composition Grammy for the Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Symphonic Suite, that he created for the theme park. I'd like to offer him my congratulations, if he'd like to write me a theme song, …
Taika Waititi is a busy man, lots of plates to spin, he acts and he directs including in The mandalorian. So naturally rumors would get started that he might be working on a Star Wars movie. Taika's response to these Rumors? On twitter he put up the cover of Fleetwood Mac's album, also called Rumors. Funny. Well I guess we can never actually say never, one day he might have some free time and I'm sure lucasfilm would love to have him do some work.
Hulu's Senior VP of originals speaking at the Winter Television Critics Association press tour spoke about The Orville's upcoming third season quote "The Orville has a very loyal following on Hulu so when there was an opportunity to bring a new season to our viewers we jumped at it, I will see the first episode next week. We'll monitor and evaluate the show as it goes, unquote So that sounds like Orville fans need to have a strong showing to make sure we get a season four. Now if they'd just tell us WHEN to show up…
Could the Merovingian be returning to the Matrix? French website AlloCine reports that actor Lambert Wilson, who appeared in the matrix reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions as the plot advancing program is currently in negotiations to return to the fourth Matrix movie. If he does return he would just stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss as well as newcomers Yahya Abdul Mateen II, Jessica Henick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris,Eréndira Ibarra, Max Riemelt, and Toby Onwumere. Production on the movie is scheduled to start next month in Chicago and would be released May twenty first of 2021.
The new branch of the United States Military the US. Space Force revealed it's uniforms on it's official twitter and it's got fans scratching it's head. There are the normal things like the flag, the patch for the service and stuff like that. The confusing thing is that they decided to use woodland camouflage for the uniform. Is the Force planning on invading Endor? Wouldn't Blue or Black make more sense? Let's just hope this is a temporary choice.
It looks like we are getting a third National Treasure movie from Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer. The script will be written by Bad Boys for Life screenwriter Chris Bremner, who also will be writing the fourth Bad Boys movie.
National Treasure is a couple of movies starring Nicolas Cage as Treasure hunter, Benjamin Franklin Gates, the first one came out in 2004 and the sequel came out in 2007. No word on when their looking at putting out the third one.
NBC Universal has released details on it's Peacock streaming service. First off Comcast's Xfinity x1 and Flex video platforms will get it on April fifteenth, it will than come out nationally on July fifteenth. There will be three different versions quote A free, ad-supported one; a more robust, ad-supported one that will be free to Comcast and Cox Cable subscribers, and $5 for everyone else; and an offering with no ads that is $5 for Comcast and Cox subscribers and $10 for everyone else. Unquote Free will have quote "next-day access to current seasons of freshman broadcast series, a range of film and TV titles but only select episodes of marquee Peacock originals and tentpole series. It will also feature curated Peacock streaming genre channels like SNL Vault, Family Movie Night and Olympic Profiles." unquote The Paid version will have everything free has plus quote "adds full-season Peacock originals and tentpole series and next-day access to current seasons of returning broadcast shows. It also throws in early access to late night titles like the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and sports attractions like exclusive Premiere League soccer matches, Olympic programming" unquote The service will have about 600 movies and 400 series I don't know, I think I'll just stick with the free version.
The mouse kills the fox, the mouse mills the fox, high ho the derry o the mouse kills the fox. In a step meant to symbolize Disney's take over of the 20th century fox studio. You will no longer see films from 20th Century Fox or Fox searchlight Pictures. Instead it'll be 20th century studios and Searchlight Pictures. The tv side is currently unchanged, but it's expected that a renaming will occur soon. The logos will be the same, just without the word Fox.
Finally we remember The son of author JRR Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien. Christopher was born in November of 1924 and assisted his father with his work on the lord of the rings, he even edited the companion book The Silmarillion after his father died in 1973.
He would go on to edit dozens of other books by his father and Geoffrey Chaucer. He also wrote a book of his own called The Battle of the Goths and The Huns. He served as chairman of the Tolkien Estate Ltd until 2017. He was critical of The Lord of the Rings movies saying quote "They gutted the book, making an action film for 15 to 25-year-olds."
He spent the rest of his life in France where he passed away at the age of 95 on January sixteenth, 2020. He is survived by his second wife, their two children and a son from his first marriage.
Tonight! MODOK goes on but Howard The Duck does not, Joker, Joker, Joker and we remember a legendary Python and much more on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Greetings and welcome to the comics edition of Multiverse Tonight. Episode 61. And I thank you for being here. You might not know it, but you help keep me busy, which helps keep me sane. I like others suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder during the winter and keeping busy helps to keep the depressive feelings at bay. Thank you, could you do me a favor though? Could you recommend Multiverse Tonight to a friend for me? You don't have to shout it from the mountain tops, just one friend, someone who you think will like geeky news, presented plain and simple. Thank you, now let's go on to the news.
Chris Hemsworth is teaming up with the National Geographic Channel for a new series called Limitless. The series was announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The series is about superhuman feats. The science series looks at groundbreaking biotech and other ways we can unlock the body's secret superpowers for a longer better life. Chris Hemsworth said Quote "Basically, I was somehow convinced to volunteer myself as a human guinea pig and endure a series of mental and physical challenges across the globe, all for the sake of science," Hemsworth explained. "We're hoping to shed some light on new ideas and emerging science with the focus on extending a healthy life span. Production starts soon, so wish me luck." unquote No word on when this will air.
Marvel has a new X-Men comic coming this April. Children of the Atom will be a new ongoing series. Writer Vita Ayala and artist Bernard Chang bring us this new team book with a new squad of super heroes that will turn the X-Men's World upside down. No details about the cast of the book have been announced yet.
M.O.D.O.K. has a cast. The new Hulu animated series will star Patton Oswalt in the lead role as the (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) who has been ousted from both his evil organization and his family, plus he's suffering from a midlife crisis. Joining Patton will be Aimee Garcia as Jodie, MODOK's wife and the mother of his children, Ben Schwartz as lou, MODOK's twelve year old son, Melissa Fumero as Melissa, MODOK'S seventeen year old daughter, Wendi McLendon-Covey from The Goldbergs will be Monica, a mad scientist at AIM and Modoks rival, Beck Bennet as Austin Van Der Sleet, MODOKS new boss. Jon Daly as Super Adaptoid, A snarky android with ambitions to live, feel and create, but is instead forced to spend his days massaging the hoverchair sores on his creator M.O.D.O.K.'s scalp and Sam Richardson as Gary, a henchman at AIM who is fiercely loyal to MODOK even if MODOK struggles to remember his name.
Executive Producer Jordan Blum said about this cast in the press release quote "I'm blown away by our insanely talented and hilarious voice cast, who have all brought their specific kind of magic to this weird and wonderful corner of the Marvel Universe." unquote
Howard the Duck is dead. Not the character, but the show. This seems to be part of a house cleaning at Marvel Television as it transitions from Jeph Loeb to Kevin Feige. Howard the Duck joins Tigra & Dazzler on the death pile. The other two shows in the HULU and Marvel animated line up MODOK and Hit Monkey are still in the works, no word on what will happen to The Offenders crossover, but it's probably gone too. Marvel and HULU declined comment. I'd feel sorry for Kevin Smith losing Howard the Duck, but he still has plenty of other irons in the fire, so he has plenty of future endeavors.
Marvels Iron Man VR game has been delayed a few months from February to May. The game's developer Camouflaj revealed the delay in a tweet. Quote In order to deliver on our vision and meet the high expectations of our amazing community, we've made the difficult decision to move Marvel's Iron Man VR to a May 15, 2020 release. We truly appreciate your patience and understanding. You'll be hearing from us again soon! Unquote
The PS4 exclusive game was revealed last March and will put the player inside Tony's helmet via the players VR headset and will see Tony's past as an arms dealer come back to haunt him in the form of Ghost from Ant-man & The Wasp.
Now for some quick hits.
The Falcon & The Winter Soldier has added actor Noah Mills to the cast, Noah is known for roles in NBC's The Enemy Within and The Brave. The series will premiere on Disney Plus in August.
Disney has officially started work on Captain Marvel 2. According to the Hollywood reporter , the studio has almost locked down Megan McDonnal , a staff writer on WandaVision for the much anticipated sequel. But t is supposed to take place in present day No release date or subtitle has been given for the movie. You'll remember the first Captain Marvel made 1.13 billion dollars world wide.
Speaking of Marvel projects in the pipeline. Marvel's Disney Plus She Hulk series will start filming this July in Atlanta according to a production notice
We begin DC News with Joker.
Joker got huge nominations from the Oscars. Getting nominations for actor in a leading role for Joaquin Phoenix, achievement in cinematography, costume design, directing for Todd Phillips, film editing for Jeff Groth, Makeup and Hairstyling for Nicki Leadermann and Kay Georgiou, original score for Hildur Guonadottir, best film, sound editing for Alan Robert Murray, sound mixing and screenplay. There were other geeky nominations, but I'll highlight those in the geek news.
Now an interesting fact as emerged. Joker editor Jeff Groth revealed to Collider that Bradley Cooper had a hand in editing the film. quote"We kept this one pretty close to us. We screened it more personally for people and filmmakers,". "Bradley Cooper definitely came in a couple of times. He was a producer on the movie, but he definitely watched the movie many times and sat with us. We could call him if we got stuck with something and be like, 'Hey, can you come over and take a look at things?'" unquote If Jeff wins, I think he owes Bradley big, don't you?
Speaking of the Joker, 2020 marks his 80th anniversary. The character, debuted in 1940's Batman number one. To celebrate, DC is putting out The Joker 80th anniversary 100 page super spectacular in April. The comic will feature a number of original stories from Denny O'Neil, Scott Snyder, Paul Dini, Lee Bermejo, Jock, Mikel Janin and current Batman series writer James Tynion IV, all with a cover from former Batman and Metal artist Greg Capullo. The release will also have variant covers showcasing the Joker's look from each decade. It'll be out on April 29th for $9.99.
There will be more than one. HBO Max's Head of Original Content Sarah Aubrey revealed at the tca press tour that quote "Greg [Berlanti] said that I can share a few little tidbits about Green Lantern. We're in the early stages of talking to him about it, but he did say that the series, so far, will span several decades and focus on the origin story of two major Green Lanterns from Earth, while going into the story in space and Green Lantern favorite character Sinestro." unquote As to what green lanterns those will be is unknown right now. Just don't make the suit animated. Simpler is better.
Karen Gillian would love to do a DC movie. While the actress was promoting Jumani The Next Level in Brazil, Karen was asked if she had her pick what comic book character would she like to be involved with next/ quote Batgirl would be cool for that, as well. My favorite film in that world, my favorite one is The Dark Knight. I just love the way that one is directed so much. So, I would just love to work in that world, as a director. Come on, DC. Look over this way." unquote
The lack of Joker in the new Birds of Prey movie was a choice according to star and producer Margot Robbie. The actress told comic book dot com at a press event quote "It was either going to be a complete Harley and Joker story or Joker has got to be out of the picture," "I really wanted to see Harley in a girl gang and I felt there was a huge gap in the market for a girl gang ensemble action film. I felt like no one was doing that and I couldn't understand why, especially a comic book movie." "From the very beginning it was a conscious choice of they have to be broken up at this stage," "I have a whole backstory in my head [of] what's happened between what you saw at the end of Suicide Squad and what you see at the beginning of Birds of Prey."
Birds of Prey and the fantabulous emancipation of one Harley Quinn come to theaters on February seventh.
Oscar Issac is set to star in and produce and Adaptation of Brian K Vaughan Eisner award winning comic Ex Machina It'll be titled The Great Machine according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The script is being written by Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel. Oscar will be producing along with his manager and producer Jason Spire.
The comic it's based on first came out in 2004 and ran for 50 issues under the Wildstorm Imprint. Centering on Mitchell Hundred an ex superhero who became mayor of New York after 9/11. Hundred has the power to talk to machines. Oscar Issac will play Mr. Hundred. Ironically, Oscar Issac was in a movie called Ex Machina a few years ago. That's why the name was changed to the Great Machine. No release date has been announced.
The animation awards also known as the Annie's have been handed out. Netflix's Klaus won Best Feature,Best Direction,Best Editorial, Best Production design, feature, Best Storyboarding, Best Character Designand Best Character Animation freature, Netflix also picked up teh Best Indie Feature award for I lost My Body, Xilam it also won Best Music and Best Writing for a feature, How to Train Your Dragon Homecoming won Best Special prodution, BoJack Horesman episode The Client won Best TV/Media General Audience. Netflix's Love, Death and Robots won Best FX for TV/Media and Best Music TV?Media and Frozen 2 won the same award for features it also got Best Voice Acting, His Dark materials picke up the award for Best Character Animation TV/Media, Best Character Animation Live Action went to Avengers Endgame, Bob's Burgers won Best Voice Acting for TV
Warner Bros Animation's animated movie Mortal Kombat Legends Scorpion's revenge has added Joel Mchale as Johnny Cage and Jennifer Carpenter as Sonya Blade. They will be joining Jordan Rodrigues as Lui Kang; Patrick Seitz as Scorpion and Hanzo Hasashi; Steve Blum as Sub-Zero; Artt Butler as Shang Tsung; Darin De Paul as Quan Chi; Robin Atkin Downes as Kano; David B. Mitchell as Raiden; Ike Amadi as Jax Briggs; Kevin Michael Richardson as Goro; Grey Griffin as Kitana and Satoshi Hasashi; and Fred Tatasciore as Demon Torturer. The film will come out in the first half of this year. A new live action Mortal Kombat movie is due out next year.
And finally tonight, It's with a heavy heart that we acknowledge the passing of a legend of comedy, Monty Python member Terry Jones. He passed away several years after having contracted a rare form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia or FTD that impaired his ability to speak and communicate. He was born in Wales on February first 1942. He's best known for Monty Python, writing and performing. A few of his most memorable characters include Mr. Creosote in Monty Python's the Meaning of Life and Sir Bedevere in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Cardinal Biggles the airplane cap wearing member of the Spanish Inquisition.
He would go on to direct films such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. He also wrote and directed lots of other projects including the 1989 movie Erik the Viking. He also had a love for medieval and ancient history, writing books and hosting shows like Terry Jones Medieval Lives and terry Jones Barbarians. He is survived by his wife Anna, his two sons and daughter. He was 77.
Author Thomas TownleyPosted on January 30, 2020 June 14, 2020 Categories New Episode, Show NotesTags Comic books, DC, Film, Marvel, News, Star Trek, Star Wars, TVLeave a comment on Show Notes: Episode 60: What Comes After Picard & Episode 61: Howard the Duck Gets No Respect
Show Notes Episode 56:Goodbye 2019 & Episode 57: Hello 2020
Tonight! It's the end of the decade, but not the end of the news on this edition of Multiverse Tonight!
Welcome to the last episode of the year. I would add the "of the decade" line, but I haven't been broadcasting all decade. You know, I could have just not done a new episode this week, I know lots of podcasts that take a vacation between Christmas and New Years, but that's just not me.
I would like to thank you for listening to my words today. 2020 looks like it's gonna be a busy year, lots of new movies, new show ideas in the offing and so forth. Who knows, maybe I'll create a second podcast? Of course, you can always help me out by showing me some appreciation by donating money or tweeting at me etcetera. Let's have a good 2020 and be sure to think about your decisions, weather in the voting booth or elsewhere. Let's get it on….
I'm gonna admit right now, I'm not gonna have a lot of Star Wars news in this episode, you know why? Most of the news that comes out at this time is about things in and around the rise of skywalker. Which I haven't seen , so I'm kinda avoiding spoilers right now. I will be seeing it, just not till after the first of the year. But there are a few news items….
To start off, Since it's new years, you'll want to drink to the new year, how bout a new cocktail from The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal. The actor shared a picture of a green cocktail with two lime wedges for ears and what looks like prunes for eyes on Instagram with the captain quote To getting through the holidays with a little bit of force. Good luck, everyone." unquote What his cocktail was made from is anyone's guess. There are probably dozens of permutations of a Baby Yoda cocktail on the internet. One version served at the Golden Tiki bar in Las Vegas according to the las vegas review journal has Rhum agricole, demerara syrup and fresh lime juice, finished with a spritz of absinthe andLuxardo cherry eyes and lime wedge ears. His sense of style is provided by his bar napkin Jedi robe, tied with a piece of twine, and a bar-straw lightsaber . So if you wanna try one, I guess you should fly to vegas, or figure it out yourself. Drink at your own risk, it could be evil….
And speaking of The Child, I bet you think the lack of merchandise is particularly evil, Well blame Donald Glover for the lack of merchandise for Baby Yoda.
The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau says that a conversation with Donald about Beyonce during the Lion King remake convinced the director to be more reserved. Speaking with the Hollywood Reporter"We were talking about music and pop culture and he was saying that what people really like now is to be surprised, because it doesn't happen that much," "When Beyoncé did an album, she would just put it online and everybody would react to it. Just putting it out there spurred a conversation that would become more viral and bring more genuine attention than any marketing." quote Disney is now going full speed ahead with merchandise for the character named The Child including dolls, Funko pops and shirts. However the slowness to get on the sales wagon might have cost Disney around three million or about how much they made in a couple of hours of showings of The Rise of Skywalker.
By the way, preorders for the Blu ray of The Rise of Skywalker are available now. Including a 4k ultra hd blu ray set of the entire nine film saga on 27 disks that retails for two hundred forty nine dollars. No release date has been officially announced but it's guesstimated to come around the end of March.
If you noticed that Kelly Marie Tran's Rose Tico was barely in the Rise of Skywalker, don't believe the haters that it was because her character was disliked. Instead it was just a matter of her original role in the film. Chris Terrio, the writer of The Rise of Skywalker explained to Awards Daily quoteWell, first of all, J.J. and I adore Kelly Marie Tran. One of the reasons that Rose has a few less scenes than we would like her to have has to do with the difficulty of using Carrie's footage in the way we wanted to. We wanted Rose to be the anchor at the rebel base who was with Leia. We thought we couldn't leave Leia at the base without any of the principals whom we love, so Leia and Rose were working together. As the process evolved, a few scenes we'd written with Rose and Leia turned out to not meet the standard of photorealism that we'd hoped for. Those scenes unfortunately fell out of the film. The last thing we were doing was deliberately trying to sideline Rose. We adore the character, and we adore Kelly – so much so that we anchored her with our favorite person in this galaxy, General Leia." unquote
Never fear fans, The Mandalorian WILL be back, creator and Showrunner Jon Favreau has confirmed on twitter that the Disney Plus series will launch in the Fall of 2020. Rumors are that several established Skywalker saga characters will make appearances on the show.
The only reason for me to get CBS All Access is almost here, Star Trek Picard is just days away and there's plenty of supplementary material to go over, the comic series is out now and in February comes the book, Star Trek Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack. Much like the comic book, this is another prequel to the series and will introduce some of the characters that we will see in the show. No word on the exact plot of the book, but it will be out just 3 days before my birthday on February 11th.
Meanwhile, that other Star Trek Discovery might just be closer to its third season premiere than we thought. Sonequa Martin Green, speaking with Radio Times dot com said of the third season quote"It's definitely coming up 2020," "And I would venture to say closer to early 2020 than anything, but yeah, it's going to be incredible. I can tell you that. I think it's a stunning season.
"That's why it's so stirring to me… in like this moment right now, to talk about the beginning, that's what is so interesting to me – to be where we are now, but to know where we came from. And I really think we did what all shows should do, and got better with age and get better with time It's really quite gripping to see where we've come and how we continue to build and grow, to higher heights and deeper depths." unquote. Season three sees the Discovery now in the far future. Where they will be no tribble at all with established continuity.
Pocket Books is looking back at the untold era between The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Kahn with Star Trek The Higher Frontier by Christopher L Bennett. The novel also connects to the original series episode Is There In Truth No Beauty? And features Dr. Miranda Jones and the Medusan ambassador. Here's the blurb quote "Investigating the massacre of a telepathic minority, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise confront a terrifying new threat: faceless, armored hunters whose extradimensional technology makes them seemingly unstoppable. Kirk must team with the powerful telepath Miranda Jones and the enigmatic Medusans to take on these merciless killers in an epic battle that will reveal the true faces of both enemy and ally!" unquote The novel will be out on March tenth.
IDW has released the Star Trek comic book listing for those coming out in March, fist up they introduce us to the mirror Universe Kahn …wait wouldn't that just be Nhak? NHHHHHHHAAAAKKK! In Star Trek Hell's Mirror. Not only do we return to the mirror universe we are shepherded by JM DeMatteis who is returning to the Star Trek universe for the first time in 40 years. His last contribution was the final issue of Marvel's Star Trek series in 1982. Here's the blurb: Legendary writer J.M. DeMatteis returns to Star Trek for the first time in nearly 40 years! And it'll be well worth the wait, as he tackles two of the franchise's most popular concepts: Khan Noonien Singh and the Mirror Universe! Unquote the book has art by Matthew Dow Smith and retails for 4.99
Also out is Star Trek Year Five issue 12 written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly with art by Stephen Thompson. Here's the blurb quot eAt last—the moment you've been waiting for since the first page of issue #1! With a villain revealed, a stranded crew, and a ship on a collision course with total destruction, Captain James T. Kirk will have to face the biggest challenge of his life on his own!Written by showrunners Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly (Green Arrow, Nightwing, Gotham City Garage) this is a perfect jumping-on point before the second year of the series begins. It retails for 3.99. You can preorder those and other comics from mycomicshop and things from another world. Links to those are in our affiliate marketplace on our home page.
Not often I speak of he who should not be named. But American President Donald Trump has created the United States Space Force, when he signed a new defense budget into law. The newest branch of the military will be kind of a hand me down right now with a small staff of 200 military and civilians mostly US air force as it will be under the aegis of the Air Force Dept. and a budget of 40 million. Tech Entrepreneur Elon Musk seemed to praise this development by; quoting two words,quote Starfleet Begins unquote
Hate to tell you this Elon, I don't think exploring space is what these guys wanna do.
May twenty third will be a special day in the city of Bloomington Indiana. A few episodes back I told you about the fundraising campaign to get a monument erected in Bloomington celebrating the fact that the city will be the birthplace of Captain Kathryn Janeway. The Captain Janeway Bloomington Collective met its goal of 12,500 and will receive matching funds from the Indiana Housing and Community Development. So on May twenty third, just 3 days after the fictional characters birthday, a bust bearing the likeness of Kate mulgrew's character will be unveiled in downtown Bloomington. The bust will be on a limestone base shaped like the Starfleet delta and include an informational tablet about the captain of the Voyager.
ViacomCBS now owns a forty nine percent stake in Miramax. They bought it fromMiramax owner Qatar based BeIN media Group for a total of three hundred seventy five million dollars. ViacomCBS will pay one hundred fifty million upfront and the rest will be in forty five million a year for five year in funds to produce new film and tv projects. Paramount will get an exclusive long term deal for Miramax's back catalog. President and CEO of Viacom CBS Bob Bakish in a statement said quote"Miramax is a renowned global studio, responsible for some of the most iconic films of the last three decades, including 'Pulp Fiction,' 'Good Will Hunting,' 'Kill Bill' and more," "This partnership with beIN will be a unique opportunity to gain access to a valuable library, deepening our already substantial pool of IP at a time when demand for premium content is only accelerating. We look forward to working closely with the Miramax management team as we explore new ways to deliver its titles across a variety of platforms and create new, compelling projects." unquote Now if they wanna make me happy, release Kevin Smith's movies all in High Def.
It's the end of the year and that means lists. Forbes has released a list of the highest paid Youtubers and it's not me. Did you know we have a Youtube channel? Anyway. The number one on the list was Ryan Kaji, the q year old kid behind Ryan's World. He has 22.9 million subscribers and made 26 million dollars. I wonder who the new Youtube FTC rules will affect his channel since I'm guessing most of his views are from kids. Also on the list is Dude Perfect, Anastasia (Rad-zin-skaya) Radzinskaya and PewDiePie among others. PewDiePie is apparently taking a break from Youtube and has also quit twitter. Maybe he's decided to look at the world outside of just four walls.
Uncharted has possibly lost another director. Director Travis Knight might be leaving Uncharted, based on the video game series of the same name, Travis made his directorial debut last year with Bumblebee. Insiders are blaming the exit on schedulting issues as Actor Tom Holland has a Spiderman movie due out in July of 2021 and that production might push Uncharted back away fronm the December 18th 2020 date. Tom Holland will be playing Drake in Uncharted and Mark Wahlberg will play Drake's friend Sully.
The rise of Skywalker has done very well at the box office, posting the second best domestic Christmas Day ever and had reached over half a billion by the day after Christmas. So let's take a look at the box office report and see what it's got now.
And now that we took a look behind, let's look ahead at what's coming 2020:
February 14: Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount)
February 28: The Invisible Man (Universal)
March 27: Mulan (Disney)
April 8: No Time To Die (Eon Productions/MGM)
May 15: A Quiet Place sequel (Paramount)
May 15: Scoob! (Warner Bros.)
May 22: Fast & Furious 9 (Universal)
May 22: The Spongebob Movie (Paramount)
May 29: Artemis Fowl (Disney)
June 19: Soul (Pixar)
June 26: Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount/Skydance)
July 10: Ghostbusters: Afterlife film (Sony)
July 24: Jungle Cruise (Disney)
July 24: Untitled Sony animated film
August 7: Infinite (Paramount)
August 7: The Empty Man (Disney)
August 21: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Orion)
September 4: Monster Hunter (Sony)
September 11: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (New Line)
September 18: The Croods 2 (Universal/DreamWorks Animation)
September 18: The King's Man (Fox)
September 18: Without Remorse (Paramount)
September 18: Untitled Phil Lord & Chris Miller animated film (Sony)
October 16: Untitled Warner Bros. 'event' film
November 13: Red Notice (Universal)
November 20: Godzilla vs. Kong (Warner Bros.)
November 25: Untitled Disney animated
December 18: Dune (Warner Bros.)
December 18: Uncharted (Sony)
December 23: Cruella (Disney)
December 25: Untitled third Sherlock Holmes (Warner Bros.)
December 25: The Tomorrow War (Paramount)
Tonight! It's a new year and a new decade, but the news rolls on in this comic edition of Multiverse Tonight.
Welcome to 2020. So how was 2019 for you, read anything good? Watch any good tv or movies? Are you ready for this year? Me personally, I'm at a point in my life where the years just run together. It's only when you look at the big picture do you see how much it all changed.
So Watchmen was a pretty great show. But something we never got? A cameo with President robert redford. The actor became president in the Watchmen Universe after nixon. Apparently showrunner Damon Lindelof did leave the door open for a cameo but it was not to be. Lindelof told collider quote "We wrote Robert Redford a letter, describing our intention with his usage in the show. And, also, what our general sense of what Watchmen was to us. And, an incredibly high esteem in which we hold him both as an actor, and a purveyor of the arts. And, also, as a prominent progressive liberal, who shares many of the same ideologies with a number of us, behind the scenes. And, we left the door open in that letter, should he choose to respond to it, that we would invite him to come and play on the show, if he were game. He's a very busy man, and he has yet to respond to the letter. But, hopefully, one day we will cross paths, and that door will always be open," unquote Unfortunately there are currently no plans for a second season.
Well unfortunately there won't be another season of Lucifer either, however congratulations to the show are in order as the show has been named number one on tv times most streaming series list. The list is based upon global data from the apps users. It beat our Stranger Things, 13 reasons why, The Handmaid's Tale, The Umbrella Academy, Black Mirror and more. Lucifers final season is currently in production.
Todd Phillips director of the mega hit Joker wants you to keep an open mind when it comes to the origins of the Joker, quote "There's many ways to look at the movie. He might not be Joker,". "This is just a version of a Joker origin. It's just the version this guy is telling in this room at a mental institution. I don't know that he's the most reliable narrator in the world, you know what I'm saying?" unquote Phillips said this in Joker Vision and Fury on of the featurettes on the home video release. In other words, there is no defined Joker backstory, it's whatever he feels like.
Mark Hamill is thankful this season, sure not for the Rise of Skywalker and the end of The Skywalker Saga, but for a role just as famous. Mark took to twitter and tweeted out a few Joker centric images with the tweet quote I can't tell you how much 1 single role has meant to me. Because of him people recognized the gleeful psycho within-Because of him a new career of megalomaniacal villainy opened up & I was now able to frighten young children-I will be grateful for that…Forever🃏#BeingTheJoker unquote To some he will always be Luke Skywalker, but to others he will forever be the Joker.
DC's Geoff Johns is teasing some Green Lantern news is coming. Speaking with Newsarama he said quote "It's a really exciting year to have Doomsday Clock finished up," "I'm doing more comics. Stargirl trailer's out. Wonder Woman's on its way. And a lot of work with Green Lantern outside comics that hopefully you'll hear about soon." unquote So what could this Green lantern project be, a Green Lantern Corps movie? Green Lantern The series on HBO Max perhaps. Whatever it is, remember, no animated suits. Just green, the only thing that should be animated are the ring creations.
Black Panther star Michael B Jordan was asked by MTV News if there was any truth to the rumors of him playing Superman in the future. The actor responded quote "I've been rumored to play Morpheus to Superman to Power Rangers and everything in between, so it's like, I'm kind of used to the rumors I'm playing something," he said. "But anything that I do dive into has to be done the right way. It has to be full of authenticity." unquote. Michael is a fan of comics and Variety has reported that he doesn't want to commit to playing Superman when he has so many other projects on his plate.
In a tweet this past Saturday, David Ayer's confirmed that Suicide Squad would have had more of a connection to Justice League of an original plot element involving Enchantress stayed in."It was supposed to be a boom tube as she was under control of a motherbox," "All the Apokalypse [sic] elements were stripped out late in the game. The machine concept was an attempt to create a ticking clock and world threat." unquote. Hmmm. DO you think they should have kept the boomtube in?
I don't know how to feel about this one. Okay, you might have figured out the past few episodes that I really don't care for Robert Pattinson. He just doesn't work as an actor for me and his casting as Batman in Matt reeves The Batman is *sigh* Well Mr. Pattinson recently did an Interview with The Guardian where he revealed how sick he was of questions about the movie and that he just wanted to get down to filming already saying quote "I'm already remembering what it's like to talk about a movie where there's an expectation. Whenever you say anything, people are like, 'Argh! You idiot!' Like, dude, I haven't even started yet," unquote When the interviewer pointed out that the having this role is a lot to live up to Pattinson said quote "But there is no harsher critic of myself than myself, so I don't need to worry about anyone else." unquote When asked what he might do if the movie totally bombs, Pattinson giggled and gave shot back quote "Porn," "But art house porn." unquote I'm conflicted. I don't know if I'd rather see him do porn or not. He might be a terrible porn actor as well.
DC has announced that Superman issue nineteen, the first since Superman revealed to the world his secret identity will be pushed back a couple of weeks from January 8th to the 22nd. Issues 20 and 21 however are still on schedule.
The New York Times best selling authors Shannon and Dean Hale are writing a new graphic novel for young readers. Diana Princess of the Amazons looks at the pre Wonder Woman's life as a young girl on an island with no other children. Themyscira after all never had any children on it, just strong adult warriors. The book has artwork by Victoria Yang, who is a veteran of animation and it making her debut for DC Comics. Shannon has always been a fan of Wonder Woman growing up with the character and even driving a minivan with the Wonder Woman logo on the hood. Newsarama asked the couple when they chose to do a story about her as a child and Shannon replied quote We were fascinated with the idea of growing up as the only kid in your entire world. And that's just not something we'd seen explored very deeply with Wonder Woman.
Yes, she's an Amazon, and she's incredibly strong and has a sense of justice and is one of the most powerful superheroes. And we've seen her relationship with her sisters on Themyscira.
But what was it like before that?What did it feel like to be the only kid?
Given that we were writing these books for younger readers, I thought that was something kids would be really fascinated with. Imagine being the only kid in your entire world, and then imagine that everyone else is an immortal, perfect warrior.
How do you find your place there?
That's where we began.
Diana Princess of the Amazons comes out on January seventh.
Ryan Renoylds appearing on Live with Kelly and Ryan confirmed that they are currently working on Deadpool 3. He told the hosts quote "Yeah we're working on it right now with the whole team," "We're over at Marvel [Studios] now, which is like the big leagues all of a sudden. It's kinda crazy. So yeah, we're working on it." unquote So I' guessing same Deadpool with access to the MCU? Maybe? We can hope.
Kevin Fiege is backing off the idea that Doctor Strange and the multiverse of Madness is a horror movie telling the New York Film Academy that quote "I wouldn't necessarily say that's a horror film, but … it'll be a big MCU film with scary sequences in it." unquote He also confirmed that some new characters will be debuting in the movie as well. "The next Doctor Strange film, for instance, features some new MCU characters which will be making their debut in that movie you won't expect or won't guess who it is but we found a cool way to make it work because we want to make a particular type of movie there and there was a character who we always wanted to do something with who will fit really well there."unquote Who it will be is still a mystery.
At the same event, Feige was asked how Marvel determines which chatacteres will make the jump from the comic page to the big screen and his answer contained a bit of news quote "Sometimes you're choosing the title hero, you're choosing which main character or main team you want to bring to the screen,""And often times, as you're making and developing the movie, [asking], 'Who will come into it? Who will fit into it?'"
"Like Shang-Chi, we've wanted to make that movie for a long time. We want to make a movie with a 98% Asian cast," "And then you talk about, as you develop the movie, what other heroes can you bring into it, if you need them? And in the case of Black Panther [in Captain America: Civil War], it was the greatest thing that ever happened."
Shang-Chi and teh Legend of the ten rings will star Simu Liu, Awkwafina and Tony Chiu-Wai Leung and will lead off Marvel Studios offerings in 2021.
Marvel's What If series will have a longer season than any other Disney Plus Marvel show. WandaVision, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and oki all have six episode seasons. But in a new interview with Buzzfeed Brazil, Kevin Feige revealed that What If will have a ten episode first season. Quote "I'm very happy that we're doing the What If…? series for Disney+ right now, and I've seen most of them. We have ten for Season 1, we're already working on the next ten for Season 2," he said. "We've revealed one that is very exciting, we've talked about it for years, which is the one where Peggy Carter gets the Super Soldier serum and becomes Captain Carter. That's the very first episode, and I'm excited for people to see that. I'm excited to see the finished version of that, and I'm excited for the world to see it.""What If…? is based on a comic series that we've loved for years, where they take a storyline you know and change one element, and see how things could get different," Feige said. "So the 23 films of the MCU that you know are gonna showcase one little difference in each episode, and see how things change." The show will be narrated by Jeffery Wright as the Watcher and feature an all star cast from the Marvel movies. But be prepared to wait, we're still about 18 months away as it will premiere in Summer of 21.
James Cameron does what James Cameron does. And he seems to be certain that his Avatar sequels will break the current all time global box office record set by Avenges Endgame. He told USA today that quote "I think it's a certainty," "But let's give Endgame their moment and let's celebrate that people are going to the movie theater.""I don't want to sound snarky after I took the high road (by offering congratulations),". "But they beat us by one quarter of a percent. I did the math in my head while driving in this morning. I think accountants call that a rounding error." So let's look at the math. Avengers Endgame made 2, 797, 800, 564 globally beating our Avatar's 2, 029, 450, 992 that's a difference of 768 million 349 thousand 572 dollars. That's more than a rounding error. Avatar 2 is coming on December seventeenth of 2021.
Valiant Entertainment is getting back in the video game biz. This time the company is joining forces with Blowfish Studios to do games based on Bloodshot and Ninjak. The last time there were video games was back in the mid 90's when the company was owned by Acclaim Entertainment. Valiant is hoping for a bit of a renesauce next year with a movie based on Bloodshot starring Vin Diesel that is set to open on February twenty first. They are also working on a Harbinger movie and a tv series based on Quantum & Woody.
Facebook and the Pokemon Company launched two Pokemon games on the Facebook gaming platform. Pokemon Tower Battle is available worldwide right now and has players staking Pokemon to create towers. The other, Pokemon Medallion Battle is a digital card battle strategy game but is only available in the Asia Pacifice region right now.
So let's look forward to this year in comic book movies
February 7: Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
March 13: Bloodshot (Sony) [new date]
April 3: The New Mutants
May 1: Black Widow
June 5: Wonder Woman 1984
July 31: Morbius (Sony)
October 16: G.I. Joe Snake Eyes (Paramount)
November 6: Eternals
Comic creator Gerry (Alan-guilan) Alanguilan has passed away. Alanguilan is best known as the inker on titles like Wetworks, X-Men, Superman: Birthright, Wolverine and Fantastic Four, usually alongside penciler Leinil Francis Yu. He also created his own comic books, Johnny Balbona, Humanis rex!, Elmer, Timawa and Where Bold Stars go to Die in his native Philippines. Marvel editor in chief CB Cebulski tweeted about him quote "Another wonderful person taken from us too soon. An amazingly talented writer and inker, mentor to younger artists, and advocate for global comics, the comics world and Filipino art community lost a friend and hero today." unquote The cause of his death has not been disclosed. Gerry Alanguilan was 54 years old.
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