News Around the Net!
I’m intrigued by this trailer for Oxygen, a new sci-fi film starring Melanie Laurent (who was so great in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds):
I’m a huge Asterix fan — I grew up reading those amazing French comics, written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo — and so I’m excited that Netflix has announced a new Asterix animated series! I can’t wait for this! I hope it’s good.
This is exciting — HBO has given the go-ahead to a new limited series by The Wire mastermind David Simon and George Pelecanos (who most recently collaborated on the phenomenal, and criminally under-appreciated, series The Deuce). It’s about Baltimore police corruption. How perfect does that sound? I am in!
I wouldn’t imagine I’d be at all interested in the prospect of a new Space Jam movie, but I have to admit the idea of Lebron James jumping into classic Warner Brothers movies has me intrigued. Click here for lots more info on this long-in-the-works project.
With Zack Snyder’s 4-hour version of Justice League only days away, word has gotten out of his absolutely bonkers plans for a second and third Justice League film. It’s quite a read.
Click here for a wonderful look back on Highlander, on the occasion of its 35th (wow!!!) anniversary. I love that first Highlander film. It’s one of the best bad movies ever made.
Good news, everybody! The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul has finally begun production! I am chomping at the bit to see this…
Rob Delaney (Catastrophe) is in Mission: Impossible 7?? Amazing!! (Apparently so are Cary Elwes, Indira Varma, Chris Parnell, and Mark Gatiss… Nice!)
Ryan Coogler recently shared some thoughts on the impossible task he’s facing: writing Black Panther 2 without Chadwick Boseman…
Click here for a gloriously nerdy, in-depth article exploring the tech challenges involved in bringing both versions of The Simpsons (the correct, original 4×3 framing as well as HD versions that are cropped) to Disney+.
For many years, John Byrne was my absolute favorite comic book artist and writer. His long run illustrating X-Men, along with writer Chris Claremont, is one of the greatest comic-book runs ever, and a huge reason why the X-Men are still so popular today. I discovered that, on his blog, Mr. Byrne has been writing and penciling new X-Men stories that pick up where his run on the book ended. It’s a lot of fun to read! It’s titled X-Men: Elsewhen and you can take a look here.
I’ve been enjoying the comic book continuation of Batman: The Animated Series. It’s written by key members of the Batman: TAS creative team: Paul Dini and Alan Burnett. I’m glad the book is getting a second “season” with additional new issues.
Click here for a wonderful article about Kelly Marie Tran, who was great in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and is terrific playing the lead in the new Disney animated film Raya and the Last Dragon.
I loved Creed (and I thought Creed II was OK). I don’t need a Creed 3, but if they’re going to make it, it’s pretty cool that star Michael B. Jordan will be directing it, in his directorial debut.
The last few years have been littered with stories about work on a new Star Trek movie that ultimately goes nowhere. Will the latest update be any different? Writer Kalinda Vazquez has been set by Paramount to write a new Star Trek movie. Ms. Vazquez was apparently named after Kelinda from the Original Series episode “By Any Other Name.” That’s sort of awesome. Less encouraging: Ms. Vazquez was a writer for Star Trek: Discovery and the new film will still be produced under the auspices of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, which has not succeeded so far in making any good new Star Trek stuff.
In another annoying (to me) piece of modern Star Trek news, Star Trek: Picard showrunner Michael Chabon has penned a blog giving extensive details on his vision of Romulan society. On the one hand, it’s fun, nerdy stuff. On the other hand, it’s hugely problematic to me that 1) it’s quite contradictory of all previously established Star Trek canon, and also it disrespectfully ignores the much-loved non-canonical work that Star Trek authors like Diane Duane have done over the decades to flesh out the Romulans, and 2) NONE of these potentially interesting ideas made it into Picard, where the Romulan were all boring, flat, one-dimensional mustache-twirling villains. What a failure of storytelling!!
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