News Around the Net!
I’m delighted by this new trailer for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad:
I hope it’s good!! I have faith in James Gunn, and the film has a hell of a cast. (And I smiled seeing Starro at the very end!!) I’d really like to truly love a DC movie again one of these days…
This is a fun new trailer for the newest Star Wars animated series, The Bad Batch:
It’s a great surprise to see Fennec Shand from The Mandalorian in there!! I was also happy to see Tarkin, and to get a glimpse of Rex (back at what looks like the location of the crashed Republic ship from the finale of The Clone Wars series… which begs the question: will Ahsoka appear in this series?? I hope so!).
Here’s a trailer for the Space Jam sequel:
That made me smile, even though I don’t remember much liking the original Space Jam.
I do, though, have a lot of nostalgic love for the original Nike Looney Tunes commercial from 1992 that was the inspiration for Space Jam. In case you’re not familiar with it, here it is:
Apparently, Gary Whitta (Rogue One) and Jonathan Betuel are hoping to mount a sequel to The Last Starfighter. Their concept reel has made its way online:
For more information on this project, you can click here. I loved The Last Starfighter as a kid!! Though it’s hard for me to imagine this sequel ever actually getting made…
William Shatner turned 90 recently!! Amazing. In honor of his birthday, two of the very best William Shatner impersonators — Kevin Pollak and Maurice LaMarche — got together to honor the man:
Quite a few new Star Trek-related trailers dropped this week. My favorite is this short look at Lower Decks season two:
I enjoyed season one a lot more than I’d expected to, and I’m eager to see new episodes. Lots of fun nerdy Trek jokes in that trailer.
Here’s a new trailer for season two of Star Trek: Picard:
I wish I could get more excited about the return of Q. I love John de Lancie, but I think Q has been played out, and I just don’t have any faith that the creative team behind Picard can tell a good new story that will be a worthy use of this once-great character. I’d love to be wrong.
We also got a trailer for the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery (that is far more substantial than that Picard teaser):
That’s a pretty in-depth trailer for a season that I don’t expect we’ll actually see for some time (seeing as Discovery’s third season only finished airing a few months ago). This is a solid trailer, but Discovery has always had solid trailers, and as with Picard, I just don’t have faith that the creative team behind this show has it in them to tell good Star Trek stories. So the best thing I can say about this trailer is that I loved seeing the return to the primary colors color-scheme of the uniforms…!
Here’s an interesting trailer for Woman in Motion, a documentary exploring Nichelle Nichols’ ground-breaking work bringing women and people of color into NASA:
It was fun to see my friend, filmmaker Michael Strode, appear as a guest on this episode of The Creative Draw. (It’s only a minute and a half, so this is a quick watch!)
This is cool: Rian Johnson has signed a deal with Netflix to write and direct two Knives Out sequels, starring Daniel Craig. I hope these really happen! I loved the first film, and I’d be happy to see this become a series.
I was happy to see that Alexander Siddig (so great as Dr. Bashir on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) has landed a plum role, starring opposite Charlie Hunnam on the new show, Shantaram, for Apple TV+. (Mr. Siddig also played Doran Martell on Game of Thrones.)
I’m intrigued to read that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have a new sci-fi series in the works, adapting William Gibson’s novel The Peripheral for Amazon. William Gibson is an amazing author, though the adaptations of his work by Hollywood have been hit and miss…
Click here for an interesting, in-depth interview with Seth Rogen.
I love the idea that Scott Pilgrim vs. the World will be returning to theaters!! I deeply love this underrated film. I just wish this re-release wasn’t happening while a pandemic is still happening. Personally, I’m not yet ready to go back into movie theaters…
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