Though all filming, and one imagines the majority of production, on Hollywood movies has currently halted due to the coronavirus pandemic, that doesn’t mean we can’t keep talking about them. Director Matt Reeves, who until the lockdown was busy working on The Batman, has used some of his additional spare time to speak to Nerdist about the history of the character and his adversaries on screen. One of the subjects they came to was Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight, with Reeves sharing his uncontroversial take on the role:
Taron Egerton, star of Kingsman but not The King’s Man (that’s going to get confusing), has been dropped into the Batman universe by Instagram artist @Mizuriofficial. In the piece below, the actor is cast as Red Hood, a comic book character with a complicated backstory.
The writer behind the novel It has joked about how Pennywise would go about luring victims during the pandemic. Spoiler alert: it involves toilet paper.
Day 33 under the dome, and we’ve got what Chris Hemsworth describes as the first home workout posted since the lockdown. I can’t tell if he’s being sarcastic because I don’t watch any home workouts (if you do, feel free to verify). The Thor star has to keep fit for Love and Thunder, which is currently in development, and may one day make it to production - for all our sakes I hope it does.
A piece of fan art by Instagram user BossLogic imagines what Superman actor Henry Cavill would look like if he swapped the cape for the claws of Wolverine.
