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Everything we're hearing about Avengers 4 suggests that there's going to be a stars and stripes patterned vacancy real soon. With Chris Evans having apparently said goodbye to the role, speculation has begun to mount about who might be stepping into the shoes of Captain America after Steve Rogers.
Of all the DC projects Warner Bros. had in the oven, Wonder Woman 1984 seemed like the safest bet of all. It's the sequel to one of the best-received superhero movies of the modern era, all the advance material from the set looked amazing and it takes place in the 1980s. Everyone loves the 80s, right? That's why it came as such a surprise that the studio completely reshuffled their slate earlier this week, pushing back Wonder Woman 1984 from November 1st, 2019 all the way to June 5th, 2020.
Bloody Disgusting have just announced that Syfy is planning to resurrect the long-dormant cult classics Killer Klowns from Outer Space and Critters. These aren't exactly top flight franchises, but they're both hits among horror fans, who'll be at minimum curious to see what the network does with the properties.
Whatever happens in Avengers 4, it's certain to have huge ramifications for the MCU at large. In the wake of Chris Evans' touching post apparently saying goodbye to the role of Steve Rogers/Captain America, most are assuming that he won't be surviving the movie. There are similarly gloomy predictions about Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark/Iron Man, with fans pointing to his multi-film contract expiring after Avengers 4 and his mysterious absence from the Spider-Man: Far From Home set.
From the original Iron Man, Marvel Studios movies have always been open to a bit of improvisation from their casts, and that's perhaps no more visible than in the hilarious Thor: Ragnarok. With comedic director Taika Waititi already having What We Do In The Shadows and Hunt For The Wilderpeople under his belt, it seems as if the actors were encouraged to come up with ideas on-set and work them into the narrative.
While I'm still extremely hyped for the return of Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean-Luc Picard, I'm saddened to hear that Michael Dorn doesn't sound particularly interested in reprising his role as everyone's favorite Klingon, Lieutenant Worf. Ever since The Next Generation crew (minus Jonathan Frakes) got together for dinner a few months back, fans have been wondering whether the upcoming Star Trek show might explore the fates of the rest of the Enterprise-D gang other than Picard.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald has had a rocky ride to cinemas, at least from corners of the fan community. Given the Harry Potter franchise's vaguely inclusive liberal credentials (hey, at least it's anti-fascist) many were dismayed to see that the villainous Grindelwald would indeed be played by alleged wife-beater Johnny Depp. Though both creator J.K. Rowling and the studio faced a barrage of criticism over Depp continuing in the role, they stuck to their guns and, at least for a while, things seemed to have calmed down.
Those who saw Sunday's Doctor Who episode will probably be wondering when, not if, we're going to lay eyes on time-meddling teddy boy Krasko again. While the Doctor and her companions might have foiled his plan to prevent Rosa Parks from kicking off the Civil Rights Movement, being blasted into past with his own time displacement weapon will probably prove to be a setback rather than an end for him. After all, if you have a villain who wants to mess with the course of history, then the last place they should be is in the distant past.
Horror is making money hand over fist right now and you have to imagine that anyone with the rights to a beloved classic horror franchise might be looking at Danny McBride and David Gordon Green's soft reboot/continuation of Halloween with envious eyes. Well, in a Reddit AMA, McBridge was asked which franchise he'd like to see back on the big screen and he picked a stone cold cult classic: Phantasm.
We've known for a while that Zack Snyder's original plan for his DCEU movies would have been a five-film arc beginning with Man of Steel that would have told a self-contained story. This would have theoretically begun with the aforementioned 2013 pic, then continued with Batman V Superman, Justice League, Justice League 2 and an unnamed finale. The driving force for these remaining films? The arrival of Darkseid on Earth and the League attempting to prevent him from turning the planet into another Apokalips (as glimpsed in the ‘Knightmare’ sequence).