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Daredevil fans were understandably taken by surprise at Netflix's decision to can the show. After all, while Iron Fist and Luke Cage had already been cancelled, it's arguable that both of those had had iffy moments in their run and that the audience simply might not have been there for them.
The inaugural season of Jodie Whittaker's tenure in Doctor Who has had its highs ("Demons of the Punjab") and its lows ("Kerblam!"), but I think last night's episode, "It Takes You Away," was one of the best things the show's done in years.
If James Wan manages to make Aquaman a critical and box office success, I suspect Warner Bros will let him do whatever the hell he wants for his next movie. Now, he's a busy guy but it seems that his love for the DC Universe doesn't stop with the adventures of Arthur Curry, as he has a concept for a really interesting take on Batman. The story comes via Heroic Hollywood, who sat down with Wan in advance of Aquaman's release later this month. They asked him what other comic book properties he'd love to direct:
Swamp Thing is my most anticipated upcoming show on Warner Bros.' new streaming service, DC Universe. I'm a huge fan of the Alan Moore reinvention of the character in the 80s, and while he's previously come to the screen courtesy of Wes Craven in 1982, it's safe to say that film didn't exactly capture the mystic horror of the character that Moore pulled off so well.
With the cancellation of Daredevil, it seems that the once close relationship between Netflix and Disney is coming to an end. For those paying attention to the industry, this won't come as a huge surprise: Disney's next big venture is Disney+, an extremely high profile streaming video service that will be going to head to head with Netflix in a race for subscribers. The service will feature shows like The Mandalorian, a large amount of Disney's animated classics and several TV series boasting characters from the big screen MCU. With that in mind, it simply doesn't make business sense for the Mouse House to continue a relationship with Netflix as it would be competing against its own IP.
I've always felt that King Shark is a deeply underrated DC supervillain. After a very tangled origin story that (I think) establishes him as the son of a Shark God and sets him up as an enemy for Superboy, he eventually settled into a comfortable life as a C-grade brawler with a neat gimmick who occasionally joined supervillain teams like the Secret Six and the Suicide Squad. These days, the character's probably most well known for his appearances on CW's The Flash, where he was voiced by Solid Snake himself, David Hayter.
Recently unearthed Suicide Squad concept art has given us a look at two unused characters that never made it to the movie. One was a frankly completely hilarious looking take on King Shark, with the concept of a shark-man in a Hawaiian shirt perhaps being a little crazier than the film was willing to go. The other, however, might give us the first glimpse of the DCEU's take on one of the most iconic Batman villains of the 1990s: Bane.
When Fox announced they were filling the gap in their Christmas schedules left by the delays to Dark Phoenix and Alita: Battle Angel with a PG-13 cut of Deadpool 2, eyebrows were raised. After all, while the pic was an enormous R-rated hit, surely any enterprising kid who really wanted to see the movie would have found a way by now, right? And anyway, won't stripping all the violence and adult humor from the film result in a depressingly neutered cut?
As you've probably heard by now, Netflix's Daredevil has been cancelled. Ordinarily, the cancellation of a widely loved and critically acclaimed show that's just aired its best season to date would be a shock, but the writing had been on the wall for the one ever since Iron Fist and Luke Cage were canned. Even so, it'll surely dismay fans, who'd been so fearful of this particular outcome that the moment the third season aired they began campaigning for the show to receive a fourth season.
Not every piece of news I get to report on gets a 'hell yeah!' and a little fist pump out of me, but Nick Nolte being officially confirmed to appear in Jon Favreau's Star Wars series The Mandalorian? Hell yeah! *righteous fist pump* I have no idea what he's going to be doing in that galaxy far far away, but given his usual roles, it's probably safe to assume he's going to be some barely sane space hobo living way off the fringes of space-society.