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Gotham's fifth season is set to air in 2019 and it's sounding like it's going to live up the series' reputation for presenting a seriously weird take on the Batman mythos, and given that this is the final outing, we may even see Bruce suit up in the last episode.
Spider-Man: Far From Home has been filming all over London over the past few weeks, with the cast and crew spotted at Stansted Airport, Bishops Stortford and now on the city streets shooting what appears to be a scene featuring Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury and Cobie Smulders' Agent Maria Hill.
Superman is headed to Velen. Yup, Henry Cavill's officially been cast as the cat-eyed, monster-slaying, lady-killer Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher. Based on the bestselling books by Polish author Andrezj Sapkowski and influenced by the hugely successful video game series created by CD Projekt Red, Cavill will be playing a mutant monster hunter drifting from town to town dealing with slavering abominations, political machinations and manipulative (and generally very bosomy) Sorceresses.
Mark Hamill isn't exactly work-shy. Ever since A New Hope released, he's been keeping awfully busy, reprising the role of Luke Skywalker, appearing in a number of other movies and lending his acrobatic vocal talents to a variety of animated and video game characters.
Tom Holland's put in the hard work to bring the MCU's Spider-Man to life, with many considering his portrayal of the web-slinger the finest to date (I'm still partial to a bit of Tobey Maguire, but Holland's great). Now, having won the approval of fans worldwide (and broken their hearts with his touching death at the end of Infinity War), he's entitled to a bit of a reward, which is why he's buying himself a motorcycle. And, if it has a full tank of gas, it'll definitely take him far from home (pun fully intended).
Poor Superman. While Batman gets the Arkham series of critically acclaimed video games and Spider-Man's new title is one of the most hotly anticipated Fall releases, he's still primarily known for Superman 64 - one of the most famously terrible games of all time. While that's the nadir, ol' Supes has never had a game that properly captured the essence of what it's like to be the Man of Steel. The common argument is that accurately representing Superman in a game would make for an overly powerful player character. After all, he's invincible, super strong, can fly at supersonic speeds, has laser and X-ray vision. Just how do you construct a compelling, challenging game around someone like that?
Wesley Snipes' unexpected announcement that he'd been working with Marvel Studios on a number of Blade projects, with a possibility of him reprising the role for the first time since 2004's Blade: Trinity, was greeted with universal enthusiasm. The consensus was that there's nobody that could play Blade quite like Snipes and people would love to see him rubbing shoulders with the rest of the MCU heroes. But, as I pointed out in my article announcing it, there's the small problem that the actor's 56-years-old and might be getting a little old to portray a (nearly) immortal half-vampire badass.
Robin Wright's General Antiope was a fine example of Amazon battle prowess in Wonder Woman and it was a damn shame to see her meet an untimely end thanks to a German bullet in the 'defending Themyscira' sequence. Still, that meant she got to skip over the dreadful Justice League (mostly), so this particular cloud has a silver lining.
People of a certain age grew up dreaming of riding the Hogwarts Express. Departing from Platform 9 3/4 from King's Cross railway station in London it transports carriage-loads of excited students to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It sounded pretty awesome in the books, and Christopher Columbus brought it to life beautifully in 2001's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or, if you really insist, Sorcerer's Stone).
Adi Shankar has produced some pretty damn amazing movies, most notably The Grey and Dredd, both of which kick ass. In addition he's created a series of "Bootleg Universe" one-shot shorts in which he uses famous IPs in ways the rights holder would never do. The most famous of these is Power/Rangers, a dark reimagining of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that lit up the internet on its 2015 release and was quickly and ineffectually suppressed by Saban.