Right now, it looks like Poison Ivy is quickly becoming Gotham's equivalent of James Bond insofar that she's being continuously recast. As you should remember, Clare Foley played a much younger version of the character - Ivy Pepper - beginning with the pilot episode, before being aged up via sci-fi means at the start of season 3. And with that passing of the torch came Maggie Geha, who's done a fine job in the time since.
With Justice League set to arrive in cinemas in just under three weeks, it's only understandable that the folks at DC Entertainment experience team-up fever. Sure, they may publish an ongoing comic of the same title featuring that very squad of superheroes, but that doesn't mean they can't pare it down in other books by more intimately exploring the relationships between certain characters.
If we're to be honest, one of the many things that has allowed the Resident Evil series to endure for the past 21 years is that it's stretched beyond the video game realm. Sure, it didn't make its way to the silver screen until 2002, but the multimedia takeover began much sooner. In fact, I can personally attest to that, as my first exposure to the franchise came in 1998 via the freshly released Resident Evil 2 and, at the time, comic books were being published by Wildstorm, a series of novels penned by S.D. Perry was just getting off the ground, and ToyBiz launched the first line of action figures to bear the likenesses of the various characters and creatures to be found in the games. Needless to say, a beautiful friendship was born due to the fact that I was able to consume this saga in so many different forms.
When Zack Snyder enlisted Jeffrey Dean Morgan for a cameo role as Thomas Wayne in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, who would’ve thought that he’d just stumbled backwards into casting the perfect Dark(er) Knight for an eventual Flashpoint movie? I mean, lots of fans wished for such a thing and the memes have long been out there, but that didn’t mean any of us were prepared for the Flash’s solo movie to be rebranded as such this past summer at San Diego Comic-Con.
Even though Manu Bennett had considerable screentime in Arrow's season premiere a few weeks back, we're still waiting to see the forward progression of his character's particular story. That being said, it's understandable why we're greatly looking forward to seeing much more of Slade Wilson in the appropriately titled "Deathstroke Returns."
We, perhaps like you, were hoping that Earth-2's Laurel Lance would be able to find some measure of redemption this season on Arrow, but it looks like that's already proven to be an exercise in futility. If you're current on the series' happenings, then you're well aware that she wasted no time in establishing herself as a public enemy when she carried out an attack on an SCPD precinct in the premiere episode.
Last week, Arrow fans experienced quite the shocker at the end of “Tribute” when Oliver Queen passed the Green Arrow mantle to John Diggle. Basically, Ollie wants to assure that his son, William, has no fear of losing yet another parent. Thus, it only made sense to him that he hang up his bow.
When any actor has embodied an iconic character for an extended period, it's only understandable that fans sometimes have a difficult time adjusting to their successors. Even in the case of a vastly talented performer like Jackie Earle Haley, there were many who just couldn't accept someone playing Freddy Krueger other than Robert Englund. Likewise, we ask for no tears, please, regarding the third actor to play Pinhead - it's a waste of good suffering.
Like it or not, Marvel Studios have proven to be a force in Hollywood ever since Iron Man graced the silver screen back in 2008. In the time since, they've gone on to establish an interconnected cinematic universe, put together a few team-up flicks along the way, and raked in a considerable amount of dough in the process.
Even though Junkie XL is a fantastic composer in his own right, I'm reasonably certain that not many fans were up in arms when Danny Elfman was announced as being his replacement as composer on Justice League a few months back. After all, Elfman was responsible for the music heard in Batman and Batman Returns, both of which remain two of the best superhero soundtracks to this day, at least in my opinion. But, if you need a little more assurance, know that his resume also includes heavy hitters in the genre such as Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Hulk and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
