Granted, spending the better part of a decade waiting for the Jim and John Thomas-created extraterrestrial killing machine to get another shot at a proper sequel was exasperating, but with Shane Black behind the camera, and a mega form of the eponymous beast set to debut, we’re certainly reaping the benefit of being patient now.
In case you haven’t heard - and if you haven’t, clearly you’ve not been keeping up with us here at We Got This Covered - Andy Muschietti's IT: Chapter Two is well into production now, and even in these early days of principal photography, there's been plenty to talk about, including the first footage from the pic which was presented to us surface dwellers at San Diego Comic-Con last month.
It’s damn near impossible to find a flaw within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After all, in 2018 alone, the theatrical run of Black Panther ($1.34 billion) resulted in the first African-American film to earn more than $1 billion, and Avengers: Infinity War ($2.04 billion) became only the fourth ticket booth titan ever to conquer the $2 billion plateau - which, by the way, has pushed the independently produced media franchise past the $17 billion mark. But I suppose some just cannot resist the opportunity to take the highest grossing film franchise of all time down a peg.
Incredibly, even though San Diego Comic-Con 2018 came and went without so much as a whisper of an alternative version of the much-maligned superhero feature being presented - despite a report to the contrary - the Snyder cut of Justice League simply will not die. And I sincerely thought the absence of it from the “largest convention of its kind in the world” would’ve put an end to all this nonsense.
After voting to return Deadpool, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men to their rightful owner earlier this month, Bloomberg is reporting The Walt Disney Company has contacted Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of WarnerMedia, regarding the right to televise Lucasfilm’s multi-billion dollar franchise.
With an ambitious two and a half-hour runtime, you’d think Anthony and Joe Russo somehow managed to pack every tidbit of narrative into Avengers: Infinity War, but given that some forty-odd Marvel dramatis personae grace the screen, we quickly learned upon release that it would’ve been an impossible feat.
During a Television Critics Association appearance, Matt Reeves (War for the Planet of the Apes) provided a much-needed update on the status of, The Batman. Unfortunately, whether or not Ben Affleck will be donning the cape and cowl is still to be determined, but the filmmaker did delve into detail apropos of his hotly-anticipated superhero picture, and we just might be inching closer to a production start date.
Before you go purchasing your ticket, though, we’ve got a delectable piece of fan art depicting the cantankerous Klyntar locked in battle with your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man that you simply must check out. After all, Tom Hardy did have a choice word, or two, for the portrayer of the titular web-head, Tom Holland, last month, and seeing as The Walt Disney Company will be absorbing 21st Century Fox any day now, this fantasy could very well soon become a reality.
San Diego Comic-Con 2018 offered plenty of the good stuff for the comic book aficionado in your life, but the Snyder cut of Justice League, sadly, was not invited. That’s right, bafflingly, despite all of the hoopla surrounding an unveiling ceremony, the “largest convention of its kind in the world” came and went, and the director’s cut of the much-maligned supergroup feature was nowhere to be found.
After Variety reported there was a “growing feeling” that terminated filmmaker James Gunn might be reinstated, and Skyler Shuler, Editor in Chief of TheDisInsider.com, echoed a similar sentiment, word broke earlier today that The Walt Disney Company and the man behind the Guardians of the Galaxy movies are no longer on the path to reconciliation.
