DC fans are still reeling from the news that Michael Keaton is in talks to reprise his role as Batman in multiple DCEU movies, beginning with The Flash's first solo outing in 2022. For many, these reports came completely out of the blue, but the seeds for Keaton's return to the cape and cowl have actually been sown on the small screen already.
Due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Hollywood, there's likely to be a shortage of new movies to fill all of the available release slots at theatres for the remainder of 2020. But that doesn't mean cinemagoers won't have much to see on the big screen this year. Thanks to the folks at Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies, 11 all-time classic films from yesteryear are winging their way back to participating theatres.
Alien Resurrection is widely considered a low point for the iconic sci-fi franchise and was hardly the sendoff Sigourney Weaver‘s Ellen Ripley deserved. Plans to set this right with a further sequel have been mooted on more than one occasion but have never come to fruition, most likely because series mastermind Ridley Scott chose to pursue a raft of prequels to the 1979 original, rather than plot out further adventures for the kickass heroine.
We all know that The Mandalorian is only the beginning for live-action Star Wars on the small screen. In addition to the confirmed Disney+ shows featuring Obi-Wan Kenobi and Rogue One's Cassian Andor, spinoffs fronted by Ahsoka Tano and Boba Fett are rumored to be in the works, too, and now we're hearing that all of this could take place within a shared television universe.
