It's all systems go for the Star Wars Disney plus universe, with a deluge of reports and rumors making the rounds offering all sorts of details regarding the slate of upcoming streaming exclusives set in a galaxy far, far away.
It's been well over a year since it was first announced that Percy Jackson was being rebooted and reinvented as a Disney Plus episodic series, with author Rick Riordan heavily involved in the development process after making it abundantly clear he wasn't particularly enamored with the previous live-action adaptations of his work.
For a lot of people, the most dangerous foe that Spider-Man has ever faced hasn't been one of his many iconic nemeses from the pages of Marvel Comics, but Avi Arad. Those to have followed the various iterations of the web-slinger in live-action over the last two decades will be fully aware that the producer has a reputation for getting a little too hands-on when it comes to the creation and development of big budget Spidey projects.
At this stage, nobody's going to be surprised if Venom: Let There Be Carnage ends up joining Morbius in being pushed to 2022, with the pandemic wreaking havoc on the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters' expansion plans.
Every industry loves to jump on the latest craze and try and make it work for themselves, and the original success of Digimon was heavily indebted to a pair of widespread phenomena. The concept originated as a small electronic device housing virtual pets that was looking to piggyback off the Tamagotchi insanity of the mid-to-late 1990s, while the cartoon series arrived just as Pokemon was reaching the zenith of its cultural powers.
The second episode of Marvel's What If...? ran much further with the concept than the premiere, which was largely a rehash of Captain America: The First Avenger with Steve Rogers swapped out for Peggy Carter. The sophomore installment riffed on Guardians of the Galaxy, but took some huge liberties with the narrative fans first became familiar with in James Gunn's 2014 blockbuster.
On December 17th, The Witcher will return to Netflix for a second season that's been two years in the making. If it wasn't the pandemic causing trouble for the production, it was a leg injury being suffered by leading man Henry Cavill as the cast and crew battled against all sorts of mitigating factors to get Geralt of Rivia's second set of adventures in the can.
Ever since the character first debuted almost 60 years ago, Peter Parker's relationship troubles and numerous heartbreaks have always been a key part of who Spider-Man is. While the web-slinger often gets the girl, he doesn't find it anywhere near as simple or straightforward as many of his costumed crimefighting counterparts.
In terms of scope, scale, spectacle and consistency, the last trio of Mission: Impossible movies have seen it enter the conversation whenever talk turns to discussing Hollywood's biggest and best franchise. Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation and Fallout are three of the finest mega budget action blockbusters to arrive in the last decade, so the pressure is on for director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise to continue raising the stakes.
The Netflix grind always brings a slew of new content on a weekly basis, and whatever the streaming service's latest buzzworthy original is the weekend prior almost instantly finds itself receding into the shadows of the cultural conversation whenever a shiny new toy for subscribers comes along.