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Momoa has a limited range but can be a lot of fun inside that range, and Lobo at least fits in there.
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Just happen to go through future recordings and lo and behold next week will have:
Harley Quinn S5:E1 – “The Big Apricot”
The newly single Harley Quinn sets off to make it on her own as the criminal queenpin of Gotham City
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New Superman TV spot. Just two new shots in there, I think – one of Lex getting off a plane, and one that implies that the Fortress of Solitude is going to look very much like in the classic movies.
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Ulrich Thomsen To Play DC Supervillain Sinestro In HBO’s ‘Lanterns’
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Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ to End With Season 2 at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)
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Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ to End With Season 2 at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)
To no one’s surprise.
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Yeah, there we go. Damn, I was hoping to see all of it adapted. Ah well.
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Heinberg is pretending that this was the plan all along, by the way.
“‘The Sandman’ series has always been focused exclusively on Dream’s story, and back in 2022, when we looked at the remaining Dream material from the comics, we knew we only had enough story for one more season,” “The Sandman” showrunner Allan Heinberg said in a statement to Variety Friday. “We are extremely grateful to Netflix for bringing the team all back together and giving us the time and resources to make a faithful adaptation in a way that we hope will surprise and delight the comics’ loyal readers as well as fans of our show.”
Which is nonsense. Even if they decided against doing Game of You (which, fuck them, if they did), that probably means this season is Seasons of Mist and Brief Lives. Which means they could’ve done The Kindly Ones and the post-mortem of The Wake along with standalone stories with Dream in the center of it. Of course there would’ve been enough for another season. I get that they’re trying to put a positive spin on a fucked-up situation, but come on, man.
Personally, I think I’ll try some cognitive dissonance and divide the young Neil Gaiman who wrote the core of the Sandman from the fucked-up older guy. And try to be able to keep cherishing these books in that way.
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To add one more layer of shit to the pile, Rachel “sister of Boris” Johnston wrote an oped of the Spectator the other day lamenting how she never wanted Gaiman to be cancelled the way he was when she broke the story on a podcast. Now, she can’t openly come out and say it, but given the podcast was run by noted anti-trans campaigners, and Gaiman has long been a support or trans rights, reading between the lines in her oped it seems she did this because she expected Gaiman’s liberal, progressive and leftist fans to defend him to the hilt, the same way various right-wing groups and people do for, say JK Rowling or Elon Musk or whoever’s just been outed as a sex pest or worse, and in doing so be able to paint the people she expected to support him as being rape apologists.
She didn’t expect people to have principles, and if she did, there’s every chance this all would have remained under wraps.
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She didn’t expect people to have principles, and if she did, there’s every chance this all would have remained under wraps.
I’ve noticed that people on the right tend to expect the left to act the same way as them and are surprised when they don’t.
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DC Studios’ Slate Evolution: Some Projects Put on Backburner as Others Are Full Steam Ahead – Hollywood Reporter
Two years after James Gunn and Peter Safran unveiled an ambitious slate, the duo offer updates on what they’ve found along the way (‘Clayface’) and what has hit “speed bumps” (‘Waller’ and ‘The Authority’).
In 1984, DC Comics hit a renaissance period, putting out titles that were really connecting with readers. There was even a well-known slogan from that era: “The New DC. There’s no stopping us now.”
Just over 40 years later, a case could be made that the same mantra is coursing through DC Studios, the Warner Bros. Discovery division focused on bringing the popular comics characters to screens big and small.
“We don’t want these characters to die out,” said DC Studios co-head James Gunn at a press event Friday. “We want to bring new stories and new life, we want to introduce these characters to new generations. And I think we are doing that, slowly but surely.”
DC Studios, which Gunn runs with Peter Safran, is just over two years old. And its big test will be this summer’s Superman, which Gunn wrote and directed as the division’s inagural fim.
But Gunn and Safran are not waiting to see how Superman flies before making next moves. The duo are moving with the speedy deliberation of the Flash to get as many projects going as possible. Maybe before anyone can stop them.
The space fantasy Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is halfway through production in London. Lanterns, a HBO series featuring heroes Hal Jordan and John Stewart, began shooting in Los Angeles last week.
Clayface, a body horror thriller based on the Batman villain finally found its director and will shoot this summer for a fall 2026 release. Sgt. Rock, a period war movie to be directed by Luca Guadagnino, is actively looking for its star. And an animated movie titled Dynamic Duo is in pre-production.
This August, season two of action comedy series The Peacemaker will debut on Max. Smaller but key steps for the identity of the division included acquiring the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, which in the last several weeks won awards from BAFTA and the PGA; and unveiling its first MAX animated series, Creature Commandos.
At the meeting with journalists Friday, the WBD’s Burbank lot’s own dynamic duo gave updates on the slate and explained the ethos and strategy driving their decision-making.
Gunn and Safran took over in November 2022 after WBD head David Zaslav made it a priority to revitalize the storied IP factory after the merger of Warner Media and Discovery. Prior to that, DC had fractured into several fiefdoms, with actors, filmmakers and producers competing for a piece of the pie. It was a dark time for the brand.
“The DC brand was being defined by different creative teams at the company, each was pursuing their own distinct vision of the characters, the story… the result was not one DCU but many,” summed up Safran. “This fracture proved very challenging to consumers and it chipped away at the identity of the brand.”
Fron the duo’s perspective, a lot of work has already been done, even ahead of Superman’s release. “We’ve unified the brand, we’ve greenlit five theatrical films, made three live action series, and are producing five animated series,” he said. (My Adventures with Green Lantern and Starfire are two of the animated titles.)
The goal for the company is to make two live-action films and one animated movie per year while also producing two live-action and two animated series for Max per year.
The company aims to work in multiple genres and sizes of projects. “We don’t serve one kind of audience, so why make one kind of movie?” Safran said, adding, “Working in a multitude of genres, it affords us the opportunity to allocate resources where they can make the biggest impact. We budget according to the demands of the story, and the revenue expectations of each title.”
And while there will be connectivity between movies and shows to give that “universe” feel, the duo don’t want each entry to feel like a chapter to a larger story.
“We remain steadfast that each of these projects work as a standalone project,” said Gunn. “So you can see Superman, you can watch Lanterns, without having to see both of them. Although if you can, there will be special things in there for people who have seen both.”
One thing that is the undercurrent driving the division is the writing of the scripts.
“We are writer-driven,” declared Gunn. “We are not going to greenlight or put anything into production until we are happy with the script….It is hard enough making a good movie with a good script , it’s almost impossible to make a movie with a script that you’re writing on the run.”
Scripts that weren’t up to the duo’s snuff have displaced other projects on the slate. And scripts that hadn’t even been dreamt of have risen to the top of the production pile, with Rock and Clayface being prime examples.
“We had no plans making a Clayface movie,” noted Gunn. Even after scribe Mike Flanagan pitched what they felt was a great idea, there was still a wait and see attitude. “He turned in a script and it’s one of the best scripts that we’ve read.”
Said Safran, “We’ve laid out internally a plan but we’re happy to pivot as we discover things in the making of Superman or Supergirl or scripts being written. There’s a flexibility built into it even though we know where the larger story is headed.”
And while Gunn and Safran didn’t elaborate, they did say they had a six-year plan that would include an Avengers: Endgame-style culmination — a reference to Marvel Studios’ 2019 climactic movie, which Gunn worked on as an executive producer thanks to his role as director of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
The execs acknowledged that some projects on the initial DC slate they unveiled in January 2023 have met challenges tha couldn’t bedevil Brainiac himself.
“We’ve taken a couple of cracks at it but still haven’t been able land,” Safran says about Waller, a Peacemaker/Suicide Squad spinoff that was to star Viola Davis. “Waller has been a bumpy road.”
A series on time traveling hero Booster Gold was waiting for a showrunner to make time for it but “maybe he fell out of love, maybe he got busy,” he says, “but we had to pivot.”
The Authority, a superhero group created in the late 1990s, had a script that “has had a harder time coming along,” notes Gunn. “It hasn’t been much a priority.”
Additionally, James Mangold’s take on horror hero Swamp Thing also seems to have cooled. “We talk about it occasionally,” Gunn said.
And then there’s the Batman problem. Or several.
Despite strong efforts, any new movie featuring the Dark Knight seems years away. It’s been three years since Matt Reeves’ The Batman introduced Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne in March 2022, making over $772 million during the pandemic no less, but a sequel seems no closer than before.
“He is yet to turn in a full script but what we have read so far is incredibly encouraging,” Safran said.
DC Studios is also concurrently developing The Brave and the Bold, centered on Batman and his son, Damian Wayne. But although it was announced in 2023 that Andy Muschietti would direct the feature and be a producer on it, the filmmaker behind The Flash and It movies seems to be at arms length from the project.
“We’re developing the Brave and Bold script right now and he’ll be the first one to see it,” Safran said, referring to Muschietti while also strongly implying the filmmaker is not involved in the project’s development.
Gunn went so far as to say he was now the driving force of the title. “Everybody knows I love Batman and it’s important to me so I’m working very closely with the writer on Brave and the Bold,” he said. The writer’s name was not revealed.
Gunn poured cold water that Pattinson would star as Batman in Brave and the Bold and bristled at the word “sharing” the actor with Reeves. He said there were no serious conversations about the actor continuing his role into the broader DCU rather than staying in the separate universe of Reeves’ world.
The small screen also seems to have trouble in the Batcave. While The Penguin, a spinoff of Reeves’ Batman that continues to steal award after award (on Sunday, star Colin Farrell won the SAG Award for best actor in a limited series), there seems to be no plan for a follow-up. When asked by a second season, Safran plainly said “We don’t know. There are a lot of moving pieces, probably most importantly Colin himself. And 800 pounds of makeup.”
Right now, however, the focus is back on Superman. Gunn is returning to Atlanta this week to continue the post-production process on the movie. And while there aren’t any major plans for DC Studios to be at San Diego Comic -Con, the division plans on making a splash at CinemaCon, the annual gathering of theatre owners at the top of April.
And while some may wonder if the character, an embodiment of so-called American values or human values, can sidestep cultural debates, Gunn believes he’s the right Superman because he’s not part of the cultural moment.
“I think he’s the right Superman because he is a character that stands for something that is solid, stands for basic human morals, basic human integrity, basic belief in protecting others and protecting the weak being good to people and being honest,” he said. “People are looking for heroes right now. They are looking for values of goodness, looking for people who are good and decent human beings. And Superman is that.”
And they will leave no stone unturned in order to get word out on their first movie, adding that the full weight of WBD is behind Superman.
“DZ (David Zaslav) loves what we’re doing, loves the movie, and has really rallied the entire company behind Superman for this summer,” Safran explained. “You’ve seen what can happen when Warner Bros. Discover gets together behind a Barbie or a Beetlejuice or a Wonka or Kong. And that’s how its being treated right now for Superman. Everything that DZ has promised us two years ago when we got the job, it’s all been a reality.”
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I don’t really understand why they did this media update event thing at all to be honest. They don’t have any big announcements and nothing to show from the 2 projects that are currently filming. It’s just Gunn telling us the stuff he said would happen, still isn’t happening and might never happen…Very odd.
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Just watched this and yeah, I really liked it. Think this could tap into something where people aren’t after a flawed, complex bastard.
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With Krypto and the robots at the fortress of solitude, it felt a bit like the Superman comics I read in the early 80’s. That’s nice.
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Sent out the link to a bunch and lots (like my mom, sisters) just love Krypto.
And yeah, robots at the Fortress and I’m back in the comics I grew up with.
Love it!Going to be impossible to keep my expectations low when every little bit turns me into a gleeful kid.
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Yep. But then All Star also harkens back to those elements of the 80s books.
Definitely, although more than anything I think it’s the wacky 50s comics concepts that it draws on most. Either way, nice to see all this stuff in there.
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Definitely, although more than anything I think it’s the wacky 50s comics concepts that it draws on most. Either way, nice to see all this stuff in there.
Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing Jimmy Olsen turning into a giant turtle!!
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BTS photo from the set of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
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Oh my gosh.
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Individually a lot of those pieces look OK, but altogether it still feels like a jumble of a movie – characters, tones, approach. Hopefully the story is decent, that’s my main worry at the moment.
The last time there was a trailer like this with a lot in it was Dawn of Justice: Ben Affleck in the DKR suit, Cavill, Gadot, Luthor, turnoing Zod’s corpse into Doomsday, some scenes with social commentary etc.
I hope this turns out better but it’s a lot to pack into 2 hours and 20 minutes and do it all justice.
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I think basically nothing before Gunn came in is canon now, unless he decides to use it. Which presumably he mostly won’t, as he’s building a different kind of universe there.
So movies like The Flash, Wonder Woman 1984, and Shazam! Fury of the Gods are no longer canon?
Good!
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The trailer for series 2 suggests there’s some dimension hopping happening so he could be moving to the new DCU
Ah, okay, that’s interesting.
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Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios Order Adult Animation Series ‘Mister Miracle’ – Hollywood Reporter
The show is based on the Eisner Award-winning comic from Tom King and Mitch Gerads.
Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios have greenlit Mister Miracle, an adult animated series based on the 12-issue Eisner Award-winning comic from writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads. King is executive producer and showrunner on the series, which is currently in production.
Mister Miracle marks the second adult-oriented animated project from Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios, following Creature Commandos, the James Gunn-created series is currently in production on its second season for HBO Max. Other recent animated series orders from DC Studios include Starfire!, My Adventures with Green Lantern, and DC Super Powers.
The new series follows Scott Free, the world’s greatest escape artist, known to the world as Mister Miracle, whose perfect life with his warrior wife Big Barda falls apart when their two home worlds — Apocalypse and New Genesis — go to war and Scott’s cruel adoptive father Darkseid appears to have captured the ultimate weapon, the Anti-Life Equation, that will give him total dominance over the universe.
As the mountains of bodies on both sides grow ever higher, only Mister Miracle can stop the slaughter and restore peace. But the terrible power of the Anti-Life Equation may already be at work in his own mind, warping his reality, exposing his long-buried pain, and shattering the fragile happiness he’s found with the woman he loves.
The boilerplate for Mister Miracle describes the show as a “harrowing, hilarious, heart-wrenching journey across the pitfalls of the ordinary and extraordinary as the son of God raised by the devil tries to save his family, his world, and maybe even himself.”
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James Gunn has posted a new pic of Ultraman.
So who is this guy?
A Bizarro-ish clone of Superman?
A mind-controlled Supergirl?Now some are speculating the little wisp of blond hair you see in this pic is a clue that it’s Apollo from the (hopefully soon to be) Authority.
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Looks more like Doomsday when he first shows up in that green outfit and goggles.
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It’s probably Zack Snyder.
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Ahead of the world premiere of James Gunn’s “Superman” on July 7, DC Studios co-chief Peter Safran took the stage to thank the most important person seated in the audience — Warner Bros. Discovery president CEO David Zaslav — “for your faith and trust in James and in me to make this movie and to kick-start the new era of DC.”
In fact, there were only a few echoes of DC past inside the TCL Chinese Imax theater, including Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor in the long-running series “Smallville,” and Will Reeve, the son of the late Christopher Reeve and thus ambassador to the Richard Donner “Superman” oeuvre. Otherwise, the night stood as the dawn of a new beginning for the film franchise that has earned $16.8 billion over 58 films at the box office but has been eclipsed in recent years by crosstown rival Marvel.
But did Gunn, who took the reins of DC with Safran in 2022 and also wrote and produced the film, pull off a franchise jump-start? The refrain heard on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank and around Hollywood was “Good enough,” accompanied by a sigh of relief as Gunn’s movie lifted off to $220 million worldwide, ushering in a 10-year vision for DC.
Zaslav took a victory lap before the ink was dry on the weekend’s box office numbers, calling the performance soaring and “just the first step.” But his posture struck many in town as odd and premature given that CEOs rarely weigh in publicly about a film’s opening weekend.
“Domestically, ‘Superman’ stuck the landing, but international numbers are disappointing,” says box office analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations of the $95 million overseas haul. “For ‘Superman’ to be one of the biggest summer blockbusters — not to mention reset an entire universe — the film needed to pack more punch in its debut. Obviously, the following weeks will tell the true box office tale, but this has to be viewed as a slightly underwhelming start for DC and WB.”
More importantly, Wall Street is feeling good about the bow. Warner Bros. Discovery stock jumped 2.4%, from $11.73 at the close of July 11 to $12.01 by the end of the day on July 14. Wall Street analyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities calls the film’s performance “very impressive domestically and a huge boost for the franchise given some worries coming in.” He adds: “The international is a mixed, but overall an A- weekend for ‘Superman.’”
And one top agent says he can understand a little crowing from Zaslav. “Considering the press treated him like the village idiot/punching bag for so long, you can’t blame a guy for grabbing on to any piece of good news,” says the agent.
The film cost $225 million and another $125 million to market globally, the latter including pricey stunts like a Superman figure hovering at the apex of London’s tallest building, The Shard, on July 1. One rival studio executive estimated that the Shard gambit alone cost seven figures. Warners always believed that Superman would under-index internationally because the titular hero is inextricably linked with “the American way.”
Typically, a film’s stars earn the top salaries. But in this case, Gunn was by far the highest earner, pulling down 20 times more than David Corenswet (Superman/Clark Kent) and Rachel Brosnahan (Lois Lane), who each earned $750,000 to Gunn’s $15 million, according to sources (Gunn also draws a seven-figure salary as the studio’s top executive).
And Nicholas Hoult, who plays archvillain Lex Luthor, nabbed a $2 million payday. Although Warner Bros. has sequel options on Corenswet and Brosnahan, a sequel announcement does not appear to be imminent. Instead, sources say the studio is fast-tracking a “Wonder Woman” movie. And the studio is thrilled with Matt Reeves’ just-submitted screenplay draft for the sequel to “The Batman.”
Warner Brothers declined comment.
Still, Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel,” which marked the last DC reset, performed better when adjusted for inflation, earning $200 million worldwide in its opening frame, or $276 million in today’s dollars.
And “Superman” will need to keep audiences filling up the cineplex to be deemed a true success. That seems likely given the critical and fan response, with word of mouth strong thanks to an A- CinemaScore.
Ultimately, “Superman” largely avoided stepping into the culture wars until too late in the film’s run-up to make a difference. Gunn’s brother Sean, who plays Maxwell Lord in the film, told Variety at the premiere: “We love our immigrants. Yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes, the people that we support in this country are immigrants. And if you don’t like that, you’re not American.” On the other side of the political divide, Frank Grillo, who plays Rick Flag Sr., sparked a ripple of anti-MAGA outrage when he liked an opening-weekend social media post released by the White House depicting President Donald Trump as the Man of Steel along with the caption “THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY. SUPERMAN TRUMP.”
But one hot-button issue is resonating with some moviegoers. Pro-Palestinian activists and influencers are hailing the film on social media for what they see as an overt rebuke of Israel in the wake of its deadly military campaign in Gaza. In the film, Lex Luthor has started a foreign war and is making billions off the conflict. The aggressor nation, dubbed Bovaria, drops bombs and oppresses its desert neighbor until Superman saves the day.
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who has a massive following, called the film “two hours and like 10 minutes of fuck Israel the entire time” — a sentiment echoed across social media on opening weekend.
However, the timeline might not align with Israel as a stand-in for Bovaria. Gunn turned in his script in May 2023, months before the current Israel-Gaza conflict escalated.
Still, the perception may ultimately help keep “Superman” in the conversation long after opening weekend. Says Bock: “The saving grace for the new DCU might be if the film can go 12 rounds and stay in theaters throughout August.”
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Many think that there are more announcements coming soon after finding logo tweak/updates for Batman, WW, GL, and Harley online.
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‘Reacher’s Alan Ritchson’s Future as Batman Addressed by James Gunn Amid Casting Rumors – Collider
While Superman fans are feasting on James Gunn’s DCU reboot and Supergirl officially in the can ahead of its release next year, Batman fans are still stuck in the shadows — and the latest wave of casting rumors is only adding to the intrigue. One name that’s been floating around the Bat-rumor mill with increasing frequency? Alan Ritchson, the Reacher star whose blend of brooding physicality and towering presence has made him a fan-favorite choice to don the cape and cowl in Batman: The Brave and the Bold. And now, James Gunn himself is weighing in.
Gunn addressed the latest on the Dark Knight in his DCU, admitting that a new take on Batman probably wouldn’t be released in the same year as Matt Reeves’ sequel, and offered a nuanced (if noncommittal) take on Ritchson’s possible casting:
“Probably not, probably not in the same calendar year again. I’m not going to say if The Brave and the Bold is the first time you’ll see this Batman. I haven’t thought of casting yet. I am a big Alan Ritchson fan, both as an actor and as a guy… let’s just wait to see what happens.”
The key takeaways? Gunn hasn’t made a decision, Ritchson’s not out of the running, and Batman could appear before Brave and the Bold hits theaters — a major clue that the character might be seeded in the DCU earlier than expected.
Alan Ritchson Wants to Be Batman
During a recent interview with WIRED, Ritchson addressed the persistent rumors head-on:
“What’s amazing about this rumor is that James Gunn has come out publicly and said ‘LOL he’s not playing Batman.’ And this thing will not die. I get asked every day if I’m playing Batman. Would I play Batman? Yes. You wouldn’t even have to pay me to be Batman. Yeah I would don the suit. ‘Gotham is mine.'”
It’s the kind of enthusiastic, slightly tongue-in-cheek answer fans have come to expect from Ritchson — but it also reflects a very real interest. At 42 years old, the Reacher actor has faced some online skepticism over his age, with critics claiming he might be too old to play a new Batman in the DCU. But here’s the thing: Batman: The Brave and the Bold introduces Bruce Wayne as a father to Damian Wayne, aka Robin. This is not a young, just-getting-started Batman like Robert Pattinson’s version. If anything, a more seasoned actor fits the story better. Plus, he’s who we want. REACHER BATMAN, WHO SAYS NO? Ahem.
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Peacemaker season 2, episode 1 will be released on August 21 at 9:00 PM Eastern/Pacific on HBO Max.
Then episodes released weekly after that.
8th episode (season 2 finale) on Oct. 9th.In the UK, fans can see the premiere on NOW TV at 2:00 AM BST on August 22, or at 9:00 PM BST on Sky Max and Sky Showcase.
On the weekly drops, DC Studios boss James Gunn said on Threads, “The anticipation and conversation around dropping an episode week to week is part of the fun!”
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I am seething with anger that the only service showing this in Germany is one of the shittiest one around. I currently have a subscription with a service that shows pretty much all Sky and HBO content, except for the fucking DCU stuff. I am debating how long to wait to get a subscription for the shit service just to watch Peacemaker. I’ll definitely wait until the episodes are at a point where I can watch it all in one month because I won’t give them more of my money than that.
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They retconned the end of Peacemaker series 1! Top-tier DC move!
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James Gunn Takes Rainn Wilson Inside His DC Cinematic Universe
This is an interesting bit from the interview:
WILSON: What’s it like being a part of this world-building? I imagine that must’ve been one of the most exciting things.
GUNN: I think it’s the reason I agreed to the job. You talk about George R.R. Martin, and he is really one of the guys who I love and look up to. I’m an enormous fan of his and people say, “Oh, the DCU is doing what MCU is.” But I think it really is a lot more to me what the Game of Thrones world is like or what Star Wars is like, because we’re building a universe and then picking out little pieces of it and telling individual stories from that universe.
WILSON: What differentiates the DC universe from those other universes that you mentioned?
GUNN: There is not a New York City in our DCU. There is not a Los Angeles in our DCU. There is Metropolis, Evergreen, and Coast City. It’s a different map. It’s a world in which some form of superheroes, which we call Metahumans, have existed for at least 300 years and they’ve been a part of our life. But I think that we’re reaching a point in the DCU where there’s three factions. There’s the Metahumans, the governments, and then the corporations. And the corporations are equally important. There’s Luthor Corp, there’s Lord Tech and Stagg Industries and Wayne Enterprises, which are the four big companies that are vying for another type of domination.
WILSON: Yeah.
GUNN: And they aren’t evil corporations, really. They’re just fucking amoral corporations.
WILSON: Wait, you’re saying that Luthor Corp is not an evil corporation?
GUNN: The corporations in themselves aren’t evil. Corporations are amoral. I guess governments are amoral too. But it’s really more dependent on the morality of the figurehead. In this case, Lex Luthor’s a pretty bad guy, although his corporation has done some great things. Luthor has created a battery, which has made the running of the world a much more efficient process. He has cars that run more efficiently, that are better for clean air. He’s done some really great things for the world, which is the reason for his obsession with Superman. He was considered the greatest guy in the world a few years ago, even though there were Metahumans, and then this guy with dimples and a glint in his eye in a silly costume came in and made him feel like shit, so he’s been sort of obsessed with him ever since and has gone evil. I don’t think Lord Tech is the same. It’s run by Maxwell Lord, who we meet in the first episode of Peacemaker. He’s not the greatest guy in the world, but as far as billionaires go, he’s probably more on the right side of things than Lex Luthor.
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They retconned the end of Peacemaker series 1! Top-tier DC move!
Making it the most comic accurate tv show so far!
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I’m pretty sure that Peacemaker will spend a bunch of time living it up in the alternate universe before he realises that his dad and brother are still racists, they’re just successful ones.
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They retconned the end of Peacemaker series 1! Top-tier DC move!
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The bird blindness bit was hilarious though
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The bird blindness bit was hilarious though
Ehh, I thought Tim Meadows’ character was a serious weak link in the episode. He came across to me as simply reading the lines of the script. I just thought his character was unfunny.
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I liked his line delivery, he came across as someone with the barest minimum of social skills. But I can get why people wouldn’t like that.
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