Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
“Marjane Satrapi died of sadness just over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,” her family wrote in a statement to AFP. Producer, actor, and screenwriter Mattias Ripa died on April 8, 2025.
So why was Matthew Lillard on this show?
Decent ending, but this season still felt like a mess. Far too many characters with nothing to do or just repeating the same beats over and over.
I listened to the audiobooks of the Narnia series. I read the first two (in the author’s preferred order) as a child, but never got through The Horse and His Boy, and re-reading it 25-30 years later, it’s definitely because that book is incredibly boring and a complete slog. Putting it right after The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe does it no favours.
I did like Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Silver Chair quite a bit, and most of The Magician’s Nephew is really good, up until Lewis decides he was being too subtle with all the religious stuff and just has Aslan as God preaching for the last third of the book. No idea how the Gerwig movie will handle that.
The Last Battle has some cool battle scenes, but is otherwise awful. I’d heard about how misogynistic it was, but was completely unprepared for how racist it was. And the entire post-battle stuff with the characters going to heaven because they died in a train crash in the real world at the start of the novel is just trash.
Oh wow, The Other. Not an arc I expected them to adapt.
Co-written by BRIAN K. VAUGHAN!
Post from Tawny Newsome, who co-wrote the episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUa62lyjUTf/
It was my absolute honor to bring you a story about the Siskos. Trek has done a lot of looking back and celebrating its elders, lately. Benjamin Sisko’s absence from that never felt right. When I joined the Academy writers room I pretty much made it my mission to help fill that absence in any way I could.
Cirroc Lofton is my family, and he deserves an Emmy, a Pulitzer, an executive producer credit and a Ferrari for this episode. I won’t go into all the details of the love and labor he put into it on and off screen, but his contribution to this episode, and the franchise as a whole is immeasurable. There is no one better to serve as the caretaker and steward of the Siskos, and of Avery’s legacy.
Kerrice Brooks is my new favorite actor. She is such a beautiful person, and a welcome addition to this franchise I’ve loved since I was 10. More SAM more SAM more SAM, I say!
Kirsten Beyer was a ferocious partner to have for my first written episode. She protects Trek with her whole heart, and once she joined me in my fight to honor The Sisko she wrapped her arms around me and the story and protected the shit out of it. Our director Larry Teng brought his humor and love to it from day one, ushering us along with care.
Alex, Noga and Aaron Baiers moved Kendra Valley-sized mountains for this episode. Without them it wouldn’t be the tribute Kirsten or I wanted, or Avery deserved. I’m in y’all’s debt for that one, forever.
Avery Brooks didn’t just lend his voice. The minute we started down this path, we knew we couldn’t do it without Avery’s blessing. Cirroc kept him in the loop throughout the process to make sure he was happy with every step of this tribute. It wouldn’t have been right to do it otherwise. We all may have broken our NDA but I’d absolutely fucking do it again (allegedly, and/or this is satire, etc).
Second to last slide is Kerrice on the phone with Mr. Brooks. He called Cirroc one night after we wrapped and asked to speak to us. There’s too much to say about that call. But what I can tell you is Mr. Brooks is forever the best father figure in the galaxy. He congratulated us, encouraged us, and handed Kerrice the reins.
Other fun stuff iI’m proud of: we feature the first canonical drag queen (my sis @jackiecoxnyc) because our show gay as fuck and don’t you forget it. We also got someone thrown out a door “DJ Jazzy Jeff style”, we finished Anslem, and I got to make some of the biggest powerhouses in Trek do a fucked up alien seder.
Professor Illa was an honor. I hope I did her justice. Thank you Terry and Nicole for the template. Devouring hours of their beautiful work for the past 39 years made it easy to do mine. That said, the makeup took 5 1/2 hours and for that reason iono if she ever coming back, friends. 😂 Shouts to the prosthetic team who held my literal and emotional hands through the whole ride.
Last slide is me having to do zoom therapy on my lunch break still in makeup. (Therapist is not a Trekkie and was not amused!)
So much more to say but most importantly just… Thank you, Avery.
I feel like Marvel are repaying the debt they’ve built up after years of using their brand power to get people to watch crap movies and TV shows, as they seem to have turned a bit of a corner quality-wise but unfortunately their brand is now synonymous with mediocrity.
That’s the issue with these huge delays though. They made this good show, but they made it in 2023 (I think the last two, more action-y, episodes were post-strike in 2024), and have said they’ve stopped doing things like this. Even if they change their mind, it would probably take until late 2028 to see results.
I liked it a lot too. Some stuff didn’t quite work; the bits with the director didn’t really do much for me, and I assume they mostly pushed that in the trailers due to the actor being known from Superman now.
I’m curious and excited to see what they do with him next.
Probably nothing, sadly. The show was just far enough along that they didn’t cancel it post-strike when they scaled back on their output, but I don’t think they’ll do anything like this again anytime soon.
They haven’t announced any new live-action TV shows since 2022.
Wonder Man seems to have very positive reviews.
All 8 episodes drop on Tuesday (Jan. 27th) at 9 PM Eastern.
Yeah, definitely more interested than I was before.
A good review:
MCU superfans can skip Wonder Man. For everyone else, it’s a must-watch.
Wonder Man focuses on a particularly obscure Marvel hero living an unusually mundane life, with few ties to the MCU’s bigger events, and no clear place in the hype-strewn buildup to the studio’s next big event movie, Avengers: Doomsday. There is no villain in Wonder Man. There are no big, explosive fight scenes. Wonder Man does not save the world, join the Avengers, explore the multiverse, or head to space.
But that’s exactly what makes Wonder Man one of the most compelling, purely enjoyable shows in Marvel Studios’ roster.
All they’ve done is acquire the IP. No-one has given them money to make a TV show yet, which is often an important part of the process.
The format is that 81 contestants have a square on a big digital floor (interestingly, this and all other adaptations are shot in the studio of the original production in the Netherlands, so it must be an expensive floor.
The US one, hosted by Rob Lowe, is actually filmed in Wicklow, or at least the first few seasons were.
I think it’s kinda stupid that the X-Men don’t have their own movie in the MCU first before being put in an Avengers movie.
That’s how they did it with Spider-Man (he showed up in Captain America: Civil War a year before his solo debut in Spider-Man: Homecoming).
This isn’t going to be the X-Men who get their own movie, this is all the old folks, who we get to see die again.
According to Jessie Earl, who is a fan reviewer but who’s opinions I generally trust, episode 1 is the weakest, but 4 and 5 are fantastic. She rates episodes 1-6 as a whole above S31, DISCO, PIC, and SNW
Yeah, This paywalled review by Alan Sepinwall says the same: https://www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-in-starfleet-academy-star-trek-meets-the-o-c/
Hunter is the big name and first-billed in the credits. Notaro and Picardo are representing earlier series. And Paul Giamatti appears in a recurring role as Nus Braka, an unapologetically wicked criminal who keeps crossing paths with Nahla and her students. But the series’ primary focus is on the attractive young cadets, who want to learn how to make their way in the big, scary galaxy, but are also supercharged on hormones, with a lot of growing up to do. It’s Star Trek meets The O.C. One character, bragging about his alien heritage, even says, “I’m Khionian, bitch!,” which is a hop, skip, and jump away from “Welcome to the O.C., bitch!”
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Does this blend of old and new — at least, new to Star Trek — actually work? At times, almost shockingly well. At others, there are as many growing pains and awkward interactions for Starfleet Academy itself as there are for its students.
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He’s every teen drama’s brooding bad boy. Or, if you prefer, he’s like if someone cross-bred Wesley Crusher with the Chris Pine version of Jim Kirk (who was also a juvenile delinquent). Wesley was fairly insufferable when Next Generation began, and though Caleb has bigger muscles and more prominent cheekbones, he’s also a lot to take in the early going, especially since the first two episodes are almost entirely about him. The show knows and acknowledges how exasperating he is, but the opening chapters — the first one 75 minutes, the next (like the others that follow) around 60 — lean way too much on him being too cool for school and not enough on the supporting cast and their own problems.
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The fifth episode is wonderful, as Sam realizes she has a lot in common with Ben Sisko, and grows determined to figure out what happened to him after he disappeared into the Celestial Temple at the end of Deep Space Nine. It’s a beautiful love letter to the most underrated Star Trek show, and most underrated captain, but one that’s just as much about the learning experience of one of these kids. The fourth episode, spotlighting the struggles that Jay-Den experienced as a very un-Klingon Klingon, is also excellent.
Why do we need a live-action Power Girl? She’s just a confusing alternate version of Supergirl.
Finally got around to watching Stranger Things Season 5 ahead of the finale. Better than Season 4, but still quite bad, especially the dialogue scenes.
It also hurts that Noah Schnapp isn’t a good actor, and they keep giving him things to do. Lucas has done absolutely nothing this season, and Nancy spent too much of it stuck with Jonathan.
For a show where a lot of the early attention came from them killing off a fairly big character, they sure have given all the leads too much plot armor. The cast is far too large at this point.
Hopper should have stayed dead after Season 2, Will, Jonathan, and Karen should probably have all been killed at some point too. I assume Hopper will die in the finale; I hope he’s not the only one, but it’s too little too late at this point.
I have no interest in spin-offs, if they ever happen aside from the animated one.
Unfortunately, it seems that there’s a side one-shot (Sandman Midnight Theatre) that sits between Compendium 1 and this volume that’s been omitted, because DC are always going to DC.
It’s included in Absolute Sandman Vol. 5, along with Endless Nights and The Dream Hunters. IIRC, it’s more of a Sandman story than a SMT story (Gaiman wrote the script), so might have been a bit confusing to include, or they didn’t want to give Gaiman more money.
To say the least.
I do wish they’d gotten a few more season of The Expanse. But at least they got to wrap things up in their own way.
The main issue with adapting The Expanse is that the books have a 30-year time jump after the last book they adapted, so they’d probably have had to change things majorly to keep it going.
I got the first volume of Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus from the library, and enjoyed it a lot. Just very solid Superman comics, and a remarkable editing job, basically putting out a coherent weekly Superman series with four different creative teams.
Definitely looking forward to reading more of it.
“I really liked Stargate, but I need a Babylon 5, or a Battlestar Galactica reboot”
BSG was planned for a reboot since before the last series ended, and it’s never worked out. Last attempt was at Peacock, who confirmed it was dead.
JMS has tried for years to reboot B5 himself, but I don’t think anyone wants to make it.
Stargate’s back, and not a reboot, continuing on the SG-1/Atlantis/Universe continuity: https://www.polygon.com/prime-video-stargate-reboot-martin-gero/
But will it tie in to Pennyworth: The Origins of Batman’s Butler?
I think there have been some legal issues around the settlements with the victims that prevent their stories from being included in the biopic. But I agree, if they don’t include any of that aspect of his life at all then it will feel like a complete whitewash.
It being a complete whitewash is the point. It’s been reported that the original third act of this movie was the early 90s trial, in a way that made clear that the family made it up and were only suing for the money.
They filmed all of that, and it was supposed to be out around now, but after they finished someone told the producers that the settlement with the family included a clause that the case could never be depicted in film, and they had to scrap it all.
I thought Predator: Badlands was a lot of fun. I’m sure it being so comedy-heavy will turn some people off, but I was on board for it.
There’s also the whole thing where it’s basically a Xenomorph-free Alien movie (the villains are explicitly Weyland-Yutani), which I could have done without, but I think works.
I do hope Tractenberg gets to do something of his own after this and Prey.
Gremlins 3 is on the way.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/gremlins-3-release-date-november-2027-1236571272/
Directed by Chris Columbus.
FFS.
Yeah, I know Columbus wrote the original, but he hasn’t made a decent movie in over 30 years.
I wonder if we’ll get an announcement on the next Doctor. If they’re just filming this one-off, they might actually be able to keep a one-scene regeneration under wraps.
A real promo for DC KO:
NYCC ’25: Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat to appear in DC KO, along with other characters
Details on other Marvel shows: https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-television-animation-new-york-comic-con-2025-panel-recap
VisionQuest
Bettany treated fans to exclusive first footage from the show, revealing Henry Lewis as D.U.M.-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S., Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., Ruaridh Mollica as Thomas Shepherd, and the return of James Spader as Ultron.
“What’s different about Vision right now is that Red Vision gave Vision all of his memories, including the memories from within the Hex. But White Vision is having real difficulty connecting to them,” explained Bettany. “White Vision’s journey during the show is about his attempt to connect to those memories and who he was… but with lasers!”
Interesting that they apparently couldn’t get Kerry Condon as live-action F.R.I.D.A.Y., so just cast a different Irish woman.
Full trailer:
Amazon have removed all the guns from the preview thumbnails for the Bond movies: https://variety.com/2025/film/global/amazon-removed-guns-james-bond-art-backlash-1236540926/
They’ve since replaced the photoshops with gunless screenshots:
Still, roll on s3 and more celebrity killers. And if they could work in a Good Wife cameo (Eli or Carey ideally, possibly Diane) that’d be nice.
Not Eli, but they just confirmed Marissa Gold will be showing up this season.
What collections are those?
No matter really, you said the issue numbers.But I am so looking forward to the 6th omnibus (issues 150 – 188, plus annuals 6-9), although you’re making me a bit nervous.
Haven’t read in so long, and in batches, out of order, at a friends house long, long ago.
I may have built it up in my head a bit too much, Ill have to have a grip on reality.Although, check out this line-up.
Written by Gerry Conway, Jim Shooter & David Michelinie With Steve Englehart, Stan Lee, Scott Edelman, Bill Mantlo, Jim Starlin, Roger Stern, Marv Wolfman, Roger Slifer, Steve Gerber, Tom Defalco, Mark Gruenwald, Steven Grant, Mark Evanier, Gil Kane, Roy Thomas & Don Glut
Penciled by George Pérez, Sal Buscem & John Byrne With Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Herb Trimpe, Jim Shooter, Don Heck, George Tuska, Jim Starlin, Dave Wenzel, Carmine Infantino, Jim Mooney, Don Newton, Michael Netzer, Gil Kane, Jim Craig & Alan KupperbergNow thats an all-star cast!
I’m reading along with the Marvel by the Month podcast, and they’re up around the start of that era now (Early 1977, #158, Shooter’s first issue).
It’s a mess, mostly due to Marvel’s editorial woes at the time. #150 is supposed to be the big anniversary issue reveal of the new lineup, but because the book is running late, 75% of the issue is a reprint, and they have to do the reveal in #151, along with an apology for the chaos and the multiple writers.
Still, it’s better than most of the books Marvel were putting out at the time, especially the issues with George Perez on art.
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
Yeah, I saw the showrunner talk about how the writing on S3 was rushed because of the WGA strikes back in 2023.
This
This is the beta of the new site from the ex Comixology people. Looks very similar but I notice they have a ‘resellable’ tag on the books so looks like you can trade after you’ve read.
https://neonichiban.com/ if anyone wants to keep up to date. No way to sign up yet.
Charlie Brooker Announces New Crime Thriller Series
The untitled series is set between the fictional northern city of Bleakford and the streets of London, following a tormented detective on a relentless mission to catch a ritualistic serial killer before they run out of victims. The show’s described as a “profoundly serious” crime thriller, which is the first clue that he’s up to something wickedly funny.
Leading the series is a powerhouse trio of British actors: Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon, MobLand), Georgina Campbell (Barbarian, The Watchers), and Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, The Abandons).
Sounds like something in the A Touch of Cloth vein.
My copy of the very-long-awaited Sandman Mystery Theatre Vol. 2 showed up!
One annoying thing is that this is the second item I’ve pre-ordered from the new Amazon.ie, and both times they haven’t applied the pre-order price guarantee. I had to get onto customer services to get refunded the difference, rather than being charged the lower price at dispatch.
Booksellers list it as 9 Sept, comic shops get it now.
Best price online so far is SpeedyHen at £18.08.
I didn’t even know they were making it, let alone when it was due out. Although I dimly recall something announcing this alongside the TV commission. is that still happening?
It was filmed in summer 2024, no updates on when it will be released.
Man of Steel’s box office was also viewed as something of a disappointment at the time.
Yeah, Man of Steel was coming off the back of the Nolan Batman movies and really played up that connection (even though Nolan likely had no part in the movie), and it didn’t come close to those movies.
One oddity is the throwaway inclusion of Taskmaster, not sure what the idea there was.
The writer said that in the script Taskmaster is around for the entire movie.
I didn’t dislike it, but I found it fairly boring. Very little action, very slow (I never had any sense of how far away Galactus was; the first Surfer scene makes it sound like he’s around the corner, but then months pass), and the tone was surprisingly downbeat. I would have liked at least one action scene before the big finale.
I liked the main cast, but don’t feel that interested in seeing them interact with the MCU folk. The supporting cast were basically nonexistent; I laughed out loud seeing which people were considered important enough to get their own billing in the end credits. Julia Garner as Silver Surfer got almost nothing to do, but she was good in the one scene where she got to show emotion.
For the smartest man alive, all of Reed Richards’ plans sure did fail spectacularly. The teleportation one was especially stupid; you’ve barely teleported one egg, and think it’s a good idea to teleport the entire planet? You don’t want to try a dog or something first?
It’s very funny that Doom has had one second of screentime and has already taken his mask off. Are they merging his relationship with Valeria onto Franklin? I don’t remember comics Doom caring about Franklin much, but there’s a lot of F4 I haven’t read.
I guess this is the last MCU movie until late next year? Spider-Man is still scheduled for next July, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they push it back, considering they haven’t started filming yet.
But, you know. Waititi is at the same time in pre-production for a Star Wars movie, the Incal movie, a revisionist Huck Finn movie, and a Kazuo Ishiguro robot movie adaptation. Plus, he’s producing like twenty TV shows.
So he’s not doing Akira any more? Thank fuck.
The Akira rights finally expired a few weeks ago, so nobody’s working on it now, until another studio pays up.
So I guess the Gerard Jones (scumbag!) issue #84 will never see the light of day.
I feel like its omission will lead more people to ask why and find out that a guy who wrote for Marvel turned out to be a paedophile than if they’d just left it in there and not mentioned it. The Streisand Effect, really.
And if it’s on a broad principle of not reprinting the git’s work, well, they included issues of his Wonder Man series in the Operation Galactic Storm epic collection that came out after he was arrested and that’s been reprinted since.
I suppose, as ever with collaborative work, there’s no good answer to this kind of situation.
They cut his issues out of the recent Amalgam omnibus too; it was originally solicited with them in, and they quickly updated it to remove them: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/gerard-jones-amalgam-stories-removed-from-dc-marvel-crossover-omnibus/
I just read the Justice League International omnibuses last week, and didn’t realise Jones scripted half of Vol. 2 and a third of Vol. 3; he took over Justice League Europe after DeMatteis left 12 issues in.
When writing about the movie on a swedish board, it suddenly came to me that Superman does NOT change during as part of the story. This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. Every scriptwriter in Hollywood have read the same manual for how to write a good script, and part of that is that the hero has to change to overcome the obstacles. In the old days, this was not the case. James Bond never changed in any of the movied (before he was played by Daniel Craig), and of course, in the comic books, Superman is the same at the start and the end of each story.
This Superman did not change. That’s how an iconic hero should be handled. He overcomes the obstacles by being himself, not by changing!
I disagree, and I think the scene at the end with the parents video shows this.
Just watched it. Probably my favourite superhero movie in at least a decade.
I’m gonna have to see this one in cinemas again.
ITV and Disney to share shows such as The Bear and Love Island in UK
ITV and Disney have struck a deal to show programmes such as The Bear and Love Island on each other’s video platforms, the first such deal in the UK and the latest sign of the changing content relationship developing between British broadcasters and US streamers.
Under the deal, ITV will begin showing the first seasons of some of Disney’s hit programmes – including the hit chef drama, the Star Wars spin-off Andor, Only Murders in the Building and reality shows such as The Kardashians – free of charge on its ITVX service from later this month.
In return, Disney will start offering ITV programming including all of Mr Bates vs The Post Office and the espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends at no extra cost to subscribers of Disney+. It will also offer Love Island: All Stars and a series each of Endeavour and Vera.
Gosh, you got those quick! Mine haven’t been sent yet. I suppose it’s an EU thing?
Yeah, surprising efficiency. I ordered them Friday afternoon, and got a text message from An Post with the tracking details exactly four hours later.
There are some ridiculously cheap deals for thick trades and Omnibuses on Amazon Germany at the moment. DC Finest Plastic Man for about €10, Daredevil: Out for €12, Iron Man: Age Of Innocence for €11, Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus v6 for €30, Rom Epic Collection v1 for €15 (a little galling that’s so cheap so quickly as I made a rare pre-order for that). Reasonable postage to the UK as well. Not sure if this is Prime Day related or just a random 70% off sale, but worth a look.
Thanks for this!
Next James Bond director announced as Oscar-nominated Denis Villeneuve
So who will be the next James Bond? Josh Brolin? Timothy Chalamet? Zendaya?
Aaron Pierre is apparently the new favourite. He’s amazing in Rebel Ridge.
Anyone else watch Ironheart?
It’s not very good. If it came out back in 2023, when it was probably supposed to, it would probably have just been one of many MCU shows, and been middle of the pack, but it being so delayed makes it stand out.
They’re clearly setting the character up for a big future and further adventures that will never happen.
It’s nothing as bad as Secret Invasion, and it’s much less of a mess than Daredevil: Born Again, but it’ll probably go with Moon Knight and Echo as a show I’ll never think of again once I’m done watching.
The hell? So MillarWorld books were only ever writer+ penciler? Nothing for letterers or colourists? That’s a crappy way to go on.
And yeah, he’s gone full pro-Comicsgate, probably announce a book with Van Scriver.
Murphy paid Hollingsworth for his work to make up for the lack of royalties.
The thing is, I can’t imagine there’s a huge amount of money left in ComicsGate given how many of their projects have been late, underdelivered, or just plain not delivered. You’d think Millar still had the cachet that he didn’t need to slum it like this.
Mark’s star does not appear to be shining as bright as it once was. His work has always pushed the boundaries of good taste, and he often crossed that line. Maybe he’s finally giving in to his baser impulses and hanging out with the losers where he’s the big fish in the small pond.
Millar sold MW to Netflix in 2016 for around $31 million. I would assume he gets some form of continuing payment from them for new work. So, why do Kickstarter?
Anything he does through Netflix is owned by Netflix. Presumably he and JRJR own this new thing themselves, including the movie rights.
It’s also possible Netflix no longer sees the value in Mark developing ideas for them, given it’s been almost a decade and none of them have been successes.
It’s definitely a bit strange that Gatwa only did two seasons. I would say that I am glad because I didn’t really like an emotionally aware and happy-go-lucky Doctor – I rather prefer them when they’re sarcastic, emotionally unavailable and kinda mean-spirited – but I am not really enthused by that shot of Billie as Doctor, either.
It seems pretty clear Gatwa wanted to do a third series, but also wants to do other things, and wasn’t going to wait around for them to commission the next run, so asked for the reshoots so he could be written out.
Using Piper seems a pretty clear admission that they didn’t want to cast a new actor when they have no idea when they will get to film anything with them.
I doubt RTD will ever admit to any of this, at least not anytime soon; I still remember him claiming that Eccleston leaving after one series was always the plan, to introduce new viewers to the idea of Regeneration.
Just really want to throw on Homicide.
No, too much. Where to start?
With Homicide? Start at the start, and you can stop after Season 3 (which is actually only 1.5 seasons of episodes).
Homicide starts great, but gets progressively worse every season as they run out of material from David Simon’s book, and get rid of the original cast and replace them with younger more annoying people. Seasons 4-6 are still pretty good in parts, I gave up on the final season two episodes in.
He has said he is aiming at a younger audience, and its hitting its marks there.
A younger audience wouldn’t have been born when Billie Piper was on the show!
Of course, I wasn’t born when Mel was on the show, and her appearance did nothing for me.
They didn’t complete the contract, Disney originally agreed to fund 26 episodes;
I think that includes this upcoming spinoff though. Once that’s over it will add up to 26.
Three anniversary specials, two Christmas specials and sixteen regular episodes is already 21 episodes, and the spinoff miniseries is the other five.
Ah, I forgot the Tennant episodes would count.
I just feel like they’ve completed their contract with Disney and instead of having a proper regeneration, we’re just getting another stunt casting.
They didn’t complete the contract, Disney originally agreed to fund 26 episodes; apparently the next season was all written, and they planned to film earlier this year, but it was never ordered into production.
So, this is the first time in 20 years that we have no idea if or when the show will be back? They have nothing else filmed, so I guess we’ve no Christmas Special, and no series next year.
I hope The War Between the Land and the Sea is good? My hopes aren’t high.
The Last of Us is another show, like House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power, where I enjoyed the first season, but felt no desire to keep watching when it back after the long break between seasons.
I’ve started watching Murderbot on Apple TV+. I was skeptical, as I enjoy the books a lot, but it’s been good so far. Alexander Skarsgard is a good lead, and I’m enjoying his dry delivery in the voiceover. Some of the subplots aren’t great so far, but it’s only ~22-25-minutes episodes, so it mostly breezes by.
DC v Marvel news:
https://www.cbr.com/batman-deadpool-marvel-dc-crossover/
Wells/Capullo and Morrison/Mora on a pair of Batman/Deadpool crossover books.
It could be worse, but it also could be better.
When are they finally just going to do Batman/Daredevil and get it over with?
I’m going to assume Marvel and DC released this right now just to mess with Millar, and good on them.
I have no idea what a Morrison-written Deadpool looks like.
Well, he’s still writing stuff, but it doesn’t seem like a lot is happening with the books. And he doesn’t seem to be doing any of those crazy PR pushes anymore.
It’s funny you post this now, because he’s literally doing one right now (I still follow the MW Facebook page, and he just started posting to it for the first time in two years).
I was a big fan of his novels too: The Knight Life and Sir Apropos of Nothing series were great, and I read and enjoyed his New Frontier novels before I’d actually seen any Star Trek.
Watched Sinners, easily the best movie of the year so far. I’m glad Coogler is free from doing Marvel movies (loved Black Panther, Wakanda Forever was a chore). Lots of gore and action, along with a good story and great characters.
Not many laughs aside from Delroy Lindo, I did get a chuckle after hearing a not-very-mumbled “What the fuck?” from someone in my Irish crowd after the scene where the vampires all sing “The Rocky Road to Dublin.”
Stay for the mid-credits scene, most of my audience were on the way out and were left standing for the (quite long) epilogue scene.
Given they’re increasingly not that young, they might end up being just the Avengers at the end of the next set of Avengers movies.
I did see a rumour that they would be The Champions, which I guess is the team name they have left.
She’s presumably on a back burner until a Young Avengers project happens. Can’t be too long, they’ve got most of them set up now. I was a bit surprised Eli wasn’t in Brave New World at all, actually.
My assumption is that had been planned as a TV show, before they cut back on all of those, and now they have no idea what to do with these characters.
One of the incarcerated was Kate Bishop’s stepfather, the Swordsman. Will the next generation Hawkeye get involved? Or other NY heroes like Jessica, Cage, Fist, Echo, Spidey?
I was hoping Kate would show up, but given they sent the whole season to critics and it didn’t leak, I knew she wouldn’t. I just want her to show up somewhere. I’m still hoping she’s in Thunderbolts*.
. Their mass deal for HBO content with Sky Atlantic surely would have been enough to get it on.
I think the deal is still only for shows that air on proper HBO. So Sex Lives of College Girls went to ITV, Tokyo Vice and Our Flag Means Death went to BBC, Hacks went to Prime Video before Sky eventually bought it, etc.
Huh. Currently, no streaming service in Germany has The Pitt.
Man, this is getting really annoying.
Yeah, nowhere in the UK/Ireland yet. Sky had originally advertised that they were co-producing it and it was supposed to air back in January, but something happened and they pulled all the press releases, etc mentioning it.
People have assumed Max are saving it until they launch their own streaming service here, but that won’t happen until the show’s second season has finished.
