…We’ve also got a promo for Monday’s sixteenth episode of Gotham season two, entitled ‘Prisoners’ [watch it here], and be sure to read Martin Carr’s review of the last episode ‘Mad Grey Dawn’ here…
…The Flash returned from its midseason break this past Tuesday with ‘Trajectory’ and you can read Jessie Robertson’s review of the episode here, while we’ve also got a trailer, promo and batch of images for this Tuesday’s ‘Flash Back’, which you can find here and here…
…Similarly, be sure to check out Jessie’s review of Arrow’s midseason premiere ‘Broken Hearts’ here, and take a look at a trailer, promo and images for Wednesday’s seventeenth episode ‘Beacon of Hope’ here and here…
…DC’s Legends of Tomorrow returns this coming Thursday for the remaining episodes of its first season, one of which – ‘The Magnificent Eight’ – will see the introduction of Jonah Hex to the Arrowverse. Take a look at a synopsis for the episode here…
…We’ve posted three DC (well, Superman) articles on Flickering Myth this week; be sure to check out Anghus Houvouras’ ‘In Defense of Man of Steel‘, Scott Davis’ ‘How Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Killed the Franchise and Helped Close a Studio‘ and Neil Calloway’s ‘The Superman Films That Were Never Made’. Oh, and we’ve also got a few competitions running on the site that may be of interest to DC fans in the UK, including Batman v Superman merchandise [enter here], The Dark Knight Trilogy and Man of Steel on Blu-ray [enter here], and Arrow, The Flash and Gotham box sets on DVD [enter here]…
…Moving on to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its been quite quiet from the big screen side of the MCU this week as Marvel Studios makes way for the DCEU, although we did get an alternative international poster for Captain America: Civil War, along with an international trailer featuring a few snippets of new footage…
…We’re yet to hear whether Netflix will renew Daredevil for a third season, but Charlie Cox is already looking ahead to what he’d like to see in season three, stating that: ““If we are fortunate enough to continue making the Daredevil series, I can’t imagine doing a run of Daredevil where Bullseye doesn’t show up at some point. It would be great to have him around at some point. Who would play that part I have no idea but I just think there’s such an interesting, rich character there, and also of course, the history that Bullseye has with Karen Page is an interesting dynamic. When you read the comics it’s etched in a Daredevil memory all that stuff. I’d love us to explore more of the Wilson Fisk stuff. It’d be great if at some point Vincent D’Onofrio would come back for a season. There’s so much Daredevil-Wilson Fisk left untold. As he really came into his own, as Wilson Fisk turned into the Kingpin at the end of season one, I’d love to see what that now does to the Daredevil-Fisk dynamic going forward if we were to do a season 3 or 4…”
…Be sure to check out Samuel Brace’s feature ‘The Top 7 Daredevil Season 2 Moments‘, as well as our reviews of episodes one through eight (with the rest still to come), which you can find here…
…The first teaser for Netflix’s next offering Luke Cage arrived alongside season two of Daredevil last Friday, but it’s now online to watch for all those who aren’t subscribers of the streaming service [watch it here], while director Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein, Sherlock) has revealed that he’s helmed the first two episodes of Power Man’s solo series…
…Jeremy Renner has admitted that he’d be interested in bringing Hawkeye to Netflix should the opportunity arise for his own solo series: “I think that’s actually a really great model, if there’s ever a way to explore the character, maybe it’s in that world. These are things that are really not in my control, but I’d be open to it. I’ve really enjoyed getting to explore the character more recently. The Netflix model is where all the character drama goes to now, you’re doing a superhero movie or a Netflix or HBO kind of model. So I’d be open to it. Not up to me, though…”
…Be sure to check out Martin Carr’s review of this week’s episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ‘Parting Shot’ here, and take a look at a promo and batch of images for Tuesday’s upcoming episode ‘Watchdogs’ here…
…Two new names have joined Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi Morse), Nick Blood (Lance Hunter) and Delroy Lindo (Dominic Fortune) in the cast of Marvel’s Most Wanted, with Oded Fehr (The Mummy) set tio play “a well-known character from the Marvel comics who will prove a force to be reckoned with” and Fernanda Andrade (The Devil Inside) cast as Christina Santos, the tough-as-nails niece of Dominic Fortune. Check out some early key art for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff here…
…This week brought another rumour about another potential Marvel series in development, with poster artist Ciara McAvoy announcing on Twitter that she’s working on some material for a Captain Britain series. However, as it turns out, the project isn’t in development at Marvel itself, but rather under independent producer Chris Lark, who is hoping to put together a sizzle reel to pitch to the studio next year…
…Marvel animation fans have a triple-bill to look forward to this Sunday, and we have clips from the latest episodes of Guardians of Galaxy [watch it here], Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6 [watch it here] and Avengers: Ultron Revolution [watch it here]…
…Moving on to Fox and a new batch of images from X-Men: Apocalypse has arrived online this week, giving us another look at Professor X and his young team of X-Men, along with an Empire subscriber cover featuring Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen; check them out here…
…In one last piece of Marvel-related news, Stan Lee has been discussing his customary cameos during an appearance at the Silicon Valley Comic Con this past weekend: “I loved the one that I did, I think it was in The Avengers, when I want to have a drink that Thor is drinking. It’ll be too strong for me, I think. And I drink it, and in the next scene they’re carrying me out. [My least favourite] was the second one I ever did. It was a Spider-Man movie. Everybody is looking up going ‘ooh,’ and I’m one of the guys looking up going ‘ooh’ …for one-second. And I resented that because it didn’t give me a chance to show the full power of all my acting… I had a long talk with the director after that. He apologized, of course. I think in the next one [Spider-Man 2] I was looking at another accident and they gave me another second to go ‘ooh’ like that. Seriously, I don’t have any non-favorite cameos. It’s just such fun to be there…”
…Sony has revaled that the second season of its Powers adaptation is set to get underway in May, with the first three episodes hitting PlayStation Store on May 31st. Take a look at the first trailer and ten images from the second season here…
…Sky1 has announced that it has placed a second season order for Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, the James Nesbitt-headlined original TV drama…
…And finally, we’re now one-third of the way through 2016’s superhero season, and if you’d like to know how the highest-grossing superhero movies of all time currently stack up, both in terms of domestic and worldwide grosses, Luke Owen has been crunching the numbers, and you can check out the all-time superhero box office chart here.
Gary Collinson is a writer and lecturer from the North East of England. He is the editor-in-chief of FlickeringMyth.com and the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.
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