…Warner Bros. continued its Justice League marketing push this week by launching ‘Flash Week’, releasing a new promo for Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen, as well as a Flash motion poster and a featurette spotlighting the Scarlet Speedster. That’s not all though, as well also got a new theatrical poster and banner featuring Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), The Flash (Ezra Miller), Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) [see here], concept art featuring Cyborg, The Flash, Batman and Commissioner Gordon (J.K. Simmons) [see here], a piece of promotional artwork featuring Superman (Henry Cavill) alongside the rest of the team, an image of Arthur Curry and Bruce Wayne, and a couple of behind-the-scenes images featuring Atlanteans and Amazons [see here], as well as a Cyborg character description which details Victor Stone’s revamped origin for the DCEU [read it here]…
…Jason Momoa has been talking up Justice League this week, discussing his character’s look and costume design for the DCEU [read his comments here], as well as revealing that the Aquaman we meet in Justice League is not yet fully formed: “Aquaman, he’s not even really Aquaman yet. He’s not the King of the Seven Seas. We don’t really get there until my solo movie, at the end. Really, it’s a huge growth for me. It’s a gigantic arc for Arthur Curry. It may be tough for a lot of fans to watch what they’re gonna see, how I portray him. But you gotta wait until we get to the solo movie to really know. Because he’s not King yet. He doesn’t believe in himself, he doesn’t know what to do with the powers he has. He’s going through tons of loss. He hates Atlanteans. The fact that people are calling him ‘Aquaman’ right now – he couldn’t give two shits about anything Atlantean. So he’s really not quite there yet. We gotta figure out the origin, where we’re going. Some people will be like, ‘This isn’t my Aquaman.’ But we’re not there yet.” Meanwhile, fans of the character may also want to check out Hot Toys’ Aquaman Movie Masterpiece collectible figure from the DC blockbuster – take a look at the promo images here…
…Momoa has also taken to Instagram to announce that filming has wrapped on next year’s Aquaman solo movie – but not before we got a batch of new set photos featuring Momoa’s Arthur Curry sporting some new armor alongside his Queen Mera, played by Amber Heard; check out the set photos here…
…Warner Bros. kicked off its Wonder Woman Oscar campaign this week with a ‘For Your Consideration’ website championing this year’s acclaimed blockbuster, with the studio pushing the film in fifteen categories, including Best Picture, Best Director (Patty Jenkins) and Best Actress (Gal Gadot). Meanwhile, a report this week has suggested that filming on Wonder Woman 2 will get underway in June 2018 ahead of its December 2019 release, with a production listing stating that “the sequel will be a period piece, with Princess Diana facing off against the Soviet Union during the 1980s…”
…In a couple of other pieces of DCEU news, Jared Leto has shared some words of praise for Suicide Squad 2 director Gavin O’Connor [read his comments here], andspeculation has resurfaced that Baby Driver and From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series star Eiza Gonzalez may have been cast as Catwoman for Gotham City Sirens [read our report here]…
…Kevin Smith has shared his opinion on Warner Bros. approach to the DCEU and its planned series of standalone films including the Joker origin movie: “I’m a forty-seven-year-old man, so I grew up in an era where there were no comic book movies. And then every once in awhile you’d get one, and it was like water in a desert. You’d get Batman in 1989, or Blade or something like that. So now, we live in an era where they’re like, ‘Hey, we’re not even gonna do an interconnected DC universe. We’re just gonna let Martin Scorsese produce a flick where Leonardo DiCaprio might play the Joker.’ That’s exciting. So, to me, I’m like, the more the merrier… I know they’re deviating from the Marvel template of, like, ‘We’ll make a bunch of characters, and then a reunion movie. Buncha characters, reunion movie.’ Instead, Warner Bros. seem to be going with, ‘Well, we tried that, and we’re gonna keep doing it on the side, but we’re not gonna limit ourselves. We’re gonna do a bunch of other interesting things.’ They’re trying to forge their way in the superhero space. So I think it’s interesting, I’m not against that at all…”
…Christian Bale has been reflecting on his work with the late Heath Ledger in the interrogation scene from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, stating that: “As you see in the movie, Batman starts beating the Joker and realizes that this is not your ordinary foe. Because the more I beat him the more he enjoys it. The more I’m giving him satisfaction. Heath was behaving in a very similar fashion. He was kinda egging me on. I was saying, ‘You know what, I really don’t need to actually hit you. It’s going to look just as good if I don’t.’ And he’s going, ‘Go on. Go on. Go on…’ He was slamming himself around, and there were tiled walls inside of that set which were cracked and dented from him hurling himself into them. His commitment was total…”
…Turning to the small screen now and you can read Martin Carr’s review of the second episode of Supergirl season three ‘Triggers’ here, while we also have a trailer, promo and images for Monday’s third episode ‘Far from the Tree’ [see here and here] and a synopsis for the Kevin Smith-directed fifth episode ‘Damage’ [read it here]…
…Check out Jessie Robertson’s review of the second episode of The Flash season four ‘Mixed Signals’ here, and take a look at a trailer, promo and images for next week’s ‘Luck Be a Lady’ [see here and here], a synopsis for the fifth episode ‘Girls Night Out’ featuring a guest appearance from Arrow’s Emily Bett Rickards and the debut of Katee Sackhoff [read it here], and some early concept art of the season four villain The Thinker [see here]…
…Jessie has also reviewed Tuesday’s second episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season two ‘Freak Show’ and you can read it here, and we’ve also got a promo for this coming week’s third episode ‘Zari’ [watch it here] and a synopsis for the fifth episode ‘Return of the Mack’ [read it here]…
…After name-dropping Bruce Wayne in a clip for this week’s episode of Arrow, the official Gotham Twitter account responded in a light-hearted fashion, posting that “Bruce Wayne was still in Gotham last time we checked”. We’ll have a review up soon, but in the meantime we have a promo and images for this coming Wednesday’s third episode ‘Next of Kin’ [check them out here and here], along with a synopsis for the fifth episode ‘Deathstroke Returns’ [read it here]…
…Having helmed Supergirl and The Flash, Kevin Smith has revealed that he doesn’t believe he’ll ever get to direct an episode of Arrow, sharing a conversation he had with executive producer Marc Guggenheim: “I talked to him once after a panel at the Paley Center, I was the moderator for the Paley Center CW panel at the Hollywood and Highland complex. And so afterwards, I was talking to Marc, and I was like, ‘Hey man, fans keep saying they want me to direct an episode of [Arrow], I would love that, I wrote Green Arrow.’ He knows that. And he goes, ‘Yeah, you know, Arrow is very dark. Legends of Tomorrow would be good for you,’” he said with a laugh. “So, I don’t think they’re ever gonna let me near Arrow, which is totally fine…”
…The CW has announced that it is looking to add another DC project to its slate in Project 13, which is being written by Daegan Fryklind (Bitten), with Elizabeth Banks executive producing. The project revolves around Traci Thirteen, “a twenty-something forensic scientist and believer in the paranormal who discovers her own hidden extra-sensory abilities when she joins her estranged, skeptic father to investigate mysterious cases of the paranormal and unexplained phenomena…”
…Over at Fox and you can read Martin’s review of this week’s episode ‘The Blade’s Path’ here, and we have a batch of images and two promos for the next episode of Gotham season four, entitled ‘Hog Day Afternoon’, which give us our first look at the villain Professor Pyg [check them out here and here], while we also have a promo entitled ‘The Story of Solomon Grundy’ which details Butch Gilzean’s transformation into the DC villain [watch it here]…
…DC has found its final Teen Titan, with Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) signing on as Garfield ‘Gar’ Logan, a.k.a. Beast Boy, in the upcoming live-action Titans series. Potter joins a cast that includes Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Teagan Croft (The Osiris Child) as Raven, Anna Diop (24: Legacy) as Starfire, Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) as Beast Boy), Alan Ritchson (Smallville) as Hawk, Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) as Dove and Lindsey Gort (Lucifer) as Detective Amy Rohrbach. Meanwhile, it has also been reported this week that Brad Anderson (The Machinist, The Call) is set to direct the premiere episode, which is slated to begin production in February…
…As it gears up to go into production, Lionsgate’s Hellboy reboot has added three more names to its cast, with Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) as Lady Hatton, a resident seer at the Osiris Club, Brian Gleeson (mother!) as the wizard Merlin, and Alistair Petrie (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) as Lord Adam Glaren, a high-ranking member of the Osiris Club. The new additions join the previously announced David Harbour (Stranger Things) as Hellboy, Ian McShane (American Gods) as Professor Broom, Sasha Lane (American Honey) as Alice Monaghan, Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) as the Queen of Blood, Daniel Dae Kim (Hawaii Five-O) as Major Ben Daimio and Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries) as Ganeida…
…And finally, Flickering Myth’s Justin Cook caught up with Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick, as well as the cast and executive producers of the new Amazon series; check out Justin’s interviews here and 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.
