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Snow and Charming Return to Once Upon A Time

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It has already been reported that Once Upon A Time alum Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas are returning for the series finale as Snow White and Charming.

Showrunner Adam Horowitz confirmed to TVLine that Henry’s grandparents have “a critical role to play in the finale.”

Once Upon A Time airs Fridays @ 8pm ET on ABC.

H/T: TVLine

Legends of Tomorrow Scoop: A Legend Exits(?); Constantine Enters

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow — “The Good, the Bad & the Cuddly” — Image Number: LGN318c_0173.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Nick Zano as Nate Heywood/Steel and Maisie Richardson- Sellers as Amaya Jiwe/Vixen — Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW — © 2018 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

The Season 3 finale of D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow aired last night on The CW and it appears as if there’s an open seat on the Waverider.

Although Amaya Jiwe, played by Maisie Richardson-Sellers, decided it was finally time for her to fulfill her destiny and return to her village, EW reports that this won’t be the last time we see Richardson-Sellers. She will continue as a series regular in Season 4.

Prior to the insane fight between Mallus (pronounced “Malice”) and Beebo (view below), it does look like former Captain / Director Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) sacrificed himself in order to stall Mallus’ attack on the Legends. But as we sci-fi fans like to say, if we didn’t see the body, we can’t confirm the death.

At the end of the episode, (new Season 4 series regular) John Constantine (Matt Ryan) arrived in Aruba 2018 to inform the Legends that “You opened a door, love — and Mallus wasn’t only thing that got out.”

Executive Producer Phil Klemmer teased that Mallus was in fact but the “tip of the iceberg,” a preview of other fantastical, supernatural and/or monstrous beasts to be dealt with next season. “Everybody knows that Constantine is joining our show [for Season 4],” he said, “and he’s certainly the shape of things to come.”

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H/T: EW

T’Challa Visits “Black Jeopardy” on SNL

In one of the most hilarious sketches of the night, host Chadwick Boseman brought his Marvel alter ego King T’Challa of Wakanda (aka Black Panther) to NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

T’Challa struggles during the game until he finally gets the hang of it.

If you missed it, have a chuckle below:

SNL airs Saturday nights @ 11:30pm ET on NBC.

New Details Revealed About Luke Cage Season Two Villains, “Heroes for Hire” and More

The first issue of Empire‘s Pilot magazine features several juicy sneak peeks of what’s to come on the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage. The magazine interviews the Netflix series’ showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, as well as stars Mike Colter and Simone Missick. They discuss season one’s shortcomings, a spinoff and what’s to come in the new season.

Here are the most interesting spoilery scoops:

Bushmaster

This version of the villain is described as “bullet resistant” by Coker and he explains that “It’s not gonna bounce off, but he has his ways of healing. And he has very similar strength to Luke in terms of being able to take a punch and give a punch.”

“Jamaica has always been a country of resistance,” he says, touching on Bushmaster’s Carribean background. “They were the first to cast off their shackles and say, ‘We have our own government, this is how we’re doing things.’ We put a lot of that stuff into the character of Bushmaster.”

Misty Knight

“It’s her shooting hand, it’s her basketball hand, it’s her everything,” Missick says, referring to the character’s newfound disability and the impact it will have on her. “How does this person who is identified by her strength and her power as a cop do that job? She can’t. So we see Misty at the top of the season walking away from the thing that defined her.”

Missick adds: “I’ve got a lot more stunts this season.”

Danny Rand and “Heroes for Hire”

“Danny helps Luke channel his chi,” Coker says, which results “in a fight to end all fights that was just one of the most fun things we’ve done.”

“Me and Finn get along rather well, we’re pretty cool. I think our characters play well off each other,” Colter teased before making it clear that the chances of a Heroes for Hire show is “a question above my pay grade.”

Coker, on the other hand, is a little more positive. “It’s something that’s in the air. Internally at Marvel Television, everybody knows there’s a part of that combination that is inevitable, particularly when you watch them together in the way that we did it. If feels right. It feels good. It feels like, ‘I want to see more of this combination. Heroes for Hire is really not off the table.'”

Season One’s Shortcomings

“The standard conventional wisdom is that the show was great up until episode 7, and then went downhill because Diamondback wasn’t as good a villain as Cottonmouth,” Coker admits. “But as Jeph Loeb, the President of Marvel Television jokes, Mahershala couldn’t have followed Mahershala!”

“It was a great try,” Colter confesses when asked about that first run of episodes. “Some people enjoy the full season. Some really felt the second part was not as strong as the first. And I get both…but you’ve got to take a chance to make your series different, and I thought it was commendable. If people thought it was a miss, that’s fine. We have a different approach for the next season.”

The magazine confirms that Gabrielle Dennis will be playing Nightshade, a character from the comic books who was a biochemist with a strong interest in lycanthropy.

Season 2 of Marvel’s Luke Cage streams June 22 on Netflix.

H/T: ComicBookMovie

Fan Favorites Returned on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; New “Formidable Alien” Role Cast

We hope you stuck around for the post-credits scene on the most recent episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. because you were treated to not one, but TWO incredible throwback returns. Ruth Negga and David Conrad returned as our favorite “Girl in the Flower Dress” Raina and Ian Queen, respectively.

Earlier in the episode we also got major callbacks to Dr. Franklin Hall and his trip into Gravitonium. It appears as if Dr. Hall can communicate through anyone that is exposed to the highly volatile substance.

But back to Raina and Quinn…

In a season filled with spectacular callbacks and cameos to characters and storyline threads from S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s five year history, this has to have been the most surprising return of the season. Not only did we get some amazing camera time with our girl Raina, but we finally got the answer to a question that has been bugging everyone that pays a modicum of attention: What Happened to Ian Quinn?

Well it turns out he acquired Gravitonium at some point during / after the Season 1 finale. Or I should say… Gravitonium acquired him.

In related S.H.I.E.L.D. news…

Legend of the Seeker villain Craig Parker has been cast in the role of Taryan, a “formidable wheeler-dealer from another planet”. Parker will debut towards the end of Season 5.

H/T: TVLine

Arrow Star Stephen Amell Believes Black Lightning Crossover Will “Eventually” Happen

New CW hit Black Lightning hasn’t officially joined the Arrowverse just yet, but Arrow star Stephen Amell believes that’s just a small technicality.

Amell was recently asked about the crossover potential and here’s what he had to say:

Everyone pretends like we’re not going to eventually cross over with Black Lightning but we’re probably gonna cross over with Black Lightning because that’s just the way that the world works… I think that anything you can do to expand the universe and to build out what we’ve built on our show would be great. So, I’m glad that show’s doing well, I hope that it has a very successful run, and I would love to be a small part of it in some way shape, or form.

H/T: ComicBookMovie

Once Upon A Time Wraps Production

Once Upon A Time has officially wrapped production. Filming for the series ended with a tweet from series co-creator Adam Horowitz on Saturday.

In honor of the series’ ending, several former castmembers have also tweeted out throwback images and videos. Here’s a standout featuring the young actor that played the Apprentice (Graham Verchere) and Merlin (Elliot Knight).

Once Upon A Time airs Fridays @ 8pm ET on ABC.

Production on American Gods: Season 2 Has Commenced

It looks like American Gods has already started production on Season 2.

Ricky Whittle, the star of the Starz hit (See what I did there?), tweeted an image of him with his amazing co-stars saying “season 2 begins work”.

Since production just started, I think it’s safe to assume that the series will hit our television screens towards the end of 2018 / beginning of 2019.

As Media would say, “Stay tuned.”

Black Panther Welcomes the Avengers to Wakanda in Extended Infinity War Teaser

“Today we don’t fight for one life, we fight for all of them,” T’Challa declares in the new Avengers: Infinity War extended television trailer.

Titled “Chant”, you can hear our king lead a chant of (what appears to be) “Yibambe”, which is a Zulu term that means “hold fast”.

In the extended promo, we see several lighter moments from the film including when Captain American and Bucky Barnes reunite and what Okoye thought T’Challa’s opening of Wakanda to the world might have meant.

“When you said we were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world, this is not what I imagined,” says Okoye.

T’Challa asks, “What did you imagine?”

“The Olympics…maybe even a Starbucks,” she responds.

Here’s the one minute commercial:

Avengers: Infinity War opens in U.S. theaters on April 27, 2018.

Legends of Tomorrow Co-Showrunner Discusses Season Finale: “The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly”

Monday’s season finale episode of Legends of Tomorrow is going to feature a major showdown, as the Legends face off against Mallus and a number of fan favorite characters return for the main event.

Legends co-showrunner Phil Klemmer was interviewed by TVLine, and he gave a preview of the season finale which includes a former team member’s return and some possible good-byes.

Here are some of the most important questions asked / answered:

In his true form, what are Mallus’ powers besides looking damn intimidating? Does he breathe fire…?

He’s, like, a fire-hurling, flying demon. His greatest power, though, is chewing through visual effects money. His one superpower is that every moment he’s on screen, you can imagine a pile of cash turning into smoke.

What is his agenda? What does he “want” most in the world?

He is a sort of bellwether of bad guys to come in Season 4. Up until this point, we’ve been dealing with earthly and historical bad guys, and we certainly had fun with all of that, but this year we dabbled in the world of the occult, through Damien Darhk and his enterprises. But you know that Constantine is coming onto the show [as a regular] next season, so we want to go deeper, we want Mallus to be used as “the tip of the iceberg.” He is not human, and we want to start playing with the idea that Earth hasn’t always belonged just to our kind.

We want to get into the world of fantastic myths and monsters a bit more. It’s kind of presumptuous for anybody to think they have ownership of this Earth or any part of it. Not to get deep into immigration metaphors, but Mallus is an ancient evil, he doesn’t understand humans and doesn’t understand why we have any claim to controlling this world of ours.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow — “The Good, the Bad and the Cuddly” — Image Number: LGN318a_0206.jpg — Pictured: Franz Drameh as Jefferson “Jax” Jackson — Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW — © 2018 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

New photos reveal that Franz Drameh is back for the finale, as Jax. What do you want to say about that encore?

You might have noticed that we’ve included a number of family members of our regular cast on the show as guest stars — like Brandon Routh’s wife Courtney Ford in the role of Nora Darhk, and the guest appearance of Maisie Richardson-Sellers’ mother Joy Richardson as Amaya’s vision quest ancestor. So if you look very closely, you’ll notice that the finale doesn’t just include Franz Drameh but a brief cameo of someone related to him.

The Jax we meet in the finale isn’t the same one who left our team a matter of months ago — he has been inspired by what he learned from his friend and mentor Martin Stein. Being a time traveler is like living in Neverland, where you never have to grow up, and having Jax return to our show after a stint in the real world is a bittersweet reminder of what his friends and former teammates are missing. When we started this show three years ago, we never would have guessed that the youngest Legend would be the first to “grow up,” or that the guy that had to be tricked into joining the team would be the one to answer the Legends’ call in their hour of need.

OK, the big question I have been building up to: Will we see Beebo again? The finale title does have the word “cuddly” in it.

And he is a very cuddly guy. I will say this: Once you’ve invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in CGI assets, it’s a shame to only use them once. That’s why you see Grodd [on a recurring basis] — we finally figured out how to do this really well, so we have to do it again! So keep your eye open for Beebo, for sure.

Because you’ve promoted both Matt Ryan (Constantine) and Jes Macallan (Ava) as regulars for next season, does the finale pave way for any exits?

It does, it does. There’s heartbreak in the finale. A Legend leaves.

It could be argued that Amaya’s story, for one, has come full circle.

As far as her and Nate, I don’t know if love is made to last in the world of the Legends.

But at least one seat will be freed up aboard the Waverider itself…?

Yeah, yeah.

D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow airs its Season 3 finale on Monday @ 8pm ET on The CW.

H/T: TVLine