Wonder Woman 2 Casts Game of Thrones Actor in a Key Role
Just when you thought that Wonder Woman 2 couldn’t get any more different. Following the last casting announcement of Kristen Wig as Cheetah, we have now learned of a new cast member joining the sequel.
Game of Thrones and Narcos actor, Pedro Pascal has landed an unnamed key role in the upcoming movie.
Not much is known about Wonder Woman 2 at this point in development and plot details haven’t been shared. However, Patty Jenkins is back to direct, write and produce the sequel to her first hit Wonder Woman movie.
Wonder Woman 2 was given a release date of Nov. 1, 2019.
Source: Variety
Review: Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay
Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay is the latest DCAU movie to come out and you can bet that it looks like one hell of a ride. Does the movie live up to the hype? Or should it just be terminated?
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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!
What makes this movie different from the rest is that it is a 100% brand new story. Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay doesn’t base itself on any previous Suicide Squad arc or comic. It goes to show that DC Animation can craft their own stories and they can be entertaining as hell.
Another thing I want to address is that this is an R-rated movie. While you may be thinking that it doesn’t hold much significance, DC has been giving most of their Animated Movies R ratings nowadays. While most of them don’t really feel like an R, this one is the first true DC Animated movie that actually earns its R rating. There is plenty of blood, violence, partial nudity and swearing that it makes it entertaining and not safe for kids.
The story follows the Suicide Squad as they go out on a mission to find a literal “Get out of Hell” card. Amanda Waller (Vanessa Williams), wants this mystical card so she can use it on herself, either today or maybe a couple of years down the line. This mission sees the squad go on a road trip in an RV (To keep things lowkey), to track down Maxum Steel (Greg Grunberg), who is a previous host for Doctor Fate. Steel lost the card after it was stolen from him by two women who he was looking to score with. These ladies were Scandal Savage (Dania Ramirez), and Knockout (Cissy Jones). Scandal wants to give the card to her Dad, Vandal Savage (Jim Pirri), so he can use it to finally die and go to heaven. Halfway through the mission, Waller calls up Deadshot (Christian Slader), and she tells him that if he can deliver the card to her personally, she will let him walk a free man. This doesn’t go as planned because we learn that Eobard Thawne (C. Thomas Howell), who we last saw got shot in the head in the Flashpoint Paradox, is somehow alive and he is also after the card. Thawne is barely still alive and is running on borrowed time (Sorry, not sorry). This all leads to a battle at the end in Vandal’s HQ where we see that Vandal used Professor Pyg (James Urbaniak), to surgically put the card into him. This guarantees that anyone who tries to take the card from Vandal will kill him and the card will be used up. This leads to a bloody battle with only Deadshot and Captain Boomerang (Liam McIntyre), left standing. Before Waller arrives, Deadshot gives the card to the dying Bronze Tiger (Billy Brown), and is able to let him use the card so he can die in peace. Deadshot gives Waller the card, doesn’t tell her that Tiger used it and he is now a free man, Deadshot is now able to see his daughter for the first time in a long time.
The voice acting in this movie is awesome. Christian Slader voices Deadshot and he does an amazing job. Slader brings his own uniqueness to the character and it helps him stand out from the rest. C. Thomas Howell is amazing as Thawne and I didn’t think he would be in this movie so it’s truly a surprise. Howell voiced Thawne in Flashpoint Paradox as well and he is truly a standout villain in this movie. I also loved Vanessa Williams as Waller. No matter what version I see, I have never heard a bad Waller before and Williams is able to continue this streak. I really do love Amanda Waller as a character in general and she is both fierce and manipulative at the same time. Everyone else did an awesome job in this movie.
One thing I can say about this movie is that it is filled with dark humour and is wildly entertaining. I love how the squad just travels around in an RV and they keep getting into trouble and screwing up. Along the way, we see various people get shot, frozen, taken over by mind control and also have their explosives go off.
This movie doesn’t hold back when it comes to the main characters. By the end of the movie, half of the cast is dead. The only ones left standing are Deadshot, Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang. While this isn’t a bad thing, you think they would keep some of the members alive for future movies but no. It really does show that the writers knew what kind of movie they were writing and that on the Suicide Squad, everyone is replaceable (Except for the three mentioned above, they are the money makers after all).
The Verdict:
Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay is a dark, bloody, entertaining and funny animated movie. I wasn’t expecting to walk away loving this movie so much. The movie isn’t perfect by any means. However, if you are looking for a bloody good time, look no further then Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay. Just don’t try and look for any connections to past stories, you won’t find any here.
8/10
Donald Glover’s Animated Deadpool Series has Officially Been Cancelled
Deadpool would have gotten his own animated series if FX didn’t pull the plug on it. Donald Glover was working on the script for the series and took to Twitter to set the record straight on the now-cancelled series.
His first tweet confirmed that he wasn’t “Too Busy” to work on the animated series
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932683173650438
FX Networks had to release a statement after the news broke out about the cancellation:
“Due to creative differences, FX, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover and Marvel Television have agreed to part ways on Marvel’s Deadpool animated series. FX will no longer be involved with the project. FX and Marvel have an ongoing relationship through our partnership on Legion, which will continue.”
Donald then decided to release the script for the finale of the animated series through a series of posts on his Twitter.
We won’t post all of the pages but we will give you some of them down below:
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932697195200512
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932705223049216
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932714173644801
https://twitter.com/donaldglover/status/978932724105818113
That was just a few pages from Donald’s twitter. You can check out the rest by clicking this link.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix and New Mutants Have Been Delayed
Fans looking forward to X-Men: Dark Phoenix and New Mutants, get ready for some disappointing news. Both of the films mentioned before will be getting delayed for different reasons.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix has been pushed back from November 2018 to February 14, 2019. This is due to scheduling conflicts between actors needed for reshoots for the film. Reshoots are common practice in the movie industry but as we have learned over the years, some are good (Rogue One), and others are far worse (Multiple DCEU Movies).
New Mutants was already delayed once for reshoots and now it’s being delayed for a second time for more reshoots. New Mutants was planned to come out in April 2018, where it was pushed back to February 2019. Now, it got pushed all the way to August 2, 2019. The reason for the first delay was to make it scarier. So, Director Josh Boone delivered a cut of the film that he was satisfied with. However, FOX now wants to do more reshoots so the movie can stand out as tonally distinct the same way Logan and Deadpool did.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix will open in theatres on February 14, 2019.
The New Mutants will open in theatres on August 2, 2019.
Although we don’t have any footage of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, New Mutants did release a trailer a couple of months ago which you can check out down below:
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9e410C__I[/embedyt]
Source: Collider
REVIEW: Jessica Jones Season 2 Episode 6
Alright, time for Episode 6. We are halfway through Season 2, will this episode continue to maintain the momentum or will this crash and burn?
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Warning: Spoilers Ahead! Turn back now if you haven’t seen the episode!
We start the episode with Jessica (Krysten Ritter), running from the aquarium all wet when she sees Dr. Karl and Hansen making their escape in a car. She tries to take a picture with her phone but it won’t turn on because it’s full of water.
If I can take a second to rant about this. This part really bugged me because it looks like she is using an iPhone 7 and last time I checked, those are waterproof. So why would she have trouble and have to put her phone in a bag of rice so she can fix it? If the phone is waterproof, she would have no trouble using it. Why would they try this stunt if someone like me is going to notice this and make a rant about it?
Anyways, rant over. She get’s a bag of rice to put her “Waterproof” phone in and she grabs a magazine and sees that it printed a headline detailing that Trish (Rachel Taylor), and Griffin (Hal Ozsan), are done. Jessica is able to get her phone working and prints some of the pictures from it. She is distracted by Oscar (J.R. Ramirez), who is playing loud music from his apartment when Jessica goes to tell him to turn it down. Jessica talks to Oscar over drinks and things start to get personal when Oscar talks about his past. Jessica tries to leave but Oscar wants her to stay because Jessica tells him that she doesn’t want to be alone. This causes the two to kiss and have sex on top of paint that they spilt onto paper on the floor (I hope they realize that paint is hard to wash off your clothes). Meanwhile, Trish is walking around in a bad neighbourhood when she starts to follow a man. She thinks the man has a gun and follows him onto a bus. She stares him down until he finally pulls out the object he was hiding, a book about positive thinking. Trish then back’s off and when the bus stops, we hear people arguing in the back. It sounds like someone won’t get off at their stop so Trish uses her new enhanced strength from the inhaler to kick the guy out. We then cut to the next morning, Jessica wakes up in Oscar’s bed and Oscar has been up painting/drawing a picture of Jessica sleeping. Jessica leaves and goes back to her office when Malcolm (Eka Darville), is there and starts to grill Jessica about what she did. Malcolm examined the photo and found that Dr. Karl is wearing a University Class Ring that is from the same university that Malcolm got kicked out off. Jessica wants Malcolm to go back to the university to dig up info on Dr. Karl. Meanwhile, Jeri (Carrie-Anne Moss), comes back from shopping for clothes and conditioner that Inez Green (Leah Gibson), wanted. Jeri then tells Green to spill the beans on IGH and it turns out that Green doesn’t really have much valuable info. Meanwhile, Trish and Jessica meet up at to speak to the owner of a shop near the aquarium. The convince the owner to look at security cam footage and find that Dr. Karl is actually keeping Hansen drugged up on something.
Meanwhile, Malcolm takes a trip to the University and meets up with an old friend of his. The two of them talk and hug things out when she leaves, we see that Malcolm has swiped her student card. Meanwhile, Jeri is on the phone with Jessica and is starting to lose her patience with Green and wants her out of her safe house/apartment. Green was eavesdropping and uses this as a means to start stealing a bunch of jewellery and pills. We then cut back to Jessica’s office where Malcolm was able to confirm that Dr. Karl was in the 1978 class at the university. Trish starts to encourage and complement Malcolm on his work and Jessica tells him to punch out for the day. Jessica is able to find out that someone has been paying all of Dr. Karl’s bills for the past decade. That person is Justin Ambrose, the owner of Ambrhose and who has a membership to a private men’s only golf club. Jessica and Trish go their and Trish causes a scene so that Jessica and sneak off and find Ambrose. Jessica finds Ambrose and the two of them talk about what Dr. Karl did for him. Dr. Karl saved his son who was born with a defect and is now perfectly fine. Meanwhile, Trish is still talking to the guys at the entrance when she starts to not feel well and actually vomits, causing her to leave in a hurry. Trish tries to look for the inhaler but can’t find it. Meanwhile, Ambrose and Jessica are still talking and Jessica wants him to tell her where Dr. Karl is. Ambrose refuses and Jessica breaks one of his putters. Meanwhile, Dr. Karl is on the phone and making syringes when he wakes up Hansen. Dr. Karl then tells her that Jessica is coming and that she should know the truth. Meanwhile, Jessica takes Trish back to her apartment and puts her to bed. Jessica wants to stick around but Trish says she will be fine. This turns into a cover up for Trish to look for the inhaler. The same inhaler that Malcolm finds back at Alias and Malcolm calls up Trish.
We then cut to Jeri in bed reading some papers when Green walks in with the bag full of Jewellery and Meds. Jeri is pissed and Green talks to her about Jeri’s condition and her ALS. Jeri wants Green to leave but she tells Jeri about another patient she didn’t talk about, someone with the power to heal people. Meanwhile, Jessica finds a package at her door. It’s the painting that Oscar did of her and she put’s it near her bookshelf with her booze on it. We then cut to Trish waiting by the door for Malcolm. Malcolm brings her jacket and the inhaler and Malcolm starts to talk about how Trish is struggling and life problems. Trish goes to the bathroom to use the inhaler and when she comes out, Malcolm is about to leave but Trish goes to him and kisses him. The two make out and then they have sex. The next day, Jessica is waiting outside a building. She is waiting for Eric, Ambrose’s son. Jessica grabs him and facetime’s his dad asking for information again and promises to leave them alone. Jessica get’s the address to Dr. Karl’s house and takes a Taxi there. She get’s to the house and we see that it’s the same house from a few episodes back. Jessica goes through the house and when she gets to the basement, she finds out the truth. She finds out that Hansen is actually her mother, Alisa Jones (Janet McTeer).
WOW! The ending reveal was such a great ending. I love the fact that this whole time, Jessica was chasing after her mom who is more powerful then her. This adds a whole new level of questions that I can’t wait to get the answers for later on. I love the makeup of Alisa’s backside of her head. It just looks gnarly and it makes you see why she has to wear a wig.
I also love the fact that we are learning more about Malcolm and seeing him evolve even more throughout this episode. He really does show that he is willing to learn and work for Jessica by digging up the past to obtain information on a present case. I wonder how pissed his EX will be to find that he stole her Student Card? Malcolm may have sober up but he has learned a lot of new tricks.
The only bad thing I can say is that Trish is really starting to bother me. Ever since she started using the inhaler, she has become a mess. Now she is willing to do anything to get more of it and she even decided to have sex with Malcolm after breaking up with Griffin (Is that too soon?). I guess you can say that this is how she develops her powers but I don’t want her to turn into Malcolm from season 1. Trish is slowly going down the path of drug use and it will really hurt her character and her career.
The Verdict:
AKA FaceTime signals the end of the first half of the season. It feels like this episode wrapped up all the IGH and Dr. Karl stuff so that now we can shift gears to what comes next. I really liked the ending reveal and the stuff with Malcolm. I can’t wait to see what happens now throughout the rest of the season.
8.5/10
Next up, Episode 7.
FX Releases First Look Trailer for Legion
We are a week away from Legion premiering its second season on FX. Although FX has released footage for the new season in the past, they also released a First Look Featurette with cast and crew interviews, and some new footage was thrown in to excite fans.
You can check out the trailer down below:
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Legion Season 2 premieres on April 3rd, at 10 pm on FX
Source: YouTube
First Look at Animated Death of Superman Movie and Casting
After they announced a 2-part animated Death of Superman and Reign of Supermen at Comic-Con last year. We haven’t gotten any details on it, until today. We have finally got some fresh info on Death of Superman.
The casting for the movie features Jerry O’Connell in his fourth DCAU film as Superman, Jerry’s wife Rebecca Romijn as Lois Lane, and The Office’s Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor. Other cast members include Rosario Dawson as Wonder Woman, Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern, Christopher Gorham as The Flash, Matt Lanter as Aquaman, Shemar Moore as Cyborg, and Jason O’Mara as Batman.
There were also three images released alongside the casting announcement that you can view down below:
This last one comes from the iTunes extras menu for the sneak peek of Death of Superman from Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay:
The Death of Superman will be out this summer with Reign of the Supermen coming out early next year.
Source: TVInsider & iTunes
Captain Marvel Get’s Additional and Familiar Casting from the MCU
We haven’t seen any footage from the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. However, we have gotten some set photos and some casting news in the past. But, today we have some casting news that is out of this world.
Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson; Lee Pace as Ronan The Accuser, and Djimon Hounsou as Korath the Pursuer. They will all be returning to reprise their respective roles in the new MCU movie.
We last saw Ronan and Korath in Guardians of the Galaxy, and Agent Coulson has been a mainstay on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Of course, we saw both Ronan and Korath die in Guardians.
However, Captain Marvel will be set in the 90’s and will be an origin story. The film follows Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), as she finds herself with her powers when a galactic war fought by two alien races (The Kree and the Skrull), come to Earth.
Production has begun recently, and to celebrate Marvel released a photo of Larson researching the role at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Captain Marvel will open in theatres on March 8, 2019.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
New Colorful Posters for Avengers: Infinity War
Another day, another batch of posters for Avengers: Infinity War has been released. While the marketing for this movie has been in full swing for the past couple of months, we have gotten a lot of new posters, pictures and even trailers as well.
Today, we have 5 new posters which you can view down below:
Avengers: Infinity War will open in theatres on April 27th.
Source: Facebook
If you haven’t seen it yet or you want to watch it again, here is the latest trailer for the movie:
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New Trailer for Fear The Walking Dead Season 4
Thanks to last night’s Talking Dead, we were able to get a sneak peek for Season 4 of Fear The Walking Dead. While there hasn’t been an Offical HD version of the trailer on YouTube yet, The Walking Dead’s Facebook uploaded the trailer to their page.
The trailer gives us Walker kills, returning characters, new characters and new Morgan footage as well.
You can watch the trailer down below:
https://www.facebook.com/TheOfficialWalkingDead/videos/793395434186222/?sk=h_chr
Fear The Walking Dead Season 4 premieres on April 15th on AMC.
Source: Facebook