kewlschool said:

kewlschool said:

JorisE73 said:

Keaton will be in The Flash movie, I don;t think he'll be in Justice League.
Teh surprise moment will probably be Martian Manhunter or Green Lantern or something like that.

The Martian was in the original JL in human form and they showed a green lantern in the first JL.

Keaton is in the JL snyder cut as Batman and informs the viewers through Flash the beginnings of a multiverse.

Ah ok, I thought he was only planned for The Flash movie. I forgot about that brief flash of The Green Lantern, But I blocked alot in my head regarding Whedon's Justice League

EmmaMcG said:

uPtoWnNY said:

"WHAT IF...?" the Hulk killed Wolverine was my favorite.

So far, the only Marvel project that interests me is Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. I was a big fan of Master of Kung-Fu comics back in the 70s.

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Shang Chi is the one I'm most looking forward to too. I've never heard of the character but Tony Leung is in it and that's enough for me.

In the original 1973 comic, he was the son of Fu-Manchu, who eventually turns against his evil father and vows to end his schemes. I have no idea what his back story will be in the film.

uPtoWnNY said:

My (very) unpopular opinion: WandaVision sucks! Just sayin'...

djThunderfunk said:

My (very) unpopular opinion: WandaVision sucks! Just sayin'...

Why??? Can't be worse than Star Trek Discovery

kpowers said:

djThunderfunk said:

My (very) unpopular opinion: WandaVision sucks! Just sayin'...

Why??? Can't be worse than Star Trek Discovery

ST:D... don't get me started. S3 was the worst yet, which surprised me, should have been the best 1000 years in the future where they can't mess with continuity.

That said, I'll probably rewatch it before I'll rewatch this. I liked Inhumans better than WandaVision if that tells you anything.

djThunderfunk said:

kpowers said:

Why??? Can't be worse than Star Trek Discovery

ST:D... don't get me started. S3 was the worst yet, which surprised me, should have been the best 1000 years in the future where they can't mess with continuity.

That said, I'll probably rewatch it before I'll rewatch this. I liked Inhumans better than WandaVision if that tells you anything.

I told you to get off that sinking ship, it's not Star Trek

djThunderfunk said:

If you're going to do an homage to classic sitcoms, at least be funny. This wasn't, it was silly. There is a difference.

In my not-even-a-little-bit humble opinion, of course.

kpowers said:

djThunderfunk said:

ST:D... don't get me started. S3 was the worst yet, which surprised me, should have been the best 1000 years in the future where they can't mess with continuity.

That said, I'll probably rewatch it before I'll rewatch this. I liked Inhumans better than WandaVision if that tells you anything.

I told you to get off that sinking ship, it's not Star Trek

I thought Picard was better (even though it was all set up until the last 2 episodes).

djThunderfunk said:

EmmaMcG said:

djThunderfunk said:

If you're going to do an homage to classic sitcoms, at least be funny. This wasn't, it was silly. There is a difference.

In my not-even-a-little-bit humble opinion, of course.

I'm not sure if it's even trying to be all that funny. A lot of those old American sitcoms weren't funny to be honest. This is a reality created by Wanda, who would have grown up in Sokovia watching shitty old American TV and these shows were her idea of what a normal, happy life would look like. There's a lot more going on than what we're seeing here.

I think they were just fun to watch (and yeah there were some funny moments). Shows like Taxi, Cheers and Soap were definitely funny. I still laugh at Lucy.

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kpowers said:

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

I think they were just fun to watch (and yeah there were some funny moments). Shows like Taxi, Cheers and Soap were definitely funny. I still laugh at Lucy.

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I do like Taxi and Cheers, I have to say. But I was referring more to the shows being parodied in Wandavision. The likes of Bewitched and other shows of that era. It could be a generational thing but those older shows just don't do it for me. Though I've never actually seen "I Love Lucy", in fairness. Later American sitcoms from the 80s and 90s are more my thing. Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show and Married With Children. Those are like the elite level of sitcoms. Then you have others that are enjoyable but not quite at that standard. The likes of King of Queens, Moesha, Everybody Loves Raymond etc.

Well for me most of those shows were on the air before I was born, bewitched, I dream of Jeannie, Gilligans Island, but yeah they were "fun" to watch.

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

I think they were just fun to watch (and yeah there were some funny moments). Shows like Taxi, Cheers and Soap were definitely funny. I still laugh at Lucy.

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I do like Taxi and Cheers, I have to say. But I was referring more to the shows being parodied in Wandavision. The likes of Bewitched and other shows of that era. It could be a generational thing but those older shows just don't do it for me. Though I've never actually seen "I Love Lucy", in fairness. Later American sitcoms from the 80s and 90s are more my thing. Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show and Married With Children. Those are like the elite level of sitcoms. Then you have others that are enjoyable but not quite at that standard. The likes of King of Queens, Moesha, Everybody Loves Raymond etc.

Funny thing about Bewitched was as a kid I never knew that was Elizabeth Montgomery playing Serena as well

Godzilla vs. Kong Official Trailer;

https://www.youtube.com/w...=emb_title

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‘Justice League’ Snyder Cut to Premiere in March on HBO Max
by Jordan Moreau • January 29, 2021 • Variety

The Snyder Cut finally has a release date.

Director Zack Snyder’s new version of the 2017 DC Comics superhero film “Justice League” will premiere on HBO Max on March 18, WarnerMedia announced on Friday.

“Justice League” brought together DC Comics’ greatest heroes for the first time ever on the big screen. Superman (Henry Cavill), Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), the Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) joined forces to prevent the supervillain Steppenwolf from destroying the Earth.

However, reviews from critics and comic book fans alike were mostly negative for the 2017 film, which was primarily directed by Joss Whedon after Snyder had to drop out due to a family emergency. Many viewers noticed the tonal shifts between the directors and called for the release of the rumored Snyder Cut — a version of the film with Snyder’s original vision.

Snyder has teased some details of his cut to fans and revealed that the new film will be four hours long, twice as long as the original.

The original “Justice League” has gotten attention in recent months after Fisher, who debuted the role of Cyborg in the film, accused Whedon of abusive and unprofessional behavior while working on set. WarnerMedia launched an investigation into his claims and concluded it in December 2020 by taking “remedial action,” though details of what were found in the investigation or its repercussions have remained unclear. Fisher has publicly stated that he refuses to work with DC Films President Walter Hamada ever again and that his role in the standalone “Flash” movie has been cut.

MickyDolenz said:

EmmaMcG said:

MickyDolenz said:

‘Justice League’ Snyder Cut to Premiere in March on HBO Max
by Jordan Moreau • January 29, 2021 • Variety

The Snyder Cut finally has a release date.

Director Zack Snyder’s new version of the 2017 DC Comics superhero film “Justice League” will premiere on HBO Max on March 18, WarnerMedia announced on Friday.

“Justice League” brought together DC Comics’ greatest heroes for the first time ever on the big screen. Superman (Henry Cavill), Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), the Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) joined forces to prevent the supervillain Steppenwolf from destroying the Earth.

However, reviews from critics and comic book fans alike were mostly negative for the 2017 film, which was primarily directed by Joss Whedon after Snyder had to drop out due to a family emergency. Many viewers noticed the tonal shifts between the directors and called for the release of the rumored Snyder Cut — a version of the film with Snyder’s original vision.

Snyder has teased some details of his cut to fans and revealed that the new film will be four hours long, twice as long as the original.

The original “Justice League” has gotten attention in recent months after Fisher, who debuted the role of Cyborg in the film, accused Whedon of abusive and unprofessional behavior while working on set. WarnerMedia launched an investigation into his claims and concluded it in December 2020 by taking “remedial action,” though details of what were found in the investigation or its repercussions have remained unclear. Fisher has publicly stated that he refuses to work with DC Films President Walter Hamada ever again and that his role in the standalone “Flash” movie has been cut.

The Whedon/Snyder cut was pretty bad. I said at the time that either of those people could make a good Justice League movie by themselves but that their styles are so different that trying to combine them into one movie through some shoddy editing just wouldn't work. Hopefully the Snyder cut will be a vast improvement on what we originally got.

I don't like it when Joss Whedon is involved in well established franchises such as DC/Marvel/Alien, he kinda just ruins things. He's better when he creates his own series such as Buffy, Firefly, Angel, Dollhouse.

kpowers said:

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

I don't like it when Joss Whedon is involved in well established franchises such as DC/Marvel/Alien, he kinda just ruins things. He's better when he creates his own series such as Buffy, Firefly, Angel, Dollhouse.

Well he kind of pulled off a masterstroke with the first Avengers movie and set the tone for what was to follow. Age of Ultron was a bit flat but he'd kind of lost interest by then. He's a good filmmaker though with an obvious respect for the source material. Sometimes he tries to be too clever and his one liners don't always work but left to his own devices, without studio interference, I think he could do a good job with a DC property. Maybe not as good as The Avengers but definitely better than The Justice League: The WB Cut.

Exactly. The deleted scenes in Alien Ressurrection are horrible with force humour

kpowers said:

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said:

Exactly. The deleted scenes in Alien Ressurrection are horrible with force humour

It's probably not a good example. Joss Whedon may have been credited with writing Alien Resurrection but that movie rivals Justice League for the amount of studio interference.

It's more of his style of humour doesn't fit well with already well established franchises.

kpowers said:

EmmaMcG said:

kpowers said: It's probably not a good example. Joss Whedon may have been credited with writing Alien Resurrection but that movie rivals Justice League for the amount of studio interference.

It's more of his style of humour doesn't fit well with already well established franchises.

I think of Alien Resurrection like a graphic novel put to film. It has the style and feel of one.

Marvel's 'Blade' Movie Finds Its Writer in 'Watchmen' Scribe
February 05, 2021 The Hollywood Reporter

Marvel Studios’ Blade, the Vampire Slayer feature has found its writer.

Stacy Osei-Kuffour, a playwright who acted as story editor and writer on HBO's acclaimed limited series Watchmen, has been tapped to pen the script for the feature reboot of Marvel’s vampire-hunting franchise. She will be the first Black female scribe to write a Marvel movie. (Nia DaCosta, working on Captain Marvel 2, is Marvel's first Black woman director.)

Mahershala Ali, who won an Oscar for his performance in Green Book, is attached to star as the horror hero. Plans for a new incarnation of the character, played by Wesley Snipes in a string of movies in the early 2000s, were revealed during Marvel’s senses-shattering presentation at 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con.

The studio has spent the last six months meeting with writers in what was described as a meticulous search, with Ali directly involved. Only Black writers were seriously considered, a reflection of Marvel's focus on diversity and making representation a key factor — especially when tackling nonwhite characters. (David Goyer wrote the three original Blade movies released by New Line between 1998 and 2004.)

Created as a supporting character by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, Blade first appeared in Tomb of Dracula No. 10 in 1973, becoming a cult favorite. He is a human-vampire hybrid thanks to his mother being bitten and killed by a blood-sucker during childbirth.

Osei-Kuffour earned an Emmy-nomination for outstanding writing in a comedy series for her work on Hulu's Pen15. But it was being part of the writing team on Watchmen, HBO’s heady spin on the Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons comic, that got her noticed, as well as a WGA Award win for best new series. She worked on Hunters, Amazon’s blood-soaked limited series that saw Al Pacino and Logan Lerman as Nazi hunters in 1970s America, and HBO crime thriller Run, starring Domhnall Gleeson.

Despite her seemingly rapid ascent in Hollywood, Chicago-born Osei-Kuffour spent years writing plays and poetry — she has a Master’s degree in the former from Hunter College in New York — but struggled to find work as a writer. Her jump from story editor to now a Marvel movie, and breaking down a barrier while doing so, makes for quite a Cinderella story.

She is repped by CAA and McKuin Frankel.

MickyDolenz said:

Marvel's 'Blade' Movie Finds Its Writer in 'Watchmen' Scribe
February 05, 2021 The Hollywood Reporter

Marvel Studios’ Blade, the Vampire Slayer feature has found its writer.

Stacy Osei-Kuffour, a playwright who acted as story editor and writer on HBO's acclaimed limited series Watchmen, has been tapped to pen the script for the feature reboot of Marvel’s vampire-hunting franchise. She will be the first Black female scribe to write a Marvel movie. (Nia DaCosta, working on Captain Marvel 2, is Marvel's first Black woman director.)

Mahershala Ali, who won an Oscar for his performance in Green Book, is attached to star as the horror hero. Plans for a new incarnation of the character, played by Wesley Snipes in a string of movies in the early 2000s, were revealed during Marvel’s senses-shattering presentation at 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con.

The studio has spent the last six months meeting with writers in what was described as a meticulous search, with Ali directly involved. Only Black writers were seriously considered, a reflection of Marvel's focus on diversity and making representation a key factor — especially when tackling nonwhite characters. (David Goyer wrote the three original Blade movies released by New Line between 1998 and 2004.)

Created as a supporting character by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan, Blade first appeared in Tomb of Dracula No. 10 in 1973, becoming a cult favorite. He is a human-vampire hybrid thanks to his mother being bitten and killed by a blood-sucker during childbirth.

Osei-Kuffour earned an Emmy-nomination for outstanding writing in a comedy series for her work on Hulu's Pen15. But it was being part of the writing team on Watchmen, HBO’s heady spin on the Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons comic, that got her noticed, as well as a WGA Award win for best new series. She worked on Hunters, Amazon’s blood-soaked limited series that saw Al Pacino and Logan Lerman as Nazi hunters in 1970s America, and HBO crime thriller Run, starring Domhnall Gleeson.

Despite her seemingly rapid ascent in Hollywood, Chicago-born Osei-Kuffour spent years writing plays and poetry — she has a Master’s degree in the former from Hunter College in New York — but struggled to find work as a writer. Her jump from story editor to now a Marvel movie, and breaking down a barrier while doing so, makes for quite a Cinderella story.

She is repped by CAA and McKuin Frankel.

Anybody remember Mahershala Ali in the 4400? Great series

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