Justice League Reboot & Gotham PD Announcement | Weekly News Episode 281

2020-07-12

This week, we’re planning out our Comic-Con@home panels, Batman gets a Gotham spinoff...again, new trailers for The Umbrella Academy and The Boys, and more! Quaranstream: Man of Steel, Palm Springs, Warrior Nun News Comic-Con@Home (18:55) No Marvel Studios or Warner Bros. (DC) panels this year More individual ‘cons’ this year Thursday highlights: The Boys, Superstore, lots of Comic Books Friday points: Mandalorian, Star Wars publishing, Joss Whedon, Walking Dead shows The Boys (26:25)...

This week, we’re planning out our Comic-Con@home panels, Batman gets a Gotham spinoff...again, new trailers for The Umbrella Academy and The Boys, and more!

Quaranstream: Man of Steel, Palm Springs, Warrior Nun

News

Comic-Con@Home (18:55)
- No Marvel Studios or Warner Bros. (DC) panels this year
  - More individual ‘cons’ this year
- Thursday highlights:
  - The Boys, Superstore, lots of Comic Books
- Friday points:
  - Mandalorian, Star Wars publishing, Joss Whedon, Walking Dead shows
The Boys (26:25)
- Season 2 trailer dropped
- September 4 on Amazon Prime
The Umbrella Academy (29:05)
- Season 2 trailer release
- July 31 on Netflix
The Sandman (Audible) (31:25)
- First teaser of audio series from Book 4 of Preludes and Nocturnes released
- July 15 for first part
Star Wars (33:40)
- The Empire Strikes Back returned to #1 at box office for the first time in 23 years (since re-release)
X-Men (35:55)
- Days of Future Past is not edited for Disney+
  - Full F bomb and butts intact
Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS5) (38:35)
- New game covers revealed
Batwoman (40:55)
- Javicia Leslie taking over as Batwoman for season 2
- Playing new character Ryan Wilder who inherits the cape/cowl
Stargirl (43:10)
- Renewed for second season, moving to the CW exclusively
  - Was shared with DCUniverse service
Gotham PD (45:05)
- A spinoff show from The Batman universe to serve as Prequel to film
  - Show gotham’s descent into criminals and corruption
  - HBO Max series
- “Intent to launch a new Batman Universe across multiple platforms.”
  - Non-DCEU Batman?
Constantine (52:45)
- J.J. Abrams reportedly developing new live action movie for WB
  - Same feel as Justice League Dark HBO Max show and Zatanna movie
- Keanu Reeves to celebrate 15th anniversary during Comic-Con@Home
Justice League: Rebirth (59:30)
- WB planning a JL movie that soft reboots the Justice League as we know it
- Include characters from that film (Aquaman, Wonder Woman) but incorporate new ones (Shazam, new Batman)
- Should it be a Crisis movie instead?
Tron 3 (1:02:35)
- Film back on track at Disney with Jared Leto involved
Power Rangers (1:05:00)
- New movie reboot could be set in TV show continuity
- Involve time-travel/crossovers
Monster Hunter (1:09:45)
- The film pushed to 2021
- Moved from September 4 to April 23, 2021
Ready Player Two (1:10:45)
- Novel sequel to come out this November