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

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

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