Where still a way's away from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dropping on Disney+, but writer Derek Kolstad is still out here adding fuel to the hype train. During a recent appearance on the Script Apart podcast, Kolstad noted that the series is taking a few secondary characters from the early days of the MCU and layering them into the story, "reinventing" them in the process. Here's exactly what he had to say: [caption id="attachment_872061" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Disney+[/caption] “[The show is] going to be fucking cool,” Kolstad said. “I’m very …
Spoilers ahead for Batman Begins. Christopher Nolan didn’t invent the origin story for superheroes, but he made sure that for the foreseeable future, origin stories would become the primary mode of rebooting franchises for over a decade. Until this point, characters were pretty much fleshed out in their debut adventure. There might be an explanatory first act followed by a montage like in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, but Nolan defined what studios would demand. “A gritty reboot in the vein of Batman Begins” may as well have been a macro in the Hollywood trades. As we’ve seen …
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Harley Quinn may be a relatively new character in the DC Universe, having only got her start in the 90s sensation Batman: The Animated Series, but the cosplay and merchandising favorite has already had enough costume and character makeovers to make the Joker blush. From the black-and-red Harlequin costume of her initial B: TAS and comics run, through her countless comic book and video game reincarnations, and the "Daddy's Lil' Monster" tee that took Halloween 2016 by storm, Harley Quinn's look has been evolving since the moment Paul Dini and Bruce Timm unleashed the chaotically charismatic …
Hannibal season 1 episode 1 "Apéritif" did a fantastic job re-introducing the character for a new audience and making him scary all over again.
Writer-director David Ayer brought the title team to life in 2016's Suicide Squad, but plans for a sequel stalled out since then. Plus, there was a whole lot of drama behind the scenes that kind of killed any momentum the DC Comics / Warner Bros. antihero movie had. However, you can't keep a good director down, and you definitely can't turn down the opportunity to bring yet another comic book property back to the big screen. It worked out pretty well for DC/WB with Joker, so they're at it again with plans for a 2021 …
John Williams has crafted Star Wars's score for years. Will Alan Menken or Alexandre Desplat replace the iconic musician after The Rise of Skywalker?
Despite previously justifying Pa Kent's advice in Man of Steel, the latest episode of Titans takes it back and casts shade on the entire notion.
Amityville: The Awakening is the latest sequel in the long-running horror saga but despite taking a meta approach it fails to reinvent the series.
Todd Phillips' Joker will be a different kind of comic book movie, featuring a different Crown Prince of Crime than we've seen before, but even if you don't like it, there is always another Joker.
The Godzilla anime trilogy controversially reinvented MechaGodzilla, one of the franchise's most iconic monsters. Here's how he was portrayed.
We're just one step closer to an NCIS crossover.