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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