The man beneath the dome; Kenny Baker, has died following a long battle with illness. The actor who played the lovable R2-D2 was found dead in his home early on Saturday morning. Baker starred in six Star Wars movies, having shot to fame with the release of A New Hope in 1977 and reprising his role in prequel trilogy. Outside of Star Wars, Baker appeared in many classic 80s films such as Willow, Labyrinth and Flash Gordon. Baker’s illness prevented him from reprising his role as R2-D2 in last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but he continued to be involved as a consultant.
Baker was a regular on the convention scene and was always happy to meet fans. In recent years, his illness had prevented him from travelling. His death did not come as a surprise to his family, who noted that he had “a long and fulfilled life”. Standing only 3ft 8in tall, Kenny Baker proved that a small man could have a huge impact on people’s lives. He will, undoubtedly, be missed and is survived by his two children.
Update: We initially reported that Kenny Baker died at aged 83. His official website notes he was 81. We apologise for the error.
Celebrate The Birth Of One Of Film’s Greatest Influences Alfred Hitchcock By Looking At My Favorite Films
Seems to be no other director in cinema history with the reputation quite like Sir Alfred Hitchcock. From notorious on-set antics to his filmography, Hitchcock has proven that he is a lasting force within the industry. Countless directors have been inspired by his work and he’s constantly homaged. To celebrate what would be his 117th birthday on August 13th, I look back at my five favorite Hitchcock films.
With over 60 directing credits, it’s a hard mission to narrowing down to 5. You can’t leave out one iconic film without making some cinema fan angry. Taken into consideration is each film’s legacy, acclaim, and watchability. This is also about how each film personally touched me as well.
Let me know if your favorite film from the British filmmaker makes the list!
“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
-Alfred Hitchcock
Honorable Mentions:
-Strangers On A Train
-Dial M For Murder
-Suspicion
-The Birds
5. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
-This film marks the only time Hitchcock ever received an award for his directing. Winning a Critics Circle Award, this early film remains of his very best. ‘The Lady Vanishes’ was dubbed the future of Hollywood and little proves otherwise. Also what’s up with Hitchcock and his problem with trains?
4. Vertigo (1958)
-It took a very long time before a filmmaker could make a film this maddening again. Dizzying and Oedipal, ‘Vertigo‘ is hailed as one of the greatest films of all time. The film also de-throned ‘Citizen Kane‘ in a critic’s poll as the best film ever. But what makes the film so special is the tremendous score by Bernard Herrmann.
3. Rear Window (1954)
-Often imitated, never duplicated. ‘Rear Window‘ is one of the best stories with some of the best cinematography featuring some of the best actors ever. Perfect example of why Alfred Hitchcock is such a legend still to this day. Also, how perfect was Grace Kelly was the typical Hitchcock girl? Utter brilliance.
2. Rope (1948)
-Learning about this film and the boundaries it pushed, Hitchcock made his edgiest film with ‘Rope‘. Testing the limits of what you can do in filmmaking is hard; the director’s attempt was to make the film seem like a single take. If you have ever tried to make a movie, that’s nearly impossible. He cheated along the way but it almost works as a seamless piece. He also challenged the censorship by featuring very heavy homosexual overtones in a time that was a major taboo.
1. Psycho (1963)
-Could there be anything else? What can be said about ‘Psycho‘ that already hasn’t? We all know this film shaped horror for an entire generation after but it’s also a dissection of American life in that era. Before this film, horror was about the monsters-like creatures but ‘Psycho‘ made humans the true monster.
Do you agree with this list?
Celebrate Hitchcock’s birthday and comment with your favorite film!
Steven and Amethyst fuse into Smokey Quartz and show off their skills. Pearl and Garnet become Sardonyx and proceeds to interview them like they are on a late night talk show. This is really the entire plot of the episode. There is little new elements explained except for the idea fusion gems get their own sections of the Gem temple.
The idea was basically to show the value of Smokey Quartz as a fusion which it barely does at the end of the episode by having her save Pearl and Garnet. Why was this necessary? On her first appearance Smokey successfully took down Jasper, a warrior which previously defeated Garnet. Jasper even fused with a corrupt Gem to become stronger to try and win and was still defeated. Again, why was it necessary to show what Smokey was capable of? The fans already knew and Pearl and Garnet didn’t need to have an entire episode to figure out Smokey was a competent fighter.
It almost feels like this was supposed to be the premise of a clip show, complete with scenes from old episodes and talking about what happened in them. Luckily there has never been a complete show ever this show’s history but if this is their attempt to employ the same elements to catch people up on the story it may just be better to show a full clip show. The idea of watching a talk show with the characters seems fun but the concept goes on for far too long and makes the entire episode not really worth watching. It looks like the less plot centered episodes have started and unfortunately, if they are anything like this then they will be just as hard to sit through as Steven Floats.
In a world of slow-paced light novel garbage like Re:Zero, we get a quaint little tear jerker in the form of Planetarian. One of the best things honestly about Planetarian is that its only five episodes long and I can review it in the middle of the season. Another great thing about its length is that if it were any longer I wouldn’t have been able to get through it. Luckily the “stars aligned” and we get to enjoy this sort of movie like visual novel adaptation that feels out of its time. Feeling that way because it is of course, the visual novel came out in the early 2000’s and was a Key visual novel (Look to shows like Air TV and Kanon 2006 for reference). Which is why I think I found it so refreshing even though it really isn’t anything I wasn’t bombarded with in the early and mid 2000’s.
So for a quick run-down of Planetarian. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where the sky is always cloudy and raining. Kuzuya, a junker whose scavenging a city comes across an abandoned Planetarium and is greeted by a robot attendant Yumemi. Most of the series is them trying to fix the projection machine and dancing around the fact that Yumemi doesn’t know the world has basically ended and everyone she knew is most likely dead.
To start off the premise alone might get some people frustrated if they don’t let the story bring them in. This is generally a rule of thumb for most shows but I think here it makes or breaks it a little more. For most of the show our Junker, or Mr. Customer as Yumemi calls him, doesn’t ever quite come out and say that the world has basically ended. Now this has two purposes, one thematically and one narratively. Narratively it matters because if he just told her that everything went to shit and there was no point to any of this, then they wouldn’t get to share the quaint time in the Planetarium talking about stuff. It also would be really repetitive if she wasn’t inclined to believe him and of course as a viewer just rubbing off that she denies it would be even more frustrating than him just not telling her. (It works though mainly because then we don’t really have to listen to how the world go to the state its in. They try explaining this a few times and I hated every bit of it. Visual novels tend to add a bunch of unneeded world building garbage and I’m glad they decided to leave that part out.)
Thematically it says a lot about what kind of situation Mr. Customer is in. Either he just feels so bad for this cute robot that he doesn’t want to tell her, which doesn’t seem like him at all but whatever. Or he himself doesn’t like thinking about life in the world he lives. Sometimes its easy to just go on living in a shitty situation but admitting and talking about it can be even harder. Even though it has meaning and can be defended by adding supplementary logic there’s no evidence as to his motivation for not telling her. And it’s never really built on later. It doesn’t necessarily ruin the show at all, but having the show start off with some bad writing and a leap of logic can make people run for the hills.
Planetarian has a lot of good things about it though. Mainly the main robot girl Yumemi. She’s definitely moe but not modern moe. More like an early 2000’s late 90’s moe that you would totally be okay with being your wife. And the way she speaks is so soothing that you don’t want to believe she’s a robot, even though her manner of speaking is often robotic. Really the dynamic between her and Mr. Customer shouldn’t be all that interesting, and really isn’t that great of dialogue. So what’s there to like about a show that’s basically two characters sitting around and talking? Well Planetarian doesn’t live on the plot per-say, it lives on the promise of the plot. It’s the implications that their words have. Everything either character says has implications of who they are and how they have lived their lives up until now. It character building at its max, all in service of the big realization that the show establishes in the beginning by Mr. Customer not telling her that the world has gone to shit. Having the situation where two characters are on different pages of how they view things, one being the present and the other unknowingly being the past, brings both situations clashing together where clearly the present is going to win. Planetarian is that slow wait for Yumemi to realize that the way things are now are horrible, and how she is going to react to them. Alone this would seem very depressing but because she gives Mr. Customer a goal and reason to strive towards in this world, it has a rather bittersweet ending. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter whether Yumemi acknowledges the way things are, she’s a robot. What matters is that Mr. Customer realizes that the way things are isn’t all there is. That there are things that have been lost but can be taken back.
This is reflected in Yumemi idea’s as to why robots are made. Also in her wishes for the God of Robots and Robot Heaven. Yumemi is literally telling Mr. Customer, without knowing herself, what he needs to do to be happy and the reason she’s doing this is because she wants to serve humans. If anything it can be seen as divine intervention. Since Yumemi can’t be consciously teaching him this lesson, it must be the will of the God of Robots that she be there when he needs her to give him hope again. The unwaveringness that Yumemi shows to get Mr. Customer to see the projection feels almost magical in its importance, and the impact it has on his decisions is very real and relatable.
Now to be honest the show doesn’t look the best, but it doesn’t have too. Basically the only attractive thing in the show is Yumemi’s character design. Mr. Customer and the old dude look generic and uninspired as hell, the world doesn’t look anything original and the color palette doesn’t play around with enough blues and purples to make things look dreary enough for what the show is going for. If anything the world just seems like a normal rainy day, when it should feel more depressing dark and overbearing. The animation never really is noticeable because it’s basically just two talking heads for most of the show. Even the Projection which could have shown some “stellar” sequences, is just a still clip show.
Planetarian is as standard visual novel adaptation. It doesn’t really have any ambition to improve on the visual novel experience using things that animation allows. The material was really good though, so it works even though it’s basically just talking heads. I said in the beginning that Planetarian relies on emotional investment, and I’d like to go further and say that there’s really no reason to watch this show if you don’t get invested by the second episode. It’s a sad story told in a very healing way, almost like it’s preparing you for the bomb its hinting at throughout. And it gives just enough hope that it wont end the way you think it will, to be break you in two at the end where Yumemi lies broken. Planetarian is a tight story and it succeeds in its tightness and dedication to the one thing it is trying to say. Its like one big therapy session but you don’t know its taking place until it’s already over and you start to come to that realization of feeling better and optimistic.
Back in 2014, it was announced that a Shazam! movie was in the works, and would star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Since then, details on the project have been scarce; now, however, courtesy of an interview conducted by Newsweek, we have new details on the movie.
First off, Shazam! producer Dany Garcia confirmed that the film takes place in the DC Extended Universe, saying;
“Shazam! is to live in the same world [as the other films] but we have incredible autonomy over this brand and franchise. We are working with a different team, different producers, directors… it’s a different set-up.”
The success or failure of the other DC films doesn’t seem to affect the approach of Shazam!. Garcia said:
“We don’t feel fettered by, or constrained by, the successes or failures and challenges of the other projects. That was a key component to our participation—that we be able to control the tone and the voice, and do it the way we want to.”
Garcia also talked about how the character of Shazam will fit into the cinematic universe.
“It needs to be of the world. You’ve got Justice League, Wonder Woman with a different director, so you’re going to see different points of view. I think by the time we land with [Shazam!] we’ll fit nicely within the world that’s been created, but not such a shorthand relationship. [It’ll be] enough that people say, ‘Oh, this is within the family,’ but the culture will be a little different.”
Lastly, the producer gave word on how far into the filmmaking process they are right now, saying;
“We’re getting [script] drafts in… it’s important to make sure we get the tone right for Black Adam, which is Dwayne’s part. We don’t mind taking our time. We’re being very careful with each act and scene to go back and layer in as much as possible.”
How do you feel about the Shazam! film existing in the same universe as Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and all the other DCEU films? Be sure to let us know in the comments section down below.
Started in Brampton in 1987 as a malt extract brewery with only two beers on offer, Great Lakes Brewery has evolved over the years into a brewery with a well-rounded selection of award-winning brews. After moving to Etobicoke in 1991 and opening their retail store in 2000, Great Lakes Brewery really took off. It wasn’t long before GLB had a brew available in the LCBO. 2006 saw GLB’s Devil’s Pale Ale 666 hit the shelves of liquor stores all over Ontario. But, it wasn’t until 2011 that Ontarian beer drinkers were able to buy the award-winning Canuck Pale Ale, the beer I’m reviewing today, at their local LCBO’s. You can read the full GLB timeline on their website if you’d like; I’m going to drink some of this award-winning beer.
Great Lakes Brewery: Canuck Pale Ale – First Sip
Oh yah, Canuck Pale Ale pours a golden-yellow colour with a thin layer of head. Canuck Pale Ale has a piney scent, true to the ironic lumberjack on its 473 mL can. But, as the can mentions, this Canadian brew, in defiance of the lumberjack stereotype on its label, sloughs off the Canadian obsession with identity. It’s fundamentally an APA, and that “A” usually stands for “American,” … eh? But, jeez! Let’s not get bogged down by labels! Sorry … I prefer bitter beer so I like Canuck Pale Ale’s subtle hop-forward flavour. It has a well-balanced bitterness upfront, a result of its sharp hops flavour, that sticks to the tongue.
Great Lakes Brewery: Canuck Pale Ale – Last Sip
For posterity, I’m drinking my second beer straight from the can … for posterity. Unlike some hop-forward beers that rely on strong aromas to bring out the taste, Canuck Pale Ale has a subtle smell that acts as a bonus more than a necessity. So, enjoying this beer straight from the can implies no severe penalty, beyond not being able to enjoy its clear-golden colour as you drink it from the glass. Luckily, you can still enjoy Canuck Pale Ale’s bitter flavour augmented by its fizzy mouthfeel from the can. Even if you thumbgun it, eh?! But, at 5.2% ABV, I implore you to thumbgun responsibly.
Happy Tim Tebow Week 2016! Or as it’s more commonly known in North Florida, the last decade.
As you undoubtedly know by now, Tebow announced Tuesday he’s seriously pursuing a professional baseball career. Citing the fact that in high school, he murdered almost as many baseballs as former teammate Aaron Hernandez has people, ESPN’s Adam Schefter got the party started:
“Tebow was an all-state baseball player in Florida that year and hit .494 as a junior, helping Nease High School reach the final four of the Florida state playoffs.”
Apparently, since the window has closed on Timmy’s annual will-some-team-desperate-to-sign-a-QB-make-a-move-on-the-weak-armed-poor-performing-Christian-with-the-heart-of-gold sweepstakes (essentially a sequel to The Brett Favre Over the Hill Gunslinger Media Meltdown and Newsfeed Jam, which ran every offseason from 2008-2011), he called an audible. Something he also struggled with during his football career. Of course, much of the sporting world had to chime in…
WARNING: Hot Takes Ahead!
Former destroyer of a perfectly good sanitary sock, and current unemployed right-wing internet troll Curt Schilling, via Yahoo! Sports:
“The comment I heard,” Schilling said, “was that he was a really good hitter in high school. Well, I was too. I was really good hitter in high school and I (hit) .100-something in the big leagues. I saw him swing the other day. He looks like he’s got a nice swing. I think he’d kick the crap out of people in the 30-and-over league.”
Orioles Manager, and “Seinfeld” guest star, Buck Showalter, via MASN:
“I better leave that one alone. Am I intrigued? No, not at all. Amused? No, not at all,” said Showalter. “I think about what these guys do in our Dominican Academy and Delmarva and Aberdeen and the Gulf Coast League and Frederick and Bowie and Norfolk, I take very seriously the stuff they have to do to get the opportunities and do what they’re doing. Somebody will sell some tickets in the spring. I should be careful, we may sign him.”
“I bet he was a good player in high school. I was, too,” concluded Showalter.
Human incarnation of the loudest, worst-smelling fart you’ve ever experienced, Skip Bayless, tweeted:
Tim Tebow, suddenly trying to become a pro baseball player at age 29? Impossible. Which is why I wouldn't bet against him.
To make things more ridiculous, are the comparisons to Michael Jordan, who famously quit basketball at the prime of his career to pursue a dream of playing baseball. I think anyone who watches sports and hasn’t been drinking the holy water knows what a terribly spurious comparison that is. But for those who don’t, let’s remember MJ was coming off his third consecutive NBA championship and was the most famous athlete on the planet. He wasn’t a washed-up, never-was who couldn’t make a pro team, and whose polarizing popularity had more to do with his beliefs than his athletic performance. AND HE STILL FAILED!
With that being said, once the baseball fantasy is derailed, and we are again (temporarily) bereft of the all-Tebow, all-the-time news cycle, here are three suggested occupations he can take a run at to get him back in the news in 2017 and beyond.
Hockey:
“He was an all-neighborhood roller hockey player, and scored 32 goals in a weekend in 2002 as a 15-year-old, which helped his cul-de-sac’s team win a plate of Totino’s Pizza Rolls from Mrs. Taylor.” – Adam Schefter, ESPN, August 9, 2017
Drive Time DJ:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Gainesville, FL (May 22, 2018) – Famous Christ-worshipper, infrequent TV personality, and three-time pro sports failure Tim Tebow, has been named Christian Radio 88.9 The Ark’s morning drive-time co-host, filling the station’s 6am-9am weekdays slot.
Tebow will join co-host Pastor Terry Jones, who most famously (unsuccessfully) tried to hold a Koran-burning protest on Sept. 11, 2013, at his Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, before joining The Ark’s staff in late 2016.
The pair will begin broadcasting together on May 29, with the debut of “Timmy and The Douche in the Morning.”
“My appearances on ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘SEC Nation’ aside, I don’t have any professional experience in radio, but I did record myself doing play-by-play over old pee-wee football tape as a teenager,” Tebow said. “[Timmy and the Douche] is basically going to be Pastor Jones and I spinning Bronze Age half-truths and misconceptions to the masses of staunch Christians in North and Central Florida from Monday-Friday. God Bless!”
Tebow’s inability to play sports at the highest level is overshadowed only by his unwavering ability to proselytize to the most vapid and intellectually vacant amongst us. He will also circumcise your children for a small fee.
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Singer-Song-Writer (2019):
“The comment I heard,” Boz Scaggs said, “was that he was a really good singer-songwriter in high school. Well, I was too. I was really good singer-songwriter in high school and “Lowdown” is still my only top-five single. I saw him playing and singing the other day. He looks like he’s got some decent pipes. I think he’d kick the crap out of people at the karaoke contest at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville.”
If all else fails, look for Tebow at a megachurch near you — or at the 2020 Republican National Convention.
“The line I always use is, ‘I got into for the beer, but I’ve stayed in it for the community’.”
When you hear Quinn Gardner, owner of Sactown Union Brewery, say that it might be easy to dismiss as just some marketing jargon. But when you talk to Gardner and his partner and head brewer Michael Barker, you quickly realize they are living every word.
“There’s duality to (the idea of community). On one hand there’s the literal sense of it being Sacramento and East Sacramento and working with groups here to push the greater good. One the other hand, it’s sort of more metaphorical sense– the community of craft brewing,” says Gardner.
Sactown Union is one of the new kids on the block when it comes to the region’s burgeoning brewing scene. But its roots are steeped in beer history and an appreciation of those who came before.
“We have all the pictures framed on the wall of the pioneers of the craft brewing industry,” Gardner explains. “The Sir Isaac Newton quote above it, ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’, if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t be here.”
Furthering the idea of a brewing community, the shelf of growlers from other local beer makers, and the walk-in door covered in brewery stickers. Gardner says there’s no room for competition because the success of one brewery can only help the rest.
GIVING BACK
And while the brewing community matters to Sactown Union, Gardner and Barker says they have a responsibility and a role in the community that surrounds them.
“I have a belief that there should be a brewery on every corner of every neighborhood, so people in the community have somewhere to go and socialize,” says Barker. “It’s not just a drinking establishment, it’s a place to go meet your friends, socialize.”
Socialize and be socially aware. In its five months of operation Sactown Union has already held fundraising events in response to the shootings in Orlando, hosted a dog-adoption event and uses its seasonal beers to raise money for a variety of good causes.
“We call it ‘The Revolutionaries Series’… (the beers) are named and brewed in honor of various social catalysts, people who made our community better.” Gardner explains that a mural on the tasting room wall is a sort-of guide to the causes they support. “So Dr. King is up there with a hornet on his shoulder because of a beer that we call ‘Freedom Ryder’. The Freedom Riders of ’61, themselves being students, and the premium Dr. King put on education, (sales from) that beer go to a scholarship at Sac State for kids who are studying to be educators in the inner city.”
The Sactown Brewery mural showing the figures who inspire ‘The Revolutionaries Series’.
Sactown Union brews a Helles Lager called ‘First Responder’ that supports the Sacramento Firefighters Burn Institute. Another brew will be released around Labor Day in honor of labor rights leader Cesar Chavez and that money will help the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services. “So again, it’s that sort of greater sense of we have this platform, we need to use it,” Gardner says.
A DECADE OF PLANNING
It’s a platform Gardner has been planning for more than a decade. Dreaming of owning his own brewery, he started in the beer business working for Coors. That job gave him his first exposure to California’s Central Valley and specifically Sacramento. He eventually left to work as an area manager for Sierra Nevada. One of his areas was Santa Cruz where he met Barker.
Barker has been brewing beer since the mid-90s after he made a dramatic career change. “I was a fireman for 10 years. I just wanted something different.” He says fortune smiled on him putting him in the right place at the right time to learn the brewing business from someone who was open to teaching him. “No regrets about it either. This is what I started doing, this is what I enjoy, so I didn’t look back at all.”
Barker was the piece Gardner was missing to complete his dream of owning his own brewery. Still, it would be several years before they would go into business together. “If you had asked us at the time we were going to open within the next year or two,” Gardner recalls. It would actually be seven and a half years of planning, painstaking research and eventually relocating to Sacramento before Sactown Union opened. “We waited until we were ready, until we had the location, we had the funds, we had the team, we had everything else behind us instead of just ambition and a plan.”
THE PLAN IN ACTION
The evidence of that plan and ambition are everywhere you look inside the brewery. “Everything is deliberate. We didn’t just throw out some picnic benches and call it good,” Gardner explains. This shows in everything from the light fixtures, to the chairs, to the bar back designed in the likeness of Sacramento’s Tower Bridge.
The bar back inspired by Sacramento’s Tower Bridge.
The beer-brewing partners say it’s a surreal feeling to own their own brewery and that they’ve been so busy they haven’t had time to enjoy as much as they’d like. Still, Barker says there are have been moments, “Probably one of the better feelings is when you walk out to the bar and see people enjoying something that you made.”
The plans are to distribute Sactown Union beer in five states over the next five years, but Gardner says he doesn’t want to grow too fast. He says they will once again be selective about where and how they sell their beer because at the end of the day, no matter how big they get ‘community’ will still be at the heart of it all.
“Our tag line is ‘we’re not just brewing beer, we’re brewing community’.” And when Gardner says it, you know he means it.
Every once in a while, I’m reminded of one of Marvel’s oldest characters, Namor of Atlantis, the Sub-Mariner.
Fans of Marvel Comics like Namor about as much as they do Scott Summers – not exactly a favorite. Possibly a bit misunderstood, it has always been difficult to like a character that abducted Sue Storm, wrecked cities and always acted like he’s better than everyone else. Namor has always been a character study in how not to act.
Not a warm and fuzzy character
Regardless of likability, the Sub-Mariner has been a fixture in Marvel Comics since the 1940’s. Our own Monkeys Fighting Robots, Michael Bedford just detailed the character’s impact at Timely Comics during those early years. When Marvel re-embraced the super hero genre in the 1960’s, Namor was a frequent villain and anti-hero. The now-classic (and upcoming Netflix series) Defenders comic book of the 1970’s actually featured Doctor Strange and Namor.
Although Namor can be less than loveable , Marvel has always kept him in active storylines, including last year’s Secret Wars and its precursors.
NOTE: ADDITIONAL SECRET WARS SPOILERS
As most fans already know, at the conclusion of Secret Wars, the multiversally-displaced Squadron Supreme had a new mission and a pretty big itch to scratch regarding Namor.
Hyperion scratched it.
In one of the best art-sequences of the past year, we learned the fate of Namor in the current Marvel Universe.
Marvel’s long-time anti-hero and first mutant lost his head.
In those few panels, we learned a great deal Hyperion as a character in Marvel NOW. We also came to terms with a very complicated figure that has been part of the Marvel mythos for 75 years.
I’m not sure if anyone is missing Prince Namor.
Since comics frequently resurrect the deceased, it’s frequently assumed that now-dead characters will return at some point. I will admit that coming back from an injury such as Namor endured would be a bit challenging for any writer.
So, I have to ask myself that in addition to my question of where is Namor’s head, I’m curious as to what Marvel can or will do with the character in the future.
What’s next for The Sub-Mariner?
In what appears to be ongoing speculation for many Marvel properties, this characters fate may be tied to movie rights. Last we knew, the rights are locked up over at Universal Pictures, in what is their only Marvel character licensure. In fact, questions surrounding which entertainment giant would get their Hero of the Sea to market the quickest in order to establish a potential franchise for niche character. Did the Universal Pictures situation cool out the pursuit of this property? Clearly, the DCEU has gotten their water-hero to the screen first, with Jason Momoa in the role as Aquaman. Interestingly, if you had to cast an actor for Namor, who would it be? That’s right, Jason Momoa. Don’t you think the DCEU’s version of Aquaman is just a touch Namor-ish?
I don’t know what this bodes for the future of our aquatic hero if there is one at all. Namor has been separated from his head (Highlander rule-book), his movie rights are at Universal and DCEU’s next hot prospect looks just like the Sub-Mariner.
Don’t look now, but I think Namor’s head ended up over at DC…
