DreamWorks released the trailer for ‘Voltron Legendary Defender’ Season 4 and the Voltron schedule of events for New York Comic Con Tuesday afternoon.
About season four: With Shiro back at the Castleship, Keith makes a choice that causes a rift between him and Team Voltron. As Allura and team focus on building the Voltron Coalition, Prince Lotor’s plans start to take shape.
‘Voltron Legendary Defender’ returns to Netflix on October 13 for six episodes.
NYCC Schedule:
Friday, October 6
Signing
3:00PM – 4:00PM (location TBD)
Executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos, co-executive producer Lauren Montgomery, Josh Keaton (Shiro) and AJ LoCascio (Prince Lotor)
Saturday, October 7
DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender, A Netflix Original Series
11:00AM – 12:00PM Main Stage 1-D
With Shiro back at the Castleship, Keith makes a choice that causes a rift between him and Team Voltron. As Allura and team focus on building the Voltron Coalition, Prince Lotor’s plans start to take shape. Join executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos, co-executive producer Lauren Montgomery, Josh Keaton (voice of Shiro) and AJ LoCascio (voice of Prince Lotor) as they offer a sneak peek into the highly-anticipated fourth season of Voltron Legendary Defender. The panel will be moderated by Chancellor Agard of Entertainment Weekly and all attendees will receive a New York Comic Con exclusive poster created by Montgomery.
Are you going to NYCC, is this panel on your radar? Comment below.
James Cameron has spent the better part of 2017 – and most of 2016 – criticizing female superheroes, directing endless Avatar sequels nobody asked for, and rebooting the Terminator franchise despite the world having kinda moved on. And now, he’s decided to tap into another one of the movies he made that was good back when he was into that: True Lies.
Cameron and 20th Century Fox TV are bringing the Arnold Schwarzenegger spy/comedy to television. And even better, McG will direct the pilot! Talk about a white dude failing upwards…
True Lies is still good, at least to me, even if it is #problematic for some. It’s fun and frivolous and Jamie Lee Curtis is aces. Not that we need a TV series, though, because aren’t all these NCIS-type shows a sort of action comedy spy movie thing? At least in some sense they are, and I can’t imagine any more creative energy going into this.
As for James Cameron, its weird to see the former great dismantle his own career by dedicating so much time to Avatar, rebooting old crap nobody cares about anymore, or just being terrible in general.
The President of HBO programming Casey Bloys, announced Tuesday afternoon the new series ‘The Duece’ was picked up for a second season.
“We are thrilled to continue our creative collaboration with master storytellers David Simon and George Pelecanos. Their unique gift for immersing the audience in their dark and edgy worlds brings a brilliant verisimilitude unlike any other. With the remarkably talented Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco leading an exceptional cast, we look forward to delving deeper as this captivating story evolves,” said Bloys.
George Pelecanos and David Simon of ‘the Wire’ created the series.
“Everyone involved with this project is genuinely grateful to HBO for the chance to take the narrative where it needs to go. We knew the theme and purpose of the story, but there are many people in the entertainment industry who might not have it told, or worse, would have told it for the wrong reasons. HBO is a serious outfit. And they don’t scare,” said Simon.
“Many thanks to HBO, our longtime partners, who’ve now given us the opportunity to continue to tell this compelling story. We’re ready to get back to work with our amazing cast and crew,” said Pelecanos.
About ‘The Duece’
Titled after the local slang for New York’s fabled 42nd Street, the show chronicles the rise of the porn culture in New York from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world of the sex trade from the moment when both a liberalizing cultural revolution in American sexuality and new legal definitions of obscenity created a billion-dollar industry that is now an elemental component of the American cultural landscape. It follows a cast of barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police and nightlife denizens as they swirl through a world of sex, crime, high times and violence, and the porn business begins its climb from Mafia-backed massage parlors and film labs to legitimacy and cultural permanence.
The series stars James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Gary Carr, Dominique Fishback, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Margarita Levieva, Emily Meade, and Method Man.
Michelle MacLaren directed the pilot and final episode of the first season.
‘The Duece’ season one is eight episodes and can be seen Sunday night on HBO
Warner Bros. Archive Collection is going to treat fans of Superman: The Movie to a new, three-hour director’s cut on blu ray.
Richard Donner’s original is still a classic, and much has been made of his firing in the middle of Superman II, when Richard Lester took over the role. We got the “Donner Cut” of that about a decade back (which, if we’re being honest, suffers without the Paris scene. @ me), and Superman: The Movie has gotten a few special editions and re-releases throughout the years, and this will put the early 80s ABC extended cut footage together with never-before-seen clips.
So what’s in this new 188-minute version which runs 45 minutes longer than the theatrical version? IMDb has it all laid out, but if you just want a few ints, here ya go:
In the ABC version, after Superman saves Lois at the end and flies off, he’s seen rescuing Miss Tessmacher from the lions’ den where Lex had dropped her in.
In the ABC version, the little girl who sees the teenage Clark running faster than the train is revealed to be Lois Lane, a fact revealed when her parents talk to her by name. This revelation scene is not present in the shorter theatrical release.
The blu ray box is disturbing for my DVD OCD:
Yikes. Let’s hope all this new footage doesn’t throw a wrench into what is still an incredible superhero fable, shot back in the days when these stories were more interested in birth and technicolor than rain and darkness and lightning and shit. It was a simpler time… now get off my lawn.
There’s no release date for this Superman: The Movie yet, but expect it before Christmas.
Robert Pattinson recently spoke to Esquire about his latest project, a film called The Devil All the Time, directed by Christine and Simon Killer filmmaker Antonio Campos. It sounds like another dark, challenging role for the former teen idol, who is not only shedding his glittering skin, but quietly becoming one of the great indie film actors of this generation.
Here is what Pattinson told Esquire about the film:
“There’s this line in it — and sometimes that’s all you need. And it’s like, ‘Ooh… that’s scary to say’. Because it’ll go down in posterity and I’ll be the one saying it. You literally cannot get darker. It’s fucking dark. This character is an evangelical preacher in the South in the Fifties, but he’s gleefully bad and kind of funny and charismatic too. I know, it’s irresistible.”
What is even happening in this movie, you ask? Here is a synopsis:
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There’s Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can’t save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his “prayer log.” There’s Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America’s highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There’s the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte’s orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.
Twilight is the sort of franchise that can ruin an actor’s future in the industry, painting them in a specific and undesirable teenage superstar corner. It speaks to the talent of both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart that they have become indie film forces to be reckoned with over the years.
For Stewart, her one-two collaborative punch with Olivier Assayas – Clouds of Silas Maria and Personal Shopper – cemented her status as an incredibly complicated, hypnotic protagonist. For Pattinson, he jumped right in with David Cronenberg after the Twilight films wrapped, starring in two of the Canadian auteur’s stranger films, Cosmopolis and Maps to The Stars. Pattinson began placing a premium on filmmakers and their vision, and it led him to some great chameleonic performances.
The Rover, from director David Michôd, is a brilliant Australian road thriller starring Guy Pearce as a tunnel-visioned loner and Pattinson as the dimwitted brother of a thief. It was the next step in Robert Pattinson’s evolution, as for the first time he approached a role with an attention to physical transformations. His Tiger Beat mug was battered and beaten, and the film around his character was challenging, but great.
This year has been the most pronounced step in the Robert Pattinson Revolution. He starred alongside Charlie Hunnam in the criminally underseen The Lost City of Z (seriously, for any fans of classic adventure dramas in the vein of Roland Joffé or Peter Weir, do yourself a favor and watch The Lost City of Z), and this summer he has impressed audiences with his grimy turn as a low-level bank robber in the Safdie Brothers “Urban decay NYC” throwback, Good Time.
It is great to see Robert Pattinson coming into his own and shedding that pubescent vampire skin. There was always this uneasy feeling around the marketing and pop culture wave that was the Twilight films, and it always seemed like Pattinson and Stewart knew it was weird too. Both were clearly itching to go their own way, forge their own path, and independent cinema has been better for it.
Every so often, Kindle editions of Marvel graphic novels go on a massive sale, but with no announcements. Nobody knows if this is a recurring glitch or just a way for Amazon to boost numbers quietly, but the winner in all this is definitely readers. Oh, and they all work on the ComiXology app.
Andy Serkis directed a movie, and it’s called Breathe, and it’s about a young man stricken with polio who decides to persevere in the face of some of the most picturesque scenery on the planet.
Not that Andy Serkis has to direct some motion capture monster movie, but this is certainly not what I would have predicted. Check out the trailer:
For his directorial debut, Andy Serkis brings to life the inspiring true love story between Robin and Diana Cavendish (Academy Award® nominee Andrew Garfield, Golden Globe® winner Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. When Robin is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of Diana’s twin brothers (Tom Hollander) and the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy Hall (Hugh Bonneville), Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together — raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients.
I enjoy post-Spidey Andrew Garfield, and Claire Foy is tremendous in The Crown, but this sorta has the stink of Oscar bait. It almost feels like a parodic checklist of terminal-illness period dramas, but maybe Serkis can push past all the cliches and make a great movie.
We’re in a golden age of comics right now, and in an age of geek none of us could have ever imagined, but with the good comes the bad. As our geek news sites become more corporate, they tend to focus less on comics and in some cases less on independent creators. My goal is to never shy away from giving a soapbox to those starting out, the independent, the unsung and the creators trying to carve a niche for themselves.
Today I am interviewing writer Corey Fryia about his comic book miniseries Doctor Crowe (created with artist Matt Horak) from publisher 215 Ink. Doctor Crowe is a supernatural action/adventure comic book starring Dr. Crowe, an infamous, adventuring scientist; expert on the occult and an all-around pulp hero who uses advanced technologies to battle gruesome, supernatural terrors across the globe.
Each adventure pits Dr. Crowe and his allies against an otherworldly threat that must be eliminated at all costs!
And that pretty much sealed the deal for me. Because once you say supernatural action/adventure, I’m there. Especially when you mention the words pulp and hero in the same sentence. It’s like catnip to me.
As I stated before Doctor Crowe is a mini-series. Four issues. And issue #4 is out Oct. 11th. I’ve read the first issue and really dug it and believe it’s a comic you should all be checking out.
But don’t take my word for it. Get to know Corey through this interview and the impressive images and links that will be placed throughout this article.
Marco: First off, I want to thank you for letting me interview you and for letting me read the first issue. I’m going to start us off with some introduction questions designed to let the readers get to know you.
So, tell us what made you fall in love with comics? And is Doctor Crowe your first published comic or have there been others? And if so give us a bit of history on those.
Corey: When I was young I always dreamt of becoming an artist. I would draw everything and anything under the sun, but my favorite stuff to draw became comic books, Star Wars and classic 90’s superhero cartoons like X-Men, Spider-Man, and Batman the Animated Series. The first comic book I ever read was New Mutants #87 aka the first appearance of Cable! I picked it from a stack of bargain bin comics and started redrawing what I saw on the page. My love affair with comics started there, and it’s only grown ever since.
Doctor Crowe is my first published mini-series, but I’ve had some work published in various anthologies, and I’ve worked a co-editor on four anthologies for Stache Publishing’s Out of the Blue series.
Marco: Now let’s talk crew. Because you didn’t create this comic in a vacuum. Matt Horak is the co-creator and the artist on the third story in the first issue. And you also have fantastic lettering by one of the best in the biz Taylor Esposito. There’s also additional art for stories 1 and two by Tony Gregori and Felipe Cunha and colors by Joshua Jensen, Jasen Smith, Doug Garback and Mark Dale.
How did this ragtag group of people come together? And why did you choose an anthology format for each issue of Doctor Crowe and tell us about some inspiration and how you and Matt started the journey on creating and getting this book out there.
Corey: I actually met Matt through Twitter back in 2015. I tweeted out an open call for an artist who would be willing to collaborate with me on a new idea that I had for this crazy supernatural/adventure comic (which later became Doctor Crowe), and I was extremely fortunate that Matt answered my tweet. Together we developed his look and started plotting these long-form stories that we were unfortunately never able to tell. However, we did start working together on Wretched, which is the story in Doctor Crowe #1 where Dr. Crowe tries to cure a plague-ridden town and ends up squaring off with a disease-ridden Werewolf. This story is only six pages long, but it was the first Doctor Crowe adventure ever produced.
When it came time to work on more Doctor Crowe stuff, Matt was knee deep in his work on The Covenant with Rob Liefeld for Image Comics. So I needed to get creative and that forced me to take Doctor Crowe in a different direction – a serial anthology of random short Doctor Crowe adventures, similar to what Matt and I had done with Wretched.
I know that everybody says this, but in this case, it is absolutely true — I truly couldn’t have asked for a better team to work with. Tony Gregori, Bruno Letizia, Dann Franco, Karim Whalen and Felipe Cunha each bring their own unique talent and spin to the character. Colorists like Doug Garbark, Sean Burres, and Josh Jensen truly complemented those guys’ lines in a way I didn’t think possible, and of course, Taylor Esposito is a lettering wizard. I can’t stress that enough. Taylor’s letters deserve a heaping load of credit. He’s truly amazing at what he does.
Marco: What are some of the (comic and novel) inspirations for Doctor Crowe? And who are the writers, artists and comic series that inspire you today? I see the obvious pulp inspirations but is there something people wouldn’t expect that inspired your work and the character of Doctor Crowe?
Corey: I think an obvious source of inspiration that many readers/reviewers like to point out is Hellboy, but to be honest, when it comes to the Mignolaverse Doctor Crowe draws more inspiration from Baltimore than Hellboy. Another source of comic book inspiration comes in the form of the Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurt. It’s such a fun series that blends two of my favorite things to write and consume – supernatural stories and spaghetti westerns. The Sixth Gun is actually where I got the inspiration for Nora’s fearless cowboy style character and attitude. She’s a direct homage to The Sixth Gun and my love for that series.
As far as fellow creators that inspire me today (and I’m sure I’ll forget somebody!) Jeff Lemire is a huge influence. I adore his storytelling. Chris Samnee is another big one. That guy can do no wrong. And allow me to throw an indie creator into the mix as well – Fabian Rangel Jr. Fabian creators some of the most fun stories out there. I’ve read everything the guy has ever written, and they’re all enjoyable. He truly doesn’t get enough credit in our community. Plus he’s just a super nice dude!
Marco: Being an independent creator in this business and the struggles and triumphs that come with that what is it that you like best about the industry and what is there that you think we could improve on? Or that we’re not doing enough of.
Corey: This is a tough one. I will say one of the things that I enjoy best is collaborating with people all over the world. I’ve been fortunate enough to work with talented folks in Brazil, Australia, and Italy as well as all over the United States. Without the Internet, none of that would be possible as an indie creator with little to no budget! The same goes for readers from all over the globe. It’s incredibly cool when a reader from Germany or Ireland tweets you about how they picked up your book at their local comic shop and tells you how much they enjoy it. That’s always a pleasant surprise, and I can’t explain the feeling of accomplishment that comes with it. It’s truly crazy to think how far of a reach a small press book like Doctor Crowe can actually get. I never really thought that was at all possible.
The industry isn’t perfect. Especially when you’re an indie creator who’s trying to get your work out there, and you’re vying for some of the same readers as the top dogs. However, I will say that if I could change something in this industry, it would be publishers and editors becoming a bit more accessible. As an indie creator, it’s extremely difficult to get your work seen by and taken seriously by these folks (or at least that’s what it feels like.) And I’m not just saying this for my benefit, but the industry could benefit from giving some of the new blood more of a chance. For example: look at what Donny Cates is doing right now.
Suddenly the industry is embracing him with open arms after God County became such a big hit. He has a Marvel deal, and he’s going to be writing Doctor Strange. The crazy thing though is that Donny has ALWAYS been this talented. He’s even worked with Marvel in the past. I just think it’s silly that it took a hit Image book before people started to recognize the guy’s talent. In my honest opinion, guys like Donny should have been given a real chance a long time ago. So if the industry could make strides to improve that sort of nonsense than I truly believe both publishers and readers would benefit in the long run. Publishers can create new star creators by giving them a chance rather waiting for those creators to create their names for themselves.
Marco: And now we come to the end. But before we wrap this up I want to give you a moment to PIMP YOUR STUFF! That’s right Corey this your time to shine. Tell the readers with all the passion you have why they should check out your work and where they can purchase it and where they can follow you on social media.
Corey: Doctor Crowe #3 is coming to a comic shop near you on September 27th. Doctor Crowe #4, the final issue in the mini-series, is currently available for pre-order and the diamond code is AUG172085. So please preorder #4! It’s available Oct. 11th. I’d also like to exclusively reveal that I’m working on a Doctor Crowe crossover with a fellow indie creator and indie property that I’ll hopefully be able to talk more about in the near future, but it’s going to be a TON of fun. I promise you that!
And that’s the end of that. I want to thank Corey for letting me interview him, and I hope you all enjoyed reading it. Don’t forget to check out Doctor Crowe #3 on Sept. 27th. Also, don’t forget to stay up to date with all of Corey’s work by following him on Twitter and the Doctor Crowe Facebook page.
Recently, Matthew Vaughn revealed that him and Warner Bros. have been in talks regarding the sequel to 2013’s Man of Steel. Collider spoke to Vaughn about the film again, and got the director to talk a bit about what his potential take on a Man of Steel 2 would look like.
“Weirdly if I did do Superman—and I made the mistake of telling someone yesterday I have spoken about it and then wallop (laughs). I think my main take would be, it’s really boring but make a Superman film. I just don’t feel a proper Superman—I think Donner did it to perfection for that time. Just doing the modern—I wanna do a modern version of the Donner [version]. Go back to the source material… For me Superman is color, feel-good, heroic. He’s a beacon of light in darkness. And that’s what I think Superman should be.”
If Vaughn ends up directing the film, it definitely sounds like he’ll be bringing the style that DC extended universe skeptics want. The main criticism with Zack Snyder’s take on Superman is the lack of positivity and hope; is Vaughn going to bring the hope, lightheartedness, and traditional Superman to the big screen?
Who do you think should direct Man of Steel 2? Comment below, let us know.
Some images have made their way online, courtesy of Neil Gaiman and team on the set of the upcoming Amazon series, Good Omens. Here is your first real look at David Tennant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale.
They are amazing. This is them in the opening scenes, 11 years ago, in St James's Park. David and Michael, demon & angel. #GoodOmenspic.twitter.com/ceK4XYY881
“People have fallen in love with an angel and a demon in a book by Terry Pratchett and me,” Gaiman said, regarding the start of production. “They have been excited and nervous to see how they would appear on screen – and I was probably the most nervous and excited of all. This is a first look. Michael Sheen is the best and finest of bookseller angels, David Tennant the coolest and most delightful of demons. Together they are one hell of a double act (or do I mean one made in Heaven?)”
Described as equal parts humor and horror, fantasy and drama, Good Omens takes place in 2018 when the Apocalypse is near and Final Judgment is set to descend upon humanity. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, and tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan — except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not looking forward to the coming war, and someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist.
Joining Tennant and Sheen are Jack Whitehall as Witchfinder Newt Pulsifer, Michael McKean as sergeant of The Witchfinder Army Mr. Shadwell, Miranda Richardson as Madame Tracy, a psychic medium, Adria Arjona as Anathema Device, descendant of Agnes Nutter, Ned Dennehy and Ariyon Bakare as Hastur and Ligur, Dukes of Hell, and Nina Sosanya as Sister Mary Loquacious.
Good Omens is scheduled to premiere sometime in 2019 on Amazon.
What do you think of the Good Omens leads in character? Let us know in the comments.
