‘Wonder Woman’ hits theaters in a month, and ‘Justice League’ comes out in November, but what’s been going on with Jason Momoa’s ‘Aquaman’ film?
Momoa spoke with GQ and explained that he’s excited to set the tone for the character and all actors that follow in his footsteps. He also gives a few plot points if you read between the lines.
“We’ve never really seen anything from this guy before, so it’s fun to have a level playing field,” said Momoa to GQ. “There aren’t like four Aquamans before me. I get to set the tone for it.”
“The guy was never really accepted on land, and he was never really accepted in Atlantis. He’s a half-breed. But he’s the best of both worlds. He just doesn’t know how to handle his powers. So it’s kind of a coming of age for a young man to a man, or a man to a king. He’s lost a lot of things and he’s got to cope. He’s an outsider,” said Momoa.
‘Aquaman’ takes place after the events of the ‘Justice League.’
James Wan directs the film starring Momoa, Amber Heard (Mera), Patrick Wilson (Orm Marius / Ocean Master), the half-brother of Aquaman and the film’s main villain, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Black Manta), Nicole Kidman (Queen Atlanna), Willem Dafoe (Nuidis Vulko), and Dolph Lundgren (King Nereus).
‘Aquaman’ swims into theaters on December 21, 2018.
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Jack and Ashi must overcome a series of dangerous physical and spiritual tests in order to recover Jack’s long lost sword.
This episode was an intense ride. It begins with a flashback which shows how Jack lost his sword in the first place. It can be assumed this was where Jack started his descent into self loathing and madness. Considering it involved him seeing the last time portal in the world being destroyed, losing his sword, and being tricked into killing innocent creatures it’s hard to blame him for being so torn up about the incident. Those baby rams were adorable and Aku turned them into evil murder machines. Low blow there buddy.
As the search for the sword continues, Ashi and Jack each go on journey. Jack goes into deep meditation to magically connect with the weapon, while Ashi find she has to fight off an entire army to protect him. There is a distinct difference between these two scenes. Jack’s is peaceful and full of bright and calming colors. Ashi’s battle is full of rage and lays on the intensity so think you can cut it with a knife. It’s a polarizing episode which leaves you hanging on with interest until the very end. It’s also good to see the ancient beings which helped to form the sword make a comeback.
At the end, Jack and Ashi find themselves with a new mission which will no doubt run to the end of this series. They have to track down Aku and ends things with him. What about the Scotman and all his daughters? Where are they? Only three episodes are left and the series will be over. It’s too soon. The show is just too good. We need more of this quality animation in our lives on a daily basis.
Earlier this week excitement was brewing as it looked like Robert Zemeckis could be directing ‘The Flash’ for the DC Extended Universe.
As quickly as the rumor got started, Universal Pictures crushed the hopes and dream of DC Comics fans when it announced Robert Zemeckis and Steve Carell’s untitled movie based on the 2010 documentary Marwencol will open Nov. 21, 2018. Zemeckis met with Warner Bros. but Universal quickly booked up his schedule. Depending on how ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Justice League’ do at the box office, Warner Bros. might not be able to wait till Zemeckis’ schedule clears up.
As of now ‘The Flash’ film is on hold till Warner Bros. can find a director.
The untitled film will tell the true story of Mark Hogancamp, who coped with the physical and psychological scars of a violent assault by building a one-sixth scale model of a fictional World War II-era Belgian village he called Marwencol.
Zemeckis will direct from a script he wrote with Caroline Thompson, and the film will star Carell.
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Although Wonder Woman has not even hit theaters yet, director Patty Jenkins is already planning the second installment. Speaking with the Toronto Sun, she pitched her sequel idea that would take Diana to America.
“I’m excited for her to come to America and become the Wonder Woman we are all familiar with from having grown up around her as an American superhero. I’d like to bring her a little farther along into the future and have a fun, exciting storyline that is its own thing. Wonder Woman 1 is so much about her becoming the person she is. I can’t wait to spring forward with who she is and have another great standalone superhero film.”
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’Wonder Woman’ hits movie theaters around the world next summer when Gal Gadot returns as the title character in the epic action adventure from director Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.
Wonder Woman stars Gal Gadot as the title character, Chris Pine, Robin Wright as Antiope, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Connie Nielsen, Ewen Bremner, and Lucy Davis.
Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment announced earlier this week that a live-action ‘Titans’ series is coming out in 2018. The new comic book series will be written by Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, and Greg Berlanti.
Johns took to Twitter after the announcement and confirmed Beast Boy would be part of the series. ‘Titans’ will feature Dick Grayson, Starfire, and Raven.
‘Titans’ follows a group of young soon-to-be Super Heroes recruited from every corner of the DC Universe. In this action-packed series, Dick Grayson emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes. ‘Titans’ is a dramatic, live-action adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book teams ever.
The series is in early stages of production and will air on a DC-branded direct-to-consumer digital service in 2018.
About Beast Boy (Garfield Logan):
As a young child, Garfield Logan lived with his scientist parents in Africa, who were developing “reverse evolution” to bring back extinct creatures. He received a certain amount of abuse from these parents, consequently becoming increasingly reclusive. Garfield contracted a rare illness called Sakutia, which is lethal to every species except the West African green monkey. To save his life, his father used an untested serum to change him into a West African green monkey for 24 hours, so that the virus could die out. The serum had the unintended effect of turning his skin, eyes, and hair green, and granting him the ability to metamorph into any animal of his choice. His parents later died in a boating accident; to this day, Garfield believes he could have prevented their deaths. After he is rescued from two kidnappers who forced him to use his powers to help them in their crimes, Garfield is left under the care of a court-appointed guardian, the despicable Nicholas Galtry, who renames him “Craig”. Galtry realizes that his embezzlement from the Garfield estate will be exposed when Garfield reaches maturity and receives his inheritance, and plots to kill Garfield. The villains he hires to kill Garfield are stopped by the Doom Patrol; Elasti-Girl and her husband, Steve Dayton, expose Galtry’s embezzlement and adopt Garfield. Garfield later joins the superhero team; his uniform includes a full-head purple mask with a black or yellow band across the middle of the face, and he takes the code name Beast Boy. During his membership with the Doom Patrol, Garfield has a romantic relationship with a girl from his high school named Jillian Jackson. After he saves her from Galtry (then using the alias “Arsenal”), the relationship dissolves. Beast Boy is deeply affected by the deaths of the Doom Patrol.
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It was a dark winter night when I stumbled upon Tales of the Unusual by Seongdae Oh. With a thriller genre, it was very different to the content I’m used to reading. Something about its description and the art just called out to me though. As they so often say, curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. In this case I was the cat. This webtoon approaches storytelling in such a unique way; you can’t help but continue scrolling down until nothing remains. Think of your favorite thriller or horror movie and this comic will give you those same feelings.
Plot
What makes Tales of the Unusual so interesting is that it isn’t one coherent story. It’s instead split among plots with different stakes, lessons, and genres.
For example, there’s a story about ghosts, another one about demons, and another still about the dangers of greed. Oh is an expert at creating stories out of nothing or changing your view on things like illnesses or plastic surgery.
My favorite segment is called “My Wife’s Memories” about a ghost. The basic plot is a man starts seeing his diseased wife after she passes away in a fire. It, however, isn’t the traditional version of ghosts we’re used to in entertainment. Turns out that what he’s seeing is actually the memory imprint of his wife around the house. What follows is a sad yet heartwarming tale about a man learning to accept his spouse passing away before him.
The first time I read that part it hit me right in the heart, leaving me a broken mess for the rest of the night. I still sometimes think back and it makes me smile. It was a nice break to the normally foreboding atmosphere the manhwa brings along.
The other stories could be classified as horror like “Kiveiru’s Library”. The gist of it is that people have started enchanting books to enter a dream world where you take a test. If you fail, you never wake up again. If you pass, you gain the knowledge of all the books inside the place and can wake everyone else up. I don’t remember the last time I was absorbed by a story to the point of having to take a walk afterwards to unwind.
If “My Wife’s Memories” makes me smile, “Kiveiru’s Library” made me nervous before sleep. The latter was especially true around exam times.
Once you see what the test is, this part becomes much scarier.
Characters
The main characters vary according to each story. We get an impressive roster ranging from scumbag dog hater to beauty obsessed young lady. They all fit within their story nicely and their moral fiber is often the cause of any misadventures. That isn’t to say that all of the characters are terrible human beings, it’s just that most are.
We miss out on a lot of things when we rush through life.
Art Style
The art style is crisp and conveys emotions and actions amazingly well. It is a bit rough at times, but the art is a bonus for this comic. The stories are strong enough to setup the atmosphere nicely on their own.
Oh’s style lends itself nicely to the more shocking scenes he draws. His usage of black, white and more toned down colors for most of the comic is great and contrasts nicely with the brighter colors like red when he decides to use them. Bright colors are used sparingly enough that they pop and come at you when used.
Oh also finds the time to slip in cameos or Easter eggs in each story, which is cool.
Read it
If you’re looking for something different to get your heart pumping, Tales of the Unusual is it. You never really know what you’re going to get out of this so it’s a bit like playing Russian roulette. If you’re a thriller or horror story fan, you’re definitely going to get a kick out of it. Even if you don’t like those genres or you feel like my review wasn’t good, I urge you to at least read “My Wife’s Memory”.
The entire comic can be legally read for free here.
With the second season of Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) finally coming to light, expectations were running high. From a personal perspective however, I found the anime to be lacking and suffered from one of the worst anime releases to date. Why is this the case? If a four-year wait wasn’t enough to kill your enthusiasm for this anime, get ready for the anime to hit the brakes.
Note to the reader, Shingeki no Kyoujin is very enjoyable! Well at least the manga is…
4 Year Gap
Okay so it was closer to 3 years and 8 months. Either way it has become the elephant in the room that nobody truly wants to talk about. Why the hell did we have to wait four long years for a second season? Having done the math, at the release of Shingeki no Kyojin the manga had published 43 chapters. By the time the 25 episode first season had finished, 33 of the now 49 chapters had been used. (By the end of the season an additional 6 chapters had been released)
Was four years really necessary? Honestly no, but when you are still receiving profits there isn’t a real priority to start season 2 though either. This being said, there is a right way of doing things. I don’t believe any fan should have to wait as long as they did. Everybody knew with the hype surrounding it a second season was bound to occur. What should’ve occurred was either of the following.
Hold off release of the anime for a year or two in order to enough content to support consecutive seasons. Sure, the public doesn’t receive the content right away, but we wouldn’t be starved of it for such a long period of time.
Cut the first season in half. After watching the first season I would have been content watching up to episode 13 in the series. Then with a one year break open with episode 14 which has everything a season opener episode needs to pique interest. With the delay in time more manga chapters will have been released allowing for consecutive seasons to occur.
By the time the season 2 aired the titan grew skin and a beard…
Budget
When Shingeki no Kyojin was released the high budget was evident from the opening and quick movements. Where the money was spent was debatable however.
Artwork
Many fans believe that the artwork for Shingeki no Kyojin to be world class. I agree to some extent, but it does fall short in one area, the characters. Almost having a cutout quality, there is a large outline on almost every character. If there was continuity in the art it may be understandable, but the scenery is the opposite. Not quite up to the standards of Shinkai, the background is still high quality. Paste your cutout quality characters on top and something stands out for all the wrong reasons.
When would this ever be a good idea?
Voice Actors/Actresses
High quality VA’s (Voice actors/actresses) can always bring popularity. In Shingeki no Kyojin’s case I felt that a star-studded cast might heighten the show.
Eren’s VA, Kaji Yuki, was one of the better performers in my opinion, fitting the role nicely. Three other characters fell short in my opinion though.
Romi Park’s voice has a hard time fitting the image of Zoe in my opinion. The distinctive tones used made me relate it back to Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist and made me fall away from her character.
Yui Ishikawa, while not as well-known as others took the role of Mikasa. Yet the air around Mikasa was a bit too serious. Mikasa needed to feel listless with an undertone of strength, but it feels like there is too much energy in her voice.
Lastly, is Levi. I know this might get a bit of hate, but Levi’s voice feels too mature for the character, or at least the way he is drawn. Personality-wise I can understand the casting, as it plays similar to Trafalgar Law from One Piece. Stature however kills it for me.
Verdict –
The anime has pushed the action genre on the title and I fear that when slower and more psychological parts of the story make their way in, viewer retention may fall. I find myself still reading it though since it is incredibly interesting. Is it the best? No. I find flaws in how author Hajime Isayama wrote it, but I still will enjoy what is given to me. I will however avoid the anime because it doesn’t justify what was written in my eyes.
In a story exclusive to pioneering “geek’ website Ain’t It Cool News, the trailer for the long in the works film, 5-25-77, was revealed today. AICN’s Harry Knowles (who has seen a rough cut and has been championing the film since it’s inception almost a decade ago) calls it a “geeky Dazed and Confused“. I see a bit of Almost Famous in it a bit as well. Check out the trailer below.
The film has had a long, turbulent history that has been covered across the internet for ages. Everyone from SlashFilmto IndieWire has at one point covered it over the years. It’s one of those stories/projects that popped up every once in a while and also kept me wondering if it would ever make it to an audience. Glad to see it’s finally happening! What do you guys think? Are you excited for this to finally come out for us to see? Comment and discuss below!
5-25-77 is written and directed by Patrick Read Johnson. It stars John Francis Daley, Austin Pendelton, Collen Camp, and Neil Flynn. It is scheduled for release on May 25, 2017.
After last week’s shocking cliffhanger, Attack on Titan episode 30 begins by giving us something which has never been shown in the series before: Snow. Yes, a flashback to basic training shows snow for the first time in this world. Think about it, there has never been a snow covered titan ever. Of course there isn’t one here either so don’t get your hopes up.
How many times is the show going to beat us over the head with the idea Christa is the perfect person and all others in this series, Nay the world are ants compared to her greatness? We get it people! She’s an awesome character. Most of the episode showcases on her and Ymir’s relationship and the how and why Ymir has always been there for her. Frankly the more you look into it, Ymir’s behavior sways between tough love and just being a jerk to Christa. Yeah, she’s willing to finally step up and stop being such a terrible person when the chips are down but really what about all the other times in their relationship? Better to have a friends around who are nice to you all the time instead of only when you are in a life or death situation.
This episode draws to a close with a great moment as the cavalry finally arrives to save their friends. A surprising realization also comes in the form of Aaron announcing his first kill. Once you take a moment and realize it, outside of when he is a Titan this is the first actual kill he has had the entire series. Man Mikasa really is the only thing keeping him alive most of the time isn’t she?
Good action, great drama, and a some nice bits of character development. This episode has it all but it don’t get too comfortable just yet. Next week’s episode looks to be even more action packed.
Attack on Titan: Season Two is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Across his cinematic history, we’ve seen Superman defeat Lex Luthor, General Zod, and Doomsday, but never his greatest foe: the Klu Klux Klan. Thankfully, this will play out in a new film from Lotus Entertainment and Paperchase Films, according to Empire.
“Given [his history], it figures that the Man of Steel would one day take on the men of hate. Superman was shaped as a force for openness and fairness and a positive future for all. The KKK was openly anti-Semitic, hostile to liberal democracy, and wanted to turn the clock back.” – Rick Bowers, Author.
Superman Vs The KKK adapts the 2012 book Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story Of How The Iconic Superhero Battled The Men Of Hate, written by Rick Bowers. It explores the true story that inspired the 1946 radio drama The Adventures of Superman episode, “Clan Of The Fiery Cross.”
On the book, Lotus Entertaiment co-founder Bill Johnson said, “The themes of this true story fall right in line with the type of stories that inspired me to want to make movies in the first place.”
“Fighting the forces of evil with brain over brawn, artists taking down bullies, and the power of a good piece of content, it’s a real case of truth being cooler than fiction.” -Marc Rosen, Producer.
The story follows Stetson Kennedy, an activist who went undercover in the KKK in 1946. He contacted the producers of The Adventures of Superman, hoping they’d be interested in using what he had learned for a story arc. He provided information on codewords, rituals, and more. The producers jumped at the chance, and the rest is history.
“The story behind Superman Vs the KKK really struck a chord with me. Right away I knew I wanted to relive it by being a part of the nonviolent resistance against oppression.” – Marco Vicini, Producer.
Katherine Lindberg (Wet Hot American Summer) is set to write the script. Lotus Entertainment previously produced Maggie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin, and helped distribute A Hologram for the King.
What are you excited to see in Superman Vs The KKK? Let us know in the comments!
