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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Zack Snyder's Justice League Official Trailer

In some ways, this feels like such a drastically different movie, which is insane. How could something as simple as setting up a Justice League film go so awry? Marvel did it before them, even, to show them the blueprint, and DC/Warner couldn't pull it off! It's nuts!

I'm very, very curious to see this. I'll binge the whole 4 hours like it's nothing (unless it's a terrible film, naturally). More than likely, what I'm going to do when this is out is watch the whole thing and then do a Reviewpoint and then possibly even a FanTracks to go along with it. Definitely very excited to see this "what if" scenario play out.

Transformers: Beast Alliance

Seems like they're finally going to the Beast Wars well for the Transformers movies. Frankly, I'm surprised it took this long.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't think Bumblebee was all that great or impressive. I think it's literally the same film as the first movie but with less charm and taking less risks, just repackaged with a female lead with the "Wouldn't it be cool if this was in the 80s!?!?!!" element (which I'm so tired of as just an arbitrary selling point rather than an actual purpose of storytelling).

They would probably be better off just setting it in modern times, rather than in the 90s.

Tim Burton - Wednesday Addams

Tim Burton's making a live-action spin-off series on Netflix about Wednesday Addams that reads to me as 50% great idea and 50% CW drivel meant to be nothing but a means to market to the goth Hot Topic "edgy girl" audience.

She'll be at school, dealing with psychic powers and mysteries and monsters. So basically Buffy, Sabrina and The Craft all wrapped in one.

Look. That might sound harsh, particularly because I could totally see myself pitching this exact same thing. This screams to me a pitch I would suggest if I were working as a producer or something. In fact, I'll have a whole segment on here, eventually, revolving around how I think you can make television shows based on characters in this sort of fashion.

I just feel like they're going to need to sell me really hard with that first trailer or else I'll end up looking at it the way I looked at the first episode of Ratched: "Wow. This blows and I'm not watching any more of it and you just sullied the good name of the original."

Nintendo Direct

I looked through the announcements of the Nintendo Direct and there wasn't a single damn thing I found interesting except for how Smash seems to LOOOOOOOOOOVE these animated sword-wielding characters. Why are there like 50 of them in the game and characters I've never heard of, but they still don't have Toad, Dixie Kong/Funky Kong/Cranky Kong, Dr. Robotnik/Knuckles/Tails, Zero from Mega Man X, Bomberman, some more Street Fighter characters (Chun Li? Guile?), etc?

I get that they would have issues with some characters that are on the PlayStation side of things. I wouldn't expect Crash Bandicoot or Spyro or whatever (but they'd naturally be main characters people would love to see). But I see no reason why there are all these anime characters and not something like the little dudes from Bubble Bobble.

Cruella Trailer

Maleficent has some pros and cons. This feels like another attempt at that. But it doesn't at all give me the dalmatians vibe like this sets that up. Maybe that's a good thing. I really don't know what to make of it, but I'll check it out.

Mortal Kombat Trailer

.....admittedly....this looks like they did the best possible job they could have. Right?

My only question is why there's no Johnny Cage. Maybe this Cole character actually uses that stage name or something and they're just keeping that reveal.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Jason Momoa?

The title of the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog will be...Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Why are people annoyed about this? It makes the most sense.

But in other news, Jason Momoa was reportedly offered the role of Knuckles in the film, which is wild. I never would have imagined that would be the casting decision they'd go with. However, as much as I can't picture it at all, it seems kind of awesome.

Clone High Revival

Say whaaaaat? They're bringing Clone High back and it's coming to HBO Max??? That's awesome!!! I loved that show so much.

Zack Snyder's Justice League's Intermission

Snyder said that if the film gets released in theaters, they have a 10-minute intermission "built into the movie" with "a beautiful suite of music" which I find very interesting and a damn good idea. So many people (not me) complain about sitting through 90 minutes without running to the bathroom. There's no way most people (myself not included, as I'm a damn camel) would see the full 4 hour long cut of this film and not have to make at least one stop.

Gina Carano

After some more controversial posts on social media, Disney (and her talent agency) have dropped Gina Carano going forward. That means no Cara Dune spin-off, which seemed like it was the purpose of that whole story of her character joining the New Republic.

Why not recast? You get to keep the same character arc and everything you've built, but you replace the actor you don't want to work with anymore. Is anyone REALLY going to care about the recasting other than the ones who are pro-Carano? I don't think this is like recasting Han Solo for Return of the Jedi or replacing Ewan McGregor halfway through filming Attack of the Clones or anything.

FACE/OFF Sequel

...they're going to do a sequel to Face/Off. Why? I can't imagine Cage and Travolta returning (especially given what happens in the film) which means this is likely a sequel in name-only and utterly pointless. It's not like there's a giant mythology to explore.

Face/Off 2: Some other people get their faces replaced and we redo the same plot as before with some tweaks.

Pass.

The Spot

Rumor has it the villain of the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will be The Spot. He's not even a C-list villain in the Spider-Man rogues gallery, which may make it a perfect choice. The Spot is able to create portals, so maybe they'll get into that for the trippy visuals and the dimensional plotlines.

Frankly, I was assuming the sequel would be based off time and focus more on Spider-Man 2099. Maybe it still can. The first one is great, so I'm sure this will be great, too.

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Golden Globe Nominations

Normally, I go ahead and post the full list of nominees and winners in separate pages on this site. This year, with the pandemic being the way it's been, I figured it's not worth it. So instead, this is just a spot on Week in Geek. How the mighty have fallen.

So what stands out to me, if anything? Let's see...

I'm a fan of Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner nominated for Ozark. They're great and that show is great.

The Mandalorian is awesome. Give it wins. This is the way.

I haven't even heard of most of these films nominated for anything. That's sad.

Despite not seeing the other nominees, I'll just say Soul needs to win Best Animated Motion Picture because I liked it.

And...that's it? Really? That's all I have to say? That's terrible.

Super Bowl Ads

Falcon and Winter Soldier? I dig it. This gave me Black Panther vibes, actually. Not the story, obviously, but the music used made it seem like it's got that sort of "let's change things up from the formula with a different sort of attitude" flair to it by bringing in a more hip hop based inspiration for a series about a black lead. Totally down for it.

Old - Looks kind of interesting, but certainly not something to see in theaters.

F9 - I still haven't seen any of the Fast and Furious movies, but even so, this felt like the most underwhelming trailer of the bunch.

Nobody - Looks interesting.

Shazadam

Rumor has it Black Adam is going to go by the name SHAZADAM going forward. That's pretty awful. I can see where they're going, but yeah...no. Just give him a different name. Shame Black Lightning is already a thing, right? But if you've got Isis and Osiris and all, why not give him some sort of Egyptian-based name, instead? Baal is the Egyptian god of thunder. Do something with that. Just not Baalackadam.

Keanu Reeves as Kraven the Hunter?

If these rumors are true, Keanu has been offered the part of Kraven. I really hope that's not the case. He's not at all the right person for that role. Keanu should be in the proper MCU and could play a variety of characters, but I don't at all think Kraven is one of them. I see him more as a Silver Surfer or something more...other-worldly. Kraven should be a buff, more grizzled, bear of a person and not someone who is super nice and all.

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Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Cloverfield Sequel in the Works

It took them long enough, right? At first, I thought it would be a mistake. The first film works well enough on its own. Then, I thought that a sequel should happen. However, they followed it up with 10 Cloverfield Lane and that felt like it wasn't at all a sequel and they would just go with Cloverfield being a universal name for a new Twilight Zone type thing.

10 isn't a wonderful film for a series like that. I think it works better as a standalone and ideally, without knowing if the aliens are real. But then, Paradox happened and that just sucked.

Now, a Cloverfield sequel in "proper" form, supposedly, will happen. It won't be found footage, which I think is a major mistake. That was the gimmick of the first film and if you're going to bother doing a follow-up, I want to know what happened to those characters and to see how someone found that camera. If they just do a generic action flick with the monster...meh.

WandaVision Episode 4

I haven't been loving the series so far. I'm not into old sitcoms, so when the episodes were pretty much just a pastiche of those with about 10 seconds of "maybe there's something more to this", I wasn't digging it. I felt like that's the type of material that would be charming if it were 20 minutes of a 2 hour film, rather than 60 minutes of a 9-episode show.

This most recent episode did a lot to undo that. I still felt like there were some issues, like how I'm not the biggest fan of Darcy Lewis, but getting a few answers to things and progressing the plot forward rather than continuing to live in the bubble any longer is a thumbs up for me.

I'm still assuming Nightmare or Mephisto is manipulating Wanda. I'm hoping Vision isn't still dead, as I'd like to see him brought back in the franchise in the white version like in the comics. I loved seeing The Blip in action. Jimmy Woo learning the card trick over the past few years was great.

All in all, the best episode so far.

Black Panther Wakanda Spin-off for Disney+

It was announced Ryan Coogler will be developing a series that dives more into Wakanda as a spin-off to Black Panther. Not much else was revealed.

In theory, this premise is great. However, without recasting T'challa, I feel like this could be much ado about nothing. The whole Black Panther series, in my opinion, hinges on T'challa, and if they just kill off his character for the third time and move on to a new person under the mask, I don't think I'll be as invested. I just don't think a series about Shuri holds the same weight as she's better as a supporting character. The same for M'Baku or Okoye or anyone else.

But maybe there's something to it. Without having much information, it's impossible to know. Had Chadwick Boseman not tragically passed away, I would be super into this idea. Without him and without the T'challa character, I'm hesitant to trust this is worth diving deeper into a side of these films that won't have the same weight to it. That would be like getting rid of Doctor Strange and focusing a whole spin-off on Wong, or wanting to do a deep dive on Luis from Ant-Man, or a show revolving around The Howling Commandos. Supporting characters support, most of the time, based on the strength of the lead. Without the lead...well, I guess we'll see.

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Batman: The Animated Series Sequel?

Rumor has it HBO Max is looking to host a sequel to Bruce Timm's Batman: The Animated Series.

GIVE. IT. TO. ME. The Timmverse has a few flaws, but it's few and far between (like how they screwed up Dick Grayson's future and had the whole Batgirl/Batman romance and skipped over Jason Todd). I'm ALL for this to happen if the right people are involved. Obviously, you need Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill and as many of the old cast as you can get. Sadly, not all of them are alive anymore, but they should try to go for as much of a replication as possible.

Movies Abandon Ship Again

Got excited that a movie was maybe finally coming out? Well, everything's leaving their 15th rescheduled dates and getting pushed back further to the fall.

Another year of nothing, basically. No Time to Die is in October now, Morbius goes from October to January, A Quiet Place Part II goes from April to September, Ghostbusters moves, The King's Man moves. Basically, if it hasn't come out yet, it's not coming out for a while unless it's an HBO Max thing.

I'm not risking going to theaters right now, but this is so disheartening to see. Just don't bother announcing a release date anymore. We know it's not going to stick.

Xbox Gold Subscriptions Price Increase

I'm not a gamer. I've established this much on this site. But when I hear that the price of Xbox Live Gold subscriptions has gone from $10 a month to $25, that's a MASSIVE spike.

Their reasoning? "Periodically, we assess the value and pricing of our services to reflect changes in regional marketplaces and to continue to invest in the Xbox community; we’ll be making price adjustments for Xbox Live Gold in select markets. In many markets, the price of Xbox Live Gold has not changed for years and in some markets, it hasn’t changed for over 10 years."

Translation: "We figured we want more money and we just assumed we could get away with it right now. Corporate speak corporate speak. But we haven't done this before, and we could have, so you should be happy we weren't greedier beforehand, rather than mad at us now."

Well, it seems like people complained enough that they've reversed this policy. They even started it with "We messed up today and you were right to let us know" as if they didn't know people would be upset.

Companies are insane. People are insane. Greed is just the worst and everyone acts like they don't understand how the game works. Everyone wants to get the most amount of money for the least amount of work/effort/output. EVERYONE. And in turn, everyone wants to spend the least amount of money for the most amount of return. EVERYONE. The end. Now can we all stop bullshitting each other and just be direct with the way we speak about things?

Godzilla vs Kong Trailer

They finally released a first look at Godzilla vs Kong and it looks just like I thought it would, which is great. This is dumb "monster vs monster with a thin plot" popcorn nonsense. I don't need it to be anything else. They're turning into the skid, it seems. Thumbs up. It's not as awe-inspiring as the King of the Monsters trailer was, but it hits the mark in a different way as an action commercial.

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GTA 6 Will Feature a Female Protagonist

And a male one. Relax. You'll still be able to play as a guy, too.

I like this. After all these games, they've never had a female playable character in a traditional sense. This feels like a no-brainer. Thumbs up.

No Time to Die Pushed Back....Again....

Every time I try to do something based on this film, it gets moved back to a further release date.

Well, screw it. We already recorded a few episodes of our retrospective podcast A REVIEW TO A KILL and I'm not going to sit on those for months. They'll be released and we'll continue to go through these movies, just at a more leisurely pace than originally intended.

So if you need your 007 fix, join us in watching the films and checking out our reviews.

Deadpool 3 Confirmed as Rated R

Kevin Feige can pretty much do no wrong. Of course he knows that this needed to happen and that it needed to be rated R. He's the man.

I'm really interested to see what they do. How are they going to play around with the MCU, now that it's open for business? This could be the best one of the series. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme.

WandaVision First Impressions

Check out the Bonus Features tier on the Patreon to hear my first impressions of episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision.

Mortal Kombat Info

Lewis Tan is playing a new character named Cole Young. Why isn't he just playing Liu Kang or a character already established? It seems kind of weird that a franchise that has way too many characters as it is feels the need to introduce a brand new one to make it even more overcrowded.

One theory going around is that he's Johnny Cage and that he'll go by that as a stage name later in the film. I don't dislike that idea. However, I'm anticipating he's just Cole Young and they just want to create their own thing so that they can forever have this "I created that guy" thing about them and the next games can introduce him as a DLC.

Godzilla vs Kong Moved Up

We'll see Godzilla vs Kong earlier than expected (if you don't count how it should've been released last year) yet we still haven't seen a trailer. Odd. The movie will be coming out on HBO Max and in theaters simultaneously on March 26th.

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Michael Jai White's "Original Plans" for Gambol

Michael Jai White claims that the plan told to him at first was that Gambol wasn't going to die in The Dark Knight. Instead, he'd come back and try to take over Gotham City.

Why do I get the feeling he was told this just to sign on for the movie, play a bit part, and then disappear without any intentions of giving him another return? It seems like that happens in a lot of movies. God knows how many James Bond films have been pitched with the "maybe you'll also return in the next film" line for the Bond girl of that particular movie.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't buy for one minute that this was ever any real plan for Gambol.

Zack Snyder's Justice League Coming to Blu-Ray?

Supposedly, there will be a release of The Snyder Cut coming to 4k Blu-Ray release. Good. Some people aren't going to want to get HBO Max but would like to own the film itself. This presents another opportunity and avenue for those fans to watch the film in their preferred method.

Krysten Ritter Returning as Jessica Jones

As expected, rumors are going around that Jessica Jones will re-join the MCU with Krysten Ritter taking on the character once more. This follows everything that's happened with Daredevil coming to Spider-Man 3 and the deals of the Netflix shows ending, allowing more flexibility.

My guess is they might keep the actors for these shows while discarding the continuity. Since it wasn't directly tied into any of the movies, that way, they get to have their cake and eat it, too, essentially. People who liked Ritter as Jones won't be annoyed at a recasting, but they won't have to worry about factoring in the story elements we've already seen.

Jones supposedly will pop up in She-Hulk. That's the BEST spot for her. Not only does she have super strength that will allow us to see her against Jennifer Walters, she's also a great source for Walters to use in the legal system.

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RIP Tanya Roberts

Unfortunately, Tanya Roberts has passed away at age 65.

For those who may not recognize the name outright, she was Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, played Donna's mom Midge Pinciotti in That '70s Show and arguably gained her initial notoriety from being on Charlie's Angels. Obviously, you might recognize her from other things as well, if you browse her IMDB page.

Obviously, there isn't too much to say other than to offer condolences.

Patriot in Falcon & Winter Soldier?

There's a report going around that Elijah Bradley has been added to The Falcon and The Winter Soldier to help set up Patriot as a member of the Young Avengers. This makes perfect sense. Not only is Falcon someone who could be a mentor to a young, black, Captain America based hero, it just also helps set up some of the past and future. If they make it so his grandfather was part of the super soldier serum experiments and passed that on, he's got a tie back to Steve Rogers. If they want to move on from Falcon (and USAgent, who I'm convinced will be in the Thunderbolts down the line) and set up a future Captain America type for 10+ years from now, Patriot could be that person. It could even tie into Project Patriot from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. since they already did Jeffrey Mace.

I'm all for this.

Slow News Week

This wasn't a week packed with information across the things that I particularly follow. Maybe I missed some stuff, though. As always, if you have something you want to get my opinion about, drop it in the comments below and I'll chime in.

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The Book of Boba Fett Confirmed as Spin-off

The tease at the end of the last episode of The Mandalorian of "The Book of Boba Fett" seemed like a spin-off, but it wasn't confirmed. After announcing so many new series at Investor Day, it seemed like maybe this would just be a subtitle to The Mandalorian or something, possibly.

Nope. Confirmed to be a spin-off. Very cool. I'm so down. The Mandalorian has been the best thing to happen to Star Wars since the Disney takeover.

MGM Looking to Sell

MGM wants to sell its studio and its library, which includes the James Bond franchise as well as Rocky, The Hobbit, RoboCop, Silence of the Lambs, etc. The market value is apparently 5.5 billion. Hefty price, but maybe they'd settle for something like 4 or so if a bidder plays the right cards and MGM is hurting enough.

Someone will buy it. Guaranteed.

Forgive me for not doing tons of research on the status of each company and how everything is interwoven and the stock market is blah blah blah, but here's how I see things (and if I'm dead wrong, let me know in the comments)...

Sony was spearheading the distribution up until Spectre. They were part of the bidders trying to renew their rights beforehand. Other companies that were trying to do that were Annapurna (what?), Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox.

Fox is inside Disney now. I can't imagine Disney will want to buy MGM, necessarily. They're spending a lot as it is, but unless they can get it for an absolute steal, it seems like it's too much money to shill out for something that clashes with its overall aesthetic. RoboCop's not going on Disney+, for instance.

I don't even know what Annapurna is. That's not happening.

I'd imagine this is going to go to a streaming platform that wants to branch out, like Apple, or that it goes to WarnerMedia, NBC/Universal, or ViacomCBS.

In some ways, Viacom makes the most sense. They have the rights to Terminator, if I'm correct. RoboCop and Bond and Rocky and all are on a more similar wavelength than the Disney brand.

If you're looking to put these franchises on your streaming services, though, where does it fit best? I can't see Apple buying it, cause they aren't in the mode yet to make films for regular distribution as even Netflix isn't too much into that. So again, we're back to those big 3. Does it go to HBO Max (Warner), Peacock (Universal) or Paramount+ (Viacom)?

I'd lean less in the direction of Peacock, but we all know Comcast makes enough money as it is that they can afford it.

HBO Max could be a great spot for it. They're really going to be hoping this year's worth of movies on that platform drives up subscribers. Maybe adding these franchises will be part of the plan.

Then again, maybe Paramount makes a play for it so they have some big guns for when they launch Paramount+.

Toss-up. Either one of those two, with a potential swoop-in from Sony. I highly, highly doubt it's anyone else's asset to acquire.

Wonder Woman 3 Confirmed

After the release of Wonder Woman 1984 (review here) they've confirmed a third Wonder Woman film is in the works with Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins returning, naturally.

At this point, I think the first film is overrated and the second just isn't all that good, so I'm not having high hopes the third will be the most amazing film ever. It'll probably be fine.

What I'm hoping for, as far as the story goes, is that they don't bring back Steve Trevor. They'd have to figure out a convoluted way to do that and it just doesn't make sense after having just done that. Unfortunately, I don't know how they'd get around doing a film without a love interest of any kind, so maybe they introduce Trevor Barnes, Keith Griggs or Mike Bailey (characters I know nothing about, really).

As far as villains go, I feel like you need to stack it to get some of them in there that hadn't been done already. Admittedly, I'm unaware of most of her villains. I know nothing about the majority of them that have only been around the past decade or so, for instance, like Grail. What I think you need is Circe as the great manipulator and possibly combine her with Veronica Cale, use Giganta as the biggest physical threat and then maybe Silver Swan if you have room for a third villain. Medusa is too hard to pull off in any great context. Angle Man is ridiculous. Egg Fu.....no. I don't know if there's any way to cram in Doctor Psycho, but to be honest, the Harley Quinn cartoon kind of distorted my opinion on that character and now, he's just a funny little guy.

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The Mandalorian season 2 finale

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Cyberpunk 2077 refunds

Tom Cruise's rant about COVID-19 protocol

DC reducing its publications in 2021

Movie exhibitors threatening to slash prices of Wonder Woman 1984 to spite Warner Bros

Trademark of Marvel Studios Nomad

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Alfred Molina, Kirsten Dunst, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield AND Charlie Cox for Spider-Man 3

We're getting Doc Ock, Mary Jane, both Peter Parkers AND DAREDEVIL for the next Spider-Man movie!!!! WHAAAAAAAAAT?!

I still don't get how they're going to cram in Peter's secret identity issues and being on the run from the law while dealing with all this multiversal stuff, unless the plot is that there are multiple Spider-Man people and that's how they get around it and Doctor Strange fixes it all and makes people forget Peter is Spider-Man. But yo! Daredevil is going to be his lawyer!! That's crazy!

Can we get D'Onofrio as Kingpin?! Is Jessica Jones going to be part of the mix?! What does this mean as far as setting up different versions of Electro, Octavius, Mary Jane and so on?

Disney Investor Day 2020

Most of the content from Disney Investor Day was broken down on this podcast. Check it out here if you missed it.

Jaimie Alexander's Sif Returning to Thor: Love and Thunder

Hell yeah! I hate how they killed off the Warriors Three and Heimdall over the past few movies (particularly how quickly they just knocked off the Warriors Three, as Heimdall at least had a decent sendoff) and I've been annoyed at how there wasn't any explanation given to why Sif was missing for all of this. She was definitely replaced by Valkyrie in more ways than one, but I like Sif. In fact, I think Sif is a better love interest than Jane Foster. I'm hoping Sif has a decent enough purpose in this and that they don't just unceremoniously kill her off or anything. Give me an explanation for her absence during all the events that went down, too.

The Mandalorian: The Believer

This wasn't my favorite episode of the season so far, but it was still good. I liked the look into a different side of the Empire with the southern general being not entirely wrong (about the New Republic being a mess and some people wanting order more than anything else). I liked seeing that Boba Fett's cleaned up his armor even better than it looked in Return of the Jedi.

Cool moments here and there, but it felt like a step down from the past few that we've gotten.

Clarice

How did I not know there was a television series coming out in February about Clarice from The Silence of the Lambs until now? What?

The teaser doesn't really show much at all. However, I'll be checking it out. It's either great like Hannibal or it's awful and I shut it off after one episode like Ratched.

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Hailee Steinfeld is FINALLY Confirmed as Kate Bishop in Hawkeye

After all this time of denying it, they've finally flat out confirmed that Steinfeld has been cast as Kate Bishop for the Hawkeye series on Disney+.

Discovery+

Disney announced it will be launching a "discovery+" (lowercase on purpose) streaming service starting January 4, 2021.

It's set to feature 55,000 episodes of content from networks like HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, OWN, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Basically, it's lumped together all the stuff like Ancient Aliens and Pawn Stars along with Planet Earth, the reality shows about awful people you find on TLC like the parents who try to live vicariously through their kids and the ones who think their wacky families are interesting, so on and so forth.

I'm not signing up for it, but I like the idea. This is the future of this cable/streaming battle. ISPs are going to just basically be telecommunications services providing the internet connections (eventually, probably merging with the phone companies, too) and televisions are just going to be even more so computers which stream things. Cable packages will be converted over to lumped platforms like this.

Disney owns a ton of assets. Not everyone is going to sign up for Disney+ itself because they don't want to see The Little Mermaid and the MCU films and whatnot. But there's ESPN for sports and there's these "learning" shows (if you can call them that) which a lot of people have lots of crossover for. Chances are, if you watch Pawn Stars, you watch Storage Wars. My fiance watches 90 Day Fiance and its surrounding shows, for another example.

This just makes sense.

HBO Max Going TO THE MAX

Warner Bros is going to do the Wonder Woman 1984 release method (in theaters at the same time as HBO Max) for ALL their movies for 2021.

This is huge. This is basically WB saying "You know what? Screw it. Let's get as many people as possible to subscribe and if it fails, it fails, but at least we'll have tried. The onus is on us to test this out."

Credit to them for not rolling over anymore and just hoping things go back to normal. However, it's understandable why theater chains are pissed about this. The less need to go to a theater, the less people will go. It's just a fact. However, if people aren't going to begin with, what's better? Doing that and having some people go, or continuing to have NO no releases and hoping people see garbage films that no one would have seen to begin with on a non-pandemic schedule?

Mandalorian: The Tragedy

Boba Fett is cool again! He's been restored! They managed to rewrite part of Star Wars history that was pretty bleak, as he looked awful in Return of the Jedi and it seemed like he never amounted to jack shit. Now, we see that even years after this, he's a total bad ass.

I didn't expect Mando's ship to be blown up. I figured Grogu would be captured just to up the stakes, but I never imagined the Razor Crest would be completely eviscerated like that. Maybe the reason why is because they want to give him a bigger ship with a bigger cockpit so he can have more characters inside to interact with?

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King Kong vs Godzilla Heading to Streaming Service?

Rumor has it they're shopping around putting this film on a streaming platform after realizing how movie theaters still aren't going to have guaranteed people back to normal any time soon.

I think this feels like the type of movie you can't really watch at home. While many movies could work just fine on Disney+ or Netflix or HBO Max or whatever, this doesn't strike me as one of them.

Jeans Guy Removed from Mandalorian

They've edited the last episode of The Mandalorian to remove the crew member who was accidentally in one of the shots. Take a look. RIP Jeans Guy. You'll be remembered in the same vein as the Starbucks cup from whatever Game of Thrones episode that was (I didn't watch the show).

Speaking of The Mandalorian...

How cool was this last episode? I'm not a big Ahsoka Tano fan, having not grown up on The Clone Wars or anything, but it's abundantly clear over and over that Dave Filoni would have been a better choice commandeering this franchise instead of Kathleen Kennedy and her group. He at least respects what's come before him while making additions, rather than going "Screw that, mine's better, even if it's exactly the same but without the nuance and value."

They filmed her intro like she's the creature in a monster movie. That's great. That's some Phantom Menace opening scene stuff.

I'm not a big fan of the idea of "find Ahsoka and she'll refuse to train the kid and tell you to find a new Jedi" angle. But hey, Baby Yoda is named Grogu. I dig it. And they name-dropped Thrawn!

Man...it's a shame none of this matters because The First Order just destroys everything, sends it all back to the days of The Empire and renders the entire series up until that point moot, right?

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Lethal Weapon 5

Mel Gibson says Lethal Weapon 5 is still in the works with Richard Donner at the helm. Very cool. I'm down for it. The movies aren't Oscar-caliber, but they're quality entertainment and I'm curious to see where they take the franchise. Do they have kids who take over, for instance?

Franklin Richards Isn't a Mutant

Marvel has retconned the idea that Franklin Richards is a mutant by making it so, as they've stated, his cosmic powers made it seem like he was a mutant because he wanted to be special.

While I'm not super duper into the reasoning behind it, I'm all for Richards not being a mutant. The less crossover, the better. In my mind, as much as I love the X-Men series, I think a lot of characters are better off NOT being mutants. In fact, I wrote an article about it. Check it out here: https://www.fanboysanonymous.com/2019/06/x-men-characters-who-should-not-be.html

Batman: Soul of the Dragon Trailer

For a one-shot, this seems neat. I'm not normally into the whole "wouldn't it be interesting if X took place during a different time period and that's the one and only hook to get you to watch this?" type thing. I'm also not into the 70s culture. However, the idea of a story where Batman teams up with Bronze Tiger, Richard Dragon and Lady Shiva is interesting. I'll be checking it out in January for sure.

Wonder Woman 1984 Streaming on HBO Max & Releasing in Theaters on December 25th

They finally caved and announced they'll be releasing Wonder Woman 1984 simultaneously in theaters on Christmas as well as streaming on HBO Max. It's about time. This movie's been pushed back so many times that it became the new New Mutants in a way.

Funny enough, I just watched New Mutants and it was HORRENDOUS. Also, all signs point to the leaked script of WW1984 being real and you know what? That script was not doing it for me. So I'm anticipating this will be a bad film that people will be more excited to see just because it's a new release and they'll be starved for content, so they'll overrate it just like the first Wonder Woman.

Project 007

A video game is in the works, dubbed Project 007 for now, which will revolve around James Bond earning his 00 status. I'm down for that. Many Bond games over the years have been rubbish, though, and they haven't been able to replicate the success of GoldenEye or The World is Not Enough. I'd like to see them go back to that sort of formula while incorporating some more modern mechanics while not getting bogged down into the problems of what some post-2000 games tend to get messed up by.

With that, I mean you shouldn't feel like the game is there only for multiplayer, you shouldn't have to do quicktime events as some forced linear trajectory, there should be a distinct ability to see what's going on in your surroundings rather than to make things dark and dour where you NEED some sort of night vision goggles or "detective mode" stuff to navigate, and you shouldn't focus so much on cut scene cinematics and graphics that you sacrifice the gameplay just for some impressive trailer visuals to sell the game. Also...no DLC that you have to pay for just to make the game worth buying in the first place. Give people a game that they can enjoy and love from the start and that word of mouth can make it a classic, rather than a cash grab capitalizing on the popularity of the character just to make a quick buck.

Also...and it goes without saying this, based on the way No Time to Die is marketing itself as the end of James Bond and the transition to a new 007...if this is your attempt to wrap up the James Bond story and to move on to Nomi, you're going to be screwed.

Another Predator

10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg is going to helm another Predator film. Frankly, I think they've said all they need to say.

I just actually watched Alien and Aliens for the first time this week. Decent films, but overrated in a sense that while they were great for their times, they don't hold up as much anymore to a modern viewer. Predator does the same. But I think there's only been one good Predator film and I doubt this next one will be anything that impressive.

Wonder Girl CW Show

Wonder Girl is getting a CW show. Pass. I haven't watched any of these shows in a long while cause they're all the same and none of them last more than a season before they get too derailed.

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Slow News Week

I'm actually publishing this late because there was NOTHING going on that I felt like talking about.

Sasha Banks on The Mandalorian

Finally got a chance to check out the latest episode of The Mandalorian, which featured WWE's Sasha Banks in a role that was basically 2 lines of dialogue. I'm not at all surprised she was limited in that capacity, but made out to be a bigger deal. That tends to happen a lot.

Cool that they've brought more characters from other media into the live action. I'm a fan of that, even if I'm not big on The Clone Wars series and such.

Scream 5 will be titled Scream

What is up with this trend of naming sequels the first movie? Why do we have three "Halloween" movies, for instance? I get if it's a reboot, but if it's a sequel (like how this is Scream 5) then why are you calling it the same as the first movie?? This is one of the most baffling things that has been a trend in recent cinema that I can't wrap my mind around. Just call it Scream 5 or some kind of subtitle. Also, calling something The ___ isn't a big difference, either, a la The Predator. Take 5 minutes to think of a proper title.

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Loki Renewed for Season 2

We haven't even seen season 1. Hell, I don't even know WHEN we're going to see it. But if it's that good that they're confident people will want a second season, then that's cool.

RIP Alex Trebeck

TV icon Alex Trebeck, host of Jeopardy, has passed away at age 80 from pancreatic cancer.

Awful news. I was never the biggest Jeopardy fan in the world where I watched it every day/week or anything, but it was one of those cultural institutions like Wheel of Fortune and Price is Right where I don't think there's anyone who dislikes that show. Trebeck was the host for so long that he was almost like a fixture of pop culture and not having him around like that anymore is yet another big loss from 2020.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 2

Chapter 10 wasn't as great as the previous episode, but it definitely had its moments. The Child eating the eggs was perpetually cute/funny. I enjoyed seeing Dave Filoni back as the X-Wing pilot giving Mando a break.

Thumbs up for the episode, but it felt a bit rushed. It was almost as if the episode was just getting started 3/4 of the way through and then had to skip to the end super fast.

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Oscar Isaac Cast as Moon Knight

I'm not all too familiar with Moon Knight. I couldn't tell you even all his personas without looking them up. Marc Spector is the only one that comes to mind. But this character has always seemed kind of cool to me and if I were into reading comics, I'm sure I would have done a deep dive at some point. The problem with my connectivity is if someone isn't in film or television or some other media like that, I tend not to know them well enough to know where to start, so I don't get into them. Such is the case with Moon Knight.

So I can't tell you if I think Oscar Isaac will be the best person for the role. What I can say, though, is that Isaac is a great actor and I think he could probably pull off 9 out of 10 roles he's cast in. He's handsome, so he has that down. And if Marvel, who has been so good at casting most people in the MCU, thinks he's the right man for the part, then he's probably the right man for the part. Very cool.

Big Brother All-Stars 2 Finale

My two favorites going into this season were Cody and Enzo, so I'm really happy they ended up in the final two. Cody deserved to win over Enzo, in my mind, but Enzo deserved that second place prize. Big fan of this outcome!

RIP Sean Connery

Sean Connery has passed away at age 90. Over the years, his reputation went downhill due to some controversial opinions (to say the least) and stepping away from Hollywood. But he'll forever be the man who brought James Bond to life, and for that, I think pop culture is forever grateful.

As a near lifelong fan of the series myself, Connery was never my absolute favorite Bond, but the one I would compare everyone else to, since he was the standard.

I want to make some sort of poignant "you only live twice" reference, but it just seems in bad taste. RIP.

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 1

As underwhelmed as I've been with some of the Star Wars stuff as of late, to downright disappointed to a level where it really dwindled my fandom of the series as a whole, The Mandalorian has been awesome. This first episode was just that - awesome. Taking down a krayt dragon to get its pearl and to set up Boba Fett? So good!!

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Jared Leto Returning as Joker in Zack Snyder's Justice League

He'll be reprising his role in reshoots. This is good. Whatever they have planned will be interesting since this is a "what if" type of scenario.

Maybe Snyder (who has had plenty of error judgment calls in his own right, mind you) will fix the awful tattoos Joker had and pretend like they don't exist while giving Leto some better material to work with. I feel like he had the potential to be a solid portrayal if things had worked out differently.

Early MCU Characters Returning in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

It was said that some characters from the early films of the MCU will make a comeback, but not which characters, specifically.

My running theory is that this is going to help set up Thunderbolts and we're going to see either Abomination or, more likely, The Leader, as one of those characters. Then again, we saw the "I'm not Tony Stark" scientist come back as one of Mysterio's crew, so you never really know which people are going to play a bigger part, surprisingly. Hell, the guy Bruce Banner gives pizza to ends up becoming Peter Parker's teacher and we've got Mandarin returning as part of Shang-Chi. Maybe this is going to be something completely out of left field.

Tim Burton's The Addams Family

Tim Burton is creating a new live-action television series of The Addams Family. This is like the fifth adaptation of the characters, or something along those lines. As far as I'm concerned, nothing tops the Christina Ricci and Raul Julia films, which I've been meaning to rewatch as I haven't seen them in probably 20 years.

But hey...maybe it will work. It may be on Netflix, so that could open up a better realm of storytelling than if it were on a network that would tinker around too much.

No Time to Die vs Streaming Platforms

Bloomberg says there's a chance No Time to Die is being sold to a streaming service. MGM says that the film is not for sale.

Frankly, I've given up keeping track of movie release dates. I'm really thinking nothing comes out at all until 2022 at this point, even, which is just horrendous. That, or everyone gets further along the "fuck it" scale and decides to just open everything up and the world collapses while we all goof off for what little time we have left. 

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Marvel Legacy

Older Marvel films that aren't in the MCU are being classified Legacy titles for Disney+.

I like the name. It differentiates enough but lets people know it's not part of the same connectivity.

The Batman Set in 2019

Set photos have dated The Batman to take place in 2019. Now can we finally stop with the nonsense about this being a 90s film?

The Boys Season 2

I finally got around to finishing season 2 of The Boys. Called a lot of the finale ("I bet they're going to kill Ryan's mom so he'll have to deal with that while growing up" and whatnot).

The show's great, so I'm excited for season 3. I'd like to see Ryan somehow find himself as a member of The Boys. Give me more Esposito, as you can never have enough of him. But really, Homelander is where it's at. He's my favorite character, for sure.

Slow News Week

From my perspective, this was a rather uneventful week. Not much to talk about. As always, I'm sure I'm missing tons of things, so if you have anything in mind you want to pick my brain about, drop a comment below and I'll elaborate!

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No Final Season of GLOW

This sucks. Netflix decided to go back on its renewal of a final season of GLOW and it won't be producing the fourth season. The show's just done, with no resolution. That's the worst way to go. In particular, it's a shame that we already know that was supposed to be the end, because that means there's no potential in another service picking it up. No other place would want to pay for ONE season of a show. Even if that were true, it would've been Netflix, so this is just doomed. Very, very disappointing.

Sister Act 3

There's going to be a Sister Act 3. That's awesome (in theory). The first is a classic that I really need to revisit, as I loved it as a kid. The second was...well...

But maybe the third would be great like the first one was, as far as I can remember.

Sarah Shahi as Isis in Black Adam

Supposedly, Sarah Shahi has been cast as Adrianna Tomaz, aka Isis, in the Black Adam film.

I'm not super duper familiar with Isis enough to be able to tell you any of her character traits or anything. However, I do know Sarah Shahi is a great actress who is gorgeous and I could totally see her pulling off the visual look of this character as well as holding her weight on the acting side.

In that regard, I'm totally down for this.

Doctor Strange in Spider-Man 3

More news about the idea that Spider-Verse is coming for the third Spider-Man film, as now, Benedict Cumberbatch is going to be in the film as Doctor Strange.

How are they going to have a film that is both about parallel dimensions and different versions of Peter Parker fighting villains like Electro from other universes, while also dealing with the plot of Peter on the run with people thinking he killed Quentin Beck?

Perhaps they've abandoned that story. Maybe, instead of telling the tale of how he deals with the repercussions of people knowing his secret identity and all, Peter spends the first few minutes of the film on the run and comes in contact with Doctor Strange. Then, he gets him to cast a spell where everyone forgets all this information, but in the process, it opens up the portals to the other dimensions.

That way, you don't have Mephisto taking away Mary Jane Watson's marriage to Peter, since we don't have MJ in the MCU (yes, I said it, we don't have MJ. Michelle Jones doesn't count as she's nothing at all like the character and has a different name). 

I'd like a reference to how J. Jonah Jameson wanted to name Doctor Octopus Doctor Strange, but said the name was taken.

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