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Star Wars Looses A Director While Suicide Squad Gains One!

It seems like Disney can’t hold on to their directors for Star Wars.  They have now lost two directors (well three, but two come as a set) for their upcoming Star Wars projects in the same year.  Colin Trevorrow’s exit from Star Wars IX isn’t as stunning as Lord and Miller’s from Han Solo, but clearly Disney has a specific vision for their films, and if you can’t deliver it, you are out.  Really at this point they just need to lock in Howard or J.J. to long term deals and have them direct the next few movies, since both of them can deliver a pretty solid Spielbergian adventure film.

On the Warner Brothers side of things, we are finally getting details about the upcoming Suicide Squad sequel.  It looks like Gavin O’Connor has been called in to write and direct.  He is an okay choice.  I say that because most of his movies are, you know, okay.  Much like The Accountant which I recently reviewed.  If you go look at his IMDB page you will not find a bad flick.  Though you will probably not find a movie you feel super strongly about either, so this is probably a smart choice for a studio trying not to have any more critical failures, but just not one the fans are going to get supper pumped up about.  Hey, maybe he will get to direct an upcoming Star Wars movie!

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The Tick Is Strange Fun!

The Tick in its previous TV incarnations were off the wall slapstick fun.  The new Tick however is sad and strange, but in a good way if that makes any sense.  It is still funny, but it is more awkward humor instead of slap stick.  Though sticks are still slapped from time to time.  It is like a direct response to the Netflix Marvel shows.  The Marvel shows are dark and gritty and show heroes in ‘real life’.  The Tick holds up a mirror to that and shows how real life heroes would really work.  It turns out, not well.

Right now you can only watch the first half of season one, so six episodes, and they deal with Author (Griffin Newman) meeting The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz) and accepting his destiny.  The Tick obviously has some things to say about his best friend destiny.  Author is not keen on becoming a superhero due to personal trauma and mental health issues, so he needs quite a bit of convincing.  Right off the bat the show is swimming in different seas story wise.

Peter Serafinowicz’s Tick is perfect.  He is dumb, sincere and unwavering in his quest to rid the city of crime.  Even if he doesn’t know who he is.  His random monologs will no doubt make long time Tick fans very happy.  Author of course is the exact opposite, and Griffin Newman captures Author’s nervous unease perfectly.  The rest of the cast is quite good as well.

The main complaint so far is that there are only six thirty minute episodes to watch, and that they need a bigger budget.  While The Tick has always been more about the comedy than the action, its limited cash flow is very apparent any time anything superhero-y is going on, and that is a shame.  Come on Amazon, give the big dumb blue guy a little more green!

If you love The Tick, you have already watched the two and half hours of new content Amazon has produced, and if you are like you me, you enjoyed yourself.  For everyone else, if you think the Netflix Marvel shows need to get made fun of a little, The Tick is well worth watching.  Even if it is a bit more melancholy than I was expecting.  Another thing to note, if The Tick were a movie it would be rated ‘R’ for language and at times graphic violence, so it is not for the kiddoes.

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Warner Bro. Delivers Two Massive Trailers For San Diego Comic Con!

While Disney still delivers a few things at San Diego Comic Con, most of their news comes out of D23, but that lets DC/Warner Bros. kind of run amok.  Which is fun for the fans to see.  This year they had tons of news about their comics and TV shows, but the biggest bombs were these two trailers.  First up is Justice League:

This trailer gives us more of what we saw in the first trailer, with five of the original Justice League members (and a sixth teased) strutting their stuff.  Not surprisingly they upped the Wonder Woman content since she officially became the highest grossing movie of the summer domestically over the weekend.  We finally get to see some of Cyborg’s moves in action.  Though Aquaman continues to steal every shot he is in, and The Flash is still good for the laughs.

Next up Ready Player One:

As Stefon would say, “This trailer has everything!”  And he would be right.  Players play Joust, Harley Quinn and Deathstroke are out on a date night, the Iron Freaking Giant is just out and about, and just about every important geek-mobile is in a crazy race!  The book was just non-stop pop culture references, and the trailer seems to indicate that movie will be the same way.  I can’t wait.

What was your favorite trailer from SDCC, or any news that you found interesting?

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Freeform Is Finally Getting A Show I Am Interested In, The New Warriors!

There are so many comic book TV shows out there now.  Though for a while it seemed that DC was destined to own broadcast TV while Marvel would just keep trucking along on Netflix (with the exception of Agents of SHEILD).  Not so!  Marvel is adding two new shows this year, Inhumans and their first comedy The New Warriors.

The internet is going nuts for The New Warriors because it will have Twitter favorite Squirrel Girl played by the AT&T Girl (Milana Vayntrub).

I guess she was in This Is Us too, but who watches that show.  Anyway, I have been hoping for a good superhero comedy, so I hope Freeform can pull it off.  Though if the internet has taught me anything, The Amazing Squirrel Girl can do whatever she sets her mind to (she beat Thanos once)!

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Shmee Casts Batgirl!

After Joss Whedon puts the finishing touches on Justice League he will turn his full attention to Batgirl, so since he is busy getting the League all squared away I thought I would cast his star for DC’s next solo female superhero adventure!  Here are my top pics!

5: Chloë Grace Moretz

She has already dabbled in the superhero genre with the Kick-Ass films, so we know she can pull off the action, and thanks to 30 Rock we know she can nail down Batgirl’s quirky sense of humor.  She is a well rounded and talented young actor.

4: Emily Kinney

While she never really got to be the zombie murdering machine we know she was capable of in The Walking Dead, she did show she could keep up an amazing cast and even steal quite a few scenes for herself.  The Walking Dead has been worse without her, but I think Batgirl could be better with her.

3: Saoirse Ronan

Just because I have no idea how to say her name doesn’t mean the star of the action thriller Hanna wouldn’t be perfect for Batgirl.  I mean Hanna already showed she has what it takes.  She has been doing a bunch of indie stuff lately, so it would be great for her to step back in to the mainstream.

2: Jane Levy

Jane has been in a lot of smaller stuff, but the Suburgatory/Twin Peaks star just looks like Barbara Gordon.  I mean just put the mask over the picture above and it is Batgirl come to life!

1: Rose Leslie

I know I already cast her to be Poison Ivy, but she was John Snow’s Batgirl on Game of Thrones, and again she looks a lot like Barbra.  Not to mention since Batman is older it would make sense to have Batgirl be in her 30’s as well.

Well those are my picks for Batgirl, so of course they are the best picks.  Who do you think should wear the purple and yellow?