I feel like this is the first week where all the stories are comic book related. Huh.
1. Legion Gets Picked Up
The X-Men TV series Legion has been picked up for an eight-episode first season on FX.
Dan Stevens is playing David Haller (the son of Professor X in the comics), a schizophrenic mutant. Fargo creator Noah Hawley is serving as showrunner, and has implied that the series is its own entity, separate from both the MCU and FOX's X-Men film universe.
Legion will premiere in early 2017.
2. Captain Marvel Finds a Lead?
The announcement on who is playing Captain Marvel has eluded us for quite some time now. Last week, though, we got a bit of an idea.
Recent Oscar-winner Brie Larson (Room) is apparently Marvel's frontrunner to play the cosmic heroine.
Of course, this is nothing to get too riled up over, but I think it's a good choice. I haven't seen Room as of yet, but from what I've seen of her in interviews and other films, she seems more than capable of taking on that role.
Captain Marvel is out on March 8, 2019.
3. Ben Affleck on The Batman
Ben Affleck's been talking up his Batman solo movie for the past few months and last week he revealed that the film will tell an original story.
According to Affleck, he plans to do what Zack Snyder did with Batman v. Superman; tell an original story that still borrows certain elements from classic Batman stories. That way, fans won't walk into the film knowing what to expect as if it were a straightforward adaptation.
It makes sense, and it's one of the many reasons Civil War worked so well. It kept the core conflict, but everything else was new, with some elements from the story leaking through. Also, if anything, this shows that Batman is in good hands with Ben Affleck.
4. The Flash Finds a New Director
One of the many speedbumps the DCEU hit after the disappointing results of Batman v. Superman was losing Seth-Grahame Williams as the director of The Flash. But a new director has been found in Dope's Rick Famuyiwa.
Williams' script will still be used, which was based off a treatment written by The LEGO Movie's Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
The Flash is out on March 16, 2018.
5. The Rogue One Reshoot Ruckus
If you're a film news nerd like myself, it was pretty hard to avoid the rumours about the Rogue One reshoots.
Tabloids and film news sites left and right were claiming that the reshoots (despite being an entirely normal and beneficial part of making a movie as huge as this one) were being done be cause Disney execs didn't like the "war movie" vibe the initial cut had, and that a whopping 40% of the film was going to be reshot. Luckily, all that was complete bantha fodder.
Entertainment Weekly reported that the reshoots were being done to enhance the clarity and character development in the film, and that most of the reshot scenes will be conversations in cockpits. Oh, and the whole "lighten the tone" thing wasn't a factor either.
Take that, rumour mongers.
Noah
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