The new DC CW show is here. And while I doubt I'm going to go back to all that, you gotta appreciate all the little nods and references put into the first scene of the new show Superman & Lois!
Lots of great references, making this series reference basically all of Superman's history.
The Golden Age costume, the first cover of Action Comics, Man of Steel, the Christopher Reeve Superman films. Heck even a little line "Thanks, my mom made it for me." from one of my favorite, Superman for All Seasons, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale!
Here's a bunch of news from DC/Warner's live streaming event Fandome, with my take on all this stuff.
Let's start off with the "big elephant in the room". The big grey dark and gritty elephant in the room, in slowmo.
Snyder’s new cut of Justice League will stream exclusively on HBO Max in 2021.
Alright. I like some stuff in here, they clearly put the new scenes in the forefront. But don't believe this is what Snyder had in mind. This is a Snyder cut "in retrospect", what with the positive and negative feedback from Joss Whedon's finished cut for theaters. I'm sure he didn't had Darkseid in mind from the go, this is more like correct course-fixing for Steppenwolf's bad reception. Maybe bringing in ideas from the scrapped Justice League Part 2 they never made (Martian Manhunter, etc.). My honest take on all this? Making it 4 hours long isn’t going to make it any better.
Next up is a new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984, which is still looking pretty good if you ask me:
I like Cheetah's design. Not sold on her actual CGi though.
New trailer for a new season of The Flash:
Anyone still watching the show? I love the character. But this is way too much CW soap opera and not enough superhero for my taste...
Finally Matt Reeves' finally shows itself, and it looks pretty dope:
You can sort of feel this is built upon what Matt Reeves would have done had he continued upon's Chris Nolan's excellent Dark Knight trilogy. Like this was Matt Reeves' Dark Knight 4. Matt Reeves keeps saying he considers this an adaptation of Batman: Year Two, but I don't feel it so far. No Batfamily, no Robin, no colorful villains? I dunno... Anyways, it does look great. I'm half-sad we never truly got the BatFleck movie. ..
We also got a look at the highly anticipated James Gunn take on ....THE SUICIDE SQUAD! Looks like Gunn got ambitious with this one, which is awesome:
AND IT LOOKS AWESOME!! Now that's what the first film wanted to be! I like how this is both clearly a sequel to Suicide Squad... and they simply titled it the same The Suicide Squad. Lots of fun great characters, colorful set pieces and costumes. This seems actually fun. Suicide Squad/Birds of Prey wanted to look like this! Looks like it's a big turnover for the SS ip. The film is set to come out on August 6, 2021.
And what about the game-side of things? Well, we got two different continuations of sorts of the Batman Arkham games.
First up returning developer Rocksteady exploring other parts of the DC Universe. With the long rumored Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League game, their first new game since Arkham Knight.
Basically more of the same, the change of characters will be nice, and hey it's not that far from Batman's Gotham streets and universe. I already love the way this looks, less off-putting as Square Enix' Marvel's Avengers. Here we have full-fledged expressive characters, not off model not quite there-realistic Avengers. Nice synergy with James Gunn's film here, while not trying to imitate and being its own thing. I'm sure we can expect quality content and gameplay, if they avoid car segments/forced tank minigames. I'm getting a bit tired of evil Superman in DC media, though..... It will be released in 2022 on PS5, Xbox Series X and PC.
And if you're itching for some more Batman-centric game instead, worry not. Warner Bros clearly had a plan when they got WB Games working on an Arkham episode.
Acting as a successor of sorts to the Arkham series, Gotham Knights is a new Bat-centric game, this time being developed by WB Games Montreal. The studio behing the decent if less popular Batman: Arkham Origins (I still consider it better than Arkham Knight, SUE ME!). While the plot has to take place after Knight FOR REASONS, the game will instead focus on the Batfamily members of Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin and Red Hood. I can dig it! It will also allow for single play or two-player co-op (please, local couch play!!!). And visually and gameplay-wise, it really looks like more of the same, which I'm fine with. Gotham Knights is coming out sometime in 2021 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PC.
All in all - the Suicide Squad is being reinvigorated as a franchise. More Bat-stuff. DC is moving forward in both games and movies, I'd love to see the comics do the same...
Lately with DC's original shows on their own streaming platform DCU and the Crisis crossover event running on the CW, it feels like live-action DC stuff is firing on all cylinders. And now we got the Stargirl series. Which is part of the DCU slate of streaming shows, airing a day after on the CW. And Stargirl might be standalone, but she got a lil' cameo during the Crisis event (and a previous FlArrow peridot Stargirl appeared in a past episode) So I guess DC did what Marvel couldn't. It's all connected!
Looks... cheesy. But fun. And, hey! Geoff Johns' helming the show and since he created the character...
Marvel might be kicking ass on the big screen. But DC's been kicking ass on the small screen for a pretty long while.
Who expected to ever see a live action adaptation of Crisis on Infinite Earths... on TV... on the CW of all things??
Here's the epic trailer for this crossover extravaganza:
The five-part Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover begins on Supergirl December 8, continuing through Batwoman, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow.
Aquaman's been looking pretty good in the last few official posters:
It's a big departure from how Zack Snyder originally presented Aquaman (or the whole DC "murderverse" to be honest..):
It looks bright, it looks colorful, it looks fun. And I hope the actual movie follows suit (and we don't end up with another Suicide Squad... yikes!). Here's the rest of the cast:
Black Manta is absolutely perfect! And how come I didn't know Willem Dafoe was in this movie?!?
And while we're on the subject of DC Comics, the CW just released this pic to reveal their Lois Lane to appear in a later episode of the show Supergirl:
Very Christopher Reeves/Richard Donner Superman, I love it! They even gave her the same outfit that doesn't seem particularly appropriate to hang out in a cold fortress of solitude.. Also a way to announce how different their take is from the Man of Steel-universe.
I kinda stopped watching Arrow a couple of years back, but it seems the new season will actually adapt the scrapped Green Arrow movie "Super Max". That's right, Oliver Queen's going to jail in the next season!
Sounds cinematographic! Will Captain Cold and Heatwave "Prison Break" Ollie out of jail??
It's time for yet another fun new promo for DC's CW shows!
As always, it's a fun short crossover video featuring characters from every single of their current show. Also, introducing Black Lightning who's finally getting his own live action series as well!
Constantine is coming back to the DC-CW Universe! The Arrowverse? The Flarrowverse of Tomorrow? The DCW?
Anyways, Constantine is coming back to the small screen, played by Matt Ryan once more. Last we saw him was on Arrow. Now he's getting his own mini-animated series like Vixen, before we see him guest star later this year on Legends of Tomorrow. Here's a quick preview:
Alright! Finally a DC CW superhero that is not some dumb young hero learning his stuff.
I always dig Black Lightning. Lots of comic fans prefer Static, but I've always been more of a Black Lightning fan. I also love his family dynamic with his daughters learning they also have powers.
So I'm glad they kept the same angle, check this out:
It even sounds different from the usual DC CW shows.
A fan made a great recut of the Jay Garrick footage from the CW The Flash series to the theme song of the 90s The Flash CBS series! Check it out, it's AWESOME!!!
Here's the first crossover between the DC-CW characters and the big screen.. or is that Batman's first appearance on the DCW Universe? Well, anyways this is a funny little promo that ran during Supergirl this week, a cross-promotion with the upcoming Lego Batman Movie. Check it out, it's great!
Aw! They should totally have the CW actors voice these characters more often from now on. Sounds like they couldn't get Brandon Routh for this, though. Since The Atom's just.. "there".
