It's been a few week's since the ToB Crew has tackled the news but now that the Oscars are over it's time to dig deep into all the latest goings-on in the nerd world. Starting with the DCEU as things have been busy over at Warner Brothers. The guys discuss Matt Reeves directing The Batman, the Nightwing movie announcement and a ton more DC movie tidbits before moving onto some TV talk. Including: Another delay for Star Trek: Discovery but at least they cast their captain, Star Wars Rebels has been renewed for a 4th season and Castlevania is getting an animated series on Netflix. Finally, Julian, Dan and Jeremy cover the Nintendo Switch launch and the unprecedented reception of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. All this and so much more (including X-Men rumours and Tron 3 news!) on this week's Tower of Babble Podcast!
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Show Notes
No Nerd Association this week. Sorry! :(
Movies
- 89th Oscar recap - http://towerofbabblepodcast.com/blog/2017/2/24/oscar-predictions
- Indiana Jones 5 is officially happening and it’ll be out in 2019
- Wonder Woman set visit impressions from IGN
- Matt Reeves announced as director of The Batman
- Mel Gibson approached to direct Suicide Squad 2
- David Ayer teases Black Mask as villain in Gotham City Sirens
- Nightwing movie announced with Lego Batman director Chris McKay helming
- Hellboy 3 "100% will not happen" according to Guillermo Del Toro
- Longtime X-Men writer/producer rumoured to be directing the next X-Men film
- The rumoured title is X-Men: Supernova and it will apparently follow the Dark Phoenix storyline
- HBO is making a scripted behind the scenes movie about the making of The Godfather called Francis and the Godfather
- Tron 3 news
- Leaked info on the cancelled Tron: Legacy sequel
- New Tron would be a sequel/reboot starring Jared Leto
- Arrival director Denis Villeneuve will be directing a reboot of Dune
- The live action Lion King has cast Donald Glover as Simba and welcomes back James Earl Jones as Mufasa
TV
- Star Wars Rebels has been renewed for a 4th season
- CW's Riverdale has been renewed for a 2nd season
- Lionsgate is potentially interested in a John Wick prequel series
- Star Trek: Discovery has been delayed until late summer/early fall
- STD cast Jason Isaacs as captain Lorca
- Nickelodeon announced a new 2D TMNT series
- Game of Thrones wont return until July
- Netflix announced a Castlevania animated series
Games
- Nintendo Switch launch
- According to a press release the Switch “Sold more in its launch weekend than any other Nintendo hardware launch in history.”
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is getting insanely good reviews.
- A 98 Metacritic score
- Horizon: Zero Dawn also launched to stellar reviews
- South Park: Fractured But Whole has been delayed again
- More details on Uncharted: Lost Legacy
- VR News
- Sony revealed its sales numbers for PSVR at 915,000 units as of February 19th
- Nintendo wants to fix a major issue with VR
- Valve is working on 3 full length VR games
What We've Been Watching and Playing
- John Wick Chapter 2
- Lego Batman
- Black Sails season 4
- Gangs of New York
- For Honor
