With about a month since our last full show, there's been a lot of news piling up. The guys dive into all the juiciest stories to cover the latest in film and television (oh and obviously the biggest story of the month, Steve joining Super Smash Bros). Unfortunately, before getting to the fun stuff, Julian, Dan, and Jeremy, hypothesize about a grim future where movie theatre chains have all gone out of business. It's truly the darkest timeline, but one that seems all too possible, with all the remaining blockbuster releases for this year being moved into next year (or later in some cases). On a more exciting note, the news of Jamie Foxx's Electro joining the MCU for Spider-Man 3, along with Doctor Strange, begs the question if it's too soon to start introducing a multiverse in the MCU. On the DC front, it's discovered that reshoots for the Snyder Cut of Justice League will cost $70 million, and the much maligned streaming service, DC Universe, will officially close its doors as all it's major shows will move to HBO Max (don't worry, it'll live on in a comic book subscription form). Speaking of TV, 'The Boys' is getting a spin-off series, Ted Lasso is renewed for season 2 (I had to mention it) and Nick Fury is getting his own Disney+ series. All that and so much more (I know, I always say that, but this time there's literally so much more stuff!), on this week's Tower of Babble Podcast!
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Show Notes
Movies
More stories about the perilous state that is the theatre business. With all major blockbusters moving out of 2020 (and in some cases 2021), we brainstorm what happens in a hypothetical world where movie theatres chains go under.
Most major releases pushed back to 2021 or later.
The Matrix 4 - Dec 22, 2021
The Batman - March, 2022
The Flash - Nov 4, 2022
Shazam 2 - June 2, 2023
Black Adam - No longer dated
Dune - Late 2021
James Bond: No Time to Die - Spring 2021
F9 - May 28, 2021
Black Widow - May 7, 2021 (first time since 2009 there will be no MCU film)
Wonder Woman 1984 - currently this christmas but it’ll move.
Trailers:
Mank - David Fincher
Monster Hunter - Milla Jovovich
Pixar’s ‘Soul’ to premiere on Disney+. It was originally supposed to premiere in theatres on Dec 25th 2020. No word on if it will be a premium release like Mulan was.
‘The Lion King’ is getting the The Godfather treatment! ‘The Lion King 2’ is in the works from ‘Moonlight’ director Barry Jenkins. Jeff Nathanson will return to write the script. It will apparently tell Mufasa’s origin story through flashback.
Spider-Man 3
Jamie Foxx’s Electro is returning… somehow. Apparently Electro won’t be blue this time though according to the star.
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange will also appear.
Vincent D’Onofrio is still trying to get his Kingpin back into the MCU. He also liked our tweet so… that’s pretty cool too obviously.
The movies title will apparently include the word “home” somehow, according to Amy Pascal. ‘Home Away from Home’ perhaps???
Aaron Sorkin is interested in doing a ‘Social Network 2’. Saying that we’ve now “discovered the dark side of Facebook”. Fincher would likely return.
‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ are coming to 4K Bluray in the ‘Middle Earth Collection’.
Sabrina Carpenter is set to star in and produce a modern reimagining of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ for Netflix. The film will be set during a music festival called ‘Wonderland’. - THR
Joker producer wants DC to make a Mr Freeze movie, saying that “if any villain was studied like Joker there are so many great possibilities. You could deal with Mr Freeze and the loss of his wife, the empathy, the emotions that created. I could see making a movie.”
WB is launching a Dr Seuss cinematic universe. It will start with 3 movies.
‘Cat in the Hat’
‘Thing One and Thing Two’
‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’
Justice League: Snyder Cut reshoots are set to cost around $70 million.
Junkie XL says that besides the Man of Steel theme and the Wonder Woman theme, all the music is new for the snyder cut.
Rian Johnson revealed that he’s working on a script for another Benoit Blanc movie.
“It’s not really a ‘Knives Out’ sequel. I need to come up with a title so I can stop calling it ‘The Knives Out Sequel’ because it's just Daniel Craig as the same detective with a totally new cast.
TV
Trailers:
Amazon Prime
Invincible - A Robert Kirkman adaptation with a stellar cast.
The Expanse S5 - Premiers Dec 16th, 2020
Netflix
Blood of Zeus - Oct 27th - Netflix
Disney+
Wandavision (late 2020)
A “The Boys” spin-off series is in development following its huge S2 debut (despite backlash over release strategy).
Ted Lasso renewed for S2
Side note, Jason Sudeikis also liked our tweet. Also very cool.
Ms. Marvel a.k.a Kamala Khan has been cast for the Disney+ series.
Iman Vellani is a Canadian actress from Markham, Ontario, with no prior credits. According to Wikipedia she’s born to muslim immigrants from Pakistan. This is fitting because when the Kamala Khan iteration of the Ms. Marvel character debuted in 2014, she was the first Muslim Marvel hero to have her own comic title.
A ‘Nick Fury’ series is apparently in development at Disney+ with Sam Jackson reprising his role.
Speaking of Disney+, the service has launched a feature called “GroupWatch” in Canada and the US. It let’s up to 7 people with different accounts watch the same show together. It will come to Europe later this year.
HBO Max
DC Universe is now dead (in a way)… unsurprisingly.
James Gunn is writing an 8 episode Suicide Squad spin-off series. It will follow Peacemaker and star John Cena, who will reprise his role from the upcoming film. Gunn will direct some episodes as well. It has a straight to series order.
Harley Quinn renewed for S3
Doom Patrol renewed for S3
Ridley Scott’s ‘Raised by Wolves’ renewed for S2
CBS All Access will rebrand as Paramount+
A scripted drama about the making of ‘The Godfather’ will be coming to the service. Titled ‘The Offer’
Supergirl will end its run on CW with S6.
Misc
Steve from Minecraft added to Smash
Rambo coming to MK 11
What We’re Watching
The Boys S2
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
