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Some days during the pandemic it feels like Hollywood has gone to sleep, with not a drop of news. Other days, the news comes at you so fast you forget you’re even in a pandemic. This last Wednesday was one of those days. Between the news of Gina Carano’s firing from Disney, and Joel and Ellie’s casting for ‘The Last of Us’, it felt like the good ol’ days on Twitter. News coming in so hot, that before you can even formulate a thought, it’s been debunked or some other news bit is thrown at you. It was exciting. So with at least one news day worth of stories to discuss, the ToB Crew takes a look back at a busy day on Twitter as well as a ton of other stories from the last couple weeks, amd to end the show, the guys discuss the latest goings ons with ‘WandaVision’ in a full spoiler discussion. All that, and so much more, on this week’s Tower of Babble Podcast!
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Movies
Gina Carano fired from Disney and ‘The Mandalorian’.
Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay have been cast as Joel and Ellie for ‘The Last of Us’ series coming to HBO.
More disturbing news of Joss Whedon’s behavior, this time on the set of ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’.
Christopher Plummer passed away at the age of 91.
Trailers:
Fast 9
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
Marvel still has no plans to release ‘Black Widow’ on Disney+, remaining firm on their commitment to a theatrical release.
The director of ‘Godzilla vs Kong’, Adam Wingard, is set to direct a remake/sequel/requel of the Nicholas Cage and John Travolta cult hit, ‘Faceoff’.
The sequel to the last movie most people saw in theatres, ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ has an official title, ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’. It’s expected that Knuckles the Echidna will make his debut alongside Tails.
The Matrix 4 is officially called ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’.
The buzz for Zack Snyder’s ‘Justice League’ continues to ramp up as we approach the release in March, and with it comes new images of Jared Leto’s Joker.
Jamie Lee Curtis will join Kevin Hart and Cate Blanchett in the feature adaption of the ‘Borderlands’ video game. It will be directed by Eli Roth and written by ‘Chernobyl’ creator, Craig Mazin.
Marvel has found a writer for it’s ‘Blade’ film. ‘The Watchmen’ writer Stacey Osei-Kuffour has begun working on a script for the Muhurshula Ali vehicle.
A film following the events of the Gamestop stock situation called ‘The Antisocial Network’ is in the works at MGM.
Edgar Wright reveals the script for ‘Baby Driver 2’ is complete.
A direct sequel to the original ‘Cloverfield’ is in the works. It won’t be a found footage movie.
Four new DC Showcase animated shorts to be released in 2021 and 2022.
TV
The 2021 Golden Globe nominees have been released.
Marvel is working on a ‘Wakanda’ series for Disney+.
Nintendo scrapped a live-action ‘Zelda’ series with Netflix after news of the project leaked online.
An animated ‘Game of Thrones’ series is in the works at HBO.
Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller Bridge to create and star in a new ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ series for Amazon Prime.
‘Brooklyn Nine Nine’ is set to end with season 8.
HBO is in talks with new writers as they look to find a new voice for ‘True Detective’ season 4.
The creator of ‘Over the Garden Wall’, has been tapped by Netflix to create a ‘Redwall’ series for the streamer.
The CW and HBO Max are in talks to co-finance original shows to premiere on HBO Mac with a next day airing on The CW.
A revival of ‘Frasier’ is being considered for Paramount+.
‘Titans’ gets another new Robin. Season 3 will introduce Tim Drake; played by Jay Lycurgo.
What We’ve Been Watching
WandaVision (spoilers)
