It’s rather insane to believe that we’ve recorded 75 episodes of Towelite Talk, yet here we are. It’s a real chunky episode for you guys as we catch up on a week’s worth of geekly news. Thanks for listening to us geeks all these years and enjoy!
Episode Notes
Marvel
- Fox pushing Mutant movies (previously mentioned Multiple Man)
- Tim miller (deadpool) developing Kitty Pryde
- Gore Vorbinski leaves Gambit after March production announcement
- New Mutants pushed to 2019
- Deadpool 2 pushed up
- 2 weeks after infinity war and 2 weeks before han solo
- Venom pic. YAWN.
- Black Panther adv tickets outsell (first 24 hours) beating Civil War
- Black Widow movie in dev. Is it the all female movie?
- Michael Pena let’s slip a 3rd ant-man movie
- Captain Marvel test footage
- Korg doing commentary for Thor: Ragnarok
- Coming to Bluray on March 6th
- Marvel is taking Conan away from Dark Horse
- Gail Simone writing Domino comic
DC
- Bendis will helm Action Comics 1000 with Jim Lee
- The OTHER History of the DC universe (original 1986 Wolfman/Perez) – John Ridley to write. Supergirl is a “refugee”. Other characters: Jon Stewart, Extrano, Vixen, Katana, Renee Montoya
- What does the new direction of DCEU mean? Streamlined?
- Shazam 4/5/2019
- Cyborg movie will be an origin
- Animated Suicide Squad movie. Tara Strong and Christian Slater headline
- Geoff Johns teases Hitman TV show based on Garth Ennis 61 issue series
- DCTV returns this week. Black Lightning premiere.
- DC surpasses marvel in market share for comics, 34.54 vs 33.8%
Commercial
Valiant
- Vin Diesel Bloodshot
Everything Else
- John Wick Tv show “The Continental”
- Game of Thrones spinoff 2020 (at least)
- Bryan Fuller on Anne Rice.
- Neil Gaiman new showrunner on American Gods. Nope.
- Walking Dead renewed, new showrunner Angela Kang. Scott Gimple promoted to chief content officer. Oversee the show, video games and more.
- John Cena joins Rise of the TMNT as Baron Draxum (all new character)
- Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina
- Gareth Edward’s Monsters is headed to TV from Vertigo Films and British Channel 4 (End of the F*cking World recently picked up by Netflix)
- Bride of Frankenstein back on?
- MOTU to shoot this spring with a release date of December 2019
- Doug Liman says Edge of Tomorrow 2 could be his next movie
- Saga as a musical?
- Voldemort: Origins of the Heir
- Godzilla Planet of Monsters out on Jan 17th on netflix
Star Wars
- TLJ Blu-Ray exclusives revealed by Best Buy and Target
- Two hours of extras
- Now in the top ten movies of all time with over 1.26 billion
- John Williams will score ep 9?
POP
- Hot Toys ESB Boba Fett
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