Chris and Casey woke up this morning with one thing on their minds: get out some Geekly News to the Towelites; and that’s just what they did. Hear them get all sorts of fired up about the latest changes over at Fox Studios, Star Wars Canon, and some pretty sweet video game news; and so much more!
Show Notes:
Kevin Smith heart attack – out now and at home
Marvel
- Punisher 2 adds Josh Stewart, Floriana Lima and Giorgia Whigham
- Josh Stewart has been cast as John Pilgrim, a man whose calm exterior belies a ruthless interior. Despite having left behind a life of violence, circumstances will force him to use his old skills and bring him into Frank Castle’s world. Floriana Lima will play the role of Krista Dumont, a smart, compassionate, and driven psychotherapist for military veterans. Giorgia Whigham has been locked to play Amy Bendix, a street-smart grifter with a mysterious past.
- AOS Season finale being written as Series finale
- Moon girl and devil dinosaur series coming from Laurence Fishburne
- Gemma Chan plays Kree spy Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel. How will Kree look compared to AOS treatment?
- Mark Hamill tweets himself into GOTG Vol 3
- Fox wants three films per year for 2019-2020
- Rob Liefield hinted that filming on X-Force starts in October
- RUMOR Brian K Vaughn writing Silver Surfer movie for Fox
- New Mutants pushed back so they could add in a new character and do vast reshoots. Feb 2019 release date.
DC
- Joss Whedon leaves Batgirl ‘says he has no story’. Roxane Gay and Gail Simone express”ED” interest BUT movie is “no longer a priority” for DC as a film.
- First look at Shazam Costume
- Joaquin Phoenix on Joker film “What movie about a joker?”
- Aquaman Screening gets rave reviews. Being said ‘tons of action’ & ‘emotional’
Star Wars
- SOLO Books – Han Solo/Lando novel ‘Last Shot’ (before, after, and after ROTJ), YA – ‘Most Wanted’ – Qi’ra & Solo childhood stories, New Lando comic (right b4), Kids – The Mighty Chewbacca: Forest of Fear – x-over with Cassian and K2SO. AND THERE’S MORE.
- The Last Jedi novelization talks about his wife
- Script for IX is done
COMMERCIAL
Everything Else
- CD Projekt Red working on Cyborg 2077 game ‘more ambitious than Witcher 3’
- Amazon gets Dark Tower and Wheel of Time
- Lost in Space coming to netflix
- Vin Diesel led (still rumor) Bloodshot to start shooting May
- Next transformers movie is a reboot (after bumblee movie)
- Rocketeer coming to Disney Jr.
POP
- Ash on preorder
- HIYA toys 1:18th Predator toys
- HIYA – release date for Aliens figures
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