WB CEO Singles Out Wonder Woman As The Next Big DC Franchise?
One of the great frustrations for any DC fanboy is that Wonder Woman still hasn’t had a proper big screen adaptation. And Dubya Dubya hasn’t had a decent TV series since Linda Carter’s show in the 1970s. In fact, short of the Wonder Woman DVD movie that came out in 2009 (which should be used as the model for all WW adaptations), she may be the most under-utilized of all the DC properties. But superhero movies, both Marvel and DC alike, are regular sausage fests. So having a female superhero in the lead role is something that should be on every studio agenda right now. Over at WB it apparently is. This weekend at an entertainment lawyer’s convention Warner CEO Kevin Tsujihara, hot off his deal with J.K. Rowling for more Harry Potter films, singled out the Amazing Amazon as a DC...
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MTV’s SCREAM Series Is Going Supernatural
While Harvey Weinstein hopes to get an unlikely Scream 5 off the ground, it’s full steam ahead for the Scream TV series. But anyone expecting closure on Sidney Prescott, Gail Weathers and Dewey Riley’s story will be sorely disappointed in the MTV show. According to Movie Web, Harvey Weinstein revealed that the show may be completely different from the film franchise we know and love: While we don’t have a direct quote from Harvey Weinstein, he revealed that the series won’t have much to do with the original movie franchise, representing a new direction with supernatural elements. Lack of a direct quote aside, it sounds like Scream the TV series may be going in the same direction as the Friday the 13th series in the 1980s, which is quite honestly a good thing. The idea of a Scream show with ghostface and all that never made much sense, but...
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New HANNIBAL Season Two Poster Is, Well, Just Look…
Hannibal Season Two doesn’t premiere until mid-season, but that has given creator Bryan Fuller and his effects team time to put together a poster that demonstrates Will Graham’s clearer view of his own madness. He’s getting closer to putting together all the pieces. Needless to say, 2014 can’t come soon...
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ARROW Producer Talks Grant Gustin And The Flash
Arrow‘s second season premieres on Oct. 9 and most fans are already aware that Barry Allen will make an appearance in episodes 8, 9 and 20 of the live-action superhero series. But introducing a second major superhero into a series that is already overflowing with comic book references and DC characters is something that must be handled with care. Over at FlashTVNews, producer Andrew Kreisberg explained how they went about writing the iconic character: “Barry’s such a different character from Oliver… Episodes 8 and 9 [of Arrow Season 2]… I just handed in 9… it’s been really interesting to write those, because you literally have those two characters in the same show. In some ways it actually may be easier because you can say ‘That’s something Oliver would say; it’s not something Barry would say. Barry has a very...
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Vince Gilligan Talks Alternative BREAKING BAD Series Finale Endings
Really, you couldn’t ask for a better series finale than the one we got with Breaking Bad. It’s cinematic in the way it ties things up and never ever overreaches, something that it could have easily done. But there were a number of ways the show could have ended according to creator Vince Gilligan. In speaking with EW, Gilligan listed a few of the scenarios that were tossed around the writers room leading up to the finale: There was a version we kicked around where Walt is the only one who survives, and he’s standing among the wreckage and his whole family is destroyed. That would be a very powerful ending, but very much a kick-in-the-teeth kind of ending for the viewers. We talked about a version where Jesse kills Walt. We talked about a version where Walt more or...
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Commissioner Gordon TV Series GOTHAM Headed To Fox
The day after Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiered, we’ve learned that there’s another comic book property headed to the small screen, this time from DC. According to Deadline, FOX has won a bidding war for a Batman prequel series titled Gotham. The show will follow the early career of James Gordon years before he meet the bat. Bruno Heller, who created CBS’s The Mentalist, will be the executive in charge. So not unlike S.H.I.E.L.D. we’re probably looking at an episodic procedural, this one taking place in yet another DC universe (outside of the Cinematic Universe and the Arrow-verse). Just how comic book-y of a show we’re looking at, I guess time will...
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