Soldier Boy is getting some reinforcements. Jensen Ackles plays the character, who is a dark version of Captain America, on The Boys, the Amazon superhero satire based on the (superior) comic book written by Garth Ennis. Soldier Boy was one of the antagonists in season 3, a powerful superhero who ha...
Read MoreThe Lasso of Truth will have to stay furled. Just over three years after it was announced, Warner Bros. Games has canceled the Wonder Woman game it’s been developing through studio Monolith Productions. Monolith, who created the Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor games, was also closed, as was Playe...
Read MoreAs Superman looms, comic fans are wondering what the about-to-begin DCU will look like. Two years ago, James Gunn – the co-CEO of Warner Bros.’s newly minted DC Studios with Peter Safran – gave a rundown of their plan for the first phase (or whatever they’re calling it to pretend it’s dif...
Read MoreWe’re not far from seeing the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen again, and while most of the lead-up to Daredevil: Born Again has been a mix of hopefulness and worry, a new advertisement is oddly reassuring. The new series, a revival of Netflix’s Daredevil starring Charlie Cox, premieres on Disney+ on ...
Read MoreCaptain America: Brave New World is the first of a series of Marvel films most seem to feel like we have to suffer through before we get to the good stuff – and there’s no guarantee, or even much faith, that the “good stuff” will be all that good. The point is, I doubt many fans …
The MCU version of the X-Men may be taking shape. In May, we learned that Marvel was fast-tracking an X-Men movie, partly because of the “success” of X-Men ‘97 (they must mean that it was well-liked by people who saw it because it didn’t get good numbers on Disney+) and partly because… yo...
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