Tom Welling and Tyler Hoechlin’s Clark Kents Meet on Crisis Set
Superman’s future on the big-screen might be murky, but fret not: The CW has enlisted three different Men of Steel to make appearances throughout the network’s five-part Crisis on Infinite Earth crossover. It still isn’t clear if all three iterations of the character (played by Tyler Hoechlin, Tom Welling, and Brandon Routh) will share the screen at once. But now, we now know that Welling and Hoechlin will indeed have a scene together. Thanks to Lois Lane actress Elizabeth Tulloch, we have our first glimpse at this meeting of the Clarks.
Tulloch recently took to Twitter to share a behind-the-scenes look at Crisis’ Kent Farm set. With this, she’s given us a better idea of how Welling will appear when he returns to play Kansas’ favorite son. You can check out Tulloch’s image below.
At first glance, it certainly looks like Welling’s Clark towers over Hoechlin’s. But since Welling is standing closer to the camera, this might just be an issue of perspective. It also seems that the crossover aims to differentiate between the two Supermen by giving them unique wardrobes. Welling is clearly sticking to the plaid-loving farm boy look he popularized on Smallville’s earliest seasons. Meanwhile, Hoechlin is adhering to the dignified and professional appearance of The Daily Planet’s mild-mannered reporter.
Of course, this isn’t the Arrowverse’s first visit to Clark’s rural stomping grounds. Last year’s Elseworlds crossover also featured Kent Farm in a scene that was introduced with Remy Zero’s “Save Me;” which served as Smallville’s iconic theme song for 10 seasons. Returning to this familiar location is definitely going to be nostalgic for old fans the series.
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Hulu’s Castle Rock season 2 teaser introduces Lizzy Caplan as Annie Wilkes
Hulu has released the Castle Rock Season 2 trailer, featuring Lizzy Caplan portraying Stephen King’s Misery character Annie Wilkes, as well as a look at iconic locations from ‘Salem’s Lot. You can check out the trailer below and catch the premiere on October 23!
The upcoming season will explore a feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes (played by Lizzy Caplan), King’s nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock.
The Castle Rock Season 2 cast includes Emmy nominee Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex), who will be taking on the iconic role of Misery’s Annie Wilkes, as well as Oscar winner Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Barkhad Abdi (Blade Runner 2049), Yusra Warsama (Call the Midwife), Paul Sparks (House of Cards), Matthew Alan (13 Reasons Why) and John Hoogenakker Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. Guest stars include Emmy Award-nominated actress Robin Weigert (Deadwood, Big Little Lies) as Annie Wilkes’ mother Crysilda Wilkes, Sarah Gadon (True Detective), Alison Wright (The Americans) and Greg Grunberg (Heroes, Alias).
A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King’s literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller — a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.
The first season of the series stars André Holland (Moonlight), Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness), Sissy Spacek (Carrie), Bill Skarsgård (IT), Jane Levy (Don’t Breathe) and Scott Glenn (Daredevil).
New Birds of Prey Posters Debut Ahead of Tomorrow’s Trailer
A colorful series of new Birds of Prey posters have made their way online for WB’s Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). You can check out the full posters in the gallery below and look for the full trailer to hit tomorrow!
Margot Robbie will be reprising her Suicide Squad role of Harley Quinn in the film, which also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain, Ewan McGregor as the villain Black Mask, Chris Messina as Victor Zsasz and Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya. Ali Wong (Fresh Off the Boat), Robert Catrini (American Crime Story), Steven Williams (IT) and Derek Wilson (Preacher) round out the ensemble.
Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) will direct the spin-off, making her the first female Asian director to helm a superhero film. The script was penned by Christina Hodson (Bumblebee).
In the DC Comics, the Birds of Prey are a mostly female superhero team has included Oracle/Batgirl, Black Canary, Huntress, Catwoman, Hawkgirl, Power Girl, Poison Ivy, Vixen, and Katana, who was played by Karen Fukuhara in Suicide Squad. A short-lived live-action TV series titled Birds of Prey aired on The WB from 2002-to-2003 for 13 episodes, starring Ashley Scott as Huntress, Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon/Oracle, Ian Abercrombie as Alfred Pennyworth and Mia Sara as Harley Quinn.
Birds of Prey is set to be released in theaters on February 7, 2020.
Netflix has officially confirmed that Stranger Things 4 is on the way! The fourth season was officially announced today with a new video, teasing “We’re not in Hawkins anymore.” The season 3 finale for the series set-up a new era for the series as much of its cast was preparing to depart the Indiana town, though some certainly remained.
The Duffer brothers revealed their excitement for the series’ renewal (and a new overall deal at Netflix) in a statement saying, “We can’t wait to tell many more stories together — beginning, of course, with a return trip to Hawkins!”
Stranger Things Season 3 starrs Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, David Harbour as Chief Jim Hopper, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Dacre Montgomery as Billy, Sadie Sink as Max, Maya Thurman-Hawke as Robin, Jake Busey as Bruce, Francesca Reale as Heather, and Cary Elwes as Mayor Kline.
The series was created by Matt and Sean Duffer, who also serve as executive producers and directors along with Shawn Levy (who also directs), Dan Cohen and Iain Patterson.
Stranger Things has received 30 Emmy nominations last year (with six wins) from its first two seasons and was honored with the 2017 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, as well as the 2017 Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television — Drama from the Producers Guild of America.
Season 3 is now available for streaming exclusively on Netflix. Pick up Season One by clicking here.
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POLL: Which Major Actor Should Star in Kevin Feige’s Star Wars?
Last week brought the exciting news that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is developing a Star Wars movie with Kathleen Kennedy! Feige reportedly told a major actor that there is a role for them if the project gets off the ground. ComingSoon.net asked its readers which big star they think should be the lead in this film, and over 2000 of you responded! Will it be an MCU star? Check out the official results of the poll below!
Which major actor should star in Kevin Feige’s Star Wars?
TOP FIVE:
Robert Downey Jr. (17%, 365 votes)
Keanu Reeves (15%, 319 votes)
Idris Elba (9%, 191 votes)
Chris Evans (8%, 181 votes)
Leonardo DiCaprio (5%, 112 votes)
RDJ’s placement at the top was no surprise, given his close alignment with Marvel Studios, where his reign as Iron Man recently ended. Coming in close is Keanu Reeves, whom Kevin Feige has said is consistently approached for roles in MCU movies such as the Jude Law role in Captain Marvel. However, given that he’s returning to Matrix-land, is another role in a high-profile sci-fi franchise really feasible for the John Wick actor? Coming in third is Idris Elba, who has already had a run in several big sci-fi tentpoles like Prometheus, Pacific Rim and Star Trek Beyond., and who would fit in well in the Star Wars universe. Another MCU vet, Chris Evans, scored fourth place, and would be a great choice considering how great he was in the underseen sci-fi film Sunshine. And coming in at #5 is Leonardo DiCaprio, who was originally a front-runner to play Anakin Skywalker in Attack of the Clones, losing out to Hayden Christensen.
Feige has long been a vocal fan of the Star Wars franchise, going so far as to include a character getting a hand/limb severed in EVERY Phase 2 movie from Marvel Studios as a nod to Luke Skywalker’s hand amputation in The Empire Strikes Back. Countless jokes and references to the galaxy far, far away have been peppered into the MCU as well, such as Peter Parker’s reference to “that old movie” (also referring to Episode V).
When could the film be released? It’s unclear, but might not be for a few years. Both Feige and Lucasfilm have their hands full with a variety of projects. Marvel Studios just unveiled a slate of films and television series through at least 2022, plus the recent acquisition of the 20th Century Fox brand means the X-Men and Fantastic Four will be having their own homecoming to the MCU in the near future. As for Lucasfilm, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will debut this December, with three more untitled Star Wars movies already set for 2022, 2024, and 2026. It’s believed that these release dates belong to the trilogy from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’, but a trilogy from The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson also remains in development with likely other unannounced Star Wars projects in the wings (not to mention Indiana Jones and Children of Blood and Bone).
CS Visits Disney Animation to Learn Frozen 2 Story, Music Details
At an early press day at Walt Disney Animation Studios, ComingSoon.net was invited to see scenes from Frozen 2 that included a look at Elsa’s next musical showstopper: “Into the Unknown,” her big follow-up to “Let it Go.” We also got new story details and react to early footage!
Directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck were on hand to share a preview that started by taking us into the past. In the film’s opening, we see the royal sisters as children being told a story by their dad, King Agnarr about an Enchanted Forest that he visited as a boy. In it, he encountered the magical spirits of nature: air, fire, water, and earth. In the enchanted environment, he experienced a dangerous brush with the nature of these spirits that almost cost him his life but doesn’t remember what angered them or what saved him. Only that he heard a haunting voice cry out and push everyone out of the forest and creating a thick mist to keep them out.
Little Anna and Elsa are enraptured by the story but their father warns them that the forest is shrouded in a mystery that they should prepare for if the fog lifts and the spirits are awakened again. Excitedly they want to stay up with questions but their mother Iduna sings them a lullaby that was sung to her as a child about a river that leads to a place that leads to the answers of everything they’d want to know.
Expanding on Anna and Elsa’s history through a good memory of their parents raises a lot of questions about what they might have been keeping from their children. In the first Frozen, we had scenes of the sisters being kept apart when they were younger. Getting a glimpse at the royal family happy and acknowledging the magical nature of their world outside of Elsa’s powers, builds the groundwork for the Queen and King perhaps knowing more before their journey to the sea. Having her father be someone who experienced trauma due to elemental spirits in a forest, may have been why he encouraged Elsa to conceal her magical abilities in the hopes that she wouldn’t encounter the dangers he did.
Having the counterpoint to his fears be a lullaby about ancestral knowledge in nature that’s sung to them by their mother. Jennifer Lee (who voiced the character in the first one) shared that she fired herself and cast Evan Rachel Wood to take over, “Evan is amazing and her singing voice sits beautifully between Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel in terms of its parent sweetness and that was an amazing discovery as we get to hear her sing.” And the lullaby she performs plants newly introduced mythology into their head that will come into play when we pick up on Anna and Elsa following the events of the first film.
Serving as the Queen of Arendelle with Anna at her side, Elsa is settling into a routine as a leader. It’s so exciting to see more adventures of a Queen and the challenges she faces in not only governing but also figuring out the new personal relationships she has after being isolated for so long. Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven round out their found family and they share an opening ensemble scene over a game of charades. Olaf uses the power of transformation that flexes his shorthand with Kristoff and Sven but Anna and Elsa don’t quite have the hang of effortless communication with one another. Something is stopping Elsa from being in tune with her sister and while Anna assures her it’s not a big deal with a lullaby–something still keeps Elsa awake at night.
There are voices in Elsa’s head that won’t let her sleep!
We were able to watch the full sequence of “Into the Unknown,” Elsa’s first number of TWO, and were completely blown away by this musical number. It’s yet another all-timer vocal performance from Idina Menzel that will make you feel empowered. Prepare to hear it on repeat over and over.
When asked if there was stress to follow up “Let it Go,” Lee talked about their approach with composers/lyricists Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “We made a pact when we connected with Bobby and Kristen that we would build the second one the same way as the first, and not let that pressure into the story room. Because every song has to come from the story, just like it did before. Every moment has to be true. At the end of the day we- just like we didn’t know what the world would think of Frozen. We can’t know, but we can know that we did build this the way we believed in and there’s a lot of real emotion and real sharing of experience and real sort of story that was driven the way the first one was.” They would also take scenes from the film that Lee and Buck would share and highlight moments where musical moments could occur naturally.
“Into the Unknown” follows Elsa as she considers the call she hears outside the castle walls she is in by choice. Through the song, Elsa expresses her frustration over a voice that’s calling to her and her refusal to listen even though she REALLY wants to! The distant voice taps into a part of Elsa that she’s ignored for fear that it would only lead to danger and threaten the happy life she has with Anna and the kingdom. Her powers jump out to connect with the voice and unleash an elemental force on Arendelle that propels her, Anna and company on a new adventure.
At the heart of the film, Chris Buck described the through line of the film as something that jumped out to them from their research trip. He said, “It was kind of a stark contrast between Norway and Iceland that framed the concept for us. Anna felt at home in Norway with its fairytale settings, but Elsa felt strangely at home in this dark, mythic Iceland.”
So, while in the past her parents evaded exploring the root of Elsa’s powers, and maybe were lost at sea when they did try to find out more, we have a new story where Anna and Elsa choose to face it on together. That’s the most exciting thing about Frozen 2, seeing how Anna’s potential as a human gets put to the test while we also see Elsa push her powers against elements bigger than her.
In the sea sequence, we’ve gotten a glimpse of Elsa manifesting her ice powers against the sea and a mythical water creature that she encounters. And while her ice bridge is built-in defense, the animators took special notice to make sure Elsa doesn’t regress with her abilities. Also on hand was Animation supervisor Michael Woodside, who worked on Elsa’s power moments, “We’re really looking at what we had established on the first film. She’s been kind of groomed to be the queen. But there’s this nice grace to her.”
He recalled how in the first film, we saw how her powers involuntarily externalized to protect her–which Hans used to describe her as a threat so they decided to step away from that through rooting her movement to who the core of who she is, “Her fingers, when she’s casting the magic, there’s a nice flow to them. Instead of, like, a claw, type of thing. We did something like that in the first film– that moment where she was being attacked by those guys. And, you know, she was kind of doing kind of like a monster type claw. In this film she creates things. Huge pieces of magic like, quickly. She envisions something and it’s, and it’s created.” Michael likened the shift of her power being like going from Ballet in the first film to modern dance in this one.
Solidifying Elsa as a mythically powered heroine going on a journey with her sister who isn’t, creates intriguing stakes. Jennifer Lee proudly brings the sisters to the forefront, “Anna is your perfect fairytale character. She’s an ordinary hero, not magical. She’s optimistic. Whereas Elsa is the perfect mythic character. Mythic characters are magical. They carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. In fact, the mythic characters often meet a tragic fate and we realized we had two stories going together, mythic story and a fairytale story. In the mythic aspect of it, the fear of that tragic fate is something that Anna’s been worrying about and thus protect her sister from.”
It will be interesting to see how despite their differences, Anna and Elsa will find a way to overcome obstacles to protect their kingdom together and strengthen their bond. We can’t wait to follow them “Into the Unknown” in Frozen 2 which opens November 22nd!
Another Breaking Bad return revealed in El Camino spot
The marketing team behind the highly-anticipated El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie has been successful in slowly unveiling the returns of supporting characters from the acclaimed AMC series and a new spot has debuted revealing the return of handy ally Old Joe. Check out the new El Camino spot in the player below!
Written and directed by series creator Vince Gilligan El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is described as follows: “In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.”
The Emmy Award-winning series aired on AMC before seasons were later made available on Netflix. Vince Gilligan credited the streamer for its contribution to the show’s success in his 2013 Emmy acceptance speech, saying that he thinks Netflix helped keep the show on the air.
Portrayed by Larry Hankin, Old Joe is a junkyard owner who helped Jesse (Aaron Paul) and Walter (Bryan Cranston) on multiple occasions with his extensive knowledge of police procedure, his engineering skills developing tech gadgets, as well as the car crusher that came in handy numerous times for the antiheroes.
AMC’s Breaking Bad ended its critically acclaimed five-season run with a finale that brought in a series record 10.3 million viewers. It was followed by the prequel series Better Call Saul, focused on Bob Odenkirk’s small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill, which just got renewed for a fifth season.
The film will be available for streaming on October 11, exclusively on Netflix.
1917 behind-the-scenes featurette looks at one-shot war epic
Universal Pictures has debuted a new behind-the-scenes featurette for the upcoming war epic 1917 from Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (Skyfall), revealing the extensive work that went into bringing the story to life as one continuous shot. Check it out in the player below!
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake’s own brother among them.
Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Colin Firth (Mary Poppins Returns), and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones) and Mark Strong (Shazam!) star in the film. Other additions to the cast include Andrew Scott, Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan, Claire Duburcq, George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman.
1917 is directed by Sam Mendes, who wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Showtime’s Penny Dreadful). The film is produced by Mendes and Pippa Harris (co-executive producer, Revolutionary Road; executive producer, Away We Go) for their Neal Street Productions, Jayne-Ann Tenggren (co-producer, The Rhythm Section; associate producer, Spectre), Callum McDougall (executive producer, Mary Poppins Returns, Skyfall) and Brian Oliver (executive producer, Rocketman; Black Swan).
The film is produced by Neal Street Productions for DreamWorks Pictures in association with New Republic Pictures. Universal Pictures will release the film domestically in limited release on December 25, 2019 and wide on January 10, 2020. Universal and Amblin Partners will distribute the film internationally, with eOne distributing on behalf of Amblin in the U.K.
Nancy Stephens returning to Halloween franchise for Halloween Kills
The roster for the upcoming follow-up to the 2018 hit horror reboot Halloween is continuing to dive deep into the storied franchise’s original mythos as another character from the debut film is returning in the form of Nancy Stephens’ Nurse Marion Chambers, according to the official franchise website.
It was recently announced that Anthony Michael Hall will also play Tommy Doyle, who first appeared as a child in the original Halloween movie as one of the kids Laurie Strode (Curtis) was babysitting. The adult version of the character was previously played by Paul Rudd in The Curse of Michael Myers, the sixth movie of the original storyline. The new universe avoids those sequels, however, as the 2018 movie picks up the narrative after the 1978 film.
Stephens’ Nurse Marion first appeared in the original film as she and Dr. Loomis head to Smith’s Grove to check in on infamous antagonist Michael Myers, nearly being killed by the man as the two investigate the chaos of a group of patients lingering around the outside gates in the rain. She would return for the first sequel Halloween II, in which she revealed the franchise’s original twist that Laurie was the younger sister to Michael, and survived his reign of terror on the hospital and helped Laurie escape alive. She was last seen in the franchise’s first attempt at a return to form, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, in which she was revealed to have taken care of Dr. Loomis up until his death before being killed by Michael in the opening of the film.
Kyle Richards, who portrayed Lindsey in the original film in which she was the other child under Laurie’s care when Michael’s reign of terror begins, is also set to return. Her character also appeared in similar fashion in Rob Zombie’s 2007 remake, but was not seen in any other films in the series, appearing only in the official sequel comic One Good Scare, in which as an adult she is under the care of David Loomis, Samuel’s son, at the local sanitarium claiming to be stalked by Michael, only to be found murdered with 13 knives in her.
Lonnie Elam, originally appeared in the original film as the bully to young Tommy, is also set to return after references were made in last year’s installment in which Laurie’s granddaughter Allyson is dating Lonnie’s son Cameron and that Lonnie became a delinquent in his teenage and early adult years, taking to drugs.The new version of the character is set to be portrayed by Robert Longstreet (Sorry to Bother You, The Haunting of Hill House).
It was previously announced that Halloween filmmaker and composer John Carpenter will be composing the score for both Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.
Both sequels were just announced last month, and details about either film are scarce at this point. All that’s really known, besides Carpenter providing the music, is that Halloween Kills will be released on Friday, October 16, 2020. David Gordon Green will return to direct and co-write the script with Danny McBride (The Righteous Gemstones) and Scott Teems. The following year, Halloween Ends will be released on Friday, October 15, 2021, which Green will also direct and co-write, this time with Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier.
Both films will be based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill and will be directed by David Gordon Green and produced by Malek Akkad, Jason Blum, and Bill Block. Carpenter, McBride, Green executive produce alongside Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeanette Volturno and Couper Samuelson.
Released last October to critical acclaim and huge box office success, 2018’s Halloween brought in over $250 million at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing slasher film of all time.
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