Guillermo del Toro’s latest film Crimson Peak looks amazing! If you are in to old school gothic horror, you owe it to yourself to watch this trailer. Even if you are not, you still should. This movie is firmly now on my must watch list! (As if anything made by del Toro wouldn’t be)
How Many Comic Book Movies Can We Watch?
Starting this year, there will not be a year with fewer than three comic book movies in the next five years. Some of those years have as many as seven comic book movies. Now that is great news to me, but will the public at large start to get sick of them? I mean there are more than thirty movies based on comic heroes in some form of production. Probably a lot more than that. That number is based on what has been announced. I know I will watch them all, but I am a nerd and for me this is my movie renaissance, but for everyone else when do they say “enough!”? I am guessing around 2017.
My reasoning is that once DC’s slate of films really starts there will just be too many of them on the market. There will be a hero flick every other month. If I was in marketing that is a statistic that would worry me. Four seems about right. That is one Marvel movie, one X-Men/F4 movie (still Marvel I know, but Fox’s Marvel), one DC Movie, and then something from someone else, like Dark Horse. That way everyone gets a big movie, and all their stories keep moving forward.
I only bring this up because I want to see superhero movies keep being made, and I really don’t want them to over saturate the market. We have been fine up till now, but that is because DC and Fox didn’t have their acts together, and they could only get a movie out every couple of years. With both of them now running full steam ahead, we are going to see every hero, major or minor, hit the big screen, and I just don’t think it is going to work out the may movie studios hope.
Shmee Lights A Candle For Shadow Realms!
EA/BioWare has decided to pull the plug on the four on one dungeon crawler Shadow Realms. The Paladin and I both quite enjoyed our short time with this game, but it looks like they could never get it working they way they wanted. It was always an odd game. It was going to be released episodically with the story parts single player, but the fighting multiplayer. You got to choose whether you were one of the good guys or played as the Shadow Lord. It was fun to see a developer trying something new, but the folks over at EA probably got cold feat when it looked like the public at large wasn’t getting the concept. I hope the devs making the game manage to keep their jobs and just move to a different project. We will see.
Part of me is wondering if the lawyers at Tops and Microsoft were wondering where their royalty check was since the story and setting concepts were so close to Shadowrun, so EA just decided not to deal with it. Whatever the cause, we are down one more RPG. I will light a candle.
Spider-Man Heads Back To Marvel!
Well after all the leaked email messages, and all the disinformation the Spider-Man movies are headed back to the Marvel Universe! Marvel has been trying to get its most popular property back for some time, so for them this is cause for celebration. According to the deal Sony will still make all the stand-alone films, but they will now be produced by Marvel’s super producer Kevin Feige, and they will at least be acknowledged by the other Marvel movies. All the team-ups however, will be made by Marvel. It is very likely that the new Spider-Man will make his debut in Captain America: Civil War.
Spidey’s new stand-alone film comes out July 28th 2017, and to make sure that he is not being crowded by his Marvel buddies, Marvel is shuffling its releases. The list now looks like this:
- Black Panther moves up from November 3rd 2017 to July 6th 2017.
- Thor will move from July 28th to fill Black Panther’s spot on November 3rd.
- Inhumans gets kicked all the way back to “Summer 2019”
- Lastly Captain America now fills the November 2018 slot.
I am not sure why moving Black Panther up helps, and why they just didn’t move Thor up a couple of weekends, but I am sure they are better at this than I am. This is a day Marvel comic book fans have been waiting for, and I am sure they are all celebrating in some way today.
Constantine Is Done, Or Is It?
Well NBC announced their renewals and Constantine wasn’t on the list, and I am guessing that is it for the show, but new rumors say that might not be the case. According to Comicbook.com NBC execs were very happy with how the show did on SyFy during a marathon, and they may move the show over there. Not only that, to get the old school comic book fans on board they are thinking of changing the name of the show to the title of the comics: Hellblazer. This move off of a major network and on to cable would allow the show to get a darker, and feature more of what Constantine is known for.
Obviously this is just a rumor, and I fully expect Constantine to be canceled, but the DVR and On Demand numbers were so good for this show that it would make some sense to keep it alive. I kind of wish that it would move to The CW, so Constantine could hang out with the rest of his DC friends. TV Justice League for the win! I am sure we will hear of Constantine’s final fate shortly, and regardless of how this all turns out. It has been fun having him on TV if only for a little while.