Superheroes!

[Laurana Kanan]

I'm sure this old news for most, but I was totally unaware this teaser came out. Can't say this interests me as a pure Batman movie, but the story outlined in the trailer has piqued my interest enough to see it when it comes out.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Solved Riddler's trailer riddle?

Spoiler ? :

The Batman: The Riddler's Trailer Riddle Has Already Been Solved
The answer to the Riddler's riddle from the new The Batman trailer has been posted online by a clever fan.

The first trailer of Matt Reeves' The Batman presented the first of The Riddler's brain teasers for the Dark Knight to work through. In the trailer, the scene in which Commissioner Jim Gordon opens a greeting card addressed "to the Batman." The card contains a riddle from the Riddler, which reads: "What does a liar do when he’s dead?" The answer is given on the opposite side of the card in a cryptogram with a variety of different symbols. Now, a fan has seemingly solved the riddle. In a long Twitter thread, Mike Selinker laid out how he went about solving the puzzle in detail. Eventually, he reveals that the answer to the riddle is "He lies still." The punny answer certainly checks out -- lying is all a dead man can do. But the word "lie" has multiple meanings: there's the physical act of lying down and the act of telling a lie. That is where the riddle gets even more interesting.

While Selinker's decoding skills have saved fans several agonizing months of waiting for the answer, we still don't know the significance for the movie itself. Riddler definitely doesn't like liars, but it's unclear if he's taunting Batman or calling him out personally. The Riddler has, historically, liked to play games with the Dark Knight, and this is definitely part of that characterization. It also raises some question as to if Riddler knows Bruce Wayne is Batman, and thus lying about his identity. Overall, the riddle's answer just yields more questions.

Apparently only 25% of the movie been filmed yet.

Influenced by

Robert Pattinson's Batman Boosts Darwyn Cooke's Batman: Ego on eBay


"Bruce Wayne. Humanitarian. You self-righteous hypocrite. You talk about the sanctity of human life… while you lie buried under scores of human victims. What about their lives? Are they simply the cost of upholding your cowardly morality" At the DC Fandome event, director Matt Reeves talked about the upcoming The Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, and specifically named the late Darwyn Cooke's Batman: Ego comic book as a major reference point for the psychology of the new movie. It's been mentioned before, but never so officially. "He's confronting the beast of the duality. Him confronting the shadow side of himself" and exploring a Jungian side to the Batman.



Batman Ego by Darwyn Cooke was published by DC Comics in 2000 and has been collected with either stories since. It was originally pitched for work at Warner Bros. Animation after replying to an ad for storyboard artists in The Comics Journal placed by animator Bruce Timm. His successful pitch included 14 pages that eventually would be published in 2000 as Batman: Ego. Described by Cooke as "What if Batman and Bruce Wayne were able to sit down and talk about what it is they do?", the internal dialogue of Batman: Ego between Bruce Wayne and Batman was inspired by the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre.

Batman Ego sees Batman tracking down the Joker through a henchman Buster Snibbs, only for Snibbs to commit suicide, knowing that the Joker will know he betrayed him. Bruce Wayne is consumed by guilt and decides to retire his alter ego, but instead divides his mind into competing narratives, his Batman Id versus his Bruce Wayne Superego.



They debate their shared history, Bruce's childhood, Batman's beginnings, and the rise of Gotham's supervillains. Batman refuses to be retired, and decided that they must kill the Joker. Bruce Wayne refuses. After much psychological torment, the two halves reach a compromise, Bruce Watne will accept the guilt and responsibility of Batman's crusade, as long Batman can accepts he must stand for hope as well as fear. As The Joker escapes again.

Batman: Ego came so close to not happening though. While Cooke worked in Warner Bros animation, his comic book pitch was forgotten until it was unearthed several years later by former DC art director Mark Chiarello, who contacted Cooke, and asked if he still wanted to do it. And that is how Darwyn Cooke started working for DC Comics – and the rest is history. And now DC has a movie out of it.



Yesterday, after no such sales for weeks. several sales of the original 2000 copy as well as the 2007 hardcover collection with other Batman stories by Cooke took place on eBay.
Copies of the original comic, originally at $7, has now sold copies for up to $20 with one current copy at $30 with ten bids. Amazon Marketplace is trying to get fifty bucks…

 

[Cutlass]

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/black-panther-star-chadwick-boseman-dies-of-cancer-at-43/

 

[Synobun]

That came out of left field. Shocked he could have done action star stuff while battling cancer.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Yeah that’s really surprising. Especially being so young. I really only knew him from Black Panther and the movie 42 but I thought he was a good actor.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Ah man, what a loss. Damn.

Chadwick Boseman was a terrific actor, delivered quality in every role he touched.

He completed his work as the voice of T'Challa in the upcoming MCU animated series What If...?

R.I.P. Black Panther

Roar!

 

[EgonSpengler]

Yeah, that sucks.

 

[Cutlass]

 

[REDY]

I have just seen Thor: Ragnarok.

Its the best Thor, at the same time its very shallow without some long standing substances.

RIP Chadwick Boseman

 

[Cutlass]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...149&utm_medium=social&utm_source=VICE_twitter


A tour de force article about the issues comics can confront if they try.

 

[Synobun]

Here we go. WandaVision coming out on Disney+ in December.

Conveniently timed to coincide with the end of The Mandalorian...

 

[EgonSpengler]

Here we go. WandaVision coming out on Disney+ in December.

Conveniently timed to coincide with the end of The Mandalorian...

Falcon & The Winter Soldier has resumed filming, too. Georges St. Pierre has been spotted on-set. I don't know if the order the shows are released matters. Falcon was supposed to debut last month, well ahead of Wanda, but the two may not overlap at all.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Making of the Batman animated series...

When animators Paul Dini and Bruce Timm were tasked with creating an animated Batman cartoon, no one knew whether the team would be able to reinvent the character away from his campy television roots. But what came out of their collaboration was "Batman: The Animated Series", an award-winning new chapter in the story of the Caped Crusader. Explore the complex, nuanced world and exceptional characters created Behind The Scenes by the designers, composers, and directors of this groundbreaking series.

 

[Cutlass]

Does anyone know what Jason Mamoa is talking about as far as mistreatment on the set of Justice League?



https://variety.com/2020/film/news/jason-momoa-justice-league-ray-fisher-allegations-1234769729/

 

[EgonSpengler]

Does anyone know what Jason Mamoa is talking about as far as mistreatment on the set of Justice League?



https://variety.com/2020/film/news/jason-momoa-justice-league-ray-fisher-allegations-1234769729/

To my memory, Fisher basically said that Whedon was an a-hole but wasn't very specific. On one his podcasts a while back, Kevin Smith tried to "read between the lines" of Fisher's statement and speculate on what Whedon had done or how he'd behaved. I haven't been moved to look for any more details since then, though.

 

[Synobun]

It's seemingly bad enough for the studio to try and rig the investigation.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Your Jennifer Walters, ladies and gentlemen:

Deadline, 17 Sept 2020 - "'She-Hulk': Tatiana Maslany lands title role in new Marvel series"

Spoiler :

Alright, I'm excited. I didn't think I would be excited about She-Hulk, but the SOBs got me.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Found an interesting tidbit while surfing:

Bleeding Cool, 18 Sept 2020 - "Power Book II: Ghost Co-EP/Writer Had Pilot Plans for Mockingbird"

I'm not quite 100% sold on Palicki carrying her own series, and I wasn't crushed when Most Wanted didn't get picked up, but I did like her as Bobbi, so this idea is intriguing.

I also haven't seen Power, but I see that Thorne wrote some episodes of Leverage and The Librarians, which were shows I enjoyed well enough. (I also see that he used to be an actor, and was a regular in a show I used to watch: In the Heat of the Night, back in '88-'93, with Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins.)

It's probably intensely unlikely to happen, but otoh, it seems like he's dangling the idea in the water, if Disney is looking for something that could be inexpensive to produce. With the shambles the industry is in, I guess anything is worth a try right now. If the script is done and if Palicki has stayed in shape and is looking for work (WTH happened to The Orville? I haven't read anything about it in at least a year), commissioning a pilot might not be the worst idea the suits have heard this week.

Taking to Twitter on Friday, Thorne revealed that he had written a solo pilot script for Adrianne Palicki's Bobbi Morse aka Mockingbird- last seen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 3. To be clear, this was a pilot separate from 2015's proposed pilot Marvel's Most Wanted, which was already filmed before ABC abandoned the project. While Thorne himself pretty much puts the kibosh on the possibility of it happening now, here's a look at Thorne's initial tweet with a follow-up from Thorne that included a sample of the pilot script.

What if I'd ALREADY written a pilot for this actor to play this character? (hint: it's not hypothetical)

here's a drip.

That looks like it could be the very first paragraph of the script, a James Bond-style opening with the character in the closing moments of her previous mission.

 

[Cutlass]

Our library recently partially opened back up. So I wandered in. They had Had the Birds of Prey and Joker movies. I've watched about 1/2 of Birds of Prey, and don't know if I'll finish it. The characters, other than Harley being drunken chaos, don't really resemble anything in the comics. The writing is pretty bad. And I don't really get why Harley talks like a Brooklyn version of trailer park trash. She's a psychiatrist, after all. She may be a nutjob, but she's not a moron.

On the subject of Harley:

This new graphic novel will probably be the defining origin story of Harley Quinn. It's not perfect. But it's pretty good, in answering how Harleen became Harley. It sort of has the weakness of the Star Wars prequels in not having really enough depth to explain why Anakin went over to the dark side. But not as bad as that.

 

[BenitoChavez]

This looks weird and wild. I love it!