I think they're already charging ahead with both a sequel and some kind of connection to a wider universe. I saw something about a crossover with Tom Hardy's Spider-Man, but that seems like tonal whiplash to me. I haven't seen Venom, but it looks dark. (Admittedly, I kind of want to see Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin in a Spider-Man movie too, and that would also be tonally incongruous.)Venom's good fun. But I don't think it'll do well in a cinematic universe setting. It was nice as a one-off. Maybe a sequel. Maybe.
I saw the headline about Andy Serkis and Colin Farrell being in talks to play Alfred and The Penguin and I thought Serkis would be great in either role. It turns out that Serkis is aiming at Alfred and Farrell is being considered for Penguin. I'm not a Farrell fan, generally, but I could see him as a tougher version of The Riddler. Frank Gorshin, Jim Carrey and the dude in Gotham all played The Riddler as kind of a dork (I think The Animated Series did, too). Farrell could make him seem dangerous, for once. Penguin, though? I'm having a hard time envisioning that.
Yeah, I agree. I think I stopped watching before he was fully the Penguin, but he was clearly going to be the Penguin, and I thought he did a great job. On the whole, I was a little disappointed that the show was just an extended origin story for so many of the traditional Batman characters. I preferred the stories that featured new characters like Fish and the "proto-supervillains" that Jim Gordon had to deal with, like the guy with the electrical weapon, the psychiatrist hypnotizing her patients, and The Spirit of the Goat. But Taylor was the exception, I liked his Penguin-before-he-was-Penguin.Speaking of Gotham, Robin Taylor might have been the best Penguin ever.
Bloomberg said:[Iger] declines to discuss the budget for the shows—including reports Disney is spending as much as $25 million per episode on some Marvel shows, more than HBO is believed to have spent during the final season of Game of Thrones. He does drop one little morsel, though. If you want to understand everything in future Marvel movies, he says, you’ll probably need a Disney+ subscription, because events from the new shows will factor into forthcoming films such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The Scarlet Witch will be a key character in that movie, and Feige points out that the Loki series will tie in, too. “I’m not sure we’ve actually acknowledged that before,” he says. “But it does.”
Bloomberg Businessweek, 7 Nov 2019 - "Bob Iger Takes the Gloves Off for Disney's Streaming Debut"
There're no bombshells here, but Iger confirms some of the speculation, such as that the 'edgier' material acquired from Fox - they mention Family Guy and Deadpool as examples - will be sent to Hulu. Regarding Marvel television series...
It does seem like a (small) gamble, the payoff for which is not immediately apparent. I also wonder if the connections between the streaming series and the films will actually be all that central to the movies. The folks who did The Dark Tower had visions in their heads of a series and a film that would be inextricably linked, but they couldn't pull it off for whatever reason.Soooooo...bets? Does this blackmail help Disney+, or does it hurt Marvel Movies?
With the announcement of Blade's recasting