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Episode 2 of Multiverse News is here! Lots of trailers to discuss plus universes possibly being rebooted and others possibly getting new life!
The Secret Invasion has begun in earnest as Marvel Studios unveiled it’s first full trailer for the series during the Phillies/Rangers basketball game, Sunday night. The trailer confirmed the release date of June 21 and the accompanying variety article confirmed Emilia Clarke’s role as Talos’ daughter, G'iah.
Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse released it’s official trailer giving us a closer look into Miles’ dilemma with both the multiversal villain, The Spot, voiced by Jason Schwartzman, and Oscar Isaac’s Miguel O’Hara aka Spider-Man 2099.
Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves is at a 91% critic score and and even higher 94% Audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and had a nearly $40 million box office weekend, capturing the top spot and wowing critics and audiences.
DC wowed us with our first look at the upcoming Blue Beetle flick with a trailer full of laughs and horror homage, plus some insights into Jaime Reyes’ family dynamic.
Though talks are still in a preliminary state, HBO is planning to reboot the Harry Potter franchise into a TV show that will be at least 7 seasons, one for each novel, with the potential for universe expansion with Fantastic Beasts.
A Scott Pilgrim anime for Netflix that reunites the entire original cast from Edgar Wright’s 2011 film adaptation is in development. Edgar Wright is executive producing, while Scott Pilgrim creator, Bryan Lee O’Malley is co-writing and co-showrunning the series with Ben David Grabinski.
A Game of Thrones prequel set 300 years before Game of Thrones following the targareon conquest of Westeros is in development at HBO.
Following in the footsteps of 2019’s joker, Mike Flanagan has pitched a Clayface feature to WB.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is in development for Paramount+.
Lee Sung Jin, writer of Netflix’s Beef, plus episodes of Silicon Valley and Dave has been hired to rewrite Marvel’s Thunderbolts.
Ed Harris is in talks to join the Wonder Man series opposite Yahya Abdul-Mateen of Watchmen already cast as Wonder Man. along with other heavy hitters like Werner Herzog, Ben Kingsley in his role as Trevor Slattery, and - rumored - Courteney Cox and Bob Odenkirk.
The E3 gaming expo has been canceled as a result of Most gaming companies holding their own reveal events.
James Gunn did an interview where he gave us somejuicey nuggets. First, He says Superman Legacy will have a very different tone from Guardians. He also says that Writing Marvel movies post Endgame has been challenging because it was such a universe-ending event. Gunn also did not know that the Guardians would take off with Thor at the end of Endgame. Gunn also expressed that Superhero fatigue is real, but not because of the characters, because of the stories being told, too much focus on the spectacle and not on the characters
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