Alas, we reach the end of August and with Labor Day just around the corner, we’re returning to cooler weather and pumpkin spice lattes invading our life yet again.
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The latest DC Comics superhero will come to theaters in just over a year with Zachary Levi playing the title character and Lights Out helmer David F. Sandberg directing.
The New Line production exec. worked with Aquaman director James Wan on The Conjuring movies and their spin-offs, but the success of the Stephen King adaptation made him the perfect choice.
Joining the wave of digital services, DC Entertainment is preparing to launch their own digital channel with Warner Bros. Television. The service will premiere the live-action Titans series and third season of Young Justice. Plus, NBC’s Powerless has been effectively canceled.
Warner Bros. is letting the right one into the Batcave.
Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and The Get Down‘s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II are in early talks to join James Wan’s Aquaman as the titular hero’s mother Atlanna and the villainous Black Manta.
Logline kept under wraps, but will be a sequel to 2013’s Man of Steel and likely the other DCEU films and focus on Superman.
Suicide Squad doesn’t hit theaters until August, but Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment already have their eyes set on a Harley Quinn spin-off movie.
Logline kept under wraps, but will feature female characters from the DC comic book universe.
With Wonder Woman finally in production casting notices have been slowly rolling in over the past few months, but this latest may surprise. After rumors that Robin Wright had signed on for the role of Hippolyta, it has now been learned that Connie Nielsen is set to play the famed Amazon.
Based on the DC comics, a man travels from the future with stolen technology in order to become a famous superhero in the present, and teams up with a teenager who has been given superpowers from advanced alien technology called Scarab.
Starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, Wonder Woman already sets high expectations for the rest of the cast. Word has spread that Sean Bean and Eva Green are in early talks to join them.
Centers on Agent Graves, a man who gives people the opportunity to take action against a person who has ruined their lives by providing them with their aggressor’s identity, a gun, and a hundred rounds of untraceable ammunition.
Focuses on the caped crusader’s adventures after Batman V Superman and Justice League.
Logline: Follows Victor Stone who becomes part-man, part-machine after a horrible lab accident leaves him severely mutilated.
Logline: Each sector of space is protected by a Green Lantern, possessing a power ring that uses a powerful green energy to do anything within the limits of the user’s imagination and will power. When the Green Lantern assigned to this sector of space finds himself dying on planet Earth, he tells the ring to find a suitable successor. The chosen replacement, hot-shot test pilot Hal Jordan, finds himself with a new job he never expected…
Logline: Kept under wraps.
DC fans have much to celebrate this July at Comic Con with a whole presentation event.
Logline: Follows a boy who can call on the powers of an ancient Egyptian wizard in order to become a superhero.
Logline: After a series of ancient tomes are stolen by a madman hellbent on the destruction of humanity, occult detective John Constantine seeks out a group of heroes that specialize in the mystic and arcane in order to save the world.
Logline: Planetary is an organization intent on discovering the world’s secret history. Funded by the mysterious Fourth Man, the field team travels the world investigating strange phenomena.
Logline: Dr. William Magnus creates six cyborgs from different elements – Gold, Tin, Iron, Lead, Mercury and Platinum – all of whom have powers corresponding to their namesakes.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
A recap of today’s renewals, deals and attachments!
Logline: When archaeologist Carter Hall regains the memories of his first life as a prince in Egypt, he uses the magical powers of an ancient metal to forge wings and a weapon to become the superhero known as Hawkman.
Logline: A group of retired intelligence officers must break a man out of an insane asylum so he can stop a weapon of mass destruction from going off.
40+ TV Sales, Attachments, Renewals, Cancellations, Attachments, and Greenlights!
Logline: Superman discovers he is dying and makes a plan for the last year of his life.
Warner Bros. Television has snatched up the TV rights to Neil Gaiman’s comic book series “SANDMAN.” The series, has firmly established itself as one of the most renowned works in the medium, having been in some form of film development for almost 20 years (the series first began in 1989).
But, now WB, alongside DC Comics (who published the book via their “Vertigo” imprint and will produce the TV series) sees a very bright future in the series, and is in talks with Eric Kripke, the creator of the CW’s “Supernatural,†to possibly take a stab at adapting. While “Supernatural” and “Sandman” in my opinion are at opposite ends of the spectrum, I think the type of show I’d love Sandman to be, isn’t necessarily one that would rake in viewers, so I’ll wait to pass any judgement until we’re much farther down the road.
Prior to WB’s involvement on the TV side, DC was in talks with HBO and James Mangold to develop a show, with Mangold even meeting with Gaiman to discuss the series as a whole, but after a long dormant hiatus due to scheduling issues, that never came to be.
The story of “Sandman†began with Morpheus, the Lord of the Dreaming realm, a deity who personifies dreams, and could work and alter your dreams as he see fit. As he series continued we met the rest of his family, a group who were the bearers of a majority of humanity’s darker emotions; Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire and Delirium, and Morpheus’ real name – Dream.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
