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  • Trade Report Confirms Ed Harris’ ‘Wonder Man’ Role

    Trade Report Confirms Ed Harris’ ‘Wonder Man’ Role

    In late 2022, rumors swirled that Nobody franchise star Bob Odenkirk was offered the role of Simon’s agent, a role that was rumored to be the primary antagonist of the project. Unfortunately, Odenkirk and Marvel Studios didn’t strike a deal but they did find a very capable replacement in veteran actor Ed Harris.

    The 74-year-old Harris is one of Hollywood’s most well-respected method actors and capable of turning any role into a memorable one. Harris has played memorable villains in The Rock, Enemy at the Gates, The Truman Show and National Treasure: Book of Secrets as well as a chilling performance in A History of Violence. And now, a trade report confirms the years-old rumors about his Wonder Man role.

    According to Deadline, Harris will indeed portray “Hollywood agent Neal Saroyan” in Wonder Man, which will premiere this December on D+.

    Created by Gerard Jones and Jeff Johnson in 1991, Neal Saroyan was Simon Williams agent used mostly as a Hollywood caricature, designed to satirize the kind of awful behavior industry veterans have long been known for, making him a perfect fit for Marvel Television’s take on Wonder Man. Later, Peter David ramped up Saroyen’s baddie status, revealing him to be a supervillain in charge of a cadre of assassins known as The Nobility.

    With Demetrius Grosse also on board as classic Marvel villain Eric Williams, aka the Grim Reaper, it looks as though Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Simon Williams will have his hands full.

    Source: Deadline

  • One of DC’s Darkest Villains Looks Set to Take on Hal Jordan and John Stewart in ‘Lanterns’

    One of DC’s Darkest Villains Looks Set to Take on Hal Jordan and John Stewart in ‘Lanterns’

    Since he was cast, fans have been crafting theories about just which DC Comics villain Garret Dillahunt will be portraying in the DC Studios’ streaming series, Lanterns. Trade Reports identified the character as William Macon,”a self-righteous, conspiracy-minded man who masks his ruthless ambition behind a charming and calculated facade,” but fans weren’t buying it.

    One popular theory was that William Macon was actually William Hand, a character who has been antagonizing Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps since being introduced in 1964. And it looks like that theory may well be proven correct.

    In an Instagram story, Dillahunt shared a photo that has fans believing he will indeed be portraying Black Hand in the show.

    William Hand was a key antagonist in the Blackest Night storyline, where he served as the herald of Nekron, the embodiment of death.

    From the start, our driving force has been to deliver a layered drama – rooted in nuanced storytelling and rich world building – that balances tension and mystery with honest, authentic emotion. The goal is to create something that feels timeless and grounded without sacrificing the magic of the source material.

    –Lanterns showrunner Chris Mundy

    Hand’s powers are rooted in his obsession with death and his ability to manipulate it. He first appeared as a small-time crook with a device that could absorb energy from Green Lantern rings. His destiny changed when he was chosen as an agent of the Black Lantern Corps, a group of undead beings animated by the black power of death. As a Black Lantern, he can kill and reanimate the dead, turning them into subservient Black Lanterns. His primary weapon is a black power ring, which is fueled by the absence of emotion, life, and light.

    Characterized by his necrophilic tendencies and a morbid fascination with death, a villain like Hand falls in the Goldilocks zone for an HBO Max streaming series baddie. He’s often depicted as mentally unstable and obsessive, with his sanity deteriorating as his connection to the black power ring grows stronger. His actions are driven by a deep-seated desire to see the universe brought to a state of complete lifelessness,

    With fans looking for DC Studios to create some sort of adaptation of Blackest Night, introducing a villain like Hand alongside Ulrich Thomsen‘s Sinestro and Paul Ben-Victor‘s Antaan, when many believe to be Atrocitus (also seen in the picture shared by Dillahunt) could be an indication that some bits of that story may make their way into Lanterns.

  • ‘Superman’ Co-Star Teases ‘Man of Tomorrow’ Role

    ‘Superman’ Co-Star Teases ‘Man of Tomorrow’ Role

    James Gunn announced that the next film in his Superman Saga, Man of Tomorrow, is slated for a July 9, 2027 theatrical debut, showing off artwork teasing the potential team up of David Corenswet‘s Superman and Nicholas Hoult‘s Lex Luthor. Gunn previously teased that Superman would share the screen with characters from “within the group of characters we’ve already met,” in the DCU. Now it seems as though we know who at least one more of those will be.

    Superman star Isabela Merced, who debuted as the DCU’s Hawkgirl shared Gunn’s social media post in an Instagram story she captioned “See You Soon.”

    I’m totally done with the treatment. My treatments are incredibly intense. They’re not regular treatments. They’re 60-page treatments with dialogue and everything,” Gunn devulged. “And so, now I’m just turning that into a script. We’re planning out when we’re going to shoot that. It’s going to be much sooner rather than later.

    -James Gunn

    Should Merced, who also briefly reprised her role in Season 2 of Peacemaker, indeed be returning for the film, it is very likely she’ll be accompanied by Edi Gathegi‘s Mister Terrific, Nathan Fillion‘s Guy Gardner and Anthony Carrigan‘s Metamorpho, all members of the Maxwell Lord-sponsored Justice Gang.

    Updating…

  • James Gunn Announces the Next Film in His Superman Saga, Dated for 2027 Release

    James Gunn Announces the Next Film in His Superman Saga, Dated for 2027 Release

    After weeks of teasing the next film in his Superman Saga, DC Studios co-chair James Gunn took to social media to announce the title and release date of the project.

    Man of Tomorrow is set to hit theaters on July 9, 2027, and is expected to pit Superman against Lex Luthor once again…and also team up with him?

    The announcement was accompanied by a fresh piece of art by DC Comics CCO and legendary comic book artist Jim Lee which shows David Corenswet‘s Superman in hs DCU suit next to Luthor in a fully-realized Warsuit.

    The very successful launch of DC Studios Superman provided real momentum for the all-new, all-different DCU. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav recently told shareholders that the “DC vision” was clear and teased “an ambitious, 10-year plan of interconnected sequels and spinoffs,” which he said included a “Super -Family” film written and directed by Gunn. Shortly after, Gunn teased that the next film in his four-film Superman Saga would head into production “much sooner rather than later,” and feature “the group of characters we’ve already met.” That now includes Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor, who was taken into custody and to Bell Reve Correctional Center in the final act of Superman.

    Corenswet and Hoult both took to Instagram to share additional artwork celebrating the announcement:

    Man of Tomorrow will hit theaters just two days shy of two years after the release of Superman; it will also release two weeks ahead of an untitled Marvel Studios film, just as Superman opened two weeks ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

  • Never Go Full Cajan! Channing Tatum’s Gambit Will Be a Little Different in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Never Go Full Cajan! Channing Tatum’s Gambit Will Be a Little Different in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Everybody knows you never go full Cajun…

    After years of trying to bring the character to life in a Fox-produced solo film, Channing Tatum finally brought Gambit to live-action in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine. Tatum‘s Gambit stole the show as audiences fell in love with the actor’s long-awaited debut as the Cajun, even if his accent made it all but impossible to understand him at times. It didn’t take long for fans to begin to call for more of Tatum‘s mumbly mutie. And with a little post-credit magic here and a deleted scene there, more of Tatum as Gambit in the MCU seemed to possibly be in the cards and then, Marvel Studios announced the main cast of Avengers: Doomsday, which included Tatum, allowing him to bring Le Diable Blanc to another party. This time, however, there will be one notable difference.

    “I’m not gonna go full Cajun,” said Tatum of his role as the Ragin’ Cajun in next year’s Avengers: Doomsday.

    Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for this? Woo, I’m about to make a name for myself here.

    As Tatum explained in an interview with Variety, directors Anthony and Joe Russo “want things to be funny, but they don’t want to go full ‘Deadpool’,” in which the character’s accent more closely resembled the indecipherable gibberish spit out by Blake Clark‘s Farmer Fran in Adam Sandler‘s The Waterboy. “They want to keep the drama and keep it tight. When Gambit gets serious — when he drops the Mardi Gras mask — things do matter,” teasing a major role for Gambit, including a “big fight” with Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom that Tatum found himself sidelined for, thanks to an unidentified leg injury.

    The change in approach comes in response to Marvel execs, who the star said “really had to wrap their mind around the accent and how people are going to understand him,” in the biggest Marvel film of the decade.

    “There was very little improv. The Cajun dialect is a very particular one,” said Tatum in a previous interview of his first go around as the character. “I grew up in Mississippi and my dad is from New Orleans. So it’s one of those things that I grew up around it, but I’ve never done it. There are certain little isms that are very Cajun-y, but we actually intended it to be somewhat unintelligible. That was sort of the joke. [Co-star Ryan Reynolds would] come up to be and say, ‘I don’t want to know anything that you’re saying on this [take],’ so I just dialed it all the way up,” added Tatum. “And then other ones he’s like, ‘All right, I’ve got to understand what you’re saying now.’”

    Whether the changes to the character result in this Gambit being a Variant from another timeline or just someone looking to communicate more clearly with his friends, fans will certainly be thrilled with the return of Tatum in the role.

    Source: Access Hollywood, Variety

  • New Stills, Synopsis Releases Ahead of ‘Marvel Zombies’ D+ Debut

    New Stills, Synopsis Releases Ahead of ‘Marvel Zombies’ D+ Debut

    Spinning out of the gory good time that was episode 1.05 of What If…?, Marvel Animation’s Marvel Zombies, a four-episode TV-MA mini-event, is set to debut in D+ on September 24th. Along with a trailer for series, created by Bryan Andrews and Zeb Wells, Marvel rolled out a poster and a batch of stills along with a synopsis in a press release.

    So, you survived the zombie apocalypse. Super. Now who’s going to stop the Avengers from feasting on your brains?

    Peter Parker/Spider-Man (voiced by Hudson Thames) in Marvel Television’s MARVEL ZOMBIES exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2025 MARVEL.
    Blade Knight (voiced by Todd WIlliams) in Marvel Television’s MARVEL ZOMBIES exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2025 MARVEL.
    Blade Knight (voiced by Todd WIlliams) in Marvel Television’s MARVEL ZOMBIES exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2025 MARVEL.

    After the Avengers are overtaken by a zombie plague, a desperate group of survivors discover the key to bringing an end to the super-powered undead, racing across a dystopian landscape and risking life and limb to save their world.

    (L-R): Alexei Shostakov/ Red Guardian (voiced by David Harbour), Yelena Belova (voiced by Florence Pugh), Kamala Khan (voiced by Iman Vellani) and Blade Knight (voiced by Todd Williams) in Marvel Television’s MARVEL ZOMBIES exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2025 MARVEL.
    (Center): Zombie Okoye (voiced by Kenna Ramsey) in Marvel Television’s MARVEL ZOMBIES exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2025 MARVEL.
    (L-R): Kamala Khan (voiced by Iman Vellani), Blade Knight (voiced by Todd Williams), Alexei Shostakov/ Red Guardian (voiced by David Harbour) and Yelena Belova (voiced by Florence Pugh) in Marvel Television’s MARVEL ZOMBIES exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2025 MARVEL.

    Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Tessa Thompson, Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Hailee Steinfeld, Wyatt Russell, Randall Park, Iman Vellani, Dominique Thorne and Others Lend Their Voices as the Undead Arrive September 24, Exclusively on Disney+.

  • ‘Clayface’ Props Reveal Key Locations in the DCU’s Gotham

    ‘Clayface’ Props Reveal Key Locations in the DCU’s Gotham

    In 2020, Liverpool, England was transformed into Gotham as director Matt Reeves filmed scenes for The Batman. Five years later, as production on DC Studios’ Clayface gets underway, Liverpool is once again serving as Gotham City, set this time, however, in the all-new DCU.

    As was the case with the DCU’s Superman, which saw Cleveland become Metropolis, DC Studios is taking great care to make sure its Gotham is FULL of Easter eggs, nods and comic accurate inclusions. Most interestingly, a map of Gotham City has been spotted on set and it is complete with key locations such as Wayne Manor, Ace Chemical, The Monarch Theater, Crime Alley, Arkham and the Kane Memorial Bridge.

    While this map is unlikely to serve as anything more than something to see in the background, the references to the Joker, the Penguin, Batman and the Kane family stand out as fans get their first look at a Gotham in which the Dark Knight has likely been active for a significant amount of time.

    Fans of the comics may note the map is all but identical to the one created in the 1999 Batfamily crossover event, Batman: No Man’s Land. While it’s unlikely that story will be adapted into Clayface, it’s a notable choice as it’s a different map than the one used in The Batman and with fans still searching for reasons to believe Clayface will be set in the Reeves-verse, this may be a strike against that.

  • Chloe Bennet Explains Her ‘Secret Invasion’ Absence and Delivers Devastating Blow to ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’

    Chloe Bennet Explains Her ‘Secret Invasion’ Absence and Delivers Devastating Blow to ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’

    In 2023, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Chloe Bennet seemingly teased plans for her to reprise her role as Daisy Johnson, aka Quake, in an MCU project. At the time, with Secret Invasion having yet to stream, her legions of stans believed wholeheartedly that would be the project in which Bennet would appear despite denials from the actress about her involvement with the show. Needless to say, Quake did not appear in the series, which stands as one of Marvel Studios’ worst projects to date. Now, we know what kept Bennet from appearing.

    During an appearance at Dragon Con, Bennet explained that she was not in Secret Invasion because she was not offered a role because Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is “not really considered canon.”

    https://twitter.com/dailybennet/status/1962353636211622259?t=biaqzFkcxsYzgdlxgxznKQ&s=19

    “I’m not playing a bit. This isn’t a joke. I don’t know anything; they haven’t asked me,” replied Bennet when asked about Quake showing up in the MCU. “If they would, you know me, I can’t keep a secret, I would tell you guys. We are not really considered canon. I think the show will make some weird, random comeback. Like if it gets put on another streamer or something.“

    Before finishing up her response, however, the actress took a shot at the Marvel produced show, saying, “But as of now, no, and I agree that I could have been in ‘Secret Invasion,’ but I wasn’t. Probably would have been better.”

    The canonicity of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been the subject of debate for years. In recent years, multiple Marvel Studios projects seemed to decanonize the ABC melodrama. In 2024, Bennet‘s co-star, Ming-Na Wen, talked about how the show had become a “separate entity” but with and even Marvel Television boss Brad Winderbaum refusing to address the issue head on, the debate has continued. However, with someone like Bennet, who massive and rabid fan base, admitting the series is not MCU canon, it may well be the end of the argument.

  • DC Studios’ Supergirl Film Gets a New Logo…and Title

    DC Studios’ Supergirl Film Gets a New Logo…and Title

    After making her debut in Superman, Kara Zor-El is set to lead her own film in 2026. Based on the Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s DC Comic series, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the film will see Kara travel the galaxy and ultimately do battle against the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hills, played by Matthias Schoenaerts. And while the movie was originally intended to share a title with King And Bilquis‘ comic, it looks as though that has changed.

    A look at a logo for the upcoming movie was spotted on the set of Clayface, the next DCU film in the queue, and it seems to indicate that the original title has been shortened to simply Supergirl.

    If the title has indeed been changed, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. DC Studios’ boss James Gunn has been referring to the film as Supergirl for quite some time; additionally, it would be in line with Gunn’s decision to retitle Superman: Legacy by dropping the subtitle and going with Superman.

    Kara was on Krypton. She was on a piece of Krypton that drifted away from the planet and she lived there for the first fourteen years of her life in a horrible situation where she watched everyone around her die. So, she’s a much harsher and more fucked up Supergirl than you’ve been used to thus far.

    Described by Gunn as a little more rock and roll than Superman, Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, will be in theaters beginning June 26, 2026.

  • ‘Ray Donovan’ Star Joins Cast of DC Studios ‘Clayface’

    ‘Ray Donovan’ Star Joins Cast of DC Studios ‘Clayface’

    Cameras are now rolling in Liverpool on DC Studios’ third film, Clayface, and plenty of interested onlookers have taken to social media to share photos and videos from the set. While nothing too spoilery has been captured so far, a scene being filmed at The Queen Elizabeth Law Courts,  which has been transformed into Gotham General Hospital, revealed that a very familiar face has joined director James Watkins‘ horror film.

    As seen in the photo and video below, shared by Egg Boy, Ray Donovan star Eddie Marsan is now part of the DCU.

    The first looks don’t reveal anything too telling about Marsan‘s role, though he was also seen walking on set with Tom Rhys Harries, the film’s titular character, which could mean Marsan‘s role is substantial.

    Starring Harries as the Matt Hagen version of the classic Batman baddie, Clayface will “center on an ascending actor whose face is disfigured by a gangster. As a last resort, the actor turns to a fringe Elizabeth Holmes-style scientist for help. At first, the experiment is a successful but … well, it wouldn’t be a horror movie if the story ended right there, would it?” Based on additional photos from the set, it seems possible that low-level mob goon Jimmy “Red” McCoy may be the gangster responsible for Hagen’s disfigurement.

    Written by Mike Flanagan and described by DC Studios’ co-chair James Gunn as “a complete horror film,” Clayface is set to release on September 11, 2026.