This week has been filled with all kinds of movie and tv related news.
The most circulated piece of news seemed to be the newly announced Dragon Ball Super, continuing after the events of Dragon Ball Z. Releasing 18 years since the show stopped, it comes out this July.
This week was a good week for Fox's X-Men, with quite a few set leaks from X-Men: Apocalypse and the reveal of Nightcrawler, who looked quite like the child version of X2s Nightcrawler. Most of the set picture simply show us glimpses of Jean Grey, Cyclops and Jubilee in their civilian outfits .All in all it seems fox has a tight grip on their X-Men franchise, although the same cannot be said of their other marvel franchise, Fantastic Four.
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With the movie just around the corner, there have been numerous reports of director Josh Trank being too difficult to work, and whether he is able to deal with the stress of such a big budget movie. He's even gotten himself removed from the post of director for the upcoming untitled Star Wars spin off. Fox has made no comment on this and states that the movie is simply going to blow expectations.
Warner Bros. studios recently had an expose done on how they run their superhero properties, proving to many fans our deepest fears. If DC/WB seem to have no one in charge - it's because they don't. They are excited about having directors simply come and revise the properties as they please, proof being the recent Suicide Squad set photos, but more on that later. Zack Snyder is said to be helping mold the DCCU but he's busy with his own projects and cannot really manage all their supposedly "planned" movies. And even more shocking apart from the lack of direction for the property, is the unorthodox means of picking screen writers. In WB, screen writers actually compete with one another, eliminating style with having to do different scripts according to their preferences. This can be seen in the upcoming Wonder Woman movie, which largely explains the creative differences behind the screen. Disney has proven that it's best to have a single head keep track of everything ala Marvel's Kevin Feige or Star Wars' Kaitlyn Kennedy. WB claims to have a brain trust set up with members from Zack Snyder to Christopher Nolan, but as stated, Snyder being busy with his own movie and Nolan being no longer in the picture, it truly seems like WB has no one on the wheel. Directors have full creative control to do as they please however they please. It's like giving a bunch of kids a piece of paper each, asking them to colour it in with complete freedom, and at the end of the day, hoping they're all the same colour.
More from DC - the recent leak of Ben Affleck in his full batman suit was met with mixed reactions; most liking the grey colour of the suit but others questioning its mass and lack of neck. What might likely be the case is that this is the first version of the suit, which also explains why Affleck looks extremely uncomfortable in it. Also, the pictures were simply unflattering. That aside, DC has truly no control be it running their movies or controlling their leaks. There's even a rumour that the picture of the Joker tweeted out by David Ayer for the upcoming Suicide Squad movie is a fake.
Speaking of which, the Suicide Squad movie has faced quite a few leaks - Will Smith on sets as Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot. Which again, was meet with scrutiny. Another leak was a picture of what looked like Deadshot in his costume, but looked nothing like his comic counterpart, not even homaging. It was leaked and completely panned by the internet, though later revealed to simply be an extra or a cosplayer passing by. But again, Ayer seems to have complete control over this project, and with no one to reign him in, fans should not be surprised if tattoo Joker is very much the real deal.
Finally, I leave you with a picture of Stephen Amell as Casey Jones, from the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel, which has begun shooting.
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