A new Justice League trailer is on the way this weekend, so we discuss what we would like to see from it. We also talk Season 3 of Supergirl and Young Justice, plus a little bit of Doomsday Clock talk.

Justice League

New trailer coming Sunday - Twitter ; What would we like to see? Superman?

New character posters Here

Justice League to team with AT&T store in Times Square - Business Wire; Batmobile, life-size Justice League member statues, video footage, meet and greet with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee

Side note - merger expected to go through by end of year (Deadline)

Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg previews Season 3 of Supergirl with Entertainment Weekly

The theme of humanity will be explored by not just Kara, but also J’onn, Reign and maybe others

Can say absolutely nothing about Mon-El

Morgan Edge will be different from Maxwell Lord; Edge is pure evil and has a lot of scenes with Lena

J’onn will explore his Martian heritage with his father

Will return to some of the Season 1 Kara, Winn, James crime-stopping team-ups

Young Justice Season 3 will be 26 episodes - Producer Brandon Vietti on Twitter

Also unsure if the DC streaming service will release them all at once or on some sort of schedule

On the road to Doomsday Clock with Geoff Johns Part 2 - YouTube

DC Comics will stream the Doomsday Clock panel live from NYCC

Friday at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET at Facebook.com/DCComics

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On today's show, we cover Justice League, Flashpoint, a Batman Ninja film, and Mon-El's future role in Supergirl.

J.K. Simmons talks Justice League and DC Films - Red Carpet News TV on YouTube

“Don’t blink or you’ll miss it introduction” in Justice League

Recently did ADR (additional dialogue recording)

Calls DC movies gritty but with levity

Didn’t do any work with Joss Whedon

Excited to work with Ben Affleck again (The Accountant); wants to see 2 “weathered” guys together

Kiersey Clemons talks a little bit about Iris West’s role in Flashpoint - Entertainment Tonight

Clemons - "Because of going back and forth past and future with The Flash, you don't even know what time period you actually meet Iris. We're in the process of still replacing our director. We just got a new script.”

A Batman anime film is on the way for a 2018 release - (Slash Film)

Titled Batman Ninja

NYCC Panel (this weekend) - “Warner Bros. Japan and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment team for an eye-popping addition to the Batman animated legacy with Batman Ninja, a spectacular, all-new anime film coming in 2018. Be among the first to witness the premiere of colorful footage from this imaginative take on Batman and many of his connected characters.“

Chris Wood talks about Mon-El’s role for season 3 of Supergirl - TV Insider

Can’t say when or how he will return

“He's going to be a very different Mon-El than what we saw last year, largely due to the whole mystery surrounding where he went and what he's been doing. It definitely affects him. He's been somewhere, doing something.”

Super Season Big Belly Burger Trailer - The CW on YouTube

Best trailer ever

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Justice League marketing is starting to ramp up quickly and we talk about some of the news that has started to come out. We also talk Wonder Woman, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, and Lucifer.

Danny Elfman talks scoring Justice League with Billboard

* Said it was like he never left; will have at least a moment of Wonder Woman’s theme

* Elfman - “but I also had two minutes where I had the pleasure of saying, “Let’s do John Williams’ Superman.” and that for me was heaven, because now I have a melody to twist, and I’m using it in an actually very dark way, in a dark moment. It’s the kind of thing that some fans will notice. Some won’t.”

* “The people at DC are starting to understand we’ve got these iconic bits from our past and that’s part of us, that’s part of our heritage -- we shouldn’t run away from that. Contemporary thinking is, every time they reboot something, you have to start completely from scratch -- which, of course, audiences will tell us again and again, is bull****. Because the single-most surviving and loved theme in the world is Star Wars, which they had the good sense to not dump for the reboots. And every time it comes back, the audience goes crazy. “

* Created “simple motifs” for other JL members

* Also mentioned he considered the “DNA” of John Williams Superman theme and his own Batman theme; doesn’t really say if they will be used exactly

* Whedon seemed excited telling him to use Williams and Batman theme.

* (Film Score Monthly) - Talked about his career when receiving Max Steiner Film Award (“he persuaded the producers to hire a string orchestra to embellish the mock-up.” for an emotional scene)

 

 

Zack Snyder shares some Justice League related stuff on Vero

Old motherbox burial scene storyboards here

Kent Farm without trees sketch (and for sale) here - is this from Man of Steel or Justice League?

On aspect ratio here; Snyder enjoyed Imax scenes in BvS, so wanted to continue less rectangular look for JL - (normally 2.39:1, Justice League is 1.85:1)

 

 

DC Comics announces November 18 as Justice League day

Similar to June 3 being Wonder Woman day

Wonder Woman dominates blu-ray and DVD sales in opening week - Variety

Specifics on units sold won’t be available for awhile

New trailers for the upcoming seasons of Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow have been released (on YouTube)

Arrow official Season 6 trailer - here

Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 trailer - here

Shows return next week

*Lucifer returns tonight

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DC's Legends of Tomorrow returns with Season 4 on The CW on Tuesday, October 10th at 9:00 Eastern. On today's show, we preview the upcoming season with special guest Travis Hynes (@Travis_156 on Twitter).

This season will (slightly) expand to 18 episodes

What we are most looking forward to

Changes we would like to see

New characters we hope to see

How will Grodd fit in?

* Who will be the villain?

Darhk/Captain Cold

Rip and his team

Tala Ashe as Zari Adrianna Tomaz (a hacker)

* Will the Justice Society of America return?

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The Flash returns with Season 4 on The CW on Tuesday, October 10th at 8:00 Eastern. On today's show, we preview the upcoming season with special guest Travis Hynes (@Travis_156 on Twitter).

Happy Flash

Non-Speedster villain (Neil Sandilands as The Thinker)

Wrap up Killer Frost storyline

What version of Harry/Wells/H.R. are we going to get? (Tom Cavanagh said "We're going to start with Harry and then find a way, I think, to try and get a different version of Wells in there."

Danny Trejo will play Gypsy’s father, and we’ll see more of Gypsy and Cisco

Katee Sackhoff will play Blacksmith from episode 5 on

Crossover

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On today's podcast, we discuss the feature article by Vulture about the future of DC movies under the direction of DC Entertainment.

DC Entertainment feature with Vulture

* Long article, with editorializing mixed in

* Lots of known history of DC Entertainment since 2009 - Movies, TV, Comics, video games

* Interview took place in July at SDCC with Geoff Johns, DC President Diane Nelson, Jon Berg

* Since Batman v Superman, Johns and DC Entertainment began to “earn their stripes” and have been methodical in planning DC on film since then

* Will maintain continuity, but no individual story will have forced connectivity to other stories/characters

* Some movies will be more connected than others, ex. - Justice League vs. Aquaman

* Directors will have freedom within the universe

* The side label, with films like The Joker, will be announced soon

* DC execs had almost no creative input with movies before 2016 (Johns notes for Man of Steel were ignored)

* Berg - “We talk about four things. Heart, heroics, humanity, and humor.”

* Johns and Berg were looking to “revamp parts of” Justice League, and were already talking to Joss Whedon about Batgirl

* Johns - “Everyone was excited about Joss being a part of DC, and we thought he’d be great to write the [Justice League] scenes, the additional-photography scenes that we wanted to get.”; Whedon took over directing after Snyder’s tragedy

* Johns on leaks and criticism of strategy - “Some of the stuff is true, some of it isn’t true. When we talk about things or we’re making deals for people to develop scripts or whatever, sometimes, things leak; sometimes, things are misreported, and it’s frustrating. Because we do wanna go out there and talk about what our strategy is, and this stuff just muddies the water. There’s a lot of internal conversations going on about, How do we help kind of clean that up a bit?”

* Nelson points films are important, but success is important all over

* Titans will be in a separate universe

* Writer Abraham Riesman on how DCEU term came to be - Nobody at WB uses, came from an EW article where author called it “DC Extended Universe” as a joke

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Justice League news is continue to trickle out as marketing begins to ramp up. We discuss this plus news on The Flash series and answer questions on Justice League and Flashpoint.

Justice League news

* Justice League on cover of Ciak magazine (here)

* Justice League on Twitter - Ray Fisher and Ezra Miller discuss who is the leader of the team; from Comic-Con - discuss how their characters bond partly because they got their powers from an accident

* DC Comics announces Justice League movie-themed variant covers to be released in November (Action Comics and Aquaman)

* Here - Trinity, Detective Comics, and Justice League

* THR - The Flash and Wonder Woman

The Flash interview with EP Andrew Kreisberg- TV Insider

Caitlin/Killer Frost: “she will definitely come back into the fold in the premiere episode”

Elongated Man: “He’s also hiding something about how he acquired his powers of malleability: That’s one of the big mysteries of the season.”

The Thinker: “Actually isn’t out to foil the Flash. “He has a need for him, I would say is more accurate.”

Twitter question from @BobbyClaus1 - (Paraphrased) Could certain side characters be cut from Justice League because of changes in solo films?

In reference to reports of characters being cut from test screenings

Website question from Jonathan Helvering - “what should Dc do with flashpoint, should they stick to the source material and make diana and arthur the villians?”

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On today's podcast, we discuss a little bit of Justice League and The Flash movies, plus Black Lightning and Legends of Tomorrow.

New Justice League promo released by Warner Bros. Japan on YouTube

No new information, except Jason Momoa comments

Aquaman is the heir to the throne of Atlantis, but resists that title

The Flash movie update - Variety’s Justin Kroll on Twitter

* Phil Lord and Chris Miller signed on to direct Artemis for Fox

* “For those wondering this ARTEMIS news pretty much take L&M out of running for FLASH. That script (The Flash by Joby Harold) was turned in yesterday to studio...Bob z(emeckis) still being considered but studio will take meetings with other filmmakers, in no rush to make announcement”

* On Zemeckis - The Women of Marwen is expected to wrap filming next month, releases November 2018

Kyanna Simone Simpson to have a recurring role on Black Lightning - (Deadline)

Will play Keisha, best friend of Jennifer and daughter of Inspector Henderson

Arthur Darvill talks Rip Hunter’s role in Season 3 of Legends of Tomorrow - Entertainment Weekly

Darvill - “There’s a thing that he discovers, which is very important to him and he feels like, at times, he can sort out on his own, and then also realizes he needs to call on the Legends in order to help him. The Time Bureau, as much as they’re brilliant, they do things in too much of an official way in order for, in his opinion, things to actually get done. So his interaction with the Legends, at the moment, is very much as a means to an end for him in terms of what he’s trying to achieve.”

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On today's podcast, we discuss the Joker and Harley Quinn movie, a Teen Titans Go! theatrical film plus news on Saturn Girl showing up on this season of Supergirl.

Margot Robbie talks a bit more about Joker/Harley Quinn movie - BANG Showbiz (via Female First)

Robbie - "Their love story has to end in flames! It has to, it just wouldn't be right."

Warner Bros. has scheduled a Teen Titans Go! Film for theatrical release on July 27, 2018 - (Deadline)

At the bottom of a press release announcing It sequel date; no other information given

Cartoon Network Theatrical films - The Powerpuff Girls Movie ($11 million budget, $16.4 million box office) Regular Show: The Movie (limited release)

Successful cartoon TV series turned movies - The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie and The Simpsons Movie

Amy Jackson will play a recurring role as Saturn Girl on Supergirl

From DC Comics - “Saturn Girl, as DC readers know, is one of the founding members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, a super hero team from the far future of the DC Universe. Set to be a recurring character on Supergirl, Saturn Girl, aka Imra Ardeen, is a kind, smart, and strong-willed hero who uses her telekinetic ability to help those in need.  She was born on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, and arrives on Earth to help Supergirl battle one of her biggest threats.”

Could the Legion be involved with crossover or with Mon-El?

Saturn Girl was one of the Legion members to appear in Smallville

Supergirl “Hero’s Journey” trailer - (The CW on YouTube)

Cool opening shot

Kara in water like Man of Steel

Alex trying to convince Supergirl to be Kara

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Wonder Woman is nearing the final box office total both domestically and worldwide and we take at look at those almost final numbers. We also talk the massive DC CW news about "Crisis on Earth-X" being the title of the 4-part crossover.

(almost) final Wonder Woman box office performance and current numbers (Box Office Mojo)

Domestic - $411.6 million, #5 comic book movie, #1 superhero origin film, #20 film all-time, #4 action heroine, #1 World War 1

Worldwide - $819.5 million, #64 film all-time, #12 superhero film, #2 superhero origin film

Film was strong on social media, according to Box Office Pro - Most tweets and most likes during release week, 3rd largest opening weekend (summer films) also #1 summer box office

Crisis on Earth-X will be the DC CW Crossover title this year- (Marc Guggenheim on Twitter)

Poster done by Phil Jimenez, an homage from Justice League #207 and others

Tons of characters, but some missing

Citizen Cold? (recaps)

Details (Spoilers?) from Entertainment Weekly - Barry and Iris wedding brings everyone together; Earth-X villains crash (Overgirl, evil Flash and Green Arrow and more)

Earth-X (Freedom Fighters: The Ray) (Supergirl?)

Russell Tovey will voice The Ray and play him in live-action

Possibly like animated Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

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