It has now been 1 year since David Ayer's Suicide Squad was released in theaters to disappointing critical reception, excellent financial success, and an eventual Academy Award victory. With Warner Bros. looking to find a director for the sequel, we decided to take today to plan out what we would like to see on the next installment of the franchise.

Joker and Harley Quinn on the loose

Story

Main team - Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Rick Flag, Killer Croc, Katana

New characters from other films - Black Manta from Aquaman, Deathstroke, KGBeast

Other options - Killer Frost, Bronze Tiger, Black Spider, King Shark

Villain - more grounded?  Deathstroke, Bane, Lobo

Maxwell Lord, Lex Luthor, Talia al Ghul, Mongul, Brainiac

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On today's podcast, we discuss Justice League, The Flash movie, Titans casting, a Sandman fan film, and more.

Kiersey Clemons (Iris West) talks Justice League and The Flash movies in an interview with ComingSoon.net

Not involved with Justice League reshoots/additional photography

Clemons - “I know the parts that I did introducing Iris are f*cking sick. I can’t wait to see the movie. I’m so happy that I’ve been introduced to this genre because I didn’t really have any type of desire to be a part of any superhero world. And then I stepped on the set of “Justice League” and I was like, “Holy sh*t. All right!”

Working on small stuff and taking some down time until The Flash is ready to shoot

What role will she have in a Flashpoint film?

Justice League Trailer 2 - Justice League UK on Twitter

Shortened version of Comic-Con Sneak Peek (2:24)

Aquaman - “This is crazy. Fighting the devil and his army in hell.”

Teagan Croft cast as Raven in Titans series - Deadline

13 years old; will be in The Osiris Child film

“described as the daughter of a demon, is a powerful empath who must keep her emotions in check or risk unleashing her demonic side.”

Sandman: 24 Hour Diner fan film released - Vimeo

Based on Sandman #6: “24 Hours”

32 minutes

Twitter question from @JessieW72838902 - “Why is it that the MCU is releasing 3 movies next year but DC is releasing one is it a good or bad idea to release one film?”

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Shazam! director David F. Sandberg has talked a little bit more about the film and what his influences are. We discuss this plus a ton of news on the upcoming seasons of the DC CW shows.

Director David F. Sandberg talks a little bit about his research for Shazam! - MovieFone

Sandberg - "This will be very different than what I've done in the feature space, because it's not a horror movie and it's a much lighter tone. But it's something that I look forward to trying out, even though I plan to return to horror in some fashion. My background, back in Sweden, before I started doing horror shorts, I was doing animated comedy shorts. It's not totally alien to me to have more of a comedy approach. I look forward to taking that on in a feature."

"It wasn't a character I grew up with. It was published in Sweden, where I'm from, in the '70s, so it's a little before my time. So I only knew him from the Justice League. It's not until now that I'm getting into the comics and reading a lot of the old ones, the Geoff Johns ones, 'The Power of Shazam,' and looking at a bunch of animation. So I'm really getting to know the character."

Toronto Sun - “The big attraction for me with that character is the fact that every kid dreams of being Superman, right? I mean I certainly did, and (Billy Batson) is a kid that gets that chance. He gets to become the superhero. So it’ll be big with superpowers in a way. In terms of what people can expect, I think this will be one of the more fun or lighthearted movies so far in the DC universe. It certainly will be a departure.”

DC CW Fall Crossover dates and other announcements from Television Critics Association press tour - (TV Guide)

* Monday, November 27 - Supergirl and Arrow (will air Monday for 1 night)

* Tuesday, November 28 - The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow

* The CW President Mark Pedowitz "I think we're done with speedster villains.”

* The Flash is "going to try to find the lightness ... of the Barry Allen of the first two seasons."

* No plans for more DC shows (he didn’t plan to have Supergirl or Black Lightning either)

* Black Lightning could be part of the Arrowverse if the showrunners want it to (their call)

* Doesn’t have any plans to end iZombie

* No plans to try to get the Amazon show back in development (Smallville-like show for Wonder Woman that was being developed by Allen Heinberg starting in 2012)

* Gorilla Grodd will appear on Season 3 of Legends of Tomorrow

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On today's show, we discuss recent casting for the DC CW shows, the episode count for Season 1 of Krypton, and the Batman Telltale game.

DC CW casting - (Variety)

Arrow

Michael Emerson (Lost, Person of Interest) “will have a recurring role as an unnamed mystery character.”

Flash

Kim Engelbrecht will play The Mechanic “a highly intelligent engineer who designs devices for Devoe [The Thinker].”

Black Lightning

James Remar (Dexter) “will play Peter Gambi, the oldest friend to main character Jefferson Pierce”

Damon Gupton “will play Inspector Henderson. As a veteran law officer, Henderson and Black Lightning are at odds, but soon become unlikely allies.”

Supergirl

Yael Grobglas “Psi, a psychic villain who uses people’s own minds against them.”

Emma Tremblay “Ruby, a smart, independently-minded National City kid who’s fascinated by Supergirl and ends up in jeopardy because of it.”

Season 1 of Krypton will apparently be 10 episodes long - EP Cameron Welsh interview on YouTube

Normal for a 1st season of a Syfy show

Telltale announces Season 2 of their Batman Game - IGN

Sequel to their episodic Batman video games

Titled Batman: The Enemy Within the first episode will be The Enigma

Will release August 8th

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Elongated Man is coming to The Flash  and he will be played by Hartley Sawyer. We discuss this plus Legends of Tomorrow, the retirement of legendary Andrea Romano and what to do with the release date of Aquaman.

Hartley Sawyer will play Ralph Dibney/Elongated Man on Season 4 of The Flash - (DC Comics)

Will be a recurring role

Private investigator/superhero

“Upon discovering he has the power to stretch his body to any shape or form, Dibny uses his new abilities to help Team Flash solve one of Central City's greatest mysteries.”

Tracy Ifeachor will play Kuasa on Legends of Tomorrow - Entertainment Weekly

Sister of Mari McCabe (Vixen)/granddaughter of Amaya

Character appeared in the CW Seed animated series

There was a brief glimpse of her in the Comic-Con trailer.

Andrea Romano is retiring - (IGN)

Voiceover and casting director for over 30 years

Voice Directed Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans and many DC animated films

Has wrapped up her existing projects; has optic neuropathy in one eye, causing blindness

Long career with DC - was casting director on final season of Super Friends (1985)

Twitter question from @condor_zelander - “What should WB do with Aquaman release date since the Transformers film BumbleBee is moving to that release date as well?”

December 21, 2018

WB has Fantastic Beasts sequel releasing November 16

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On today's podcast, we discuss Wonder Woman's box office, the director for the Suicide Squad sequel, DC TV news, and Batgirl/Gotham City Sirens.

Wonder Woman box office

Is now over $395 million domestically

Over $785 million worldwide

2nd best legs of any film to open over $100 million

Jaume Collet-Serra won’t direct Suicide Squad 2 - Deadline

Is doing something called Jungle Cruise

Anybody we want to see direct?

Minor TV Stuff - Entertainment Weekly

Where Mon-El went will be a big part of Season 3 of Supergirl

Could he have escaped to the Phantom Zone with Alura?

Tracy Brand will be returning to The Flash at some point, although she might not be a member of the team

Twitter question from @BobbyClaus1 - “Could the Batgirl movie lead into Gotham City Sirens?”

Potential villain of Batgirl? - Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Catwoman

Who would you like as villain?

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With The Flash film recently being announced to adapt the Flashpoint comic book storyline, we take today's podcast to explain what exactly Flashpoint is and what we hope to see from it in the DCEU.

Flashpoint 101

Comic series - 5 issues in 2011 written by Geoff Johns, art by Andy Kubert; led to a reboot of DC Comics universe - New 52

Tons of tie-ins

Barry wakes up in an alternate timeline where his mother is alive

Captain Cold is now Citizen Cold, a hero

Bruce Wayne died in Crime Alley, Thomas Wayne (Wayne Casinos) is a drunken Batman, Martha is Joker

Amazons and Atlanteans are destroying the world in battle

Superman crashed in Metropolis, hidden in government facility

Cyborg is the main hero, kind of taking Superman’s place

Reverse Flash is heavily involved

Cameos - Lois Lane, Steve Trevor, Marvel Family (Captain Thunder), Deathstroke

Animated film - Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

TV Series - Season 3 episodes “Flashpoint” and “Paradox”

The Flash: Flashpoint movie ideas 

* What would we like to see?

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice “too soon” scene?

Injustice series?

What to do with Iris?

Maybe have Jai Courtney as Citizen Boomerang?

Cameos - Enchantress, Antiope

War - Faora vs. Ocean Master

Instead of War - Justice League heroes never emerged; Zod/Faora invaded anyway and enslaved population

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Dolph Lundgren is going to be swimming with Jason Momoa in the upcoming Aquaman film. We cover that plus news on Justice League, Wonder Woman, The Lego Batman Movie, Black Lightning, and The Flash movie.

Dolph Lundgren joins Aquaman cast as King Nereus - The Hollywood Reporter

Nereus is new to DC Comics, first appearing in 2013 in a story written by Geoff Johns

Director James Wan tweets he’s “not quite” a villain

Has had a recurring role on Season 5 of Arrow as Konstantin Kovar

New Justice League theatrical poster released - Zack Snyder on Twitter

Batman-on-film had the poster exclusive first

Trailer expected to be in theaters this week with The Fate of the Furious

Wonder Woman Wednesdays to promote the film - Twitter

Contests, behind-the-scenes photos, and maybe clips

The Lego Batman Movie home video release date revealed

Released digitally May 19, physically on June 13

Will be DVD, blu-ray, 3D, and 4k ultra HD versions

Special features include: 4 Lego Batman shorts, a Lego Ninjago short

Blu-ray versions have director and crew commentary and more

Black Lightning a “hot prospect” to be ordered to series by The CW - Deadline

Early buzz, Writer’s strike still possible, Upfronts next month

Because of switch from Fox to The CW, original script was thrown out

The project “filmed a shorter presentation instead”

Twitter question from @AnAndyhaskell15 - “Who should play  Captain Cold and Golden Glider in the Flash movie and when will we here more info on the Flash movie?”

Will they appear?

Actual brother/sister combo?

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The Rock continues to tease both the Shazam! and Black Adam movies. We also talk the rampant "rumors" about DCEU films, The Lego Batman Movie, and a possible role for Kamandi in Season 3 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

Dwayne Johnson talks a little about Shazam! and Black Adam films - MTV

On DC Films - "We've had great discussions with Geoff Johns over at DC. This is a really fun, cool time for DC right now because they're world-building. We're seeing that with Wonder Woman and Aquaman. We have a few surprises down the line."

On Shazam/Black Adam - "So what we decided to do was to create a scenario where Black Adam has his stand-alone movie, and Captain Marvel, Shazam, has his stand-alone movie. We're building our world that way, and then we can come together at some point."

Teases that a surprise is coming up with Black Adam

DC Films heads Jon Berg and Geoff Johns address movie “rumors” on Twitter

Berg - “Hey @geoffjohns why didn't you tell me we were releasing 4 Batman movies in 2019? Can we increase that to 10?”

Johns - “27. Including Batmite: The Movie.”

Sites are running with 4chan and Reddit anonymous users

Among talk is 4 Batman films in a year, Shazam movie cancelled, Black Adam in Man of Steel 2

The Lego Batman Movie crosses $300 million at the worldwide box office - Box Office Mojo

* Budget of $80 million

* The Lego Movie made $469 million on a $60 million budget (sequel coming in 2019)

* Is it enough for a sequel/spin-off?

Kamandi, the last boy on Earth, a possible character for Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 - Entertainment Weekly

EP Marc Guggenheim - “We have talked about Kamandi in the writers’ room. He’s definitely a character that we love and a concept that we love. Certainly, we’ve opened the door for that kind of story. I can’t say that we’re absolutely committed to doing Kamandi next year, it’s just totally on the table and certainly something we’ve been talking about.”

Created by Jack Kirby in 1972, essentially lives in a Planet of The Apes style post-apocalpytic future.

Season 2 of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow arrives on Netflix in U.S. today

8 days after finale, as per new deal

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The brand new Teen Titans: The Judas Contract animated film is out and we are here to talk all about it. We begin with a non-spoiler review of the movie and follow with our spoiler thoughts on the latest DC animated film.

non-spoiler thoughts

Quick comparison to comic arc (Cyborg and Donna Troy are replaced by Blue Beetle and Damian Wayne; comic was intro to Nightwing)

*spoiler warning

No Justice League or Batman

Long run time (84 minutes) compared to other animated films

Lots of Starfire/Nightwing awkward jokes

Will the characters in the flashback be back later at some point? (Kid Flash, Speedy, Bumblebee)

Nightwing and Starfire

Damian Wayne role

Raven, Beast Boy, and Blue Beetle roles

Training battles

Deathstroke returns

Beast Boy Kevin Smith Podcast

Brother Blood’s machine

Terra sacrifices

Donna Troy (Wonder Girl) cameo

End Credit Scene (Jericho)

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