ComicBook.com revealed Tuesday the great Warren Ellis (“StormWatch,” “The Authority”) will be rebooting DC Comics’ Wildstorm imprint with a new comic he’ll be writing titled The Wild Storm, launching in February. Reboots of The Authority’s Jenny Sparks and The Engineer will star in the comic Ellis will also oversee other comic-book series set in the same new universe: Michael Cray, WildC.A.T.S., and Zealot. More here.
“The Punisher,” overseen by “Hannibal” writer-producer Steve Lightfoot, has joined “Iron Fist” on Netflix’s 2017 schedule and added three cast members to join Jon Bernthal:
1) Ben Barnes (“The Chronicles of Narnia“) as Billy Russo, Frank’s Castle’s best friend from his days in the Special Forces. He runs a successful private military corporation called “Anvil”;
2) Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“Girls”) as Micro, a former NSA analyst whose secrets may be of great value to Castle.
3) Amber Rose Revah (“Indian Summers”) as Dinah Madani, a highly-trained Homeland Security agent vexed by the Punisher.
William Shatner, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Marina Sirtis, Terry Farrell, Dominic Keating, Armin Shimerman, Alice Krige, Chase Masterson, Connor Trinneer, Max Grodenchik, Jeffrey Combs, Nicole de Boer, Casey Biggs, Garrett Wang, Greg Grunberg, Leonard Nimoy’s son Adam, and Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden all gathered Friday on a recreation of the original Enterprise bridge at Destination Star Trek in Birmingham, England.
“When I read the [Episode VIII] script, it was not what I expected, in the best of ways,” Adam Driver just told Vanity Fair while promoting his Jim Jarmusch movie “Paterson” due out in December.
I saw both “The Birth of a Nation” and “The Girl On The Train” this week and recommend skipping both. The first feels like a student film that Armie Hammer did as a favor; its ending is way less happy than the ones utilized by the superior “12 Years A Slave” and “Django Unchained.” The latter wants to be “Gone Girl” but is saddled with uninspired characters and a bore plot; it has great actors though: Emily Blunt (“Edge of Tomorrow”), a now-blonde Rebecca Ferguson (the last and next “Mission: Impossible” movies) and busy Haley Bennett (who also hires Denzel in the much better “Magnificent Seven”).
“Top Critics” positive scores on Rotten Tomatoes:
30% The Girl on the Train
75% The Birth of a Nation
70% Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
