If you watched the first 3 season on Netflix, this feels like a continuation but on a time gap, since Wilson Fisk hinted that Matt Murdock / Daredevil, stopped being a “vigilante” or being Daredevil.
It also looks like the cast from the Netflix’ Daredevil are all back and reprised their role; Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher.
Marvel also release the series poster of Daredevil: Born Again;
Marvel Studios has released the first trailer for Echo, a new original series coming to Disney Plus and Hulu on January 10, 2024.
The series stars Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez, a deaf Native American vigilante who is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and marksmanship. Echo is a spin-off of the Hawkeye series, and will likely pickup where we last saw Echo in the series.
The trailer shows Maya struggling with her identity and her place in the world. She is haunted by the death of her father, and is determined to find out who is responsible. The trailer also shows Maya using her skills to fight crime and protect her friends and loved ones. We also see Wilson Fisk a.k.a. Kingpin surviving the gunshot by Lopez during Hawkeye and ending up blind in one eye.
Echo Series Poster
Echo is a highly anticipated series, and the trailer has generated a lot of excitement among Marvel fans, since appearing in the Hawkeye series. The series is expected to be one of the biggest Marvel Studios releases of 2024. Echo will debut on Disney+ and Hulu on Jan. 10, 2024.
Disney just release the official trailer of Ahsoka, giving us a glimpse of the most anticipated series on Disney Plus scheduled for release this August.
The series follows former Jedi and former padawan of Anakin Skywalker, as she hunts down Grand Admiral Thrawn, played by Lars Mikkelsen, who is currently in the unknown regions of space as seen in the Star Wars Rebels series finale. Together with Ahsoka, we also see Sabine Wren, played by Natasha Liu Bordizzo, with General Hera Syndulla, portrayed by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, providing support from the New Republic. We also see Genevieve O’Reilly reprising her role as Mon Mothma, the Chancellor of the New Republic.
The series will connect The Mandalorian’ and ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ where we first saw Rosario Dawson, playing the titular role. Ahsoka, a Star Wars Original series will debut the first 2-episode of the series this 23rd of August on Disney+.
We have less than 10 days before the premiere of Secret Invasion on Disney Plus, to keep up the hype, Marvel release the first 5-minutes of the series for free. The announcement was made by Marvel Studios’ official twitter account that contains a 12 seconds video, website and the password to access the site.
So as not to spoil anything in the video, just head to the website and watch for yourself.
Marvel also release the latest series poster and a 1-min clip between Nick Fury and Maria Hill while playing chess.
Marvel’s Secret Invasion original series will be 6-episodes long and will star Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury from the MCU film series, along with Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, with Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, and Don Cheadle. The series is created by Kyle Bradstreet and directed by Thomas Bezucha and Ali Selim. The series will premiere on Disney+ this 21st June.
For all those who watched John Wick 4, it’s remains to be seen if John Wick really did die with his duel with the Marquis Vincent de Gramont portrayed by Bill Skarsgård, and it looks like we will soon get our answer, since it’s been reported that John Wick 5 and other IP from the ‘John Wick Universe’ is under development.
In a report by Comicbook.com, during Lionsgate Q4 2023 earnings call, Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake confirmed that John Wick 5 is in early development and they’re expanding the ‘John Wick Universe’ starting with spin-off Ballerina film and the TV series “The Continental.”
We’re now moving across that franchise, not just in the AAA video game space, but looking at what the regular cadence of spin-offs, television really growing that universe so that there is a steady cadence of a franchise that there’s clear appetite by the audience,” Drake explained. “What is official is that, as you know, Ballerina is the first spinoff that comes out next year. We’re in development on three others, including [John Wick 5] and including television series, The Continental, will be airing soon. And so, we’re building out the world and when that five movie comes, will be organic — will be organically grown out of how we’re starting to tell those stories. But you can rely on a regular cadence of John Wick.
The Ballerina film is the official spin-off from the John Wick franchise will star Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves. The Ballerina is set between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). The premise of the film is that ballerina-assassin Rooney (Armas) hunts the murderers of her family. The film is scheduled to be released on 7th June 2024.
Still in development is a spin-off television series entitled The Continental which will feature younger versions of several John Wick characters and more like revolve on how the rules and the hotel itself was build.
Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion, an Original series, is streaming June 21 on Disney+.
Secret Invasion original series will be 6-episodes long and will star Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury from the MCU film series, along with Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, with Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, and Don Cheadle. The series is created by Kyle Bradstreet and directed by Thomas Bezucha and Ali Selim.
Secret Invasion original series is part of Phase Five of the MCU and will be on Disney+ this 21st June.
After reports that Wednesday season 2 will not be stream on Netflix, the company has officially announced that there will be Wednesday Season 2, “only on Netflix.”
Prior to the renewal announcement, reports have surface that there will be second season of Wednesday but won’t be under the Netflix, since the IP of “The Addams Family” which includes “Wednesday” is owned by MGM, and now part of Amazon after it have been acquired for $8.5B.
It’s not surprising for Netflix to renew Wednesday, since the shows have been a runaway success for the streaming company. The company said that “the series broke the Netflix record for most hours viewed in a single week… twice. In the first week, it raked in 341.23 million hours viewed; in its second, 411.29 million hours viewed.”
Details about Wednesday Season 2 in terms of this its casting and plot after still unknown but we can assume that most if not all of season 1 casts will return to reprise their role.
Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that Jenna Ortega is the hot new star from Netflix’s Wednesday, an Addams’ Family spin-off. So it’s not surprising if an artists uses Ortega’s likeness as his/her art piece, which is what artist Josh Clements (@clements.ink) just did by posting a fanart of Jenna Ortega as MCU’s White Tiger.
Josh Clements’s fan art shows that Jenna Ortega donning the white suit against a red silouhet New York skyline, with her jade green eyes and claws, a reference to the color of Jade Tiger Amulet, the source of White Tiger’s power.
Created by Brian Michael Bendis (writer) and Alex Maleev (artist), Angela del Toro/White Tiger, is a 4th character to use the name White Tiger. Angela del Toro/White Tiger is the niece of the original White Tiger, Hector Ayala and an FBI agent.
It’s been reported that White Tiger will appear in the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again series but the reports have been confirmed by Marvel or Disney.
Netflix just revealed the title of the first episode of Stranger Things Season 5, which is aptly called The Crawl. The streaming company made the announcement thru their social media accounts and the image in the post appears to be the script for the series.
To close out #StrangerThingsDay, very excited to reveal that the Stranger Things 5 premiere episode is titled…
Aside from the title, no other details have been released by the Netflix and The Duffer brothers, previously said that the 5th season of the Stranger Things will be shorter and could be as big as “Return of the King” and will just focus on the original characters.
The 5th season of the Stranger Things is expected to start production by 2023 but no announcement for the release date. Stranger Things Season 1 to 4 is available on Netflix.
Here’s another series – Secret Invasion, that I’m excited about, since this will feature 6 hours of Nick Fury.
Premise of the series going something like this; A faction of shapeshifting aliens, the Skrulls, have infiltrated all aspects of life on Earth. The series is taken from Marvel’s eight-issue limited series with the same name and several tie-in books.
Secret Invasion original series will be 6-episodes long and will star Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury from the MCU film series, along with Ben Mendelsohn as Talos, with Cobie Smulders, Martin Freeman, and Don Cheadle. The series is created by Kyle Bradstreet and directed by Thomas Bezucha and Ali Selim.
Secret Invasion original series is part of Phase Five of the MCU and will premiere on Disney+ in early 2023.
After releasing its first episode, HBO announced that it has renewed the House of the Dragon for a second season. According to reports, the first episode “The Heirs of the Dragon” drew a combined nearly 10 million viewers on television and HBO Max.
The GoT prequel is based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, which is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones and focuses on rise and fall of House of Targaryen. Season 1 of House of the Dragon premiered last August 21, 2022, and will have 10 episodes.
WEDNESDAY, an upcoming Netflix series from the imagination of Tim Burton. Starring Jenna Ortega in the title role, alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzman, Gwendoline Christie, Christina Ricci and more — is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Snap snap.
Netflix just revealed the first look and main cast of their upcoming Adam’s family spin-off series Wednesday. The black and white photo of the maincasts was shared by the streaming’s official social media accounts.
Jenna Ortega will play the title role Wednesday, who previously shared a short video of her character on her Instagram account. Ortega will be joined by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán, who will play her bizarre but lovable parents Morticia and Gomez, and Isaac Ordonez will take the role her brother Pugsley.
Netflix said that “the new series, the iconic spawn of the Addams family is on her own for the first time — and things get predictably gothic. After she’s expelled from her “normal” human high school over an incident involving piranhas (yes, you read that correctly), Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) is sent away to Nevermore Academy, a school for, shall we say, unique students. What she discovers there is a tantalizing, bloody murder mystery — and maybe, just maybe, a few friends as odd as she is.”
Other cast members of the Wednesday series includes;
Gwendoline Christie as Nevermore Academy school administrator Larissa Weems
Christina Ricci as Nevermore dorm mom Marilyn Thornhill (who played Wednesday in the ’90s Addams Family films)
Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott
Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin
Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin
Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus
Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Otinger
Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair
Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka
Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay
Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe
Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems
Victor Dorobantu as Thing
Wednesday Addams and the Addams Family is created by American cartoonist Charles Addams, the series was created by Michael Gough and Miles Millar, the first season of the series were directed by Tim Burton. Wednesday will be available for stream on Netflix this coming fall.
Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law will be part of of Phase Four of the MCU, and will be a nine episodes series that will debut on Disney+ on August 17th.
Netflix just announced the casts for the upcoming One Piece Live-action adaptation.
Fans who are familiar with anime, knows that the characters are the first/original member of Straw Hat Pirates, the collective name of given to Luffy’s group of pirates, which is named after his signature hat that was given to him by Red-Haired Shanks.
The casts are as follows;
Iñaki Godoy as Luffy
Mackenyu as Zoro
Emily Rudd as Nami
Jacob Romero Gibson as Usopp
Taz Skylar as Sanji
Netflix even created a “wanted poster” that includes their real name, the character that they’re playing, too bad they did not include the bounty on their heads.
Eiichiro Oda creator of the manga, said that the “series have been making steady progress” and “It’ll take a bit more time to get this show done.” Oda also explained the reasoning behind the casting of the characters.
Netflix’s One Piece Live-action adaptation is reported to be 10 episodes long and will cover most if not all of East Blue Saga. As of this time, no release date have been announced for the series.
Netflix just release the much awaited trailer of Witcher Season 2. The series picks-up where the season 1 of the series ended. We see that Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer will be up against new foes and more monsters and also a possibility of new allies.
The trailer (below) gives us a peak on where Yennefer is after the events of season 1. We can also Geralt training Ciri at Kaer Morhen, giving us a glimpse of that she may be more be powerful than any Witcher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJFVV2L8GKs
Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra and Joey Batey will reprise their role, as Geralt of Rivia, Cirilla “Ciri”, Yennefer of Vengerberg, and Jaskier, respectively.
Witcher season 1 is currently available for streaming on Netflix, season 2 will be available on December 17. It has been reported that as early as September 25, 2021, Netflix already renewed the series for a third season.
HBO just release the much awaited Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon. The series is based on George R. R. Martin’s 2018 novel ‘Fire and Blood’ and set 2 centuries before the event of Games of Thrones.
House of the Dragon focuses on the fall of House Targaryen and the events leading up to the Targaryen civil war, known as the “Dance of the Dragons.”
The teaser did not provide much details on the series except that it’ll have a stellar cast;
Paddy Considine as King Viserys I Targaryen
Emma D’Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen
Olivia Cooke as Queen Alicent Hightower
Emily Carey portrays young Alicent Hightower
Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen
Steve Toussaint as Lord Corlys Velaryon
Eve Best as Princess Rhaenys Velaryon
Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria
Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole
Graham McTavish as Ser Harrold Westerling
Ryan Corr as Ser Harwin Strong
Jefferson Hall as Lord Jason Lannister/Ser Tyland Lannister
David Horovitch as Grand Maester Mellos
Matthew Needham as Larys Strong
Bill Paterson as Lord Lyman Beesbury
Gavin Spokes as Lord Lyonel Strong
It’s unclear if House of the Dragon will have the same success as the Games of Thrones, and if having a familiar surname “Targaryen” is enough to sway Games of Thrones fans back to world of the Seven Kingdoms.
The House of Dragon will have ten episodes and will premiere in HBO Max in 2022. HBO did not provide any specifics regarding the release date.
Adult Swim, the American adult-oriented nighttime programming block of Cartoon Network, just release 3 very short promo video of Rick and Morty, that features Christopher Lloyd as Rick Sanchez and Jaeden Martell portraying Morty.
Based on the caption, “Rick and Morty” are travelling to the different universe in each of video. First back home in C-132, which if you are watching the show, refers to the show’s main universe.
Then the second video C-1.21, this refers to the show’s multiverse and a call back to Lloyd’s Back to the Future character as Doc brown and the show’s season three episode “Pickle Rick”.
The third and hopefully not the last video, is a promo for the Rick and Morty dot com, and at the same time, the availability of the show’s final season.
The critically-acclaimed fantasy series “Shadow and Bone” will be back to Netflix, after the streaming giant new the series for a second season.
Based on the book by Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo, the series follows the story of Alina Starkov, a cartographer in the First Army of Ravka, discovers that she is a Grisha with the ability of summoning light that can destroy the Shadow Fold — a region of impenetrable darkness that divided Ravka for hundreds of years.
Developed by Eric Heisserer for Netflix, “Shadow and Bone” stars Jessie Mei Li (Alina Starkov), Archie Renaux (Malyen Oretsev), Freddy Carter (Kaz Brekker), Amita Suman (Inej), Kit Young (Jesper Fahey), Ben Barnes (General Kirigan), Danielle Galligan (Nina Zenik) and Calahan Skogman (Matthias Helvar).
Shadow and Bone Season 1 premiered last April 23rd and is now available on Netflix.
