Last month, it was reported that Viola Davis will likely play Amanda Waller in Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad film. This news came off the heels of the Oscar nominee being mentioned on the studio’s shortlist for the role, alongside Oprah Winfrey and Octavia Spencer. Now, during an interview with Nerd Report for the Blackhat press junket, Davis has confirmed that she is in talks to play Waller, who is the founder of Task Force X. Davis admits that she has not begun researching the Suicide Squad comics yet, but she affirms that she is reworking her schedule to include the DC Comics adaptation. “I have not started reading them yet. I’ve…

One of the areas DC Comics has excelled at the most in the last few years has been digital first comics.  Most notably have been series continuing the adventures of Smallville, The Flash Season Zero and Injustice: Gods Among Us. However one of the most popular has been the continuing adventures of the Dynamic Duo in Batman ’66. In the spirit of that title comes Wonder Woman ’77, written by Marc Andreyko and art by a rotating cast.  The series launches this January and Newsarama released an interview to help get readers excited for the launch as well as tease what’s to come. Andreyko is best known for his recent…

Arrow writer/executive producer Marc Guggenheim and Agent Carter showrunners Tara Butters (Guggenheim’s wife) and Michele Fazekas recently interviewed each other in a sitdown hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. During the discussion – which you can read in full by clicking the link – Guggenheim offers some interesting answers to Arrow related questions. When asked if there are any other Justice League members he would like to see on the series, the EP immediately points to a certain Caped Crusader. “At the end of the day it’d be so awesome to have Batman on the show. That’d be really cool. I don’t think that will be happening anytime soon, but you never…

As the second half of Gotham’s first season gets underway this week reports have come to light of a competing series that was in development at the same time Bruno Heller was developing his series. Writer Henry Locke IV recently posted the treatment for his proposed series on Voices From Krypton.  While this series would have shared the title and setting, what Locke proposed was rather different to the series we see on Fox. Instead of focusing on Gotham’s slide into corruption through the eyes of a young James Gordon and Bruce Wayne’s struggle following the murder of his parents, Locke’s Gotham would have focused on a city that is…

Weta Digital supervisor Joe Letteri confirmed last year that the visual effects company was working on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, following their stellar work on Man of Steel‘s Krypton opening sequence. The company is also known for its work on Avatar, the Middle-Earth franchise and the recent Planet of the Apes films. It was unknown exactly how big Weta’s role in Batman v Superman is, but we now have more info on what is being worked on. Speaking with Collider, Letteri reaffirmed that Weta was working on Dawn of Justice. saying that the one sequence being developed is “standalone.” We can also rule out the scene shown in…

2014 was a very successful year for DC Entertainment. Warner Bros. finally unveiled its lineup for a multi-film DC Cinematic Universe that will occupy the next few years, promising the long-awaited big screen debuts of many iconic characters. Several DC television shows premiered this year, with more in development. A new DC Animated Universe was created with the release of direct-to-video movies Justice League: War and Son of Batman. And 2014 saw the release of one highly anticipated video game and the announcement of another. In this part of our reflection, we look at the various DC Entertainment animation and television news of 2014. As usual, DC Entertainment released three direct-to-video animated movies…

2014 was a very successful year for DC Entertainment. Warner Bros. finally unveiled its lineup for a multi-film DC Cinematic Universe that will occupy the next few years, promising the long-awaited big screen debuts of many iconic characters. Several DC television shows premiered this year, with more in development. A new DC Animated Universe was created with the release of direct-to-video movies Justice League: War and Son of Batman. And 2014 saw the release of one highly anticipated video game and the announcement of another. In this part of our reflection, we look at the various DC Entertainment television news of 2014. The success of The CW’s Arrow has paved the way for…

As the year draws to a close, many websites are giving out praise and attention to deserving television series and DC Entertainment’s series have often found homes on these lists.  However, it’s unlikely Warner, Fox or the CW are too happy about the latest list Gotham and Arrow have landed on. Torrentfreak.com has put out their annual list of the ten most pirated television episodes for 2014.  While the top of the list continues to belong to HBO’s Game of Thrones, Arrow and Gotham have found themselves dead center in the list. Gotham takes the fifth spot with an estimated 3.2 million downloads for a single episode, right behind in…

While Warner Bros. announced that a DC Cinematic Universe featuring the Justice League, Suicide Squad and more will kick off in 2016, there has been some confusion over Shazam. Despite the former Captain Marvel recently being seen as a member of the Justice League, most notably in the New 52 comics and the Justice League: War animated feature, fans have interpreted some comments from New Line Cinema president Toby Emmerich and star Dwayne Johnson (Black Adam) as confirmation that this film would take place in its own world. Of course, this made little sense, given Shazam’s increasing presence in the mainstream DC Universe. And now, it looks like we have…