#zack snyder's netflix multiverse

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idk if this “netflix greenlit 6 more projects” thing is believable, but i certainly choose to believe it because Zack is that powerful. 

I mean technically we already have rebel moon part 1 & part 2 + planet of the dead + lost vegas + twilight of the gods, so that’s already 5 projects we know exist and are definitely happening

#netflix #zack snyder #zack snyder's netflix multiverse

[comicweek]

Whatever Happened to the Men of Tomorrow?

I just love Tyler Hoechlin on Superman & Lois. His Clark Kent rocks chunky cable-knit cardigans, pivots his Metropolitan family into farming, and pours a nightly glass of white wine for his badass wife. Dad goals aplenty — and when he suits up to catch a falling bridge in China, he waves to a rescued bystander. No big deal, his smile says, all in a day's work. It's a classic version of the most classic superhero, an ageless paternal hunk rendered puny behind glasses and the last tie any print journalist will ever wear.

But the hit CW drama already revealed another possible Man of Steel, a world-destroying alternate Superman introduced in a flashback eye-barbecuing an army. He wears black, just like Henry Cavill's resurrected Kal-El in Zack Snyder's Justice League. And that four-hour HBO Max event ends with a premonition of Superman gone mad, driven murderous by the death of Lois Lane (Amy Adams). These fallen gods have company. Amazon Prime Video's The Boys features Antony Starr as Homelander, an über-American sociopath. He shares a streaming service with Omni-Man (voiced by J.K. Simmons), the greatest defender of Invincible's Earth, who finishes up his series premiere ripping apart his fake Justice League one spinal cord at a time. Let's put a pin in calling the Utopian (Josh Duhamel) nefarious, but the patriarch of Netflix's upcoming Jupiter's Legacy has dark secrets. And his troubled son Brandon (Andrew Horton) wears a red-caped blue costume I would describe as "lawsuit-proof." (The Marvel Cinematic Universe is making its own moves in this direction, with the briefly bad resurrected Vision and a new Captain America covering his shield with fresh blood.)

An optimistic read would classify the Evil Superman glut as countercultural activism: a middle finger to the boomers from Generation Harley Quinn. The classic character offers easy signifiers to deconstruct. He is toxically masculine, supremely white, a whole surveillance state unto himself. Comparisons to certain monster presidents and canceled icons are welcome. "I know you want me to be like you," Homelander's son (Cameron Crovetti) tells the star-spangled pyscho. "But Dad, I'm not." That kid goes on to incinerate Homelander's Nazi girlfriend: Great job, youth! Meanwhile, Invincible's real star is Omni-Man's son, Mark (Steven Yeun), a sincere do-gooder. Their malicious elders stand in for larger societal decay. And even the WarnerMedia-approved Supermen withstand suspicion from paranoid worlds. Cavill's hero spent a whole movie proving to Batman (Ben Affleck) that he wasn't a bad guy; apparently, the next movie would have proved Batman right. Hoechlin's yearning sincerity sticks out like a sore thumb in modern-day Smallville, a depleted land of meth explosions and bank foreclosures. Recent events in our own world offer little hope for a brighter future. Everything has gone wrong with everything. Why should the Man of Tomorrow be any different?

There's a long history of Superman turning bad; there's a long history of Superman doing anything. Way back in 1964, he met Ultraman, a dastardly double from Earth-Three. The '90s brought a Terminator-ish super-doppelgänger, who pretended to be Superman before destroying fake Los Angeles. Hoechlin already played a different black-suited impostor in a 2018 CW crossover. There are multiverse scenarios where he's raised by Soviets, Nazis, or Darkseid. In the 2000s Justice League cartoon, another Superman executes his Lex Luthor, a defensible act that slippery-slopes into dystopic oppression.

Break one rule and you break them all: That's the implicit threat of Evil Superman, and the nasty thrill of Injustice, a videogame-comic saga where Lois Lane's death drives Superman superbad totalitarian. (Clark's son plays Injustice 2 on Superman & Lois.) In the classic 1986 tale "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" written by Alan Moore and drawn by Curt Swan, Kal-El retires from superheroism after taking a villain's life. "Nobody has the right to kill," he says, "Not Mxyzptlk, not you, not Superman... especially not Superman." Look past the outrageous impossibility of saying "Mxyzptlk" out loud, and it's one of the great quotes of comic book history. This Superman believes even a wholly justifiable homicide spoils his moral code. A generation later, that's where these stories begin.

#Superman #superheroes #The Boys #invincible #superman and lois #henry cavill #homelander #comics #comic books #storytelling #injustice

[aion-rsa]

Link Tank: Best Heist Shows, Games, and Books to Check out After Lupin Part 2

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From Maurice Leblanc’s novels to Money Heist on Netflix, here are the best heist TV shows, video games, and books to check out after Lupin Part 2.

“There’s nothing quite like a good heist story, with their thrills of the hero(es) outmaneuvering their enemies up to the last possible second and gratifying sense of justice in seeing the bad guys in power get what’s theirs when the rug is pulled out from under them. Netflix’s Lupin deftly checks all of the boxes of what we expect from the genre…”

Read more at Thrillist.

The road to LGBTQ equality is a long and arduous one. Learn about these 11 trailblazers who fought for queer rights.

“The battle for LGBTQ rights was being fought, slowly but surely, for decades before marriage equality became law in the United States in 2015. Generations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer activists paved the way for the progress we see today. From politicians to TV stars, here are 11 trailblazers worth knowing.”

Read more at Mental Floss.

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The newest time-travel subplot in Rick and Morty Season 5 is an unprecedented take on an evergreen sci-fi trope.

“The way Rick Sanchez frets about getting the house in order for a dinner party with his nemesis Mr. Nimbus in the Rick and Morty Season 5 premiere, you’d think he was a high schooler waiting for his crush — not the multiverse’s most brilliant alcoholic. And to top it all off, Morty winds up murdering perhaps thousands of aliens across the eons.”

Read more at Inverse.

Zack Snyder‘s time with the DCEU has come a long way since Man of Steel in 2013, and so has the director’s turbulent DC fanbase.

“Let’s start at June 2013. The Marvel Cinematic Universe had just begun its era of global domination with Avengers the previous year. Warner Bros. wanted what the MCU had, so they re-conceived their in-production Superman movie as an Iron-Man-type ground zero for a DC Comics shared universe. The result, Man of Steel, is about a man who is strong and good. Reviews were lukewarm at best, and the movie’s fandom responded by turning tribal and staying that way.”

Read more The Mary Sue.

The Suicide Squad director James Gunn reveals that King Shark is his most challenging VFX creation yet.

“James Gunn knows how to make VFX look realistic. His work on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy with creating Rocket Raccoon and Groot has made the characters a staple of the MCU. However, his most challenging creation is King Shark from the new DC comics movie The Suicide Squad, which Gunn is directing.”

Read more at Gizmodo.

A new survey reveals that most people snooping around on real estate websites are really just window shopping.

“People who get their thrills by shopping for houses—even when they’re not planning to buy one—need a source for their addiction. Nothing makes that easier than real-estate websites. There are many, but the big name is Zillow, a site that claims it had 9 billion visits in 2020. It turns out that only a fraction of those visitors really wanted to make a purchase.”

Read more at PCMag.

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[karlsmillab]

¿NETFLIX GRATIS? 😱 Resumen de la semana | 11

Espero que hayan tenido un buen fin de semana, aquí les dejo el resumen de noticias: 'Kayara' es la próxima película peruana de animación, fecha de estreno para Star Wars: The Mandalorian, duración de Wonder Woman 1984, Zack Snyder trabaja en una película de zombies, segunda fecha del DC Fandome: Explore the Multiverse, nueva película de James Bond. 

 Esto y más, en el resumen de la semana. ¡Gracias! ❤️ 

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Managing Film Superheroes Is About to Get a Lot Extra Difficult LOS ANGELES — Walter Hamada is just not a typical superhero wrangler. He doesn’t have a booming, fanboy-in-chief character. His modest dwelling workplace, a minimum of because it seems on Zoom, is gentle on the standard cape-and-cowl collectibles. Hollywood was not even his first calling: He got down to be a mechanical engineer. Because the president of DC Movies, nonetheless, Mr. Hamada, 52, manages the film careers of Surprise Lady, Batman, Cyborg, the Flash, Superman and each different DC Comics superhero. And the brand new course he has charted for them is dizzying. The costliest DC motion pictures (as much as 4 a yr, beginning in 2022) are designed for launch in theaters, Mr. Hamada stated. Further superhero movies (two yearly is the objective, maybe centered on riskier characters like Batgirl and Static Shock) will arrive completely on HBO Max, the fledgling streaming service owned by WarnerMedia. As well as, DC Movies, which is a part of Warner Bros., will work with filmmakers to develop film offshoots — TV collection that can run on HBO Max and interconnect with their big-screen endeavors. “With each film that we’re now, we’re considering, ‘What’s the potential Max spinoff?’” Mr. Hamada stated. If you happen to thought there was a glut of superheroes earlier than, simply wait. To make all of the story strains work, DC Movies will introduce film audiences to a comics idea referred to as the multiverse: parallel worlds the place completely different variations of the identical character exist concurrently. Developing, as an example, Warner Bros. could have two completely different movie sagas involving Batman — performed by two completely different actors — operating on the identical time. The sophisticated plan entails a pointy improve in manufacturing. Final yr, Warner Bros. made two live-action superhero motion pictures, “Joker” and “Shazam!” In 2018, there was solely “Aquaman.” All three have been smash hits, underscoring the monetary alternative of constructing extra. For numerous causes, together with inventive misfires and administration turnover at DC Movies (Mr. Hamada took over in 2018), Warner Bros. has badly trailed Disney-owned Marvel on the field workplace. During the last decade, Warner Bros. has generated $8 billion in worldwide superhero ticket gross sales, together with $36 million from “Surprise Lady 1984” over the weekend; Marvel has taken in $20.6 billion. Suffice it to say, Warner Bros., which invented the big-budget superhero film in 1978 with “Superman,” has been beneath stress to get its act collectively. Disney has succeeded partly as a result of its divisions collaborate in a means that siloed Warner Bros. by no means has. However that’s altering. AT&T mandated higher cross-company synergy when it took over WarnerMedia in 2018. “Up to now, we have been so secretive,” Mr. Hamada stated. “It was stunning to me, for instance, how few folks on the firm have been truly allowed to learn scripts for the films we’re making.” Greater than ever, studios are leaning on pre-established characters and types — particularly if their company dad and mom are constructing streaming companies. HBO Max has 12.6 million subscriber activations. Netflix has 195 million. How do you delight Wall Avenue and shortly shut the hole? You begin by placing your superheroes to work. This month, Disney introduced 100 new motion pictures and reveals for the following few years, most of them headed on to its Disney+ streaming service, which has 87 million subscribers. Marvel is chipping in 11 movies and 11 tv reveals, together with “WandaVision,” which arrives on Jan. 15 and finds Elizabeth Olsen reprising her Scarlet Witch position from the “Avengers” franchise. Warner Bros. has a minimum of as many comics-based motion pictures in numerous phases of gestation, together with a “Suicide Squad” sequel; “The Batman,” by which Robert Pattinson (“Twilight”) performs the Caped Crusader; and “Black Adam,” starring Dwayne Johnson because the villainous title character. Tv spinoffs from “The Batman” and “The Suicide Squad” are headed to HBO Max. WarnerMedia’s conventional tv division has roughly 25 further live-action and animated superhero reveals, together with “Superman & Lois,” which arrives on the CW community in February. Sony Footage Leisure has its personal superhero slate, with a minimum of two extra “Spider-Man” motion pictures within the works; “Morbius,” starring Jared Leto as a pseudo-vampire; and a sequel to “Venom,” which price $100 million to make in 2018 and picked up $856 million worldwide. Sony additionally has a collection of superhero TV reveals headed for Amazon Prime Video. And don’t overlook Valiant Leisure, which is popping comics properties reminiscent of “Harbinger,” about superpowered youngsters, into motion pictures with companions like Paramount Footage. Superheroes have lengthy been Hollywood’s most dependable moneymakers, particularly when gross sales of associated merchandise are included. (Surprise Lady tiara for cats, on sale for $59.50.) However how a lot dashing spandex and computer-generated visible results can audiences take? Greater than you assume, stated David A. Gross, who runs Franchise Leisure Analysis, a movie consultancy. “If the tales are nicely written and the manufacturing values are robust,” he stated, “then there will likely be little signal of fatigue.” Maybe the largest problem going through Warner Bros. entails the latest prioritization of HBO Max. “The danger is, will watching these motion pictures first on tv degrade the leisure expertise, and later the worth,” Mr. Gross stated. “For a person film, there isn’t a extra worthwhile enterprise mannequin than a profitable theatrical launch — creating the largest popular culture occasion doable. It’s the locomotive that pulls your complete prepare: merchandise, theme park licensing, different earnings.” On Friday, Warner Bros. launched “Surprise Lady 1984” in North America, the place it collected $16.7 million. Citing the coronavirus pandemic (solely 39 % of cinemas in america are open), the studio concurrently distributed the movie in theaters and on HBO Max. Warner Bros. will launch its complete 2021 slate in the identical hybrid vogue. WarnerMedia offered solely obscure details about the sequel’s efficiency on HBO Max, saying in a information launch that “thousands and thousands” of subscribers watched it on Friday. Andy Forssell, WarnerMedia’s direct-to-consumer normal supervisor, stated the film “exceeded our expectations throughout all of our key viewing and subscriber metrics.” Up to now, “Surprise Lady 1984” has collected $85 million worldwide, with $68.3 million coming from cinemas abroad, the place HBO Max doesn’t but exist. The movie, starring Gal Gadot and directed by Patty Jenkins, price a minimum of $200 million to make and an estimated $100 million to market worldwide. It obtained a lot weaker critiques than its collection predecessor. Toby Emmerich, president of the Warner Bros. Footage Group, stated on Sunday that he had “fast-tracked” a 3rd Surprise Lady film. “Our actual life Surprise Ladies — Gal and Patty — will return to conclude the long-planned theatrical trilogy,” Mr. Emmerich stated. Mr. Hamada rose to energy by way of New Line, a Warner Bros. division that principally makes midbudget horror movies and comedies. Amongst different achievements, he labored with the filmmaker James Wan and others to construct “The Conjuring” (2013) right into a six-film “world” with $1.8 billion in international ticket gross sales. (“The Conjuring: The Satan Made Me Do It” arrives in June.) “A variety of instances in studio conferences, executives simply repeat buzzwords, and it turns into a joke,” Mr. Wan stated. “Walt all the time brings one thing constructive, helpful and vital to the desk. He talks to me in a language that I perceive.” When Mr. Hamada arrived at DC Movies in 2018, the division was in pressing want of stability. Two terrifyingly costly motion pictures, “Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice” (2016) and “Justice League” (2017), each directed by Zack Snyder, have been deemed virtually unwatchable by critics. Ben Affleck, who performed Batman within the movies, needed to maneuver on, complicating sequel plans. On the identical time, filmmakers have been growing different DC motion pictures that had nothing to do with the prevailing story strains — and, actually, contradicted a few of them. Mr. Hamada and Mr. Emmerich had two choices: Work out find out how to make the assorted story strains and character incarnations coexist or begin over. The reply is the multiverse. Boiled down, it signifies that some characters (Surprise Lady as portrayed by Ms. Gadot, as an example) will proceed their adventures on Earth 1, whereas new incarnations (Mr. Pattinson as “The Batman”) will populate Earth 2. “The Flash,” a movie set for launch in theaters in 2022, will hyperlink the 2 universes and have two Batmans, with Mr. Affleck returning as one and Michael Keaton returning as the opposite. Mr. Keaton performed Batman in 1989 and 1992. To complicate issues additional, HBO Max gave Mr. Snyder greater than $70 million to recut his “Justice League” and broaden it with new footage. Mr. Snyder and Warner Bros. had clashed over his authentic imaginative and prescient, which the studio deemed overly grim, leading to reshoots dealt with by a special director, Joss Whedon. (That didn’t go nicely, both.) “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” now 4 hours lengthy, will arrive in segments on HBO Max in March. A minimum of for now, Mr. Snyder is just not a part of the brand new DC Movies blueprint, with studio executives describing his HBO Max mission as a storytelling cul-de-sac — a road that leads nowhere. The multiverse idea has labored on tv, however it’s a dangerous technique for giant screens. These motion pictures want to draw the widest viewers doable to justify their price, and an excessive amount of of a comic book nerd sensibility generally is a turnoff. New actors can take over a personality; James Bond is one of the best instance. However a number of Gothams spinning in theaters? “I don’t assume anybody else has ever tried this,” Mr. Hamada stated. “However audiences are subtle sufficient to know it. If we make good motion pictures, they’ll go together with it.” Supply hyperlink #Complicated #Lot #Managing #Movie #Superheroes

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"That's a goddamn Zombie-Tiger... That's crossing the line." 94th Academy Awards Fan Favorite Winner  ARMY OF THE DEAD (2021) dir. Zack Snyder

#army of the dead #zack snyder #netflix #armyverse #aotd #armyverseedit #armyofthedeadedit #aotdedit #netflixedit #filmedit #movieedit #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #it's not just the movie's birthday it's hers too! #impeccable chef's kiss vfx work on all that beteedubs let's mention it

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Zack Snyder Day 68

#rebel moon #zack snyder #netflix #zack snyder's netflix multiverse

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edxffy Going 🛸⚜️🌑 Warrior Mode #rebelmoon

#rebel moon #e duffy #e. duffy #rebel moon cast #netflix #yeah!!!!!!! #milius lets go!!! #zack snyder's netflix multiverse

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I dreamt of them again. Of Zombies. ARMY OF THIEVES (2021) dir. Matthias Schweighöfer ARMY OF THE DEAD (2021) dir. Zack Snyder

#army of thieves #army of the dead #armyverse #movieedit #filmedit #netflixedit #netflix #netflix originals #armyofthievesedit #armyofthedeadedit #aotedit #aotdedit #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #matthias schweighofer #matthias schweighöfer #nathalie emmanuel #ruby o fee #army of thieves spoilers #my gifs #the mysticism of it all...

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ARMY OF THIEVES (2021) dir. Matthias Schweighöfer ››› Matthias Schweighöfer as Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert / Ludwig Dieter

#army of thieves #matthias schweighöfer #matthias schweighofer #ludwig dieter #armyverse #netflixedit #movieedit #filmedit #armyofthievesedit #matthiasschweighoferedit #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #army of thieves spoilers #my gifs #help 😭😭😭

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ARMY OF THIEVES (2021) dir. Matthias Schweighöfer

#army of thieves #nathalie emmanuel #ruby o fee #guz khan #stuart martin #netflix #netflixedit #armyofthievesedit #movieedit #filmedit #armyverse #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #my gifs #i want to thank whoever did those vfx because YESSS fancy intros

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ARMY OF THIEVES (2021) dir. Matthias Schweighöfer ››› Matthias Schweighöfer as Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert / Ludwig Dieter

#army of thieves #matthias schweighöfer #matthias schweighofer #ludwig dieter #aot #armyverse #netflixedit #movieedit #filmedit #matthiasschweighoferedit #armyofthievesedit #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #my gifs #army of thieves spoilers

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It could be us in another timeline. And we’re caught in some infinite loop of fighting and dying, fighting and dying, fighting and dying. And Tanaka... Puppet master. The Devil. God... And we -- you, me, Guz, and the rest of the team -- simply pawns in some perverse play where we’re destined to repeat our failures. And finally, in some mind-bending ironic reveal... It all begins again. ARMY OF THE DEAD (2021) dir. Zack Snyder

#army of the dead #zack snyder #dave bautista #ana de la reguera #tig notaro #richard cetrone #omari hardwick #scott ward #maria cruz #marianne peters #vanderohe #aotd #armyverseedit #aotdedit #armyofthedeadedit #movieedit #filmedit #netflixedit #netflix #zack snyder's netflix multiverse

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94th Academy Awards Fan Favorite Winner  ARMY OF THE DEAD (2021) dir. Zack Snyder ››› Omari Hardwick as Vanderohe ››› Ana de la Reguera as Maria Cruz ››› Dave Bautista as Scott Ward

#army of the dead #omari hardwick #ana de la reguera #dave bautista #vanderohe #maria cruz #scott ward #aotd #armyverse #zack snyder #armyofthedeadedit #aotdedit #armyverseedit #netflixedit #movieedit #filmedit #academy awards #oscars 2022 #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #netflix

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ARMY OF THIEVES (2021) dir. Matthias Schweighöfer ››› Matthias Schweighöfer as Sebastian Schlencht-Wöhnert / Ludwig Dieter

#army of thieves #matthias schweighöfer #matthias schweighofer #ludwig dieter #netflix #movieedit #filmedit #netflixedit #armyofthievesedit #matthiasschweighoferedit #armyverse #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #army of thieves spoilers #my gifs #look at him with the dream lens shots!!

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Zack Snyder Rebel Moon concept art... we are in full swing heading toward principal photography in a few months

#rebel moon #zack snyder #zack snyder's netflix multiverse #sofia boutella #OH!!!!