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93 on Nolan: Even Warner Bros. "didn't get" Heath Ledger as The Joker casting for 'The Dark Knight'On July 31, 2006, Warner Bros. officially announced that Heath Ledger would play The Joker in The Dark Knight. If you were online back then, you remember that the news was met with a ton of backlash from fans. Not unlike the backlash that Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot received when they were cast as…
Earlier this week we learned that Glow star Marc Maron was in talks to join Joaquin Phoenix in Joker, and now the actor has confirmed it himself on the latest episode of his podcast. Maron also confirmed that Robert De Niro has joined the cast, and that was one of the reasons that made him…
The Batman director Matt Reeves was at a Television Critics Association event today to promote his Fox drama, The Passage. At the event, Reeves gave many exciting updates about The Batman, which he's currently writing right now. /Film was in attendance and provided many quotes from Reeves from the event today. “We are working on…
A few weeks ago, Warner Bros. released the first poster for Aquaman, and today the official Aquaman social media accounts released a motion poster version online. In...
Way back in December 2016 it was reported that Suicide Squad director David Ayer would be making a Gotham City Sirens movie. We haven't really heard anything since then and it seemed like the project was dead with Margot Robbie moving on to a Birds of Prey movie for Harley Quinn, but perhaps things are…
As you know by now, Henry Cavill had a mustache for many of his Superman scenes in Justice League due to the extensive reshoots that he was part of. He had grown the mustache for Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which he was shooting at the same time. The mustache was covered up with CGI in Justice League, but many…
A couple of weeks ago, Den of Geek revealed a cool Aquaman cover for the Comic-Con issue of their magazine. A poster version was given to fans who were there in San Diego, and today...
We just heard that The Hangover's Bryan Callen had joined the cast of Joker as a stripper, and now Variety has some more casting news. Glow star Marc Maron is in talks to join Joker. If cast, he'd play an agent on Robert De Niro's character's talk show who plays a part in booking Joquain…
Bryan Callen is reuniting with his The Hangover director Todd Phillips on Joker. Callen broke the news on his podcast "The Fighter and The Kid" last night. He says he'll be playing an aging dancer/stripper. “I’m doing the Joker. I was offered a part," Callen revealed. "That’ll be fun, but I think it’s only a couple days.…
Earlier this year, director Zack Snyder implied that Dick Grayson was the dead Robin in Batman v Superman. Not Jason Todd as many fans had assumed. Today, Snyder took away all doubt and said it was "Richard" Dick Grayson. Snyder confirmed the news to a fan on Vero who had shared the deleted Suicide Squad…
In March, we learned that Pedro Pascal would play a "key role" in Wonder Woman 1984. We still don't know exactly who he is playing, but director Patty Jenkins just shared the first photo of him in costume from the set today. "Can't…Stop… Watching… Pedro Pascal !!!," Jenkins wrote on Twitter, along with the photo…
VFX artists have been posting their work from Justice League, some of it which wasn’t in the movie, but recently a VFX reel for Suicide Squad popped up...
A lot of people think that Aquaman is the only DC movie coming out this year, but that's not correct. This weekend Teen Titans GO! To The Movies hit theaters. And while it's an animated DC movie for kids, it's also the kind of movie that an adult can enjoy as well. Did you see…
Last week The Hollywood Reporter interviewed David Dastmalchian in honor of The Dark Knight's 10th anniversary. Dastmalchian had a small role, he played Thomas Schiff, one of the Joker's thugs that Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent interrogated in a dark alley. Dastmalchian credits The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan for changing his life by casting him…
Earlier this week Collider posted part of their interview with Geoff Johns from San Diego Comic-Con where he talked about Green Lantern Corps, but today they posted their entire 20 minute conversation where he also talked about Man of Steel 2, Wonder Woman 1984, Aquaman, and more. On the topic of Man of Steel 2,…
Patrick Wilson and director James Wan have collaborated many times over the years. So when they were working on The Conjuring 2 and Wan mentioned he'd like Wilson to play Ocean Master in Aquaman, it was a pretty quick "yes". Even though Wilson's agents didn't seem thrilled about their client joining a movie that didn't…
Wonder Woman 1984 recently wrapped up filming in Washington DC. It’s now headed to do some filming in the UK and Spain, and new members are being added to the cast for those shoots. According to Deadline, Ravi Patel and Gabriella Wilde have joined the cast of Wonder Woman 1984. Unfortunately we don’t know who…
Last month Geoff Johns left his job at DC to start his own production company where he will be creating movies, TV shows, and comics for Warner Bros. and DC. One of the first projects he's working on is the Green Lantern Corps movie, which he will now write and produce. Collider caught up with…
Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins are teaming up with celebrity charity website Omaze to offer fans a chance to land a role in Wonder Woman 1984. Here's the official grand prize description from Omaze: While the plot of Wonder Woman 1984 is cloaked in secrecy, we know two things. One: It’s set in the…
Justice League ended with a pretty exciting credits scene for fans. We see Deathstroke board Lex Luthor's boat and Luthor proposes an idea, "shouldn't we have a league of our own?". In the comics, Lex Luthor and other DC villains form a group called the "Legion of Doom". Aquaman villain Black Manta, Wonder Woman villain…
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