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The Rundown: April 18, 2019

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Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com.

In case you missed it, Dynamite Entertainment announced “Charlie’s Angels/Bionic Woman,” “X-O Manowar” will be relaunching in November, and Dark Horse announced “StarCraft: Survivors” and “Disney Storied Places.” Finally, Image unveiled three new sci-fi and horror titles for the summer: “Sea of Stars,” “Unearth,” and “Coffin Bound.”

– The band Rush will release a graphic novel about the making of their 1977 album A Farewell To Kings. Louder Sound reports the publication is already officially licensed and will launch on September 10, 2019 via Fantoons. It’s now available to pre-order through the band’s website. “Rush: The Making of A Farewell to Kings” will boast 144 pages in a hardback format, including a version that comes with a reproduction of the 1978 tourbook, and measures 12 x 12 inches.

– Kodansha Comics and Amazon’s digital comics service ComiXology have partnered to bring classic manga series “Initial D” back into circulation for the first time in a decade. The Hollywood Reporter says ComiXology will release English versions of Shuichi Shigeno’s “Initial D” as well. The series was first published in English by Tokyopop from 2002 through 2009. The publisher will be releasing 33 volumes of the 48-volume series. As part of ComiXology Originals, Vols. 1 through 38 of “Initial D” are available now for purchase on Kindle and ComiXology platforms, or for free to subscribers of ComiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime.

– Axel Alonso and Bill Jemas’s new company AWA Studios have teased two more titles, “Old Haunts” (written by Rob Williams and Ollie Masters), and “Stay Out” (scripted by Jason Starr). The two titles were unveiled in a Wall Street Journal profile of James Murdoch, who is making a $5 million investment in the fledgling company. It was also revealed in the profile that creators participating in AWA’s shared universe will receive 20 percent of the revenue from any planned film/TV/video game adaptations of the characters they contribute.

– Speaking of the Murdochs, two weeks before motion capture photography was set to begin, 20th Century Fox have canceled the movie version of BOOM!/Archaia’s “Mouse Guard.” Directed by Wes Ball, Mouse Guard was set to star Andy Serkis, Idris Elba, Samson Kayo and Thomas Brodie-Sangster as anthropomorphic mice in Medieval times. According to the The Hollywood Reporter‘s sources, Disney felt the $170 million project was too close to their own films, and halted production as they want their “new studio division to focus on lower cost family movies, as well as PG-13 and R-rated fare.” Producers Matt Reeves, Ross Ritchie and Stephen Christy are currently shopping the project to other studios.

– Meanwhile, FOX have canceled The Gifted. The announcement comes after a month after the conclusion of the X-Men-inspired show’s second (and now final) season, as well as the finalization of the Disney-Fox merger, which separated the channel from its parent studio. However, it should be noted The Gifted season 2 averaged fewer than 2 million viewers, 40 percent down from its initial run.

– SlashFilm has reported that DC Universe’s Swamp Thing has ended production early, cutting the season from thirteen episodes to ten. Virginia Madsen, who stars in Swamp Thing as key antagonist Maria Sunderland, referred to the show’s sudden production shutdown in a now-deleted Instagram post, writing, “I’m beyond sad. What a terrible decision. We have been cut to the core by those who have never set foot into the Swamp. And despite the rule I am going to use the hashtag. #swampthing.” Despite the shutdown, Swamp Thing will still premiere on the app on May 31, 2019, and DC Universe have revealed a first look at the show, which you can find here.

– In an exclusive with The Wrap, it was revealed that South Korean actor Ma Dong-seok, also known as Don Lee (Train to Busan), will make his American film debut in Marvel Studios’ The Eternals. Created by Jack Kirby in 1976, the Eternals are an offshoot of the evolutionary process that created sentient life on Earth. The original instigators of this process, the alien Celestials, intended the Eternals to be the defenders of Earth, which leads to the inevitability of war against their destructive counterparts, the Deviants. The Rider director Chloe Zhao will direct the film, while Matthew and Ryan Firpo (Ruin) are writing the script. Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige is producing. Angelina Jolie is currently in talks to play the Eternal, Sersi, while Kumail Nanjiani is also in talks to join the film.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home will hit theaters three days ahead of schedule. According to CBR, the movie will now open on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 and will give Sony Pictures a head start on the 4th of July weekend. Spider-Man: Far From Home will be the first Phase Four film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will see Nick Fury hijacking Peter Parker’s summer vacation.

– Amazon Prime has released a trailer for The Boys, based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The Boys takes place a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, and revolves around a group of vigilantes known informally as “the boys,” who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty. The series will star Karl Urban and Elisabeth Shue among others. The Boys will premiere on Amazon Prime July 26, 2019.

– Finally, Patrick Stewart’s upcoming Star Trek series that will explore the next chapter of Jean-Luc Picard’s life has added several new cast members. Deadline reports that Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) and Isa Briones (American Crime Story: Versace) have all been cast as series regulars. The new additions will join previously announced cast members Santiago Cabrera, Michelle Hurd and Evan Evagora. The untitled Star Trek will be available exclusively on CBS All Access, and Hanelle Culpepper will direct the first two episodes of the series, making her the first woman to direct a pilot or debut episode of a Starfleet series in the franchise’s 53-year history.


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