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– Following the release of a couple teasers by both Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, the official trailer fo The Dark Tower dropped today. The hotly anticipated film is being set-up as a sequel to Stephen King’s book series of the same name, while an in production television show could see more of the novels’ stories covered. The series has previously been adapted into a Marvel comic series by Robin Furth and Peter David. The trailer depicts Jake Chambers, a young boy, having visions of another world with cowboy heroes called gunslingers, a man in black (not the one from Westworld we hope) and, appropriately enough, a dark tower, and then stepping into this world to come face to face with all his visions. You can see King’s self described magnum opus on the big screen August 4th, and on the small screen sometime in 2018.
– Marvel’s The Defenders’s first trailer was released today and, oddly enough, the first thing it does is pass the Bechdel test. The trailer cuts a very specific tone with the presence of conflict between the teams members throughout the trailer and the use of Nirvana’s “Come as You Are” as the background music. The trailer also gives us our first glimpse at Sigourney Weaver as Alexandra, the series’ main antagonist. While most of the trailer focuses on our four Defenders interacting, we also get glimpses of some of our favorite supporting characters such as Rosario Dawson’s Claire Temple, Jessica Henwick’s Coleen Wing, and Elodie Yung’s Elektra Natchios.
– “Love is Love,” the anthology honoring victims of Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub shooting, has been officially accepted for this year’s Eisner Awards. Its absence in the initial announcement was due to the fact that its Amazon release date had been in 2017, which seemingly would’ve made it ineligible, except that it was released in stores in December 2016.
– The second artistic team for Marvel’s “Astonishing X-Men” — Mike Deodato Jr. and Frank Martin — has been announced, along with a preview of the issue’s cover and interior pages. The interior pages previewed seem to be a theatrical presentation of the X-Men themselves, albeit, with some heavily redacted parts.
– The Wonder Woman film has also ramped up its marketing in the past day, releasing a teaser, a poster, and a magazine cover for Cinema Teaser. The film has recently come under fire recently for a proposed lack of support in the marketing department, though those claims have been refuted by the studio.
– F. Javier Gutierrez, executive producer of The Crow remake has told Forbes that the remake of The Crow will be R-rated. He said that “If any movie has to be R-rated then it’s The Crow.” The movie currently has no director, though Aquaman’s leading man Jason Momoa is signed on as the film’s protagonist.
– In case you want to waste some money on some truly subpar comics, there’s a Kevin Smith + Friends Humble Bundle going on right now, which features books by Smith and some of his collaborators (Phil Hester, Walter Flanagan, Bryan Johnson) have put out through Dynamite. While Smith has done some decent work (specifically on “Green Arrow”), this doesn’t represent his best work.
– And, finally, the words every comics fan has been waiting to hear for years: metallic foil covers, baby!
