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The Rundown: July 27, 2017

By | July 27th, 2017
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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.

– Matt Groening, creator of “Life in Hell,” The Simpsons and Futurama, has a new show in the works, a high fantasy series titled Disenchantment. Set in the crumbling Medieval kingdom of Dreamland, it follows hard-drinking Princess Bean (voiced by Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson), her elf companion Elfo (Nat Faxon), and her “personal demon” Luci (Eric Andre). The cast also includes Futurama veterans John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche, and Tress MacNeille, as well as David Herman, Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding and Lucy Montgomery. Former Simpsons showrunners and Futurama consulting producers Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley are acting as executive producers. The Hollywood Reporter states Netflix has ordered a 20-episode season, the first half of which will premiere next year. We expect Bongo Comics will eventually announce a “Disenchantment” comic to promote the series.

– Damon Lindelof has dismissed reports he is involved with HBO’s adaptation of “Watchmen.” Talking to TV Line, the Lost co-creator denied meeting with HBO, stating he was on vacation with his family when the news broke, and that he was greatly surprised by the hundreds of e-mails he received congratulating him on landing the project. The vocal “Watchmen” fan said he was in two minds about whether a television adaptation should even happen, and that he found the notion of doing it daunting.

Mashable‘s sources claim David Ayer will no longer be directing Gotham City Sirens. The Suicide Squad director had passed on the sequel to direct the Harley Quinn-centered spin-off, but the project was not mentioned with other forthcoming DCEU movies at Warner Bros.’s SDCC panel. Ayer’s representative denied the claims, which came in a report highlighting DC Entertainment’s attempts to lessen the influence of Zack Snyder on their film universe. It includes Ayer’s revealing statement at SDCC, where he said his next film Bright was not “some bullshit standard issue studio PG-13 movie. I was able to do some real shit here.” Suicide Squad is the only PG-13 movie Ayer has directed.

– On Twitter (via CBR.com), Brian Herbert announced he and Kevin J. Anderson (“Tales of the Jedi”) will adapt Dune into a three-part graphic novel. Their 1999 prequel novel Dune: House Atreides will also be turned into a comic. This will be just the second time Frank Herbert’s sci-fi series has become a comic book, following an adaptation of David Lynch’s 1984 film in “Marvel Comics Super Special” #36, created by Ralph Macchio, Bill Sienkiewicz and Christie Scheele. No artist or a release date for the new version were revealed, though a publisher will be announced at a forthcoming convention.

– Keith David has joined the cast of Marvel and Freeform’s New Warriors in a recurring role as Ernest Vigman, whom The Hollywood Reporter described as “a caustic municipal employee who butts up against the hopeful energy of the new warriors.” This marks the Gargoyles star’s first live-action Marvel role, having voiced Black Panther, Tombstone, and Nick Fury in various animated projects and video games. He previously worked with showrunner Kevin Biegel on the short-lived Fox series Enlisted. New Warriors is set to air next year.

– Alterna Comics, a publisher of creator-owned newsprint comics, have announced a deal with PDG Mags to sell their comics in newsstands across the US. Alterna are currently in talks to sell their comics in Five Below and Toys R Us stores too.

– Just as it emerged Tom Felton is not returning for The Flash season four, Jessica Camacho has been cast as a regular on season two of NBC’s Taken, casting doubt on the future of her character Gypsy. The character was expected to play a larger role on season four of The Flash with the casting of Danny Trejo as her father Breacher, while Carlos Valdes, who plays her love interest Cisco Ramon, had hinted their characters’ relationship would “go to the next level.”

Bleeding Cool states Marvel will publish a prelude comic to next year’s Black Panther movie, which will chronicle how T’Challa claimed the vibranium suit before the events of Captain America: Civil War. Will Corona Pilgrim, who has written many MCU tie-in comics, will return for this series, which Annapaola Martello (“Kiss/Vampirella”) will draw. The first issue already has a release of October 18, 2017 on Comixology. Unsurprisingly, there will also be an “Avengers: Infinity War Prelude.”

ComicBook.com reports John Bernecker, a stuntman who died after an accident during filming of The Walking Dead, will be buried on July 29 in New Orleans. His mother Susan thanked fans who expressed sympathy over his death, and has set up a memorial site to send donations in lieu of flowers.


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Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Chris is the news manager of Multiversity Comics. A writer from London on the autistic spectrum, he enjoys tweeting and blogging on Medium about his favourite films, TV shows, books, music, and games, plus history and religion. He is Lebanese/Chinese, although he can't speak Cantonese or Arabic.

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