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– Not content to let The CW get away with hogging all the superheroic television glory, Fox is putting together a show based on one of their X-Men properties: Legion (aka David Gabriel Haller) (aka Professor X’s kid). While this is news to me, it’s probably not for the rest of you. Nor is the fact that Fargo‘s Noah Hawley is doing the pilot. But what is news on this front is that Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, and Jean Smart have been cast for that pilot. From what I can tell based on the info at the Hollywood Reporter link, this might be a legitimately good series if it gets picked up, playing to the strength of television without trying to compete with the spectacle/budget of the films. Also, I’ve always kinda liked Haller (who will sadly most likely NOT be sporting the world’s greatest flattop on TV when played by Dan Stevens); he’s got enough backstory to give the writers material to work with but he hasn’t been completely ground under by continuity. At least, not yet.
– Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill’s “Cinema Purgatorio”, a monthly anthology with other creators in the vein of EC or Warren magazines from the 50’s and 60’s, is definitely going to happen now that the project’s Kickstarter has raised over 9 times its funding amount with almost two weeks left to go. (That is, unless this report from The Outhousers is true…)
– I give you: Batman v Superman: Dawn of the Supergfriends.
– ComicBookMovie.com has a quote from Zack Snyder about the relationship between DC TV and DC film. I can honestly describe this as the biggest collection of words attributed to Snyder that hasn’t given me a massive migraine in I don’t know how long. Thing got especially not-horrible when I read the phrase “long after I’m done making a Batman v Superman movie.” Ahhhhh!
– Good Morning America has less-than-flattering things to say about the recently announced “Scooby-13” … er… “Scooby Apocalypse” series. I’d like to see them try to find a way to snark up those Cooke/Shaner “Future Quest” images. Bulletproof, those things are. Also bulletproof? Scooby Doo. Calm down, GMA.
