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.
– We guessed this a few days ago, but now it is official: new on-screen Spider-Man Tom Holland will be appearing in Captain America: Civil War. It seems unlikely that Spidey/Peter Parker will have the same pivotal role in the film that he had in the comics, as (spoilers) Parker de-masking in his first on-screen appearance would be bold as fuck.
– The team behind last year’s supremely underrated “Fantastic Four” run, James Robinson and Leonard Kirk, are re-teaming for a new “Squadron Supreme” ongoing, post-“Secret Wars.” The conceit behind the book is that, unlike the original incarnation, all of the team members are pulled from destroyed worlds. The cast includes Hyperion, recently featured in Jonathan Hickman’s “Avengers,” Blur from the New Universe, and Doctor Spectrum from the Great Society. Please, please fans: let this get more than 6 issues.
– Legends from Tomorrow officially has a showrunner: Phil Klemmer, previously a showrunner for Chuck and Veronica Mars, has worked with Arrow/The Flash executive producer Greg Berlanti on The Tomorrow People, among other projects. The show will premiere mid-season.
– The CW’s other DC shows will not debut mid-season, but rather in October: The Flash and iZombie will drop Wednesday, October 6, with Arrow following the next day.
– Marvel Studios has promised that the naming of Black Panther and Captain Marvel directors will happen this summer, and hints that folks calling for diversity among the Marvel film directors will be pleased.
– 2018 is shaping up to be quite the year – rumor has it that Ben Affleck will direct The Batman, a new stand-alone film that year. This ties into the rumor that, among the reasons that Affleck agreed to play Batman in Dawn of Justice, was that he wanted to direct a Bat-film.
– Also rumored for 2018: a Fox Studios crossover between the X-films and the Fantastic Four. Take this one with an oversized grain of salt.
– And, finally, in news that might not seem all that major to many of our readers, DC has changed its returnability policy for retailers. This move brings DC closer to the norm, in terms of what most publishers do, but will likely sour, even slightly, the relationship between DC and retailers, which can never be good.
