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– According to the Hollywood Reporter, Michelle MacLaran is emerging as the frontrunner to direct Wonder Woman. This is great news for anyone who follows serialized television, as MacLaren has directed some of the best episodes of not only Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, but also of Breaking Bad – if that isn’t a pedigree of someone ready to kick serious ass, than I don’t know what is. As hiring a female director seems to be a priority for DC, MacLaren seems poised to take the film world by storm the way she did television. If this is true, consider me excited.
– James Gunn, director of Guardians of the Galaxy, and contender for ‘Dude Having the Best Year Imaginable,’ spoke to MTV about the film’s upcoming home video release, and was very clear that Guardians of the Galaxy 2 isn’t “beholden to Avengers,” claiming that the next film will lead to more cosmic Marvel movies, but not necessarily to the Avengers films. This is an interesting and unexpected fact that could, of course, just be a tactic to get us off the scent. It seems, to me, that Infinity Stones would lead to the Infinity Gauntlet, but what do I know?
– If the Hollywood Reporter is to believed, X-Men: Apocalypse is going to focus heavily on a Mystique/Magneto romance. Those are some good looking people, let me tell you, so seeing them all smoochy should be less than terrible.
– Even the most ardent supporters of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy will admit that there is one thing he did that borders on sacrilege: he made the Waynes coming out of the opera, and not the movies, when they were shot and killed. It appears that Zach Synder will not make the same mistake. Good on you, Zach.
– Bleeding Cool has a great piece about Al Jaffe’s Mad fold-ins, which are celebrating their 50th anniversary with an art exhibit in Brooklyn. I am going to do my best to get to see it in person before the exhibit closes in December.
– And, finally, Scott Snyder has said that “Endgame” is, at least as he’s conceiving it, the final Joker story he’ll ever tell. Well, shit. This one is already shaping up to be pretty great.
