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The Flash first look!

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The CW has released the first official look at Grant Gustin as The Flash in their upcoming pilot. All we get to see so far is the headgear of the costume, which was designed by Oscar-winning designer Colleen Atwood. I’m curious to see the full costume as well what the effects will look like when he’s running at super speed.

In the series, scientist Barry Allen (Gustin) has a freak accident that gives him the power of super speed and transforms him into the Fastest Man Alive. Allen was introduced on the CW series Arrow, but he won’t make his debut as The Flash until the pilot, production on which begins next week.

Heroes Returns to NBC in 2015 as Heroes Reborn!

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First rumored last April, NBC is planning to resurrect its superhero-themed series “Heroes” for a special 2015 miniseries event. Thirteen new episodes will be produced with original creator and executive producer Tim Kring at the helm, it was announced today by NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke.

“The enormous impact ‘Heroes’ had on the television landscape when it first launched in 2006 was eye-opening,” said NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke. “Shows with that kind of resonance don’t come around often and we thought it was time for another installment. We’re thrilled that visionary creator Tim Kring was as excited about jumping back into this show as we were and we look forward to all the new textures and layers Tim plans to add to his original concept. Until we get closer to air in 2015, the show will be appropriately shrouded in secrecy, but we won’t rule out the possibility of some of the show’s original cast members popping back in.”

The original series chronicled the life-changing stories of a series of unrelated ordinary people who discovered they had superhuman abilities. As the saga unfolded, they learned they were part of a grand plan that brought them together to change the world.

With the return of “Heroes Reborn,” NBC will launch a digital series prior to the 2015 premiere that will introduce the characters and new storylines. This leveraging of social media is a way for fans to re-engage with what was one for the true pioneers in multiplatform storytelling.

Plot details for the new episodes are being kept under wraps, but the 13 episodes are said to follow a new stand-alone story arc.

Check Out the First Photo of Arrow’s Suicide Squad!

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The CW (via CBR) has unveiled the first photo of their fully-assembled Suicide Squad from the hit series “Arrow.” Set to debut in the upcoming 16th episode of the second season of “Arrow,” the Suicide Squad was previously teased in an earlier episode where Amanda Waller (played by Cynthia Addai-Robinson) recruited Michael Jai White’s Bronze Tiger to join the team. The rest of the members of the team will include Mark Scheffer, aka Shrapnel (Sean Maher), Floyd Lawton, aka Deadshot (Michael Rowe), and none other than Lyla Michaels (Audrey Marie Anderson) and Oliver’s partner John Diggle (David Ramsey).

Also known as “Task Force X,” the Suicide Squad have been in DC Comics in many different forms since 1959. The team set to be featured on “Arrow” bears some resemblance to the current iteration of the team which also includes Deadshot and Amanda Waller. A few other villains that have appeared on “Arrow” have also been a part of the Suicide Squad in the source material including Clock King and Count Vertigo.

New Character for STAR WARS REBELS – Feisty Weapons Expert Sabine

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As fall of this year draws closer, Disney is going to be giving little insights into the world of their show Star Wars Rebels. THR released an exclusive image of one of the main characters of the show. Her name is Sabine.

She will be voiced by Tiya Sircar (Walking with Dinosaurs, The Internship), and this is what the report had to say about the character:

She is a Mandalorian, and is described as “sassy,” “spunky,” “feisty” and has “a little bit of attitude.” She has an expert’s knowledge of weapons and arms, with an affinity for blowing things up. “She does it with flair,” Sircar says of Sabine, who also moonlights as a graffiti artist.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, another famous Mandalorian was Boba Fett. Fortunately for the Rebellion, this Mando is an enemy of the Empire. Here is a synopsis of what you can expect:

Star Wars Rebels takes place between Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, which spans about two decades. The animated series is set “in a time where the Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy and hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking shape.”

All in all, this looks like it will be a pretty cool animated series. This fall there will be an hour long movie on the Disney channel to kick things off, then the series will begin on Disney XD shortly after.

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The Penguin, Alfred, and More Cast in GOTHAM TV Series

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The Batman inspired TV series Gotham seems to be coming together nicely. It was recently announced that Ben McKenzie would play a young Jim Gordon, who will be the main character in the series. We now have casting for the Penguin, Alfred Pennyworth, Gordon’s boss, and his fiancé. I’ve also included the descriptions of the characters in the series (via: Variety.)
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Robin Lord Taylor has been perfectly cast to play Oswald Cobblepot a.k.a. the Penguin. The guy looks creepy as hell. “With the brains of a chess grandmaster and the morals of a jackal, Cobblepot is a low-level psychopath for gangster Fish Mooney, and hides his sadistic lust for power behind an exquisitely polite demeanor.”
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Sean Pertwee will play Alfred Pennyworth. Described a “tough-as-nails ex-marine from East London, Pennyworth has loyally served the Wayne family. Now, in the wake of their tragic deaths, he’s fiercely protective of the young Bruce Wayne — the boy who will eventually become Batman.”
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Zabryna Guevara will play Captain Essen, who is Detective Gordon’s boss at the Gotham City Police Department Homicide Squad. “Essen balances the two worlds of police and politics with a Machiavellian skill that’s as much corporate litigator as cop.”
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Erin Richards will take on the role of Barbara Kean, “the fiance of Detective Gordon (McKenzie). A sophisticated emergency doctor, Kean stands by her husband amid the corrupt world of Gotham.”
The series explores the origin stories of Commissioner James Gordon and the villains that infested Gotham. The series will also feature young Bruce Wayne, who is yet to be cast. Stay tuned for more details on what is sure to be an amazing series!

Original The Flash Star John Wesley Shipp Joins The CW’s New Series

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https://i0.wp.com/www.comingsoon.net/nextraimages/flash-bar.jpg?w=584The cast of The CW’s upcoming DC Comics-inspired series “The Flash” is rapidly assembling with the latest addition being John Wesley Shipp, the star of the 1990 live action series of the same name. Shipp’s character is being a kept a secret, but he is said to have been cast in a recurring role.

Shipp joins Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, Candice Patton as Iris West, Jesse L. Martin as Iris’s father, Detective West, Rick Gosnett as Central City Police Detective Eddie Thawne, Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon, Danielle Panabaker as S.T.A.R. Labs bioengineer Caitlin Snow and Tom Cavanagh as S.T.A.R. Labs CEO Harrison Wells.

“The Flash” arrives from co-creators Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg who, along with Geoff Johns, will write the pilot episode with “Arrow” pilot director David Nutter at the helm.

Original The Flash Star John Wesley Shipp Joins The CW’s New Series

STAR WARS REBELS – New Details and Character Revea

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There’s still so much we have to learn about the new Star Wars Rebels animated series, but so far everything that has been revealed looks and sounds awesome! Thanks to executive producer Dave Filoni, we now have some new details on the series, including the reveal of a new character.

While talking to MoviePilot.de, Filoni says the series will see the return of classic Star Wars ships and that the tone of the series will be different from The Clone Wars.

“We will see many things that are famous to Star Wars, but have not appeared on screen in a while. Star Destroyers, TIE Fighters, and Stormtroopers – basically the Empire is back and that is a big change, since, for many years, we have only seen the Republic in action. The tone of the series is also different. The Clone Wars got very dark as we headed towards the end of the war and the downfall of the Jedi. Star Wars Rebels brings back the banter and faster pace that the original films were famous for.”

I kind of liked the dark tone of The Clone Wars, but I’m sure there will still be some dark elements amongst the banter. The villain they have seems like he could be a pretty terrifying dude. Filoni went on to talk about the setting for the series and the new planet Lothal.

“Rebels takes place in the Outer Rim. The audience typically thinks of Tatooine as the place where Luke Skywalker grew up, when the Outer Rim is mentioned. We are on a more civilized planet, and one that profited from the Empire’s existence in the beginning. Most of the stories take place on the planet Lothal, which is a grass planet with large monolithic stones on the surface. The look comes from some Ralph McQuarrie concept paintings that were done for the original Star Wars films. We tried to make Lothal look and feel like a planet that would have been in the original film trilogy. It’s alien, but you feel like it’s someplace that you could visit on Earth geographically. Hoth, Tatooine, and Endor are all like this, so we think it fits in well.”

The only confirmed character of the series until today has been the villain The Inquisitor, but Filoni has new revealed a character named Chopper, who happens to be a droid.

The highly anticipated series is set between the events of Episode III and IV — “an era spanning almost two decades never-before explored on-screen. It takes place in a time where the Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy and hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking shape.”

GOTHAM: The Penguin Will Be First Batman Villain

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This Batman-inspired TV series Gotham is sounding like it’s going to be a hell of a series. It’s shaping up nicely, and the rumors that are circulating have been exciting. It was recently revealed that Sons of Anarchy‘s Donal Logue has been offered the role of detective Harvey Bullock. Today, thanks to El Mayimbe from Latino Review, we’ve learned that the first villain that will be introduced from Batman’s rogues gallery will be Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. The Penguin! Apparently, they are currently on the hunt for an actor in his twenties to take on the role.

FREE DC SCOOP! Wanna know 1st batvillain that will appear on GOTHAM? A guy named OSWALD (20s) aka THE PENGUIN which is currently casting. RT

This is just one of several villains that will be introduced in the series. It will be cool to see who they end up casting in these villainous roles. The series will focus on James Gordon, a young Bruce Wayne, and the villains that he will grow up to fight.

“The show won’t have a bunch of characters you’ve never heard of. We see Detective Gordon, before he’s a commissioner, all the characters you know, Bruce Wayne, the Penguin, all of them. It’s Gotham teetering on the edge, and we see what makes these characters become who they are, [like] Catwoman. It’s an operatic soap that has a slightly larger-than-life quality to it.”

Marvel Is Bringing Deathlok to AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

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Marvel has announced that the character Deathlok is coming to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. This is the first time the character will brought to life in a live-action project. J. August Richards, who appeared in the pilot and subsequent episodes as Mike Peterson, will now become Deathlok, and these are the details that they give us,

“Transformed into the cybernetic solider against his will, Mike Peterson (Richards) must struggle to find the man in the machine. With a high-tech eye that allows him to see through walls, super strength and increased speed courtesy of a cybernetic leg, will Deathlok fight alongside the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or against them?”

Executive Producer Jeffrey Bell had this to say in a statement,

“We have been waiting all season for this moment where we can reveal that Mike Peterson’s story arc is an origin story. We’re thrilled to have J. August Richards playing Deathlok and to have our audience enjoy this favorite Marvel character on the show.”

Richards added,

“If you would have asked when I was nine-years old what I wanted to be, I would have said a super hero and I’m so excited to be one now as an adult on TV! It’s a dream come true.”

Marvel and ABC are sure doing everything they can to keep audiences hooked on the show, and I’m going to keep watching!

Update on THE WALKING DEAD Spin-Off Series

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There hasn’t been a lot of talk or information regarding the new Walking Dead spin-off series that AMC is developing. In a recent interview with Vulture a couple executives from the network gave an update on the series, saying that it’s still early in development.

AMC Programming head Joel Stillerman said,

“That show is not as far along (as Breaking Bad spin-off ‘Better Call Saul’). Robert has some things on his plate. He continues to write every issue of the comic and hasn’t finished season four of The Walking Dead, which he is very intimately involved with and will continue to be. That’s really in the incubation stages. The one thing that I’ll share is just an anecdote that Robert shared with us. He has such a specific vision that he laid out really clearly in the first issue of the comic book. And I encourage anybody who’s interested in the show to go read the note that he wrote in the first issue of the comic. His motivation for telling that story was so clear and so powerful, and it served as such a great north star for the show. We kicked around a few ideas, but primarily what he’s working on is, what is the idea that gives [him] as clear a mandate to make another version of this show as [he] had for the first one? What is going on [now] is a more philosophical discussion over why there should be another version of the show. Once we answer that, we’ll zero in on the specific creative.”

AMC network chief Charlie Collier added,

“What we want to do is not diminish the mothership. What we want to do is find something that everyone involved feels as passionately about as being a unique vehicle and unique enterprise as compared to the original series. We’ll take our time, and we’ll do it right.”

Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, and David Alpert are executive producers on the series, with AMC Studios set to produce. The new show is working toward the premiere date of 2015. I can’t wait to see what story they are going to tell.