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DC Universe TV Show Thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin




  • Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Swamp Thing has been cancelled after it's first season, due to
    DC Universe is being reevaluated following the completion of AT&T acquisition of Time Warner as WarnerMedia has put an emphasis on the launch of a new streaming platform. There have been questions how DC Universe fits into those plans.
    https://deadline.com/2019/06/swamp-thing-canceled-dc-universe-1-season-1202628103/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭the baby bull elephant


    Lithium93_ wrote: »

    Seems to be due to North Carolina messing up a 40m tax break.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    AT&T in charge of Warner which is in charge of DC; this is abysmal in general. In every major sector the game seems to be merge, absorb and at all costs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    Seems to be due to North Carolina messing up a 40m tax break.

    North Carolina now denying that there was no accounting error.
    https://www.cbr.com/swamp-thing-north-carolina-denies-tax-break-miscommunication/
    Guy Gaster, the Director of the North Carolina Film Office, contacted CBR to clarify that the state and Warner Bros. entered into their contract with both parties fully aware of how the numbers would break down. Further, Mr. Gaster provided the amount of the tax rebate, as well as the actual tax break amount Swamp Thing was eligible to receive for its pilot episode, and Season 1 overall.

    The production team for Swamp Thing knew before production began that North Carolina would offer up to $4.9M in rebates for their pilot episode and $12M for the remainder of season one. They accepted said offer and even signed a contract with the state with those figures. Per state legislation, the NC Film and Entertainment grant can only award up to $12M per season for a series. Per the program’s guidelines, pilot episodes are counted as their own series. In total, the program only receives $31M annually.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,718 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    One wonders if this might yet end up in the courts, all seems the kind of messy where the only winners are the lawyers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,282 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    S1 of Titans will be released on Blu-ray here & in the UK from the 14th of October.

    You can pre-order it on Amazon now for £30.

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    There are 13 featurettes included from it's first season.
    In addition to boasting all 11 episodes of the first season in high definition, the home video release will include a whole host of special features, including character spotlights, specific comic book influences and behind-the-scenes featurettes. The special features will total in a combined 40 minutes of content, providing fans with an extensive look at the making of the popular series:

    Raven and Robin Dark Rebirth (new featurette)
    The Story of Titans
    The Characters of Titans
    The Making of Titans
    Dick Grayson’s and Rachel Roth’s Dark Past
    A look at vigilantes Hawk and Dove
    The identity of Titans Kory Anders/Starfire
    Gar Logan’s Journey
    Rachel’s Powers
    The Doom Patrol meets the Titans
    Jason Todd’s Robin
    From Comic to Live Action Adventure
    Meet Wonder Girl
    Dick Grayson’s Dark Past
    World of Superheroes and Vigilantes

    https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Titans-The-Complete-First-Season-Blu-ray/246601/


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Smallville has been added to Prime.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭the baby bull elephant


    Any word if YJ will be on any platform here?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    Any word if YJ will be on any platform here?

    Highly doubt it, seems to be DC Universe exclusive. Titans Season One on Netflix seems to have been the exception. Can see this becoming the norm for shows on all the upcoming streaming services like Disney +, HBO Max and Apple TV+ .


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  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    DMZ

    DMZ, Based on DC Comics 'Civil War' Series, Gets Pilot Order at HBO Max
    Comic books continue to be the gifts that keep on giving (for TV executives, at least). HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s forthcoming streaming service, has ordered to pilot DMZ, an adaptation of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s DC Comics series.

    Described as a futuristic drama, DMZ is set in America during a second civil war, which has turned Manhattan into a demilitarized zone, destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world.

    Per the official logline, the potential series “chronicles the harrowing journey of a fierce female medic who saves lives while desperately searching for her lost son. But as she contends with the gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords that control this lawless no man’s land, she becomes the unlikely source of what everyone here has lost: hope.”

    Roberto Patino (Westworld, Sons of Anarchy) will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer, while Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay — who is coming off the Emmy-winning success of Netflix’s When They See Us — will direct and exec-produce.

    Filming on the DMZ pilot will begin in early 2020, while HBO Max is set to launch in spring of that year.

    https://tvline.com/2019/10/01/dmz-tv-series-pilot-order-civil-war-dc-comics-hbo-max/


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Stargirl teaser trailer



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    feels a lil Shazam..ey?


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Stargirl is going on the CW so I am guessing it will be part of the Arrowverse.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,718 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I'd be surprised if they didn't do as they did with Black Lightning, keeping Stargirl in her own separate continuity for now. Then if the show's a hit she can pop up during next years inevitable crossover :D

    Can't say I'll be watching on the strength of that trailer though; the show looks like it'll skew towards a younger, maybe even tween, audience. And that's fine, but just perhaps not for me as I have a very small tolerance for US High School dramas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    pixelburp wrote: »
    I'd be surprised if they didn't do as they did with Black Lightning, keeping Stargirl in her own separate continuity for now. Then if the show's a hit she can pop up during next years inevitable crossover :D

    Can't say I'll be watching on the strength of that trailer though; the show looks like it'll skew towards a younger, maybe even tween, audience. And that's fine, but just perhaps not for me as I have a very small tolerance for US High School dramas.


    Latest trailer and the end of the Crossover confirmed that
    Stargirl is set on Earth 2


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Stargirl will debut May 12th on the CW.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,725 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    And May 11th on DC Universe


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Justice League Dark Series in the Works at HBO Max, From J.J. Abrams
    It looks like the Green Lanterns will have some super friends over at HBO Max.

    Five months after it was announced that Greg Berlanti was developing a series based on characters from the iconic Green Lantern comic, HBO Max has made a production commitment to “a major series based on DC characters in the Justice League Dark Universe” — and it is but one of three new projects for the upcoming streamer from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot shingle.

    No further details were shared.

    https://tvline.com/2020/04/16/justice-league-dark-series-hbo-max-jj-abrams/


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Wonder could they nab Constantine from CW for Justice League Dark

    Constantine Zatanna and Deadman would be a must for it to work


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    Started watching Swamp Thing, I heard it was good but damn it's fantastic so far.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,725 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Wonder could they nab Constantine from CW for Justice League Dark

    Constantine Zatanna and Deadman would be a must for it to work

    Who for Zatanna and Deadman. Likely go a Ryan Reynolds type for Deadman.


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    DC are now looking at creating a spin off series for HBO Max for all future movie releases.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Started watching Swamp Thing, I heard it was good but damn it's fantastic so far.

    Where is Swamp Thing streaming?

    Ive seen Titans, and have Doom Patrol to watch (though from what Ive seen in Titans of DP Im not fussed about it).


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    Where is Swamp Thing streaming?

    Ive seen Titans, and have Doom Patrol to watch (though from what Ive seen in Titans of DP Im not fussed about it).

    Swamp Thing is on Prime Video here


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    Where is Swamp Thing streaming?

    Ive seen Titans, and have Doom Patrol to watch (though from what Ive seen in Titans of DP Im not fussed about it).

    Doom Patrol Season 1 and 2 are worth a watch


  • Registered Users Posts: 60,179 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Finn Wittrock To Headline ‘Green Lantern’ HBO Max Series As Guy Gardner
    Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story) has been tapped to star as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern in HBO Max’s upcoming series based on the DC characters, from Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

    Written by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Seth Grahame-Smith, Green Lantern reinvents the classic DC property through a story spanning decades and galaxies, beginning on Earth in 1941 with the very first Green Lantern, secretly gay FBI agent Alan Scott, and 1984, with cocky alpha male Guy Gardner (Wittrock) and half-alien Bree Jarta. They’ll be joined by a multitude of other Lanterns — from comic book favorites to never-before-seen heroes.

    Wittrock’s Guy Gardner/Green Lantern is a hulking mass of masculinity, and, as rendered in the comics, an embodiment of 1980s hyper-patriotism. And yet, Guy is somehow likable.

    https://deadline.com/2021/04/finn-wittrock-green-lantern-hbo-max-series-guy-gardner-1234747347/


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    Decent get for them. Berlanti will be beside himself; not only is he exactly the type of actor he likes physically, but
    he'd also be a cut above most of the actors Berlanti's worked with.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Definitely got the smugness of Gardner down and the gallows humour too hes a great choice but will red hair suit him.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,718 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Man, they really don't like hiring genuine redheads, do they? Speaking as one myself like; it has happened enough times with adaptations that I'm like, huh. That can't be a coincidence :D


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