September 10, 2024 • 24 mins
What if one of your favorite shows got canceled unexpectedly? Join us on this thrilling episode of Multiverse Tonight as we unpack the unfortunate cancellation of "Dead Boy Detectives" and its tumultuous journey across streaming platforms. From Netflix's decision to axe the series to the buzz around "Superman and Lois" premiering early on October 7th, you'll find out why Monday nights just got a whole lot more exciting! DC fanatics, get ready for more good news with the release date of "Creature Commandos" coming up on December 5th on Max. Plus, we celebrate Star Trek Day and dive deep into the "Take the Chair, Make an Impact" campaign, an initiative that promises to make a real difference while giving back 25% of Star Trek product sales to non-profits this September.
Switch gears with us as we explore a campaign to honor Star Trek's Chief Miles O'Brien with a statue in Killarney, Ireland, and catch up on the latest Marvel and Wizarding World updates. Marvel enthusiasts will be thrilled to hear about Todd Stashwick joining the WandaVision spin-off series, and Harry Potter fans can't miss Imelda Staunton reprising her role as the menacing Dolores Umbridge at Universal Orlando Resort. We also bring you updates on Netflix's animated "Midnight Sun," the sixth season of "What We Do in the Shadows," and fresh casting news for the live-action "Masters of the Universe" movie. Finally, we pay homage to the iconic careers of James Darren and James Earl Jones, whose legacies continue to inspire. Don't miss out on this episode packed with the latest geek culture news and heartfelt tributes!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
tonight.
Dead boy detectives are dead,todd stashwick beams up the
marvel, the creative arts emmys,and we remember james darren
and james earl jones.
All that and more in thisedition of multiverse tonight
comic books, sci-fi, fantasy andmore.
(00:21):
If you're looking for a roundupof geeky news, you're in the
right place.
This is Multiverse Tonight, andhere's your host, thomas
(00:52):
Townley.
Well, hello everyone, andwelcome to episode 223 of
Multiverse Tonight.
I'm, of course, your host,thomas Townley, and well, if you
might notice, if you'rewatching the video version of
this, if you look behind me,you'll notice that there's not a
lot of stuff back there.
You know, it's not aredecorating scheme.
(01:14):
We're moving.
We're probably going to bemoving within the next week or
so from now.
We're still waiting for abathroom to be finished up,
basically, but then we'll bemoving.
So, basically, all theautographs have come down.
See, mr Shatner, there behindmy head I'll see a Spuds
(01:36):
McKenzie thing right there boxes.
So hopefully the next episodewill be in our news studio, but
until then, we do have some news.
So let's get right on with theDC Comics News, and we begin DC
(02:09):
News with Dead Boy Detectives,which has been cancelled at
Netflix.
The series aired its one andonly season at the streamer on
April 25th thus ends the show'stwisty path to the screen.
It originally got pilot orderat max in 2021 and then a series
order at the streamer in 2022,before it was sold to Netflix in
(02:29):
2023.
Now it's been reported at thetime that the sale took place
because the show, which is basedon the characters created by DC
by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner,did not fit the new direction
for Max DC content beingspearheaded by James Gunn and
Peter Saffron At Netflix.
It was part of the Sandmanuniverse as the dead boy
(02:50):
detectives were first introducedin an issue of the Sandman
comic book.
Netflix currently airs theSandman TV series and a second
season is on the way.
The final season of Superman andLois is coming to television
just a little earlier thanexpected, and on New nights as
well.
According to TVLine, the season4 premiere of Superman and Lois
(03:10):
is now set to premiere onMonday, october 7th, at 8pm
Eastern, with a two-episodedebut.
The series will then followwith new episodes on Monday
nights at the same time.
Going forward, superman andLois will be followed by the
Monday night by an eight-partdocu-series, the Wranglers,
beginning October 14th.
Superman and Lois hadpreviously been scheduled for a
(03:31):
season four premiere on Thursday, october 17th.
Creature Commandos will becoming to your streaming devices
just in time for the holidayseason.
Peter Safran and James Gunn,the co-CEOs, announced that the
new lineup of the DC Universemay have surprised fans to learn
(03:54):
that the very first projectwasn't going to be Superman.
Instead, that distinction wentto the adult anime series,
creature Commandos, starring thecast of lesser-known DC
characters.
Creature Commandos is similarto the Suicide Squad, as Amanda
Waller sends the team of misfitsout on missions too dangerous
for human beings.
So fans can now mark that dateon their calendar.
(04:16):
Creature Commandos makes itsdebut on Max on Thursday,
december 5th, followed by oneepisode weekly until the finale
on January 16th.
The official DC account onTwitter also shared the news
alongside a poster featuring theCreature Commandos cast Quote.
On December 5th, everythingwill be declassified.
(04:37):
The new Max original seriesfrom DC Studios hashtag Creature
Commandos premieres exclusivelyon at Streaming on Max.
More intel soon.
The post read.
So you know that's veryinteresting.
You know I've really never readcreaturecommandos, but you know
anything from James Gunn, youknow pretty much has my blessing
(05:00):
, you know.
So anyway, let's go on to thestar trek news.
Star trek day just came andwent, commemorating the first
day that star trek tos premieredon tv screens on september 8th
1966, 10 years before I was born.
(05:21):
This year, the franchisepartnered with codeorg, which
teaches computing to gradeschool students, dosomethingorg,
which promotes youth socialactivism, and Outright
International, an LBTIQinclusion and global exclusivity
initiative Global qualities, Ishould say, to launch the
campaign.
Take the chair, make an impact.
(05:42):
It will be a global campaignencouraging fans to embrace the
optimistic vision of a brighterfuture and to give back to the
inclusive community of fans thatStar Trek has fostered over the
years.
Now, the main theme of thisyear's digital experience event
had fans take a seat of thecaptain's chair of the US
Enterprise and ask the profoundquestion what would I do if I
(06:03):
were setting the course to thefuture?
All fans were able to engage inthat topic digitally on
StarTrekcom, and duringSeptember, 25% of all Star Trek
product sales in the US will bedonated to those three
non-profits mentioned earlier.
Star Trek Day 2024 also offeredvarious pop-up activations that
(06:24):
fans could literally be able totake snap foes in the captain's
chair, obtain a personalizedadmission and receive a limited
edition enamel pin.
More than 600 signatures havebeen collected to erect a statue
of a Star Trek character inKillarney, ireland.
Star Trek character inKillarney, ireland.
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Trekkies have organized apetition to have Chief Miles
O'Brien immortalized with astatue in the Kerry town that is
his fictional birthplace ofChief Miles Edward O'Brien, who
is played by Irish actor ColmMeaney in Star Trek the Next
Generation and Star Trek DeepSpace Nine.
You know, if there's anyonedeserving of a statue, it's
Miles O'Brien.
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He literally held that ship andthat space station together.
He is Scotty level of anengineer.
So you know I support thislet's.
You know, hopefully they canhave that.
Hopefully they can have thesame statue that's in that
(07:25):
episode of Lurtex.
That would be fantastic.
Anyway, let's go on to theMarvel news, and Marvel news
(07:51):
begins with Todd Stashwick, whoyou remember from Star Trek
Picard, who has joined PaulBettany and James Spader in
Marvel's upcomingVision-centered WandaVision
spin-off series on Disney+.
According to sources toDeadlinecom, terry Metallus, who
worked with Stashwick on StarTrek Picard, will serve as
showrunner of the yet-untitledseries, which is looking to
(08:12):
start production in 2025.
Bettany, who appeared in threeMarvel films and WandaVision,
will be reprising his role asthe character Vision, this time
the White Vision.
Spader is reprising his MCUrole as Ultron.
Details of the new series have,of course, not been revealed,
but, as previously reported, theMarvel Vision series has been
(08:34):
in development at Disney Plussince 2022 and it's believed to
be started on the Vision tryingto regain his memory and
humanity After he was killed byThanos in 2018's Avengers
Infinity War and resurrected in2021's WandaVision.
And now let's go on to the geeknews.
Sorry, no Star Trek news.
(08:54):
Today.
It's been more than 14 yearssince fans last saw Dolores
(09:17):
Umbridge and Harry Parr in theDeathly Hallows Part 1, but now
Imelda Staunton is back toreprise her role as the
villain's character in UniversalEpic Universe's new Wizarding
World of Harry Potter Mystery ofMagic attraction, set to open
at the Universal Orlando Resortnext year.
Staunton's return to the rolewas announced in a new
promotional video for theattraction, which gave fans a
look at the new ride as well asa behind-the-scenes look at
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Stanton bringing the villainback to life.
According to the officialinformation about the attraction
, by deadline visitors willquote travel by metro flu from
Paris to the British Ministry ofMagic where Dolores Umbridge is
about to stand trial.
Board a lift and join Harry Ronand Hermione as you journey
(10:02):
deep inside the ministry's manydepartments.
Thrilling adventure the animatedseries based on Stephanie
Meyer's Twilight novel MidnightSun has been given a
straight-to-series order atNetflix, according to Variety.
Netflix according to Variety,the project was first reported
to be in early development backin April of 2023 at Liongate's
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television.
Michael Byrne, vice chairman ofLionsgate, confirmed in 2024
that it would be an animatedseries, and now Netflix is
developing the project.
Midnight Sun was originallyreleased in 2020 and serves as
the first retelling of the firstTwilight book from the
perspective of Edward Cullenrather than Bella Swan.
Suneed Daly will serve aswriter and executive producer on
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the series.
Daly's past credits includeTell Me Lies at Hulu, the
Walking Dead World Beyond at AMC, raised by Wolves at Max and
the Get Down at Netflix.
Myers will serve as executiveproducer on the series alongside
Megan Hibbett for Fickle FishFilm with Waiweke Garak, barry
Pohl, executive producer forTemple Hill Entertainment, with
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Temple Hill, having produced theTwilight films, and so what do
you think of a new Twilightproject?
Anyway, what we Do in theShadows?
Season 6 is coming out onOctober 21st.
Quote After a very brief stintas a full-blown vampire,
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guillermo is revaluing his life.
Who is he, if not familiar?
Who will do anything to pleasehis master in hopes of one day
being turned into a vampire.
Meanwhile, the vampires arerevaluing too.
When their former roommateappears after a 50-year nap,
they realize how little they'vedone in half a century.
Not one goal accomplished, notone dream pursued, not one part
of the new world conquered,except for their street and part
(11:54):
of Ashley Street.
So yeah, I'm sad to see what wedo in the shadows ending, but
I'm sure they'll end it on agood note.
Alison Brie is the latestsuperstar to join the
live-action Master of theUniverse movie from Amazon, mgm
(12:15):
Studios and Mattel Films.
Brie has been cast assupervillain Evil Lynn, starring
opposite Nicholas Galtstein'scentral hero, he-man, and Camila
Mendes as Tila, captain of theRoyal Guards and love interest
of He-Man.
Plot details are being keptunder wraps.
The film will be out on June5th 2026, but the story centers
on Prince Adam of Eternia, whotransforms into the muscular
(12:38):
He-Man with the help of hismagical power sword.
The hero is tasked withdefending his home planet from
the evil Skeletor.
Evil in is Skeletor's secondcommand and wields a magic wand
topped with a crystal orb andsome more Harry Potter.
News Search is underway for anew trio to play the iconic
roles of Harry Potter RonWeasley and Hermione Granger, an
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open casting call wasofficially launched yesterday
for children from the UK andIreland to audition for the
leads in an upcoming HBOoriginal series.
The note possibly revealed atargeted start date of the
series, as it stipulates thatthe young actors must be between
the ages of 9 and 11 in Aprilof 2025.
Now, that's seven months fromnow, which is how long it took
to find Daniel Radcliffe in 2000, when he was 11.
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His co-stars, emma Watson andRupert Grint, were 10 and 12
respectively, and now you toofeel old.
Anyway, the Emmy Awards arecoming up.
So first they have the CreativeArts Emmys, which is basically
all the awards that aren't, youknow, top shelf, if you will,
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and there were some winners ofgeek shows.
So let's go over those.
Outstanding ContemporaryCostumes for a Limited or
Anthology Series or Movie wentto American Horror Story
Delegate the auteur.
American Horror Story, delegatethe Auteur.
Outstanding Fantasy Sci-FiCostumes went to Ahsoka Part 8,
the Jedi, the Witch and theWarlord from Disney+.
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Outstanding Music Supervisionwent to Fallout, the episode the
End on Prime Video.
Outstanding CharacterVoice-Over Performance went to
Big Mouth, the Ambition Gremlin,netflix.
Outstanding Emerging MediaProgram went to the follow-up
episode Vault 33 on Prime Video,and we'll see if there's any
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other winners when the mainEmmys happen later this month.
And now, as always, we come onwith some sad news.
First up actor and singer JamesDarin, the former teen idol who
played Vic Fontaine in StarTrek Deep Space Nine, has passed
away.
He was 88 years old Now.
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The actor and musician, whosebreakout role was as Moondoggy,
the singing-surfing leading manin the Gidget movies, became a
fairly household name when thesong Goodbye Cruel World hit
number three on the BillboardHot 100 in 1961.
The actor played a loungesinger across seven episodes of
Deep Space Nine's final twoseasons and became a fan
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favorite recurring character.
Born James Wilson Ercolani onJune 8, 1936 in Philadelphia,
darren would take on his stagename in 1955 when he moved to
Hollywood, reportedly naminghimself after the Kaiser Darren
sports car.
He signed a deal with Columbiaand played minor roles in
several movies between 1956 and1959, as well as appearing on
(15:32):
the Donna Reed show.
It was only a few years beforehe broke through in 1959's
Gidget.
He would do two sequels, gidgetGoes Hawaiian and Gidget Goes
to Rome, before moving on fromthe role.
Darren also worked in featurefilms almost exclusively in the
1960s, but embraced TV startingin the 1970s, leading the Time
Tunnel and the sci-fi pilot theman from the 25th Century.
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In the 1970s, darren wouldappear as a guest star on TV
shows like SWAT, charlie'sAngels, the Love Boat and
Fantasy Island, before taking ona series regular role on TJ
Hooker, in which he would staralongside Star Trek legend
William Shatner.
Besides Deep Space Nine, his90s acting roles included Silk
(16:15):
Stockings, diagnosis, murder andMelrose Place included Silk
Stockings, diagnosis, murder andMelrose Place.
After Deep Space Nine, darrenlargely retired from acting,
appearing only in a pair offeature films 2001's Random Acts
and 2017's Lucky.
In 1999, he released an albumof the songs he had performed on
Deep Space Nine and did onlytwo more records during the last
20 years of his life, accordingto the Wrap.
(16:40):
Darren's son, jim Moray, hastold the media that his father
had a scheduled heart surgerylast week, but that the
procedure was considered toohigh risk because Darren was so
weak at the time.
He was sent home, but returnedto Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
sometime after.
Darren passed away there.
Surrounded by family, darren issurvived by his wife, actress
and former Miss Denmark, evieNorland, and their two sons.
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He was 88 years old, and thisone hits hard James Earl Jones,
the commanding presence onscreen, who nonetheless gained
greater fame off camera as thedeep voice of Darth Vader and
Mufasa, the benevolent leaderand Lion King and the acting
(17:24):
voice behind this Is CNN diedyesterday at the age of 93.
Jones burst into nationalprominence in 1970 with his
powerful, oscar-dominatedperformance as America's first
black heavyweight champion inthe Great White Hope.
He passed away at his home inDeserts County, new York,
according to Independent ArtistGroup.
(17:45):
The distinguished star made hisbig screen debut in Stanley
Kubrick's Dr Strangelove or howI Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb in 1964, and wasin many other films as well,
including Field of Dreams in1989 as the reclusive author
Terrence Mann, and the Sandlotas the intimidating neighborhood
guy Mr Myrtle.
For his work on the stage,jones earned two Best Actor Tony
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Awards for portraying the roleof Jack Jefferson, who was based
on real-life boxer Jack Johnsonin 1968, and Howard Sackler's
Great White Hope, and forplaying the patriarch who
struggles to provide for hisfamily in a 1986 Pulitzer
Prize-winning production ofAugust Wilson's Fences.
Jones is also the recipient ofan honorary Oscar at the 2011
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Governor's Awards and a specialTony for a Lifetime Achievement
in 2017, and was one of thehandful of people to earn an
EGOT Emmy, grammy, oscar andTony, and the first actor to win
two Emmys in one year.
Jones' rise to becoming one ofthe most admired American actors
at all time was remarkable,considering that he suffered
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from a debilitating stutter as achild.
When an English teacher in highschool encouraged Jones to read
a poem for the class that hehad written, he discovered that
his stutter vanished whenever hespoke words that he had
memorized.
He won a public speakingcontest as a senior and earned a
full scholarship to theUniversity of Michigan, where he
studied medicine and discoveredacting.
He made his stage debut in acommunity theater production in
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Manistee, michigan, before heleft to serve in the Korean War.
After being discharged, jonesmoved to New York to pursue
theater and made his Broadwaydebut in 1958 in Sunrise at
Campanello, the Tony winner forBest Play that was written by
Dori Suckery and starred RalphBellamy as polio-stricken
president Franklin Roosevelt.
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Jones told the HollywoodReporter in 2011 that his career
was guided by words that hisfather, robert Earl Jones an
actor who had been blacklistedfrom the industry by the House
Un-American Activities Committeebut appeared in the Sting told
him when he was just gettingstarted out.
Quote If you want to do thisbusiness.
You got to do it because youlove it, not because it's going
to make you rich or famous.
That was the best advice hecould give me, he said, unquote.
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Kubrick cast Jones asLieutenant Lothar Zogg, a member
of the B-52 bomber crew, and DrStrangelove after spying him in
a New York production ofShakespeare in the Park.
His performance opposite futureNational Endowment for the Arts
chairman Jane Alexander in theGreat White Hope netted him the
cover of Newsweek magazine inOctober of 1968, and for the
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film version, he would becomeonly the second black man to
score a Best Actor Oscarnomination after Sidney Poitier.
When director George Lucas wassearching for a bass voice for
Darth Vader, he reportedlyconsidered Orson Welles but felt
his voice might be toorecognizable, so he called
Jones' agent and asked if theactor would like a day's work.
Jones got a flat fee of $7,000for the job and did not
(20:51):
acknowledge that he was thevoice of Darth Vader until the
third film in the franchise.
As for voicing his character inthe Lion King, jones said in a
2011 interview that he still gota kick out of meeting kids who
were devoted to the 94 Disneyclassic Quote.
Their parents will say there'sMufasa, but I don't look like a
lion, even if they're reallittle kids.
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They think they're beingshafted or having the wool pull
over their eyes and I cannotroar to prove it to them.
But I can say in Mufasa's voiceSimba, you have deliberately
disobeyed me, end quote.
Jones, of course, was alsoknown as the voice of CNN Quote.
I just emptied my mind andfilled it with the thought of
all the hundreds of storiestragic, violent, funny, touching
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that would be.
Following my introduction, hesaid when asked about his
motivation, and then I said thisis CNN Unquote.
He also guest starred on threeepisodes of the Simpsons,
including a memorable 1990Treehouse of Horror installment.
He helped play Admiral Greer inthree films based on the Tom
(21:57):
Clancy novels the Hunt forOctober, patriot Games and Clear
and Present Danger, and wasKing Jaffee Jaffer in the pair
of Coming to America movies,including the 2021 sequel.
Jones' two Emmys came in 1991for playing a private detective
who was wrongly imprisoned onthe short-lived ABC drama
Gabriel's Fire and as the ownerof a shoe repair business in the
TNT telefilm Heat Wave aboutthe 1965 Los Angeles Watts riots
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.
Among the myriad of roles heplayed on stage include Thurgood
Marshall, the first blackjustice of the United States
Supreme Court.
Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot TinRoof, president Arthur
Hochstetter in the Best man andchauffeur Huck Colburn in
Driving Miss Daisy oppositeAngela Lansbury.
In 2022, the 110-year-old courttheater in Broadway was renamed
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the James Earl Jones Theater inhis honor.
He married actress JulianneMarie in 1968 after meeting her
during a production of Othello,but they divorced four years
later, where he met his secondwife, actress Celia Hart, while
they were taping the CBS policedrama Paris, in which he starred
as a young police captain andshe played a young cop.
They were married in 1982, andhad a son.
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Flynn Hart died in October 2016of ovarian cancer at age 68.
James Earl Jones was 93 yearsold, and that brings us to the
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tonight.
Dead boy detectives are dead,todd stashwick beams up the
marvel, the creative arts emmys,and we remember james darren
and james earl jones.
All that and more in thisedition of multiverse tonight
comic books, sci-fi, fantasy andmore.
(00:21):
If you're looking for a roundupof geeky news, you're in the
right place.
This is Multiverse Tonight, andhere's your host, thomas
(00:52):
Townley.
Well, hello everyone, andwelcome to episode 223 of
Multiverse Tonight.
I'm, of course, your host,thomas Townley, and well, if you
might notice, if you'rewatching the video version of
this, if you look behind me,you'll notice that there's not a
lot of stuff back there.
You know, it's not aredecorating scheme.
(01:14):
We're moving.
We're probably going to bemoving within the next week or
so from now.
We're still waiting for abathroom to be finished up,
basically, but then we'll bemoving.
So, basically, all theautographs have come down.
See, mr Shatner, there behindmy head I'll see a Spuds
(01:36):
McKenzie thing right there boxes.
So hopefully the next episodewill be in our news studio, but
until then, we do have some news.
So let's get right on with theDC Comics News, and we begin DC
(02:09):
News with Dead Boy Detectives,which has been cancelled at
Netflix.
The series aired its one andonly season at the streamer on
April 25th thus ends the show'stwisty path to the screen.
It originally got pilot orderat max in 2021 and then a series
order at the streamer in 2022,before it was sold to Netflix in
(02:29):
2023.
Now it's been reported at thetime that the sale took place
because the show, which is basedon the characters created by DC
by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner,did not fit the new direction
for Max DC content beingspearheaded by James Gunn and
Peter Saffron At Netflix.
It was part of the Sandmanuniverse as the dead boy
(02:50):
detectives were first introducedin an issue of the Sandman
comic book.
Netflix currently airs theSandman TV series and a second
season is on the way.
The final season of Superman andLois is coming to television
just a little earlier thanexpected, and on New nights as
well.
According to TVLine, the season4 premiere of Superman and Lois
(03:10):
is now set to premiere onMonday, october 7th, at 8pm
Eastern, with a two-episodedebut.
The series will then followwith new episodes on Monday
nights at the same time.
Going forward, superman andLois will be followed by the
Monday night by an eight-partdocu-series, the Wranglers,
beginning October 14th.
Superman and Lois hadpreviously been scheduled for a
(03:31):
season four premiere on Thursday, october 17th.
Creature Commandos will becoming to your streaming devices
just in time for the holidayseason.
Peter Safran and James Gunn,the co-CEOs, announced that the
new lineup of the DC Universemay have surprised fans to learn
(03:54):
that the very first projectwasn't going to be Superman.
Instead, that distinction wentto the adult anime series,
creature Commandos, starring thecast of lesser-known DC
characters.
Creature Commandos is similarto the Suicide Squad, as Amanda
Waller sends the team of misfitsout on missions too dangerous
for human beings.
So fans can now mark that dateon their calendar.
(04:16):
Creature Commandos makes itsdebut on Max on Thursday,
december 5th, followed by oneepisode weekly until the finale
on January 16th.
The official DC account onTwitter also shared the news
alongside a poster featuring theCreature Commandos cast Quote.
On December 5th, everythingwill be declassified.
(04:37):
The new Max original seriesfrom DC Studios hashtag Creature
Commandos premieres exclusivelyon at Streaming on Max.
More intel soon.
The post read.
So you know that's veryinteresting.
You know I've really never readcreaturecommandos, but you know
anything from James Gunn, youknow pretty much has my blessing
(05:00):
, you know.
So anyway, let's go on to thestar trek news.
Star trek day just came andwent, commemorating the first
day that star trek tos premieredon tv screens on september 8th
1966, 10 years before I was born.
(05:21):
This year, the franchisepartnered with codeorg, which
teaches computing to gradeschool students, dosomethingorg,
which promotes youth socialactivism, and Outright
International, an LBTIQinclusion and global exclusivity
initiative Global qualities, Ishould say, to launch the
campaign.
Take the chair, make an impact.
(05:42):
It will be a global campaignencouraging fans to embrace the
optimistic vision of a brighterfuture and to give back to the
inclusive community of fans thatStar Trek has fostered over the
years.
Now, the main theme of thisyear's digital experience event
had fans take a seat of thecaptain's chair of the US
Enterprise and ask the profoundquestion what would I do if I
(06:03):
were setting the course to thefuture?
All fans were able to engage inthat topic digitally on
StarTrekcom, and duringSeptember, 25% of all Star Trek
product sales in the US will bedonated to those three
non-profits mentioned earlier.
Star Trek Day 2024 also offeredvarious pop-up activations that
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fans could literally be able totake snap foes in the captain's
chair, obtain a personalizedadmission and receive a limited
edition enamel pin.
More than 600 signatures havebeen collected to erect a statue
of a Star Trek character inKillarney, ireland.
Star Trek character inKillarney, ireland.
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Trekkies have organized apetition to have Chief Miles
O'Brien immortalized with astatue in the Kerry town that is
his fictional birthplace ofChief Miles Edward O'Brien, who
is played by Irish actor ColmMeaney in Star Trek the Next
Generation and Star Trek DeepSpace Nine.
You know, if there's anyonedeserving of a statue, it's
Miles O'Brien.
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He literally held that ship andthat space station together.
He is Scotty level of anengineer.
So you know I support thislet's.
You know, hopefully they canhave that.
Hopefully they can have thesame statue that's in that
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episode of Lurtex.
That would be fantastic.
Anyway, let's go on to theMarvel news, and Marvel news
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begins with Todd Stashwick, whoyou remember from Star Trek
Picard, who has joined PaulBettany and James Spader in
Marvel's upcomingVision-centered WandaVision
spin-off series on Disney+.
According to sources toDeadlinecom, terry Metallus, who
worked with Stashwick on StarTrek Picard, will serve as
showrunner of the yet-untitledseries, which is looking to
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start production in 2025.
Bettany, who appeared in threeMarvel films and WandaVision,
will be reprising his role asthe character Vision, this time
the White Vision.
Spader is reprising his MCUrole as Ultron.
Details of the new series have,of course, not been revealed,
but, as previously reported, theMarvel Vision series has been
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in development at Disney Plussince 2022 and it's believed to
be started on the Vision tryingto regain his memory and
humanity After he was killed byThanos in 2018's Avengers
Infinity War and resurrected in2021's WandaVision.
And now let's go on to the geeknews.
Sorry, no Star Trek news.
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Today.
It's been more than 14 yearssince fans last saw Dolores
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Umbridge and Harry Parr in theDeathly Hallows Part 1, but now
Imelda Staunton is back toreprise her role as the
villain's character in UniversalEpic Universe's new Wizarding
World of Harry Potter Mystery ofMagic attraction, set to open
at the Universal Orlando Resortnext year.
Staunton's return to the rolewas announced in a new
promotional video for theattraction, which gave fans a
look at the new ride as well asa behind-the-scenes look at
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Stanton bringing the villainback to life.
According to the officialinformation about the attraction
, by deadline visitors willquote travel by metro flu from
Paris to the British Ministry ofMagic where Dolores Umbridge is
about to stand trial.
Board a lift and join Harry Ronand Hermione as you journey
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deep inside the ministry's manydepartments.
Thrilling adventure the animatedseries based on Stephanie
Meyer's Twilight novel MidnightSun has been given a
straight-to-series order atNetflix, according to Variety.
Netflix according to Variety,the project was first reported
to be in early development backin April of 2023 at Liongate's
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television.
Michael Byrne, vice chairman ofLionsgate, confirmed in 2024
that it would be an animatedseries, and now Netflix is
developing the project.
Midnight Sun was originallyreleased in 2020 and serves as
the first retelling of the firstTwilight book from the
perspective of Edward Cullenrather than Bella Swan.
Suneed Daly will serve aswriter and executive producer on
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the series.
Daly's past credits includeTell Me Lies at Hulu, the
Walking Dead World Beyond at AMC, raised by Wolves at Max and
the Get Down at Netflix.
Myers will serve as executiveproducer on the series alongside
Megan Hibbett for Fickle FishFilm with Waiweke Garak, barry
Pohl, executive producer forTemple Hill Entertainment, with
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Temple Hill, having produced theTwilight films, and so what do
you think of a new Twilightproject?
Anyway, what we Do in theShadows?
Season 6 is coming out onOctober 21st.
Quote After a very brief stintas a full-blown vampire,
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guillermo is revaluing his life.
Who is he, if not familiar?
Who will do anything to pleasehis master in hopes of one day
being turned into a vampire.
Meanwhile, the vampires arerevaluing too.
When their former roommateappears after a 50-year nap,
they realize how little they'vedone in half a century.
Not one goal accomplished, notone dream pursued, not one part
of the new world conquered,except for their street and part
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of Ashley Street.
So yeah, I'm sad to see what wedo in the shadows ending, but
I'm sure they'll end it on agood note.
Alison Brie is the latestsuperstar to join the
live-action Master of theUniverse movie from Amazon, mgm
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Studios and Mattel Films.
Brie has been cast assupervillain Evil Lynn, starring
opposite Nicholas Galtstein'scentral hero, he-man, and Camila
Mendes as Tila, captain of theRoyal Guards and love interest
of He-Man.
Plot details are being keptunder wraps.
The film will be out on June5th 2026, but the story centers
on Prince Adam of Eternia, whotransforms into the muscular
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He-Man with the help of hismagical power sword.
The hero is tasked withdefending his home planet from
the evil Skeletor.
Evil in is Skeletor's secondcommand and wields a magic wand
topped with a crystal orb andsome more Harry Potter.
News Search is underway for anew trio to play the iconic
roles of Harry Potter RonWeasley and Hermione Granger, an
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open casting call wasofficially launched yesterday
for children from the UK andIreland to audition for the
leads in an upcoming HBOoriginal series.
The note possibly revealed atargeted start date of the
series, as it stipulates thatthe young actors must be between
the ages of 9 and 11 in Aprilof 2025.
Now, that's seven months fromnow, which is how long it took
to find Daniel Radcliffe in 2000, when he was 11.
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His co-stars, emma Watson andRupert Grint, were 10 and 12
respectively, and now you toofeel old.
Anyway, the Emmy Awards arecoming up.
So first they have the CreativeArts Emmys, which is basically
all the awards that aren't, youknow, top shelf, if you will,
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and there were some winners ofgeek shows.
So let's go over those.
Outstanding ContemporaryCostumes for a Limited or
Anthology Series or Movie wentto American Horror Story
Delegate the auteur.
American Horror Story, delegatethe Auteur.
Outstanding Fantasy Sci-FiCostumes went to Ahsoka Part 8,
the Jedi, the Witch and theWarlord from Disney+.
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Outstanding Music Supervisionwent to Fallout, the episode the
End on Prime Video.
Outstanding CharacterVoice-Over Performance went to
Big Mouth, the Ambition Gremlin,netflix.
Outstanding Emerging MediaProgram went to the follow-up
episode Vault 33 on Prime Video,and we'll see if there's any
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other winners when the mainEmmys happen later this month.
And now, as always, we come onwith some sad news.
First up actor and singer JamesDarin, the former teen idol who
played Vic Fontaine in StarTrek Deep Space Nine, has passed
away.
He was 88 years old Now.
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The actor and musician, whosebreakout role was as Moondoggy,
the singing-surfing leading manin the Gidget movies, became a
fairly household name when thesong Goodbye Cruel World hit
number three on the BillboardHot 100 in 1961.
The actor played a loungesinger across seven episodes of
Deep Space Nine's final twoseasons and became a fan
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favorite recurring character.
Born James Wilson Ercolani onJune 8, 1936 in Philadelphia,
darren would take on his stagename in 1955 when he moved to
Hollywood, reportedly naminghimself after the Kaiser Darren
sports car.
He signed a deal with Columbiaand played minor roles in
several movies between 1956 and1959, as well as appearing on
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the Donna Reed show.
It was only a few years beforehe broke through in 1959's
Gidget.
He would do two sequels, gidgetGoes Hawaiian and Gidget Goes
to Rome, before moving on fromthe role.
Darren also worked in featurefilms almost exclusively in the
1960s, but embraced TV startingin the 1970s, leading the Time
Tunnel and the sci-fi pilot theman from the 25th Century.
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In the 1970s, darren wouldappear as a guest star on TV
shows like SWAT, charlie'sAngels, the Love Boat and
Fantasy Island, before taking ona series regular role on TJ
Hooker, in which he would staralongside Star Trek legend
William Shatner.
Besides Deep Space Nine, his90s acting roles included Silk
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Stockings, diagnosis, murder andMelrose Place included Silk
Stockings, diagnosis, murder andMelrose Place.
After Deep Space Nine, darrenlargely retired from acting,
appearing only in a pair offeature films 2001's Random Acts
and 2017's Lucky.
In 1999, he released an albumof the songs he had performed on
Deep Space Nine and did onlytwo more records during the last
20 years of his life, accordingto the Wrap.
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Darren's son, jim Moray, hastold the media that his father
had a scheduled heart surgerylast week, but that the
procedure was considered toohigh risk because Darren was so
weak at the time.
He was sent home, but returnedto Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
sometime after.
Darren passed away there.
Surrounded by family, darren issurvived by his wife, actress
and former Miss Denmark, evieNorland, and their two sons.
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He was 88 years old, and thisone hits hard James Earl Jones,
the commanding presence onscreen, who nonetheless gained
greater fame off camera as thedeep voice of Darth Vader and
Mufasa, the benevolent leaderand Lion King and the acting
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voice behind this Is CNN diedyesterday at the age of 93.
Jones burst into nationalprominence in 1970 with his
powerful, oscar-dominatedperformance as America's first
black heavyweight champion inthe Great White Hope.
He passed away at his home inDeserts County, new York,
according to Independent ArtistGroup.
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The distinguished star made hisbig screen debut in Stanley
Kubrick's Dr Strangelove or howI Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb in 1964, and wasin many other films as well,
including Field of Dreams in1989 as the reclusive author
Terrence Mann, and the Sandlotas the intimidating neighborhood
guy Mr Myrtle.
For his work on the stage,jones earned two Best Actor Tony
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Awards for portraying the roleof Jack Jefferson, who was based
on real-life boxer Jack Johnsonin 1968, and Howard Sackler's
Great White Hope, and forplaying the patriarch who
struggles to provide for hisfamily in a 1986 Pulitzer
Prize-winning production ofAugust Wilson's Fences.
Jones is also the recipient ofan honorary Oscar at the 2011
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Governor's Awards and a specialTony for a Lifetime Achievement
in 2017, and was one of thehandful of people to earn an
EGOT Emmy, grammy, oscar andTony, and the first actor to win
two Emmys in one year.
Jones' rise to becoming one ofthe most admired American actors
at all time was remarkable,considering that he suffered
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from a debilitating stutter as achild.
When an English teacher in highschool encouraged Jones to read
a poem for the class that hehad written, he discovered that
his stutter vanished whenever hespoke words that he had
memorized.
He won a public speakingcontest as a senior and earned a
full scholarship to theUniversity of Michigan, where he
studied medicine and discoveredacting.
He made his stage debut in acommunity theater production in
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Manistee, michigan, before heleft to serve in the Korean War.
After being discharged, jonesmoved to New York to pursue
theater and made his Broadwaydebut in 1958 in Sunrise at
Campanello, the Tony winner forBest Play that was written by
Dori Suckery and starred RalphBellamy as polio-stricken
president Franklin Roosevelt.
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Jones told the HollywoodReporter in 2011 that his career
was guided by words that hisfather, robert Earl Jones an
actor who had been blacklistedfrom the industry by the House
Un-American Activities Committeebut appeared in the Sting told
him when he was just gettingstarted out.
Quote If you want to do thisbusiness.
You got to do it because youlove it, not because it's going
to make you rich or famous.
That was the best advice hecould give me, he said, unquote.
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Kubrick cast Jones asLieutenant Lothar Zogg, a member
of the B-52 bomber crew, and DrStrangelove after spying him in
a New York production ofShakespeare in the Park.
His performance opposite futureNational Endowment for the Arts
chairman Jane Alexander in theGreat White Hope netted him the
cover of Newsweek magazine inOctober of 1968, and for the
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film version, he would becomeonly the second black man to
score a Best Actor Oscarnomination after Sidney Poitier.
When director George Lucas wassearching for a bass voice for
Darth Vader, he reportedlyconsidered Orson Welles but felt
his voice might be toorecognizable, so he called
Jones' agent and asked if theactor would like a day's work.
Jones got a flat fee of $7,000for the job and did not
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acknowledge that he was thevoice of Darth Vader until the
third film in the franchise.
As for voicing his character inthe Lion King, jones said in a
2011 interview that he still gota kick out of meeting kids who
were devoted to the 94 Disneyclassic Quote.
Their parents will say there'sMufasa, but I don't look like a
lion, even if they're reallittle kids.
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They think they're beingshafted or having the wool pull
over their eyes and I cannotroar to prove it to them.
But I can say in Mufasa's voiceSimba, you have deliberately
disobeyed me, end quote.
Jones, of course, was alsoknown as the voice of CNN Quote.
I just emptied my mind andfilled it with the thought of
all the hundreds of storiestragic, violent, funny, touching
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that would be.
Following my introduction, hesaid when asked about his
motivation, and then I said thisis CNN Unquote.
He also guest starred on threeepisodes of the Simpsons,
including a memorable 1990Treehouse of Horror installment.
He helped play Admiral Greer inthree films based on the Tom
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Clancy novels the Hunt forOctober, patriot Games and Clear
and Present Danger, and wasKing Jaffee Jaffer in the pair
of Coming to America movies,including the 2021 sequel.
Jones' two Emmys came in 1991for playing a private detective
who was wrongly imprisoned onthe short-lived ABC drama
Gabriel's Fire and as the ownerof a shoe repair business in the
TNT telefilm Heat Wave aboutthe 1965 Los Angeles Watts riots
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.
Among the myriad of roles heplayed on stage include Thurgood
Marshall, the first blackjustice of the United States
Supreme Court.
Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot TinRoof, president Arthur
Hochstetter in the Best man andchauffeur Huck Colburn in
Driving Miss Daisy oppositeAngela Lansbury.
In 2022, the 110-year-old courttheater in Broadway was renamed
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the James Earl Jones Theater inhis honor.
He married actress JulianneMarie in 1968 after meeting her
during a production of Othello,but they divorced four years
later, where he met his secondwife, actress Celia Hart, while
they were taping the CBS policedrama Paris, in which he starred
as a young police captain andshe played a young cop.
They were married in 1982, andhad a son.
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Flynn Hart died in October 2016of ovarian cancer at age 68.
James Earl Jones was 93 yearsold, and that brings us to the
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