Traditionally, thousands of pop culture fanatics flock to San Diego every summer to, in the words of our very own Sam Barsanti, “see Jason Momoa from 50 yards away.” That was not possible this year obvious reasons, so the Geek Gods deserved to bless us with Comic-Con @ Home … which was considered immediately after a disappointment it failed to garner even a fraction of the digital discussion of previous Cons. But today, DC gives the thing of digital convention a shot with DC FanDome, a free series of virtual panels central to the company’s biggest titles. Among the expected news expected from today’s event was the release of new footage from Wonder Woman 1984, The Flash season 7, and the upcoming Justice League “Snyder Cut;” the announcement of a new one Batman: Arkham match; and fresh details on upcoming Flash, Batman, Shazam, Suicide Squad, Aquamanand the rock Black Adam—Films.
The whole event runs today from 2pm to 9pm ET, but in case you are not sitting on any panel and / or would rather not glue to social media, here are the highlights from the seven hours of programming.
- By de Wonder Woman 1984 panel, Venus Williams and Lynda Carter stopped by as part of the Q&A before Patty Jenkins, Gal Gadot, Kristen Wiig, Chris Pine and Pedro Pascal revealed the second official trailer of the film– including a first look at Wiig as Cheetah.
- Warner Bros. Montreal debuted the first trailer for a new installation of the Batman: Arkham franchise: Batman: Gotham Knights. As the majority name already suggests, the game – debuted today as part of DC’s FanDome event – plays all four of Batman’s primary protégés (Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl and The Red Hood), while trying to keep Gotham safe in his absence of her old vigilante-daddy boss.
- Most of the morning’s Sandman panel was captured by a mix of nostalgia and honest wild haircut, thanks to author Neil Gaiman – and especially Sandman podcast producer and star Dirk Maggs and Michael Sheen. Gaiman released a bit of information about the Sandman Netflix seriesthough it’s worth noting that production is just beginning to re-emerge in a COVID lockdown world, and that the series will advance its’ 80s roots to replace Dream’s adventures in modern times.
- COVID-19 was also a point of discussion during the Multiverse 101 panel, with Greg Berlanti showing that the pandemic could affect any plans they had for this season’s Arrowverse crossover. In a fun behind-the-scenes insight, the panel revealed that Ezra Miller’s involvement in recent years ‘Crisis’ crossover was a last minute thought of in the final days of production – it most of the cast would not even know white Miller because it stood so quickly in each other and was filmed so late in the game. DC loved the idea because it could officially operate the TV shows in their own universe and keep fans of both versions of their favorite superheroes. Berlanti also officially said that only the multiverse of the CW is gone – somewhere else, as on Doompatrol en Titans, it still remains strong.
- During the “Introducing Flash” panel, director Andrés Muschietti previously debuted unseen sketches for the new Flash pack that we will see in the upcoming movie starring Ezra Miller. ‘As you can see it’s more organic. you can see the light embedded in it. it was built this time by his friend Bruce Wayne, ”said the director as the sketches flashed on the screen. Screenwriter Christina Hodson also revealed that DC’s “cinematic multiverse will be born from the movie – it’s born from Barry’s movie.”
- We already knew that Suicide Squad sequel director James Gunn decided to keep a handful of the characters from the original film for his’ relaunch ‘- including Marley Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller – while running the flick out with a stacked cast that includes Idris Elba, Nathan Fillion, Alice Braga, Taika Waititi, Pete Davidson, Michael Rooker, and David Dastmalchian (playing the iconic Polka-Dot Man). But today, gather the ne’er-do-wells to reveal their villainous identities in a new place that also offers a first look at their portraits.
- It was announced that John Ridley and Nick Derington will launch a four-part Batman miniseries in January 2021 – and Ridley said there is a “47 percent” chance his Batman will be a person of color. Although we assume it’s more of a 100 percent chance.
- During a ‘surprise panel’, moderator Marc Bernardin and DC Publisher / CCO Jim Lee were joined by Milestone Principles Reggie Hudlin and Denys Cowan, along with Phil Lamarr, the iconic voice of the Static shock animated series to announce Milestone’s return to publishing. Their new wave of content will be led by a whole new one Static shock digital comics planned for February 2021, followed by an original Static shock original graphic novel, and the return of Milestone heroes Icon and rocket, with art by Cowan. And beginning this September through February of 2021, selected content from the Milestone backlist will be remastered and available for sale digitally at all participating digital retailers, including Comixology, Amazon Kindle, and others.
- Zack Snyder revealed his cut of Justice League will be four freakin ‘hours. Sa the short trailer they debuted– the 736th to set on “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen – is just 1 / 1,000.00th of the final product, which will hit HBO Max next year as four one-hour installments.
- De Flash TV show cast discussed how the episodes that were meant to be the end of season six will now be the premiere of season seven, which they plagued with a trailer consisting of the 85 percent they movies had of what the 20th season 20 would be episode.
- Dwayne Johnson updated some sketches of what people can expect from his upcoming Black Adam movie– Of which the Justice League of America members will have Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Cyclone and Atom Smasher. The latter will be played by Noah Centineo, no word on who is cast as the rest of the group.
- Aquaman co-star Patrick Wilson and director James Wan had a friendly chat about their billion-plus blockbuster Aquaman – mostly on the topic of watching Dolph Lundgren jump up and down on a teeter-totter. But they also talk (very vaguely) about the coming Aquaman 2, with Wan promising that it would be ‘more serious’ and ‘relevant’ than the original film.
- Titans executive producer Greg Walker surprised fans with the news that Red Hood, Scarecrow, and Commissioner Barbara Gordon are all on their way to the world of the show for his upcoming third season.
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- The cast fan Shazam! showed joking about Sinbad that was possibly in the next sequel. At first it seemed like we were going to get nothing but jokes about not getting their panel, but it ended with one piece: the title. The sequel is officially titled Shazam! Fury Of The Gods.
If all this is not enough DC news for you, we do this on 12 sept as a very different list of (mostly small screen) DC properties get their moment in the sun.
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