Suicide Squad
DC Fandome is stepping out today, its kind of early time-oriented showcase of upcoming DC content, seeing the market was recently devastated by layoffs, specifically its comic division, DC Universe streaming and collectibles.
But games, shows and movies are marching through, and there are a ton of virtual events today that will reveal more information about a host of DC projects. There’s almost too much to process, so I’m closing it down to what I would consider a schedule of ‘biggest’ announcements, the first of which will go live here in a few hours.
I believe the stream is shown here among other places, so go around 1 PM ET when this all starts. And it starts with the project we’ve probably seen the most of:
1 PM ET – Wonder Woman 1984. This movie has been delayed quite a bit, some pre-pandemic, some after, and now it has to be October 2nd. More footage to see from this panel I would assume.
1:30 PM ET – Warner Bros. Games Montreal announcement. This is the Court of Owls Batman game played by this studio, the one responsible for Arkham Orgins, not the basic Arkham trilogy. Do not confuse them with Rocksteady, who has his own game debut later in the schedule.
2:55 PM ET – The Suicide Squad. This is the James Gunn Suicide Squad movie, not to be confused with the first Suicide Squad movie that anyone hates when the Suicide Squad game was announced later in the day. Yes, not at all difficult to follow. We’ve heard the cast list before, but know almost nothing about it, so this should be fine.
Justice League
5:30 PM ET – The Snyder Cut. The fan-dream turned into an HBO Max marketing opportunity will indeed have its own panel, and we’ll probably see a good number of recordings that Snyder has added again for his own version of the film. No word yet on if we’ll get a super long movie or if they break it up into a miniseries, but we can figure that out today.
6:10 PM ET – Black Adam. This is the movie where The Rock plays Black Adam, which we have not seen before. I assume he’s going to be for it, the way he’s supposed to be. Not yet super sure about how this fits into the DCEU in general, but we’ll see.
19:05 ET – Aquaman. I * think * this is about Aquaman 2, but I’m not quite sure, and that still seems like a long way off, so maybe this is about the strip instead. Need to figure that out, but will just see in the case.
8:10 PM ET– Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Okay now THIS is the next project from the Arkham developer, which we’ve seen a bit of, but seems to be a game where the heroes are the villains, and it should be great, considering their offerings from the past. Can’t wait for this.
8:30 PM ET – Day one closes with The Batman, the new movie seems to be loosening up from the DCEU starring Robert Pattinson, and without a doubt we’ll be getting our first official trailer here. Interesting to see what this looks like.
These are the main revelations. Get ready for a lot of footage to sort through. Comic Con in August, essentially, because of COVID. We’ll see if this becomes a regular replacement for DC.
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