After the weekend, DC Comics held what it called the FanDome. The latest in a long line of online-only conventions, the presentations basically fill the void created by the fact that there was no large Warner Bros. panel at Comic-Con International this year.
Over the weekend, DC released many teasers and trailers for its upcoming films – most felt like drops of ice-cold water in the dryness of this summer’s superhero films. Speaking of, one of the biggest trailers released was for the sequel to the 2017 superhero blockbuster: Wonder Woman. It is follow-up—Wonder Woman 1984– jumps a few decades ahead of the era of malls and Day-Glo, and gives a rebellious Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) a fanny pack and Diana (Gal Gadot) can buy the best anti-aging cream money. (JK, she’s an Amazon fighter, she does not age like such mortality.) It also has Barbara Wiig’s Barbara / Cheetah in action. It seems like a lot of fun, and it also promises to answer the question, “Barbara, what did you do?”
Next up: The Batman. The latest Caped Crusader movie, starring Robert Pattinson, starring Jeffrey Wright, starring Commissioner Gordon, Zoë Kravitz starring Selina Kyle / Catwoman, Colin Farrell starring Oswald Cobblepot / the Penguin (trust us, he’s there; he’s just behind a lot makeup), and Paul Dano as the Riddler – and it seems like a lot of fun. Also, thanks to Pattinson’s liberal use of eye makeup, it seems like an awful lot The Crow, until the soundtrack of the 1990s. Whatever. Were in.
During FanDome, DC also showed a few teasers for The Suicide Squad and Zack Snyder’s long-awaited (and long-awaited) cut of Justice League. (You remember those, right? The ones that seemed like a myth to fans talking about it, Warner Bros. decided to ask Snyder to make it for HBO Go? Yeah, it’s a real deal now!) For The Suicide Squad (not to be confused with 2016s Suicide Squad), there is no actual trailer, but fans now have a teaser with a character reveal and a montage of behind-the-scenes recordings and interviews that is basically a giant middle finger for director David Ayer’s takeover of it antihero team from just four years ago.
Continuing with the theme of interesting scoring choices, the trailer for Snyder’s cut of Justice League is set on Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” and honestly, it does not make the film as similar to a new cut of the 2017 film as a completely different film. However, it seems as flashy and grim as you might expect. See it below for yourself.
Wonder Woman 1984 is scheduled for release October 2nd. The Batman, The Suicide Squad, and Snyder’s Justice League cuts are all planned for 2021.
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