Fandome AGAIN! And Squashing MORE Rumors | Week In Nerdom

 

Music

Blink 182

The Matt Skiba rumors are not true! Skiba is still the guitar player and vocalist for the band. As confirmed by Mark Hoppus on instagram.

TV/Streaming

Follow-ups/Corrections

Fandome - DC Comics and HBO Max are both teasing Green Lantern info at the digital con. The schedule is now live, and you can build your own: https://schedule.dcfandome.com/ 

Supernatural - The brothers Winchester will be returning for their final 7 episodes on Oct. 8. https://tvline.com/2020/08/17/supernatural-season-15-final-episodes-premiere-return-date-cw/ 

The Boys

Looks like Jensen Ackles will be joining the cast for season 3 as Soldier Boy, the very first superhero in the series’ mythos.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_xI6JgrWw/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading 

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Alex Kurtzman told Deadline that the new Trek series will see a return to more episodic content. There will still be longer form storytelling, but by-and-large it will be told in smaller episode to episode chunks like Trek of old.

https://deadline.com/video/star-trek-short-treks-contenders-tv-nominees-video/ 

AnimeLog

Thirty anime studios have teamed up to bring us a FREE anime streaming channel on YouTube. The channel is currently only available in Japan, but they will eventually open up to international (U.S. Included) audiences. They are rolling out content from the studios responsible for Doraemon, Astro-boy, Hunter x Hunter, Akira, One Piece, and Pokemon. By 2022 they plan to have over 3000 separate titles. All subbed apparently.

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/08/17/japanese-studios-team-up-to-launch-free-anime-streaming-youtube-channel-animelog/ 

Movies

Follow-ups/Corrections

Fandome - James Gunn has confirmed Suicide Squad footage for the event. James Wan teases some elucidation on the horror elements planned for Aquaman 2.

Matrix 4 - Laurence Fishbourne will apparently NOT be in the movie.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

The directors of the animated movie, Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, have shot down the rumor that their movie is on the list of live action adaptations.

https://youtu.be/aEJd8oZt37E 

Gaming/Tech

Follow-ups/Corrections

Fandome -  The OFFICIAL reveal of the Suicide Squad game comes from the scheduling app? The leak was legit, and it will be called Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

TikTok - Now Oracle has thrown their hat in the ring.

Comic Books/Books

DC Cancellations

The inevitable has happened.

Batgirl, Batman and The Outsiders, and Justice League Odyssey ends in October. Teen Titans, Young Justice, Suicide Squad, Hawkman, and John Constantine: Hellblazer, with The Batman's Grave and Metal Men limited series also reaching their planned end in November.
ALSO, Jim Lee has squashed the rumor that Marvel might acquire DC Comics

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dcs-jim-lee-companys-future-we-are-still-business-publishing-comics-1307413

Ready Player Two

Will Wheaton will read the audio book once again.

Dracula

Bela Lugosi ISN’T dead it would seem. There is a new Dracula book coming from Legendary Comics using the classic actor’s likeness with official approval from the Lugosi estate.

Punchline

The new Joker bae is getting her own one-off book giving us a more proper look at her origin. To be on shelves this November. Writers; James Tynion IV and Sam Johns, Art; Mirka Andolfo.

Rumor Mill

Star Wars

Along with some of the other rumors we have discussed, now it sounds like there is a desire to bring Kylo Ren back for future movies or a Disney+ series.

In Other Rumors…
In spite of recent anti-rumor concerning the demise of the successor series following Rebels, it DOES seem that the series IS still in motion.

Project Power

Netflix is reportedly considering the superhero a la limitless movie for a series. It sounds like it could be either a proper series, OR a series of movies.

Apex Legends

Data miners have found text that seems to imply another new map in the game. This time it is going to be a tropical location… whatever that may mean.

Fantastic Four

Marvel just registered 2 new production companies, Grass-Fed Productions and Solve Everything Productions. One of which seems to imply Fantastic Four could be gearing up for production.

IF it IS F4 that is being pushed forward, then the name could imply we might be seeing the council of Reeds from the comics, according to another rumor.