Creature Commandos Trailer
Speaking of James Gunn, the co-head of DC Studios is bringing a very different band of weirdos to the new DCU. When the U.S. government bans Amanda Waller from using human villains for her secret task forces, she turns to a team of monsters to get the job done in Creature Commandos. Assembling characters as strange as GI Robot, Weasel, Eric Frankenstein, Doctor Phosphorus, and the Bride, this animated series looks like a wild time, as evidenced by the very zany trailer released during NYCC.
Star Wars: Jedi Knights Goes Back to the Prequel Era
Marvel Comics is going back to the beginning with the new series Star Wars: Jedi Knights, which chronicles the further Prequel era adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Count Dooku, Mace Windu, and more characters from the films. From creators Marc Guggenheim and Madibek Musabekov, Jedi Knights will also introduce all-new Jedi characters to the Star Wars universe when it hits stands next March.
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Dune: Prophecy Offers Sympathy for the Harkonnens
The first television series set in Frank Herbert’s foreboding Dune universe is here and it is an absolute epic. Adapted loosely from Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s Sisterhood of Dune, Dune: Prophecy is actually set decades after that book while tracking the ascendant power of Valya Harkonnen, the second Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit. She is played in the series by Emily Watson (as well as Jessica Barden in flashbacks).
The cast and executive producers of the series stopped by to discuss the freedom and support they had from the Herbert estate to navigate into uncharted star systems, as well as the appeal of centering the story on a Harkonnen point-of-view between Valya and her fellow Bene Gesserit sister, Tula Harkonnen. “It’s a really properly messed up family with a lot of trauma,” Watson tells us, “a lot of terrible relationships, and then they’ve given themselves to this powerful organization that is trying to control pretty much every aspect of the universe: religion, money, oil. It’s the age-old story.”
Williams agrees with her onscreen sister, noting that the series will offer a different context on the Harkonnen/Atreides rivalry viewers of the Denis Villeneuve Dune movies think they know. Says Williams, “They have that belief that they’re justified. But try to find the baddie in a land war. ‘I was here first.’ It’s got tremendous resonance to what’s happening today politically, and who’s right and who’s wrong? Or there’s just pain.”
Cristin Milioti and The Penguin Cast Break Down the Rise of Sofia Falcone
The Penguin stars Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Clancy Brown, and Deirdre O’Connell joined showrunner Lauren LeFranc to chat about what’s next for the hit HBO crime drama. In particular, Milioti explained what was behind Sofia Falcone’s actions in the explosive ending in episode 4, and also teased what’s next for Gotham’s newest crime lord. When we asked Milioti whether she felt her villain on the rise could take on the Batman himself, the actor didn’t hesitate at all, answering with an emphatic, “Yes!”