Over the past couple of years, there's been a lot of talk regarding a sequel to The Goonies. That talk has been coming from people like Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, and even director Richard Donner, all of whom have said the movie is going to happen. You can read up on all of our Goonies related news here.

Astin continues to say that The Goonies 2 is going to happen. Over the weekend, he appeared at Phoenix Comic Con 2016, and while he was there he teased that the sequel will include another appearance from the legendary pirate One-Eyed Willy. During the actor's panel which you can watch below, he said:

"In the original Goonies, it's not the only time Mikey will come face-to-face with One-Eyed Willy."

I would really love to see this sequel to The Goonies happen. Astin seems very optimistic, so that's a good sign that things are still progressing with it. It will also be cool to see how One-Eyed Willy will be implemented into the story for the sequel.

Personally, I've always wanted to see a 17th century-set film that tells the story of One-Eyed Willy and the events that led up to him, his crew, and his treasure being trapped in the cave where the Goonies found him. There's a great story to tell with this character! It'd be a shame if it never happened. 

Regardless, it seems like a Goonies sequel is still slowly in the works, so hopefully, one day that happens. 

If you're a fan of Space Ghost, you're gonna love this new collectible action figure from Entertainment Earth. I've been a fan of this character for years and it's awesome to see him get a cool action figure like this.

Space Ghost is an intergalactic crime fighter from the Ghost Planet. He has various powers that include the ability to turn invisible (thanks to his belt), the power to fly, and shoot various rays from the powerbands on his wrists.

The action figure glows in the dark and comes with his sidekick, Blip the monkey. It also features interchangeable heads, hands, 32 points of articulation, and some of his weapon accessories like the Force Ray, Freeze Ray, Destroyer Ray, and Magna Ray.

The detailed costume design comes complete with a fabric cape with an integrated wire so you can pose it. This is seriously something that I'd love to get my hands on! Here are the details from Entertainment Earth:

Entertainment Earth Exclusive! Mezco's Space Ghost Glow-in-the-Dark 1:12 Collective Action Figure - Entertainment Earth Exclusive features over 32 articulation points, intricate sculptural work, incredible costume detailing, and tons of accessories for an iconic classic vision with a real-world look. But that's not all. Space Ghost comes with his trusted companion, Blip the monkey, who also boasts an exceptionally realistic sculpt and more than 10 points of articulation. Perhaps best of all, this exclusive version of Space Ghost actually glows in the dark! Whether you're a fan of the classic 1960s cartoon or Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, or you know him as Thaddeus "Tad" Ghostal or Thaddeus Bach, this Space Ghost Glow-in-the-Dark 1:12 Collective Action Figure is a must for your collection.

Patrolling the known galaxies in his ship, the Phantom Cruiser, intergalactic crime-fighter Space Ghost uses his Power Bands and Teleportation Belt to deploy righteous justice across the cosmos!

If you want to get your hands on one, all you have to do is click here. The cost is $70.

If you've been waiting for more info on Telltale's take on the Batman series, looks like we're going to get our first look next week at E3! Developer Job Stauffer...read more on Gametyrant

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DC's Rebirth is being heralded as a success as sales numbers are starting to come out for their first issues. If it's any indicator of how well the other heroes are selling, WeTheNerdy and writer Benjamin Percy say Green Arrow: Rebirth currently sits at 90,000 copies sold, which is MASSIVE for the franchise. It's assumed larger heroes' numbers are well beyond that, but nothing has been confirmed. Compared to the New 52 Green Arrow launch, that's about 40,000 more copies than its first issue.

@Masked_Demon As I understand it, we're upward of 90,000 copies right now. Thank you, readers.

— Benjamin Percy (@Benjamin_Percy) June 1, 2016

Guess I'll be stopping by the comic shop today! Anyone know any other Rebirth titles worth checking out?

Warning: spoilers ahead for season 6, episode 7 of Game of Thrones, entitled "The Broken Man." If you haven't seen the episode yet, turn back now.

This season, I'm going to try to write up some quick thoughts about each episode the day after it airs. I won't get too deep into full-on recaps (you can find those all over the internet, and you've probably already read a few today if you're into that sort of thing) and will instead focus on what I consider to be each episode's best moments. This can be as many or as few as I want, and will likely vary every episode — today, there are three. I'll also toss in some additional observations that don't fit into the "best moments" category, which you can find at the bottom of the post. For the best moments of earlier episodes this season, click here. Onward!

The Blackfish Takes a Stand

Catelyn Stark's uncle, Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully, has taken his home of Riverrun back from the Freys. As we saw last week, Walder Frey isn't happy about that, so he sends his two idiot relatives and the Lannister army to take it back. This week, we see the incompetence of the Frey army (threatening to kill Edmure, but not actually doing it), and Jaime Lannister has to roll in and get things under control. His parlay with The Blackfish was pretty entertaining because of how dismissive Tully is of the once-great fighter known as The Kingslayer, and with Riverrun seemingly impenetrable and stocked for up to two years, it'll be interesting to see what Jaime does to attempt to take the castle back.

Arya Gets It In The Gut

I was worried the show would skip Arya's storyline this episode since we saw her so much last week, but I'm happy we got to check in with her again so quickly. After renouncing her apprenticeship at the House of Black and White, embracing her identity, and uncovering her Needle, Arya's looking for passage back to Westeros. Everything seemed to be going well when, BAM — the Waif comes out of nowhere and stabs her multiple times in the stomach. I wasn't expecting that at all...so much so that at first I wondered if this was a dream sequence. But it's very real, and Arya goes over the edge of a bridge and plunges into the water, and the Waif makes the classic mistake of not confirming the kill before smugly walking away. Arya survives, but she's terrified, wet, and wandering the streets. Where will she go? What will she do? My guess is she'll call upon the actress whose life she saved, Lady Crane, and Crane will help her to make them even.

The Hound Returns

In one of the show's rare cold openings, we discover that despite Arya leaving him for dead, The Hound survived his fight with Brienne and has become a peaceful man living and working with a church group. I knew this was coming, but suspected the show might play coy with the reveal; instead, they unveiled it before the credits even began. The theme of resurrection factors heavily into this season (there's another character I'm hoping to see before the season ends that would continue this theme even more — book readers probably know who I'm talking about), so seeing The Hound pop up again fits right in with that.

The show did a tremendous job of imparting a lot of information in a short time: The Hound is still alive, he still hates his brother Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane, and he's tried his best to live a peaceful life. But when the Brotherhood Without Banners murder his entire group (including the awesome Ian McShane, who was great in his brief one-episode stint as a septon), The Hound gives in to his old ways and now has vengeance on his mind.

Additional Observations

Though it was nice to see Lady Olenna take Cersei down a peg and leave the Queen Regent fuming at the knowledge of her own mistakes, I'm not convinced Olenna would be daft enough to believe Margaery's fake conversion to the Faith. I get the sense that the old woman taught her granddaughter everything she knows about playing the game of thrones, and I feel like she would instantly see through the facade and understand the move Margaery is making. That obliviousness seemed out of character for the veteran, and I suspect the show chose to have Olenna not understand the ploy simply for the benefit of audience members who forgot about the scene earlier this season in which Margaery spoke with Loras in the dungeon and revealed a quick flash of her true self. Either way, it was good to see Margaery slip Olenna that note with a rose on it after the High Sparrow made his threat about Olenna's safety; it's the sigil of House Tyrell, which lets Olenna know Margaery still has her family in mind (it may also be a reference to Loras, nicknamed "The Knight of Flowers").

With his sister's help, it seems like Theon Greyjoy is finally starting to regain his identity. He spent so long as "Reek" it's no surprise he's still a little shell-shocked, but Yara explained that she needs him to be the real Theon again if they're going to take back the Iron Islands (with Dany's help). Considering this season began with Theon and Sansa on the run after escaping Winterfell, it'd be appropriate for him to regain his full sense of self by the end of the season, so I'm hoping that's where his storyline is heading and I'm fascinated to see what he'll do moving forward. He's still troubled by his misdeeds of the past and prickles at the mention of justice, so he'll have to settle for vengeance in the meantime and hope for redemption in the long run.

Jon, Sansa, and Davos had mixed results recruiting their army to take down Ramsay Bolton and reclaim Winterfell (I'm so thankful we haven't seen Ramsay in weeks; it's been such a nice breather from his tired, one-note character). They managed to convince the Wildlings to fight with them, and thanks to Davos, they gathered 62 fighters from the young Lady Mormont. Convincing the young leader of that house to pledge her men to their cause was a tough task, one they couldn't duplicate with House Glover after Sansa pushed a little too far and got a nasty history lesson about how Robb's philandering screwed over the house in their time of need. So it makes sense that Sansa would (presumably) write her letter to Littlefinger and request aid from the Knights of the Vale, even if she'd rather never see him again. She knows she needs his help if they're going to win, and as we're reminded here, this battle isn't just about squabbling families — it's essential for the North to be united if they're going to have any hope of keeping the White Walkers at bay (good luck with that, by the way).

This was a really solid episode. For the most part, it actually felt like actual progress was being made in many of the storylines, which I was thankful for because when episodes spin their wheels and don't do as much to forward the larger narrative, I get a little antsy. Writer Bryan Cogman and director Mark Mylod did an excellent job here.

What did you think?

For the first time since Remington Steele, Pierce Brosnan is returning to television. Deadline says the actor will be replacing Sam Neill in AMC's new series The Son, which premieres in 2017.

The Son is about a wealthy Texas family and how they shaped America into becoming a superpower in the old West. Brosnan will play Eli, who was kidnapped and raised by Comanche Native Americans as a child and now uses their harsh customs in his business dealings.

Sounds like an AMC show! I read the description and thought "this could either be amazing or incredibly boring." There's never really a middle ground with their shows! Their prior catalog (and Preacher) set the bar pretty high!

I'm excited to hear Pierce Brosnan speak with a Texas accent. I don't even know how that would sound!

Duncan Jones' upcoming blockbuster Warcraft is set to do very well in China with pre-sale numbers currently at $20 million, according to Variety. That makes it the third highest pre-sale total in front of Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

This is a far cry from the estimated $25 million weekend the film is expected to have in the United States, but that's just speculation. From my perspective it sounds like Pacific Rim all over again! That's a double-edged sword, as China is what made Pacific Rim 2 a possibility to begin with, but American sales are what kept producers from instantly green-lighting it.

I guess let's just hope that whatever is meant to happen happens! Joey loved this film, so I'm sure I'll be a fan.

Outrageous, ultra-violent, and sleazy as hell, Officer Downe is the kind of movie made for midnight screenings and intended for audiences in the right mindset to see some deranged and psychotic nonsense. 

What if you could resurrect RoboCop as many times as you wanted? That’s the simplified premise of this movie, which follows an L.A. super cop (Sons of Anarchy’s Kim Coates) who’s killed in the line of duty and brought back to life to continue his never-ending rampage against crime. Based on a comic and directed by Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan, everything about Officer Downe is aggressive, in your face, and over the top. It’s all sex, drugs, rock ’n roll, and exploding heads, relentlessly blowing up traditional expectations about narrative structure and gleefully charging over the line of good taste.

The film opens with Downe going down on a busty blonde, and after she remarks about how he gave her fourteen consecutive orgasms (complete with a video game-style “orgasm counter” that pops up on screen), he stoically quips, “Just doing my civic duty.” Coates, all mustache and muscles, almost exclusively speaks in cop cliches (“If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime” is indicative of most of his dialogue), and though the character isn’t a cyborg like RoboCop, he may as well be for the amount of humanity Coates brings to him. 

In a movie that takes a lot of inspiration from video games (we see shots from a gun’s POV, a “ding” sound effect when he shoots people in one scene, different “levels” and “mini-bosses” abound, etc.), one of its main problems is once it’s established that Downe can be resurrected after every death, it removes the stakes of watching him go into battle. Scenes in which he faces off against an army of juiced up ninjas or a convent full of machine gun-wielding nuns (just the tip of the iceberg of this movie’s weirdness) have surface level thrills of seeing him mow down ridiculous opponents in the most gruesome ways possible — at one point, he blasts a nun into the sky, a vortex appears, she’s struck by lightning, and the vortex disappears (Downe doesn’t react to this, and no one mentions it ever again) — but we don’t feel like he’s in real danger, so there’s nothing to latch onto. (The filmmakers try to rectify this when the movie grinds to a halt in its third act, but by that point it’s too late.)

The rest of this preposterous world (in which Down has been openly busting drug operations in L.A. for two decades in the messiest possible ways, and yet somehow he’s part of a “top secret” branch of the force that the public and even some of his fellow cops don’t know about) is filled out with characters like a fresh-faced rookie (Tyler Ross) who’s brought in to serve as Downe’s backup, and what might be the goofiest rogue’s gallery ever committed to film. There’s a guy named “Headcase” Harry (Corey Taylor), who dresses in what could pass for awful Riddler cosplay and has one of those stupid tics in which he can’t stand to hear his own nickname. There’s a black ninja named Zen Master Flash (Sona Eyambe), It’s Always Sunny’s Glenn Howerton shows up as a greasy-haired gang member inexplicably adopting a horrendous British accent, and Drag Me To Hell’s Alison Lohman pops up in a supporting role as one of the gun-toting nuns.

Oh, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention a separate gang called The Fortune 500, which, as far as I can tell, is comprised of three people wearing animal heads with regular business suits. They operate out of a board room with human heads lining the walls, in what I’m sure is meant to be a “clever” reversal of high-powered execs who keep animal heads mounted on their walls. It should tell you a great deal about the tone and general quality of this movie that even after having seen the whole film, I’m still not sure if this gang was supposed to be genetically enhanced or just a bunch of weirdos who prefer dressing in cheap masks. (Apropos of nothing, at one point they all receive oral sex in a sauna [still wearing their animal masks] from a group of Asian women dressed in geisha robes.)

Any movie about violent police officers in 2016 must be aware of the larger cultural conversation that’s been going on about that topic for the past couple of years, and amid all of its craziness, Officer Downe takes a minute to address this topic head-on when the police chief gives a speech about how the world needs a cop who will never give up. “Right or wrong, we need him out there,” she says. There are all sorts of ways to read into larger political messages that may or may not be contained within this film (especially involving the reveal of how Downe is physically resurrected), but since the movie is clearly meant to be seen as just a wild ride and not a Statement About Bigger Issues, I’ll leave those readings to you.

“Best not to dig too deep into the details,” the chief tells the rookie at one point. “Just let Downe do his thing.” That sentiment doubles as a mantra about the best way to approach this movie. If you’re looking for normality of any kind, search elsewhere. But if you’re willing to embrace full-on lunacy for an hour and a half, this is the movie for you. The cinematic equivalent of ten ‘roided-up bulls laying waste to a China shop, Officer Downe is an all-out assault on the senses.

[Note: I'm struggling with how to rate this one, since giving things a number grade is a new practice for us here. I actually hated the movie, so if I judged it purely on a personal scale, I'd give it a 1 or a 2. But I'm going to judge it on whether or not the movie achieves what it's trying to do, so that means it gets a different rating.]

Deadwood star Ian McShane returned to HBO last night to appear on Game of Thrones (more on that here), and in an interview with Entertainment Weekly about that appearance, the conversation pivoted to one of his upcoming movies. In John Wick: Chapter Two, McShane will reprise his role as Winston, the owner of the Continental Hotel that serves as a meeting place for assassins. The actor offered some brief hints at what we can expect in the sequel, including what appears to be the driving force behind the plot this time around:

Well, I’m kind of the only one left from the first one. This is same kind of premise. It’s not like two years later, but pretty soon after the first one. Keanu [Reeves] is a great guy. They got this terrific Italian kid, Riccardo Scamarcio, who plays the chief villain, who’s excellent, and we have a lot of stuff together. And the guy who directs it, Chad Stahelski, is really smart. He’s been Keanu’s stunt guy for [nearly] 20 years and he’s studied muay-thai. He’s got every stunt man who’s available for [this film]. The action looks like it was done by somebody out of Hong Kong instead of Hollywood which I always think is a great sight.

And so, the story is again a vengeance premise, to some degree?
Keanu gets a new dog. But yes, it’s about what comes on him after that. It’s all about the assassin’s code, if you like. He’s killed a Russian gangster and now there’s a contract out on him, so it’s a continuation. I loved the first one. This could be even better than the first.

The idea of Wick having to face the consequences of taking a life seems like a potentially interesting wrinkle for his story, and I'm looking forward to seeing Reeves kick some more ass in the globe-spanning action of John Wick: Chapter Two. Here's the official synopsis:

Keanu Reeves returns in the sequel to the 2014 hit as legendary hitman John Wick who is forced to back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers. Lionsgate’s “John Wick: Chapter 2” arriving in theaters on February 10, 2017.

The TMNT have gone to college, graduated, and now can't find a job. It's rough out there for twenty-something millennials, especially when you have zero experience and look like a humanoid turtle. The Turtles talk Tinder, Bernie Sanders, and more in the great Rooster Teeth parody you'll find below.

I'm not going to lie, I teared up a bit when I read this news. I've wanted nothing but the best for Pacific Rim 2, and now Deadline is reporting just about the best news. John Boyega has been cast as the LEAD ROLE in the movie! Boyega will play the son of Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba) and (we can hope) pilot some Kaiju-ass-kicking mechs!

Guillermo del Toro had kind words to say about the Star Wars actor:

“I am very proud and happy to welcome John into a fantastic sandbox. The Pacific Rim universe will be reinforced with him as a leading man as it continues to be a multicultural, multi-layered world. ‘The World saving the world’ was our goal and I couldn’t think of a better man for the job.”

I can't tell you how happy I am with this casting decision. Boyega is a great actor, and to take one of the hottest Star Wars actors right now and put him in this film will only propel the franchise to the level it deserves!

The film is scheduled to begin production at the end of this year with Steven S. DeKnight directing.

Archer just aired its seventh season finale this past week, capping off a season that was a massive improvement over last year. I appreciate that the show hasn't grown complacent and seems to continually attempt reinvention, and while it has occasionally stumbled a bit on that path, this season — in which the gang moved to Los Angeles and opened a private investigator's office — was one of its best yet.

The Daily Beast spoke with executive producers Matt Thompson and Casey Willis about the possibility of converting the animated spy series into a live-action movie:

“It’s all up to whatever [Archer creator] Adam [Reed] wants to do, but he and I have definitely talked about it. I think we talk about it once every two years. We vacillate between if you do it, why are you doing the TV show? And should it be live-action, or should it be cartoon? The talk is there, we just still haven’t decided. I don’t think there will be a movie before the last episode of Archer airs on TV. I don’t think we’ll make a movie before the series finishes.”

Let's assume a movie actually does happen one day. Who would they want to slip into the immaculately tailored suit of Sterling Archer?

“It’s Jon Hamm,” says Thompson, firmly. “If Archer goes live-action, I do believe it will be Jon Hamm. Maybe you could do it with Jon Benjamin’s voice coming out of him? I don’t know. Adam is always like, ‘I don’t know if I want the movie to be live-action because I want it to be Jon Benjamin!’ But if it is live-action—and if it is not Jon Benjamin—it is our greatest hope that it would be Jon Hamm. I can say that with confidence.”

Hamm is an excellent choice. We already know he has the look, but I think comedy is his secret weapon; many people still associate him with the stoic Don Draper, but he's been absolutely hilarious in shows like The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, so I think he'd be a natural for delivering the kind of comedy that defines Archer. But as great as Hamm might be by himself, I have to admit the idea of seeing him with H. Jon Benjamin's voice coming out of him is so ridiculous it just might work.

I still think The Legend of Tarzan seems like a bad idea, but I'll admit that this new trailer from IMAX has impressed me more than anything else I've seen from this movie so far. The first half details Tarzan's origins (that part is very strange to watch in the wake of the recent incident with Harambe the gorilla), while the second half is comprised of more traditional action beats from what will presumably be the bulk of the film. Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, and Christoph Waltz star, and The Legend of Tarzan hits theaters on July 1, 2016.

Alexander Skarsgård transforms into the King of the Jungle in our exclusive sneak peek at @LegendofTarzan.https://t.co/d8yKDSxYq1

— IMAX (@IMAX) June 6, 2016

Spoilers for Game of Thrones ahead.

Even though resurrection is a big theme in this season of Game of Thrones, the show has so much ground to cover that it rarely has time for looking back and fondly reflecting on characters who have died. (Fans do that themselves with tributes of all kinds.) But HBO actually did take a moment to honor one of the show's fallen friends, the beloved stable boy Hodor (Kristian Nairn) who died earlier this season. The network released a supercut of every time Hodor said the word "Hodor" on the show, and now that we know what it means, it's even more heartbreaking to watch.

Fans of Supergirl were a little worried for a minute when the show wasn't immediately picked up for a second season, but now that all of the details have been worked out and the dust has settled, we know season 2 will air on Monday nights on The CW (which probably should have been its home all along).

The first season was largely devoid of real footage of Kara's more famous cousin, Superman, but today executive producer Andrew Kreisberg released a statement announcing that the Man of Steel will appear in the first two episodes of Supergirl's second season:

“Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler and I are beyond thrilled to welcome Clark Kent and his slightly-more-famous alter ego to the world of Supergirl. Superman will be appearing in the first two episodes of the new season and we cannot wait to see who next dons the red cape!”

Looks like they want to kick off the second season with a bang. And casting someone to play Superman makes you wonder if that character might return for the massive crossover they're planning. There's no word yet about which actor will play the character, but whoever he is will join the ranks of George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain, Brandon Routh, and Henry Cavill as men who wore the iconic "S" on their chests. And Tom Welling, of course, played Clark Kent/Superman on Smallville for ten seasons on The CW, so this will be something of a homecoming for the character. Who do you think should play Superman on Supergirl?

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I don't know about you, but I wasn't crazy about the romance between Chris Evans' Steve Rogers and Emily VanCamp's Sharon Carter in Captain America: Civil War. It felt as if the movie wanted us to think there was the culmination of a bunch of build-up between them, but the kiss they shared felt a little unearned to me. Maybe it's just that Evans and VanCamp don't have nearly the same chemistry that he had with Hayley Atwell in Captain America: The First Avenger, and the former Peggy Carter herself offered her opinion about Cap's romance with Sharon at the Dallas Comic Con Fan Expo (via IGN):

“Well, first of all she’d be turning over in her grave,” Atwell said, with a grin. “She’d be like ‘no.’ And she’d inject herself with the blue serum and become a super villain. She’d break out of her coffin and ground [Sharon]. She’d ground her. Then she’d kick Steve’s ass as well.”

“I just feel that, you know — I wouldn’t want to date my great aunt’s guy. It just feels like it crosses an incestuous boundary. And Peggy just died. That’s even more disrespectful, right? It’s like, ‘don’t touch that.’ You can’t tap that!”

"[Peggy would] want the best for [Sharon] and she'd want her dating a good guy. And now with this whole 'Hail Hydra" business, I don't know if Steve's good enough for her," she said, referring to the new controversial Cap arc from the comics. "So on all levels, it's just a big fat no."

I'm sure there are plenty of fans who feel the same way. Hopefully future movies will take more time to flesh out that relationship a little more if the filmmakers insist on keeping it going. But considering how much the new Avengers movies (the ones that won't be called Infinity War Part 1 and 2) have to juggle, I'd be OK if Steve and Sharon's romance was cut entirely.

Greg and Jenius are joined by Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast and talk the seminal work of action auteur Craig R. Baxley. They focus on his unholy trilogy of Action Jackson, I Come in Peace, and Stone Cold! Remember, God forgives, the Nerds of Nostalgia don't! Listen on PodTyrant

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After Aquaman's embarrassing introduction to the DC Extended Universe in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, I'm guessing Jason Momoa is ready to show the world that his character can be the badass he's always bragged about. He'll get his chance in a couple of years with Aquaman, directed by The Conjuring 2 and Furious 7 helmer James Wan. We previously heard a rumor about who the villain might be in the solo movie, but that rumor only consisted of one villain. In a new interview with CinemaBlend, Wan says he has multiple villains ready to face off against the King of Atlantis:

"I gotta say, one thing I love about the Aquaman world is all the really different, really interesting characters. They are interesting characters, including the villains – I’m not going to tell you which villains I’m going to play with! [laughs] But they’re super cool. They’re very larger than life, but they’re unique."

I've never read an Aquaman comic, so I'll leave the speculation about which villains might appear to you all in the comments. Later in the interview, Wan revealed why he wanted to make this movie in the first place:

There are so many superhero movies now; I don’t want to make a superhero movie now for the sake of doing it, but there’s something unique to the world of Aquaman. There’s a reason why they’ve never made a movie about this until now, because technology has never allowed us to tackle something this complicated. And so because of that it feels like something different, and that uniqueness is what I’m excited about.

Let's hope he's able to utilize that technology much better than Zack Snyder was able to in BvS, and that he delivers an Aquaman movie that lives up to Momoa's constant hype. Aquaman will star Momoa and Amber Heard, and the movie is scheduled to arrive in theaters on July 27, 2018.

A few days ago, word came out that recent Oscar winner Brie Larson is in talks to star in Marvel Studios' first female-led film, Captain Marvel. I get the general sense that the fan community at large is cool with this choice, and I think she'd be terrific as Carol Danvers. Marvel's Captain America himself, Chris Evans, shares that opinion. Here's what he said at Wizard World Philadelphia:

“I just heard about that! I really hope that happens. I love Brie Larson. We did a movie together back in '09, we did Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I cannot say enough about Brie Larson. I think she is phenomenal, and I really hope that happens.”

As for Larson herself, someone dug up a video from 2015 in which MTV told Larson she's the fans' choice to play Captain Marvel:

Brie Larson Doesn’t Know Who Captain Marvel Is & Its Adorable

It seems like in the first part of this interview, Larson was under the impression fans wanted her to play Captain America instead of Captain Marvel, but her line about how she needs to start reading the comics was either confirmation that Larson didn't know who Captain Marvel was, or, if she'd already spoken to Marvel Studios at that point about possibly taking on the role, some A+ acting on her part to deflect any sort of speculation.

Fans always warm to stories about actors who were familiar with superhero characters since childhood, but there are plenty of times actors perfectly embody a character without having prior knowledge of the source material. Even if you take her Oscar win out of the equation, Larson is talented enough to be able to knock this role out of the park. Let's hope Marvel Studios makes the casting official soon.

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