The Justice Society of America will make their big screen debut in the upcoming Black Adam movie, and a new report may give us some idea of which actress Warner Bros. and director Jaume Collet-Serra have in mind to play Cyclone.

We first found out that Maxine Hunkel, granddaughter of original golden age Red Tornado Abigail “Ma” Hunkel, would be one of the JSA members introduced in the Shazam! spinoff earlier this year, and The Illuminderdi now reckons that the studio is looking for an “Alexandra Shipp type” to play the role.

Shipp played Storm – another character with weather-manipulation abilities – in the last two X-Men movies, so it would be quite the coincidence if she actually wound up playing Cyclone. Of course, there’s nothing to say she’s even been contacted about the role, but it’s certainly a possibility.

The only JSA member to have been cast so far is Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher, who is Cyclone’s love interest in the script. A recent rumor indicated that Alexander Skarsgard might be on WB’s radar to play Hawkman, but that obviously remains to be seen.

We’re expecting some kind of Black Adam tease at DC FanDome this Saturday, so we might just get some official casting updates then. In the meantime, let us know what you think about the prospect of Alexandra Shipp playing Cyclone in the usual place.

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The main threat to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Marvel’s Avengers will be M.O.D.O.K. and A.I.M., and we finally have a proper look at the former. He’s certainly looking quite a bit more formidable than his comic book counterpart, and there are plenty of weapons there to take on the heroic team. 

Recently, the Beta for the game was launched on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and the response has been mixed. While the opening level was praised for its cinematic qualities, the consensus seems to be that there’s too much button mashing, too many identical enemies, and a lot of pulling levers. Controlling Iron Man has even been compared to those old SEGA games! 

There are plenty of gamers out there who enjoyed the experience, though, and the storyline does seem to be strong (even if the gameplay isn’t). Of course, Marvel’s Avengers won’t be the only place M.O.D.O.K. receives the spotlight as rumour has it he’s set to be Ant-Man 3‘s lead villain as well. 

Pulling him off in live-action will be no easy feat, but that franchise seems like the perfect place for M.O.D.O.K., and we can only hope he looks as badass as he does in the screenshot below. 

Are you planning to buy Marvel’s Avengers on September 4th?
 

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The New Mutants is set in the X-Men Universe, but it’s already been confirmed that plans for Professor X and Storm to cameo were dropped early on in production. There are still said to be references to other mutants in that world, but director Josh Boone has now revealed that a scrapped sequence would have featured Colossus.

It was never shot, but the Deadpool 2 character appeared in an early draft exploring Magik’s time as a young mutant in Russia with her brother (presumably played by Stefan Kapcic again).

“I had early drafts. We definitely wrote one where Ilyana was in like a field in Russia that was being tilled,” The New Mutants director tells ComicBook.com. “And suddenly her brother comes in and you see all the armor come on him and stop the thing from running her over or whatever. We had stuff like that in earlier drafts that just got further and further away from a budget standpoint and everything else. Which is suddenly Ilyana rescued, and is Colossus’ sister.”

Magik is still Colossus’s sister in The New Mutants, but a cameo from Piotr Rasputin is sadly off the table. That’s a missed trick on Fox’s part, but it’s sounding like Boone’s hands were tied by the budgetary restrictions which were put in place by the studio for his comic book horror film. 

Will we ever get to see Magik and Colossus share the screen? Perhaps, but probably not in this franchise. 

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When the Dark Knight squared off with the Man of Steel in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, he had a big question for Metropolis’ hero: “Tell me, do you bleed?” During the course of their battle, he learned that the answer was “yes,” and when Superman rose from the grave in Justice League, the unhinged Kryptonian asked Batman the same question.

It was actually a pretty cool moment, but when original Justice League director Zack Snyder was asked whether that line is in the “Snyder Cut,” he confirmed that it’s not…and poked fun at it. 

Clearly, it was a Joss Whedon addition as part of the reshoots, which  was obvious based on Henry Cavill’s CGI mouth during his exchange with Ben Affleck’s Caped Crusader. As Snyder points out, it’s a one-liner that doesn’t make a lot of sense, and he would later confirm that the Flash’s Pet Sematary line (another Whedon joke) isn’t in his cut, either. 

Earlier today, Snyder released a new look at Justice League, and the full trailer will premiere during the DC FanDome event on Saturday. Needless to say, it should be very interesting to see just how different his version of the DC Comics adaptation is to the one we saw in theaters back in November of 2017.

Check out Snyder’s comments below:
 

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Vanity Fair has revealed that Ben Affleck is set to reprise the role of Batman in The Flash movie that will race into theaters in 2022. With the Fastest Man Alive confirmed to travel between different realities in the DC Multiverse, it’s already been reported that Michael Keaton will be back as the Caped Crusader, but we never expected to see this version of the hero again. 

Affleck received the script for the movie last week, and has now agreed to star in the project.

“He’s a very substantial part of the emotional impact of the movie,” director Andy Muschietti explains. “The interaction and relationship between Barry and Affleck’s Wayne will bring an emotional level that we haven’t seen before. It’s Barry’s movie, it’s Barry’s story, but their characters are more related than we think. They both lost their mothers to murder, and that’s one of the emotional vessels of the movie. That’s where the Affleck Batman kicks in.”

The filmmaker later added that Keaton’s Batman will have a “substantial” part, but it wouldn’t work for the Flash to meet another Dark Knight without “the original” being part of the proceedings. “He’s the baseline,” the director notes. “He’s part of that unaltered state before we jump into Barry’s adventure. There’s a familiarity there.”

In the same interview, producer Barbara Muschietti reveals that she was surprised Affleck was happy to return as Batman given past comments he made about playing the character, but noted that “he’s now in a very different time in his life. Right now he’s in a place where he can actually enjoy being Batman. It’s a pivotal role, but at the same time it’s a fun part.”

Again, this is news we never saw coming, but Affleck’s Batman will now hopefully get the farewell he deserves, and who knows what else this could lead to down the line.

Are you excited for more Batfleck in the DC Extended Universe?

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