Earlier today, we shared some concept art from Doug Liman’s version of Justice League Dark featuring a first look at one of the scrapped movie’s Swamp-Thing designs. Now, we have another courtesy of artist Houston Sharp, and this time, the hero towers over the man invading his forest.

The highlight here, however, might just be Sharp’s take on a scene featuring John Constantine. 

As you can see, the Englishman finds himself in the midst of a compromising situation with a, ahem, lady friend. As the artist explains, “Klarion, the corpse of a boy possessed by flies, politely asks Constantine for a turn with his whore.” Yeah… this movie was clearly going to be R-Rated. 

With any luck, this is going to open the floodgates for more concept art from Justice League Dark, especially as it’s a movie we’re never actually going to see. Instead, J.J. Abrams is working on developing the characters for an HBO Max series set to premiere at some point in the next few years.

Check it out:
 

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At DC FanDome on Saturday, we learned that Barry Allen is getting a new costume in The Flash. It was also confirmed that the Fastest Man Alive will race back in time to save his mother’s life, while concept art showed him teaming up with Michael Keaton’s version of Batman. Last week, we found out that Ben Affleck will also return as Batman, so this is clearly going to be a busy movie!

As a result, it seems as if there’s going to be another major casualty from the Flashpoint comic book: the Reverse-Flash.

According to Heroic Hollywood, “Eobard Thawne’s Reverse-Flash won’t be the main villain in The Flash.” Unfortunately, the site doesn’t elaborate on whether he’ll be included in any way or which other villains are set to potentially battle the Scarlet Speedster. 

It’s hard to believe we won’t even get a cameo appearance from the Reverse-Flash in The Flash, especially as he’s the one responsible for killing Nora Allen and framing Barry’s father for the crime.

Chances are the movie will keep the spotlight on the hero’s travels through the Multiverse and the creation of a new DC Extended Universe, with Eobard likely saved for the sequel (where he can receive the screentime he deserves). This is just a rumour for now, so we’ll see. 

Are you guys disappointed that we may not get to see Reverse-Flash in The Flash movie?

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“Big Movie. Big Screen. Loved it.“

As theaters begin to reopen internationally, Tom Cruise and his Mission: Impossible writer/director Chris McQuarrie decided to show their support for exhibitors yesterday by paying a visit to the Odeon BFI IMAX to check out an advance screening of Christopher Nolan’s action/sci-fi epic, Tenet. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros., who Cruise has worked with a number of times including on Edge of Tomorrow and The Last Samurai, was more than happy to accommodate his request to attend a word-of-mouth preview screening of Nolan’s latest, which opens in the U.K. today and in the U.S. next weekend. 

Oddly enough, Cruise and Nolan – two of the most prolific filmmakers in cinematic history as well as two of the biggest advocators of the theatrical experience – have never worked together, but it’s fair to wonder whether Cruise’s outward show of support could get the ball rolling on a potential collaboration down the line. 

Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 are headlined by Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick) as IMF ace Ethan Hunt, as well as fellow returning stars Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) as Ilsa Faust, Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) as Benji Dunn, Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) as Luther Stickell, and Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) as the White Widow. Newcomers to the storied action franchise include Hayley Atwell (Avengers: Endgame), Pom Klementieff (Avengers: Endgame), Shea Whigham (Joker) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), who is rumored to be playing the villain. Henry Czerny (Sharp Objects) has also been confirmed to reprise his role as Eugene Kittridge from the first film.

There isn’t much information regarding who else will make up Ethan Hunt’s team for his seventh and eighth adventures, but fans still holding out hope that some combination of Jeremy Renner (William Brandt), Angela Bassett (Erica Sloane), Paula Patton (Jane Carter) and/or Maggie Q (Zhen Lei) will also return. There have also been rumblings that the likes of Henry Cavill (August Walker) and Alec Baldwin (Alan Hunley) may also be back in some capacity as McQuarrie recently teased, “Any character, dead or alive, is fair game to return.“

While filming has been halted due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it’s slated to start up again within the next week or so and both sequels are expected to film back-to-back, with Mission: Impossible 7 set to light the fuse in theaters on November 19, 2021, while its sequel, Mission: Impossible 8, will open the following fall on November 4, 2022. 

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While many sites have decided against reviewing The New Mutants, one of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Paris-based film critics has shared their verdict on the Marvel movie, and it’s not so good.

They start by explaining that the only way you’ll find it an “eye-opening experience” is if you’ve never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer, A Nightmare on Elm Street, or an asylum-set psychological thriller. It gets worse, as the trade notes the movie “will provide an eye-rolling case of déjà vu,” adding that Josh Boone’s take on these characters is “Generic and, at its best, straining to be heartfelt.”

“Even the handful of twists meant to be vaguely new, such as a same-sex love affair between two of the heroines, wind up feeling familiar, which is perhaps why Boone actually inserts a clip from an episode of Buffy showing the same thing,” the review continues. “The movie isn’t even as scary as it could be, a fact that could be explained by the need to maintain a PG-13 rating, but in the end we’re only reminded of recent teen horror ensembles like It that worked much better.”

Praising the performances of the female cast members, it concludes with a, “It’s just too bad the movie that launched them doesn’t have the same impact. As far as the mutant franchise goes, it never makes its last stand.” 

This is obviously just one person’s opinion, but if it turns out to be indicative of the rest of the reviews, it may explain why Disney hasn’t held any press screenings.

What do you guys think?

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