The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Marvel Studios has tapped the directing duo of Bert and Bertie, a.k.a. Amber Finlayson and Katie Ellwood, and Rhys Thomas to direct their upcoming Hawkeye Disney+ series, which will return 2x Academy Award-nominee Jeremy Renner in the title role as the fan-favorite archer. 

While unconfirmed, Bert and Bertie will presumably helm the first half of the six-episode miniseries while Thomas will tackle the latter half, with Jonathan Igla (Mad Men, Pitch) writing and serving as showrunner.

Plot details are currently being kept under wraps, but the series is expected to introduce Kate Bishop to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Casting remains a mystery for now as well, but Academy Award-nominee Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee; True Grit) has been heavily rumored to be the frontrunner.

A production start date wasn’t given, but Hawkeye was previously rumored to begin filming at the tailend of this year. 

Bert and Bertie are likely best known for their coming-of-age comedy Troop Zero, which starred Academy Award-winner Viola Davis (Suicide Squad; How to Get Away with Murder) and Mckenna Grace (Captain Marvel; Gifted). Their credits also include episodes of Showtime’s Kidding starring 2x Golden Globe-winner Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty; Sonic the Hedgehog) and Hulu’s The Great starring Elle Fanning (Maleficent; We Bought a Zoo) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past; X-Men: Apocalypse). 

Thomas is a Primetime Emmy-winner and a Saturday Night Live alum, best known for helming the comedy Staten Island Summer, which featured a number of SNL alumni. His credits also include an episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch.

This is the first Marvel series to enlist multiple sets of directors after the previously announced series elected to have just one helmer for the entire series – Kari Skogland is directing The Falcon and the Winter Soldier with Malcolm Spellman serving as showrunner, Matt Shakman is directing WandaVision with Jac Schaeffer serving as showrunner, and Kate Herron is directing Loki with Michael Waldron serving as showrunner. 

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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was notable by its absence from a recent listing revealing what’s coming to Disney+ this August, and it’s now been confirmed by multiple outlets that the Marvel Studios TV series has been delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 

That was to be expected, though it did appear as if there was some hope following reports that the show just only nine days of shooting left and that work would resume as soon as this month. 

According to Entertainment Weekly, “If all goes well, a new premiere will be announced soon.” With The Mandalorian season two coming to the streaming service in October, it’s hard to say when The Falcon and The Winter Soldier will actually be slotted in (especially if it needs to follow Black Widow, a prevailing theory among many fans right now). 

Deadline, meanwhile, has shared a positive update about WandaVision, stating that the show “remains on track for its previously set October premiere date.” We’re guessing that mention of October is a typo as Disney has previously confirmed that the show is scheduled for a December debut. 

Like the rest of Phase 4, it was inevitable that these TV shows would be hit by delays, but this comes at a bad time for Disney+, especially when it’s sorely lacking in terms of original content. 

We’ll keep you guys updated. 

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Jurassic World: Dominion was recently able to resume production after taking a COVID-19 enforced hiatus, and star Bryce Dallas Howard has now shared some photos of the gnarly bruises she acquired while performing her own stunts for the Colin Trevorrow-directed threequel.

Howard Tweeted out a behind-the-scenes photo (believed to be from one of the earlier movies) of herself alongside costar Chris Pratt, expressing how happy she is to be working with the Guardians of the Galaxy actor again.

In response, Pratt asked her to show her fans the “crazy sick” bruises she picked up while doing stunts.

It’s certainly commendable that Howard is so committed to shooting these action sequences, but based on these pics it might be a good idea to consider a stunt double in future!

The follow up to Fallen Kingdom will see Pratt and Howard reprise their roles as Owen Grady and Claire Dearing, and they’ll be joined by original Jurassic Park trio Sam Neill (Alan Grant), Laura Dern (Ellie Sattler), and Jeff Goldblum (Ian Malcolm).

Dominion is scheduled to roar into theaters next June.

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Bruce Wayne has donned many Batsuits over the years, but could he be about to get his most drastic new look yet in the pages of Batman #100? As you can see below, a Jorge Jimenez variant cover for the landmark issue has been released showcasing a new costume for the Caped Crusader. 

The issue looks set to be the culmination of the current “Joker War” event playing out in Batman, so it would certainly make sense for the hero to need a formidable new Batsuit/armour to put an end to the Clown Prince of Crime’s latest reign of terror.

“In Batman #100, ‘The Joker War’ comes to a city-shattering conclusion as Batman battles The Joker in a brutal, no-holds-barred final duel,” reads the solicitation text for the issue. “This is a fight 80 years in the making, and its outcome won’t just change Batman’s life – it will change Gotham City for years to come!”

“Plus, catch the first glimpse of the new villain known as Ghost-Maker,” it continues. “And after the senses-shattering conclusion of ‘The Joker War’ come a pair of short stories that will chart what’s to come in Gotham City and Batman.”

It’s clearly going to be a big issue, and there’s no denying that this Batsuit brings back memories of Batman & Robin…minus the nipples, of course. This issue is set to go on sale on October 6th, and we might learn more about Batman’s new look later today when solicitations for the month are released.
 

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“Manners. Maketh. Man.”

On the heels of the first full trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man (originally known as Kingsman: The Great Game), we have a pair of new international posters which assemble the main heroes and villains of the upcoming prequel.

The movie boasts and all-star cast led by Ralph Fiennes as T. E. Lawrence, who takes in a young prospect named Conrad (Harris Dickinson) in order to train him as an elite Kingsman Agent. Set during and after World War I, the movie will also explore the origins of the mysterious British intelligence agency.

We still don’t have a whole lot to go on as far as the plot is concerned (we do know that the story revolves around “a collection of history’s worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gathering to plot a war to wipe out millions, and one man’s race against time to stop them”), but if it’s anything like its predecessors (well, the first one), it should be a fun watch at the very least.

Check out the posters below along with the recent trailer and let us know what you think.

Also starring Liam Neeson, Daniel Brühl, Gemma Arterton, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Charles Dance, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Djimon Hounsou, and Stanley Tucci, The King’s Man is set to hit theaters on September 18, 2020.

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