In “Rumor Mill,” we share the hard to buy rumours that don’t come from reliable sources like the trades, but are still more believable (just) than what you might find on Reddit. 

According to Cinelinx’s Jordan Maison, he’s heard rumblings that at least “a couple” of Disney+ TV shows spinning out of the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story could be in the very early stages of development for the streaming service. Maison has shared a lot of reliable information in the past, so this is definitely a rumour worth taking note of.

As he mentions, it’s possible these never got past the “idea stage,” and he’s unable to share any further details on which characters these might have/will focus on. 

We can, of course, take some guesses. Qi’ra seems like an obvious choice seeing as her storyline ended on something of a cliffhanger, and that would go some way in filling in the final gaps in Maul’s history. Chewbacca could also be fun, though Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian receiving the spotlight in his own solo series honestly seems the most likely show for Disney+.

Unfortunately, with no Disney+ this year, it’s unlikely we’ll learn of Lucasfilm’s future Star Wars plans for a while, but this is definitely something that’s going to get #MakeSolo2Happen fans talking. 
 

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Some new Jurassic World: Dominion set photos have been shared by The Sun as shooting resumes in Pinewood Studios in Berkshire, England. While they were taken from above, we see a snowy setting and a downed plane, and it’s fair to say this is a very different location for the franchise.

Of course, with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom closing the door on a return to Isla Nublar and dinosaurs now roaming the entire Earth, it was clear we would be paying a visit to some unexpected locales.

Quite a few productions in England have resumed, but Dominion is perhaps the biggest, and a source tells the site: “This is the last thing anyone expected so soon. Everyone was excited about getting things back up and running on set but this could totally derail that. There are millions and millions of pounds at stake here.”

Shooting on director Colin Trevorrow’s threequel was called off in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains to be seen whether it will meet its planned June 2021 release date as of right now.

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By now, you’ve no doubt heard that there’s a chance movie theaters won’t be able to re-open in late July/early August as planned, but some new forecasts point to them possibly staying closed until…next year?! 

Cowen’s Doug Creutz has shared a new outlook for the future of theaters, explaining that while, “we had previously assumed that the spread of COVID-19 would be relatively halted, with social distancing requirements significantly lessened by late 2020. We have now extended that timeline out to at least mid-2021; the situation remains very fluid, and we do not rule out the possibility that the impact could last even longer.”

Simply put, he believes many theaters won’t be able to re-open until the middle of next year, and goes so far as to say that he doesn’t anticipate any new films released in “fiscal year 2020” (for Disney, that ends in September). “We now expect domestic theaters to be largely closed until mid-2021, in part because we don’t think studios will be interested in releasing their largest movies into a capacity-constrained footprint,” Creutz adds. 

The news for theme park fans is no better as he expects that Disney World’s “heavy capacity constraints will prevail until at least mid-2021,” and notes that “there is a meaningful probability that the park could be forced to close again.”

As for Disneyland, that “remains closed, and we expect that to persist due to California’s more cautious approach in dealing with the virus.” Needless to say, the outlook is bleak, and things really aren’t looking good right now.

Things change all the time, of course, but with COVID-19 cases on the rise in the United States, these forecasts sounds alarmingly accurate. 

What do you guys think? 

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Is another iconic Star Wars character being lined up for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series coming to Disney+?

According to a report shared by Full Circle Cinema, rumor has it Darth Vader will also be making an appearance. This news comes days after it was claimed that Hayden Christensen has signed on for a lead recurring role as Anakin Skywalker in the show. How large of a role the Sith Lord will play isn’t addressed, though a cameo appearance of some sort was to be expected. 

By the time we caught up with “Ben Kenobi” in A New Hope, he was well-aware of Darth Vader’s existence, so something must have happened during the years he was isolated on Tatooine to facilitate that.

A face-to-face confrontation is doubtful, but Kenobi could see Vader from a distance or in a vision of some sort. The villain certainly isn’t the first classic Star Wars character to be rumoured for the show, as a young Luke Skywalker and older Jar Jar Binks have both also been mentioned. 

Deborah Chow is directing Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Army Of The Dead scribe, Joby Harold, wrote the latest version of the series after Lucasfilm decided to go back to the drawing board last year. 

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Confirming recent rumors that Atom Smasher would feature in the upcoming Black Adam movie, THR reports that Noah Centineo (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before) has been cast to play the DC Comics hero.

Centineo, who has also been linked to the long-gestating Masters of the Universe movie, will join Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as the titular antihero.

In the comics, Atom Smasher, aka Albert Rothstein, is a mountain of a man who has the ability to grow to pretty much any size he chooses and increase his strength exponentially. He previously appeared in live-action in an episode of The CW’s The Flash.

The Jaume Collet-Serra-directed Shazam! spinoff is also expected to feature the big-screen debuts of fellow Justice Society members Cyclone, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, and Dr. Fate, so keep an eye out for more casting announcements soon. A rumor that WB  might be considering a JSA movie if Black Adam is a success did the rounds recently, but that obviously remains to be seen.

Black Adam was originally scheduled to begin shooting this month, but the COVID-19 pandemic made that impossible. It looked like the production wasn’t going to suffer too significant a delay (Johnson recently claimed that cameras were set to roll in August of September), but the latest update reckons it’ll now be early 2021. 

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