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The BFI left it a bit late putting out the PDF of its guide last month, so since I’m an intrinsically lazy person who couldn’t be bothered to type it all in manually, I decided to skip April and head into May instead. However, to be honest, although there’s a lot on at the BFI this month, there’s not that much tele.
There is a preview of series 3 of Peaky Blinders, complete with cast and crew Q&A. There’s a new documentary about noted film and TV director Antonia Bird, Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood, as well as a couple of her TV films, including Safe with Aidan Gillen, Robert Carlyle and Kate Hardie, and a docu-drama about the 9/11 terrorists, The Hamburg Cell. There’s also a free talk for seniors about TV director Alan Clarke.
But that’s it. Still, makes my life easier. What a lazy man I am.
One of the fun things about the Marvel superhero movies is that they’re all tonally different: fun-with-tech Iron Man is a different beast from heist movie Ant-Man which again is different from period heroics piece Captain America: The First Avenger which is even completely different from gritty spy conspiracy thriller Captain America: Winter Soldier, for example. We’re now entering ‘Phase 3’ of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is set to unveil a whole new set of superheroes – and indeed superheroines, since Captain Marvel is finally on her way – and it looks like we’re getting even more styles of movie-making, too.
First up is Doctor Strange, aka the Sorceror Supreme, played by none other than Cabin Pressure‘s Benedict Cumberbatch (I hear he’s been in other things, too). Doctor Strange is a completely different sort of superhero from the ones we’ve had so far, since he’s all about the magic, and it has to be said that the trailer for Doctor Strange does a good job of tying into the astral projecting, dimension-hopping, reality-bending nature of the comics by visually channelling a good chunk of Christopher Nolan’s brain-warping Inception.
Looks fun, good supporting cast (including Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams and Mads Mikkelsen), tonally interesting and Benedict’s American accent isn’t half bad.
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It was a bit of a quiet week last week for Diana, so only two issues for us to look at, one of which involves a song and dance number, one of which she’s barely in at all, yet which is nevertheless surprisingly important for both her and the Amazons (cough, cough, retcon, cough, cough): Justice League – Darkseid War Special #1 and The Legend of Wonder Woman #22. Guess which one is which, before we talk about them after the jump.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, DC has been giving us further details about its ‘Rebirth’ plans, including a little more about what Greg Rucka is going to do be doing in Wonder Woman.
“Having realised a lot of what is taken as truth about herself is contradictory and the contradictions have become so acute, she no longer knows who she is,” Rucka explains. “The first arc is called ‘True Lies’, and she’s attempting to find the truth.”
Depending on the answers she finds. Diana may be rocked to her very foundation. Rucka teased a number of questions that Wonder Woman will be struggling with along the way:
“Is she the goddess of war? Was she made from clay? Is she a demi-goddess? Is Themyscira really what its been presented to be? Look back at how many times Diana’s mother Hippolyta has died; where’s the truth in that? What’s accurate, what isn’t?
“We looked at the golden Lasso of Truth but it’s not the lasso that does it, it’s Diana who brings the truth.”
While his Year One storyline will provide foundations…
“There’s a moment in Diana’s origin story that we forget, and ‘Year One’ is about reminding people of the importance of that,” Rucka notes. “The core moment, maybe one of the most important moments for her, is when she leaves home; the time she answered the call. We overlook that a lot.”
Naturally with any Year One tale, expect to see some classic tropes re-examined, as well as old friends – not to mention deadly enemies – reintroduced and re-examined: “Steve Trevor’s got to be there, Etta Candy has to be there,” Rucka says. “You think you know Barbara Minerva, the Cheetah? You think you know what’s been going on with Ares? You were wrong – you’re just flat-out wrong.”
Yes, cough, cough, retcon, cough, cough.
Talking of origin stories, also back in the real world, on a somewhat warmer set than either Trafalgar Square or King’s Cross Station, Diana (aka Gal Gadot) is busy finding a certain Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) washed up on the shores of Themyscira, all under the watchful eye of… Pink. It looks like Pink anyway. It might be Robin Wright.
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