Blog Archive: December 2022

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Cavill Confirmed Out

While new DC studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran haven't revealed their full plan, both James and Henry Cavill have confirmed that he won't reprise the role of Superman.

After having only recently left Netflix's The Witcher and announced his return to the big S. Ouch.

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God of War Series

After picking up a bevy of wins at this years The Game Awards, Amazon have announced that a live action series will be made based on fantasy action roleplaying game God of War.

While that news might not immediately strike most people as relevant to science fiction, there are two Stargate connections.

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Patty Says No

Following The Wrap's claims that Patty Jenkins stepped away from directing Wonder Woman 3 over her refusal to submit another treatment for it to DC execs, she has tweeted a definitive rejection.

This is simply not true. I never walked away. I was open to considering anything asked of me. It was my understanding that there was nothing I could do to move anything forward at this time.

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Fusion Breakthrough?

Financial Times claim that government scientists at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved a significant breakthrough in the pursuit of fusion technology.

A world first net energy gain.

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Golden Globe Noms

Nominees for the 80th Golden Globe Awards have been announced and science fiction has a small but possibly strong presence in three films.

Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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More Quantum Leap

US network NBC have renewed the still not available in Australia Quantum Leap continuation.

Following lacklustre reviews, this one is mildly surprising.

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The Very Long Goodbye

More than a year ago we scoffed at the "explanation" clip following the first six episodes of The Nevers, and are surprised to be reading that HBO have freshly cancelled it.

And along with Westworld, it will be removed from their streaming service.

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Bad Batch S2

Disney have dropped a season 2 trailer for The Bad Batch and it looks like a typical Clone Wars episode - an alien world, a plan gone awry, running away from local fauna / soldiers etc. and a ship dropping out of the sky with welcome rescue or relief.

But minus Jedi. In that scene at least. A wookiee youngling shows up later.

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Jumping the Gunn

The Hollywood Reporter claims that newly appointed DC studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are preparing to draw a line in the sand and end planned sequels to most recent DC films.

Including Wonder Woman, Superman and Aquaman, but not Robert Pattinson's Batman.

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Ion Sci-Fi Dec 14

In our last show for the year we take a first look at The Boys spinoff series Gen V, the third Guardians of the Galaxy is on its way, a G-O-T twist for zombie apocalypse series The Last of Us, the latest Transformers movie, a new Starship Troopers game, a new season of Japanese trapped-in-a game series Alice in Borderland and our North American correspondent has the latest sci-fi news from Hollywood.

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