The 10 best DC animated films
The 10 best DC animated films
From The New Frontier to Gotham By Gaslight to Justice League Dark, the most incredible cinematic feats of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are often animated
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Justice League on HBO Max spurred renewed discussion of Zach Snyder’s vision for the DC Extended Universe, the answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that kicked off with his 2013 film
Man Of Steel. But while it’s unlikely that Snyder will ever fulfill his dream of making the child of Bruce Wayne and Lois Lane into the new Batman, DC Comics fans can actually find a host of films that are just as weird and dark on the same streaming service.
A decade after the Emerald Knights last featured in live-action, a new take on
Green Lantern is on the way. HBO Max is working on a TV series focusing on various members of the Corps, and last week the casting began as
Seeing as he’s sort of been the custodian of the franchise up until now, it’s only right that Hal Jordan himself, Ryan Reynolds, has reacted to the news, and he’s responded to Wittrock’s casting with his typical cheeky sense of humor. Reynolds shared a screenshot of the announcement on his Instagram story over the weekend, adding the caption: “It’s like I planned it.” Presumably, this is the Canadian star letting us know that he approves of the actor landing the part of Gardner in the upcoming show.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and
The LEGO Batman Movie, will serve as showrunner on the streaming series, which serves as the first major Green Lantern-based live-action project of Warner Bros. modern, DC Universe-building era.
Warner Bros. has been at work on some version of a
Green Lantern project since the days of
Batman v Superman, when the studio hoped to reshape the portrayal of the corps and its characters after the ill-fated 2011 film starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. The project was originally set to be a film, but sat in development for years with no major movement before HBO Max came along and kickstarted Warners interest in a small-screen component to build alongside its big-screen universe. That has, so far, led to show s like Matt Reeves upcoming
First two Danish F-35As arrive at Luke AFB
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29th April 2021
Pilots belonging to the Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) have delivered the first two Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fifth-generation multi-role stealth fighters to Luke Air Force Base (AFB), Arizona.
The aircraft – serials L-001 (c/n AP-01) and L-002 (c/n AP-02) – were delivered to the Arizonan base on April 13 in preparation for the training of Danish pilots on the type. Assigned to the US Air Force’s 308th Fighter Squadron ‘Emerald Knights’, these two RDAF F-35As will eventually be joined by five more examples, which will also be used to support the training programme.