Week In Nerdom 06 - 23

Music

Marilyn Manson
His 2015 track being featured on the Dark Knight’s Death Metal album. The song is “Worship My Wreck” from Pale Emperor.
https://youtu.be/zkk7RracXCQ

Thomas Haake
Meshuggah’s drummer and his girlfriend are working on a new record together. His girlfriend? Jessica Pimentel, actress in Orange is the New Black, and vocalist for Alekhine’s Gun.

TV/Streaming

Stranger Things
Season 4 is quasi confirmed to be 9 episodes long.

Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege
July 30th on Netflix

Cobra Kai
Found it’s new home on Netflix. Seasons 1 and 2 will be available sometime this year, and a third is in development.

FX on Hulu
Getting 2 exclusives:
Y: the Last Man
American Horror Stories

Movies

Ian Holm
A man with a surprisingly long list of nerd cred. Passed at the age of 88. He had been batling prostate cancer and Parkinson's disease.

Joel Schumacher
Passed at 80.

Star Wars
The 2022 nameless Star Wars movie on Disney’s release schedule has been removed. Is this just a push back, or a down right cancel?

Halloween Tree
The Ray Bradbury novel is being adapted by Will Dunn for WB.

Aya and the Witch
Studio Ghibli is going 3D. Well Goro Miyazaki is for his third movie.

Flashpoint
We got the hint of Michael Keaton in the CW Crisis event. Now there are legit reports that he is in talks to actually play Bruce Wayne one more time for Flashpoint.

Gaming/Tech

Apple
Now officially 100%(ish) proprietary, as they are telling Intel “buh-bye.” All processors will now be made in house.

Robot Dolphin
The future is HERE! Robotic dolphin developed by a company that has worked with SeaWorld and Disney, is officially going to a Chinese aquarium.
https://gizmodo.com/a-special-effects-company-built-a-robotic-dolphin-so-aq-1844119597

Marvel’s Avengers
One of the first announced PS5 free upgrades.

Mixer
July 22 is the final day for the platform

Facebook
Speaking of FB… they have recently purchased Ready at Dawn Games, the developer responsible for the God of War: Origins game, and Lone Echo.

Comic Books/Books

Bill and Ted are DOOMED
A sequel/prequel comic is coming to a shop near you. Written by Evan Dorkin and Ed Solomon, one of the movie's writers, for Dark Horse Comics. The story will be a 4 book arc, and will serve as a link from the second movie to the third. Sept 9

Florida Man
Mike Baron has a new IndiGogo for his new book, and it looks pretty hilarious.

Rumor Mill

Feige Star Wars
Chris Hemsworth is the most recent MCU star to be rumored to be connected to Feige’s Star Wars movie.

Rian Johnson Star Wars
Rumored to be STILL in the works. Johnson himself assured us all along, but there have been multiple rumors to the contrary, now there are rumors to backup Johnson.

Deadpool
The next time we will see the Merc With the Mouth is in Spider-Man 5 and 6…
As for the actual Deadpool 3 movie, there is another rumor surfacing that Feige is looking to employ Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to pen the script.
Perhaps to keep Ryan Reynolds on the hook, Disney is ALSO rumored to be planning 3 MORE Deadpool movies.

S.W.O.R.D
Rumors are now talking about the heroes that S.W.O.R.D will be partnering with. The first on the list is Spider-Man, if the rumors are true.

Alpha Flight
Rumors based on rumors. Now there is a rumor that the Hulk VS Wolverine movie will debut Alpha Flight. Then the team will get their own series on Disney+

Dr Doom
Rumor has it that Lucia von Bardas, who succeeded Victor as head of State in Latveria in the comics, will be introduced before Doom in the MCU.

MARVEL vs DC
The Rock getting an ORIGINAL character in the MCU.
WB courting Brie Larson with options for “many roles,” Lady Blackhawk, Zatanna, Hawkwoman and Big Barda
Tom Holland being eyed to play Tim Drake

Flashpoint
The Thomas Wayne Batman is rumored to be a lock for the movie. Now, there are also rumors saying that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is in early negotiations to play the role.