CW’s Green Arrow And The Canaries Spinoff Is Officially Dead
Arrow kicked off the CW’s sprawling universe of superheroes, but bow-wielding vigilantes will not carry the torch forward. The network has decided not to move forward with its Green Arrow and the Canaries spinoff, according to reports from Deadline and Variety.
Throughout Arrow’s seventh and eighth seasons, actress Katherine McNamara starred as Mia Smoak, the future daughter of characters Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak. Her character began life in a version of Star City set in 2040, but the run up to the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover brought her into the modern day, where she met and worked with her father before the Crisis event ultimately took his life and brought the Arrow series to an end in its eighth season.
Before the show ended, though, the CW gave us a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff titled Green Arrow & The Canaries. The episode was set back in 2040, and featured McNamara as Mia Smoak, and brought over Katie Kassidy’s Laurel Lance and Juliana Harkavy’s Dinah Drake, two of the Canary heroes who appeared throughout Arrow’s run.
Marvel’s Moon Knight Grabs Two New Directors For Disney+
Disney+ will premiere its first Marvel Cinematic Universe show, WandaVision, on January 15, but it will be far from the last. The studio has a long roster of upcoming projects waiting in the wings, well into the future. One such project is the mysterious Moon Knight, which will star Oscar Isaac as the titular hero–a cult favorite C-lister who suffers from identity disorders that give him a laundry list of alter egos.
It was previously announced that the project would be helmed by Mohamed Diab (Crash) and Jeremy Slater (Umbrella Academy), but two new names have joined the team to direct episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Indie auteurs Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who wrote and directed sci-fi mind-benders like The Endless, Spring, and the upcoming Synchronic, will be lending their skills to several episodes.
Bob’s Burgers Character Designer Dies After Skydiving Accident
Dave Creek, who served as lead character designer on the Fox animated series Bob’s Burgers since it premiered in 2011, has died at 42 years old. The news was first reported by Cartoon Brew, which revealed the artist passed Thursday from injuries sustained during a skydiving accident over the weekend.
A statement from Fox, 20th Television, and Bento Box Entertainment, reads, “We are heartbroken at the tragic passing of Dave Creek, an extraordinary artist who had been with Bob’s Burgers from day one. He was not just an incredible talent but a beautiful person as well, and our hearts go out to his family, friends and all his colleagues at the show who loved him and are grieving today.”
In loving memory of Dave Creek. pic.twitter.com/8HDShtU17I
— Bob’s Burgers (@BobsBurgersFOX) January 8, 2021
According to Variety, Creek was a skydiving enthusiast and a quick glance at his Instagram account will see a number of dives he’s taken over the years, along with images of personal art projects, which included miniature tree houses attached to bonsai trees.
Kim Jong-un pledges to expand North Korea’s nuclear arsenal
Kim Jong-un calls the US his “biggest enemy” while plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.
Trump riots: Democrats plan to introduce article of impeachment
The charge of “incitement of insurrection” is set to be tabled on Monday after riots at the Capitol.
Twitter permanently suspends Trump’s account
The social media giant bans the US president “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”.
Google suspends ‘free speech’ app Parler
Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.
Trump Tries And Fails To Tweet From The POTUS Account
The president’s tweets from the official presidential account quickly disappeared, indicating Twitter deleted them.
Geoff Johns Still On At Warner Media, Despite Claims By Justice League’s Ray Fisher
Actor Ray Fisher, known for his role as Cyborg in the 2017 Justice League film and in the upcoming HBO Max miniseries, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, has been at odds with WarnerMedia for over a year following his experience while filming Justice League with replacement director Joss Whedon. Fisher claimed on Thursday in a Twitter thread that longtime DC mastermind and WarnerMedia executive Geoff Johns would be leaving as part of recently-announced “remedial action.”
Fisher has lobbed accusations at WarnerMedia itself, director Joss Whedon, executives Geoff Johns, Jon Berg, and most recently, DC Films president Walter Hamada. Just before the new year, Fisher called Hamada “the most dangerous kind of enabler,” and suggested that Hamada attempted to undermine the investigation into Fisher’s Justice League accusations. Fisher ended the tweet saying that he would “not participate in any production associated with [Hamada].’
Walter Hamada is the most dangerous kind of enabler.
His lies, and WB PR’s failed Sept 4th hit-piece, sought to undermine the very real issues of the Justice League investigation.
I will not participate in any production associated with him.
A>Ehttps://t.co/07OJ74PJra— Ray Fisher (@ray8fisher) December 30, 2020
The latest accusations come in the wake of a now-edited article from TheWrap, which stated that the cameo for Fisher’s character, Cyborg, was to be cut from the script of the long-gestating Flash film, and that the character would not be recast. In the piece, TheWrap characterized Fisher as having resigned from the role. Fisher took issue with the description of the situation.