Last Friday, EW revealed that Danny Rand aka Iron Fist (Finn Jones) will be part of the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage[1]. He appears with a new haircut alongside Cage (Mike Colter), but we don’t know more about his involvement than that. It’s likely that he’s behind Misty Knight’s (Simone Missick) new bionic arm, but this signals a bigger arc than previously imagined.
Later that day, news of a potential Fast and Furious[2] spin-off – starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham – became official with a report from THR[3]. Written by Chris Morgan, who has written nearly every chapter since Tokyo Drift, it has a release date of July 26, 2019, which has led to Fast and Furious 9 being pushed back to 2020.
Hulu released a trailer for Marvel’s Runaways[4] over the weekend, which pushes the cliched idea of teenagers uniting against their parents to a logical extreme: what if they were secretly all supervillains? The show is set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and arrives November 21.
The first trailer for Pacific Rim: Uprising[5], the sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 original, debuted at New York Comic Con over the weekend. Set a decade after the events of the first film, it follows John Boyega as a Jaeger pilot, and the son of Idris Elba’s character. The film has a release date of March 23, 2018.
On Monday, we got a new trailer[6] for Justice League, which further reveals the stakes faced by the quintet of Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg, with Superman still missing from action. There’s only a month left till release, with the DC blockbuster...