This past weekend was a packed one for genre fans, what with the latest episode of HBO’s The Last of Us premiering and new trailers for the likes of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Paramount’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, and DC’s The Flash. And on the topic of that last movie, Brie Larson fans are waging a needless battle against the Scarlet Speedster’s movie for apparently impinging on their heroine’s copyright. But first, Pedro Pascal gets something off his beskar-plated chest…
Pedro Pascal might look super-cool in Din Djarin’s Mandalorian armor, but he sure doesn’t feel it
Hot on the heels of fans finally working out the surefire way to tell whether it’s Pascal or his body double under Din Djarin’s helmet in any scene, the Last of Us icon has come clean about his real feelings on embodying the galaxy’s most beloved bounty hunter (sorry, Boba Fett, you’ve been usurped). Pascal had some colorful words to describe the trials and tribulations of trying to do his job while being encumbered by all the Mandalorian menswear he has to don to become Grogu’s Space Dad. So when you’re watching Djarin kicking ass in Mandalorian season three, spare a thought for poor Pedro.
Blinkered Brie Larson lovers hit back at The Flash over accusations Supergirl is ‘ripping off’ Captain Marvel
Michael Keaton’s Batman might be the most headline-grabbing element of The Flash trailer, but fans are also overjoyed at our first glimpse of Sasha Calle as the DCU’s Supergirl (well, at least for now). Brie Larson’s loyal followers, though, seem to have taken it upon themselves to launch an attack on the movie for allegedly ripping off Captain Marvel through the Girl of Steel, with these spirited but unfortunately misinformed fans not realizing that the fact Carol and Kara Danvers share a surname is just one of those funny comic book coinky-dinks that have occurred over the decades.
DC’s latest movie tips its helmet to one of the most prophetic Easter eggs in movie history
Last but not least, The Flash trailer also deserves plaudits for referencing one of the coolest Easter eggs in movie history with the perfect callback that’s been over 15 years in the making. Film buffs may be aware that 2008’s I Am Legend featured a poster for a fictional Batman v Superman flick, many years before such a project became a real thing. Thanks to Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen being confirmed as a fan of the Will Smith thriller, the whole thing has come full circle. Although, wait, this now means that Batman and Superman are fictional in movies set in the DCU, but real in the real DCU? Let’s just chalk that up to Barry breaking the timeline…
Joker‘s treatment of its crew-members might be the real joke, but we’re not clowning around when we promise more sci-fi updates will follow shortly.