BlackGeekdom Science-Fiction from a Different Perspective

Source: Superhero Hype

Idris Elba was cast as Heimdall, the Asgardian who stands guard on the BiFrost Bridge.  He joins Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Colm Feore, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellan Skarsgard, and Stuart Townsend.

I think this is great. Elba is one of the premiere black actors and doesn’t get nearly the pub that he should.  He would’ve been my pick for any numerous black superheroes, but this is a perfect role for him. Props to Marvel for making this move.

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Source: CBR

Here’s a few highlight from the interview with editor Axel Alonso and Scot Eaton.

Doom has turned the Marvel Universe upside down and played a part in making life miserable for any hero who tries to oppose the former Green Goblin’s Dark Reign. Recently, Doom launched a vicious sneak attack on King T’Challa, the former Black Panther and King of Wakanda. Doom’s attack nearly killed the monarch, and the injuries T’Challa sustained from it are why he’s no longer Black Panther or ruler of his country, both titles that now lie with his sister, Shuri.

In 2010, Doctor Doom will experience the consequences of picking a fight with T’Challa, because the former Black Panther has a plan. He’s a man with family and friends, like the Fantastic Four, and his wife, Storm, connects him to the X-Men as well. T’Challa also has the funds to pay for the skills of one of the most unpredictable and dangerous men in the Marvel Universe: Deadpool. All of these characters will collide in February when “DoomWar,” a five issue mini-series by writer Jonathan Maberry and artist Scot Eaton

How important and influential will “DoomWar” be to the future status quo of the Marvel U?

AA: Well, it’s an amped-up-like-you’ve-never-seen-him Dr. Doom and his full arsenal, which includes the full might of the Wakandan army, against the two Black Panthers, the X-Men, the FF and Deadpool, so this is kinda big. There will be some big status quo changes in the Marvel Universe, including one that will have a profound effect on the power balance in the Marvel Universe.

AA: It’s all kicks off in a double-sized first issue that ends with quite a punch. And it’s very new-reader friendly – if you haven’t been keeping up on “Black Panther” or Doom’s role in “Dark Reign,” it won’t matter. It’s a simple setup: A unconquered kingdom has fallen to a bloodless coup. Its former King (T’Challa) and current leader (Shuri) have fled; the current Queen has been captured and sentenced to death by the new regime. Behind this new regime is a nefarious figure with an agenda whose scope goes from beyond the nation’s borders (Doom). To save the Queen and recapture the kingdom, the renegade royals enlist the aid of the Queen’s family (the X-Men) as well as the ubervillain’s most dogged enemies (the FF). Its a war fought in three stages, and around the globe, with twists and turns and dirty tricks -i.e. Deadpool. And victory will require sacrifice.

You drew several “Black Panther” story arcs, including “Panther’s Bride,” where T’Challa and Storm got married. What’s it like returning to these characters, and what do you want your art to say about the new Black Panther, Shuri? What type of character do you see her as?

When I worked on the book in the past, Shuri was just the kid sister. A little spoiled, and showing some of the attributes that almost kept her from becoming the Black Panther when Wakanda need her most. Now I see her as a young woman with a lot to live up to and trying to keep from being too prideful, because even with the pressure, this is what she’s always wanted. And she’s stepped out of T’Challa’s shadow now, so I’ll try to keep that in mind when I approach the art.

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Source: EW

Smallville’s coolness quotient just soared to new heights.

Blaxploitation icon-turned-L-Wordstaple Pam Grier is joining the cast for multiple episodes, sources confirm to me exclusively.

Grier has been booked to playDC Comics villainess Agent Amanda Waller. Never heard of her? This should bring you up to speed.

The Golden Globe nominated actress (for Jackie Brown) will make her debut in the second hour of the upcoming Justice Society-centric two-parter, “Legends,” scheduled to air in late January.

Pretty cool, huh?

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Source: The Source

What is MILESTONE FOREVER, you ask? Well, we can take a guess, but why slow down the process? Since it’s part and parcel of what we do, being The Source and all, we talked to Milestone founder and MILESTONE FOREVER writer Dwayne McDuffie for the scoop on the new project, along with some essential back story to bring you newbies up to speed. Take it away, Dwayne:

16 years ago this month, industry giant DC Comics and upstart Milestone Media entered into an unprecedented creative partnership, producing 14 interlocking, creator-owned titles including Hardware, Icon, and the multimedia hit that would best be known as Static Shock. The story Milestone chose to tell was an audacious one, larger than life on its surface, character and story-driven at its base, Humanist and multicultural at its heart. For over 250 issues, fans explored a superhero universe like no other.

Today, nine Parents Choice awards, four Eisner Award nominations and one Emmy and Humanitas award-winning hit TV series later, Milestone is back, its continuity mysteriously merged with the DCU. While we saw the DC side of the story in “Justice League: When Worlds Collide,” Milestone Forever gathers the original artists from Milestone’s launch titles: John Paul Leon, Mark Bright, Chris Cross and Milestone Founder Denys Cowan, to complete the tales told in the original runs of STATIC SHOCK, ICON, HARDWARE, SHADOW CABINET and BLOOD SYNDICATE. Milestone Editor in Chief Dwayne McDuffie reveals the final fate of each of Milestone’s launch characters in a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe, and the birth of something new, with major consequences for the future of the DC Universe.

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Let me start by saying that I am a huge fan of “V”, “V: The Final Battle” and the “V” TV series.  However, I am not one of those fans who believed that the show should not be remade.  In preparation for the new series I watched the previous version just to remember how it was.  I have fond memories of watching it when I was younger and even role played with friends on the playground in elementary school.  I don’t think there was anyone I knew who wasn’t watching it.  I was more than excited when I first heard that ABC was going to do a re-imagining of the series.  One would think that with all that, the show was doomed for failure.  It isn’t.

The cast is excellent.  Morris Chestnut, Scott Wolf, Elisabeth Mitchell, Morena Baccarin, Joel Gretsch, and Alan Tudyk make up for a deep and talented cast.  Was I worried about the number of characters? No.  Nowadays, all new shows seem to follow the idea that a large cast of characters make for a wealth of stories.  The unique thing about “V” is that since its based on a fairly well known and beloved previous series, the writers aren’t going to skirt around the obvious.  The strength of this show is going to be its number of characters and the number of stories.  The 1983 miniseries and 1984 TV series had a lot of characters, but it never seemed like it was too many.  I don’t think that the premiere needed to be two hours.  In the one hour that we got, we got the arrival of the Visitors, the establishment of the Friends of the Visitors (I think they called them Friendship Ambassadors or something like that), the beginnings of the resistance, and the true nature of the Visitors.

The thing that I really liked was the notion that the Visitors have been here studying us and may have even had a hand in screwing up humanity in preparation for invasion.  Also, instead of the Fifth Column, there are Visitor sleeper agents (Morris Chestnut’s Ryan Nichols is one example) that are basically founding the resistance in an effort to save humanity.

It would have been better if I didn’t think the premiere was good because now my expectations are high.  I have more hope for this show than I did after the premiere for Flash Forward.

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Disney has released a trailer for the video game based movie The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time starring Jake Gyllenhaal.  It looks interesting, and the effects look impressive.  Definitely worth checking out.

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Random internet browsing turns up some interesting things. Like the fact that Glynn Turman was one on the short list of people to play Han Solo in “Star Wars” .  Yes that Glynn Turman from “Cooley High” and “A Different World”

Here’s  Turman in a 2007 interview.

Is it true that you were originally cast as Han Solo in Star Wars? That was in George Lucas’ book. Apparently George Lucas had me in mind for the role, and then thought that there might be too much controversy between a white Princess Leia and a black Han Solo – because those were the times – and he didn’t want to get into that. At the time, I had no idea. I just went to the audition, did it and got out of there. Years later, I read his book and said, “What?” I’m waiting to run into Harrison Ford and get my cut of his career.

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