Swamp Thing is getting a live-action series on DC Universe.
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Swamp Thing is getting a live-action series on DC Universe.
Huh. I was hoping for a movie, mostly because I don't have anywhere near enough time for all of the TV series these days.
Well, Fantastic Four and X-men are some pretty big exceptions, to be fair. And there is still Namor the Sub-Mariner (if they ever sort out the rights to him). Spider-Woman also has a bit of a leg up in name recognition from the old cartoons. And maybe She-Hulk, as well? (I'm really not sure one way or the other on her.) Blade definitely does, but it remains to be seen if the MCU is willing to go that dark (they shunted Punisher and Ghost Rider to tv, so...) And there's the legacy versions of Spider-man and Ms. Marvel (Miles Morales, Kamala Khan) who've been making a pretty huge splash since their debut in the comics.
Kevin Feige has stated that he has definite plans for Kamala Khan, but wanted to get Captain Marvel out there first so she could be a true Legacy character.
The Legion of Super-Heroes is still out there and deserves a big budget treatment, but considering they've already appeared on two live action series and a cartoon that might be a long shot. Perhaps a L.E.G.I.O.N. movie or Omega Men instead?
A Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle movie? The Outsiders. The New Super-Man? Plastic Man? We have also yet to see the Justice Society make an appearance. A Hawkman and Hawkwoman movie could be an unexpected hit for DC now that the Hawks have more or less been abandoned in the Berlantiverse.
A Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle movie? The Outsiders. The New Super-Man? Plastic Man? We have also yet to see the Justice Society make an appearance. A Hawkman and Hawkwoman movie could be an unexpected hit for DC now that the Hawks have more or less been abandoned in the Berlantiverse.
That is my number 1 hope for a movie, right there. I'm in a minority, though that would be disappointed if they went with the space cop version (though they could nicely tie that into Green Lantern) as I always preferred the Indiana Jones/Highlander concept.
I'd much rather have the space cop. I never much cared for the reincarnation angle, and we already got that in Legends.
I gather the latest revamp of Hawkman's origins in the comics is combining them both, saying that Katar Hol was one of Carter Hall's past lives.
I've read the first two issues and, yes, that is the direction DC is going in. Also, that Carter Hall has many other lives throughout the DC universe so that several established DC characters, such as Nighthawk, are now considered to have been incarnations of Hawkman. It is an interesting take but it will all depend on the execution. For me, I am still waiting for a real JSA series and it will be interesting to see how Hawkman fits into that series.
Geoff Johns confirmed that the JSA will feature on the Stargirl series.
Maybe they'll get a spin off like Doom Patrol from Titans.
The animated series did that too, I think. Had the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl/woman be a Pharaoh and his Queen who keep get reincarnated for centuries. Katar Hol was one of them and the latest was Carter Hall.
Which mean if they ever show Katar Hol we'll have to see how he died decades ago go get reborn as Carter.
A LoSH movie could be DC's answer to Guardians of the Galaxy. They tried to make Suicide Squad fill that slot, but the Legion is a much more natural fit.
Katar Hol has already been in the Rebirth universe and died in the miniseries "Death of Hawkman". Whatever explanation is given, it will have to explain why two Hawkman can exist simultaneously.
Well, they could use the origin given to the Kendra Hawkwoman: She was a human who committed suicide and in the instant her soul left her dying body Shiera's soul went into it and healed her.
Same deal, Katar Hol died at the same time Carter Hall was alive on Earth. Carter dies for whatever reason and instead of waiting for his reincarnation cycle, Katar's soul goes into Carter's dying body after Carter's soul leaves and heals it so he can take the body for himself.
Weird, but workable.
The current Hawkman series is explaining that. He reincarnates through out all of time and space. But not in linear order.
That's kind of clever. Timey-wimey transmigration. It adds a new twist to the mythos, it lets them link him to various different characters past and present, and it even resonates a bit with Hawkman's involvement with time travel in Legends of Tomorrow, though nobody really wants to remember the season he was in.
Reminds me of Cloud Atlas, how it seemed sometimes when a reincarnated character died in one of their lives even a past incarnation could "feel" it. As in, the souls existed in everytime and could "feel" or "tap into" something their later incarnations were doing even if it were decades or centuries later.
I've sometimes wondered, what if every human on earth is really the same soul constantly reincarnated in different people in random order throughout time?
I think you're smoking some goood shit, man. Pass it over.
No, sadly this eccentric philosophical stuff is my natural, chemically unaltered state.