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New Justice League Coming to Cartoon Network; Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill Reprising Roles

As had been teased a few months back, Cartoon Network today announced that the Justice League is returning to the airwaves for an ongoing series Called Justice League Action. As if that wasn’t enough, the iconic voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy — who pioneered the role in Batman: The Animated Series — is back to do it again.

JLA, long a GrizzlyBomb and general fan favorite (here are some of our  best picks from the last ongoing Justice League Animated series), there is one key difference known about this new show. Rather than the traditional 30-minute block, Justice League Action is going to be aired in the quarter-hour format that’s proven successful with many CN shows, such as Adventure Time and Regular Show.

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The Force Awakens: Spoiler Full Review

Now that Star Wars The Force Awakens has been in theaters for a couple of weeks, it’s time to delve into the film fully and discuss everything that happened. While on the surface, the movie is solid and a lot of fun, for those of us die-hard fans there’s quite a bit to take in. So, without further ado here’s a SPOILER FULL look at The Force Awakens. If you haven’t seen the movie stop reading, go see the movie, then come back.

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New Star Wars International Trailer Gives Sneak Peek at the Empires Power

Winter can’t get here fast enough for fans of the epic Star Wars saga. It will be a happy holiday indeed for all when Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Episode VII) premieres on December 18, but until then check out this new footage from the movie’s first international spot.

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Mark Hamill To Return As The Joker In Batman: The Killing Joke Animated Film

Veteran actor Mark Hamill will be lending his trademark vocals to Batman’s arch-nemesis for the animated adaptation of The Killing Joke, one of the most revered Batman stories of all time.

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Explosive Star Wars News – Hamill and Ford in Talks for the New Movies

After the recent news about the possible Star Wars spin offs in the works from Disney (see here for more details ), we now have even more news on the subject. Total Film shared some incredible news for Star Wars fans world-wide. The first was a piece of news from scooper El Mayimbe (writer for Latino Review) who announced on Fox News that Harrison Ford was returning as Han Solo and that it was a “done deal”.

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This is shocking news, especially as Harrison was famously quoted as wanting to kill of his character in Empire Strikes Back. Maybe Fords return to the Sci-Fi genre with Cowboys and Aliens got him excited about the Star Wars universe once more, or maybe he was of a mind-set “If you want something doing right, you have to do it yourself”. He could also just be in it for the money. Before too much speculation could take place however, more news was released (again from Total Film), with an Entertainment Tonight interview with Mark Hamill. Hamill had a slightly different story to tell. Though George Lucas had been in talks with him about role reprises, nothing had been signed at this time.

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Hamill said in his interview…

[quote]“They’re talking to us. George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we’d be interested. He did say that if we didn’t want to do it, they wouldn’t cast another actor in our parts – they would write us out. … I can tell you right away that we haven’t signed any contracts. We’re in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm. Both have had meetings set that were postponed – on their end, not mine. They’re more busy than I am.”[/quote]

This shows a certain level of respect for the original actors. The fact George Lucas has spoken to Mark Hamill about what could happen in the new franchise would indicate that he really wants the original cast back to play their parts. The fact that they would write the characters out of the timeline, if no one was interested in reprising their roles again also shows a certain level of respect, but this time for the fans (as well as the actors) who are going to have trouble seeing these beloved characters played by different actors, especially when all the original cast are still alive.

[quote] “And another thing I’d want to make sure of is are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie [Fisher] and Harrison [Ford] and Billy Dee [Williams] and Tony Daniels, everybody that’s around from the original [returning]? I want to make sure that everybody’s on board here, rather than just one.”[/quote]

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This is also great news, with Hamill wanting all the crew on board we would have continuity throughout the series of movies. This is exactly what the fans want to see, the old chemistry of our favorite Jedi’s and smugglers all in the same movie. It is great news that Hamill knows what the fans want, and the fact he to only wants to work with his fellow Star Wars cast members. Hamill pleased the fans even more by saying he favored practical effects over CGI, something that worked against Episode 1-3.

[quote] “I’m assuming, because I haven’t talked to the writers, that these movies would be about our offspring – like my character would be sort of in the Obi-Wan range [as] an influential character.”[/quote]

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A lot of the stories told after Episode 6 do focus on Luke Skywalker taking a more Obi-Wan role in the universe and a lot of the other stories focus on Leia and Hans children who are also gifted with the force. This would open up a great wealth of story possibilities as well as the fun fact we would be seeing how these characters have evolved since Episode 6. Though it is not clear if Harrison has signed or not, it is looking incredibly likely that we may see a return of the old cast, possibly with a married Han and Leia fighting over who is going to take the kids to Jedi training, while a white-haired Chewbacca plays chess with C3P0.

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Joker Hints at ‘Arkham World’ as the New Bat Game?

If you have any self-respect at all, as a gamer or a general human being, you didn’t watch the Spike Video Game Awards (I have none of that, so I witnessed it all go down). The show is an infantile, 2-hour extravaganza of middle fingers to all of us who love games, and we put ourselves through the shame every year just so we can get a first look at some exclusive reveals and trailers. Essentially it’s one big commercial that insults its target market. For two hours. And we subject ourselves to it. “You want to see Mass Effect 3? Do you?! Fine, but first we’re going to make you watch us shove a man’s balls in a game dev’s mouth during his acceptance speech.

Despite the insulting pandering, the awful jokes and worthless pseudo-celebrity appearances, the nominations and winners were pretty on point – if you managed not to blink and catch any of them. I barely noticed during the show because Zachary Levi was on screen making FarmVille jokes (LOL he referenced a thing that exists! That’s what comedy is!), but Batman: Arkham City deservedly won a handful of awards.

One them was Character of the Year for Mark Hamill’s Joker, and while The Joker wasn’t particularly better than ever before, dammit Hamill deserves some kind of recognition for being the best Joker, and one of the best villains of all time. Okay, deep breath, enough ranting, here’s the point: Rocksteady put together a virtual acceptance speech from Mr. J, and in it he holds up and references a script for “Batman: Arkham World.”


Here’s the video:

Sites like Comic Book Resources and IGN have begun speculating whether there’s any truth to it, but the whole thing is kind of ridiculous to me. Rocksteady would have to be insane not to make a third Batman game, I think it’s expected that there will be another. The games industry is one driven by sequels. I mean, ask yourself – when was the last time a successful franchise stopped at number 2?

There’s nothing else in The Joker’s quip to talk about unless it’s the title that has people riled up, and I can guarantee you we won’t see Batman fighting crime across an entire Arkham planet. That would be crazy. Let’s all calm down for a minute and focus on this:

Mark Hamill and fellow Arkham City voice actor Tara Strong (Harley Quinn), took to Twitter after the VGAs to voice their disapproval of the award show’s handling of their nominations. From Kotaku:

Strong slammed Spike on Twitter for putting her and Hamill in the bleacher seats and for announcing the Voice Acting winners in passing, with no presentation and no mention of the nominees: “if you weren’t going 2 announce the nominees, y have us come 2 the show? VO may not matter 2 u, but it sure does to us.

I completely agree with Strong and Hamill. The VGAs don’t even try to hide the fact that they don’t care about the industry talent, the content, or the fans. It’s pretty disgusting and I’m not at all surprised.