Author: Allen D. Lyons

Author of 'Hostage 100' and 'Full Steam Ahead.'

What if Perry White decided to pass over Lois Lane and Clark Kent, and give his biggest scoop to Jimmy Olsen? That scoop being that one of Flash’s Boom Tubes have been found. Olsen gets in the Tube, and travels over to the Marvel Universe. While there, he takes on Galactus. That’s exactly how I feel. The other day, ScreenGeek was tipped from an anonymous source close to the situation that Marvel Studios was considering having Vincent D’Onofrio reprise his role from the Netflix series, Daredevil, in next year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming. What do you know, that report found its way…

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As we wait anxiously for Suicide Squad, and hope it gets a better turnout than Batman v Superman, there’s a few lucky ducks who got to see it early — three months early. Comicbook.com collected Tweets from those ducks, who watched the next installment of the DCEU at Century 25 Theater in Union City, California. Spoiler-free, this is what they had to say: https://twitter.com/nikongmer/status/733671396870520832 https://twitter.com/StarkillerUltra/status/733536698416566273 https://twitter.com/GleekMoonwalker/status/733521412149805060 https://twitter.com/DougieLue/status/733561777603022848 https://twitter.com/AllRealLex/status/733673894893092864 @GleekMonnwalker went on to give praise to Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn: https://twitter.com/GleekMoonwalker/status/733520945898381312 @nikongmer further eased our apprehensions about Jared Leto’s stab at The Joker: https://twitter.com/nikongmer/status/733675627446853632 @GleekMoonwalker also gave a thumbs up…

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Aw, man, I was so bummed when Michael Keaton dropped out of Spider-Man: Homecoming. When he was in talks to play a villain in the picture, my mind immediately went to the different ones he could be. Most signs pointed to Vulture. But I didn’t like that. Then I heard another rumor that he might be Norman Osborne. That one I did like. Though, when the news broke of his departure, all hope was lost. Today, I’m happy again. According to The Hollywood Report: “Michael Keaton is back in the spider’s web. After initial talks stalled out, Keaton…

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Tom Cavanagh, who plays Harrison Wells on The Flash (and who also played JD’s brother on Scrubs, I might add), sat down with Puck Soup podcast on The Nerdist for an interview. In the interview he spoke at great lengths about his cast mate, Grant Gustin. “It was either Variety or Vanity Fair that wrote an article that said [DC] needs to watch what they’re doing on TV, because the TV’s working and some of the other darker stuff isn’t working.” He added: “Here’s what I’ll say about him not being The Flash. The first thing is that…

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Recently, Agents of SHIELD actress, Chloe Bennet expressed her frustrations on Marvel Studios not following through with their Cinematic Universe thing. While the movies all give each other high-fives, and swap characters, and what not, they seem to ignore their TV shows entirely. Hell, even the shows acknowledge the movies. But it seems like a one-way street. Well, it looks like Marvel may have listened to their television star, and is starting to buck up. According to a source close to the situation: “Marvel Studios is considering having Vincent D’Onofrio reprise his Wilson Fisk role from Daredevil in Spider-Man: Homecoming.” The…

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What do you do when you make it to the NBA Eastern Conference Finals? Some players may prepare themselves by studying the enemy. However, when that enemy is a team you used to play for, you may know them more than they know themselves. ESPN analyst, Dave McMenamin, tweeted about how LeBron James spent his night preparing for the conference: https://twitter.com/mcten/status/730808364934930432 James, who now plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers, will go up against the Toronto Raptors – but we at ScreenGeek are more interested in that movie marathon with his kids. Dirk Libbey at CinemaBlend was also interested…

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It seems as though there are certain channels that comic book shows find success on. For DC, it seems to be CW. Smallville ran for ten seasons on the network, starting way back when it was called the WB. Now, a new generation has come along in the form of Arrow. From there, it has churned out The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. Vixen is on CW’s sister station, in the form of an app, called CW Seed. Now, DC’s other shows, whom are not getting their nutrients from their home network, are migrating over to mother CW. Constantine was…

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This is what Green Arrow looks like in the comics: The first time he appeared in live-action, this is what he looked like: While Justin Hartley played a pretty close portrayal to his source material, people didn’t start paying attention until this happened: While there were those who complained that he was basically Batman with a hood, Arrow received enough success, that it produced a spin-off. And then a spin-off was created from that spin-off. Who is this Green Arrow, anyway, that people say Stephen Amell’s portrayal is far from? The DC Comics Encyclopedia says, “While on a South Sea…

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“We’d been on that journey from Winter Soldier through Civil War, and it may have even been some story points in Civil War that may have caused the civil war within Marvel,” said Anthony Russo, one-half of the directing duo of Captain America: Civil War, when he and his brother, Joe sat down with KCRW “So without getting into too much detail, I think that there were years where Kevin was absorbing a lot of the pain inflicted on the company…..I think there are some misconceptions in the marketplace about who Kevin is, because he was representing everybody in the…

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A key ingredient to our favorite movie franchises is the faces that supplement our memories. What would Back to the Future look like if Eric Stoltz played Marty? String Theory tells us that multiple timelines are created by minor choices. If Micheal J. Fox didn’t teach you that, Ashton Kutcher surely did. And if not them, then James Franco definitely will in an adaptation of Stephen King’s 11/22/63. As I watch my favorite movies over and over again, I begin to think what they have been like if things went as planned. Sometimes, in the case of Colonel James Rhodes, aka War Machine/Iron…

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