Gunn DCU Canceled Shows, Wachowski Can't Find Funding, Shatner vs. Nerdrotic - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
Quite a day today with a lot going on. Do look at the details of the Terry Brooks fandom meltdown; it’s sad watching how conservatives are taken down. We’re going to get into some great collector’s editions so if you want to follow an author who doesn’t hate you, start in on my Von Monocle series here. It builds really nicely across the books and I’m working on a new one right now:
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James Gunn’s DCU Just Lost Two More Shows
James Gunn’s DC Universe is shrinking again. Waller and Paradise Lost, two of the ten projects Gunn unveiled back in 2023 as the foundation of his Chapter One slate, are both dead at HBO. Sources tell Fandom Pulse that executives at Warner Bros. and Paramount are watching the pattern closely, and they don’t like what they’re seeing.
Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won’t Fund His Trans-Cast Thriller
Lilly Wachowski, co-director of “The Matrix” trilogy, says Hollywood is freezing out his new film because every lead role is played by a transgender actor. Speaking on KCRW’s “The Business” podcast, Wachowski said financiers like the script for his $10 million thriller “The Hunted” but won’t back it because of its cast.
Dragonsteel Fixed The Wheel Of Time Leatherbound Cover, But Isn't Addressing The Interior Issues
Dragonsteel’s most recent video update on the Eye of the World leatherbound addressed exactly one problem: inconsistent debossing and foil work on the cover. Isaac Stewart and Sean Boyles walked through the heat and pressure adjustments, the switch in foil type, and side-by-side comparisons of old and new stamping. They made a reasonable case that the b…
The Full Truth About William Shatner’s X Account And Its Years-Old Feud With Nerdrotic
William Shatner’s X account renewed its standoff with YouTube creator Nerdrotic this week, insisting there was “ZERO misunderstanding” behind a block that has lasted more than four years. The exchange, screenshotted and shared by Nerdrotic himself, reopened a dispute that traces back to May 2021 and a joke about Wil Wheaton. However, pretending not to understand what’s going on to open up a controversy for clicks seems to be the onus of what’s going on here, since there’s not a lot of new information here, and as we’ve detailed, William Shatner himself isn’t even aware of what goes on on this account.
Terry Brooks’ Own Publisher Banned One of His Biggest Fans From the Terry Brooks Community, and Tried to Humiliate Him Doing It
Terry Brooks is one of modern fantasy’s foundational names, the author who kicked off the genre’s post-Tolkien commercial era with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and has sold more than 25 million books since. His premium editions and collector releases run through Grim Oak Press, a specialty publisher co-owned by Shawn Speakman and Jeff Lawson. Speakman also administers the Terry Brooks Community, the primary Facebook group for Brooks fandom and the closest thing the author has to an official gathering place for his readers.
“A Case of Chiaroscuro” Turns Star Trek Into Casablanca Cosplay, And The Costume Never Comes Alive
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds aired its fourth season, fourth episode, “A Case of Chiaroscuro,” on Paramount+ this week. The episode drops three of the show’s leads into a black-and-white world built on a scene-by-scene homage to the 1942 film Casablanca, and the results expose everything wrong with how this series handles emotional stakes.