Sanderson Gets Another Streaming Deal, Betty Boop Race Swap, The Boys vs. Musk - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
Brandon Sanderson keeps getting movie deals. It’s going to only get bigger as it’s clear he’s taken the ticket like few in our lifetimes. Meanwhile, Hollywood keeps rolling along with everything it does in a rather light day today as far as news goes, but we did our best to find everything interesting for you!
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Geoff Johns Will Buy Back Unsold Copies of His New Comic, And It Reveals Everything About Ghost Machine’s Model
Geoff Johns announced this week that he will personally buy back any unsold copies of The Trillion Dollar Kid #1 from retailers who cannot move them. The offer applies to Ghost Machine’s new series, which Johns co-writes with Brad Meltzer, with art by Gene Ha. The announcement landed on Bleeding Cool today and is circulating through the direct market.
Hollywood Race-Swaps Betty Boop, And The Film Press Can’t Handle Criticism
Quinta Brunson will star as Betty Boop in a feature film developed through her Fifth Chance Productions and Fleischer Studios, per a Variety exclusive published yesterday. The film will trace the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer.
Fandom Pulse’s Curated Picks From the Summer 2026 Based Book Sale
The Based Book Sale is back. From now through Tuesday May 26, 2026, more than a hundred titles from independent and culturally conservative authors are available for $0.99 or free across science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, horror, and nonfiction. The catalog is enormous, and most readers will not have time to sift through every entry.
The Boys Finale Killed an Elon Musk Character, Elon Said “Pathetic,” and Kripke Called It the Best Review He’ll Ever Get
The Boys series finale aired Wednesday night, and Eric Kripke spent the week before release doing press interviews about how reality keeps catching up to his satire of Donald Trump. Then the finale aired, and reality caught up again, just not in the way Kripke intended.
Brandon Sanderson’s Hollywood Machine Keeps Growing With New Skyward Adaptation In Development
Tomorrow Studios, the production company behind Netflix’s One Piece, announced Wednesday it has optioned Brandon Sanderson’s Skyward novel series for television adaptation. Sanderson will write the pilot script alongside Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, the husband-and-wife team behind