The Flash: Is the Thinker Season 4’s Main Villain?
While most of the chatter surrounding The Flash's Season 3 finale surrounds the shocking, status quo-altering ending, that wasn't the only big development to be found in that episode. Savitar may have given fans a major clue as to which DC villain will be headlining the upcoming fourth season. And as promised, this villain won't be another evil speedster, but rather a shadowy criminal mastermind known as The Thinker.
Full spoilers for The Flash continue below.
"Finish Line" is actually the second episode this season where one of Barry Allen's time-traveling enemies has referenced a character named DeVoe. Earlier, Abra Kadabra spoke of DeVoe in the same breath as Reverse-Flash and Zoom, implying that this villain is in their league in terms of power and overall threat level. And in "Finish Line," Savitar reminisced about building a machine to stop DeVoe's telekinetic powers before reminding himself that Team Flash circa-2017 has yet to encounter this enemy. It would seem the writers are laying the seeds for their next major villain much in the same way Arrow set the stage for Damien Darhk in late Season 3. Here's where we think the show might be headed with DeVoe as its main antagonist in Season 4.
The Last of Us Part II – Road to E3 2017
It's that time of year again: E3 2017 is just on the horizon. From June 10-15, we'll be covering the biggest games and hardware announcements of 2017 and beyond. While you can check out our continually-updated Games of E3 List, we're now going to start diving deeper.
Every day leading up to the show, we'll be highlight the stuff we want to see and play at E3 2017. Today's game: The Last of Us Part II.
The first and only official showing was at last year’s PlayStation Experience when the game was announced.
Rosario Dawson in Talks to Star in New Mutants
The New Mutants cast continues to expand, with two new roles being filled in the upcoming X-Men spinoff film.
IGN can confirm Rosario Dawson, who stars as Claire Temple in Marvel's Netflix series, including Daredevil, Luke Cage, and The Defenders, is in talks to star as Dr. Cecilia Reyes in the Fox X-Men film. IGN can also confirm that Henry Zaga, who starred as Brad in Netflix's 13 Reasons Why, will star as the mutant Sunspot in the film.
Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple in Daredevil
Silver Sable and Black Cat Movie Finds Its Director
Gina Prince-Bythewood will direct Silver and Black, an upcoming film in Sony's Marvel Universe featuring the studio's host of Spider-Man characters.
IGN can confirm Prince-Bythewood, who directed the pilot for Freeform's Marvel's Cloak and Dagger TV series, is in negotiations to direct the film based on Silver Sable and Black Cat, and rewrite the script previously drafted by Thor: Ragnarok's Christopher Yost.
In addition to Cloak and Dagger, Prince-Bythewood has directed the films Beyond the Lights and The Secret Life of Bees. She will be the first woman of color to ever direct a Marvel film, and the first woman directing a Marvel-based film on her own (Captain Marvel is co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck).
Respawn Announces Free Titanfall 2 DLC
Respawn has detailed the offerings coming in its next Titanfall 2 DLC drop on May 30, 2017.
First up for grabs — and perhaps, importantly, up for free, too — is a new Titan, Monarch, a mid-range Vanguard class mech that can "upgrade itself on the battlefield through her unique Upgrade Core." Keep her ticking over long enough, and it'll eventually reach its "final form."
Monarch drops May 30, 2017
Beyond Good and Evil 2 Won’t Be at E3 2017
Beyond Good & Evil 2 won't be at E3 2017 but will likely appear sometime later this year, if recent comments from series creator Michel Ancel are any indication.
When asked on Instagram if footage of the game might be shown at E3, Ancel replied, "Mhhh, not sure that E3 would be the best place to showcase BG&E2 but we're working on the game so sometime this year, you should hear about it!"
IGN has reached out to Ubisoft for comment and will provide an update in the event we receive a response.
A new Beyond Good & Evil game has been in the works for quite some time. Word of the project resurfaced last year when Ancel posted several images of concept art. Shortly thereafter, he said the game entered pre-production, and Ubisoft followed that up with official confirmation that the title is in development at its Montpellier studio.
How Wonder Woman Is Like Donner’s Superman, Batman Begins
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Jensen, the cinematographer for Wonder Woman. Jensen, whose previous credits include Chronicle, Fantastic Four, Filth and episodes of Game of Thrones, True Blood and Ray Donovan, spoke in glowing terms of star Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins. He also described the film as something intended to be on par with Richard Donner's iconic Superman and Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.
He and I also discussed some nagging questions I, as a layperson, have always had about cinematography. And the subject of the Fantastic Four remake, which he also worked on, came up as well. Read on for our full chat...
Cinematographer Matthew Jensen (left) talks about the aspirations of Wonder Woman and what it was like making this ambitious superhero movie.
X-Men Spinoff The New Mutants Will Be a Horror Movie
The upcoming X-Men spinoff film The New Mutants won't be your typical comic book movie.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, The New Mutants director Josh Boone revealed the film will go in an unusual horror direction and be unlike anything in the X-Men movie franchise so far. "We are making a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe," Boone said. "There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different."
It appears a lot of inspiration for the film will come from artist Bill Sienkiewicz's work on The New Mutants comics that started from issue #18, which Boone described as a "surreal and impressionistic X-Men series" that feels "like Stephen King meets John Hughes."
T.J. Miller on Why Deadpool 2 Will Be Just as Funny as the Original
Comedian and actor T.J. Miller has been getting more in demand thanks to his role on HBO’s hit comedy Silicon Valley and last year’s Deadpool, in which he played bartender and Deadpool’s “buddy,” Weasel. He also voices an Emoji named Gene in the upcoming animated The Emoji Movie, which actually makes more sense once you’ve seen some of it (as we have).
We spoke with Miller about the Sony Pictures Animation movie earlier this week, and while talking about his work in the “animated space,” he also mentioned how he’s rewatching the original Deadpool to prepare to reprise his role as Weasel in the sequel, which he’ll start shooting in August and September.
During our interview, he also told us about one possible storyline for the sequel that will team him with a memorable character from the first movie. “I shoot two chunks, and I haven’t heard much about the plot, but there’s one storyline with Karan Soni, who plays the cab driver and was in Office Christmas Party with me," he said. "There’s a pretty funny plotline between him and Weasel, but I don’t know if it’s going to make it into the movie. Even some of the stuff that they’ve just brought up to me, because I haven’t read the script—I think they’re still working on it—it’s already making me laugh, so I’m excited, but it’s tough, man. That movie is a hard act to follow.”
Microsoft Streaming Service Renamed, New Features Added
Microsoft has rebranded its Beam streaming service as Mixer.
Promising that "the core experience remains unchanged", the update - which aims to boost social streaming and make it easier to match players and viewers without the "traditional 10-20 second latency commonly seen on other platforms" - also includes several community-requested features, including a "special edition Mixer 4K broadcast" for viewers wishing to watch Microsoft's upcoming E3 briefing via their 4K displays.
According to co-founder Matt Salsamendi, the Minecraft team has been "experimenting with the interactivity that Mixer offers", in the hope of allowing viewers to actively participate in streams. The idea is to add official game integration that allows stream viewers to change the in-game weather, or even to spawn zombies at will.