10 Things To Get Excited About In Genre Movies and TV (2017-2018)

Welcome! This is something new we’re trying out, an occasional compendium of things we’re seeing in the news regarding genre productions in both movies and tv that don’t grab the headlines but seem worth getting excited about. This is stuff that’s still on the horizon but seems worth talking about a little. Get it? Here we go.

The Inhumans (TV Series)
One of the things that caught my eye this week in genre news is the upcoming live action Inhumans series coming to tv. Unlike the examples we have seen on Marvels Agents Of Shield this series focuses on the classic comic book characters originally brought to us through the artwork of Jack Kirby. It involves the royal family of the mutant society led by the silent Black Bolt along with the other classic characters we’re familiar with. I am very curious to see how this series plays out and the look it will have on tv.

Premise: After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where their surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them may prove to not only save them, but Earth itself, and yes Lockjaw will appear in the show!

Casting for the series is complete and production of the series is underway in Hawaii. An official teaser poster for the series has been released. Here it is: (the article continues below) and here’s a first look at the cast.

Star Trek Discovery
The first new Star Trek series to happen in many years the new series has experienced several setbacks since its original premiere date of January 2017, I have taken this as a good sign that every effort to get it right has led to delays. One interesting item I read regarding the series is the fact that for the first time robots will be featured as part of a Trek series.

A lot of fans have expressed concerns about the tradition of diversity being a part of the new series. While he won’t be involved in the day-to-day creation of this new launch, Fuller will have some say as “Star Trek: Discovery’s” executive producer. His response to inquiries about this Fuller fan concern indicates there’s no reason for concern. As he’d publicly promised a female captain on the new series, some worried his stepping away could hurt the likelihood of inclusive casting aboard the titular ship. But Fuller was quick to assure us that “Star Trek” would continue to be a franchise that celebrated diversity, citing some groundbreaking examples from the upcoming show.

His response was “I was very excited to cast Michelle Yeoh before I left. I was pushing very hard for Sonequa Martin-Green to be cast before I left. So I feel like there’s a lot of wonderful diversity represented in the show, and I’m excited to see how it turns out.”

Best-known for her stunning performance in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” Yeoh will portray Captain Georgiou, Starfleet Captain aboard the Starship Shenzhou. “Harry Potter” baddie Jason Isaacs will star as Captain Lorca, of the USS Discovery. Joining them will be “The Walking Dead’s” Sonequa Martin-Green, “Penny Dreadful’s” Shazad Latif, “30 Rock’s” Maulik Pancholy, “Battlestar Galactica’s” Rekha Sharma, “Longmire’s” Mary Wiseman, “The Office’s” Rain Wilson, and famed creature-feature performer Doug Jones, who’s appeared in films like “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “Hellboy,” “Crimson Peak,” and “Hocus Pocus.”

Set a decade before the events of the original series, “Star Trek: Discovery’s” 13-episode first season is expected to premiere in late summer or early fall on CBS before moving to the network’s streaming platform CBS All Access. “Star Trek: Discovery” will be available on Space in Canada and on Netflix in the rest of the world.

Edge Of Tomorrow 2
It’s been reported a sequel to the hugely popular Edge of Tomorrow is in the works and has even been given a working title. The sequel will see the return of Blunt, Cruise and Doug Liman.

Those who actually saw Edge of Tomorrow in theaters have been clamoring for a sequel since June 2014, while those who caught up with the sorely underrated sci-fi thriller on home video/cable have been eager to see a follow-up for slightly less time. Regardless, anyone who saw Edge of Tomorrow knows that stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, director Doug Liman, and screenwriter Christopher McQuarriehit upon something unique and thrilling with that entertaining-as-all-get-out film, and should that creative team decide to reunite for Edge Of Tomorrow 2, it would be a sight to behold. Cruise reportedly hit upon a solid idea for the sequel that has Blunt, McQuarrie, and Liman excited about a follow-up, and while the film doesn’t exactly have a timetable or a release date, we do now have a title.

Liman has ben quoted as saying: “We have an amazing story! It’s incredible! Way better than the first film, and I obviously loved the first film. It will be called Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Tom [Cruise] is excited about it, and Emily Blunt is excited about it. The big question is just when we’ll do it. But it’s not and if, it’s a when.”

Isle of Dogs is another item of interest, Its coming next year. The poster speaks for itself.

Teen Titans
The long-gestating live action Teen Titans TV series is finally coming to tv, but just what does that mean? The live-action Teen Titans are finally coming to television (sorta) by way of a new digital streaming service from DC. As anyone who follows the Titans knows, though, they’ve got a pretty fluid roster of heroes that changes constantly. Today’s news has us wondering: which Titans are we going to see?

Here’s what we know so far: the series is being executive produced by DC CW producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter—a fact that may very well affect the casting of the show as it moves into production. It’s unclear if and how the new Titans series will interconnect with the DC elements of the CW, but if it does, it would mean that a number of younger heroes like The Flash’s Kid Flash and Arrow’s Speedy could make plausible moves to the new team.

On the other hand, though, if Titans were its entirely own thing like Gotham, the show would be freer to have its own, new version of young heroes that have already appeared on-screen—which in turn would give it more freedom to tell its own stories. There’s a real benefit in giving it its own continuity that isn’t beholden to the CW properties.

 Whatever path they choose, thanks to a presser from DC, we know that Dick Grayson, Starfire, and Raven will be active members. We also have more than a sneaking suspicion that Beast Boy is also a lock.

DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television — the producers behind small-screen superhero favorites like The CW’s Flash, Arrow, and Supergirl — are launching their own digital streaming service in 2018, designed to be a shot of pure DC Comics goodness that will be delivered directly to fans.  As far as the new DC exclusive streaming service goes details are still sketchy at this point except that it will provide a platform for DC only productions. we have no other details such as if it will cost you or how much if it does. and nothing like a logo for the service has made an appearance yet.

Unbreakable 2 – Glass
M. Night Shyamalan has announced he is making a sequel to his film Unbreakable. The writer-director confirmed the news via his social media account on Wednesday (26 April) revealing the project he’s been working on titled Glass is a follow-up to his 2000 drama.

Both Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson will both reprise their roles with the film scheduled to be released 18th of January, 2019.

Glass won’t merely be an Unbreakable sequel. It will continue the story of Split, the James McAvoy horror thriller which was revealed to share a universe with The film in a brief post-credits scene featuring Willis as character David Dunn.

McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy will both return for Glass.

The Gifted
Fox’s X-Men output seems to be on a roll lately. Despite the misstep with X-Men: Apocalypse, the studio has had its hand in some major successes with Deadpool, Logan, and their first television offering Legion.

They hope to continue that magic with their new show X-Men: Gifted, starting with a pilot directed by franchise mainstay Bryan Singer.

Longtime genre queen Amy Acker will be featured alongside Stephen Moyer of True Blood fame, playing the parents of a mutant whose abilities recently manifested, forcing the family to go on the run from government forces.

Jamie Chung will also star as Blink, Emma Dumont as Polaris, and Blair Redford as Thunderbird, rounding out the cast with some familiar X-Men characters.

The show will hopefully air on Fox, but we likely won’t find out if it’s picked up for a full season order for some time.

Gifted is currently in production and was developed by Matt Nix, who wrote the pilot episode. X-Men movie veteran Bryan Singer will direct. Nix and Singer, along with Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jim Chory, and Jeph Loeb will all serve as executive producers. The pilot stars Redford, Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Jamie Chung, Sean Teale, Natalie Alyn Lind, Emma Dumont, Percy Hynes White, and Coby Bell.

Dark Matter
I am so psyched for this! We are on the verge of the third season premiere of the wildly popular outer space adventure series. The series returns in about a month. If you recall the season two finale left our gang of borderline criminal misfits in quite a fix with all of them, with he exception of Ann (my name for the Android), onboard a space station under attack and literally being demolished around them.