You Know His Name

Taking a cue from the powers that be behind Jason Bourne – who named their eagerly anticipated summer-2016 fourthquel after the beloved character we the audience dutifully have been following for close to two decades – here comes...Logan.

Got that right: The boy with claws is going out in style and claiming his given name in the upcoming Wolverine threequel, the first trailer for which arrived today.

The Wolverine’s James Mangold is back in the director’s chair, calling the shots and delivering what looks like – from the subdued preview of it all – as a total thematic and stylistic departure for the Hugh Jackman-led franchise and, indeed, the Xverse as a whole.

It is as if sensible auteurship has taken hold of the mutants at last. (Could this last?)

Based on an arc from Jackman’s career-defining character’s Old Man Logan comic-book story, Logan appears to promise a sort of taking of stock for the guy, with the action set in a barren world in which an older Wolverine finds himself pretty much alone thanks to his healing powers (his face has begun to catch up to his years thanks, perhaps, to what happened to him in his 2013 sequel?).

Patrick Stewart’s Professor X is still around, although barely: Mutants have all but vanished or gotten vanished, and the former leader of the X-Men turns to his old ally for help in protecting a mysterious young girl (newcomer Sienna Novikov) not all that dissimilar from from the gruff mutant.

Mmm....

Wanna know what that’s about? Then mark your calendars for March 3, which is exactly when Logan – co-starring Boyd Holbrook (Netflix’s Narcos) and Elizabeth Rodriguez (AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black) – is scheduled to begin bustin’ some blocks.

Photo: EW.com.

Mujer Wolverine

A Latina is headed the way of the boy with claws.

Elizabeth Rodriguez (AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black) has been cast opposite Hugh Jackman and Boyd Holbrook in a small, yet key role in the forthcoming Wolverine threequel.

Director James Mangold will be calling the shots once again, and the cast for the spring 2017 release also will feature fellow franchise newcomer Stephen Merchant (HBO’s Hello Ladies) and Patrick Stewart as Professor X.

Photo: Zimbio.com.

Clear and Present Fear

More fun news from Comic-Con!

Fear the Walking Dead, the Walking Dead companion series I wish were titled The L.A. Dead that’s coming this summer, looks good.

I am not in San Diego, so how the heck do do I know?

’Cause we have a trailer and a premiere date. Check out the preview now (the show starring Kim Dickens and Cliff Curtis, as you should know, is set in California, at the onset of the zombie apocalypse – so, y’ know...chaos):



Fear the Walking Dead will debut on Aug. 23.

Can’t wait!

Oh, and btw, Season 6 of The Walking Dead will hit the tube on Oct. 11, with an extra-special 90-minute episode.

And now you know. Get ready.

Running from the Dead

#ICYDK, Fear the Walking Dead is coming to AMC this summer.

And here is your first look at some of the action the show will serve up. Check it out:



That, btw, is Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince).

The young British actor plays the high school-aged son of either Kim Dickens or Cliff Curtis on the show. And it looks like he will be among the first in his family to meet the walkers. Or whatever they call ’em out in L.A., which is where the companion series will be set.

Update: Here’s another tease, this time featuring Kim Dickens starting to realize something is coming.

Dead Military Man

And The L.A. Dead Fear the Walking Dead keeps on comin’ together.

Shawn Hatosy (TNT’s Southland) will be joining Kim Dickens and Cliff Curtis on the AMC companion series to The Walking Dead.

The actor has landed a recurring role on the upcoming spin-off, that of a well-intentioned military man with too soulful a disposition for the new circumstances he’ll soon encounter as the zombie apocalypse takes hold.

Fear the Walking Dead is meant to premiere a six-ep freshman run some time this summer, if memory serves.

Photo: Zimbio.com.

The Fear Is Real

Fun news, kids: We have us a title for that companion series to AMC’s The Walking Dead. It’s gonna be...Fear the Walking Dead.

Urgh.

The L.A. Dead woulda been on brand and just cheesy enough with the location inclusion. Much better than this long-ass situation we are getting....

Anyway. Here’s the first tease for the show, which is premiering with six episodes, and which just may begin to explain how the walkers came to walk.

Photo: AMCTV.com.