I skipped a week, but the comments roundup is back! This one covers Sunday, November 1st through Saturday, November 7th.
425 of you posted 3,345 comments across 142 articles, and one team ran away with it!
Week four's roundup drew 35 comments, and Lucasberg made my day: "these weekly wrap-ups of the commentary on these forums are brilliant. Honestly promotes a sense of community here as dysfunctional as we all are lol..."
Thank you, Lucasberg!
BiffDitko went as Dr. Doom, Sorcerer Supreme for Halloween, with a custom Doom mask and a Dr. Strange hoodie, and had an idea for me: "Maybe next year set up a place for users to share there Geek related costumes?"
The weather had other plans: "It was unseasonably warm, so I quickly went from Sorcerer Supreme Doom to just Dr. Strange lol"
And I think BiffDitko is onto something with that suggestion! I know we've had articles like that in the past, and I think going forward it should become a new CBM tradition… I just need to figure out how to make it easier for all of you to share with us! It's a good thing I'm in the middle of a giant site revamp 🤓
The X-Men owned the week! Eight threads about casting and spin-off rumors for Marvel Studios' reboot pulled in 632 comments!
Deadline reported on Monday that The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping and Karate Kid: Legends actor Ben Wang is in talks to play Bobby Drake/Iceman (199 comments).
As of my writing this, Marvel has NOT confirmed.
On Tuesday, a scooper's rumor about his debut added another 108.
Bobby is white in the comics, so users had a LOT to say about it. blacksocksdaily surprised themselves, and 11 of you agreed: "I actually like Iceman being Asian? Didn't expect that"
UnderBelly's pushback landed 13 likes: "I really thought they'd give the Xmen the representation without the swap outs. If they wanted Asian mutants why not bring in jubilee or psylocke to name judt a couple... I still will be watching."
On the rumor story, asherman93 thinks the X-Men are the right place for an Asian Iceman: "...it'd be with the X-Men, given how often mutantkind served as an allegory for oppressed minorities..."
Wahhvacado (9 likes) just wants better ice: "I don't care about Bobby's race or sexuality. What I do care is that they make his powerset look much better than the past X-Men films"
Regardless of who's playing Bobby, I just hope they can make him "cool".
On Wednesday, Jeff Sneider's newsletter, The InSneider, reported that Emmy-winning The Bear star Jeremy Allen White has met with Marvel about an X-Men role (108 comments). Sneider later clarified, "I said he has met with Marvel to talk about the role. That's it."
Nobody has confirmed he's up for Wolverine, but that didn't slow anybody down!
Feralwookiee's reaction was the second most-liked comment on the whole site, with 21 likes: "He looks like the ... child of Gene Wilder and Barry Manilow."
TheWinkler (8 likes) likes him as an actor and is sticking with his own pick: "...I have about as hard of a time seeing him as Logan as I do with Daniel Radcliffe. My pick still is Danny Devito."
SummersEssex (5 likes) pushed back: "...what matters is a quality actor and this guy can act." Truebeliever333, who still prefers someone else, pointed to The Iron Claw: "He got huge for the Iron Claw, so he’d put in the work like Jackman did."
Wolverine is one of my all-time favorite characters. I hope that whoever they put in the role can get the gritty and ornery Logan that I love from the comics.
An unverified rumor from the account Cartier Films says Ryan Reynolds' team-up project could be Alpha Flight, either folded into Deadpool 4 or on its own, and could introduce a new Wolverine (58 comments). Neither Marvel nor Reynolds has commented. TREE24K wrote: "I would LOVE an Alpha Flight movie. Please start with James Hudson before Heather takes over the role."
Another rumor put Wolverine front and center in X-Men spin-offs on Thursday (46 comments).
RedFury was all in:"As a Canadian I think this is a fantastic idea! Not only because we'll get our first big screen Canadian superhero team, but Wolverine gets to stay as a main character without overshadowing the X-Men."
Over in the DCU, you're still divided on Clayface. Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock said on X that it's unlikely to turn a theatrical profit (149 comments). Bock allowed that it may get there after theaters, but "'Probably won’t lose money' is an awfully low standard for one of the world’s biggest IP brands."
Two days later, it crossed $90 million worldwide (44 comments).
vtopa (6 likes) thinks that's good enough: "Post theatrical release will definitely take this move into profitable, just not super profitable... The move did fine, especially for a $40 million price tag." Irregular wants more than that: "It's not about being a big money maker but it absolutely needs to be a money maker since DC is a billion dollar franchise..."
On Friday, Sneider was back with a Glen Powell rumor: Powell has been in talks with DC about "a big role that requires a major commitment/multiple options" (83 comments). DC hasn't said which role, so Nomis929 (18 likes) picked one: "He seems more suitable for BOOSTER GOLD than Batman!"
Even Mark, who wrote the story, jumped in (9 likes): "I don't rate Powell as an actor and always found him a bit smarmy. So I would not be on board 😂"
Deadline reported that a new John Constantine movie is in early development at DC Studios, with Evil Dead Wrath's Francis Galluppi writing the script (50 comments). Sneider thinks Constantine might be the role Powell was talking about. RolandD (5 likes) has one request: "English, blonde comic accurate John Constantine, please."
The most-liked comment ANYWHERE on CBM (leaving out shots at other readers and writers) goes to JobinJ, with 24 likes. On Josh's story about Henry Cavill's "Mustache Protocol" video, which pokes fun at the CGI lip from Justice League (44 comments), JobinJ wrote: "MoS is objectively better than Superman."
Cass got 14 likes for this: "He should have been the new Bond."
Speaking of Bond!
Showbiz411's Roger Friedman says the word on the street is that Callum Turner is the next 007 (86 comments). It's a RUMOR, and Amazon hasn't commented. Lisa89 isn't sold: "He’s got the edge of a teddybear." bcom likes the casting because "...he looks a lot like Ian Fleming's original sketch of Bond."
No No-Prize this week! Spot a mistake in an article or a comment, and it could be yours next time!
Who would YOU cast as Wolverine? If Glen Powell joins the DCU, which hero should he play?
Let your thoughts be known and share them in the comments below!
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