

I’m getting a little too stream-of-consciousness, so I will just say this: At its halfway point, Batman/Catwoman seems to have gotten a lot of preliminaries out of the way and is settling into the central question of whether the star-crossed OTP can indeed share their lives. Anyway, much of this issue involves Catwoman’s future as the mother of Helena Wayne, Gotham’s next-gen crimefighter, who is maybe the new Batwoman? I don’t think she’s the new Huntress.
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Besides, the series plays it against the by-now-clichéd, “Why doesn’t someone kill the Joker?” trope. Maybe that’s gone by the wayside in the past few decades.

While this issue is a little kinder to Catwoman in that respect, the series in general still seems to challenge what I thought was a long-established part of her characterization – namely, that Catwoman doesn’t kill. At first I was afraid that King would turn Catwoman into another Lady Macbeth type, along the lines of Kalinda in Omega Men or Alanna in Strange Adventures. Beware of SPOILERS as well.įirst up is Batman/Catwoman #6, which King wrote, Clay Mann drew and Tomeu Morey colored. No promises, though, because I read a couple of Bat-books and a couple of Tom King-written books. This week I will try not to let my preconceived notions of characterization get in the way of telling you what I actually read. Let us know what you’ve been reading lately in the comments or on social media. This time around we talk about several recent releases that range in setting from tropical islands to deep space to, um, scenic Bludhaven. Cormac and Marianne Wibberley–who wrote the first and second film as well as the pilot episode for the series–recently expressed their willingness to “beg and plead and whatever” in order to get Cage back in the role of Benjamin Franklin Gates for the show.Welcome to What Are You Reading?, our weekly look at what the Smash Pages crew has been checking off their “to read” list lately. If Nicolas Cage does make National Treasure 3, it will be an outlier and probably one fans would love to see.Įven if Nicolas Cage passes on National Treasure 3, the makers of the new spinoff series have said they want him back for the show. There was the ultimately aborted Superman Lives film but other than that, Ghost Rider, and National Treasure, he doesn’t seem to chase after the kind of leading roles that would necessarily lead to repeat business. Just going through the Con-Air star’s filmography shows he isn’t exactly the type to chase down big franchise parts. “I don’t know if I’d want to go and make another Disney movie,” Cage said. Last July, the actor told Variety he had a lot of concerns about the notion of making another big studio blockbuster. Nicolas Cage could wind up passing on National Treasure 3 regardless of what he thinks of the script.

Clearly other factors were involved when it comes to National Treasure. Usually when you hear about popular film franchises falling by the wayside, it’s because the sequels yielded diminishing returns. Taking in a worldwide gross of $459.2 million, the second film made over $100 million more than the original, while costing only $30 million more to make. The last time we saw Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates was in 2007’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets and the sequel landed a much bigger payday than the original. While the Nicolas Cage led treasure hunting films were never critics’ darlings, it’s genuinely confusing that it’s taken this long for things to get rolling on National Treasure 3. “Hopefully likes it, but it’s really good. “Let’s hope, we’re working on the script right now,” Bruckheimer told the site. Perhaps we’re all so used to the big Marvel secrecies, bit it feels kind of shocking that the producer confirmed it. Speaking to, the blockbuster producer Bruckheimer was asked whether or not Nicolas Cage could be back for National Treasure 3.
