It's time for a Geek Movie News Round-Up!
Disney released a trailer for the live-action Mulan movie (trailer included at bottom of article). This film, directed by Niki Caro, has an all-star cast of martial artist actors including Yifei Liu (Mulan), Donnie Yen (Commander Tung), Jason Scott Lee (Bori Khan), Yoson An (Cheng Honghui) and Jet Li (the Emperor). Mulan is scheduled to arrive on March 27, 2020 (see "Disney Reserves Dates for Three New 'Star Wars' Features"). Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson revealed that the Justice League Society will be making an appearance in the upcoming Black Adam movie according in an interview with Comicbook.com. He plainly spoke about the JSA being in the movie as he lamented Kevin Hart's lobby to be Black Adam's sidekick. He told Hart that Black Adam didn't have a sidekick, but, “We're also gonna introduce JSA in Black Adam. So in JSA maybe there's a (role)...” Black Adam will be in theaters on December 21, 2021 (see "The Rock's 'Black Adam' Gets Date").Hideout Pictures has acquired the rights to the Kill Whitey Donovan comic book series published by Dark Horse according to Deadline. The company's chief content officer Trevor O'Neil and Sigrid Gilmer will adapt the books into an action film.
It will be a little longer before kaiju movie fans will get to see Godzilla vs. Kong battle each other for superiority according to Variety. Warner Bros. and Legendary have pushed the film (see "'Godzilla v. Kong' Cast Grows") back from March 13, 2020 to November 20, 2020 (see "Best in Shows--Q1 2020"). The fourth movie since the reboot of the Star Trek films by Bad Robot will be written and directed by Fargo TV series creator Noah Hawley according to Variety. The plotline has still yet to be revealed, but Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, and Zoe Saladana will be back on the U.S.S. Enterprise for another voyage, and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot will be producing again. In 2017, Quentin Tarantino expressed interest in writing a R-rated Star Trek movie, but the project has yet to surface again (see “Tarantino 'Star Trek' Will Be R-Rated”).