Iman Vellani joins the MCU as Kamala Khan

The role of Kamala Khan has finally been cast.

Announced today, newcomer Iman Vellani will portray the popular Marvel superhero in Disney+’s forthcoming Ms. Marvel TV series. With this casting, Vellani will also appear in future MCU films. The Ms. Marvel show will be directed by Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Meera Menon. Production on the show will begin later this year. Ms. Marvel will arrive on the streaming service in 2022.

Kamala Khan made their Marvel Comics debut in a 2013 issue of Captain Marvel before landing their own series the following year. Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal earned the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story.

WandaVision trailer released during the Emmys

The first official glimpse of WandaVision has arrived.

The official trailer for the show, which you can see below, dropped today during the 72nd Annual Emmy Awards. Starring Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, the series takes place following the events of Avengers: Endgame. “The series is a blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems,” the show’s synopsis reads.

Olsen and Bettany aren’t the only familiar faces set to appear in the series. Kat Dennings, who played Thor’s friend Darcy Lewis, and Randall Park, who played FBI agent Jimmy Woo, will also show up. The show also features Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau. A younger version of the character appeared in 2019’s Captain Marvel. Rounding out the main cast is Transparent actress Kathryn Hahn, who portrays the couple’s neighbor. She’s rumored to be Agatha Harkness, who was Scarlet Witch’s tutor in the comic books.

WandaVision will make its way to Disney+ this December. The show will have a strong connection to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which is slated to hit theaters on March 25, 2022.

AMC heads to Twitch with The Walking Dead Universe

AMC will tap into the live-streaming market with their brand new Twitch channel called The Walking Dead Universe.

Revealed today via Deadline, the channel will include a handful of original programming exclusively for the streaming service. This Sunday (September 20) at 3 p.m. PST, the channel will hold a special launch party with hosts Clarke, Ronnetta and Dylan. At 5 p.m. PST, a watch-along marathon of The Walking Dead’s 10 season will begin. On Thursday, September 24, fans will be treated to Re-Watching Dead, which is a weekly show diving into past episodes of the beloved series. On Sunday, September 27, a new variety show based on The Walking Dead: World Beyond will premiere. This show will feature cast interviews and some behind-the-scene segments.

Starting on October 4, the channel will have special coverage surrounding new episodes of The Walking Dead. Before the show begins, a special pre-show will discuss what previously went down in the last episode. During the show, there will be a watch-along on stream. Following the show, a post-show recap will occur.

AMC are collaborating with Hyper RPG for this Twitch channel. A channel trailer can be seen below. Follow their Twitch channel here.

Plot details for Netflix's Resident Evil series revealed

Netflix has officially confirmed development of their Resident Evil adaptation with some interesting plot details.

Today, the streaming service unveiled the plot of the series, which will take place in two different timelines. The synopsis can be read below:

In the first timeline, 14-year-old sisters Jade and Billie Wesker are moved to New Raccoon City. A manufactured, corporate town, forced on them right as adolescence is in full swing. But the more time they spend there, the more they come to realize that the town is more than it seems and their father may be concealing dark secrets. Secrets that could destroy the world.

Cut to the second timeline, well over a decade into the future: there are less than fifteen million people left on Earth. And more than six billion monsters — people and animals infected with the T-virus. Jade, now thirty, struggles to survive in this New World, while the secrets from her past — about her sister, her father and herself — continue to haunt her.

The series will be written by Andrew Dabb, who is best known for their work on Supernatural. Dabb will also be the showrunner and executive producer. In a statement, Dabb said:

“Resident Evil is my favorite game of all time. I'm incredibly excited to tell a new chapter in this amazing story and bring the first ever Resident Evil series to Netflix members around the world. For every type of Resident Evil fan, including those joining us for the first time, the series will be complete with a lot of old friends, and some things (bloodthirsty, insane things) people have never seen before."

The Netflix series, which will run for eight episodes, comes from Constantin Film, who worked on the Resident Evil films. The film series earned a combined $1.2 billion, which makes it the highest-grossing video game film series of all time.

Netflix announce The Witcher: Blood Origin

Netflix simply can’t get enough of The Witcher. With a Witcher animated film announced earlier this year, they’re diving deeper into the story with another series.

Today, the streaming service announced a six-episode prequel series titled The Witcher: Blood Origin. Taking place 1,200 years before the popular Netflix series, the prequel will give the origin story of the first Witcher. Declan de Barra, who worked on The Witcher as a writer and singer, will be the showrunner for Blood Origin. In a statement to Deadline, they said:

“As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story The Witcher: Blood Origin. A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books – What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans? I’ve always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization’s true story behind. The Witcher: Blood Origin will tell the tale of the Elven civilization before its fall, and most importantly reveal the forgotten history of the very first Witcher.”

The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, who is also working on the animated film The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, will be an executive producer on Blood Origin. Filming for season two of The Witcher is happening right now. New episodes will be released sometime in 2021..