Cloak & Dagger is coming out next month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZCs93cGcdY
There’s a lot more in this trailer, which should hopefully let the fans know how close to the comics it is. Doesn’t look bad, although I wonder if it’s in the MCU at all and whether they’re going to actually use the religious stuff properly. I would absolutely love a horror-mystic-superhero show where they use the religious stuff properly. Probably not enough to stream or subscribe to Freeform, but I could maybe be persuaded to buy the DVD.
Anyway, I know some of my readers have read this comic, so I’ll let you tell me how close it’s getting.
MCU confirmed.
I wonder if they’ll be bringing the TV shows into the movies more when the next phase starts.
I seem to vaguely recall that early on there was some talk of using the Defenders in one of the Infinity War movies. But that didn’t last long. Of course, given how hit or miss the Netflix series have been, that’s not necessarily a bad thing…
As for C&D, I hope they do it right. But the channel does give me pause. I think the only show I’ve ever watched on Freeform was ‘Middleman’, back when the channel was called ABC Family. And it was glaringly obvious that Middleman (which was amusingly wholesome to the point that they bleeped swear words) had little or nothing in common with anything else on the channel.
After Inhumans, I suspect they’ll be kept at arm’s length just in case they turn out to be like, well, The Inhumans did.
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Also, wait. Runaways came out? Last year? What the heck was I doing then that it escaped my notice? (I thought SG was in that one, but she’s in New Warriors instead, which oddly seems to have a lot of Great Lakes Avengers in the cast instead of folks like Night Thrasher and Speedball.)
I was aware of the characters back in the day, but never really saw all that much of them aside from their appearance in the Maximum Carnage series. I was interested in them. But they were always off doing their own thing, and Maximum Carnage is the only time I can think of where they actually showed up in someone else’s book. My recollection, though, is that in the comic books they were kidnapped and experimented on, which is how they got their powers. It doesn’t look like the writers are going that route this time around.
Yeah, they were runaways who got their power after being injected with some experimental synthetic heroin. For some strange reason, they’ve dialed that part of the origin story back.