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Wondercon @ Home presents Todd McFarlane and the Year of Spawn 2021

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 We all know who Todd McFarlane is, right? Creator of the redoubtable character that graced his comics company, Image, along with the small and big screen, the back from Hell for revenge psycho, Spawn! McFarlane is back, after a far-too-long hiatus due to the pandemic, to proclaim 2021 the Year of Spawn!

McFarlane starts off by giving us a tour of his office, closed down since March of 2020 due to the blasted pandemic, and the line of toys the King of toys is currently at-work on.

For the DC Multiverse we get new vehicles, a brand new Batmobile, and differently-sized figurines; the Raw10 line will get new mech sharks and gorillas; new Warhammer figures to paint; Dune (related to the new movie) toys, Mortal Kombat (same) toys, Witcher video game figurines, toys from Fortnight, even the anime My Hero Academia. The grey unpainted figurines, known as artists proofs, will be the hardest to find collectibles, McFarlane informs us gleefully.

And of course, it wouldn’t be a McFarlane panel without his talking about the new and upcoming Spawn toy figurines line. The Spawn kickstarter in 2020 earned the Peoples Choice Toy of the Year award for his Spawn figurine; McFarlane promises the Spawn toy of 2021 will be a medieval version of the well-known character, with specially-made accessories of alternate materials.

Moving on to comic books, where Spawn and indeed Image got its start, McFarlane never lacks for passion. Now, while the pandemic is still an issue and most forms of entertainment are still only partially available; if you have an idea for a comic book, now is the time to get into it, he gushes. McFarlane goes on to list the comic books under the Image label that debuted in 2020 to more than 100,000 copies – the color version of The Walking Dead Redux, The Department of Truth, Undiscovered Country, Donnie Cate’s Crossover Event, and Nocterra, just to name a few.

McFarlane happily continues on about creating an entire Spawn universe, that he’ll probably rename eventually, where the well-known character is but one of many. Debuting in 2021 from this whole new universe is Spawns Universe, as the impetus for all the rest of this stuff, possibly in July; then King Spawn, Gunslinger Spawn, and finally The Scorched.

McFarlane gave a whole list of artists and writers and contributors to help with this burgeoning Spawn universe: Art Adams, Carlo Barberi, Brett Booth, J. Scott Campbell, Greg Capullo, Donny Cates, Jim Cheung, Mike del Mundo, Javier Fernandez, David Finch, Kevin Keane, Ales Kot, Puppeteer Lee, Sean Lewis, Todd McFarlane, Ben Oliver, Stephen Segovia, Paulo Siqueira, and Marcio Takara.

Finally, and potentially the most exciting of all, with only a few minutes left to his panel, McFarlane finally addressed the new Spawn movie! Yes, the film is still being made, via Blumhouse Productions, and yes, Jamie Foxx is still set to play the titular anti-hero, and Jeremy Renner has been added to the cast as Twitch Williams. They’re all working diligently on world-building for the film while the pandemic rages, there’s a big meeting next week to finalize the script and send it out.

And of course, McFarlane hints at several secret made-for-tv projects in the works from his Spawn universe. Maybe even a podcast this year! It really is shaping up to be the Year of Spawn in 2021!

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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