SFX August 2021

LOST LEGACY Seb Jowett, email Re: Jupiter’s Legacy. Well, what a shame. Such promise squandered through the act of doing precisely nothing. The production values shone through, the cast were excellent when they were given something to do, but unfortunately they were given so little to do other than be cardboard stereotypes. The source material is excellent but the choices here were odd: taking the whole run to get the cast their powers when that could have been done in two to three episodes. So slow, a waste of a show. It’s no surprise they cancelled it. SFX: We’re promised a live-action adaptation of Supercrooks, which is set in the same universe as Jupiter’s Legacy. So hopefully lessons will have been learned in Netflix Towers. I DO LIKE MONDAYS Keith…

DARREN SCOTT EDITOR RAVES ➝ Revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise – who said it was boring? I’m really enjoying it! ➝ Why did I think the Fear Street movies were made for kids? They’re definitely not. ➝ Masters Of The Universe: Revelation is a great continuation of the series, but also takes the franchise to new heights. RANTS ➝ Afraid Loki really just hasn’t grabbed me. Wake me up when Power Pack or Dazzler get a show. Okay, maybe She-Hulk. IAN BERRIMAN DEPUTY EDITOR RAVES ➝ Chose A Quiet Place Part II for my first visit to the local Odeon in forever. Entertaining, if not exactly essential. ➝ If you haven’t seen Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor yet – maybe my favourite film of the last year – it’s now streaming on Shudder.…

As a child of the ’80s – let’s say very late ’80s, ahem – there are several animated series, sorry, cartoons, that hold a very special place in my eternally nostalgic heart. Heck, I even have a ThunderCats tattoo, but you’d need to buy me several drinks before you can see it. Unsurprisingly, Masters Of The Universe is high on that list, so I was very excited to hear that Kevin Smith would helm a continuation of the original show while still slightly concerned that it may go down the route of other recent reboots. Any such concerns were blown out of the window – this series is truly epic, while still managing to embrace and update the legacy. And yes, there’s even a nod to the 1987 live action…

BY THE END OF Stargirl’s first season, the titular character and the Justice Society of America – including Hourman, Wildcat and Dr Mid-Nite – had prevailed over the Injustice Society of America and saved the day. So surely the team of teenagers should now be taking a well-deserved break and returning to their normal lives. But that’s not the case. When the DC series returns, Stargirl, aka Courtney, remains vigilant in scoping out trouble and embracing her destiny. “Courtney believes her cosmic staff still lights up,” showrunner Geoff Johns tells Red Alert. “There’s still work to do. For her, it’s a real calling. In the first episode, Courtney tells her stepfather Pat, ‘The staff chose me when my own father didn’t’. It really is at the root of a lot…

• WHEN DIRECTOR JAUME Collet-Serra (The Shallows) first got involved with Jungle Cruise, he had no real attachment to the classic Disney theme park ride that has inspired this summer blockbuster. “Maybe I had been on it many, many years ago when I was a kid,” he shrugs, “but I didn’t have any personal memories of it. It was not special to me in any way.” Nevertheless it soon was, after he began talking to the Imagineers, the so-called Disney brains trust behind the theme park rides. “They told me about the history – it was one of the original rides at Disneyland designed by Walt Disney himself, where he was the first skipper – and the evolution of it. How it was first intended to be a ride with…

➝ Cowabunga! Seth Rogen producing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CG reboot. ➝ Aqua-sequel due December ’22 titled Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom. ➝ Aaron Taylor-Johnson toplining solo film for Spidey villain Kraven the Hunter. ➝ Gerard Butler back in disaster mode for Greenland 2. ➝ A Quiet Place: Part III targeting 31 March 2023 release, directed by Jeff Nichols. ➝ Kevin Bacon is the villain in Troma’s Toxic Avenger reboot. ➝ Bryan Fuller helming new version of Stephen King’s Christine for Blumhouse. ➝ Warner Bros Animation and New Line Cinema teaming on Lord Of The Rings anime prequel The War Of The Rohirrim. ➝ MGM remaking 1972’s blaxploitation horror Blacula. ➝ Rob Zombie directing new version of The Munsters. ➝ Christina Ricci joining The Matrix 4. ➝ Alexander Skarsgård cast…