What’s Come Before in this look at the making of Superman 2025: October 2022, November 2022, December 2022 Writing Begins, Titles Leak, and Superman Takes Center Stage As the new year dawned, James Gunn and Peter Safran entered the spotlight with mounting pressure and sky-high expectations. DC Studios had been officially formed, a new Superman film was confirmed and […]
What’s Come Before in this look at the making of Superman 2025: October 2022, November 2022 The Superman Reset Becomes Official December 2022 marked a dramatic turning point in the Superman legacy. After years of fan speculation, conflicting reports and hopeful teases, the future of the character was finally clarified—and it was not the future many fans had […]
What’s Come Before in this look at the making of Superman 2025: October 2022 The End of One Superman and the Birth of Another While October marked a leadership shift at DC Studios, November 2022 is when the future of Superman truly came into focus—and changed course dramatically. The month saw a flurry of public […]
Given my lifelong love for movies and television (especially the former when I was a kid), there’s something oddly perfect about the fact that my first job—at the ripe old age of 14—was as a matinee usher at the Twin-Shirley Theatre, located on Long Island, New York. My cousin Alfred was the assistant manager at […]
The Dawn of a New DC Era With James Gunn’s Superman opening on July 11, 2025, we’re taking a look back at the history of the project through a month-by-month breakdown beginning with this look back at October 2022. October 2022 marked the beginning of a new chapter not just for Superman, but for the […]
Having been all of 13 when the animated Star Trek made its animated debut on NBC’s Saturday morning lineup in 1973, I was impressed with the fact that the actors were reprising their roles and many of the scripts, which truly did feel as though they could have come from the original series. But even […]
To be perfectly honest, I figured that with the lack of movement from EON Productions following the 2021 release of No Time to Die, and their seeming inability to get past the departure of Daniel Craig as 007, James Bond, despite the final credit of that film, would not return. And I made peace with […]
Dark Shadows has been a part of my life since I was eight years old. I still watch the show and continue to express my love for it in my writing. But I recently had a chance to talk all things Dark Shadows in my life with Penny Dreadful at the Terror at Collinwood podcast. […]
In a television landscape once dominated by self-contained crime procedurals, Wiseguy broke the mold. Airing on CBS from 1987 to 1990, the show helped usher in a new era of serialized storytelling—years before it became the norm. Now, more than three decades after its finale, Wiseguy is reportedly making a surprise return (according to Yahoo), […]
Posting on April 18, 2023 was my appearance on Michael Bailey’s wonderful It All comes Back to Superman podcast, where I discussed the oral history book Voices from Krypton. Here’s how Michael described the episode: “This time out I celebrate Superman’s 85th birthday by talking with writer Ed Gross. Ed has a book titled Voices […]