The Flash Is Recruiting a Long-Gone Friend for a Mysterious Season 8 Role

The Batman

Elsewhere— Batman, Penguin, Catwoman and Riddler enjoy their own set of character posters courtesy of Twitter Movies. “The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate!”

Project Gemini

After junking planet Earth, a group of astronauts hoping to terraform an alien planet are systematically murdered by the locals in the trailer for Project Gemini.

The Changed

Tony Todd stars in the trailer for The Changed—essentially, a new take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers—coming to VOD March 4.

Titans

Deadline reports Joseph Morgan, Franka Potente and Lisa Ambalavanar have joined the cast of Titans’ fourth season. Morgan has been cast as Sebastian Blood/Brother Blood, “an introvert with a strong intelligence and a hidden darker nature,” while Potente will play May Bennett/Mother Mayhem, “a natural leader who always carries the threat of violence with her, a predator in human form with an unfettered belief in her mission in the world.” Ambalavanar will also recur as Jinx, “a quick-witted criminal loner and a master of dark magic with a joy for manipulating others and creating chaos while doing it.”

The Flash

Deadline also reports Rick Cosnett (Det. Eddie Thawne in season one) will return for “at least” three episodes of The Flash’s eighth season, playing a different character each time.

Billy Summers

Deadline further reports that Billy Summers—yet another Stephen King series from Bad Robot—is in development from Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. The story follows the titular Summers, “a hitman who is looking to retire” as he “takes one last highly lucrative job to feather his nest. The job requires him to embed himself in a quiet town, where he pretends to be an aspiring writer (he actually pours himself into the prose). He sets up in an office with a direct view of where hitman Joel Allen will be delivered to face trial for shooting two men during a poker game. Allen also has committed enough murders for some high-level mobsters to be scared the gunman will incriminate his former employers to lessen his sentence. Summers, a meticulous craftsman, becomes more and more cynical about the mobsters who’ve hired him, and his skepticism is well warranted as things go awry following the job’s completion.”

Dungeons & Dragons

According to Variety, Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice) has been hired to write, direct and executive produce the pilot episode of the upcoming live-action Dungeons & Dragons series from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, separate from the currently-planned movie.

Loki

A new report from Backstage says the second season of Loki will begin production this summer.

Halo

Variety reports David Weiner (Brave New World, Fear the Walking Dead) is now in talks to take over the role of showrunner from Stephen Kane, should Halo be renewed for a second season.

Star Trek: Prodigy

The Protostar crew is forced to improvise in the synopsis for this week’s episode of Star Trek: Prodigy, “A Moral Star, Part 2.”

When the plan goes awry, the crew must improvise. Meanwhile, Gwyn discovers a dark truth that will forever jeopardize their quest toward salvation.

Written by: S1 Writers Room (Kevin & Dan Hageman, Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, Lisa Schultz Boyd, Nikhil S. Jayaram, Diandra Pendleton-Thompson, Chad Quandt, Aaron J. Waltke)

Directed by: Ben Hibon

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

A new poster for the upcoming Captain Pike spinoff, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, has been released by Paramount+, depicting the Captain on his beloved horse Tango. Or maybe Mary Lou, other horses are available.

Snowpiercer

Andre smashes Wilford in the face with some sort of steel rod in the trailer for “The First Blow,” next week’s episode of Snowpiercer.

4400

Finally, Shanice makes a case for political violence in the trailer for next week’s episode of 4400.

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