Comic Talk Headlines For February 8, 2019

It's Friday and time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Dustin, aka, Generally Nerdy! Catch up on everything that's happening in the world of comic books, movies and TV on Tuesdays and Fridays and be sure to subscribe to get fresh daily content.Lauren Cohan was talking to the Hollywood Reporter, and she implied that a Maggie spinoff series is possibly in the works over at AMC.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/is-walking-dead-mulling-lauren-cohan-led-spinoff-1183040ABC President Karey Burke told the Television Critics Association that she wants to reboot 2 JJ Abrams series in Lost and Alias,https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/lost-will-abc-ever-reboot-it-1182951Batman's future may be in limbo to some degree, but Batwoman is make forward movement over on the CW. They have just cast their lead villain, Alice. The actress set to play her is Rachel Skarsten, who you may recognize from Wynona Earp, Reign, and 2012's Beautyand the Beast series.https://deadline.com/2019/02/batwoman-villain-rachel-skarsten-cast-the-cw-dc-pilot-alice-ruby-rose-1202552369/Let's move on to movie news with a promising update about the future of the MCU from Bob Iger. The Disney CEO recently said, duringthe quarterly investor's conference call that he believes there is room in the Disney family for "R" rated movies like Deadpool.Saying that they will just have to find a different way to market and brand such movies, so as to differentiate them from the regularDisney family friendly fare.Brian Michael Bendis told Twitter that he is still hard at work on the script for his Kitty Pryde solo movie.Avengers: Endgame is making waves with test audiences. Joe Russo has revealed that the current cut of the movie runs around 3 hourslong. Which seems to be not such a bad thing according to multiple sources claiming there are some in the test audiences who are risking kidney stones by refusing to get up to use the restroom until the movie finishes. As such Marvel is considering includingan intermission in the middle of the movie to alieviate the issue.http://collider.com/avengers-endgame-runtime-update/The potential for a David Fincher lead zombie movie may have just been squashed. Deadline is reporting that Paramount has canned theproject due to budget issues. At least they canned the current plan anyway, as there still seems to be an option to restart the development process in order to bring down the cost.https://deadline.com/2019/02/world-war-z-sequel-not-happening-budget-issues-1202551221/You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.