Batman and Superman's clash in Injustice: Gods Among Us is being adapted for DC animation.
Movie theaters should definitely look into adapting these iconic fighting games.
Coinciding with the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, many excellent films and documentaries that tackle and address racial injustice and/or highlight the black experience are now available to stream for free, including Selma and Just Mercy.
After large donations to organizations fighting racial injustice were made by people like the cast and showrunner of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, prominent members of the video game industry are following suit as well. According to The Wrap, prominent video game publishers 2K, EA, and Scopely have donated $1 million each to organizatioins fighting racial injustices. 2K, known for such prominent video game franchises as NBA 2K and Civilization, announced they were increasing their funding to their own 2K Foundations program, to help with "expanding its mission to help fight racial injustice and inequalities in Black communities across the globe." [caption …
Birds of Prey actress Jurnee Smollett-Bell reveals how Injustice 2 inspired her version of Black Canary.
Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for their upcoming drama Just Mercy. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Short Term 12), the film is based on the true story of attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) and his work to free wrongfully-convicted death row inmate Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx). I’ll be very curious to see how this film performs when it hits theaters in limited release at the end of the year before going wide in early January. It’s a really good procedural (click here for my review from TIFF), but unlike last year’s Best Picture …
Injustice: Gods Among Us was the first big fighting game involving DC characters. Set in an alternate reality where Superman had become a cruel dictator, it featured an intense story involving the heroes and villains we know and love. With this new setting, the game could have all sorts of epic moments.