(via TV Line, featured image: Warner Bros.) So far, we have no idea where this fits into the ten-year plan that DC is trying to implement, but since they just got rid of Batgirl, hopefully they will find a new way to implement the friendship between the two. I’m excited to see where this film goes and how it puts some respect on the character’s name. Since Misha Green ( Lovecraft Country) is penning the script, I am sure she will make sure Smollett kills it. I only want like 1000% more ultrasonic screaming. Despite that, I felt each actor got a chance to show some layers to themselves, and I have found it to be one of the best DCEU films to date.īlack Canary is one of my favorite comic book characters, and after the disrespect shown to Laurel Lance on Arrow, seeing Smollett as Dinah Laurel Lance was amazing. There were some complaints (valid ones) that having Harley as the face of the Birds of Prey film was frustrating since it meant a lot of characters got smaller storylines. The Green Arrow, for decades (despite what The CW’s Arrow would have you think). She’s best friends with Barbara Gordon, who she co-leads the Birds of Prey with, and has been the long-term love interest of Oliver Queen, a.k.a. While the former was just an amazing martial artist, Dinah Lance is the one who gained the supersonic scream, taking her abilities to another level. Black Canary, in many ways, was the obvious choice, since the character has appeared in several live-action and animated series, from Smallville to Young Justice.Īs one of DC’s oldest superheroines, Canary has been an important part of the Justice League in both incarnations-first as Dinah Drake and then Dinah Lance, the daughter of the former. Following the release of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) in 2020, there was a desire to see the characters return in a more comic book-accurate lineup that wouldn’t need Harley to sell the movie.
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Pictures confirmed to TVLine that the Black Canary standalone movie remains in development.
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His wife, Weather Karkinnen, the surgeon, is a powerful character who is a perfect match for Lucas. A millionaire former Minneapolis cop and businessman, he runs the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in his own unorthodox way, taking chances and following his instincts - and usually, though not always, getting what he wants. The chief protagonist, Lucas Davenport, provides continuity in the Prey series. From an engrossing outset to a heart-pounding conclusion, Storm Prey steadily builds momentum from one surprise to the next. And none of these people is either a superhero or the incarnation of evil. In Storm Prey, for example, the principal characters are a millionaire senior officer with the Minnesota state crime investigation unit, a plastic surgeon expert at microsurgery, a psychopathic skinhead biker, a Lebanese ER doctor with a ferocious coke habit, and an assortment of police officers, state investigators, and low-rent criminals to round out the scene. But there’s value in taking a close look at Sandford’s most recent books as a start toward understanding why the Prey series can still be going strong after two decades.įor starters, John Stanford writes stories about interesting people doing interesting things, and he supplies enough detail that a reader can become deeply immersed in the tale. Without reading that other first book ( Fool’s Run) and the three that followed it, we can’t draw any firm conclusions. Storm Prey (Prey #20) by John Sandford (4 out of 5) Why would one series sell better and last, and the other one die? The other was the first entry in another, short-lived sereries that Sandford left behind after just four books. Why? What makes a series of crime novels sell so well and for so many years?Īfter all, when the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Sandford started writing fiction in 1989, he completed two books, one of them, Rules of Prey, the first in this series. Storm Prey is the 20th novel (out of 21 to date) in the “Prey” series.
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