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Back in September, Bleeding Cool was the first place to state that the upcoming Batman series by John Ridley could feature Tim Fox as the new Batman – though this was after a year of stating it would be Luke Fox Not great for Batwing #19 speculation, but excellent for Batman #313 speculation, as first[...]

Credit: DC Comics Writer John Ridley digs deep into Jefferson Pierce, showing a lot of the nuance Cress Williams exhibited in the hit CW series There is a wonderful through-line that shows the desire to rise above one's station and the everpresent pressures working against that desire that Ridley plays like a Stradivarius or a Stratocaster[...]

Director John Ridley will direct a new untitled paranormal film for Blumhouse; it was announced this afternoon Jason Blum joined the director for a small chat moderated by Jacqueline Coley about the film during today's BlumFest 2020, and there is rightfully some excitement behind the project Based on the recently published Truly*Adventurous article, Project Poltergeist, written[...]

Batman by John Ridley The Deluxe Edition will be published on June 29th in hardcover for $17.99 They will collect his stories from Batman Black & White #1, Batman: The Joker War Zone #1, Future State: The Next Batman #1-4 and Detective Comics #1027 – although I don't actually recall him having a story in[...]

It was teased by John Ridley in his Lucius Fox and Luke Fox story in The Joker War Finale That Tim – or Timothy – Fox was to return to the family Bleeding Cool got the scoop on this news, which led to eBay sales on his first appearance in the seventies to spike Bleeding[...]

Luke Fox seemed to replace him in the Batman comics after the New 52 reboot. Art from Batman #313. But I understand that, as a result of this week's Batman: The Joker War Zone that we may be seeing a return of Tim Fox, courtesy of writer John Ridley, who is writing the upcoming Batman comic book[...]

At the DC Fandome Joker War panel, wrote John Ridley talks about how this changes Batman He cited the Justice League movie joke asking what Batman's powers were, "I'm rich" So what happens when you take his money away? Of course, it is expected that at the end of the Joker War, everything goes back to[...]

The Other History Of The DC Universe panel for DC Fandome saw journalist Evan Narcisse interview John Ridley and Giuseppe Camuncoli about the upcoming and long-delayed illustrated story. Screencap from DC Fandome. And we got a little look at some of Camuncoli's artwork for the series Which will begin in the nineteen seventies with Black Lightning –[...]

At the DC Fandome event, it was confirmed what Bleeding Cool had been reporting since the middle of last year, that John Ridley, screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave, would be writing Batman, with a new black lead The show suggested what we had also been claiming, that it would be Luke Fox, the second[...]

We then learnt it would be would be written by John Ridley, screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave and part of 5G, or Generation Five, a publishing event led by publisher Dan DiDio to replace all the lead characters in the DC Universe and have them aged up, introducing a new generation to DC Comics[...]

DC Comics Publisher and CCO Jim Lee spoke to Bing Chen of Goldhouse at DC Fandome, hoping through a lot of the stories going down today at DC's online show, and talking about increased diversity of characters at DC Comics, as the company gains global appeal. DC Fandome screencap. During which he confirmed what John Ridley teased[...]

What seems like a lifetime ago, Bleeding Cool broke the news that the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, John Ridley was to write the ongoing Batman comic book for DC Comics, Not only that, but Bruce Wayne would be replaced in the role by the son of Lucius Fox, Luke Fox, otherwise known[...]

The highlight being their "The Many Shades of Heroism: DC Heroes Through the African-American Lens" panel which included the announcement by John Ridley of his new comic book for DC, The Other History Of The DC Universe Ridley had recently won an Oscar for writing the movie 12 Years A Slave, and had seen his The American Way comic revived by[...]

And that the Batman series, relaunching as a new Batman #1 after Batman #100, would be written by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley. Then things changed 5G champion publisher Dan DiDio was fired The Generations one-shots that would have led up to 5G disappeared from the schedule – even the Free Comic Book Day title Generation Zero[...]

Many considered Clark Gable's portrayal of Rhett Butler to be a cool representation of American manhood at the time. The Editorial That Took Down a Movie This move came after an editorial in the Los Angeles Times by screenwriter John Ridley, who has written superhero comics for DC Comics and won an Oscar for the script of[...]

The highlight being their "The Many Shades of Heroism: DC Heroes Through the African-American Lens" panel which included the announcement by John Ridley of his new comic book for DC, The Other History Of The DC Universe Ridley had recently won an Oscar for writing the movie 12 Years A Slave, and had seen his[...]

If I were John Ridley, I would begin to suspect that I was under some kind of curse Admittedly, I would have won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for 12 Years A Slave But when I returned to my true love, writing comic books, things seemed to fall apart I got to revisit and[...]

And for the new Batman writer to take over the title from Tynion. And Bleeding Cool has been tipped off that the new writer is currently expected to be the Oscar winner John Ridley IV, screenwriter of the movie 12 Years A Slave, showrunner of TV series American Crime, the documentary Let It Fall: Los Angeles[...]

John Ridley is a rather hot writer right now. His Oscar last night for Best Adapted Screenplay for 12 Years A Slave is only the tip of the iceberg. He just wrote and directed All Is By My Side, the Jimi Hendrix biopic He rewrote the new Ben-Hur movie, and ABC have green-lit the pilot for a[...]