Iconic Batman villain The Joker won't be in WB Montreal's upcoming action RPG, Gotham Knights, according to creative director Patrick Redding speaking at a panel today at San Diego Comic Con.

During a fan Q&A, Redding was asked if Joker was in the game, to which he responded no, but added, "I will not confirm or deny whether Harley is," indicating that Joker's clownish compatriot might make an appearance of some sort.

Redding also confirmed that Batman is in fact "really dead" in Gotham Knights (he dies in the first ten minutes, setting up the plot), and remains dead at the end of the game.

He also added that there is "exactly one" Riddler question mark in all of Gotham Knights.

At this same panel, we also got a look at a new trailer showing off Batgirl gameplay, alongside more details about how the four heroes of the game (Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin) have distinct custom dialogue and cinematics depending on which one the player chooses to control at a given time.

Gotham Knights has previously shown Robin and Nightwing gameplay, as well as multiple other trailers. It's planned for release on October 25, 2022 for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X and S after its PS4 and Xbox One versions were officially cancelled earlier this year.

Meanwhile, there's tons of news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.

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Star Trek star William Shatner is to appear in Netflix's upcoming He-Man project, Masters of the Universe: Revolution. Revealed during the franchise's San Diego Comic-Con panel, Shatner is the first new actor confirmed for what's presumed to be a sequel to last year's Masters of the Universe: Revelation.

Very little else is known about the project as it was only announced last month at Netflix's Geeked Week. We know Kevin Smith is returning to executive produce the animated project, which is due to pick up right where the previous series left off.

He'll presumably join Mark Hamill, Chris Wood, Lena Headey and other cast members in Revolution, as He-Man and friends are once again forced to take on the nefarious Skeletor.

More will be revealed tomorrow, July 22, however, as Shatner is due to appear on IGN's own Comic-Con Live Show. Though he's most famous for his role as Captain James Kirk in Star Trek, the 91-year-old has featured in countless television shows and films in his career that spans seven decades.

In our 8/10 review of last year's series, IGN said: "Masters of the Universe: Revelation uses the original He-Man sandbox to truly go wild and explore these characters in ways that allow them to break tired moulds and dissolve old conventions."

There's tons of news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.

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The first teaser for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will debut exclusively in theaters.

The upcoming biopic stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who is often credited as the “father of the atomic bomb”.

The brief teaser will be attached to Jordan Peele’s new sci-fi horror flick, Nope – a move that makes more sense when you consider that both are distributed by Universal Pictures.

Nolan’s last film, Tenet, also pushed its first teaser trailer as a theatrical exclusive, attached to the Fast & Furious spin-off film, Hobbs and Shaw. Tenet’s first trailer was subsequently never released online. It’s thought that Oppenheimer will follow this pattern.

“The world is changing, reforming,” says Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine, according to Variety. “This is your moment.” A countdown timer then begins: “11 months, 24 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes.”

It’s presumably a countdown to the day “the world changes forever” – the launch of the first-ever nuclear weapon by the United States at 5:29 am on July 16, 1945. Code name Trinity, this test was of an implosion-design nuclear device, nicknamed “The Gadget”… the same design as the Fat Man that was eventually detonated over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

As the film’s title appears on screen, Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.) can be heard saying: “The man who moved the Earth” which is presumably a reference to Oppenheimer himself. Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) is then seen on screen, briefly, as footage of fire and smoke are intercut between black and white footage of the man himself.

It certainly sounds like a suitably haunting tease… and we can’t wait to see it on the big screen.

Whether or not it will eventually get an online release remains to be seen.

Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer alongside an all-star ensemble cast including Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Matthew Modine, David Dastmalchian, and Jack Quaid.

Christopher Nolan both wrote and directed the film based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

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Today at San Diego Comic Con, WB revealed more details about Gotham Knights, including a new gameplay trailer featuring Batgirl.

The trailer highlights Batgirl's combat, including her wrist blasters and a multi batarang throw. It also gave some insight into her character, with a focus on her desire to protect Gotham City regardless of what name that protection happens to go by. It concluded by announcing that anyone who pre-orders Gotham Knights now will receive a 233 Kustom Batcycle skin.

The SDCC panel included appearances from creative director Patrick Redding, narrative director Anne Lemay, cinematics director Wilson Mui, Cinematics Director, America Young (Batgirl), and Christopher Sean (Nightwing). Comics writer Scott Snyder also made a surprise guest appearance. A chunk of the panel discussion highlighted the ways in which Gotham Knights' dialogue and tone will differ depending on which of the four characters is being played, with Lemay mentioning that WB Montreal did custom dialogue all throughout the game throughout each of their levels and cinematics, and all four choose to fight crime differently.

Gotham Knights has already shown off Robin and Nightwing gameplay previously, as well as multiple other trailers. Its version of Gotham City is supposedly even bigger than Arkham Knight's. Gotham Knights is planned for release on October 25, 2022 for PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X and S after its PS4 and Xbox One versions were officially cancelled earlier this year.

There's tons more news for all your favorite shows, films, games, and more coming out of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, and we've got the full schedule to guide you through the weekend of panels, announcements, trailers, and surprises.

Today Wizards of the Coast revealed new details about Magic: The Gathering’s next set, Dominaria United. While the first hints of story were shared, the really surprising news is that some booster packs will contain original cards printed for the 1994 set Legends.

In a video announcing the news, WOTC explained that it found sealed boxes of actual Legends booster packs in a warehouse and wanted to find a way to distribute those cards to players. As such, they decided to open the packs and insert these original printings into Collector boosters for Dominaria United as both a tie-in to Magic’s very first plane and a celebration of its history as the game approaches its 30th birthday.

Many of the cards in Legends are extremely rare and valuable, making the idea of finding one in a brand new booster an exciting proposition. Some of these cards are even part of Magic’s infamous Reserved List, meaning they have never been reprinted in any form (and theoretically never will). That includes The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, a legendary land card on the Reserved List with a current market price of nearly $4000 USD according to TCGplayer, which would be quite a shocking treat to crack open.

This isn’t actually the first time WOTC has put original Reserved List cards into the booster packs of a new set either. In 2009, booster packs from the first Zendikar set had a chance of including a “Priceless Treasure” card, which were repackaged copies of some of Magic’s most powerful and famous cards – including the legendary Black Lotus. What’s not clear at the moment is if any card from Legends could pop up in Dominaria United or just the most desirable ones like Zendikar (or even how frequently they might appear).

But apart from the prospect of finding a piece of cardboard worth thousands of dollars in your booster, WOTC also confirmed that Dominaria United would include a legendary creature from the actual set in every booster pack just like the Dominaria set from 2018. There will be more than 40 legendary creatures in the set, which ties in nicely with the Legends cards thematically.

Additionally, we got some interesting details on what the story could look like for Dominaria United and beyond, with WOTC saying this is the first act in a story that will span across the next four sets. That story has been building slowly for the last year and a half, and the reveal that this one will follow the planeswalker Karn “as he looks back on Dominaria’s past to prepare for its future” could feed speculation that the following set, The Brothers’ War, may have some time travel shenanigans at play.

The Dominaria United story will begin its full reveal on August 10 and conclude before preview season starts in earnest on August 18. That’s all leading toward Dominaria United’s eventual release on September 9. And if you're looking for Magic's tie-ins to universes beyond its own, we recently revealed the cards in the brand new Fortnite Secret Lair.