Marvel Fires Writer Due to Twitter – Marvel Comics has parted ways with Chuck Wendig, who was writing the Star Wars comics for the brand.  In a series of Tweets today, Wendig  revealed why he was let go, and blamed it on how he handled his interactions on Twitter, saying;

Today I got the call. I’m fired. Because of the negativity and vulgarity that my tweets bring. Seriously, that’s what Mark, the editor said. It was too much politics, too much vulgarity, too much negativity on my part.  My understanding over this call was that this was a Marvel decision, not an LFL decision, but I can’t really confirm that. The editor said he had made the call. He seemed genuinely upset at my tweets and profanity, so maybe that’s accurate. And again, that’s his right to do so. If they honestly feel that my presence will damage the book, I don’t want that. I want the book to shine, and artists like Juanan Ramirez and Greg Smallwood to do their amazing thing. Artists like that are gods in my mind, so I’m happy to not distract from their literal magic. But it does set a troubling precedent. One we’ve seen already – James Gunn, Jessica White, and so on – of folks fired because they riled up the wasp’s nest of asterisk-gate.

The whole thing is just wickedly gross and pretty long to get through.  I don’t know of Wendig’s social media presence but he seems to have a decent head on his shoulders, so who knows.

Snyder Confirms Cut Scenes – The Justice League movie was shaping up to be so much better if the execs would of stayed out of it.  Zach Snyder, director of a lot of the DCEU films that came out over the last few years, revealed that scenes depicting the creation of Parademons was cut due to how scary the scenes were.  Taking to Vero, a fan asked Snyder about a piece of concept art and asked if this was the staging area for the parademon transformations.  Snyder revealed that it was, but it was deemed too scary.

John Carpenter Slams Rock’s Remake – John Carpenter made Big Trouble in Little China, and a cult classic was born.  Now that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is remaking it though, Carpenter isn’t happy with it.  In talking to CinemaBlend, Carpenter revealed how he really feels about this by saying;

They want a movie with Dwayne Johnson. That’s what they want. So they just picked that title.  They don’t give a sh-t about me and my movie. That movie wasn’t a success.

That being said, Carpenter is fine with all his films being remade as long as the money is good, telling The Guardian last year;

I love it, if they are going to pay me money. If they pay me, it’s wonderful  If they don’t pay me, I don’t care. I think it’s unfair if they don’t pay me. I think everyone should pay me. Why not? I’m an old guy now and I need money. Send me money.

So maybe Carpenter should, I don’t know, zip it?

Quick Hits – Rambo 5 has cast Sergio Peris-Mencheta to star as the antagonist of the film, Hugo Martinez.   iZombie’s Rahul Kohli will play Scarecrow in DC Universe’s Harley Quinn animated series.  Arrow has promoted Kirk Acevedo’s Ricardo Diaz as a series regular. Ava DuVernay is hinting at the New Gods film on Twitter by tweeting and retweeting famous lines and scenes from their books.