Australian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">actress</a> Milly Alcock, best known for starring in HBO’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/game-of-thrones">Game of Thrones</a>” prequel spinoff series “House of the Dragon,” has been named as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comics">DC Universe</a>’s new Supergirl.
The 23-year-old played the young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen on the show. Alcock was nominated for a Critics&#8217; Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work on &#8220;HOTD.&#8221; Now she’ll become an even bigger household name starring as the iconic superhero in the first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">film project</a> spearheaded by James Gunn and Peter Safran for the DC Universe (DCU), per <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/01/supergirl-milly-alcock-1235807989/">Deadline</a>.
“This is accurate. Milly is a fantastically talented young actor, and I’m incredibly excited about her being a part of the DCU,” Gunn <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C2s_DqNvqHL/">confirmed</a> on Instagram. “Yes, I first became aware of her in House of the Dragon but I was blown away by her varied auditions and screen tests for #Supergirl,” he continued. “She embodies Kara as envisioned by @tomking_tk and @bliquis and Ana Noguiera.”
Other contenders for the coveted role included “CODA” star Emilia Jones and Meg Donnelly, who voiced Supergirl in the DC animated movies “Legion of Superheroes” and “Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One,” the outlet noted.
Rumor has it that Supergirl could have a cameo in the upcoming DC film “Superman Legacy,” but that’s so far unconfirmed. The first project Alcock will definitely star in is the upcoming “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow,” which was announced last year. The storyline will be based on Yom King’s 2022 comic book series.
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Gunn told Deadline of this Supergirl version, “In our series we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl. She’s much more hardcore; she’s not exactly the Supergirl we’re used to seeing.”
Alcock made her screen debut as a teenager in Australia, appearing in commercials before transitioning to various TV projects. “House of the Dragon” was her big break into Hollywood.

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Academy Award-winning movie director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martin-scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> is once again making his feelings about comic book and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">franchise movies</a> clear.
The 80-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a> mainstay shared his views during a recent cover <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/martin-scorsese-profile">profile</a> for GQ magazine. Scorsese came down hard on the genre and went as far as urging other industry professionals to join him in rebelling against them.
&#8220;The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture. Because there are going to be generations now that think <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movies</a> are only those — that’s what movies are,&#8221; the legendary director said.
&#8220;They already think that. Which means that we have to then fight back stronger. And it’s got to come from the grassroots level.&#8221;
Scorsese continued, saying, “It’s gotta come from the filmmakers themselves. And you’ll have, you know, the Safdie brothers, and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean? And hit ’em from all sides. Hit ’em from all sides, and don’t give up. Let’s see what you got. Go out there and do it. Go reinvent. Don’t complain about it. But it’s true, because we’ve got to save cinema.&#8221; 
He added, &#8220;I do think that the manufactured content isn’t really cinema,” before backtracking a little. &#8220;No, I don’t want to say it,” Scorsese went on. “But what I mean is that, it’s manufactured content. It’s almost like AI making a film.&#8221; 
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&#8220;And that doesn’t mean that you don’t have incredible directors and special effects people doing beautiful artwork,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But what does it mean? What do these films, what will it give you? Aside from a kind of consummation of something and then eliminating it from your mind, your whole body, you know? So what is it giving you?&#8221;
The “Goodfellas” director said he’s not opposed to technology as a whole, citing IMAX and 3D as innovative ways to enhance filmmaking. But he still has no love for the comic book genre. 
&#8220;I’m looking forward to new ways,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You gotta say something with a movie. Otherwise, what’s the point of making it? You’ve got to be saying something.&#8221;
Scorsese got into hot water with Marvel fans in 2019 when he compared superhero films to “theme parks” during an interview with Empire magazine. 
“I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema,” the director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/avengers-directors-respond-to-martin-scorsese-nobody-owns-cinema">said at the time</a>. “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comics">Comic</a> creator Alan Moore pledged to donate future movie royalties he received to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/black-lives-matter">Black Lives Matter</a>.
The 69-year-old author is best known for his work on “Watchmen,” “V for Vendetta,” “The Ballad of Halo Jones,” “Swamp Thing,” “Batman: The Killing Joke,” and “From Hell.” Moore typically avoids public appearances but shared some of his thoughts in an <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/alan-moore-comic-books-black-lives-matter-watchmen/">interview</a> with The Telegraph published on Wednesday.
The comic writer hasn’t wanted his name associated with big-screen adaptations of his work in the past. He previously shared his movie royalties with the film&#8217;s writers and creative types, but no more. 
“I no longer wish it to even be shared with them. I don’t really feel, with the recent films, that they have stood by what I assumed were their original principles,” Moore told the outlet. “So I asked for DC Comics to send all of the money from any future TV series or films to Black Lives Matter.”
The “V for Vendetta” creator said he’s become a recluse partly due to his popularity with the public. 
“I’d talk to people and they were looking at me like they were having some sort of religious experience rather than an ordinary conversation. So I’ve sort of retired into what I probably originally thought a writer’s life was like, where you sit at home and write books,” he explained.
Moore has been openly critical of the modern comic industry, including the concept of comics for adult audiences.
“Now they’re called ‘graphic novels’, which sounds sophisticated and you can charge a lot more for them. What appealed to me most about comics is no more, and these innocent and inventive and imaginative superhero characters from the Forties, Fifties, Sixties are being recycled to a modern audience as if they were adult fare,” he said.
Moore continued, “I didn’t mean my experiments with comics to be immediately taken up as something that the whole industry should do. When I was doing things like Watchmen, I was not saying that dark psychopathic characters are really cool, but that does seem to be the message that the industry took for the next 20 years.”
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He told the interviewer that he wished he had never entered the comic industry in the first place.
Moore is currently working on fantasy books but is also critical of how he perceives those as formulaic, just like comics. 
“Fantasy these days seems to have been boiled down to a kind of J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin world of warriors and dragons and, for some reason, dwarves. The fantasy books that inspire me are things like Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy, which is actually about the real world in some ways, the changing nature of British society,” he said.
“Fantasy has no restrictions whatsoever, so it’s a bit lame to be constantly hitting the same note on the piano,” Moore added. “Let’s have fantastic visions that nobody has ever seen before — and lay off people of restricted height for a change.”

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Comic Writer Alan Moore Said He’s Donating His DC Movie Royalties To Black Lives Matter

Comic Writer Alan Moore Said He's Donating His DC Movie Royalties To Black Lives Matter

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“The View” host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whoopi-goldberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> is co-writing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/comic-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comic book</a> about a grandmother <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/superheroes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">superhero</a> whose powers are activated by menopause.
The 67-year-old celebrity is co-writing the book for Dark Horse Comics along with Jaime Paglia, who worked on The CW series “The Flash” and Sci-Fi Channel’s “Eureka.” 
“The Change” follows a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woman</a> named Isabel Frost who feels stuck in a rut and unhappy with the direction of her life. She has friends, a relationship, and a grandson who loves video games, but she also feels bored with the “stagnant” routine of everyday life. Then, she reaches the age of menopause, which spurs her superhero powers to activate.
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Whoopi Goldberg&#39;s debut graphic novel, The Change, arrives this November! Learn more about the new superhero story, co-written by <a href="https://twitter.com/jaimepaglia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaimepaglia</a>, at<a href="https://twitter.com/screenrant?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@screenrant</a> :<a href="https://t.co/PbtvKjL7EC">https://t.co/PbtvKjL7EC</a>
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<a href="https://screenrant.com/whoopi-goldberg-dark-horse-comics-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Screen Rant</a> offered a first look at the new project, which included images of the character wearing a long black leather coat and holding a blue and purple flame. The menopausal superhero Isabel Frost bears a striking resemblance to Goldberg.
“The Change” has a scheduled release date of November 28.
This isn’t Goldberg’s first foray into writing, but it will be her first time experimenting with the world of graphic novels. The “Sister Act” star has written multiple titles including children’s books such as “Sugar Plum Ballerinas” and “Whoopi’s Big Book of Manners.”
The “View” host has openly <a href="https://people.com/health/celebrities-talking-about-menopause/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> her experience with menopause before, joking during a standup about the lack of treatments to help with hot flashes. 
Goldberg has been sharing controversial opinions for years on “The View,” including her recent comments about how children having transgender surgeries is supported by the Bible.
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“My God, this is a party that says we believe in parents’ rights,” Goldberg exclaimed during a recent episode, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/god-was-really-clear-whoopi-suggests-the-bible-supports-parents-getting-trans-surgeries-for-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “You’re telling me that as a parent, I don’t — I’m not smart enough to decide if my child and I need to have gender-affirming — or doctors are not involved.”
“So what is — I can’t decide what my kid reads, I can’t decide for my child, what my child says is going on,” Goldberg said. “You’re telling me your beliefs — you’re — and they keep saying it, and I keep saying, ‘What Bible are you reading? Because God was really clear!&#8217;”

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A comic book centered on a vigilante tracking down fentanyl dealers at the southern border went looking for public funds to support it, only to get banned on Twitter, then reportedly get shadow-banned on Indiegogo. Then the comic book was banned by Kickstarter after <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/private-american-censored-elon-musk-twitter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leftists complained</a> the book featured “racist propaganda.”
The Left-wing Daily Kos described “The Private American,” whose protagonist is a Cuban-American and ex-Green Beret who suffered tragedy at the hands of drug cartels before seeking them out, as “racist propaganda and stochastic terrorism disguised as a funny book.”
“It’s a classic vigilante story in the American mode,” Mike Baron, the book’s author, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC8b5TkPEsc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “I used to write ‘Punisher’ for Marvel, and this is the same type of character. In fact, this book came about when I asked myself, ‘What would the punisher be doing today?’ He’d be down on the southern border trying to stop the flow of fentanyl into the country.”
“There’s nothing against the immigrants who are trying to cross over just to get a better life; in fact, he’s there to save them, and that’s when we first meet him. He’s saving a young girl from being raped,” he added.
The <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-private-american#/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indiegogo page</a> described the comic book thus:
<blockquote>The US border with Mexico has been overrun with lawless coyotes flowing across the Rio Grande, bringing in weapons, smuggling illegal drugs, and trafficking sex slaves across the country! Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed and seemingly powerless, while the U.S. government refuses to help. In fact, the administration seems to actively support open borders …
But when the violence reaches his doorstep, one man takes matters into his own hands …</blockquote>
“Private American permanently suspended on Twitter, shadow-banned on Indiegogo &#8230; suspended indefinitely on Kickstarter,” Fox News’ Todd Piro pointed out. “How are you going to make money now?”
“A number of us who produce comics that don’t fit into the rigid left-wing mode, we are exploring new crowd-funding possibilities,” Baron stated.
“Just how woke has the comic book industry become?” Piro asked.
“It’s pretty woke, as you know, and the sales are falling,” Baron replied. “There’s some question whether Marvel and DC will continue to publish comics in the future because sales are so low. Meanwhile, there’s a whole bunch of us; we call ourselves ComicsGate, that produce comics outside the normal realm, and we crowd-fund our comics, and they’re highly entertaining, and many of the comics are far more entertaining than better illustrated than those that are being produced by the big two.”
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