

King and DuVernay face the “Thanos Problem”: Simply put, to the uninitiated audience the traits shared by Darkseid and Thanos are so substantial that it borders on the ridiculous.īoth are giant blue/purple aliens who look like they could be chiseled from stone. (Deadline broke the news last year that DuVernay would be directing The New Gods.) There’s even stronger links between Darkseid and the Marvel Comics villain called Thanos - and that could pose a cosmic-level challenge for DuVernay and Tom King, the DC Comics star writer who won another Eisner Award at this month’s Comic-Con in San Diego and began working on the New Gods script with DuVernay the next day (see embedded tweets below). Television To Part Ways As Overall Deal Comes To An End Deadline
