Zak Crawley scored a brilliant 267 in the third Test against Pakistan and has won accolades from all over the world. Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly too has lauded the efforts of the 22-year-old, and has gone on to say that Crawley should look to represent England in all three formats.
The Pakistan Cricket Board are all set to host Zimbabwe at home in October-November apart from starting off with their domestic season in a bio-secure environment to counter the COVID-19 threat.
Legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar has described the current Indian Test side under Virat Kohli as the best ever, saying that the lethal bowling attack makes it more balanced than the teams of earlier eras. Under Kohli, India reached the top of ICC Test rankings and the team is currently at number one spot in the World Test Championship standings. The highlight of the team's success is the first Test series win in Australia in 2018-19 tour..
The Australian cricket team departed Sunday for a tour to England like no other in the long history between the two nations.
There is a lot of talk of how England and Australia players can avoid the seven day mandatory quarantine in UAE upon their arrival. While some franchise are trying to work out ways to avoid such a situation where their players have to sit out of matches due to quarantine, some are against it. But there is certainly a way Aussie and English players can avoid the quarantine.Few would disagree with the John Wick series being called the best action series to come out of Hollywood in recent memory. The first film kicked things off with frenetic high body-count action scenes and its sequels only upped the ante from there. Each John Wick adventure is over the top, overly violent and an overall excellent portfolio of impressive action scenes. But it seems that was not always going to be the case.
Director Chad Stahelski recently revealed that the first film’s original screenplay only saw Wick kill a measly 3 people. For context, that would be approximately 77 fewer deaths than in the final cut, meaning that this draft would be missing over 95% of the movie’s kills. Stahelski recently explained how the film came to be so different from the original script when speaking to ComicBook.com, saying:
“I think [Keanu Reeves] sent [the script] to me on a Friday and I read it maybe that day and thought about it over the weekend. It was much more contained. I think only three people died in the original script, two were in a car crash. It was very, very minimal, and it was slightly different. I read it, and I’d always had this idea about Greek mythology and how to tell more a fablestic kind of story, make a surreal action movie so it wasn’t so grounded and gray, just something different.”
He added that:
“People joke about [the kill count], but the way I choreograph with my guys and stuff, we just choreograph motion and set pieces and we try to get this balletic kind of dance, live performance feel to everything. It’s just when you shoot people in the head, they can’t get back up so you can reuse a stunt guy. Every time Keanu moves, he does two half circles. He’s killed five guys. So I got to keep using more and more stunt guys.”
Stahelski has directed every John Wick film released so far, which explains how they’ve all been able to maintain this sensibility, even as the number of nameless goons to be dispatched increases and the set pieces become more fantastically exaggerated. According to the director, the sequels’ constant escalation stems not from a perceived need to outdo prior films, but rather a desire to adapt to the star’s ever-advancing finesse.
“I think, just by nature, because Keanu’s gotten so much better with the choreography and the martial arts and the motion and we change weapons so much and we get bigger set pieces, that, just by its very nature, because the scene grows, the body count grows. But we don’t start off going, ‘Okay, what was in number three? How do we beat it for number four?’ We just choreograph and it happens.”
What will this mean for the upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4? Stahelski has so far remained silent, but with his position in the director’s chair secured and Keanu Reeves probably having ample time to train while in lockdown, signs seem to suggest that the next John Wick outing will keep this series tradition alive and well.
We knew that The CW was going to pull out all the stops for “Crisis on Infinite Earths” and yet, the sheer number of cameos and surprise appearances still managed to elicit gasps and generate shockwaves online.
But perhaps the most unexpected and wild addition was the DCEU’s Barry Allen, portrayed by Ezra Miller. After all, the Arrowverse and DC’s cinematic franchise have no continuity with each other whatsoever. So, it was utterly surreal to see Grant Gustin’s Scarlet Speedster next to the alternate version from the big screen. Does this mean that a future crossover with the two universes is a possibility, though? Well, the cameo has certainly got people talking and speculating, so it wouldn’t be much of a stretch.
And it seems that The Flash showrunner Eric Wallace is also interested in a future reoccurrence. The producer recently talked about how great it was to shoot the two speedsters, noting:
“Ezra was so delightful. It was such a delight to bring him into our family. Everybody welcomed him with open arms. He was so terrific to work with. Seeing him and Grant for the first time, both in their separate Flash costumes. I wish everybody could see the first take, which I saw because I was there obviously. It was electric.”
But is there hope for another crossover in the future? Well, Wallace is apparently keen to see it happen, even though the logistics may discourage them, as they almost did with the “Crisis” event.
“It said to us, ‘Huh, if we could get The Flash from the DC Extended Universe into the Arrowverse, this can open the door for other characters,'” He continued. “So I don’t know what’s going to happen in 2021 and 2022, things have obviously slowed down because of COVID and because of production winding down. But I would certainly love to see the Arrowverse have the Amazons and the Wonder Woman universe come to us, or Aquaman and his universe. I would love to see Cyborg.
“All of these things are welcomed now because of this one event, this one crazy idea that again, I’m not sure who had it, but Marc Guggenheim made that call and when he called me and said, ‘How can we pull this off? I need your help’ I immediately said yes. And then the rest of the incredible Flash crew because we had to film it. Even though it was appearing in Arrow, Ezra and the DC rep who was with him came to our Flash sets. It was actually filmed by our crew on our sets. And it was one of our directors in house that had to do that scene.”
Tell us, though, would you like to see Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry, and Ray Fisher’s Cyborg make an appearance in future Arrowverse annual crossover events? What about Ezra Miller teaming up with Gustin’s Barry Allen on The Flash? As usual, let us know your thoughts in the comments down below.
