Here’s our Geekend Update for the week of 1/19/20.

• Arrowverse producer, Marc Guggenheim seemingly confirms that The Flash movie will revolve around the popular comic event ‘Flashpoint.‘ “The trick with the scene is that I didn’t want to and they didn’t want me to do anything that stepped on the toes of the Flashpoint movie that they’re developing.”

• Disney drops “Fox” from Searchlight Pictures and renames 20th Century Fox to “20th Century Studios.”
• A National Treasure 3 script has been commissioned by Disney according to an interview where writer Chris Bremner also discusses work on Bad Boys 4!

• Billie Eilish has been hired to perform the title song for No Time to Die, and is the youngest person to ever write and record a Bond theme, at the age of 18.
• Han Zimmer has been hired to compose the music for No Time to Die, his first film in the franchise.
• Series producer, Barbara Broccoli, had some comments in a recent Variety interview where she mentioned that she doesn’t mind a James Bond of a different race or nationality, but that she would mind a female Bond, and thinks “we should be creating new characters for women – strong female characters. I’m not particularly interested in taking a male character and having a woman play it. I think woman are far more interesting than that.”

• Lord of the Rings: Christopher Tolkien dies at age 95.
• A full cast list was announced via the official Lord of the Rings on Prime Twitter page for the upcoming series, which takes place in the Second Age. The cast, in the order announced, are as follows: Robert Aramayo, Owain Arthur, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Budge, Morfydd Clark, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Ema Horvath, Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Tyroe Muhafidin, Sophia Nomvete, Megan Richards, Dylan Smith, Charlie Vickers, and Daniel Weyman.

• Comicbook.com are claiming the untitled Spider-Man 3 film will begin filming in July and run through November. They’re filming in Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and Iceland, reportedly.
• There’s some new footage of Black Widow in a special look trailer that dropped this week. View our reaction here.

• The Morbius trailer drops and has a surprising MCU connection in it. But is it in the MCU? We break down why it isn’t in this post.

• FandomWire is claiming that Ewan McGregor has left the Kenobi series. This has not been verified by any other trades, and most everyone agree it is fake news.
• Star Wars: Duel of the Fates was the original name for Episode IX, according to lengthy leaked script details presented by Robert Meyer Burnett. As a man who’s worked in and around Hollywood his whole life, I believe the veracity of this report highly.
• Taika Waititi is rumored to be courted for directing a Star Wars film according to THR. He’s still on track to direct Thor: Love and Thunder, and is believed to be working on WB’s adaptation of the anime classic Akira after that. Taika has gone to Twitter to confirm these are indeed “Rumors“.

• Watchmen will not receive second season as Damon Lindelof bows out. Lindelof told USA Today that he has no plans for a second season, and HBO has no plans to pursue a second season.