Warner Bros. plotting live-action Nightwing movie

Warner Bros. is plotting a new DC superhero film based on the Batman-centric character Nightwing.

Chris McKay, (director The Lego Batman Movie), is in negotiations to helm the new live-action film. Nightwing, aka Dick Grayson, is perhaps best known for being the original Robin. Grayson was the youngest member of a family of acrobats known as the Flying Graysons. He was first introduced in Detective Comics No. 38 in April 1940. After his parents were murdered, he was taken in as the legal ward of Bruce Wayne/Batman. He then became Robin and teamed up with the Dark Knight on many an adventure to fight crime in the city of Gotham.

Grayson famously shed his persona in the 1980s as the character aged up and became the leader of the Teen Titans.

Hanks to publish his first book

Hollywood star Tom Hanks will publish his first book in October. The 60-year-old actor will release a collection of short stories, Uncommon Type: Some Stories, with Alfred A. Knopf publishers on October 24.

Uncommon Type features 17 short stories that all revolve around typewriters. The stories follow such characters as a man immigrating to New York to flee civil war and a person who becomes an ESPN star after bowling a series of perfect games.

“In the two years of working on the stories, I made movies in New York, Berlin, Budapest, and Atlanta and wrote in all of them. I wrote in hotels during press tours. I wrote on vacation. I wrote on planes, at home, and in the office,” Hanks said in a statement.

“I am thrilled by the narrative range on display in this collection, and by the humour and humanity Tom brings to his work. This is an accomplished debut,” Alfred A. Knopf editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta added.

Published in Dawn, Young World March 25th, 2017