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With the release of Marvel’s Ant-Man drawing nearer, we finally know what one of the movie’s main characters looks like. On Thursday, Entertainment Weekly debuted a look at the supervillain Yellow Jacket, played by Corey Stoll. He’s, er, very shiny. For comparison, here’s how the original costume looked in the comic: Although the photo may not look like much,…
Hollywood is nearing a crisis situation. Soon, there will be no more white male actors named Chris left to star in superhero movies. The Chris rumor du jour is that Chris Pine (Star Trek) is in the running to play Green Lantern in DC’s Justice League franchise. If he winds up being cast, Hollywood will have…
James Gunn says Marvel execs found the plot of Guardians 2 to be risky Everyone wants to know what to expect from GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2 despite the fact we are still two years away from seeing the film. But, with Marvel plotting out their projects years in advance, writer/director James Gunn already has…
All-New X-Men #37 To Be Published After #39 Posted February 6, 2015 by by Rich Johnston Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools When this happens, you know there are some serious production issues. It happened with Spawn. It happened with Hawkeye. And now it’s happening with All New X-Men. Because we have this Black…
How do you cover the tree privates of a gigantic, naked plant creature such as Groot? The nether regions of everyone’s favorite one-worded Guardian certainly provided a lot of problems for the Guardians of the Galaxy design team. The Globe and Mail has a fascinating step-by-step Groot breakdown from GOTG visual effects supervisor Nicolas Aithadi,…
According to Joss Whedon, “Of all the heat I’ve ever taken, not having Hank Pym [in the Avengers] was one of the bigger things.” However, Whedon contests that it didn’t make sense to bring in Ant-Man into Earth’s mightiest movie heroes. In an long interview with Empire Magazine, Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon…
Courtesy of UTA Homeland star Morena Baccarin has nabbed the female lead in Deadpool, Fox’s action movie based on the Marvel character. Tim Miller is directing the action-adventure project, which stars Ryan Reynolds as an assassin who undergoes a procedure to cure his cancer that ends up leaving him twisted and scarred but…
The Agent Carter television series has been described ‘a Triumph for Women, Marvel and TV,’ and heralded as an important new chapter in comics culture. But why is this supposedly groundbreaking new show struggling to find an audience? And if Agent Carter fails, does it spell doom for the future of female-led superhero franchises? Agent…
Here’s how Marvel should introduce Peter Parker to the Marvel Cinematic Universe: by killing him off. They’ve done it in the comics. And that development in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe resulted in one of the freshest narrative branches of its Spider-Man mythos, the introduction of Miles Morales, a Black and Latino teenager who becomes an all-new…
Spider-Man is coming to Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today, meaning the web-slinger will make an appearance in an upcoming Marvel film. The deal is a confirmation of long burning rumors that Marvel and Sony were working together to bring the iconic Spider-Man into Marvel’s hugely successful film franchises. The new Spider-Man…