SPOILERS: Don’t read any further if you don’t want to know:

Before I begin, I just want to say that I’ve been seeing this characters appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy plastered all over the internet, so I don’t think it’s a spoiler at this point. I just wanted to provide the fans who thought it was cool to see the character with information on how the character actually ended up in the film, and if we’ll see him again.

George Lucas‘ Howard the Duck movie was the first Marvel film ever made, and an embarrassment. I actually tried watching the movie again recently, and I couldn’t even get 30 minutes into it. Regardless of how bad the movie was though, he has still got the nostalgia thing going for him, and it was awesome to see him in Guardians. If anyone could make Howard work, it’s Marvel and director James Gunn.

While talking to Empire, Gunn revealed how Howard came to be in the movie saying:

“I think it was some combination of me and the editor Fred Raskin who said, ‘Let’s put Howard The Duck in there. What if The Collector looks over and sees Howard The Duck sitting there?’ And I wrote down the line, ‘Whaddya let it lick you like that for? Gross.’ Fred and I thought it was hilarious, but we weren’t sure that (Head of Marvel Studios) Kevin Feige would go for it. But we told Kevin and Kevin couldn’t stop laughing, so that’s how it came about.”

When asked about Howard the Duck possibly getting his own movie, Gunn replied:

“I’ll be honest with you, I was just talking about it with my assistant right now (Laughs). It’s possible Howard could reappear as more of a character in the Marvel Universe. But if people think that’s going to lead to a Howard The Duck movie, that’s probably not going to happen in the next four years. Who knows after that?”

I don’t think the character needs his own film, but it would be cool to see him pop up every now and then. In a separate interview with CBR, Kevin Feige talked about Howard’s cameo as well, saying:

“I think it would be fun to lay claim to Howard and to remind people that he’s more than just a pseudonym for film failure. And that he is a Marvel character. That would be fun.”

Feige then went on to talk about the famous Disney lawsuit threat that forced Marvel to give Howard a different character design and wear pants so that he didn’t look like Donald Duck:

“And no legal wrangling over pants with Disney this time! No. I wasn’t even aware of all that stuff until recently!”

Sony Pictures continues to expand their Spider-Man cinematic universe. The next film set to be released in the franchise is writer and director Drew Goddard‘s Sinister Six. That’s the first of several films that will revolve around Spider-Man’s rogue gallery of villains. That movie is coming in 2016, and The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is now set for 2018.

According to Deadline, the studio is now looking to add a female superhero to the mix. They’ve hired Lisa Joy Nolan (Pushing Daisies, Burn Notice, Westworld) to work on the script for the character’s story. We don’t know exactly which character the film will center on yet, but Black Cat, Silver Sable, Firestar, and Spider-Woman are a few characters that come to mind. But right now any of these names are speculation. I will say that the Black Cat character was already introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, played by Felicity Jones, so that is a strong possibility.

It is only a matter of time before we see a comic book movie that centers on female superhero, and this is the first one that has kind of been announced in this new generation of superhero movies that is actually going into development. Hopefully it turns out better than the Electra and Catwoman movies. Those did not work at all.

The report also mentions that the title of the Venom movie being developed by Alex Kurtzman is called Venom Carnage. No other details are given, as it’s just mentioned in passing, but if the word “Carnage” is in the title, does that mean we’ll see the character Carnage in the movie?! I sure hope so, because I would love to see Carnage finally brought to life on the big screen!

There’s a lot of potential with these Spider-Man spin-off movies. There’s some decent talent being hired to help in their development, so hopefully they turn out great.

Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff has been tweeting some clues that clearly tease a superhero she will be playing as part of a “super secret job.” There’s a photo that shows her having a cast made for her face, and then a little glimpse of a red costume.

There have been a lot of rumors and speculation regarding what superhero or villain Sackhoff could play. She’s already expressed interest in Captain Marvel and Harley Quinn. We do know that at one point Marvel was discussing a potential project with her.

On July 29th she said the following:

“I’m wearing red leather to my meeting with @TheRealStanLee today, sorta just seemed appropriate.”

A few days later these two photos popped up:“Headed out for day one of a super secret job….I will send photo clues throughout the next 3 days! Clue #1”

So, the best news we ever heard was back in February when we learned that Paul Bettany would play the Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Bettany has this weird quality of easygoing intensity, and no matter what kind of terrible movie he is in he reads every line like it’s Shakespeare. He is (was?) great as JARVIS, but we’re excited to see him in actual action. Our colleagues at Superhero Hype recently interviewed him about his role in the Avengers sequel. Here are some highlights:

On getting the part:

For a long while I discovered, having playing JARVIS, I wasn’t allowed to then play another character and Joss Whedon and I got on very well and he looked for a way to make that work and found it, though I can’t say what the relationship is between Vision and JARVIS.

On what makes the Vision interesting:

The thing that appealed to me is that this sort of nascent creature being born, being both omnipotent and totally naive, the sort of danger of that and complex nature of a thing being born that is that powerful and that created in a second and the choices he makes morally are really complex and interesting. They’ve really managed to maintain all of that, the old image I love is of him crying, I think it’s really expressed kind of beautifully in this “Avengers” film.

i know i am excited to see what becomes of vision!  he was always an importatn part of the team!  What do you think!