Hit the jump for my recap of the panel. Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens April 4, 2014.
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo come out on stage followed by stars Frank Grillo, Emily Van Camp, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and Chris Evans.THI SIS THE SUPER BOWL SPOT! IT LOOKS AAMAZING! what are your thoughts ont he trailer we want to know wbout them!
Paramount Pictures and director Michael Bay have released the Super Bowl spot for Transformers: Age of Extinction, and this is the first ever footage we’ve seen from the film. It looks like it could be a pretty radical Transformers movie, and I think the new robot designs are really slick.
The movie is set to be released on June 27th, and the action adventure stars Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles, Li Bingbing, T.J. Miller, Han Geng, and Titus Welliver.
It looks like Ant-Man has found its lead actress. Marvel is is currently in talks with Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) to be in the Edgar Wright-directed movie. If cast, she will join Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, and Michael Pena.
According to Variety, there’s a possibility that she will play Hank Pym’s daughter and Scott Lang’s love interest. This isn’t confirmed, and you should probably know that Pym didn’t have a daughter in the comics. But that doesn’t mean Wright and screenwriter Joe Cornish couldn’t have added a new character to the story. Of course, the other possibility could be Wasp.
We’ll eventually find out everything we want to know. Whoever the character is, it seems like Lilly would be a great addition to the Marvel cinematic universe. The film is set to go into production in April.
Director Josh Trank and Fox are still in the process of casting the main characters for their reboot of Fantastic Four. As of right now, Michael B. Jordan is attached as Johnny Storm and Miles Teller will most likely end up in the role of Reed Richards. THR is now reporting that Kate Mara and Emmy Rossum have tested for the part of Sue Storm. The report also says that an actor named Christian Cook has tested for Ben Grimm, a.k.a. The Thing. I have no idea who he is, though. But this is the interesting part of the article!
Buried in the article is a quote that says Doctor Doom could actually be played by a woman, which would be incredibly interesting. This is the statement,
“The studio is likely to go for a big name and isn’t ruling out switching genders for the role.”
The thing I’m most looking forward about this news is what the fan reaction will be if the studio actually does cast a woman in the role. I personally don’t care because I never really found the villain that interesting anyway. Making the villain a woman will definitely turn some heads though.
We also previously posted a leaked plot synopsis for the movie. You won’t be able to read it at this point because the Fox legal team made us take it down, which only tells me that the story and character details we posted were in fact true.
It looks like Star Wars fans won’t have to wait long to see the new animated series Star Wars Rebels. Jedi News got their hands on a company shareholder letter that reveals that the series is scheduled to launch this summer as a Disney Channel movie.
“[W]e’re introducing Star Wars Rebels to television audiences this summer with a movie and a series of shorts on Disney Channel. Followed by a continuing series on Disney XD.”
The series looks and sounds like it’s going to be incredible, and it’s awesome that we won’t have to wait that much longer to see it.
Star Wars Rebels is set between the events of Episode III and IV — an era spanning almost two decades never-before explored on-screen. It takes place in a time when the Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy and hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking shape.
The full series is expected to debut this fall.
If you don’t want to know anything about what you might see in the post-credits scene for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, then I suggest you stop reading now.
You’ve seen the trailers, so you know this movie not only looks like a sequel to Captain America, but it looks like it could be a sequel to The Avengers as well. So it should come as no surprise that the post-credit sequence would lead us into Avengers: Age of Ultron. The following information comes from Lainey Gossip, who has already seen the sequence. Here’s what they say:
… there’s a big reveal that general audiences won’t see coming (and ought to open some doors to fix that awful SHIELD show). But the thing that’s probably going to leave people talking the most is the post-credits stinger. They’re calling them “The Twins”, the brother-sister team of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, and they don’t look like any Marvel heroes we’ve met to date. Having seen them, I am really sad for Fox and the X-Men.
They go on to say that, in comparison, the stuff Fox and Bryan Singer are doing with X-Men is “outright embarrassing.” Damn, I’m already crazy excited for The Winter Solider, and now there’s this to build on it! I have no doubt that once again, Marvel is going to blow away their fans.
We’ve heard from Kevin Smith and Ben Affleck’s wife Jennifer Garner about the look of the “Batsuit” in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman film, but what about his longtime friend and collaborator Matt Damon? Speaking with MTV, Damon had this to say about the suit, and the film’s storyline:
“I’ve seen a picture, I have seen a picture. It’s excellent. And I’ve talked to him about the storyline, and it’s great. Look I’ve known him for thirty-something years, I’d be the first guy being like ‘Buddy, what are you doing?’ but I think the movie is going to be great.”
What do you hope the Batsuit looks like in Batman vs. Superman? Better yet, what do you think the storyline will be? Sound off below!
Written by Chris Terrio, from a screenplay by David S. Goyer, the Zack Snyder directed film will star Henry Cavill, reprising his role as Superman/Clark Kent, Ben Affleck as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince, Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor and Jeremy Irons as Alfred. Set to open worldwide on May 6, 2016, the film also reunites Man of Steel stars Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane
Taken 2 director Olivier Megaton is going to return to direct the third movie in the franchise that was started by Luc Besson. Apparently Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace will be back to reprise their roles, and now Forest Whitaker is in talks to join them.
Neeson plays retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, and he used his badass skills to track down and rescue his daughter after she was kidnapped in the first film. He was then taken hostage in the sequel and he basically saved himself and his family. I loved the first movie, but didn’t really care for the second. I think it’s kind of ridiculous that we are going to see a third film. I honestly probably won’t even watch it.
I guess they’ll all just get taken again by someone else? Whatever happens, Neeson will be there to save the day! In case you’re wondering why Neeson is even making a third film, it’s because he’s being paid around $20 million! Let’s face it, you’d come back for that much to star in a shitty rehashed movie too.
Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are hard at work shooting 22 Jump Street. Today we give you the first poster for the film featuring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum shooting golden guns into the air.
A trailer for the movie has already been released, and it looks like it will be just as funny and action-packed as the first one.
The film also stars Ice Cube, Nick Offerman, Amber Stevens, Jillian Bell, and Craig Roberts. Here’s the synopsis:
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don’t have to just crack the case – they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
The movie will be released in theaters on June 13th, 2014
Yesterday it was announced that Marvel VP and producer Craig Kyle would be co-writing Thor 3 with Christopher Yost. It’s looking like the third film could follow the Ragnarok storyline. HitFix has a source close to the production that claims this is the direction that the next story could be headed, and that it would be teased at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
“More importantly, if my sources are correct, the end of “Age Of Ultron” sets up a difficult situation for Thor as Midgard and Asgard find themselves looking at a possible war. Could we be looking at the beginning of Ragnarok, brought on by Loki in the guise of Odin? Could the third film find Thor having to fight against the realm that he’s spent so much time defending?”
It’s hard to put confidence in this source since we really have no idea who that source is, but Kyle himself has previously talked about a possible future story arc for the third film, and even hinted at Ragnarok. He talked about all this stuff during a set visit with several websites, saying,
“This is Hall of Science again, another place you’re going to see today. This is gonna be a pretty neat spot that we actually get to explore, which will go into the various breakthroughs and discoveries of the Asgardians where you’ll see functioning models of the Big Bang and all these wonderful technologies that no human has ever laid eyes on before.
“And inside’s gonna be this living tree, which we believe is connected to Yggdrasil, the cosmic tree. And the effects and woes and success of the universe are spoken through this, this living object. So, should the end of all things ever come this would probably be the first thing to fall. And we have a really tremendous scene in here with Thor and Odin.”
When “The end of all things” was brought up, Kyle was asked if he was talking about Ragnarok and he replied,
“It’s one of the bigger stories, right? [LAUGHS] So, who knows? [LAUGHS]“
For those of you not familiar with the story arc, Ragnarok is an apocalypse of sorts that represents the end of Asgard. Ragnarok is an apocalyptic-battle that the Realm of Asgard has experienced over and over and over again. Ragnarok is a cycle of death and rebirth. It comes in cycles, randomly killing gods and restoring new gods with no knowledge of what took place. This is happening in an effort to sustain Those Who Sit Above in Shadow, which are celestial beings that are the gods of gods. They need this cycle to continue in order to survive. Thor is eventually made aware of this cycle and it pisses him off, because it robs his people of their glory and memory. Thor vows to restore his people’s glory by ending the cycle. This will require Thor to form an alliance with his arch-nemesis Surtur. You can read more details about the story here.
In Norse Mythology and in Marvel Comics there are fallen warriors called the Einherjar, who spend their death feasting and continually fighting. They are waiting for the day of the Ragnarok where they can fight for Asgard once again.
This would make for a pretty epic storyline, and I hope it’s the one that Kyle and Yost are bringing to the big screen!
