
Last week, we reported that Oscar-nominated actor Michael Keaton was in early talks with Sony and Marvel to play the main villain in the highly-anticipated Spider-Man: Homecoming. No details about the character had been given, and the deal wasn’t finalized at the time of the report. Today we have a new report that talks between the actor and the studios have fallen through, and that Michael Keaton has parted ways with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Continue reading


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When the Punisher first entered the world of Marvel Comics, in a 1974 issue of “The Amazing-Spider Man”, he was supposed to be called “Assassin.” The series’s writer, Gerry Conway, envisioned the character as a villain who would eventually become an antihero, but Marvel’s Stan Lee advised against the name, saying it could never be used for a good guy. Lee, at least as he told Alter Ego magazine in a 2005 interview, suggested “The Punisher” instead.