Yeah.
We are going to have ourselves a TIME, here. Avengers: Infinity War comes out April 27th.
Moe Lane
PS: Now would be a good time for Nick Fury to pop back in, by the way.
Tag: marvel
Gemma Chan cast as Kree villain in Captain Marvel movie.
The casting on the Captain Marvel flick looks pretty good: “[Gemma Chan] joins a cast that includes Brie Larson as the title hero along with Samuel L. Jackson as a younger (and two-eyed) Nick Fury, with DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It), Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One, Ready Player One), and Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes). The film will be a “period piece” for Marvel Studios and take place in the early 1990s with the Skrulls as the primary villains.” …they got Jude Law? Ah, he’s going to be the male lead (Mar-vell) and Mendelsohn is going to be the male villain. That sounds promising, not least because Jude Law is a little bit crazy. Not bad crazy, interesting crazy: Continue reading Gemma Chan cast as Kree villain in Captain Marvel movie.
My mini-review for Black Panther.
Short version: nice. Good flick. The wife and I had an excellent time watching it, then we went out for beer and meatballs. Which has nothing to do with Black Panther, but they were excellent meatballs and I like the current seasonal Sam Adams.
The Curious Incident of the Venom suit in the Venom trailer.
“There was no Venom Suit shown in the Venom trailer.”
“That was the curious incident.”
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Hey yeah if you were planning to go see Black Panther next week…
…go get your tickets now. Black Panther is selling out fast; I had to get tickets from a different theater than the one I usually go to. That didn’t happen when I went to go see The Force Awakens the day after it opened. This may not mean anything — I’m getting seats for an evening performance this time, and usually I buy tickets for 10 AM showings — but Marvel can’t be anything but pleased about how their first-day grosses are looking right now.
The ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ trailer.
Oh, OK. We’re good. Everything’s gonna be fine.
That looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, actually. Especially the part where Dr. Pym is fairly obviously all “I don’t give a good goddam about how my suitcase-building will affect the rest of the MCU continuity that’s THEIR problem I got stuff to do.” When you think about it, they’ve been pretty careful so far in trying to minimize (heh) the disruptions from all this hyper-tech; but in the end, this is a superhero universe, and we all came here for human-sized Hello Kitty Pez dispensers being thrown at people. I am, as they say, down with it.
Comes out in July 2018.
Marvel talking about standalone Black Widow flick.
Alternate title: Marvel tacitly concedes Black Widow will survive Infinity War.
Marvel is finally pushing ahead with the highly anticipated “Black Widow” standalone movie starring Scarlett Johansson, with Jac Schaeffer penning the script.
Sources say this is still very early development, as the film has no greenlight, but naming a writer is the closest the studio has come to moving forward on a standalone pic. Marvel President Kevin Feige met with several candidates before tapping Schaeffer, and Marvel execs met with Johansson to discuss what they wanted from a “Black Widow” writer.
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Another ‘Black Panther’ trailer drops.
Excuse me while I be slightly male: there is something incredibly hot about a tall, lithe woman in a red dress who knows how to use a goram quarterstaff. I could watch quarterstaff battles in nightclubs all day. Or at least for the seven minute extended scene that I know is going to show up in the Black Panther movie, and that’s all right with me.
I TOLD YOU ALL MARVEL/DISNEY NEEDED TO BUY 20TH CENTURY FOX TO GET THE FANTASTIC FOUR.
I told you all back in JANUARY: “I’m starting to think that the only real solution here is to have Marvel and/or Disney invade Fox, conquer it, and annex outright the F4 and X-Men properties.” And, do you know what happened? I WAS RIGHT. It’s looking like a done deal (Via Allahpundit): Marvel/Disney is going to acquire 20th Century Fox as soon as the lawyers finish doing… whatever it is that they do.
And after that, geez, Marvel/Disney gets the one thing that they needed to keep the MCU interesting for the next ten years: new superheroes and villains that aren’t derivative of the original ones. They’re not going to have to scrape the bottom of the barrel; in fact, they already have. Marvel did the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Freaking-Man because the Fantastic Four and the X-Men had already been sold. Funny how that worked out, huh?
The ‘Avengers: Infinity War Trailer Reaction Mashup’ video.
And I got sent this via email by Constant Reader BigGator5*:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAYUXb21rPQ&feature=youtu.be
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: the that bit with Peter Parker’s Spider-Sense FINALLY manifesting? Yeah, I was totally down with that. Just like everybody in that video, apparently.
Moe Lane
*It’s been a long day, unfortunately. Both kids had to stay home from school; one was upchucking and the other was looking like he was considering it. I once ignored the warning signs, in a similar situation. Once.