Jon Favreau Confirmed for ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Appearance

The all-star cast for Spider-Man: Homecoming just keeps growing, with Jon Favreau confirmed to reprise his role as Happy Hogan for Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Jon Favreau last played Happy Hogan, good friend, security and driver for Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 (2013) – we last saw him waking up from a coma, after he was seriously injured in an explosion resulting from the unstable Extremis.

As we haven’t seen him since, we don’t know the extent of his injuries or if there’s been permanent damage caused – judging by the fates of others caught up in those blasts, it’s likely that could be the case.

Jon Favreau will also, more than likely be joining Robert Downey Jr. for his cameo in the movie. Downey will be reprising his role as Iron Man. It’s more than likely they’ll both be paying Peter Parker a visit to assist with updates to the suit that Iron Man created for Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War.

Spider-Man: Homecoming will star Tom Holland as the leading web-slinger, and is due to hit theatres July 17th, 2017.

First Avengers: Infinity War Set Photo Released Shows Josh Brolin As Thanos

So the Production of The Avengers: Infinity War is not set to start until November but The Russo Brothers are already busy getting Pre-Production under way. They have shown this by way of a on set photo to show there rehearsal time with Josh Brolin in his role as The Mad Titan Thanos.

There is not much to see from this picture for those of you who were hoping for any kind of big reveal. The image shows Brolin in a Purple motion capture suit likely allowing the actor to get into character for the role.

The last time we saw Thanos was in the credits cut scene after The Avengers: Age Of Ultron where he removed the Infinity Gauntlet minus the infinity stones whilst clearly annoyed that another one had slipped out of his grasp and says “Fine. I’ll do it myself”

The battle with Thanos has been a long time coming after he attacked New York via the way of Loki and a Chitauri army. It will be interesting to see if he tells The Avengers that it was him who orchestrated the whole thing and as we know when the team are angered it can go either of two ways.

We know that Thanos does not currently have any of the Infinity Stones to place on his gauntlet so he still has plenty of work to do to obtain them all and it will be interesting to see how he manages this and how much chaos and destruction is caused to do this as they are all over the galaxy. We will have to wait some time to see how he manages to do this as we still have Doctor Strange, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther movies to come first before this movie is released on May 4th 2018.

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Chris Hemsworth’s Body Scared John Krasinski Off Cap Role

Imagine an alternate universe, where the Marvel Cinematic Universe got cast in a completely different way. Rumour has it that Tom Cruise was in the running for Iron Man, Joaquin Phoenix could have been the Hulk, and Emily Blunt could have been Black Widow. But Blunt did not choose wisely, and honoured her commitment to a turkey of enormous proportions, Jack Black vehicle Gulliver’s Travels. Well played, Em! Her husband John Krasinski (The Office) was almost part of the franchise too, as he made the shortlist to play Captain America. (Fun Fact: If you go on IMDB trivia, you will see that John Krasinski was short listed for loads of major movie roles…. There’s sooo many!)

Krasinski got the enviable experience of auditioning for the role of Cap, and even got to wear the famous suit. However, Krasinski told Conan O’Brien on a recent episode of his talk show that he pulled out of the shortlist after meeting Thor star Chris Hemsworth. Krasinski said “I was putting on the suit, and I got right to my waist, I was still shirtless. I was feeling pretty good about myself. I wasn’t 13 Hours yet, but felt pretty good. And then all of a sudden, Chris Hemsworth walks by as Thor, and goes, ‘Hey, mate.’ And I was like, ‘I’m good. This is stupid. I’m not Captain America.'”

He’s not given up hope though. Krasinski is a huge Marvel fan and would love to be part of the Universe – possibly as a villain. Considering everyone on the planet appears to be getting featured in Avengers: Infinity War, surely there’s got to be something he can do!

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16 New Images Released For Doctor Strange Movie

Marvel have confirmed that the UK release date for Doctor Strange has been brought forward. The film was due to be released on November 4th in the US and the UK release was set for October 28th.

But now Marvel have pushed the UK release date forward by 3 days bringing the release date to October 25th this also lands on a school holiday so that they can take full advantage to increase the amount of people who go and see the film.

They have also released some new images of the film which can be seen below.

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Agents Of SHIELD: Season 4 Premiere Pictures And Info

We are less than two weeks away now until the Season 4 premiere of ‘Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD’ and in lieu of an actual trailer, ABC has begun releasing a steady stream of information. The latest is the official press release and pictures for the episode, which reveal some interesting tidbits of information.

In light of the Sokovia Accords, and with Hydra obliterated, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been legitimatized again and no longer needs to operate in the shadows. Since the world presumes that Coulson is dead, the organization needed a new Director to be the face of the organization. Coulson finds himself back in the role as an agent and teamed with Mack, and together they are tasked with tracking down and confirming the presence of Enhanced people, aka Inhumans. Agent May is tasked with training specialist strike teams, and Fitz and Simmons have taken a big step forward in their relationship.

In the season premiere episode, “The Ghost,” Ghost Rider is coming, and S.H.I.E.L.D will never be the same.

Guest starring are Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, Gabriel Luna as Robbie Reyes, Mallory Jansen as Aida, Lorenzo James Henrie as Gabe, Briana Venskus as Agent Piper, Max Osinski as Agent Red, Ricardo Walker as Agent Prince.

As well as confirming that Ghost Rider will be appearing in the first episode, the Guest Star list notes some interesting new and returning players. It’s great to know Natalia Cordova Buckley will return as ‘Yo-Yo’ hopefully with an expanded role, whilst some of the Agents listed have appeared before, and hopefully point to the show expanding on existing characters. We also have confirmation that Mallory Jansen as ‘Aida’ will be appearing early on, whilst Lorenzo Henrie (Fear The Walking Dead) is set to appear as Robbie’s brother ‘Gabe’, signalling the family dynamic Marvel is so excited about with this character will be there from the off.

ABC also released several promo images from the episode featuring Ming Na Wen as ‘Agent May’, Henry Simmons as ‘Alphonso Mackenzie’, Gabriel Luna as ‘Robbie Reyes’ and John Hannah returning as ‘Doctor Radcliffe’. This last one is the most interesting as he isn’t listed under the guest stars. Is it possible he’ll be bumped up to series regular this season? Given how brilliant the character is, I certainly hope so.

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‘Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD’ Season 4 premieres Tuesday, September 20th 10pm on ABC.

Black Panther Movie To Be “Grittier” Than Previous Marvel Films

It’s common knowledge that Marvel’s superhero outings are much lighter in tone compared to DC’s, however it appears the upcoming ‘Black Panther’ movie could be a bit of a break from tradition. Now plenty of Marvel’s films have a significant dose of drama, this year’s ‘Captain America: Civil War’ was packed full of it, but none have ever been too dark, so it’ll be interesting to see what approach ‘Black Panther’ will take.

In an interview with CBR, Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman explained the difference between his superhero and the others:

“For me, most of the time the darker superhero movies are the ones that I gravitate towards, that I love the most. I’m glad that the tone of Black Panther may be a little grittier. I just wanted to establish that from the beginning, that that’s what we were doing. That that’s what I intend to do. I feel like we’ll end up in a place that I’ve always wanted to be when I look at superhero movies. Those are the ones I like the most. It’s exciting to do that.”

Given the different direction ‘Black Panther’ is going compared to Marvel’s other films, Director Ryan Coogler spoke to EW about how he would be keeping it in line with the wider Marvel Universe:

“It’s a specific challenge. What Marvel’s doing, and what you see a lot of studios doing now that Marvel has done it so successfully, is making content that exists in a particular universe, where the characters tie in and crossover.

I think that’s a great creative challenge to me–to make this movie as personal as possible. It’s going to be my most personal movie to date, which is crazy to say, but it’s completely the case. I’m obsessed with this character and this story right now, and I think it’s going to be very unique and still fit into the overall narrative that they’re establishing.”

Each Marvel film tends to tackle a different genre, tone or style, and it will certainly be exciting to see how Black Panther differentiates itself from the rest. The character was already given a warm welcome in ‘Civil War’ and definitely stood out from the rest, so his solo film is set to be interesting indeed.

Black Panther will release in cinemas July 6, 2018.

James Gunn Talks Baby Groot

Following the huge (and surprising) success of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, everyone’s been itching to get the gossip on the sequel, due for release next year. Director James Gunn previously revealed that the movie would feature Baby Groot (scene stealer from the first film) rather than the full grown version. During an appearance at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, Gunn suggested that there may have been some difficulties in the creative choices around the voice of Baby Groot. In the reel shown at Comic Con, Groot had no dialogue and Gunn was cryptic in interviews about how he might sound. However, the avid social media user has given a few answers online, having been bombarded with questions by fans.

What we know:

1. Vin Diesel will be returning to voice Groot in whatever form he may take. Gunn released a photo of a special ‘Groot script’, for Vin’s eyes only, explaining what each of his “I am Groot” lines means

2. Diesel will change his voice for Baby Groot – Gunn stated in an answer to one of many questions regarding the voice that Diesel is a talented voice actor and is able to do ‘many voices’. This suggests it will be all Vin rather than a digitally created voice

3. Gunn is keen to maintain some semblance of reality (as much as you can with a talking tree!) and has stated that Baby/Toddler Groot will not have the same pitch and tone as adult Groot. This means no deep voice out of a tiny baby mouth – sorry!

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 is due for release in May 2017

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‘Agents of SHIELD’ Season 4: First Look At Ghost Rider

With the Season 4 premiere for ‘Agents of SHIELD’ mere weeks away now, it seems ABC is picking up the pace in promoting it. Entertainment Weekly today revealed the first look at Gabriel Luna (Matador) as Robbie Reyes, a.k.a Ghost Rider.

Though the picture doesn’t give us a full reveal as to what Luna will look like as Ghost Rider, Executive Producer Jed Whedon stated how the character would be adapted from his decidedly minimal source material.

“As always, we are going to put our own spin on the character. We are staying true to the comics in the places where we feel like it’s really important — we love the character’s family dynamic and the East L.A. kid in him.”

Given the majority of audiences won’t be familiar with this version of Ghost Rider, it will be interesting to see what liberties the writers take with the character. Now that the show has been moved to a later 10pm timeslot, there’s much more scope to do some darker things, and this character is a perfect fit.

‘Agents of Shield’ Season 4 premieres Tuesday, 20th September at 10pm on ABC.

Rob Liefeld On Why Deadpool Is Not Deathstroke

With the surprise test footage of DC Comics character DeathStroke released on Ben Affleck’s Twitter account recently, Marvel and DC  fans have started going at each claiming that Deathstroke can not hold the audience Deadpool does.

The age old debate of Deadpool is just a rip-off Deathstroke has also been brought back up, with many fans pointing out the similarities. Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld recently spoke on Nerdy Pop‘s Youtube  Channel about five differences that don’t make Deathstroke and Deadpool the same character.

 

Marvel and DC have a long history of “Borrowing” ideas from each other. Green Arrow/Hawkeye, Batman/IronMan, and Namor/Aquaman just to name a few.

While it’s easy to point out similarities between the two aesthetically and their origin stories, it’s important to point out their age and personalities are completely different. Deathstroke is an excellent character in his own right, check him out in the DC animated movies and the Batman Arkham Video games. While he might not be a huge as Deadpool, he can certainly hold his own in any form of storytelling.

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‘Agents Of SHIELD’ Season 4 Premiere Title Revealed

In the absence of a trailer from the fast approaching season of ‘Agents of SHIELD’, fans are currently clinging onto any information we get. And today we got something good indeed.

According to Spoiler TV, it has been revealed that the title for Episode One is ‘The Ghost’. Given what we know about the upcoming Season, this is an exciting development indeed. It has already been announced that Gabriel Luna is set to arrive on the show in a blaze of fire as Ghost Rider, and now we have a pretty substantial clue as to just when this arrival will take place.

Of course this episode title isn’t ironclad confirmation that Ghost Rider will feature heavily in the season-opener. Indeed the group could be tracking someone down simply codenamed ‘The Ghost’ before a full reveal at the end of the episode. Given how TV shows like to tease us, this isn’t exactly unlikely.

Given the reaction to this sliver of information we can only hope that ABC satisfies our hunger for news with the release of a full trailer soon. Season 4 is just over two weeks away from airing, and ABC have been annoyingly quiet in promoting it. This could be the last chance ‘Agents of SHIELD’ gets unless it gains a significant audience, so I urge anyone not watching to do so. Season 3 was consistently amazing, and across a 22 episode season that’s no easy feat.

‘Agents of SHIELD’ Season 4 premieres Tuesday, September 20 at 10pm on ABC. Air dates internationally often vary greatly.