Archive for the ‘Marvel’ Category

Tonight brought us another Oscar broadcast, but more importantly, it brought us another trailer for Iron Man 2.

This one fleshes out some scenes and ideas from the first trailer and completely blows some things out of the water.  It also serves as the first real introduction (other than a simple visual) of both Scarlett Johannson’s Black Widow and Sam Rockwell’s Justin Hammer.

And that suitcase Iron Man suit was incredible.

I really hope this one can top the first one and lead into a tremendous Avengers picture.

Click here to check out the trailer on Apple.

Disney XD (A Disney Channel aimed towards the slightly older children) announced their 2010-2011 programming lineup yesterday, and in the mix is a new Avengers cartoon that will be making its debut this fall! Here’s the official description:

“The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” — Further aligning the strength of Marvel’s hugely popular characters and stories with the burgeoning Disney XD brand and global reach, an all-new animated series, “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes,” will debut in fall 2010 on Disney XD and DisneyXD.com. Beginning with the “Iron Man” and “Incredible Hulk” movies in 2008, the release of “Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” follows Marvel’s overall “Avengers Assemble” strategy introducing the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe through various content platforms, including the upcoming feature films “Iron Man 2″ in May of 2010, “Thor” in May of 2011 and “Captain America” in July of 2011, all building up to the Avengers theatrical film in 2012. Produced by Marvel Animation, the animated series features 52 episodes targeted at kids 9-14, starring Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Giant Man and Wasp — who form the Avengers, a team assembled when no single hero’s powers can save the world. A 20-part “micro-series” that focuses on each hero’s backstory will roll out in fall 2010 on Disney XD, immediately followed by the series premiere on Disney XD in the U.S. and, shortly thereafter, around the world. Disney XD, the single largest distributor of Marvel content around the world, currently showcases approximately 20 hours of Marvel series (including “The Spectacular Spider-Man,” “Fantastic Four” and “Iron Man”) each week.

And you all thought Disney obtaining Marvel would be a bad thing…

I got a note from Jerk-Bot, one of our favorite and most entrenched sources wanted to remind me about what no one else is saying in this rush about Captain America news (including us yesterday).

Here he is:

The thing not getting mentioned in all the articles bringing up Chace Crawford’s name, as well as John Krasinski, is that this is a “wishlist” … actors they’re sending the script to. And it doesn’t mention that they’ve sent the script to others, including Ryan McPartlin and Jensen Ackles. I still wouldn’t rule the latter out, though this “Friday Night Lights” guy, Scott Porter, is apparently high on their list.

From what I’m hearing, at least …

So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Maybe Pre-Super Soldier Steve Rogers. Maybe. Well heres the newest Cap casting news from Deadlinehollywood

ve learned that Marvel Studios and director Joe Johnston are testing candidates for The First Avenger: Captain America which Paramount will distribute on July 22, 2011. I’ve scooped their wish list: most but by no means all of the contenders are young hunks who come from both movies and television — Chace Crawford (CW’sGossip Girl), John Krasinski (NBC’sThe Office), Scott Porter (NBC’sFriday Night Lights), Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), Michael Cassidy (CW’sPrivileged), Patrick Flueger (Brothers). They also wanted Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy), but he so far hasn’t made a test deal. The studio yesterday tested several candidates from this list.

I honestly don’t know who any of these people are outside of Krasinski, so anyone who’s got a better idea of which of these may work let me know in the comments.

Captain America, Iron Man, Thor were a given.  But it’s nice to see that Wolverine and Spider-Man made the cut.  Taking into account the fact that John Romita, Jr. is drawing it, Spider-Man should have been pretty obvious to me.

I think this is a great line-up and I can’t wait to see how these guys pull together in the post-Siege Marvel world.  I hope all of this heroic age stuff doesn’t get boring…

Now when are we going to get a look at the Secret Avengers?

Anthony Hopkins took time out of his busy schedule filming the role of Odin in Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming Thor film to talk to the Los Angeles Times.

You can read the whole article here, but here’s a nice excerpt:

He said he has high hopes for “Thor” ( ”Kenneth Branagh is such a terrific director and a wonderful guy to work with”) especially because he finds a personal resonance in the Odin role.

“He’s a stern man. He’s a man with purpose. I play the god who banishes his son from the kingdom of Asgard because he screwed up. He’s a hot-headed, temperamental young man — probably a chip off of the old block — but I decide he’s not really ready to rule the future kingdom, so I banish him. I’m harsh and my wife complains and I say, ‘That is why I’m king.’ He’s ruthless, take-it-or-leave-it. Women are much more forgiving; men are not so forgiving. I know in my life, my karma is, ‘If you don’t like it, tough, move on.’ And I move on. I’m a little like Odin myself.”

Thor is set for release next summer.

Marvel has released the previously “classified” solicit information on the Siege One-Shots that will be releasing in April.

Siege: Captain America, from Christos Gage and Federico Dallocchio, learn more about the role of Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers in this war and how it will define their relationship!

Siege: Young Avengers, from Sean McKeever and Mahmud A. Asrar, the Young Avengers take center stage as Wiccan and Patriot are pushed to their limits!

Siege: Loki, from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, goes deep into the mind of Siege’s most devious major player!

Siege: Secret Warriors, Nick Fury’s plans will be revealed! From the team of Jonathan Hickman and Alessandro Vitti!

Siege: Spider-Man pits Spider-Man against Venom, courtesy of Brian Reed and Marco Santucci!

And all five issues will feature interconnecting covers by Marvel artist Marko Djurdjevic.

Starting this May, Marvel will be restarting their Avengers franchise with multiple titles and new number 1 issues. First up is “Avengers” which will be written by Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers, Siege) and drawn by John Romita Jr. (Kick-Ass, Amazing Spider-Man) Marvel has released some teasers as to who some of the members of this team will be.  So far the roster consists of Spider-Woman, Hawkeye, Thor, Iron-Man, and Captain America.

Also starting this May will be “Secret Avengers” written by Ed Brubaker (Captain America) and Mike Deodato. (Dark Avengers) Marvel has put out a teaser with a silhouette of one of the members of the team. While they haven’t formally announced who this is, I believe it to be Beast.

*Update 2/9 Marvel has released the next tease for the Secret Avengers roster with the tagline “I Strive for Redemption.” Who could it be? Is there a clue in this tweet Ed Brubaker posted earlier today?

Okay, it’s not Cloak. I think I’d remember if it was Cloak… Dang, where did I put that script…?

*Update 2/10 New teaser for the next Secret Avenger! Any guesses on who it may be? “I am in control of my life” is the tagline that goes along with it.

Stay tuned for more teases in the coming days…

An incredibly trusted and wise source of Big Shiny Robot!s has consulted his trusted and wise source at the Marvel/Paramount camp about the recent flurry of casting rumours that have plagued the internet in the last week (yes, we’re guilty, too.)

Here is what our good friend had to say:

According to MY studio guy, the rumors about Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill), Ryan McPartlin (Chuck), Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) and other unknowns/television actors reading for Cap are true.

Apparently, when the script came in with World War II sequences (featuring the Invaders), the studio heads decided it was beyond their means to make this movie AND afford A-listers like Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.

Sure sounds like everyone’s high on McPartlin, who evidently just lost out on the Superman role to Brandon Routh.

As for Spidey, the Logan Lerman rumors are just that … rumors. Apparently Sony is waiting for James Vanderbilt’s script to come in (he’s balking on whether Peter Parker is still in school or just out). And they haven’t even come to terms with director Marc Webb yet.

So it seems as though pretty much all the rumours about Cap have been true, and the rumours regarding Spider-Man have been bunk.

In any case, there’s been a lot of news about Captain America coming out of the floodgates from Joe Johnston as well, and his take on the character, the costume, and the story was actually pretty interesting.  He said that the classic Cap costume in the film appears because they use Cap as a USO publicity tool, but Steve has that desire to lead and tries to ditch the costume, but realizes the worth of it when he notices that it’s an effective tool as a symbol of leadership.  So he begins to shape the costume into something more akin to the present-day Cap costume.  It’s a take on the character and the costume I’ve never heard, but I’m actually pretty in love with.

Also, he says the Red Skull is the villain, which isn’t a huge surprise, but interesting to get a confirmation of nonetheless.

In any case, check back here frequently for all the news that’s fit to print!

UPDATE:  A lot of sites are running quotes to our piece here and saying “The top three choices for Cap are these guys”.  This article says no such thing.  These guys read for the part.  That’s all our man said.  We have no idea who’s at the top of the list, but these three have read for it.

Because we’ve all been waiting for it right? Wait no, no we haven’t. But since the Hulk did good lets try it again. From The Hollywood Reporter.

The long-talked-about “Daredevil” reboot finally made its first step forward Friday, with scribe David Scarpa being tapped to pen a story for the Fox/Regency adaptation of the Marvel hero.

After seeing how Marvel resurrected green-skinned hero Hulk only five years after an initial movie, Fox decided to attempt the same with Daredevil. In 2008, Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman said in an interview with IESB that the studio was thinking about a reboot, though he added, “this is the movie business — nothing is soon.”

Peter Chernin will be one of the producers on the pic.

The plan is to see what kind of script Scarpa comes up with. He wrote “The Day the Earth Stood Still” for Fox as well as the DreamWorks thriller “The Last Castle.” If Fox and Regency like what they see, the next step will be to attach a director.

Yup the asshole who wrote The Day the Earth Stood Still’s remake script is in charge of your beloved Daredevil. How does that make you feel? I bet not awesome. With Hollywoods new trend I bet it will even be in 3D. I wish I was kidding.