Sequel Bites: THOR: THE DARK WORLD, UNDERWORLD 5, FAST SIX, and SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR
THR is reporting Christopher Eccleston (known in the geek circles for his one season stint on DOCTOR WHO and villainous turns in 28 DAYS LATER, G.I. JOE: RISE OF COBRA, and SHALLOW GRAVE) has joined the cast of Alan Taylor’s THOR: THE DARK WORLD as Malekith the Accursed, ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim. This is the role Mads Mikkelsen (the bleeding eye dude from CASINO ROYALE) had to exit due to his commitment to NBC’s HANNIBAL.
Eccleston joins returning cast members Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Natalie Portman (Jane Foster), Anthony Hopkins (Odin), Stellan Skarsgård (Eric Selvig), Idris Elba (Heimdall), Jamie Alexander (Sif), Ray Stevenson (Volstagg), Tadanobu Asano (Hogun) and Zachary Levi who’s replacing ONCE UPON A TIME star Josh Dallas as Fandral.
Click on the pic to find out why Kate Beckinsale might not be back for UNDERWORLD 5, who’s joined the cast of FAST SIX, and what burly brawler will be returning for SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR…
SDCC 2012: Marvel Teases THOR 2, IRON MAN 3, CAPTAIN AMERICA 2, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, and ANT-MAN
Marvel Studios won this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. There may not have been an official contest or anything but they won. There’s no denying that. Marvel head honcho Kevin Fiege and company rode in high off the box office success of THE AVENGERS, trotted out tons of juicy info and sneak peeks about their upcoming releases, delivered a few high-profile surprises (Robert Downey Jr.’s epic entrance to the IRON MAN 3 panel being one), and pretty much Hulk-smashed the competition into the ground. DC and the rest of the panels never stood a chance.
Click on the pic for info on THOR: THE DARK WORLD, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLIDER, IRON MAN 3, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, and ANT-MAN…
Kenneth Branagh In Talks To Direct Paramount’s Jack Ryan Series Reboot
EW is reporting Kenneth Branagh is in talks to helm Paramount’s untitled Jack Ryan project. I’d like to say this is good hire (it is) but I kinda feel bad for the dude. He’s basically taking control of an already sinking ship.
Jack Bender (of LOST fame) was the original hire to direct but bowed out due to problems with the studio, lead Chris Pine and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Word has it Bender wanted to make a traditional Ryan pic (more in tune with THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and PATRIOT GAMES than the previous reboot THE SUM OF ALL FEARS), Pine wanted a character-driven piece, Lorenzo was pushing for a full-on action epic and the studio wanted a glossy thriller. Suffice to say, nobody backed down and Bender bailed.
Enter Branagh. I’m guessing Paramount is hoping he’ll be able to convince everyone to play nice and work together to craft the most profitable blockbuster they can. Reminds me a bit of what happened when they hired him for THOR. Flick was plagued with tons of problems (which ranged from the script to casting to tone to character to pretty much every other little thing) and should’ve been a massive flop. But Branagh rolled in, rallied the troops and managed to make that flick one of biggest hits of 2011. Here’s hoping he can do the same here.
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Film Bites: The Teaser For S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Phil Coulson’s First One-Shot Is Here!
Remember those rumors about Marvel Studios commissioning a pair of mini-films starring S.H.I.E.L.D agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg)? Well, the rumors are true and Marvel has released a teaser for the first one-shot, titled “The Consultant”, online. As far as I can tell, this is set before the events of THE INCREDIBLE HULK but after Nick Fury meets Tony Stark in the post-credits scene of IRON MAN.
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THOR 2 Greenlit By Marvel/Disney; Director Kenneth Branagh Not Returning
THOR 2 will be in theaters summer 2013, according to /film. Walt Disney Pictures (who acquired Marvel last year and, in turn, acquired the rights to the Marvel Studios pics from Paramount) confirmed the rumors that a sequel was in the works earlier this week and announced that the flick will open on July 26th. They also announced that Don Payne, writer of FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER and one of the scribes responsible for the first THOR (there were eight credited), will pen the sequel script.
Unfortunately, there is bad news with the good: director Kenneth Branagh will not be coming back for round 2. Couldn’t find any word on why he won’t be returning, but considering he was an odd fit (that ended up doing a fantastic job) from the get-go, this really doesn’t shock me all that much. Chris Hemsworth (obviously) will be back, but I’ve seen some rumors that Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins might not return. Let’s hope that’s just idle chit-chat and that those two are currently in salary negotiations.
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Marvel Studios Has Filmed A Pair Of Short Films Featuring S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Phil Coulson
Remember about a year ago when there was a rumor floating around that Marvel Studios was considering producing short (10-15 minutes long) films featuring second and third tier superheroes that precede their big summer flicks? Well, that rumor has floated back around and it’s not really a rumor anymore.
According to Film School Rejects, Marvel Studios has already produced two short films featuring S.H.I.E.L.D agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg). The two shorts will appear on the upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray releases of THOR and CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. No word yet on whether or not any C-list heroes like Luke Cage or Doctor Strange will appear in the shorts. No word on who directed the shorts either, though a solid guess would be director Joss Whedon who is filming THE AVENGERS as we speak and helmed the post-credits scene attached to THOR.
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JURASSIC PARK 4? Steven Spielberg And The Writer Of THOR Might Make It Happen
JURASSIC PARK 4. Feels like it should have happened by now, doesn’t it? The first three films made a mint at the box office, the tie-in stuff sold like crazy, everybody in the known world pretty much knows about the franchise, so why did this series end at three films?
Oh yeah, JURASSIC PARK 3.
I remember now. The film that should’ve been second went third and let everybody down. That’s what the killed the series. Sequels are supposed to go forward, not back. You can’t end the second film with a T-Rex rampaging through San Diego and expect people to be okay with another trip to Isla Sorna for the next film. Series should’ve went to NYC for three, brought pteranodons to the city and had them biting the heads off folks who sunbath on the rooftops…kinda like the movie Q: THE WINGED SERPENT but with a bigger budget.
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Rumor Mill: Is Loki Going To Team Up With Thanos To Battle THE AVENGERS?
I’m not going to drop a SPOILER ALERT at the beginning of this piece because I do not feel that one is warranted. The following is simply a rumor about who might be one of the villains in next summer’s THE AVENGERS. That’s all. The average person probably has no idea who I’m about to mention and, seriously, any true Marvel fanboy probably already knew this was coming.
Latino Review is reporting that Thanos, a power-mad cosmic tyrant who has frequently tussled with the heroes of the Marvel-verse, might team up with Loki (who, in case you missed the post-credits scene of THOR, survived) to take on the Avengers. Not many details are known at this point and the whole thing is still in the rumor stage, but it makes sense.
Why? Keen-eyed viewers during THOR might’ve have spotted the Infinity Gauntlet (pictured below) in Odin’s trophy room. And if you’re a keen-eyed viewer who happens to be a fanboy, you already know that wherever that glove is, Thanos is certainly close by or in the process of getting there. The Gauntlet is the one thing that Thanos craves most in the universe and I knew the second I spotted it in THOR that the big guy would be included in either THE AVENGERS or THOR 2. Guess my assumption has been pseudo-answered.
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Film Bites: THOR Inspires Warner To Go Mythos-Heavy With New GREEN LANTERN Trailer
I find it interesting the changes that a single movie’s success can make on a marketplace. The first GREEN LANTERN trailer was clearly molded after Tony Stark in that it represented Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) as a hotshot playboy pilot who stumbles across a magic ring that gives him green armor. Had you not known the history of the Lantern then you’d have been easy to assume that the flick was a green-tinted IRON MAN knock-off. Virtually none of the outer space stuff was shown and the whole preview was cut to cash-in on what superhero was popular at that moment – I.E. Iron Man.
Future trailers for LANTERN dumped most of the relationship/playboy stuff in favor of more sci-fi stuff, but the full marketing push towards this being a uber-comic flick hadn’t occurred yet. That is, till now. This new trailer (presumably the last big one before the movie hits June 17th) is nothing but super sci-fi mythos. Hell, this trailer is basically a three minute long prequel to the movie that throws the audience straight into the “high fantasy” stuff and doesn’t look back. What you get here is the full history of the Green Lantern Corps, the Emerald Energy that fuels their abilities, the Immortals, Parallax and virtually none of the Earth stuff. I’ve heard word that most of the movie takes place on the planet Oa and this trailer seems to reinforce that pretty hard.
Click on the pic to read more and check out the new trailer for GREEN LANTERN…
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