Another week, and more MCU news! Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. comes back this week, Luke Cage is just another 2
weeks away, and Doctor Strange will be out before you know it, too!
Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!
Mostly MCU Reviews
My articles from the week
First up for this week is a look
back at Ant-Man. Have you had any new thoughts about Ant-Man
since it came out?
Next is my expectations for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4.
I am really excited to see what vigilante-Quake and Ghost Rider will
bring to the table for this show!
MCU News
Links to news articles and blog
posts about the MCU
So apparently the
originally-rumored runtime of 130 minutes for Doctor Strange is
incorrect according
to Scott Derrickson. Of course he didn’t
elaborate with a correct runtime…
Taika Waititi will neither confirm nor deny
that Doctor Strange will make an appearance in Thor: Ragnarok. I think it would be really cool to see the
Master of the Mystic Arts give Thor and Loki a hand in averting Ragnarok.
Taika Waititi is open to the possibility
of returning for Thor 4 now that he’s partway through filming Thor:
Ragnarok. Personally, I’d love to
see another Thor movie after this one (three words: “Beta Ray Bill”), but I’d like to see this
one before handing Waititi the reins for the next one!
It sounds like the Russo Brothers
are very open to the possibility
of including Marvel TV characters (specifically the Netflix heroes) in the Infinity
War movies, though there is still the question of logistics since The
Defenders is currently filming, and so is Avengers: Infinity War.
Here
is an awesome new poster for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4:
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| Image Courtesy www.screenrant.com |
What do you think of the Ghost
Rider effects for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Here
is a still of Ghost Rider himself, and here
is a promo video showing the car in motion.
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| Image Courtesy www.screenrant.com |
I was concerned about how it
would look on a TV budget, but it definitely looks better than I was expecting. The car looks great in motion, and the Ghost
Rider himself is growing on me.
Ben Barnes, known for his role as
Caspian in The Chronicles of Narnia, has reportedly
been cast as a villain named Bobby Saint in The Punisher. I more-or-less despised Prince Caspian
(so much so that I never saw Voyage of the Dawn Treader), but I do
remember Caspian being a bright spot—or at least not a glaring problem!
News from Around Geekdom
Anything not related to the MCU
that I find interesting
Despite rumors to the contrary,
it appears that Jared Leto’s Joker will not be appearing
in Justice League. I don’t think
that necessarily means that he’s done in the role; Justice League will
probably be a packed movie as it is (not that that’s stopped DC in the past…). Did you like his performance?
Henry Cavill’s manager is
confirming
that Man of Steel 2 is in active development. And in other news, water is wet. This news doesn’t surprise me at all; it
doesn’t disappoint me, either. However, I
do want to see Superman’s death given some sort of longer-term
consequences. As such, I’ve stated
before that my preference for a Man of Steel/Batman v. Superman follow-up
would be an adaptation of the “Reign of the Supermen” story arc, in which, following
Superman’s death, four different “Supermen” appear in Metropolis, each
representing a specific element of Superman’s identity. The arc concludes with one revealed as a
villain, one killed stopping him, the final two adopting new heroic identities,
and Superman returning from the dead.
Obviously they wouldn’t do exactly that; my guess is that they would cut
a couple of the Supermen out and have the Cyborg Superman and Steel duke it out
until the timely intervention of a resurrected Superman. It doesn’t look like this is what they are
doing (Superman is already going to be in Justice League), which is kind
of disappointing. But considering how DC
butchered Superman’s death, can we expect much different for his resurrection?
So apparently Harley Quinn was so
well received in Suicide Squad that she’s getting her own spinoff movie.
How on earth is Fifty Shades
Darker more anticipated
than Star Wars: The Force Awakens was???? And how on earth are these books/movies so
popular??????
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