Another week, and more MCU news! Guardians
wrapped filming, Spider-Man cast a half-dozen more actors, and we’re a
little closer to Comic-Con. Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up
on your Marvel news!
Mostly MCU Reviews
My articles from the week
We are almost done with Daredevil
season 2, as this week I published a review of the penultimate episode, “The Dark at the End of the Tunnel.”
Continuing with MCU Movie
Retro-Reviews: Iron Man 2. Is it as bad as they say? (Spoiler: Not really)
The final article in my Civil
War follow-up series: Zemo.
MCU News
Links to news articles and blog
posts about the MCU
Both Doctor Strange and Guardians
of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will be at Comic-Con this year, so hopefully we will
get plenty of new details from them there!
Here
are some interesting teases from Mads Mikkelsen for Doctor Strange. Who do you think he is playing?
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has wrapped filming.
Donald Glover has been cast
in Spider-Man: Homecoming! He
voices Miles Morales on Ultimate Spider-Man, and when the Sony deal was
announced last year he was a huge fan-favorite to play the MCU Spider-Man—as
the Miles Morales version! Now he will
be appearing in the Spider-Man solo movie, but we don’t know his
role. ScreenRant
wants him to play Miles Morales, but I’m not so sure. Considering that Glover is 32 and Tom Holland
is 20, while in the comics Miles is 2-3 years younger than Peter, I just
don’t think that would work. ScreenRant thinks
that since Miles is supposed to be inexperienced while Peter is
experienced, it could still work, but Peter really doesn’t have enough
experience for even that to work.
They could certainly have Glover connected to Miles Morales, but only as
his father, who appears with a non-powered Miles in a couple scenes in this
movie. Then in the second or third Spider-Man
solo movie Miles can get his powers and either take over for Peter or become
his sidekick as “Kid Arachnid” or something.
In my estimation, this just isn’t the right time for Miles Morales to
become Spider-Man. Do you want to see
Donald Glover play Miles Morales to Tom Holland’s Peter Parker? If not, who do you want him to play?
Update from director Jon Watts: Michael
Barbieri is not playing a version of Ganke
from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics.
Martin Starr is joining the cast
of Spider-Man: Homecoming in an unknown role. Previously he had a cameo as the other guy in
the computer lab in The Incredible Hulk (the one who ate the
pizza). Who do you think he should play? If there's a connection between the two, my guess is that he will be Peter's science teacher. But that's just a wild guess.
Logan Marshall-Green could play a
secondary villain
in Spider-Man: Homecoming. What
villain do you want to see him as?
News from Around Geekdom
Anything not related to the MCU
that I find interesting
Jena Malone’s Batman v.
Superman: Dawn of Justice character is actually Jenet Klyburn,
a S.T.A.R. Labs employee who becomes the director in the comics
So Supergirl will
introduce Superman at the beginning of season 2, and he will be played by Tyler Hoechlin. I’m actually really surprised that they are
letting the actual Superman join the Flash/Arrowverse, considering that they
haven’t wanted to do that with even the Suicide Squad so far.
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