Another week, and more MCU news! Doctor
Strange has been out for a week, we have a new President-Elect in the U.S.,
and there’s all kinds of exciting things happening with Marvel TV… even though Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. is on a 3-week break. Put some ketchup on your eggs,
and catch-up on your Marvel news!
Mostly MCU Reviews
My articles from the week
Just about everything this week
was for Doctor Strange:
expectations,
non-spoiler review,
and spoiler review.
The one non-Doctor Strange
article this week is my review
of Luke Cage season 1, episode 4, “Step in the Arena.”
MCU News
Links to news articles and blog
posts about the MCU
Doctor Strange has broken $100 million domestically and is up
to over $344 million worldwide. That is
quite impressive; even if it is below the pace set by Iron Man in 2008,
it is still doing better than a number of other MCU movies.
Apparently Tom Holland is signed
on for another 4 movies
after Spider-Man: Homecoming and Captain America: Civil War.
Zendaya may or may not be playing Mary Jane
and is not a love interest.
According to Kevin Feige,
they already know where the MCU is going after Avengers: Infinity War
(no surprise there), but the titles of the 2020 movies would be spoilers for
the 2 Avengers movies. Again, no
surprise there. If I were in charge, I
would probably shuffle things slightly and use 3 tricks to avoid spoilers: team-up movies, new characters, and
time-travel/period movies. If you have a
movie titled Guardians of the Galaxy, that’s not a huge spoiler because
any of the originals could die and be replaced; all you know is that there will
still be a galaxy and someone will be guarding it. If you announce a Moon Knight movie
(doubtful), all you know is that Moon Knight is coming at some point, not whether
he will appear in either Avengers movie.
And if you make a WWII-set Isaiah Bradley movie, there’s very
little chance of him even appearing in the Avengers movies since
he would be around 100 by then!
Alternatively, a Captain America movie doesn’t imply that Steve
Rogers, Bucky Barnes, or Sam Wilson will actually survive the Avengers
movies; it just implies that there will be something calling itself America
still. The movie could be about America
Chavez protecting an American spacecraft full of human refugees fleeing Thanos’
utter destruction of Earth and the Avengers.
Elektra is confirmed
to appear in The Defenders (um... spoilers?)
According to Gabriel Luna,
Marvel is already talking about the future of Ghost Rider, including the
possibility of a spinoff series! Do you
want to see him headline his own series or film? I know I do!
Now for our first Cloak and
Dagger news since they announced Cloak and Dagger: the series will be coming out in winter 2018,
with Joe Pokaski announced as showrunner.
News from Around Geekdom
Anything not related to the MCU
that I find interesting
Young Justice season 3 is now in production!
So Rowling is hinting
that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 may delve into
Dumbledore’s sexuality. I’m not sure how
I feel about that. Honestly, I’d rather
they avoid that, since that was my least-favorite “revelation” from Rowling
after the final book’s release.
Apparently the Fantastic Beasts
series is going to span 19 years,
up to 1945—the year Dumbledore defeats Grindelwald. This series is sounding more and more like a
Dumbledore prequel and less and less like a series about magical
creatures. Is Rowling saying that
Dumbledore and Grindelwald are “Fantastic Beasts”? Cuz it kinda sounds like Rowling is saying
that Dumbledore and Grindelwald are “Fantastic Beasts”! Also, it seems oddly appropriate for
Grindelwald (one of the aforementioned “Fantastic Beasts”) to be played byJohnny Depp!
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