Another week, and more MCU news! A lot of little things, but the most exciting may be the announced director for the first 2 episodes of The Inhumans (the ones premiering in IMAX). Put some ketchup on your eggs, and
catch-up on your Marvel news!
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Expectations and review for this week's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "The Patriot." Did anyone really see the Mace twist coming before the episode started?
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Marvel Entertainment, the company
overseeing everything Marvel-related except Marvel Studios (the movies) named a
new president: Dan Buckley.
With the IMAX premiere in September
looming ever closer, Marvel just announced the director for the first 2
episodes of Marvel’s Inhumans, Roel Reine,
and at the same time Vin Diesel indicated
that he thinks the Inhumans should still be a movie at some point. I still think it’s possible for Vin Diesel to
play Black Bolt, even on TV, if Marvel works the contract in such a way that he
gets a good payday out of an Inhumans movie in the near future.
It turns out that Agent Carter
was not cancelled by Marvel TV; ABC made the call. Darn you, ABC!
In that same interview,
Jeph Loeb explained that the Netflix format really appealed to Marvel for the
Defenders. I can’t say I blame them…
News from Around Geekdom
Anything not related to the MCU
that I find interesting
DC’s Shazam plans have
apparently been split up. Now Black Adam (starring Dwayne
Johnson) is its own separate movie, in addition to the still-to-come Shazam. No news on when either of these films will
come out.
Good news and bad news on the Star
Trek: Discovery front. Good
news: The series will begin filming this month
and cast James Frain as Spock’s father, Sarek,
as a “key character.” Bad news: It may get delayed again.
Well, that’s
finally over. I’m not quite sure how I feel
about the Axanar settlement. On the
one hand, it is nice to see the fan film moving forward and Paramount still
giving them that chance (and the lawsuit over).
On the other hand, at least some of the requirements Paramount is
placing on Axanar and other fan films seem certain to hurt the Star
Trek brand in the long run, particularly putting a $50,000 cap on
production expenses (you can do a lot with $50,000, but depending on the
project you can’t do it all well) and banning professional actors from
appearing (even if they are not being paid).
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