After releasing a character poster for Don Cheadle's War Machine earlier this month, Disney and Marvel Studios turned their attention to the bad guys of Iron Man 3 this week with two new posters, one of which gave us our first real look at Guy Pearce (Prometheus) as Aldrich Killian, and the other providing us with our best look yet at Ben Kingsley's (Sexy Beast) evil terrorist leader The Mandarin, who kind of reminds me of a bizarre blinged-up Osama bin Laden / Ali G hybrid ("I iz da Mandarin, aiii..."). Anyway, along with the Mandarin poster, Disney also offered up the following character description for Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr.) arch-nemesis: "Mandarin is the sinister head of the terrorist organization known as The Ten Rings, from which all the acts of extreme terrorism plaguing the world appear to emanate. Although he is reclusive, Mandarin wields great power and makes his presence known by striking fear in the government and the populace through his brazen plans of attack..."...Expect a new theatrical trailer for Iron Man 3 to arrive soon, with the Alberta Film Ratings updating its website this week with confirmation that a second trailer has been classified with a run-time of 2.25m. With Disney releasing Oz the Great and Powerful on March due out on March 8th, it's probably a good bet that the trailer will arrive in cinemas alongside Sam Raimi's fantasy adventure. Meanwhile, some purported concept art from the upcoming sequel has also arrived online, which allegedly shows early designs for two new Iron Man suits - Space Armor and Hulkbuster Armor. Whether the concept art is real or not, there's a lot of evidence mounting to suggest that one of those suits will make an appearance in Iron Man 3...
...In other bits and pieces from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Industrial Light & Magic has released a new 'Behind the Magic' video focussing on how the building of a digital New York City for last year's mega-blockbuster The Avengers... Marvel Studios head-honcho Kevin Feige briefly spoke about next year's Captain America: The Winter Soldier during an interview with Variety, describing the upcoming Chris Evans-headlined sequel as "a political thriller"... And El Mayimbe of Latino Review has now reported that Marvel has gone back to testing actors for the role of Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy due to excessive salary demands from Jason Momoa (Conan the Barbarian), although negotiations are apparently still ongoing...
...20th Century Fox and director James Mangold (Knight and Day) are making us wait for the first trailer for The Wolverine, but this past week did bring a new still featuring Hugh Jackman, who reprises the role of Logan for the sixth time in July's solo X-Men sequel. A trailer for The Wolverine has been promised for the end of March, with speculation suggesting it will be attached to G.I. Joe: Retaliation..
...News on The Wolverine may be scant at the moment, but that's certainly not the case with Fox's 2014 superhero offering X-Men: Days of Future Past. Director Bryan Singer has been active on Twitter again, teasing a Comic Con appearance this summer as well as posting an image of a couple of wheelchairs belonging to Messrs. Xavier (James McAvoy) and Xavier (Patrick Stewart), while he's also taken part in a series of interviews with IGN, during which he confirmed that Peter Dinklage's (Game of Thrones) antagonist is "not going to be a CGI character" [see here] as well as going into some depth about the franchise, including the opportunity to "fix s**t" from X-Men: The Last Stand, the chances of Scott Summers and Jean Grey returning to the franchise, and the possibilities for an even-wider X-Men movie universe [see here]...
...Warner Bros. is hoping that Man of Steel will be the springboard for a shared DC movie universe, but Mark Strong doesn't expect that to include a return as Sinestro for Green Lantern 2, telling MTV that "I would be surprised if they made a second one, because I've heard nothing about it in quite a while now," as well as discussing his post-credits turn in 2010's Green Lantern: "A lot of people seemed to be confused by [Sinestro] putting on the ring at the end of the movie. They felt that it came out of nowhere. [It] was intended to relate to where the movies were headed and that, for me, would have been very exciting because putting on of the ring and the suit turning yellow would have been great fun..."
...Now that 20th Century Fox has lost the rights to Daredevil, another superhero project that has almost certainly fallen into the realms of 'what might have been' is Joe Carnahan's 'Serpico-styled' take on the Man Without Fear (which is probably a shame, given Carnahan's sizzle reels for the 70s-set adaptation). Speaking to SciFiNow (via CBM), Fox's Marvel creative consultant Mark Millar took a moment to discuss what The A-Team and The Grey director had planned for the reboot: "He had an act in mind and said, 'We can't set it in the present day....Hell's Kitchen is a beautiful neighborhood.' Rudy Giuliani has cleaned everything up. It's nice for the people that live there, but it's not very good cinematically. So he said it had to be a period piece, and the perfect time to set it would be in the Seventies, as you have all the kung-fu exploitation, the race-riots, the blackout- all that kind of stuff would be so cool in a superhero movie. The blackout with a guy that's blind would be incredible..."
...In other Millar-related news, director Jeff Wadlow (Never Back Down) has taken to Twitter to announce that a trailer for the upcoming sequel Kick-Ass 2 "is coming soon". The follow-up to the 2010 cult hit is due for release on June 28th in North America and July 19th here in the UK, with returning players Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Chloe Grace Moretz (Hit-Girl) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (The Red Mist) joined in the cast by the likes of Jim Carrey (Batman Forever), John Leguizamo (Spawn) and Donald Faison (Scrubs)...
...While director Marc Webb continues to tease fans by tweeting cryptic / pointless [delete as appropriate] 'set pictures' during the production of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (which this week includes a couple of FBI agents, and a picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt), The Huffington Post caught up with Webb's predecessor Sam Raimi, and asked the original Spider-Man trilogy director whether he's yet to watch last year's reboot: "Well, I'm a big Marc Webb fan and a giant fan of Emma Stone. And of Andrew Garfield. I saw him on Broadway in Death of a Salesman -- it's just brilliant. And I love the producers of [The Amazing Spider-Man] because they are dear friends, and the writer. But, I haven't had the guts to go see the movie yet. Because I don't want to go to my girlfriend's wedding. I just can't bring myself to do it. I don't have the guts. But, I hear it's great. My wife even loved the picture and said it was a wonderful, excellently produced, beautifully acted, brilliantly written Spider-Man picture. She'd tell me the truth and that's what she said... I think I handed the torch to Marc and I hear that he ran with it and succeeded and made a brilliant picture. I'm happy for him and all the team. And I only wish him the best and I salute them because it's a tough job, too. And obviously he's pleased the fans -- so, I'm proud for him. I'm happy for my friends on the picture..."
As well as Haynes, this coming Wednesday's episode of Arrow sees guest appearances from Kelly Hu (China White), John Barrowman (Malcolm Merlyn) and Michael Rowe (Deadshot) in the Geoff Johns-scripted 'Dead to Rights'. Here's the official synopsis for the episode (and check out an extended promo here): "Oliver and Diggle (David Ramsey) learn that Deadshot is still alive and his next target is Malcom. Malcom invites Tommy (Colin Donnell) to attend a benefit honoring Malcom for his work with Starling City but Tommy refuses to attend. Oliver encourages his friend to mend his relationship with his father while he can. Meanwhile, Oliver struggles to balance his new relationship with McKenna [Janina Gavankar] and his duties as Arrow..."
...As usual, be sure to head over to The World's Finest for stills, clips and plot details for this weekend's Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice episodes, as well as the latest DC Nation animated short DC Nation’s Farm League – Episode 2...
...Before Henry Cavill dons the cape for Zack Snyder's live-action reboot, Matt Bomer (White Collar) will lend his voice to the Man of Steel in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies release Superman: Unbound, which is set to arrive on May 7th. Earlier in the week, Warner Bros. debuted three new images from the direct-to-video feature, along with a rundown of the 4 1/2 hours of special features, which includes featurettes, commentary, four bonus episodes from Superman: The Animated Series, and a sneak peak at the next DCUAOM, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox...
...And finally, Marvel Animation Studios has pushed back the release date of its first-fully CG-animated feature Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United, which sees Adrian Pasdar (Heroes, Ultimate Spider-Man) and Fred Tatasciore (Wolverine and the X-Men, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes) lending their voices to the eponymous Avengers. Originally slated for April, the direct-to-video movie will now arrive on shelves on December 3rd, although Iron Man fans will still be able to get their Shellhead fix in the run up to Iron Man 3 with the release of the anime-inspired Iron Man: Rise of Technovore on April 16th; watch the trailers for both of Iron Man's animated adventures here.
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I hate Nolan.. Why does any superhero movie need to be two and a half hours long..
ReplyDeleteHadn't heard about the Marvel animated movies yet, looking forward to all this stuff!
ReplyDeleteIs that something to argue about???!! Nolan's Bat-films infuse time with substance, The Dark Knight's intricate plot definitely requires a lot of time, so does The Dark Knight Rises to portray a whole city siege. THAT'S A NO-BRAINER,unless you never realised them.
ReplyDeleteThe Avengers ran 2 hrs. 38 mins, even then half of the movie was filled with shit and idiotic wise-cracks. Complain that! You Marvel stooge....
Finally someone worthy successfully brings back Batman to the big screen in such three masterpiece, and silks like you will only find fault with the "Time" factor
The Dark Knight trilogy, all films could lose around 20 to 45 minutes. They have wayyyyyyy more faults then just the time lol. But I'll let it slide there because Batman is one of the more serious superheros and more or less other people don't seem to mind.
ReplyDeleteAnd Avengers is an collection of 6 different superhero movies which was clearly better then The Dark Knight Rises unless you're a silly DC fanboy or you're 14 years old.
The only faults the Batman films possess are some camera crew mis-involvements and some plot holes in TDKR. Shock yourself with the number of goof-ups an average Marvel film has made against an average Nolan Batman film in IMDB, and you'll find Marvel's the silly clown out....
ReplyDelete(The Dark Knight had to skip some unnecessary details to save time, like The Joker's party escape, while something like The Avengers wiles away the first half with back-to-back *shit* wise-cracks and one-liners . If that isn't misuse of time, then I don't know what is)
Didn't you get the memo??!! I spoke of the movie, "The Avengers" which runs 2 hrs. 38 mins. with 48 mins. of torturous blabber.. not some damn "collection" you're talking about.
Nolan's Batman movies are an achievement individually and are considered as an epitome of cinematic & comic-book art by the general populace. That's general knowledge only a Marvel fanboy can deny. Each of them not only rake billions of dollars ousting any other superhero movie that particular year,
Batman Begins clinched 2005's crown without any competition, The Dark Knight's $2 billion mark and Oscar glory drove nails and hammered the Iron Man films and Hulk in the same year *and none of your Marvel solos* have qualified on any front to take down a Nolan Batman, film , TDKR was only a few bucks behind The Avengers, but retained most of the standards of its predecessors.
The Avengers only achieved a monetary edge, while TDKR swept AFI as the year's best action film, the best ensemble, Critics Choice, voted by the public as the year's best film across IMDB and several top movie portals.
Marvel cannot even dream of The Dark Knight's Oscar, Action and Cinematic perfection. The film got 7 nominations out of 8 and won 2, but it bagged 4 Golden Globes, a feat none Marvel cannot even dream of even if it gets the entire board to rack.
People seldom look beyond Nolan's Batman trilogy when it comes to an ideal comic-booker. You wanna know how much people respect The Avengers??!! It got voted "2012's most OVERRATED film" handsomely by the public. When they were asked, many quoted that it's for 7 yr. olds and pure candy floss entertainment
....Read the entire post to pee in your pants and for Marvel to get a smackdown.....
It's all a matter of personal preference. I'll admit Avengers isn't a great film, but it's not just all babble like you say. I have a feeling no matter what movie Marvel showed you you'd come out negative.
ReplyDeleteDark Knight Rises has a million problems. It's a sloppy inconsistent ass movie. Avengers had babble but Catwoman had the absolute worst lines I've ever heard from a Nolan movie. "Cat got your tongue"? Horrible, and that's just the worst example I can think of. Horrible Editing, One note acting, inconstitent plot, and the cheese factor was turned all the way up. Predictable. Go Watch the last Harry Potter movie.. That's how you end a franchise. Shit I'd never thought I'd say this but Go Watch Breaking Dawn Part 2. Much better conclusion of a series.
Basically you have DC dick in and around your mouth. I'll admit when Marvel fucks up. Ironman 2 was a mis step, Captain America wasn't that great etc. You can't even do that to your beloved DC films. I always say anybody who says their favorite directors are Quentin Tarantino, or Chris Nolan are pseudo intellectual dumbasses, and you have certainly been proving my point. Edgar Wright could direct circles around Nolan and Tarantino
Inconsistent??!! Tell that to The Avengers... It had the most ridiculous of plot holes and goof-ups. (How could Thor come to Earth if his Asgardian transport bridge was destroyed in Thor?!) You've no right to blame the movie for the "Cat got your tongue". That's an established phrase in English literature and has been used by the British for over 50 years in novels (Robert Ludlum, Agatha Christie) and films too.
ReplyDeleteBane's "When Gotham is ashes, you'll have my permission to die" drove the public crazy after TDKR's 2nd trailer. From You Tube to Jay Leno to Conan, it became total viral, but not viral to the extent of Heath Ledger's Joker. You've probably never watched The Dark Knight to comprehend Heath Ledger's immortal dialogues and killer phrases from "Why so serious?" to Aaron Eckhart's "You die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself to become a villain" which featured as The Best Movie Dialogues in Forbes. You've probably found no other line to moan about, not to mention The Avengers had some pathetic one-liners like, "Billionaire, playboy philanthropist" shit.
Who are you to decide whether TDKR was a fitting finale?? From AFI to Empire to Washington Post to The Times, Nolan's Batman trilogy has been coveted as "21st century's greatest trilogy" since Lord of The Rings. Talk to the world, kid, to know that Nolan haters have been reduced to a minority in the present era. IMDB wouldn't have voted with public appeal TDKR as the year's best film without a reason.
What??!! Edgar Wright drawing circles around himsel??!! LOL!!! Nolan's films bag Oscars unfailingly except for TDKR (Batman Begins got a best Cinematograph). And INCEPTION: A sci-fi epic like that won't find an equal for decades to come, not to mention its Oscar bagging momentum. You'd have never fussed about Nolan if you'd watched it. The only circle Edgar Wright will draw is a big zero for himself!!
IMDB gave a whopping unbeatable 9.0 to Inception, not to mention The Dark Knight's spectacular 8.9, the highest for a comic-booker. Nolan's lowest is 8.6 for TDKR, and Marvel's highest is 8.3 for the Avengers! LOL!!
....NOLAN'S WORST FILM IS OTHER DIRECTOR'S BEST. Period.......
Nolan's Inception against Edgar Wright's what??? Ant-Man?!!?? Ha! Ha! Ha!
That's a corny line "Cat got your tongue" doesn't work for a few reasons. A. In the context it makes no sense, she's never established as Catwoman. B. That shit is old, and is used for every cat character. And Marvel had inconsistencies with other movies not itself dumbass. I'm pretty sure wheedon didn't write Thor and it seems like you're looking for things to hate.
ReplyDeleteAvengers did have a few lines that did reach a level of corniness, but once I watched it away from the theatre who would laugh at anything they really all have context and make sense for them to say. Dialogue was much better then TDKR. I'll give Nolan credit in that the dialogue for his villains is always fantastic.
And I didn't decide, it's just an opinion. How old are you 15? And plenty of people don' tike Nolan, just like people don't like Tarantino except these stupid ass intellectuals that don't see they're formula.
Not to mention Edgar Wright has only made 3 films, all comedies so of course you can't compare them to dramas, but Oscars and IMDB don't mean shit especially since it didn't win best picture or best director. It earned best screenplay.
Antman hasn't come out yet .. dumbass. damn I swear you're either a troll, really stupid, or lonely as shit. Nolan's movies are great pop corn entertainment but they're not great movies on their own. Inception does not compare to Fight Club, or Good Fellas, clockwork orange, etc. It's little idiots like you who don't watch enough movies and see his and say OMG I've never seen anything like this before. And people like myself who have seen the movies INCEPTION ripped off, are like yeah it's good.
I write screenplays for a living, and I can tell you Nolan sucks with dialogue, he has great story structure outside of TDK Trilogy, but his biggest flaw is his lack of character development and the ability to engage people on an emotional level. I like Nolan but even his best movies, Inception, The Dark Knight, Momento, are so gimmicky they don't leave time to develop the characters.
Joss Whedon directed Thor's post-credits & was approached as consultant for Thor & Cap Am. Besides, its Marvel's responsibility to ensure that their movies remain connected. There are several other goof-ups
ReplyDelete1) The men in Hawkeye's aircraft keep changing from cut to cut, from 7 its 8 and back.
2) When Selvig loads the Iridium sample on the balance, the density reads 38 g per cc while its actually 26.65 g per cc.
3) When Loki's talking to the Other, there are instances where his mouth doesn't move with the audio and animation quality crashes.
"Didn't establish as Catwoman"?! Do you watch DC movies with wool over your eyes??! The Bat-Computer in TDKR read her articles as "The Cat", which was Catwoman's initial alias when she first made her debut in the comics, if you've read any... Selina evolved to be the very slinky thief she's always in the comics, robbing the rich and aiding the impoverished. Nolan portrayed her as "The Cat" or "Cat Burglar" like her debut exploits in the comics, its' your job to just add "woman" to "The Cat" unless you want to make it as campy as Batman & Robin ("I'm Mr. Freeze!!")
So do your background introspection.
I appreciate what you do for a living, but you've not reached the level yet where you can criticize a visionary like Nolan, who's light-years above you & leagues above most of other directors.
I've not vouched for Nolan out of blind faith, but due to his stupendous track record of honours. No one, I say NO ONE, could've revived a dying Batman industry LIKE Nolan DID, to mould it into such a legendary saga, that is a testimony not only to the Batman mythos, but stands out as a fusion of comic literature and modern cinema, a fitting 3-piece life sketch of The Caped Crusader. When directors like Ben Affleck, scriptwriters like Will Beall were approached by WB, they trembled in their shoes, fearing that they deliver below the expectations of something as epic as Nolan's portrayal. I'm thankful to Nolan for successfully reviving my favourite comic-character. He's a success story for the modern and comic genre, and his concept of lucid dreaming is unique to any other movie of the sci-fi genre.
I picked up "Ant-Man" which might be bearable because the last film he co-wrote was the kiddy-piddy Tintin.
I'm not a troll. I'm a part-time undergrad chemist whose pastime is watching movies and teaching, so please don't underestimate me. I accept the fact that you are more to the movies, but I've seen a handsome share too. You started the trolling in the first place. When you said, "Superman's a B-Grade character", I could've said,"Superman would scrunched up Iron Man into a metallic baseball and hit a home-run using the Eiffel Tower", or "Superman can defeat the entire Avengers blindfolded". I've never detrimented a superhero's potential, only their films, while you did both. Superman is not only Earth's most powerful superhero but America's oldest cultural icons.
So, before you say "B-grade" think of hurting the sentiments of comic-book fans and the nations itself.
Let's not draw war lines. I hope that comics and movies don't sever pen-palship.
I'm going to address the last part, because I'm not a troll, and your essay is too fucking long. The reason I said a superman movie can't work and especially a Jusice LEague movie is because he's basically invincible. I know based off the comics he's not but let's be honest. Him, Wolverine, and Hulk are not killable , in the movie realm. That's why all their movies are just mediocre. There's only one good Superman movie that all people like. Immortality is a plug in the new Wolverine movie , which is brilliant and the only way to make those movies work is to address that.
ReplyDeleteThe reason Avengers worked, for most people, is that the Hulk is in the background for most of the movie. The tension comes not from him being in danger, but the team around him and devastion he might cause. There's never a moment that the movie tries to act like the Hulk isn't going to win, he's a tank. Superman has some great comics I'm sure, I meant he's a B Grade in the movie sense. Ironman, and Thor are B-Grade superheros but due to they're unique direction they came out good. I don't think Zack Snyder is that director, and honestly Nolan would be a great consultant, but really when I see the movie is 3 hours and David S. Goyer wrote the script I think wow this is a Nolan movie without Nolan. I probably blame S. Goyer for TDKR failing , to me personally, then Nolan. There's no reason any movie needs to be 2 and a half hours. Espically a genre film, it's selfish and unnecessary . I said the same about Spiderman last summer and I say the same now.