As the wall-crawler prepares to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, Henry Bevan defends 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man… A child is trapped in a car that is hanging off a bridge. The hero swings down, takes off his mask and reassures the trapped child that everything is going to be […]
Stephen Merchant joins Wolverine 3
Casting on the third Wolverine movie is now in full swing, with Deadline reporting that Stephen Merchant (Extras, Hello Ladies) has signed on for an as-yet-unrevealed role in Hugh Jackman’s X-Men swansong. Merchant’s casting comes hot on the heels of the news that Richard E. Grant has signed on to play a “mad scientist” villain […]
Robert Downey Jr. “could do one more” Iron Man movie
Last week it was announced that Robert Downey Jr. is set to reprise the role of Tony Stark for Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, which – along with Captain America: Civil War and the two-part Avengers: Infinity War – will take his MCU appearances up to ten. Downey hasn’t headlined his own solo movie since […]
Samuel L. Jackson has two films left on his Marvel deal
Following his post-credits appearance in Iron Man in 2008, it was confirmed that Samuel L. Jackson had signed a whopping nine-film deal with Marvel Studios to star as Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now the actor has spoken to IGN about the current status of contract during a promotional interview for Kingsman: […]
Marvel announces Star-Lord and Drax voice actors for Guardians of the Galaxy animated series
Following on from the announcement that Kevin Michael Richardson and Trevor Devall will lend their voices to Groot and Rocket Raccoon in the Guardians of the Galaxy animated show, Marvel has now revealed two more members of the voice cast for the upcoming Disney XD series. David Sobolov, who appeared alongside Richardson’s Groot and Devall’s […]
Marvel reimagines The Infinity Gauntlet with new Secret Wars tie-in
Prior to the big Secret Wars announcement, Marvel dropped a series of posters revealing that we’d be revisiting some of the publisher’s best-loved story arcs this summer – which of course we now know will pave the way for a reboot of the Marvel universe. We’ve already seen previews for the reimagined Inferno, Planet Hulk […]
Kevin Michael Richardson and Trevor Devall join Guardians of the Galaxy animated series
Last night the official Marvel Twitter account revealed that a series of announcements about the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy animated show will be make this week, and now we have our first piece of news, with Kevin Michael Richardson set to step into Vin Diesel’s shoes by lending his voice to Groot. Richardson has […]
Jon Watts teases that Miles Morales could feature in his Spider-Man reboot
It was heavily rumoured prior to the announcement of Tom Holland as the new Peter Parker that Miles Morales would feature as Spider-Man in the new MCU-branded reboot of the character (some even claimed they were 95% sure he would). Many fans were in fact quite upset that Morales was pushed aside in favour of […]
Leaked Spider-Man licensing agreement reveals that Peter Parker can’t be black or gay
When it was first announced that Marvel had reached a deal with Sony to reboot Spider-Man and introduce him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was a lot of speculation that we might see a different take on the wall-crawler – specifically, that we’d see a non-white version of the character, be it Miles Morales, […]
Carrie-Anne Moss joins Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones
Having secured Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad) for the title role, casting on Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones is certainly picking up pace; we’ve heard that Mike Colter (The Following) will play Luke Cage, David Tennant (Broadchurch) is set for Zebediah Killgrave and Rachael Taylor (Transformers) has been cast as Trish Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat. Well, we can […]
