Over the weekend ABC announced that it had officially given a pilot order to Marvel’s Most Wanted, the upcoming Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff centred on Mockingbird (Adrianne Palicki) and Lance Hunter (Nick Blood). However, there was no news on the mystery Marvel TV project from Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime), which has […]
Marvel and ABC developing new superhero TV series with Oscar-winning producer John Ridley
It looks like the proposed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff isn’t the only Marvel TV project in development at ABC, with Entertainment Weekly revealing that Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) for a mystery project, which “involves reinventing an existing Marvel superhero character or property for ABC.” Should it and the S.H.I.E.L.D. […]
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Episode 17 Review – ‘Melinda’
Danny Hale reviews the seventeenth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2… This week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. flitted between our character’s current situation and Agent May’s past finally revealing why she is known as the cavalry. Previous information has revealed that during a mission in Bahrain May entered a building and emerged having saved a […]
Angelina Jolie linked to director’s chair on Captain Marvel
According to Collider, Angelina Jolie (Unbroken) is under consideration to take on the director’s chair on Marvel Studios’ first female led superhero movie, 2018’s Captain Marvel. The report emerged last night, with Collider also claiming that Jolie was wanted by Warner Bros. for Wonder Woman – a project that actually secured Patty Jenkins (Monster) as director just moments later. […]
Joss Whedon says Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man was “the best script Marvel ever had”
During a promotional interview with Buzzfeed ahead of the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron [read our spoiler free ★★★★★ review here], Joss Whedon got onto the topic of Marvel’s next movie Ant-Man, and more specifically Edgar Wright’s original screenplay for the miniature superhero, which he calls “the best script that Marvel ever had.” “I […]
Sally Field talks the Aunt May movie rumours and The Amazing Spider-Man
In one of the more bizarre rumours last year, it was speculated that Sony were planning on doing a spin-off movie in their Spider-Man franchise that would focus on Sally Field’s Aunt May. It was quickly debunked and nothing further was ever said of it, but with the news of Spider-Man getting another reboot treatment […]
Nicholas Hoult wants to extend his time as Beast beyond X-Men: Apocalypse
It’s been said that next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse will mark the end of a “trilogy” of movies centred around the X-Men: First Class line-up, and Nicholas Hoult has confirmed that his current contract is up after Apocalypse, but he’s keen to sign on for more X-Men adventures as Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast. “This is […]
Over 500 Star Wars digital comics now available on Marvel Unlimited, first month offered free
Marvel is welcoming the Star Wars saga to its digital comic book service Marvel Unlimited, with over 500 Star Wars titles now added to its archive. That’s in addition to the 15,000 Marvel comics already available, and best of all, new and returning subscribers are being offered their first month free by using the promo […]
Olivia Munn cast as Psylocke in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse
Through his Instagram account this evening, Bryan Singer has announced that Olivia Munn (The Newsroom, Magic Mike) has been cast as Psylocke in the director’s latest X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse. Munn has signed on to play Betsy Braddock, a.k.a. Psylocke. In the comics, Psylocke is “a precognitive with telepathic powers, the ability to project her […]
Tilda Swinton unsure if she’ll play the Ancient One in Doctor Strange as a man or a woman
Back in May it was revealed that Marvel Studios had tapped Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer, Trainwreck) to play the role of Dr. Stephen Strange’s mentor The Ancient One in the Phase Three release Doctor Strange. Naturally, this led everyone to assume that Marvel had decided to gender swap the character – who in the comic book […]
