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The Week in Spandex – Avengers: Infinity War, Black Widow, Thor 4, Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, Shazam, Flashpoint, Gotham City Sirens, Hellboy, Spawn and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers 4, Thor 4, Black Panther, Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, Venom, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Black Widow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cloak & Dagger, The Punisher, X-Men, Wolverine, The Gifted, Justice League, Shazam, Flashpoint, Gotham City Sirens, […]

The Hunt for Wolverine begins this April as Logan makes his grand return to the Marvel universe

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Following his death in 2014, Logan is set to make his grand return to the Marvel universe as the publisher launches the new event series The Hunt for Wolverine from writer Charles Soule (Death of Wolverine, Astonishing X-Men) with art by David Marquez (The Defenders, Civil War II). “Steve McNiven and I took on the incredible […]

Marvel Studios visual development supervisor thinks that it will be a while before the X-Men join the MCU

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Marvel Studios’ visual development supervisor isn’t has expressed his belief that fans will have to be quite patient before seeing the X-Men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Disney’s agreement to buy certain media assets from 20th Century Fox was joyous news for many Marvel fans, as it would mean Marvel Studios would now be in […]

Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13 Review – ‘eXtraction/X-roads’

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the two-hour season finale of Marvel’s The Gifted… If TV shows were poker games, The Gifted just went all in for their two-hour season finale. A kidnapping became an assassination over the course of two hours. The Mutant Underground’s headquarters got leveled in two hours and, in that disorienting moment of picking up […]

UPDATE: Marvel’s The Gifted has been renewed for a second season

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As the finale for FOX’s The Gifted approaches in a couple weeks, the network has renewed the Mavrel series for a second season. The series, based on Marvel’s X-Men, follows two ordinary parents taking their family on the run after their child develops their mutant abilities. They meet other young mutants and band together in order to fight […]

The Week in Spandex – Avengers 4 wraps filming, Gambit loses another director, The New Mutants delayed, Justice League extended cut rumours and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers 4, Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, Silver & Black, Venom, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man 3, Black Widow, Captain America: Civil War, Runaways, Inhumans, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Gambit, Deadpool 2, The New Mutants, Kitty Pryde, Doctor Doom, Justice League, Shazam, Wonder Woman, […]

Deadpool 2 release date moved up, The New Mutants and Gambit delayed

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Following yesterday’s news that Gore Verbinski has become the third director to vacate the troubled X-Men spinoff movie Gambit, 20th Century Fox has announced a number of changes to its upcoming Marvel/X-Men slate. First up is some good news for fans of the Merc with a Mouth, as Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson will now return […]

Chris Hemsworth wants Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the MCU

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In the lead up to the official announcement that The Walt Disney Company is set to purchase 21st Century Fox’s film assets, it was rumoured that Marvel Studios was keen on trying to lure Hugh Jackman back for another outing as Wolverine, albeit as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jackman pretty much immediately shot […]

Director Gore Verbinski exits Fox’s Gambit movie

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Well, just when you thought the Gambit movie was finally set to become a reality… Yes, that’s right – 20th Century Fox and Channing Tatum’s long-gestating X-Men spinoff movie has hit another major roadblock, with director Gore Verbinski exiting the project in what Deadline describes as an “amicable split” due to scheduling issues. Verbinski only […]