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Exclusive Interview – Patrick Meaney, director of Chris Claremont’s X-Men

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Tai Freligh chats with Patrick Meaney about Chris Claremont’s X-Men…Chris Claremont came to Marvel as a young man, and was assigned a book that no one else wanted, a book on the brink of cancellation: X-Men. Over the next 17 years, his work on the title turned it into the biggest franchise in comic book […]

Marvel releases trailer for Wolverine: The Long Night

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Marvel New Media and top podcast service Stitcher have released a trailer for Wolverine: The Long Night, Marvel’s highly-anticipated first-ever scripted podcast. You can listen to the trailer on the official website here.The Wolverine: The Long Night story is a captivating hybrid of mystery and the larger-scale fantasy of the Marvel Universe. It follows agents Sally […]

Marvel’s Legion gets a season 2 premiere date and synopsis

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Fox has released a new banner for the second season of Marvel’s X-Men series Legion featuring Dan Stevens’ David Haller along with a premiere date reveal of April 3rd and a series synopsis; check them out below…“Based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, “Legion” is the story of David Haller (Dan […]

Deadpool 2 spoofs Flashdance with new poster

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The marketing for Deadpool 2 has been just as strange and full of out-of-the-box, breaking the fourth wall ideas as the original. First we received a teaser parodying Superman: The Movie and then we got another teaser of the Merc with a Mouth pretending to be painter Bob Ross as well as making fun of the painting ‘The Creation […]

Legion has been praised by the character’s creator Chris Claremont

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X-Men hall of famer Chris Claremont has praised the TV show Legion, 30 years after he helped create the star character with Bill Sienkiewicz.Legion was certainly proved to be a different beast from your usual superhero TV content when it debuted last year. The FX series by Noah Hawley was visually audacious and kept audiences […]

Gambit production reportedly pushed back, again

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Well, this won’t come as much of a surprise, seeing as it’s Gambit we’re talking about, but according to Omega Underground the troubled X-Men spinoff has been pulled from 20th Century Fox’s production schedule following the departure of director Gore Verbinski last month.The film, which has Channing Tatum attached to play the mutant Remy LeBeau, […]

Kevin Feige says the Disney/Fox deal won’t impact MCU films that are currently announced

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Marvel Studios head, Kevin Feige, has said that the Disney/Fox deal won’t change things with regards to the current Marvel Cinematic Universe films in progress.While many fans are hoping to see the X-Men or maybe the Fantastic Four turn up in already announced MCU movies, Feige has said that fans shouldn’t expect that to happen. […]

Hasbro announces new Marvel Legends Deadpool figures and accessories

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Hasbro has announced that it is set to release a new wave of Deadpool action figures and accessories in the fall; check out the official promotional images and details here…MARVEL DEADPOOL 12-INCH DEADPOOL Figure (Ages 14 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $9.99/Available: Fall 2018) Get ready for more over-sized adventures with this 12-inch scale DEADPOOL […]

Meet the man behind the mutants with trailer for documentary Chris Claremont’s X-Men

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Chris Claremont is a name that will be instantly recognisable to fans of the X-Men, with the comic book writer enjoying a hugely successful run on the Uncanny X-Men title between 1975-1991, during which time he not only revived the fortunes of the mutant superhero team, but also crafted a number of classic stories that […]