12 posts tagged ‘avengers’
Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
Gizmodo,
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. explains how making Iron Man was a little bit indie
AV Club,
A little over four years ago (!), Martin Scorsese made a now-infamous pronouncement: Marvel movies are “not cinema.” In fact, they’re more like theme parks, in the Killers Of The Flower Moon director’s eye. That first shot kicked off a war as virulent as the one the Avengers had to fight against Thanos himself. It’s… Read more...
Chris Evans Denies Avengers Return, as if He Could Say Anything Else
The first rule of playing a superhero is deny, deny, deny. Is there a rumor going around about your character? Is that rumor true? Don’t sweat it. Simply lie about it for fear of ruining the surprise. Read more...
Loki's Michael Waldron Will Now Also Write Avengers: Kang Dynasty Too
As Marvel looks to refocus the creative teams behind its far-flung Avengers duology in the wake of director Destin Daniel Cretton’s departure, the studio has reportedly decided that why not make the man already writing an Avengers movie, write another Avengers movie? Read more...
Ultimate Spider-Man Trailer Shows a Brand New Day for Peter Parker
The original incarnation of Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Universe lived (and basically died) on Ultimate Spider-Man. Brian Michael Bendis’ run on that book with a number of artists including Mark Bagley, Sara Pichelli and plenty more was so consistent that it remained a bright spot among the larger messiness of its home… Read more...
Steven Yeun Might Be The Sentry in Marvel's Thunderbolts
Last year, Marvel revealed it had a movie in the works for the Thunderbolts, a team of villains and antiheroes trying to redeem themselves. While the main cast consists of MCU mainstays like Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier and relative newcomers in Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova and Wyatt Russell’s John Walker, the… Read more...
Avengers: The Kang Dynasty loses its director
As far as big cinematic tentpoles go, few look as wobbly, at least from the outside, as Marvel’s upcoming plans for 2025 and beyond’s “Phase Six.” Parent studio Disney has already been doing a bunch of schedule shifting this month, bumping lots of movies back by several months, and clearing out the Marvel 2024 film… Read more...
Destin Daniel Cretton Departs Marvel's Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
With so many things in flux at Marvel Studios, there’s news that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has departed the director’s chair of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. A move that leaves us speculating about the crossover film’s future, if anything. Read more...