8 posts tagged ‘norse mythology in popular culture’
The end of What If…?'s second season briefly acknowledges the current state of Marvel’s multiverse
AV Club,
Marvel Studios has picked up a somewhat annoying habit lately of ignoring things established in its larger universe, rendering the larger universe irrelevant and spoiling what was once the big selling point of these movies and TV shows. But, despite its supposed dependence on standalone stories, season two of… Read more...
Loki creator Michael Waldron to hopefully get the next two Avengers movies back on track
It looks like Marvel Studios’ plans for the end of the MCU’s “Phase Six” are solidifying behind the scenes… or they’re undergoing even more upheaval and are less solid than ever before. It’s really impossible to tell, and the only person who probably can is Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige—and since he’s too busy… Read more...
Tom Hiddleston, Scarlet Johansson are being wishy-washy about MCU future
Superhero fans know death doesn’t stick. It’s a genre that loves to revive dead characters or introduce alternate universe doppelgangers or just reveal that the death was actually a big hoax all along. Separately, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been on shaky ground lately, leading to rumors that Kevin Feige and co.… Read more...
Taika Waititi "won't be involved" with Thor 5 despite "open relationship" with Marvel
After revitalizing the Thor movies with Thor: Ragnarok and swiftly burying them with Thor: Love And Thunder, Taika Waititi is putting the hammer down. Speaking with Business Insider, the director admits that he “won’t be involved” with the series’ next installment, but in his Waititian way, which is to say… Read more...
If There's a Thor 5, Taika Waititi Won't Be Part of It
Gizmodo,
In one of those rare cases where the rumor mills are actually accurate, director Taika Waititi confirmed that if Marvel Studios decides to make a fifth Thor movie, he won’t be involved. “I wouldn’t know if that’s [a Thor 5 happening] accurate,” Waititi said to Business Insider. “I know that I won’t be involved.” Read more...
Yeah, that's probably it for Loki
Although Marvel hasn’t said anything official yet, it’s sounding increasingly likely that the just-concluded second season of Disney+ TV series Loki will be its last. Both star Tom Hiddleston and series writer Eric Martin have given statements to press surrounding the show’s just-released second-season finale,… Read more...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, ranked from worst to best
Conventional critical wisdom holds that the floor and the ceiling of the 15-year-strong Marvel Cinematic Universe are not so far apart—that in devising a recipe for success, the company has managed to avoid any outright disasters, even as its principle of quality-without-risk also more or less negates the possibility… Read more...
Loki season 2 finale: Loki ends, surprisingly perfectly
If Loki is about any one specific thing, underneath all the comedy, the time traveling, the ’shipping and quipping and fun, then it’s a show about systems. Systems of control, systems of “protection,” systems of self-propagating evil. Systems that “have to exist,” because, we’re told, they have to exist. Systems that… Read more...