2 posts tagged ‘superhero’

• What Does Superhero Casting Mean Anymore?

  Gizmodo, Nov 16, 2023

  Well, we have our first quarter of the MCU’s Fantastic Four. Yesterday, reports broke revealing that Pedro Pascal is likely to end up playing Reed Richards in the upcoming Matt Shakman-directed film, provided Pascal isn’t too busy with other projects, namely Gladiator 2 and new seasons for The Mandalorian and The Last… Read more...

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• Hollywood’s not afraid of superheroes anymore, but it’s still afraid of real superhero stories

  AV Club, Nov 10, 2023

  Before superhero movies were the only kind of movies, they almost always had a cute little gag where someone would acknowledge that something—typically something pulled straight from the comic book source material—was silly, whether it was by directly breaking the fourth wall or with a winky meta gag. That way the… Read more...

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