Superman soars on the big screen in Man of Steel but you can watch a modern classic Superman story on the small screen at home! Henry Cavill will face off against General Zod (Michael Shannon) but the Kryptonian born hero faces a different arch enemy in Superman Unbound.
In this Nerdist Exclusive preview of the upcoming movie we see Superman, Supergirl, the invasion of Kandor and one of my favorite villians: Brainiac!
The animated film is based on the Geoff Johns Action Comics story. Brainiac started out as a green guy in a pink suit but evolved into a monstrous machine capable of wiping out planets.
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Matt Bomer (White Collar) is the voice of the Man of Steel in this film. John Noble (Fringe, Lord of the Rings) is the Brainiac.
The Mandarin strikes! Tony Stark falls! Iron Patriot rises! Here’s a preview of the Iron Man 3 Super Bowl commercial courtesy Marvel.com.
This reveals James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) has traded in his War Machine for the Iron Patriot armor. What else will the new super trailer reveal? Tune in Sunday!
Who had the brilliance to geenlight Doctor Who all those years ago? Whovians will discover how the classic time traveler came to television!
The first Doctor Who lives again in An Adventure in Space and Time. The upcoming film celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Time Lord and how the iconic sci-fi series was born. The BBC announced David Bradley (Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films) will portray the late William Hartnell, the first actor to portray the Doctor in the first serial An Unearthly Child. Bradley played a villain in the recent Dinosaurs on a Spaceship episode opposite current Doctor, Matt Smith. Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, X2 – X-Men United) will play the BBC executive credited with the creation of the series. Filming starts the next month.
Director Bryan Singer keeps delivering Uncanny casting news! Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore and Ellen Page are reprising their roles in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Stars from the original three films will join stars of X-Men: First Class including Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence.
The film will be based on the classic storyline in which mutants from the future try to change the past.
My geeky brain starting thinking of what else would make this sequel even more Astonishing X-fans! Here are 8 wishes:
X1 Hugh Jackman leading the real Last Stand! In the classic Days of Future Past storyline Logan leads the underground resistance in a future North America ruled by Sentinels. Magneto, Storm, Colossus and Kitty Pryde (now Kate Rasputin) are the only surviving X-Men. The heroes eventually break out of their concentration camp and join Logan on a suicide raid on Sentinel headquarters. Hugh Jackman is set to return so he could play the aging Logan on his last mission.
Uncanny X-Men #466 courtesy Marvel
X2 Rachel Summers! The daughter of Scott and Jean is the key to the story. Rachel is telepathic and telekinetic like her mother and uses her psionic powers to send Kate’s mind into the present day body of a younger Kitty Pryde who must convince the X-Men to prevent an assassination that will lead to this dark future. Bryce Dallas Howard (yes I know she’s already been in a Spidey movie) would be perfect as tragic daughter of Scott and Jean. Rachel was forced to be a “Hound” and track down fellow mutants. In the comic books Rachel escaped the future and went into the past became the new Phoenix and joined the X-Men. She currently teaches as the Jean Grey School.
X3 Franklin Richards! The last surviving member of the Fantastic Four is in love with Rachel. The son of Reed and Susan Storm Richards is in the camp with the surviving X-Men and I won’t reveal his final fate. Mark Millar’s new role as Creative Consultant for the Fox controlled Marvel franchises includes the upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four. This film could serve as a reboot point for both franchises similar to J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek.
X4 Kitty Pryde/Kate Rasputin! Ellen Page is back so will she play the future Kate? Kitty is married to Colossus (as it should be!) but agrees to have her mind travel into the past to rally the X-Men to stop a chain of events leading to the dark future. Continue reading X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Wish List!
Andrew Garfield will face Jamie Foxx as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but a second classic villain could be charging into the sequel! Paul Giamatti is in talks to play the Rhino according to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision.
Felicity Jones is also in discussion for an undisclosed role according to the story.
Giamatti and Jones would join a packed cast including Foxx, Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane, Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn and Emma Stone who reprises her role as Gwen Stacy.
The Rhino debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #41 as Russian thug-for-hire who wears a horned body suit that enhances his strength, speed and endurance.
The truth is out there! Mulder and Scully’s investigations of the paranormal and supernatural are back! The X-Fileswill be reopened in brand new and recollected comic books from IDW Publishing and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.
IDW’s publishing plan includes reprinting collections of the classic issues published intermittently from 1995 through 2009 and creating brand-new X-FILEScomics to launch in June 2013.
“THE X-FILES is a classic property that helped redefine fans’ expectations for the science-fiction and horror genres,” said IDW’s President/Chief Operating Officer Greg Goldstein. “The possibilities for new comic stories are virtually unlimited!”
“The fans of THE X-FILES have remained loyal to the series since its conclusion. What better way to continue the show’s legacy and give back to them than through new stories in a different medium,” said Jeffrey Godsick, President of Fox Consumer Products. “IDW has worked with a number of our Fox properties, and we know they’re going to do great things with these iconic characters.”
“Few shows have captured the zeitgeist and fans’ imaginations like THE X-FILES, and fewer shows still have left people hungry for more in the way this one did,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “Our new series will be picking up where the second film left off, which will hopefully be as exciting for fans to read as it is for us to develop.”
The big question: who would you like to see write a new X-Files series?
Can Director Bryan Singer take one of the greatest X-Men storylines and translate it to the big screen? X-Men from past and future must work together to prevent a dark future in which mutants are hunted by those relentless robots, the Sentinels. Singer talked in the upcoming issue of Empire magazine about X-Men: Days of Future Past.
“It’s epic. I don’t think people realise how big this movie’s going to be. We get to bring both casts together.”
The fan favorite story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne involves elements of time travel and attempts to change the future. How will that translate?
“We’ve cracked it in a way that it makes sense. I had a two-hour conversation with James Cameron about time travel, string theory, multiverses and all that. You have to create your rules and stick with them. That’s why Terminator and Back To The Future work so well. And there are certain mechanisms in X-Men, certain powers, perceptions and characters, that make this possible.”
“It has a lot of aspects of the comic. The actual comic of Days Of Future Past had a whole ton of stuff going on, so it’s like any of these things; you have to distill it. But I think the fans will be pleased that some of the most exciting parts of Days Of Future Past are going to be connected to this movie.”
For more of Singer’s interview check the upcoming Empire magazine.
Singer revealed via Twitter over the weekend that Ellen Page, Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore will reprise their roles as Kitty Pryde, Rogue and Iceman.
unveiled their March issue cover with Henry Cavill as Superman in Man of Steel.
Zack Snyder directed the latest movie reboot of the DC icon. Just like the DC Comics The New 52 comic book counterpart, this Superman has ditched the red trunks.
What do you think of this look?
Man of Steel soars this Summer as part of Superman’s 75th Anniversary.
Scott Snyder and Jim Lee are the creative team on a brand new Superman series from DC Comics. No word on a title yet but speculation is it will be Man of Steel.
