Category: Movies

“Guardians of the Galaxy” Is Marvel’s Next Big Movie?

  Marvel Studios is definitely launching a new film franchise in May 2014. Will is be Guardians of the Galaxy? That’s been the speculation for months and two sources: The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision and Latino Review report Marvel will make an official announcement during Comicon International. Reports also say Nicole Perlman has already turned in a script. An outer space based franchise would fit with the big cosmic-level reveal at the end of The Avengers.

 

Guardians of the Galaxy #1 courtesy Marvel.com

  Most fans have been cheering for the Guardians team by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning that debuted in the aftermath of their Annihilation epic in 2008. The team includes Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Groot and Rocket Raccoon. Similar to the Avengers, these individual warriors were united against a common threat after several galactic conflicts.

 

Guardians of the Galaxy courtesy Marvel.com

  Now I know I’m showing my age here but I’m fond of the old school Guardians: Vance Astro, Yondu, Martinex, Charlie-27, Nikki and Starhawk. These heroes were from the future fighting against the alien empire of the Badoon. The 31st century team went into the past to team up with the Avengers most notably in the classic Korvac saga.

  Today’s fans really love ’em some Rocket Raccoon and he would work as an action figure and stuffed animal! Maybe Mark Walhberg’s teddy bear in Ted will be an indication of how Rocket Raccoon could work on screen. Stay tuned true believers.

  As I shared this news with my co-worker (and non-comic reader) Matt Scheck he said “you know, there hasn’t been a sci-fi space epic in while.” Matt, my friend I think Marvel hears you.

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Thanks to Marvel.com for the images.

Magic Mike Made Me Think of The Incredible Hulk…Seriously

The Incredible Hulk #417 courtesy Marvel Comics

  Steven Soderbergh, Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey are making male stripping cool again in this week’s Magic Mike. When I saw the trailer I was reminded of a comic book Bachelorette party in the pages of The Incredible Hulk.

  Rick Jones and Marlo Chandler were friends with Bruce and Betty Banner so when the complicated couple got engaged they got the traditional stag parties courtesy of writer Peter David and artist Gary Frank.

  In the classic and offbeat The Incredible Hulk #417 Rick gets a Bachelor party complete with a stripper and stag movie with a surprise. Wholesome Captain America’s discomfort with the naughty proceedings is classic. This is back when Bruce was in control of Hulk’s body but he lost control of the party in a jaw dropping way.

  Betty, Scarlet Witch, Invisible Woman, She-Hulk and Crystal of the Inhumans take Marlo out for a wild night too at a male strip club. Betty yells for the dancer to take it off. Marlo gets pulled on stage. Susan Storm Richards wished she was invisible. Sue told Jennifer that the this is not her idea of good taste of a good time. The show is interrupted by would-be robbers who picked the wrong night to try to steal from his joint.

  This is not your typical issue and the wedding is even more fun with appearances by Death (of Vertigo Comics) and Peter David himself.  I love this Hulk era. Peter David effortlessly mixed heartbreak, humor and humanity among the superheroics and world saving.

Thanks to Marvel.Wikia for assist with the cover.

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Avengers Blu-Ray Trailer

Marvel’s The Avengers courtesy Marvel

  Marvel.com unveiled the trailer for Marvel’s The Avengers on Blu-Ray. What else is there to say? Behold:


 

Assemble September 25th!

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New “Total Recall” Trailer

Total Recall poster courtesy Sony

  Colin Farrell is the lead in the new version of Total Recall based on Phillip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.” Edit out Arnold, Mars and the over the top, color filled world and edit in Colin in an Earth that could a be pre-Blade Runner society with Minority Report finishes. Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale executive action moves that would impress Jason Bourne’s Treadstone handlers. Jessica Biel and Bryan Cranston also star in Len Wiseman’s film.

  Here’s the new trailer from Sony:

  Are you ready to make a new memory with Colin or do still hold on to your memories of the Arnold original?

  P.S. I’m glad that kept one icon from the first movie- can you guess which “triple” threat I’m referring to?

Total Recall is in theaters August 3rd.

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Ryan Reynolds As New Highlander

  There can be only one…and he is Ryan Reynolds? The man who played Deadpool (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Hal Jordan in Green Lantern has been cast as the lead in a new Highlander according to The Tracking Board. The site reports Reynolds will play Connor MacLeod and the remake is being directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.

  If you’re not familar…Christopher Lambert played the immortal warrior in century spanning feuds with others of his kind. Once you killed a fellow immortal you absorbed their energy and strength. The film showed Connor’s life in the 1500’s in the Scottish Highlands and in the present day. Sean Connery played his fellow immortal and mentor Ramirez. The film spawned sequels and television series and is known for music by Queen. Here’s a link to the trailer for the 1986 film. Here’s the trailer for Highlander Endgame which brought together Connor from the original film and Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) from the television series.

  What I always found ironic with the original film is that a Frenchman was cast as a Scotsman and the most famous Scotsman was cast as a Spaniard but I still loved it.

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Spider-Man Gets a New Sidekick

 

Amazing Spider-Man #693 courtesy Marvel.com

  Fans will see a new cinematic Spidey (Andrew Garfield) on the big screen and a big change in the comic book. A web of intrigue started spinning when Marvel Comics asked “Who Is Alpha?” in an  mysterious tease online. Today Marvel.com revealed the answer: Spidey is getting a sidekick as part of his 50th Anniversary. This August in Amazing Spider-Man #692 Writer Dan Slott and Artist Humberto Ramos give Peter Parker a new partner. Teenager Andy McGuire will become Alpha when he’s in the wrong place at the wrong time…in a lab with Peter Parker.

Amazing Spider-Man #692 courtesy Marvel.com

Spidey is an Avenger, works with the Future Foundation and has co-starred in his own team-up book but he’s never had a teen sidekick. Marvel Entertainment Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso reveals to Fox why this is the time for a partner?

 “Part of it is that Spider-Man is grown up,” said Axel Alonso, editor-in-chief of Marvel Entertainment. “He’s older, more seasoned, but young at heart. He’s still a young man, but he’s been around. It’s interesting because it flips the paradigm. Teen hero Spider-Man is now responsible for this teen hero sidekick. He’s responsible because one of his inventions caused this kid to get his powers. He’s directly responsible for the responsibility this kid now has with his new powers. He feels he has a responsibility to make sure this kid walks the right path, which won’t prove easy.”

Amazing Spider-Man #692 courtesy Marvel.com

  Amazing Spider-Man Dan Slott says don’t expect this team-up to be like another famous comic book dynamic duo.

  “If you put Spider-Man and Batman in the same situation, you’re going to have way more fun with Spider-Man,” said Dan Slott. “With Batman, he never really screws up the way Spider-Man does; he always seems to make the right decision. But with Spider-Man, he always screws up. He’s us as a superhero. Batman is a paragon of what we’d like to be, but in reality, we’re more like Spider-Man. He makes all the mistakes we make.”

Amazing Spider-Man #692 courtesy Marvel.com

  For the entire interview here’s the Fox link. For more preview art here’s the Marvel.com link.

  What do you think of Spidey getting a partner? It’s easy to compare Alpha to Batman’s Robin. And the obvious question: will Alpha will a sidekick like Dick Grayson, Jason Todd or Tim Drake?

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Gotham City Burns in New “The Dark Knight Rises” Poster

 

courtesy Warner Brothers

  Tom Hardy as Bane watches as Gotham City is broken and in flames in a new poster for The Dark Knight Rises posted by Collider. The familiar tagline The Legend Ends accompanies the image. A good point made by the author that Michael Caine’s Alfred said of the Joker “some men just want to watch the world burn” in The Dark Knight. Maybe the legend ending is Gotham City – instead of Batman – and Bruce Wayne will rebuild.

  Bruce Wayne’s urban renewal of Gotham City is part of Scott Snyder’s Batman run and made him a target of the Court of Owls. This image certainly adds to the theory that Christopher Nolan’s final Batman film may be based on the classic No Man’s Land epic.

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Jeremy Renner and Matt Damon For Fifth Bourne Movie?

courtesy Empire magazine

  Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye of Marvel’s The Avengers) takes over the Jason Bourne action franchise (from Matt Damon) with The Bourne Legacy. Writer/Director Tony Gilroy hints how Damon and Renner’s characters could be together in a new film. Gilroy’s game plan for continuing the series revealed in the latest Empire magazine is pure Shakespearean.

  “If you think of the first three Bourne films as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, then we’re showing you Elsinore. You thought you were seeing something you weren’t. What if there’s a much larger story? What if Treadstone wasn’t the only black-ops programme?

  “I had never spent one moment thinking about how to do a sequel to Bourne Ultimatum. I first came in for two weeks just to spitball. I had a very random idea…so we started with that and it got more and more exciting. All of a sudden I was staring at something that had a great deal of resonance and was soulful and uncynical and was also gonna kick ass. So that was good.”

  Producer Frank Marshall says, “You see there are several different programmes in the movie with different skill sets. All possibilities are open. My dream is that in the next one we see Matt and Jeremy team up.”

 For the entire interview here’s the link or watch for the new issue of Empire magazine.
Here’s the trailer:

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