You can’t trust any of those ——- from Weyland! A new TV spot for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in on YouTube. Charlize Theron may be fairy tale evil in Snow White and the Huntsman but you can see the corporate evil seething under the surface of her character, Meredith Vickers. Michael Fassbender may be playing the android but there’s something very inhuman about Theron’s corporate officer.
Prometheus takes flight June 8.
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If you haven’t seen Marvel’s The Avengers yet you may not want to keep reading this post.
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Joss Whedon always kills the ones we love and we love him for it. Death has meaning, impact and drama in Buffy, Serenity, Angel, and The Avengers. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes needed someone to avenge. Agent Phil Coulson had to die. But Whedon tells io9 it wasn’t completely on him this time.
In our first meeting Kevin Feige said, this is what we’re gonna do and I said, “Oh but you have to go out there and tell everybody that it was your idea because this is going to get me so much s—. Because they are all going to be like, “Oh he did it again!” It was stipulated from the beginning, and I completely agree that it was the right thing to do, and so did Clark. Who said in the early days, when I was busy apologizing for it, “In a movie like this, with what’s going on if there isn’t some toll, it’s just irresponsible story telling.”
This Geek’s Take: It never occured to me that Agent Coulson would die because I was so caught up in the movie. Phil, you will be missed. I’m glad Coulson will live on in the Marvel comic universe.
New photos of Daniel Craig in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar filming Skyfall on MI6.com. The new James Bond adventure brings Craig as 007 and Naomie Harris as MI6 agent Eve to the iconic location for a scene involving actor Ola Rapace as a villian.
For more photos here’s the MI6.com link. Bond visited Turkey in Pierce Brosnan’s The World Is Not Enough. One of my favorite sequences in From Russia, With Love was underneath Istanbul. Sean Connery and Kerim Bey (the M of Turkey you might say) travel on an underground canal to a spy hole that lets them get a peek inside the Russian embassy – before an army of rats are unleashed.
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Avengers: Battle for Earth game has been declared by Marvel and Ubisoft. The game for Kinect for Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U is based on the popular series Secret Invasion. That epic storyline featured the shapeshifting Skrulls. The aliens had infiltrated nearly every super hero team, government agency and even criminal organizations for years setting up their takeover of Earth.
The game will feature 20 different characters. For more information you can visit AvengersBattleforEarth.com.
Christopher Meloni joins True Blood this season. HBO reveals a first look at Meloni as an ancient member of the Vampire Authority. Take a look!
I talked with Kristin Bauer (Pam) at Fan Expo Vancouver. She revealed this season will focus on vampire politics, the return of Russell and reveal Pam’s back story with Eric (Alexander Scarsgard.)
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IF HAVE NOT SEEN MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS MOVIE OR READ THE COMIC BOOK AVENGER ASSEMBLE #3 YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ ANY FURTHER!
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The clues were there – even in Thor – but Marvel’s The Avengers delivered a cosmic shock finale revealing that Thanos was the master of the Chitauri in the movie. But the Mad God of Titan was the mystery villain behind the new Zodiac as revealed in Avengers Assemble #3.
It’s a one, two punch and major comeback for the big purple bad ass that once wiped out half the universe. Today Avengers Editor Tom Brevoort said these appearances are just the beginning for the Death-worshipping alien.
“Since we designed AVENGERS ASSEMBLE to be a nice, easy entry point for people coming out of the film, for all that it still exists within our current Marvel Universe, it was a bit of a no-brainer to have Thanos be the villains behind our first storyline,” shares Marvel Senior VP – Executive Editor Tom Brevoort on Marvel.com. “More than simply bringing him back, this storyline will be setting him up for bigger things that are just off on the horizon—it’s the first step towards something we’ve been working on behind the scenes for a while now.”
“He’s a villain of such power and stature that he can give the Avengers a fight all by himself,” he notes. “There’s no such thing as a small Thanos story—he operates on an intergalactic scale. And he’s a fascinating, nuanced character, with passions and neuroses all his own that make him stand apart as an individual, and not just a cookie-cutter moustache-twirler.”
In case you missed it here’s my take on the return of Thanos and what it means for the future of Marvel movies including Avengers 2.
Avengers Assemble #4 is out June 13th.
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Jessica Chastain was in then out due to scheduling. Now Rebecca Hall is in talks to play a scientist in Iron Man 3 according to Variety. What does this mean for Gwynneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts? I was surprised how much Pepper screen time was in Marvel’s The Avengers. Tony and Pepper seemed happy in Stark Tower but could this new brainy beauty catch the playboy’s eye?
The character is part of a team (including Guy Pearce) of scientists that create nanotechnology that gets in the hands of terrorists. The next Tony Stark adventure is based on Iron Man Extremis. Ben Kingsley is on board as the villain.
I liked Rebecca Hall in Ben Affleck’s The Town. Below is a YouTube video of her promoting that excellent film.
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You don’t have to board Prometheus to visit the alien landscape in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic. The director filmed on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. I’m a travel buff along with being a geek. Lord of the Rings was part of my inspiration to visit New Zealand.
VisitScotland is hoping the film will inspire movie fans to experience the Isle of Sky according to the Daily Mail. Chairman Mike Cantlay said: ‘As thousands of holidaymakers discover every year, Skye possesses an ethereal, out-of-this-world quality, so it is no surprise that Ridley Scott chose the island to shoot scenes for Prometheus.
Here’s the trailer that shows the rocky landscape of the Isle of Sky seen in Prometheus.
The new James Bond film Skyfall is filming in Scotland at Duntrune Castle. The 007 film title refers to Skyfall Lodge.