Tag: Joss Whedon

SERENITY: LEAVES ON THE WIND Preview

Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics
Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics

Serenity will soar again. One of my most anticipated comics coming in 2014 breathes new life into this outer space corners of the Whedonverse. Joss Whedon created the short-lived but loved Firefly television series which was reborn as a feature film. Dark Horse Comics will pick up the story of Mal Reynolds and his crew in Serenity: Leaves On the Wind.

 

Writer Zach Whedon and artists Georges Jeanty (Buffy, The Vampire Slayer) continue with Mal, a pregnant Zoe, River Tam and the rest of outlaws’ story after the events of the Serenity movie when they exposed the universe to the corrupt government’s crimes against their own people. Continue reading SERENITY: LEAVES ON THE WIND Preview

AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON Whedon on Spader

Age of Ultron #1 courtesy Marvel
Age of Ultron #1 courtesy Marvel

Veteran film and television actor James Spader will bring the Avengers’ greatest enemy to evil life on the big screen in the sequel to Earth’s Mightiest Moneymaking franchise.

 

Director Joss Whedon talks about the casting of Spader as Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron. with Marvel’s The Watcher.

 

“Spader was my first and only choice. He’s got that hypnotic voice that can be eerily calm and compelling Continue reading AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON Whedon on Spader

Ellen Page on Kitty Pryde Movie

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Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde on the set of X-Men Days of Future Past courtesy @BryanSinger Twitter

Ellen Page reprises her role as Kitty Pryde in X-Men Days of Future Past.

 

Page played Kitty in X-Men The Last Stand under director Brett Ratner. What’s is like to return to the Children of the Atom with a new director (Bryan Singer.)

 

“That’s sort of the wonder and mystery of making a movie, you know? Maybe because the first one was so long ago, maybe because it was like an eight-year difference, but it didn’t feel like there needed to be an adjustment period. Bryan, I don’t know how he pulls off everything he does in a day, I really don’t! Continue reading Ellen Page on Kitty Pryde Movie

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Preview

Cobie Smulders & Clark Gregg in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. courtesy Marvel
Cobie Smulders & Clark Gregg in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. courtesy Marvel

Joss Whedon and the cast and creative team of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. answered fan questions and previewed the upcoming series in a special Marvel liveblog. The new series will be set in The Avengers universe following the Iron Man 3. Clark Gregg reprises his role as Agent Phil Coulson in the series. Cobie Smulders returns as Agent Maria Hill in the pilot.

 

“Every week, it’s not going to be some new hero. It could be a device, or a mystery, or anything. They want to switch it up and deal with every aspect–the heartfelt stuff, the spy stuff, everything,” said Whedon. Continue reading AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Preview

Cobie Smulders in AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.courtesy ABC/Justin Lubin. An EW exclusive
MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.courtesy ABC/Justin Lubin. An EW exclusive

One of Joss Whedon’s best kept secrets is declassified!

 

Cobie Smulders will reprise her role as Maria Hill in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hill is Nick Fury’s second in command in Marvel’s The Avengers on the big screen.

 

“I wanted very much to have Cobie in the pilot because as much as anyone else, she IS SHIELD,” pilot’s writer-director Joss Whedon tells EW.Com. Continue reading Cobie Smulders in AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.