Thanks to Comic-Con International for hosting their own video!
I love seeing the cast together and having a great time! They filmed this so long ago.
I liked how they had fun with all of the delays, but ideally, we will see this moving on August 28, 2020. I am not sure why they are still holding out for theaters, I guess to be eligible for Oscars?
Towards the end, they reveal the opening scene, which looks super dark to me.
I strained my ears for any hints of Lockheed, and then I strained my eyes during any shown footage, and I could not see the little guy anywhere. I sincerely hope he makes the cut. Just see me an official Lockheed plushie, please!
It really is incredible how this cast just gets more and more famous, and yet, this film cannot just come out.
Anya Taylor-Joy has won me over as Magik already!
They made a Twitter emoji for Magik, #NewMutantsMagik is how you get it to show up.
I tried #NewMutantsLockheed, but it did not work, which would have been a fun treat.
Marvel held a pretty epic presentation on Saturday that explains what the next few years are going to look like for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both in theaters and on Disney+.
Since I have the handy link above, I’m going to go in that order, if you want to follow along. Except I’m going to break that right off the bat with the first film as it just makes sense to go in release date order of release. I’m also going with Logo first and then my thoughts as that makes more sense to me.
Thanks to Variety for having a highlight reel of the announcements too!
It took ten years but Scarlett Johansson is finally getting her proper movie! With no Hawkeye in sight too! More on that later! She’ll be joined by Stranger Things and Hellboy, David Harbour, as The Red Guardian. I looked it up.
It only made 40 million worldwide on a 50 million budget, that isn’t ideal so Harbour is free to be other comic book characters. He deserves another shot. I haven’t heard anything about Stranger Things 3, so either people are respecting no spoilers or I’m just out of touch.
I’m a pretty big fan of Yelena’s take of being the Black Widow and I’m looking forward to how Florence Pugh portrays her. I didn’t realize she played Paige in Fighting with My Family. I must not have looked into it as I just assumed Paige would pull a Howard Stern and play herself in the movie about her life. Paige is 26 and would have gotten acting experience through WWE, I wonder what made that decision? Apparently the film is based on a documentary that I should probably watch now that I have so many questions. That won’t be answered in the documentary but still. Pugh will be one of the ladies in Little Women.
O-T Fagbenle, who I know from Harlan Coben’s The Five series (that I think about enough that we should really finish that series!) will be Mason, whoever that is. He’s also one The Handmaid’s Tale and I wonder if my wife recognizes him from the earlier show?
Rachel Weisz will be Melina, another character in the film. I imagine the film is going to be an origin story and it ends with Natasha coming back to life, right? Or a quick 15 minute origin story, she blips back to Earth and then just continues with her spy story, and then the film ends with her telling a hero that she’s alive? Those are the two easy options I came up with.
Johansson is only 34 so she must have been 24 when Iron Man 2 came out and she looks exactly the same, so she can totally pull off an origin story! I probably didn’t even need to look it up but I was curious. She’s been working since 2001’s Ghost World with some smaller roles before hand but gosh, she really blew up. I wonder what her thoughts are on Jennifer Lawrence, who is only 28, and what advice she’ll give her as they both have the same fans, I imagine.
Coming to theaters May 1, 2020.
The movie Marvel is hoping to recapture that Guardians of the Galaxy buzz with! Kevin Feige said it is going to have plenty of Jack Kirby in it, which would be the only thing I want want from it. Especially as I really don’t know the Eternals are. I’m sure Marvel will release like three trades that will be the inspiration for the film’s plot but it is pretty wide open as of now.
Richard Madden, Game of Thorne’s Robb Stark, is going to be Ikarus.
Kumail Nanjiani, who love, is going to be Kingo.
I’m not familiar with Lauren Ridloff who is going to be Makkari. My wife would probably recognize her from New Amsterdam’s Happy Place episode.
Brian Tyree Henry has been in a slew of things I haven’t seen, but he’s the voice of Jefferson Davis in Into The Spider-Verse, he’s going to be Phastos.
In a surprise announcement to me, Salma Hayek is entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Ajak! I do love me some Salma Hayek.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a page for Lia McHugh who is going to be Sprite. Which I am familiar with that Eternal as I’ve been curious why Kitty Pryde was known as the second Sprite. Just don’t pull her Tab!
I’m not familiar with Don Lee either, who is going to be Gilgamesh.
I knew Angelina Jolie was going to be in the movie, she’s Thena. Should be a pretty interesting film. I’m also not familiar with director Chloe Zhao’s work either.
Coming to theaters November 6, 2020.
I had forgotten that Daniel Bruhl is returning as Baron Zemo for the series! Now I’m even more excited! Once this is officially on Disney+, we will be subscribing to it.
Coming to streaming devices Fall 2020.
I must be way out of touch as I didn’t recognize anyone from the cast of this but I’m super excited!
Simu Liu is going to be outstanding as Shang Chi!
I’m glad that we’re finally getting the real Mandarin and Tony Leung is going to be awesome at it! I’m glad Marvel Studios found a way to properly introduce him into the MCU.
He’s Little Tony to Tony Leung Ka-fai’s Big Tony.
Coming on February 12, 2021.
We still haven’t seen Captain Marvel – I’m hoping we buy it off of VUDU next weekend. We’ve been waiting to buy it for when we can actually watch it. Teynoah Parris is going to be playing adult Monica Rambeau, which is terrific to have that plot thread picked up. Parris was Dawn Chambers on Mad Men. She’s also Detective Pamela Rose on Empire.
I’m super excited about this show as I just want more Wanda and Vision! Hopefully Vision has all of his emotions or gets them back by the end of the show’s run.
Coming Spring 2021 to Disney+.
I wasn’t hot on Loki until Endgame, then I had one of those ah-ha moments and I’ll love to see what Post-Avengers Loki is up too without all of that fun character development he got from the films that came after that. He should be pretty fun.
Coming to Disney+ Spring 2021.
Like a dman fool, I was saying how it might not be necessary to get a proper sequel to Doctor Strange but I’ve been proven way wrong. I’m glad Marvel is running with the idea of the Multiverse that was teased in Spider-Man : Far From Home.
We’ll have to see if they reveal the MCU to actually be considered Earth-199999, officially named in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z 5.
I love how Marvel isn’t making the mistake they did with the Netflix series (more on that later), and actually making sure the events of the Disney+ series matter by making sure the plot threads are picked up in the movies. I was never worried that once the characters went to “TV,” that they would never come back to films but as proof, Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) will be in Doctor Strange’s film and it will take place after the events of WandaVision.
Coming to theaters May 7, 2021.
The first series actually set in the MCU, and not just inspired by it, and it is just a fun take on the MCU! So far, we only know there will be an episode based on the idea of Agent Peggy Carter becoming Captain America. I’m sure there will be several other episodes that would be equally fun. Hopefully the original actor will do the voicework for their character like we know Hayley Atwell will.
Jeffrey Wright, Felix Leiter from the latest James Bond films, will be providing the voice of The Watcher! He was also Colin Powell in Oliver Stone’s W and Beetee in the Hunger Games films.
Coming to Disney+ Summer 2021.
This show will get me excited once they cast Kate Bishop. I’m getting myself pretty jazzed for a Young Avengers film that might be in the works. I’m also hoping with Jeremy Renner coming back to TV, that we can get a re-release of ABC’s The Unusuals as that was a fun show. It only had ten episodes but I’m reminded of that show a bunch. Mostly when I’m reminded of Renner and when I wonder whatever happened to Amber Tamblyn, She’s going to be Mariette Callows in the upcoming Y : The Last Man series coming to FX as simply “Y” which like “er” will be very difficult to Google.
Monique Gabriela Curnen being in the Dark Knight didn’t bring the show back on any streaming device but with Disney only ABC, I wonder if the show will appear on Disney+? She was Detective Anna Ramirez.
The Unusuals also had LOST’s Harold Perrineau (Walt!) and the original Adam Goldberg! Such a great show. Now I wish I can watch it all over again!
So yeah, maybe there might be something about this show that will get me to think about the show itself. Hopefully Matt Fraction gets some dollars from this, that’ll be nice.
Coming to Disney+ Fall 2021.
I loved Comic Book Queers Legacy’s idea of simply calling this film, Thour, that would have been super fun!
Natalie Portman is coming back to the MCU and she’s going to be Thor! How amazing is that!?! I can’t wait to see what she looks like as Thor!
I was going to make another difficult to Google joke but “Natalie Portman Goddess of Thunder” should at last bring some images
Yep, that worked! That makes two awesome humans who are worthy to pick up Mjolnir.
I wonder if Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgard will be in this? Maybe at least as cameos?
Also, will the Guardians show up for a fun cameo as they drop Thor off on his latest adventure? They have to address it at least for a line of dialogue.
Coming to theaters November 5, 2021!
We end with Blade! Mahershala Ali will be the daywalker, Blade! Ali is 46 to Wesley Snipps 56. Gosh, Snipps has six kids! He hasn’t been working much but has two films in post-production right now, Dolemite Is My Name and Cut Throat City.
So Mahershala Ali has played one other Marvel character, Luke Cage’s first season villain, Cottonmouth. So that’s a shame that Marvel is not only double dipping into other roles already but also, it sort of implies the Marvel Netflix series don’t really matter. I guess there is an argument to be made that nowadays, it doesn’t really matter, but also, it isn’t like Ali was a hero character being recast as another hero. But he was pretty pivotal to Luke Cage’s first season.
But Ali is a great actor so it makes total sense that Marvel will want to keep working with him. I’m just having a silly knee jerk reaction.
No date for when the film comes out but oh boy, what an amazing late of TV and Films!
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PSPrices notified me that Late Shift was under seven dollars. Apparently the game has gotten below five but I had recently gotten paid and I figured I’ll treat myself to a new game.
I was going to do eight playthroughs, one blind, and then follow the guide and do the official seven endings but then I figured, why not just do the seven endings as the game is an hour and half each time and I’m pretty limited in my time I get to play. I don’t really regret it, I’m three playthroughs in and having a great time. I’m breaking it up with other games as I broke down and made a list of five games to play so I’ll have a nice rotation. The third one was my favorite until midway through it. So I’m hoping the order of playthroughs is worst to best.
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After watching how much fun the PlayStation Access crew had playing XCOM 2, I figured I’ll get it a shot and recreate my family, plus Spider-Man, Santa Claus, Dr. Peter Venkman, and Kitty Pryde.
So I played with the tutorial and then did the first mission. We lost the forced character, which was lousy that I couldn’t immediately play with four created characters but then I was thankful that I only lost the one soldier, and it wasn’t one of my characters. There is perma-death, even on the easier mode, so I was being super careful. Maybe too careful as I had forgotten we were on a deadline with only so many number of rounds but right at the last round, my wife was able to disarm the bomb. She eventually got seriously wounded and can’t fight for the next 23 days. So now I’m worried about sending any of my people out. Like a f’n coward.
I earned the tutorial trophy last year when I first played it during June 2018 when it was a free game through PS Plus. Looking over the list, I probably should be playing on Normal and I’ll see if I can change the setting or I can at least start a new game as I bet it would only take an hour to get back to where I currently am.
I saw that there is only one online trophy and all I had to do was start and finish a match so I did that. I went with a super basic team and two people didn’t want to just give me the trophy so they dropped out. Then the third person went ahead and fought me. It went a tad longer than I thought it would but it was pretty fun to get a little more experience with the game.
I wanted to get a more official team line-up photo but I couldn’t select any of my three created characters so that killed my buzz for creating more people as well as continuing that playthrough. It might be another year before I play again.
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With this rotation idea, I finally started Batman : The Enemy Within, and it is so good! I took Catwoman to the Batcave and tried to romance the heck out of her! It really is all I wanted to do and I’m so glad I got back into the game. Alfred seemed supportive. I’m probably going to upset Gordon as I did warn her the police were coming. I’m not sure if he’ll get the chance to yell at me as I also took the heat for Catwoman stealing Harley’s laptop and Mr. Freeze put me in a tank and froze me. I have two more chapters but I honestly don’t know how I’m going to get out of this.
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So I have two chapters before the platinum for Batman and five playthroughs before the platinum for Late Shift and now I’m in my head about a very silly thing. My last three platinums are for Lego Movie 1, Lego Marvel Superheroes 1, and Lego Avengers, so it would look pretty cool if I got Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 instead of how it will be spaced out with two games in-between it but I’ve also made my peace with it. LMSH2 is such a massive game and I’ve taken long enough breaks from it now that that’s simply the prize I have to pay. Plus, it is a silly thing and I’m not even sure who else would even notice that. Or they will see my list and see how I snuck in two quick games. Though I’ve been having Batman : The Enemy Within on the backburner for way too long! Foolishly long!
So I’ve completed my two Inhumans chapters, there was a silly Minikit I should have been able to grab in the first of the two missions, but Crystal was too close to the platform and it started rising up before I realized there was a free floating minikit. But that’s what Free Play is for. I’m nowhere near the platinum for this game, I realize.
While exploring the underwater city, we noticed there was a race for the Homecoming suit, so I got that for Walker Dennis. It took longer than I was thinking it would. The races for no reason are much harder in this game with how the controls are. I’m not great at flying races and I had forgotten how bad I was at swimming races from Lego Dimensions. But they made it super easy to restart races so I kept pressing Circle and eventually got it.
I keep falling into the trap of trying races when Walker is also playing and the split screen is not productive for racing.
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Referring to romancing, I’ve finally committed to playing Beyond : Two Souls again as well. I completed The Dinner chapter. Jodie put on a fancy dress, made a nice Asian Beef dish, and then she and Ryan totally made out.
There were two chances for Aiden to ruin the night, that lasted way to long, to the point where I felt tempted to do something destructive to get out of playing as him, but it eventually timed out.
Next is the Night Sessions chapter. It started with a young Jodie so I can’t imagine it will be too long.
Looking at the chapters list, I think I’m finally at the half way point.
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KITT has finally come to Rocket League so for two dollars, he can be yours too! Now I’m just waiting for the Rocket League : Game of the Year Edition to go on sale so I can snatch up the game proper.
Thanks for Rocket League for hosting their own video!
I can’t tell if the license plate is red or is that just the light from the back making it look that way? Also, there is a clear red stripe going around KITT that shouldn’t be there but I guess a sleek all black car wouldn’t look as exciting against other cars.
Apparently, KITT doesn’t have a Super Pursuit Mode, any voice work from William Daniels, nor any of the iconic sounds. It would be cool if we at least got the sounds. Even cooler would be if we got KARR! But it took them four years to get KITT so we probably have to wait a long time before we get that. The game came out in July 2019, so we’re in their anniversary month right now. Now it all makes sense.
Actually, PSPrices has been blowing up my phone with discounts! The Game of the Year edition is currently 50% off so I scooped it up so quick as $13 is quite a deal, down from $25! So hopefully we’ll start playing that tonight or tomorrow.
There is an entire summer sale going on right now through the PlayStation Store.
With the deals, I should get at least one of those Batmobiles and then wait on those five Hot Wheels cars, at least three of them are bundled together.
The Witcher 3 Complete Edition and Fallout 76 Tricentennial edition are heavily discounted too. Though both games are pretty well discounted most of the time anyway, so don’t pay full price for those two. One day, I’ll have both of those as well.
In all of my excitement, I went ahead and bought the three Batmobiles for six dollars.
So the only other cars to tempt us are:
Triple Threat for $6
Gazella GT, MR11, and FAST 4WD (three cars I don’t recognize by name)
Bone Shaker $2
Twin Mill III $2
For the grand total of ten dollars!
But now I only have $14.15 in my PSN wallet so I’m going to have to put ten dollars on there just to get back over my $20 goal. I should treat myself to a $25 card and have plenty of future fun to be had.
We were able to start playing last night and we got super addicted to playing and I stayed up late and started chipping away at the trophies! Such a fun game! We’ve heard 32% of the trophies and I got at least one trophy per DLC except for Champions Field. I thought I was going to get the trade five rare items for an ultra rare but I only have one item and it isn’t trade-able so I’m going to have to play a bunch more. But I’m going to have to as one, it is a super fun game, and two, it is going to take a long time for me to drive 50 km.
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The reason I don’t have as much money in my PSN card is because Dead by Daylight had some more items for sale, namely both Ash Williams and Leatherface for half off which made them both combined for six dollars. If I had deep pockets, I would have just threw all of my money towards the DLC but like my gaming goals of buying my wishlist once they are only a certain price, I’ll start with the cheapest options and work my way up. I should just say heck with it and treat myself to Ghostface as he’s who I really want. Maybe once I’ve gotten my moneys worth with Rocket League, I’ll jump back to Dead by Daylight.
I can’t imagine I can properly pay two multiplayer games but maybe I’ll do it like I do my main games and make one my chill game one day and the other the chill game on another night. That’s probably exactly how I’ll end up doing it. I’ve spent so much money on these games, I better commit to playing them!
I bought Michael Myers and have barely used him, and I’ve only used Leatherface the first night I bought him. I’m a bit of a stickler for using the dailies to direct how I play. So I’ve had several survivor tasks so I’ve been bouncing between Ash and Laurie from Halloween.
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I thought I wrote about Friday the 13th : The Game before but it doesn’t appear like I have. Dead by Daylight has some lengthy wait times, both during the matching phase and then for the final lobby portion. So I’ve taken to looking at my fellow survivors’ trophy lists. We can’t see the killer, for the surprise element I’m sure, but when we play as the killer, we get to see all of the survivors. I never think to check out the killer’s trophies after the game though. Unless I’ve earned a trophy, then I follow all of those peeps who made it possible.
So I kept seeing all of these players who had Friday the 13th : The Game as a game they all have played. Which makes sense as they are both horror mutliplayer games, where a group of people (counselors vs survivors) are against a killer (Jason v Multiple Options). I like how the counselors can actually fight against Jason, though it is super complicated to actually kill him, but at least we can take the offense instead of just hiding and working generators. That being typed, I still prefer Dead by Daylight.
My other problem is that we can’t choose to play as Jason, it is a random draw. We get to chose our counselor and which Jason we want to play, but it is a 95/5 chance of playing as Jason. Once we see Jason in the opening scene, at least one can tell if they are going to be Jason if he matches. I barely even saw the first Jason option and when I did, it wasn’t me.
I must have played 30 matches as a counselor and I finally unlocked Deb. She might be my favorite at the moment. I unlocked her at level six.
I should say I have never seen a Jason film so I just learned she is from Jason Goes to Hell, The Final Friday. The ninth film in the franchise. She’s Jason’s 92nd victim.
I was playing so much I was tempted to get the costume DLCs, as they are only two dollars each and there is only two of them. One is the bathing suit and one is a fun costume option.
Then I got to finally play as Jason and now I’m done with the game for a bit. We were so close!
Deb’s costume is a bunny costume! That’s when she won my heart!
But not my two dollars. Who knows, maybe I’ll stop being a fuddy duddy and just spend the four dollars but I also have plenty of time as well.
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So my break from Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 and my addiction to Dead by Daylight also led me to playing Warframe and Apex Legends, as I kept seeing both of those games on people’s trophy lists. Which makes sense as people who like multiplayer games probably like free multiplayer games.
I didn’t take to Apex Legends, I’m no good at shooting people, but it was fun running around. I got the jump master trophy and felt like I had done by part.
Warframe, I had a much better time with, and I could see myself playing a few more nights with it. Sort of like how I’m given these PS Plus games, I feel like I can pick them up and drop them at any time. Like, I didn’t earn the games, so I didn’t have to fight for them, or they are not as real to me, if that makes any sense. But I’m learning that they are a lot of fun. I have committed to the idea of playing a game until I get the first trophy and then seeing where I land after that.
I also hadn’t gotten to the online portion of Warframe, but I did the tutorial and the first real mission and earned the Rank 2 trophy, No Longer a Rookie.
I have been seeing a lot of GTA V trophies but I rather not take the Lego Marvel Collection disc out and replace it with GTAV and then sit for three minutes as the game loads. Maybe that can be my next physical game I play. I should at least try to beat the main story as well as complete the online tutorial, as that’s the trophy I see most people have earned, and I can at least do that much.
Girlfriend Reviews also just did a video for the game so it is just on everyone’s mind, I supposed.
Thanks to io9’s Charles Pullian-Moore for writing such great reviews of the convention, I felt like I was there. Also, the studios releasing the trailers pretty quickly, helped too.
I’m going to post links to the days and trailers and offer my opinions on what I thought about what I found interesting.
Noah Hawley, of the incredible Legion show fame (and even more fame with Fargo) is going to bring Doctor Doom to theaters. I imagine the Fantastic Four, or at the very least, Reed Richards, will appear in the film. I still say that a West Wing style Doctor Doom show (or film) could be very good. Maybe he’ll cast Rachel Keller in some role for this. Legion Season Two will be ten episodes, as opposed to eight episodes, which I’m all for.
Batman 32 will have Catwoman’s response to Batman’s wedding proposal. I’m all for these two getting married. I want more heroes to be married and have children. I’m married and I have a child, and my life is so much better now.
I wish the Ninja Ghostbuster Turtles didn’t have the hair, how much better would that have looked? I do love the concept of mixing these two franchises together, in toy form. I just don’t think they needed the extra step.
This looks like so much fun! We are almost done with Daredevil Season Two and still have Luke Cage and Iron Fist to watch, so it’ll be a while before we’re ready for this.
Misty Knight, from Luke Cage, will be coming over to Iron Fist’s second season. That show has Colleen Wing already so let’s hope that we get a Daughters of the Dragon spinoff out of that! That’s all I really want. That and an official Heroes for Hire season of Luke Cage and Iron Fist together. I take it that, with the low reviews Iron Fist gets, that Luke Cage doesn’t appear in it. That’s what I’m guessing.
The new X-Men show, Gifted, got a trailer – a long trailer.
Thanks to Marvel Entertainment for hosting this trailer.
We just started Season Five of Person of Interest (the final season) and I’m glad I can go from that show to this show for my Amy Acker needs. She’s so great on that show. It has to be super awkward when Stephen Moyer leaves home for the set, right? Like, are they going to ask him to see if his lovely wife, Anna Paquin, can make an appearance? I keep having that through in regards to Carrie Preston’s appearances on Person of Interest. Like, they ask Michael Emerson if his lovely wife can come for a few episodes and she said, “sure, why not.”
I need to get Walker Dennis into Big Hero 6 but we don’t have Disney XD, so I’ll probably hold off on that, for now.
Todd MacFarlane, Kevin Smith and Blumhouse Productions is bringing Spawn to teathers, so MacFarlane’s like 20 year mission for a R-Rated Spawn film might be getting closer to becoming a reality.
Thanks to Marvel Entertainment for hosting this trailer.
So much love for this trailer! What I enjoyed the most was hearing Hulk talk! That’s character development! They are both like fire, Hulk is raging fire and Thor is more like a smoldering fire. So incredible! It makes sense that Mark Ruffalo is in this but I thought there might be a chance where he wasn’t going to be in the film.
Still no Black Panther trailer nor Infinity Wars trailers! I was really hoping for that Infinity War trailer, that’s what made me keep checking out YouTube around 10 at night, each night this weekend.
Not thrilled that Captain Marvel is taking place in the 90s, thus pre-Iron Man. So they are going to have to age her for Infinity War or put Brie Larson in ice to explain the lack of aging? That seems silly. I like a two-eyed Nick Fury in this (he’s definitely losing one of those!) and the Skulls being in this. I wonder what FOX got so that Marvel could get the Fantastic Four alien race? The article implies that it is a “shared custody” issue like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
Oh man! Michele Pfeiffer is going to be Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp! We have to get footage of her in any sort of Wasp uniform, that would be incredible! We never got a good or proper shot of Michael Douglas as old school Ant Man, right? They won’t make that mistake with Pfeiffer, that’s for sure. Oh, and Laurence Fishburne is the Ant Man and Wasp film as Bill Foster. Good thing Marvel already made Civil War.
The Justice League trailer came out!
Thanks to Warner Bros. Pictures for hosting the video.
JK Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, I can get behind that! I like the Flash not getting the memo on disappearing at the dramatic act break of a conversation. Still not loving that costume. Looking at the Wikipedia page for the film –
William Dafoe is an adviser to Aquaman! That’s two Raimi Spider-Man cast members in this film!
Amy Adams will be in this too! I did like the ending “non-reveal” of who Gordon is talking to. That’s a nice touch.
The Flash film is set to adapt Flashpoint, which seems pretty lofty for two hours. Also, so odd to not just use the CW shows’ cast members if storylines are already going to be recycled. Feels like a mess already in the making.
I’m excited about Batman by Gaslight being adapted for an animated film. Seems fast, but they are going full two films like Dark Knight Returns with Death and Return of Superman. I liked Doomsday but if they want to expand it, I’m all for that too. So much was left out of that first attempt. Though Louise Simonson’s story still brings a slight tear to my eye.
Thanks to gameraspinning for hosting this video.
It really made me think about Ma Kent during that storyline, like I’ve never given it much thought before. I want more creator retrospectives on these DVD releases or just plain documentaries. I would watch those so hard!
I still need to read Ready Player One
Thanks to Movieclips Trailers for hosting that video!
They were nice enough to leave a comment about the Easter eggs:
Deadpool/Harley :34, Iron Giant :45, Freddy 1:00, Duke Nukem 1:01, DeLorean 1:43, Ben Mendelsohn 1:48
I caught the Iron Giant cameo, on my own and that was Deadpool and Harley Quinn, so that’s cool. I should read the book. I know Rob and Brian with the Uncanny X-Cast loved the book and my friend, Ben Tiller, liked it too.
Flash Season Four trailer!
Thanks to The CW Television Network for hosting this trailer.
So what type of Nega-Barry is going to show up? I like them handling Iris having to deal with losing her fiance. Caitlin having a larger role, is nice too. I keep wanting to watch the Arrow one but I don’t want spoilers as I heard that season finale got intense.
Supergirl Season Three Trailer!
Thanks again to The CW Television Network for hosting this trailer!
Kara Danvers : No More!
Here is the CBR article that I read after the season two finale to help explain who that was at the end of that episode –
I like Adrian Pasdar being in this, he was one of my favorites in Heroes and Agents of SHIELD. We’re getting some DC and Marvel two-timers going on here.
The Krypton trailer didn’t reveal much. Still an odd concept for the show, that I thought for sure would just fade away. Is Syfy Channel still a thing? It’ll be like if Gotham featured Thomas Wayne’s college years, for how far removed this is.
Riverdale Season 2 trailer.
Thanks to Entertainment Tonight for hosting this trailer. Seems like an odd choice though.
I’m so pumped for this show to return, that it is crazy!
Strangers Things 2 trailer.
Thanks to Netflix for hosting this video!
There are going to be lots of people super tired on Wednesday, November 1! I know I’m already tempted to take that day to recover.
Star Trek Discovery trailer.
Thanks to Star Trek for hosting their own video.
This show looks like it is going to be pretty awesome! I wish it wasn’t going to look that great, as it doesn’t feel like it leads into The Original Series, as it takes place ten years prior to their first mission. What happens wherein Starfleet goes so retro? At least Jonathan Archer and his Enterprise stories are still in continuity – that’s what really matters. I’m still hoping that we get plenty of Jason Isaacs as the Captain, it feels weird to not have a Captain-Centric Trek series. It reminds me of what the original plan for the West Wing was, but then Martin Sheen committed to more episodes and we got the terrific show that we got.
Orville Trailer.
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I was luke warm on the concept of this show, it could be fantastic like Galaxy Quest, or some show that would be a footnote in Star Trek parodies. This looks like Seth McFarlane having a lot of fun and now I’m looking forward to this. I didn’t realize Seth and Todd spelled their last names the same.
I’m so out of touch that I don’t recognize any of the projects, outside of character names but I do know creators still. Which is nice. Even nicer is Jill Thompson winning two awards! Saga is still popular. Todd Klein (no relation) is still slaying it with lettering. I bet that Chip Zardsky Jughead series is pretty fun. I do like The AV Club, I don’t go there as often as I probably should.
I’m super interested in Ed Piskor’s X-Men : Grand Design, especially as Kitty Pryde would definitely be present for that! Lockheed and Magik too! 30 Years of X-Men, Uncanny X-Men 1 through Uncanny X-Men 280, condensed into 300 pages. Sign me up!
Harley Quinn Day is replacing Batman Day, September 23, this year. Which seems pretty dumb to me. Is she really that popular of a character? I mean, I like her, and I’ve heard she is DC’s Deadpool but this blows my mind. The character turns 25 this year, so I guess it is an anniversary year for her.
Charles Pulliam-Moore is back at the writer of the article.
The Doctor Who Christmas 2017 Trailer!
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I love this concept so much! From the casting of it to the general overall feeling of the trailer itself. The article states that Mark Gatiss is not portraying Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, as that’s who I thought he was playing. He’s a World War I Captain, which I wouldn’t have noticed on my own. Should be a great time! I still haven’t watched any additional Doctor Who since my last post on the topic. I need to get caught up! David Bradley is the modern day William Hartnell!
This is the Avengers Infinity Poster –
That is beautiful!
Ryan Meinerding is the painter of that poster. He’s the current Marvel Studios Head of Visual Development.
So sales are down for both Marvel and DC. That’s pretty interesting. I imagine the closing of stores like Hastings, probably plays some part in that, as I know it took me out of the game.
Frank Miller is giving Superman the Year One treatment. Not sure if that’s necessary.
The Terrifics is a bit on the nose, sure—Plastic Man’s got Reed’s stretch abilities, Phantom Girl can go intangible and phase through objects like Sue, Metamorpho has the same sort of appearance issues that have plagued Ben Grimm over the years—but hey.
Mr. Terrific is the Human Torch, I guess? I’m all for Phantom Girl having a larger role in the DCU, outside of the Legion of Superheroes.
Such a fun concept!
It really reminds me of when DC released their “Invasion” trade and wrote “Secret No More” on the cover – poking fun of then Marvel’s current Secret Invasion storyline. I miss that fun rivalry.
I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of stuff and YouTube hasn’t presented me with any panel coverage like they did last year. I guess I can look up which panels happened this year and see if any footage found its way onto YouTube but I feel like I got the larger pieces of news.
If anyone has anything I should look at, please let me know!
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I went looking for some comic news, on my own, and found Newsarama’s X-Men Inhumans ResurrXion panel coverage –
Kurt Russell will be playing both Ego the Living Planet’s humanoid form and Star Lord’s father. Shame they have to not only not use J’Son but twist Ego too. Hopefully we get to see him as a planet at some point and we don’t repeat the whole Galactus cloud mistake. I’m sure either way, it will be amazing.
I like how Karen Gillan is coming back too! Sylvester Stallone has a role too, that I didn’t know! Which I feel is a common theme for the day as there were loads of reveals or confirmations that I had no idea about.
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I’m two episodes into Sherlock, I’m watching it to get pumped for Doctor Strange. Pretty good thus far. I do like how it is only ten episodes.
I wish Rachel McAdams was Clea but that’s okay. This is the trailer I wanted, with proper Doctor Strange, who cares about the surgeon Strange? I like him dressed as Mordo so that would explain that guy’s outfit. Strange’s movie costume is awesome!
New Marvel Movie logo which I have below. Music by LOST’s Michael Giacchino. Chris Hardwick moderated the panel and I realize now that I have gone like two weeks without watching @Midnight. I’m not a huge fan of Hulu’s Watchlist redesign. Black Panther starts filming in January. Thor 3 is filming right now. Sounds like Benedict Cumbebatch had a Loki like entrance, which sounds amazing! Thor 3 takes place right after Civil War, so they address why Hulk and Thor were not present for it. Tom Holland showed up too! Mantis is going to be in Guardians 2, which explains her being in Avengers Alliance now. Looks like we get teen Groot in the film.
I can’t wait to see Brie Larson in the uniform! I’ve started following her on Twitter now too. I still only know her as Rachel from Community (4×8 / 5×6 / 5×9). She stole those episodes! I need to watch Room. I keep forgetting she was Envy Adams in Scott Pilgrim, I need to rewatch that film too. oh yeah, she was the hot girl in Spectacular Now, such a great film! I’ve been meaning to watch Trainwreck and Don Juan. Should I watch United States of Tara? I haven’t really enjoyed Toni Collette in the few things I’ve seen her in. oh and I should add Tanner Hall / Trouble with Bliss / Digging for Fire to the list too. I’m not sure about Greenberg.
Such a fun way to make the announcement too! Thanks to Flicks and the City for hosting this video!
Thanks to Marvel Entertainment for being so bold to host this video!
oh man, that looks sort of intense and crazed – which I’m all for! I wish we had cable so we can watch it or maybe by that point, Hulu would have a deal with FX so we can watch it.
Death of X is going to be a crossover and it is going to include two new series, the other one is below. This one is sort of in the same reign as Avengers v X-Men, so let’s hope Magik is in this. She isn’t on the cover, so that’s a shame.
Inhumans vs X-Men isn’t part of Death of X, it is its own crossover that takes place in the present day. Apparently an angry fan asked about the scabs being members of the Guardians, did the fan mean Pryde and Grimm? The crew should have mention the upcoming Grounded arc that appears to just be about the main Guardians, or Movie Guardians.
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We still need to watch Batman v Superman. I totally love that these trailers are being made for the public to enjoy too! This has a lot of Steve Hunter, right? Like, is he in this a whole lot? I do love them giving Wonder Woman her classic colors, that armor looks awesome! Gal Gadot is a very attractive woman, she looks timeless in this trailer. That DC logo looks even worst now that Marvel got a new one. That lasso is super golden too! She’s a total bad arse! I’m super pumped for this!
It still bugs me that the TV DCW universe is separate from the films, I’ll get over it but having two Barry Allens is not great. I do like Affleck and making him the lead of the film is the right direction. No Superman in this but I’ve seen him on a poster so he will be there. Cyborg looks pretty decent. I like Aquaman, that final joke didn’t need to be there. Affleck and Gadot have great chemistry.
Well I’m less excited about this as it is a digital comic and it ties in with Contest of Champions, a nice comic but you know, not part of the Death of X storyline or Inhumans v X-Men.
I predict they find a way to bring Ward back, as there must have been some sort of cloned DNA somewhere that Hydra found. Can’t believe this show is going to have Ghost Rider on it!?! Even if it is for a minute of screen time, that’s insane! I’m definitely done with the Inhumans so let’s start diving into the proper Marvel Universe. I bet Nicholas Cage would be available for voice over or an appearance, what is that guy up to these days anyways?
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Ghost Rider looks pretty great, I can only imagine he will look like that on the show, if not, better with more time given to the effect.
This has Dani Pudi, so I will give the first episode a try. Shame they couldn’t work in Chase Cameron as she was wasted on Supergirl. A comedy version of the DEA could work. Also Ron Funches seals the deal too, for me. A rather short panel but they did get to see the pilot so that would have been fun.
I like that Unworthy Thor is about Thor finding Ultimate Thor’s hammer, that sounds like a neat and safe way to remember the Ultimate Universe. I’m a nut for those “Kills / Destroys / Beats Up the Marvel Universe” and Squirrel Girl totally deserves to be added to that list. Once again, I’m all for Young Scott being a member of the Champions. If Jean joined, that would be all five of the original X-Men having been members of the Champions, as well. Let’s hope she doesn’t as we want that series to get to issue twelve, at least. I wonder which other characters would be taking a road trip with Hawkeye in Occupy Avengers? I do like a good road movie / comic. Oh wow, Winter Solider is still dealing with the aftereffects of Original Sin, in his new Thunderbolts series. That’s some baggage! Is it just me or would Doctor Doom never take on the name of another person? Infamous Doctor Doom would have been a great title! I doubt Iron Man ensures that it gets a certain number of readers. I wish we got the cast of characters in Sorcerers Supreme. I would have asked that question once the Q&A opened up.
I won’t post this one as it isn’t much more than a gif with audio. I’m excited about it getting a third season, we’re two deep into Season Two and liking it a bunch.
So great that Misty Knight is going to be part of the show! Rosario Dawson keeps being the connection that all of the Marvel Netflix shows have, which I like her, her character and the concept so I’m all for it. Sounds like she’ll be in either Iron Fist or Defenders too. I like how they describe each episode as “relentless” which the opposite of that is how I felt about Jessica Jones. We’ll watch an episode and maybe waited a week for the next one. Unlike Daredevil that we tried to get back to that show as soon as we were done catching up on our current shows. I wish I knew more about Cage, outside of Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Avengers. I don’t really know him as a solo hero or his rogues gallery. I wonder if Colleen Wing will show up in this, that would be awesome get to the Daughters of the Dragon spin-off. Just Googling Colleen Wing (as I wasn’t sure of their duo name – I got it right) she’s suppose to be in Iron Fist so that’s awesome! They should get Iron Fist in the Cage show too! I did like that with Jessica Jones, not too much time was given to Cage but when he showed up, the show sort of stopped for him. He was the best part of that show. I wish there was a way to watch these panels, even without the graphics, as I would love that. Like, if SDCC could record all of these and then people had a chance to order like five or ten panels and they made the personalize DVD for $20, I would buy that,
The poster is the Iron First symbol / tattoo, and it looks great. Not something they could really screw up or could screw up spectacularly. I’m glad they went with the traditional look.
Really glad the X-Men were not forgotten! Death of X is going to be a miniseries. I’m not thrilled that it is being considered a crossover – that means it could be expensive! We’ll learn Cyclops and Emma’s fate – I’ve been missing Emma as she’s one of like five unaccounted for big names. Uncanny X-Men will have a story about the Hellfire Club – hopefully putting them back into the league of greatness that they started out from. Old Man Logan / All New Wolverine will be having their predicted crossover. OML hasn’t been all that bad, the two issues of it that I read. Extraordinary X-Men will be dealing with the fallout of their section of the Apocalypse Wars. Illyana and Sapna are going to have a storyline too, which I’m all for. Glad the X-Titles are not stopping for the flashback tale that is Death of X.
So irritating that Inhuman discussion comes up in a X-Men panel. Get your own panel, Inhumans! Alonso is tired of hearing all of the talk about the X-Men demise, but if he wanted it to stop, they could be doing more with the X-Franchise.
Sounds like the Original Five are not going back in time, any time soon. Bunn should get Rachel in Uncanny X-Men! I haven’t noticed that Havok and Polaris haven’t been seen. I would not be interested in an Iceman (either one) solo series. Unless Magik was in it, so it’ll have to be Proper Iceman.
Just like the original series, there will be delays that affect other series too. Civil War II 5 will be out late August instead of mid-August. That means other titles will be pushed back as well. None that I read so that’s okay but I have been reading the main title.
X23 is being mind controlled and killing fools. Sounds like the superhero community will have to go after her, just like they did with Wolverine in the original. Here is hoping that people remember Kitty played a decent part in that original story as has a closeness with X23. She could serve as the same role! Since X23 is being mind controlled, I wonder if people will be all over her dick like they were with Cyclops when he was mind controlled and not allowed to be forgotten about. Unlike all the times Wolverine was mind controlled, killed a slew of people and others are just cool with it. I bet it goes in that direction.
A little disappointed with the X-Men Sunday panel. The Con is becoming less and less about comic announcements as people are reporting more and more about movie news.
Marvel is pretty good about making the upcoming other conventions have nice announcements.
I guess I was just hoping to get to see some new comic art.
Really glad that Wolverine’s lack of a healing factor will be address in all of his appearances, unlike Iceman’s recent evil turn. Which will only ever be addressed in the future, when some character is listing off sone of Bobby’s lesser moments or when someone else gets their personality changed for the worst.
Glad Peter David is recovering well.
Love the Dodsons, so could not be happier to have them join the X-Men title.
Glad Nightcrawler is returning! I just wished I liked that cast of characters slated to appear in Amazing X-Men. Seems like the Astonishing cast, but with Beast but not really. I would have liked Kitty and Kurt to be on the same team. Wolverine, Storm, Iceman, Northstar, and Firestar, decent lineup. Firestar has not been with the mutants since her origin days back in the 80s. Be curious why she would join now. Has no real connection to Kurt, and only really with Iceman from the Amazing Friends cartoon.
Actually, Newsarama has two follow up interviews from Sunday’s panels.
The Wood/Dodson one is cool. I like how there is going to be a new Sisterhood of Mutants to fight this team of X-Men. I guess some people might say its pretty obvious a villain group for them to fight but screw those people. This is going to be awesome!
They are debuting a new Lady Deathstrike, which I don’t follow Wolverine closely so I’m not sure what happened to the old one or why the old one would want to revamp her image so completely with the skull face. Apparently Wood reveals that her current state is a non-physical one.
Can’t believe its only been three years since Kurt’s death in Second Coming. A lot has happened in those amount of time.
So Amazing is going to be more of the Field team to Wolverine & the X-Men’s School Administrator Team. That must be nice for Jason Aaron’s mind space, to be able to now separate the adventures in his mind.
Aaron gives some love to the original Excalibur comic, as he should.
Looks like Aaron wanted to include Firestar just because she is a mutant and has never been part of an X-Team before, only Avengers and New Warriors.
I keep wanting to add that after issue five of Amazing X-Men, will not have to distinguish between Volume One and Volume Two as the Age of Apocalypse title only lasted the four issues that all of those titles got.
So happy with the FOX movie panel, I bet that must have been a blast to be in attendance!
So it is up to Future Xavier to send Wolverine into the past, not Kitty. I can live with that.
I guess it also makes sense to do it this way as it isn’t like the future is 2044 and the present is today. Movie Kitty could not have been alive during the 70s, and Comic Kitty would have been just a baby, as she was only 13 and a half in 1980.
Sounds like the cast gets along well.
I would love to see a Broadway show with both Magnetos. I know Stewart and McKellen did a play together years ago that must have been amazing.
Ellen Page seemed to be having fun with the actor who plays Bishop in this movie.
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In other movie news, so glad the Avengers are not going into space in their sequel. Was not looking forward to that!
I know Bendis had plans for Age of Ultron for a while, as he gave Hitch like a year to get his four issues completed.
I know the movie will have absolutely nothing in common with the comic, as that seems to be a lot to put in a movie. Plus, they are not going to do alternate timelines AND time travel in a two hour movie. Wish they grabbed Ultron Unleashed as the title and movie plot, as that would work so well with the movie cast and it is a quasi-simple straight forward concept. Killer robot picks a small nation, completely destroys it on live television, and the Avengers have to set right what once went wrong.
So excited about the next couple years for comic movies!
Only X-Men news from the Ultimate Universe. Bendis confirms that the Ultimate X-Men will appear in Cataclysm, which is when our Galactus shows up on on the Ultimate Earth. Bendis revealed that the Hunger mini deals with Galactus in the Ultimate Universe, so I can skip on that mini, though the final pages of the final issue might be worth picking up. Not sure how Ultimate Spider-Man can play a major role in this, but if he can, so can Ultimate Kitty Pryde, I say! I remember, and should try to figure out who said it, an interview a while back where they said that the Big Three in the Ultimate Universe is: Spider-Man, Kitty Pryde, and Captain America. As oppose to our Big Three of: Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor.
Marvel’s Arune Singh said that. He was the Director of Communications then.
I haven’t been to a San Diego Comic Con since 2004 when Spider-Man 2 came out and we got to see the first scene of Doctor Octopus waking up with the arms in the hospital room.
These images of the Sentinels and the cast of characters in the future, look awesome!
Let’s hope the Sentinels are skyscraper size robots, or a mixture of giant ones and man sized ones.
Bishop looks dead on from his 90s counterpart. Loving the way they got Wolverine looking for the future. Something about how war tired Xavier and Magneto look, makes me excited about X-Men Days of Future Past.
Now there a slew of rumors out there that might kill your buzz from the movie, but let’s hold out hope that those rumors are not true. Like how I was worried Jennifer Lawrence was going to steal the Kitty Pryde role seems to be not happening, Hugh Jackman is going to do that. And apparently Kitty Pryde is going to have “time phasing” powers now, which is so weird but if that’s what they got to do, then I guess that’s what they got to do. Just irrupting as there are a sub group of people, that once they see something in the movie, they think it is part of the comic lore. Comics doesn’t do any favors by then making it part of the comic lore to try to cash in on this new audience, that I don’t believe actually sticks around pass the first two months.
But like I said, those are rumors and let’s try to not jump at any conclusions just yet.
Right now, the images are awesome, wish we got Ellen Page instead of the dude playing Colossus but time will tell and there has already been a photo shown of Ellen Page on set, so we should be happy with that.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 