For some reason I think Beast when I see that photo.

For as much flack as the first two FF films get, they nailed Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm perfectly.

So Johnny Storm is gonna be black and Sue Storm is gonna be white?

That possibility bothers me.

Seems we can add Cap 3 to MCU's Phase 3, joining Ant-Man, Dr. Strange, and Avengers 3.

OF COURSE!

Now I wonder if we'll also have a Thor 3 in there somewhere.

Likely, with the numbers it pulled. And we all love Loki and they know it.

Aaaaaaaaaand Thor 3 is confirmed just today.

Come ooooooooooon Hela

I would like to see Enchantress being a love interest/rival/foil to Loki.

So finished reading the whole X-men Battle of the Atom crossover.

Been really enjoying all the x-books since Schism, but my god this story was dumb. I said a while ago when talking about Sentry's origin story, that in comics you have to have a rather large suspension of disbelief. But as ridiculous as things can get, it still has to make sense on some level, or it crosses over from fantastic to just stupid.

Battle of the Atom is just stupid. The basic premise is that the original 5 x-men were brought forward in time, and now the X-men are divided on whether to send them back for obvious reasons, or let them stay because they feel the orginal 5 should be able to choose their own destiny. This is fucking retarded. You're telling me that with all the time travel, alternate reality headaches the X-men have gone through, that they would be willing to put the entire space time continuum at risk just for some new age hippy "live life how you want" bullshit?

Never mind that there is a GAPING plothole in the story, as there usually is with time travel stories.

Honestly, I'm sick of alternate reality/time travel stuff as a whole. Feel like there's just been way too much of it over the last 10 years. Seems like its like an old well they keep going back to whenever they're feeling too lazy to write something creative.

Well at least it's over, and the x-books can go back to being awesome again.

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This is actually very likely. He's down and Lauren is down. Just waiting on Fox, and like hell they're gonna say no to one of the hot guys of current Hollywood.

It does make Deadpool's lack of progress sad, with Ryan campaigning that for years now. Perhaps X-Force.

Paul Bettany is The Vision.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ge-Ultron.html

HOLY SHIT

I love that casting btw.

I love the implications.

Well, not really. He's rumoured to be the Vision, but the article is just rumours presented as fact. Just have to wait and see if it's legit.

Chris Bosh will be voicing Heimdall in the Hulk cartoon. Yes that Chris Bosh. Yes that Heimdall.

Saw the Trevor Slatery One-Shot. Holy fuck.

Forgot about that. Downloading it now, will watch after RAW

Whoa, damn. Good one. Lots of stuff can come from that, and hopefully it does.

Love the jab at internet reactions.

Probably the best One Shot they've done.

Just getting round to watching that now. "Marked out" at the mention of The Liverpool Echo.

Lots of Marvel movie news, which we round up here in one easy read.

Captain America 3 will go head-to head against Batman vs. Superman; both movies are opening on May 6, 2016, according to Hollywood Reporter. Marvel had reserved the date for an un-named movie, but Warner Bros. was not deterred, selecting it as the date for its next big film when it was moved back from 2015 (see "Ouch! 'Superman / Batman' Movie Bumped to 2016"). Marvel has not officially announced that Cap 3 will use the date; THR is citing "sources."



It looks like Captain America: The Winter Soldier is going to have a big opening, estimated to be in the $85 to $90 million range, according to Variety. That would beat Captain America: The First Avenger, which opened with $65 million, by $20 million. It would be close to topping Thor: The Dark World, which opened with $86.1 million (see "'Thor' Sequel Hammers Box Office").

Sebastian Stan, who played Bucky in Captain America: The First Avenger and is playing the Winter Soldier in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, now is in a nine picture deal with Marvel, he told Newsarama this week. That was a six-picture deal back in 2012 when his participation in Captain America: The Winter Soldier was announced (see "Sebastian Stan Returns as Bucky in 'Winter Soldier'"), so the studio must have like what it’s seen, and have plans for a lot of appearances of his character in future films.

There are two post-credit scenes in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, according to Collider, including one directed by Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon. The other post-credit scene was directed by Joh and Anthony Russo, the directors of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Marvel is preparing for some Gangnam-style shooting for Avengers: Age of Ultron in and around Seoul, South Korea, according to Hollywood Reporter. Locations include the famous Gangnam district, bridges over the Han River through the heart of Seoul, Sangam DMC, and Yongsan. Marvel is expected to sign an agreement with several local agencies, including the Korean Film Council, for arrangements related to the shoot. Marvel’s already shot in Johannesburg; principle photography is at Shepperton Studios near London.

One member of the Avengers: Age of Ultron cast will have a short trip to the set for the South Korea shoot. Korean actress Kim Soo Hyun has been cast in a "substantial supporting" role in the film, according to Comic Book Movie.

Just watched the MCU TV special. If the kiddies are as quick as they tend to be, expect to see concept art of Quicksilver, Wanda, and HULKBUSTER ARMOR.

I know it's not really news (like 3 months old) but Michael Douglas is gonna be Hank Pym?

What? I don't recall Hank Pym ever being old as fuck in the comics, what's with this film? Gotta be some weird ass story there.

Not weird. Hank will be presented as the original Ant-Man (and possibly one of the first superheroes connected with SHIELD) and Scott Lang takes up the mantle. Basic alternate timeline/universe deal.

Yeah, weird.

Okay, see ya at the movies.

Wolverine 3 is a lock. Summer 2017. More than likely Hugh Jackman's last go.

And aside from the curiously cast Fantastic Four, and X-Men Apocalypse (very much First Class 3, set in the 80's), Fox has another X-Universe film set but hasn't revealed what it is. My money's on X-Force, featuring Deadpool (accurately presented, again by Reynolds).

For some of us this, along with Sony going ham with Spidey's universe, means we will not see Peter Parker annoy Logan in the Helicarrier. Not. This. Decade.

What Wolverine story will they use, I wonder. Would love Old Man Logan, but there would be way too many license problems. They'd have to rewrite the whole thing.

Drawing a blank on great Wolverine stories.

I was telling Khuntry that from a character driven standpoint you have to find a side of him little seen or hinted at. I proposed the paternal side last seen in X-Men 1 with his relationship with Rogue.

Yeah, let's get X23 in there. And bring back Victor. Make it about Logan keeping his kinda-sorta daughter from falling in the hands of his ax-crazy brother. Make it a family affair.

I'd be for that.

I'd like to see a Lady Deathstrike return. Underrated, underutilized villain imo.

Give her a film version of her insanely badass Messiah Complex redesign.

Still pissed they reverted back to her 90's look when she reappeared.

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...thstrike.4.jpg

Fuckin' rad.

I'd love to see Kelly Hu return, revealed as the X23's mother.

So many claws everywhere and I'd love it.

I need a sequel to All Hail the King

Dr. Strange, perhaps.

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TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Seriously though, I have the entire original run of all the 2099 comics.

I've read through the whole Matt Friction's run on Invincible Iron Man lately and I loved it. Was never a fan of the character (in the comic books) but this was pretty great. There were some dumbass moments, like Tony taking a dwarf from Asgard to Seattle and taking him to AA meetings, but overall it was good.

I think I want to have sex with hugh Jackman

English actor Toby Kebbell is close to joining "Fantastic Four" as Doctor Doom.

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Did you really have to post it in both threads?

I... didn't know which one to put it in.

Yeah Agent Carter is totally happening, at the very least as a miniseries. Perhaps as early as next Fall concurrent with Agents of SHIELD S2. It should be interesting seeing the same organization depicted in two eras, especially after... recent things were exposed.

Does anybody like Channing Tatum? Anybody? I think he's alright.

I ask because he's totally going to be Gambit in a future X-movie.

As one of my favorite comic book characters, no.

Sawyer from lost NEEDS to be Gambit... hes perfect in every way for the character

True, but he's not interested.

He makes the weirdest career choices

Has he said that recently? I could see why he wouldn't wanna do it straight off the back of playing Sawyer, what with type-casting and all, but 4 years removed from the show/character? Maybe he's had a change of heart.

Why wouldn't you wanna play an iconic role in a huge movie franchise?

He said it before, no reason to think he changed his mind. He probably just isn't interested in comic characters of big movie franchises.

Semi spoiler regarding post credit scene in Spiderman 2 with possible 'big picture' studio cross over potential implications:

Actually it's just a short trailer/promo for the UK release. A cross-promotion worked between Sony and Fox's marketing. There is no universal cross-over. I repeat: there is no cross-over coming.

You're probably right, but it's nice to see synergy between the two studios. It could be a huge cash in if they were able to pull it off.

Oh hell yeah we've discussed this a million times. And I will concede even a promotional co-op is rather curious in general, between the two studios least likely to work with another. In fact, Fox and Sony teaming up could give them the edge against the dominating Marvel/Disney.

Spider-man and X-Men: Arcade's Revenge!

Just got back from Spidey 2. I'm not so sure about what KT is saying. I mean, it's like WWE promoting a TNA pay-per-view. It just doesn't make sense why it'd be tagged on like that when it could be something relevant to the film.

Plus, it's gonna give loads of comic fans false hope of a crossover. I'm gonna maintain optimism that something will come out of it. Sony and Fox are probably looking at the success of the Marvel Studios universe and putting something together.

I now want all the superhero movie studios to make nice, solely so we could have an Uncanny Avengers movie.

This is one of the best books in years. 18 issues in, and this overarching story is still going, and and going strong. It's seriously better than all the big event books marvel has come out with the last decade. So good.

Though to fully appreciate it, you should probably read Uncanny X-force vol.1, to get a backstory on all the Archangel/Apocalypse stuff. That's another thing. Apocalypse, cool as he is, was getting kind of stale. Marvel added this whole new lore to the character and expanded his connection to the celestials.

Go read this stuff guys.

I agree, though I have a bunch to catch up on. I think I'm only through the first 9 or so books.

Dazzler is the most useless character that I would like to see in a movie.

Solely because of her outfits.

Remember when I advised that you brace yourselves for Channing Tatum taking the Gambit role? It has come to pass and been officially announced.

Interestingly it has not been revealed whether it's for Apocalypse or a solo movie; but I'm betting with Hugh Jackman on his way out after Wolverine 3 - he'll be the new lynchpin of the X-Men movies. Get used to him.

Update:

Channing will debut in a small role in Apocalypse and get a solo film at the same time or after Wolverine 3. Gambit is here to stay.

Good for him.

I was kinda hoping it'd be Jean-Claude Van Damme, but whatever.

lol what? Maybe 20 years ago.

I'd be all for that now.

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Watching the completed Days of Future Past lit a fire under Hugh Jackman's ass because he is complete 180 about retiring and wants to be Wolverine... as long as he ages as slowly as Logan actually does.

I wonder if Fox was prepared for this change of heart, since I'm 98% certain Gambit was poised as the new face of the X-movies. We'll see after Wolverine 3 if Hugh is really down for another decade of claws.

I like how you are 98% sure of something without any factual evidence to back it up.

Are we back at this again? I like to think my analysis in the subject are fairly on point. Do you really want me to link bomb and write an essay on this stuff every time I see something coming?

Do you really?!

Yes, please. 98% is a high number and must be backed up by cold hard facts. Please prepare a 500 word essay on the subject and turn it into my desk by tomorrow morning.

Don't forget to cite your sources.

Also, please use the 3-7-7-3 format.

And use the proper TPS cover letter.

I don't think Tatum is that bad of a choice for Gambit, even though I'm not a fan of his. It's all up to how they make him. Hope it's better than in Wolverine:Origins.

Edgar Wright is off Ant-Man.

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/05/jaws-...rvels-ant-man/

I'm not utterly upset about this as I don't even think they've got a script in play yet. See what develops.

My early speculation: He was gunning for this movie since way before the MCU was established. Going forward there are certain continuity points movies will have to meet and I'm guessing the connections to the MCU were spinning his own vision out too far and it was no longer his.

This is very disappointing, but with so many people already attached I imagine we'll get a different vision of the movie. The Wolverine survived a major loss when it switched directors, there's no reason to think Marvel can't pick up the pieces from here.

Yeah from what I read there was a script given to him that he just wasn't happy with as it had little to nothing that he suggested. Hence why he felt betrayed and ultimately walked. I'm not too torn up as they just got the script so this won't even effect production. I'd be pissed if this was half-way through production but it's not. Just a small disappointment.

Try not to lose your shit guys but Hugh Jackman has admitted that he's read Old Man Logan and that's in discussions for the third Wolverine movie. This doesn't mean they are translating that straight up, but he also admitted in the same interview that are doing something completely different for part 3.

He also expressed interest in a Wolverine vs Deadpool movie, though I think he meant it more as a 'buddy cop' thing and only used 'vs' as comic book lingo.

After Days this guy's a new man. Far from where he was a year ago when he all but announced his retirement from Wolverine. Now he's talking Apocalypse, Wolverine 3, Wolverine/Deadpool, and being a fucking Avenger. He has a Wolverine bucket list people.

His newfound spirit kinda forces me to recant my feelings that Gambit was gonna be the new face of the X-Men movies, since Channing doesn't stand a fucking chance with Jackman staying around. But his solo movie is still a go and he will amass a following.

I don't want Jackman to age. :(

Let's all welcome Charlie Cox to the MCU; he is the Man Without Fear... Daredevil!

So... yeah, go Google his ass already.

I don't think I'd want them to do Old Man Logan. Pretty sure everyone in the story but Logan are MCU characters.

They'd pretty much have to rewrite the whole story.

Rather see something with X-23 and Daken.

I'd love an X23 story with the return of Victor. I think I already mentioned a story idea where X23 is torn between Logan and Victor in a custody battle of savage proportions.

Daken can go fuck himself, and Romulous too for that matter.

Daken has stupid hair, and I hated him for a while, but after they developed his character a bit, he started to grow on me.

On another note, I might be done reading comics for a while. It seems like for the last 5 years, every other story has involved time travel and alternate realities. It's getting so fucking ridiculous. It's gotten to the point where it's just fucking lazy. "Well, we can't think of any actual good stories to tell, so lets just create some time travel nonsense. Alternate versions of characters will distract the readers from the tired cliche writing!"

That combined with Battle of the Atom (which made me literally angry at the shear stupidity as I was reading it) has made me just want to quit reading altogether.

I gotta agree. I was really enjoying what they were doing with Cyclops for a while (the mutant terrorist stuff that made me care for the character for the first time ever I think) but then they had to just bring back the X-Men from the past, then X-Men from the future, Brotherhood of Mutans from the future and what not. Was just confusing and irritating.

What made me really angry was how dumb the concept for Battle of the Atom was. Like, teen Cyclops and teen Jean going AWOL makes sense, because they're dumb teenagers who think they know better, and they've seen the horrible fate that awaits them.

But all those other more seasoned X-men, saying let's endanger all of reality just for some hippy new age let's give these kids a choice bullshit, is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. It is so out of character, almost all of these people have been through enough time travel bullshit to know what a MONUMENTALLY bad idea not sending the originals back would be. You wouldn't even need that experience to know it's a bad idea. Just a grade school level IQ would do fine. But I guess Bendis isn't that advanced yet.

I seen that teen Cyke and his space pirate dad are having adventures in modern times and I thought it was just insanely convoluted.

Initially I liked the original X-Men coming to the future and they got new modern suits and all that, but I'm also thinking these guys are going back home eventually. Then more and more plots come up to keep them around. I don't get it. What narrative and marketing goals are they going for here? Teenage X-Men? The New X-Men and Academy got that covered. I had a thought that the originals would straight up die and be replaced by them - but not even that. It's just confusing, in an industry where we're used to whacky shit.

The recent Thor time travel story was actually good, but because I'm so god damn sick of the concept, I couldn't even fully enjoy it.

What story is that?

Most recent Thor story/series I've read was God of Thunder.