Since the announcement of the merger between Disney and 21st Century Fox, people have wondered how, exactly, all of these disparate comic book characters would finally be brought together. For years, Marvel superheroes like the X-Men and the Fantastic Four have been sequestered to separate franchises, timelines, and…
This week, it was reported that Disney is developing TV shows spun off from Marvel Cinematic Universe characters like Loki and the Scarlet Witch for its upcoming, direct-to-consumer streaming service. This was seen by some as a death knell for ABC’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., which was renewed for a sixth, 13-episode…
After a troubled production and a relatively soft box-office for Solo, rumors began to emerge that the full-steam-ahead Star Wars franchise might take a quick breather. That sort of made sense, given the amount of rods they’ve got in the fire, so to speak: the J.J. Abrams-helmed flagship trilogy, the ongoing…
Anticipation is high for Marvel’s forthcoming 1990s-set superhero film Captain Marvel, and fans have likely already committed hours to dissecting the trailer that dropped this morning. But even the most eagle-eyed Marvel fanatics may have been too dazzled by Brie Larson’s granny-punching antics to notice an easter egg…
It’s no secret that Marvel hasn’t been particularly inclusive when it comes to narrative representation. Yes, it’s made some strides with Black Panther and the upcoming Captain Marvel by presenting, for the first time, lead characters who are not white and male, respectively. But there’s still room to…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the most powerful forces in studio filmmaking these days, yet it continues to generate bad will from the firing of Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn, who was let go by Disney after a bad-faith attack by right-wing trolls. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 is currently on…
Note: This review contains very minor spoilers.
It could’ve worked. Maybe it should’ve worked. You can understand what everyone involved was thinking. Superhero movies were making money. Marvel movies were making money. Just a year earlier, Spider-Man had been a global phenomenon. Superheroes weren’t necessarily nerd shit anymore. Computer-generated effects had…
After season one of Jessica Jones, were viewers of the superhero series told the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s Marvel hit would be leaving, the response would likely have been, “Nooooo!” Now, after season two of the show, the news might be greeted with, “maybe it’s time for a change.”
Sorry, folks, but Mickey’s put his big, yellow loafer down: James Gunn will not be directing Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3. Despite rumors of positive “back channel talks,” the overwhelming support of the Guardians cast, and what have no doubt been some intimidating glares from Dave Bautista, Disney has made it…
You may have seen every single Marvel film that’s been released so far on the big screen, but what if you could pay money to see them all again...on an even bigger screen? You know, after you’ve also rewatched them a bunch of times now on Blu-ray or airings on FX or whatever. Are you still in?
Stop! Rumor time: If you’ve been paying attention to the ongoing uproar over director James Gunn being fired from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 thanks to a right-wing hit job over a series of old, offensive tweets, then you know it looked unlikely he’d get his job back. Well, today comes the odd news that...maybe he…
One of the nice things about a big, media-friendly event like the TCA press tour (currently rounding the corner into its final week of press release-unleashing hell) is that you can sometimes directly ask the people who make decisions about the TV you love why they did all those terrible things to the TV that you…
The first Iron Man film debuted with such phenomenal confidence that it set the template for a whole new kind of superhero movie storytelling. Twenty films later, Marvel is still largely building on the template of that original Iron Man film for its ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the success of Iron Man…
Although you’d be forgiven for briefly forgetting there was a teen-focused Marvel superhero show currently running on Freeform—because damn if there aren’t a lot of these Marvel TV shows currently in the mix—Cloak & Dagger are nevertheless out there right now, doing some periodically intriguing work with their story…
For the better part of a year, it was looking like a done deal: Disney was buying the majority of 20th Century Fox. But last month, Comcast threw its hat in the ring, their $65 billion offer the Professor X standing between Wolverine and Captain America, preventing the two from locking horns. Now? Not so much.
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn gave no shortage of Marvel fans an urgent sense of purpose when he confirmed a heretofore-undiscovered easter egg in the 2014 original. Exploratory theories and videos abound, and though Gunn lauded YouTuber MasterTainment for finding bits of the egg, he still says the dude…
Note: This article contains plot points of Ant-Man And The Wasp.
Peyton Reed has a reputation for smart and savvy directing, delivering witty, frothy fun in films like Bring It On, Down With Love, and that movie where Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston break up, The Break-Up. It seemed like a thankless task when he was brought on by Marvel in 2014 to take over directing duties on …
Ant-Man’s been a curious character in the Marvel universe, having been built as a lighter, more comic character due to the films’ whimsical tones, Paul Rudd’s doofy performance, and, well, being called Ant-Man. Yet the films found the character venturing into situations foreign to any other Avenger—that whole…
