It’s always interesting to see how a characters look will change between the initial concept art and what makes it onto the screen. Some designs see drastic changes while others remain as the artist envisioned. In a recent update to his blog, concept artist Joshua James Shaw, who previously worked on Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past revealed several pieces from this years hit, Deadpool. One of the most interesting pieces of art he revealed were the preliminary designs for Brianna Hildebrands Negasonic Teenage Warhead which you can see below: He also had concept art for the fight between…
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No sooner than Anthony Mackie let slip that certain individual with anger issues would be appearing in Captain America: Civil War, than the actor has changed his story. While on Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Hurt Locker actor cleared up the recent comments he made regarding Mark Ruffalo appearing in the upcoming threequel. He told the host: “I was giving respect to my fellow actors. I said Marvel movies are so great because they have great actors. Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr.(Applause) love that guy. People take that to mean that this is what the movie is…
The upcoming Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant may have lost the original films star Noomi Rapace, but that hasn’t stopped director Ridley Scott from wrangling up some new actors to his return to the franchise. Deadline has reported that Mexican actor Demián Bechir, who was last seen in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight will be joining the film in an as of yet undisclosed role. Bechir will be joining the cast which so far includes Pineapple Express star, Danny McBride, Inherent Vice actress Katherine Waterston and Michael Fassbender who is reprising his Prometheus role as the android David. Hopefully we’ll be…
The big question on most Marvel fans minds is, who will be joining Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter and Mike Colter as the fourth member of the defenders, Iron Fist. Well that question may now have been answered if the latest report from The Hastag Show is anything to go by. In a video uploaded to their YouTube page, the site exclusively reveal that Danny Rand will be played by Game of Thrones actor, Finn Jones. While the series currently doesn’t have an expected release, Luke Cage star, Mike Colter has previously revealed that the actor has been cast. Perhaps we…
Marvel have released a new Daredevil promo ahead of tomorrows new trailer, this time focussing on Matt Murdock’s former flame and assassin Elektra. The video features Elodie Yungs, Elektra engaging in some combat ona rooftop, presumably in Daredevils stomping ground, Hells Kitchen. It’s interesting to see whether this will be the characters final costume or if whether, like Daredevil, this will be a prototype version. Check out the poster and video below: Hopefully, we’ll see more of the character in action in tomorrow’s trailer, but if we don’t, it’s not long before Season 2 debuts on Netflix on March 18th. What…
The sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s monster fighting epic, Pacific Rim may finally be making headway as a director has been found in the form of Daredevil’s ex show runner Steven S. DeKnight. The Hellboy director made the announcement of DeKnight’s involvement on his official Twitter. The director is expected to stay on as producer to the sequel which currently have a release date. As it stands not much is known about the upcoming film, with reports previously indicating it could in fact be a prequel set within the early days of the Kaiju war which given how the first…
Everybody knew that Captain America: Civil War was going to feature a big cast but even now there’s more names being added to the lineup. The first new addition confirmed comes via Empire Magazine, who have revealed that Tony Stark’s long suffering girlfriend and current head of Stark Enterprises, Pepper Potts. Potts will be played by Gwyneth Paltrow, reprising the role for the first time since Iron Man 3 in 2013. How extensive her role will be in the film remains to be seen, but it will no doubt be acting as some form of moral support for our armored…
The run time has been revealed for next months Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and if you are a fan of long movies – you’re in for a treat. The cinema chain AMC, have revealed that the epic will be clocking in at 151 Minutes, that’s right, two and a half hours of superhero action. To give you an idea of how long this is, it is 11 minutes shorter than Snyder’s first foray into DC comics, Watchmen and 8 minutes longer than the films predecessor, Man of Steel. Given how much we know is going to be in…
A small minority of fans (and Anthony Mackie) seem to relish the rivalry between studios, most people embrace all aspects of comic book movies, and it seems like Star-Lord himself, Chris Pratt, is no exception. Much like his Guardians of the Galaxy Director, James Gunn, Pratt has also taken to social media to heap praise on Fox’s latest entry to the X-Men franchise, Deadpool. The Jurassic World actor took to his Twitter to say: “Believe the hype people! Deadpool is as good as they come! Great job Ryan Reynolds and T.J. Miller, Badass, twisted, dark, funny & fun!” It’s great…
Given the recent success of Deadpool, it would be the understandable that the studio would want to increase the budget to make it bigger. But will the money change everybody’s favourite mercenary? Not if the writers have their way. In an interview with Collider, taken before the films box office success, the writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick explained: “We don’t want $150 million to go make the next movie, that’s not Deadpool. Deadpool doesn’t lift cities up into the air or battle aliens coming down to earth, that’s just not Deadpool. So we’re happy in that little small budget…