Author: Tony Smejek

On top of veteran Blade Runner actor Harrison Ford making his return to the sequel, Edward James Olmos will also be making his comeback. It was in an interview with Thetrend Talk Show on Facebook and one of the interviewers did express that five months earlier she had asked him if he’d be reprising his roll as Gaff in Blade Runner 2049 and back then he told her “No.” https://www.facebook.com/TheTRENDTalkShow/videos/vb.1115968061853947/1241290002655085/?type=3&theater Since it has been brought up again during Thetrend Talk Show interview, Olmos finally announced to the world (facing the camera) that he will be coming back as Gaff in…

Netflix’s Marvel’s The Defenders is underway with Iron Fist debuting this Friday. There’s no telling what the team-up of street level heroes will undertake, but it looks to be a fun ride according to a leaked behind-the-scenes video. https://youtu.be/lb7i8Uf_4Pc It looks like the crew was doing a take of something frantic happening. It appears an injured person was being carried by another with The Defenders members on the run. The footage was posted by ComicCon.news on YouTube and reported via Comic Book Resource. So someone was on the ball at the time of the filming. You cannot really make out the plot of…

Star Wars: The Last Jedi debuts at the end of this year and fans are doing what they can to dig into the lore of things to come in the future. Frank Oz, the well-renowned Jim Henson co-hort in many movies involving puppet-erring, was asked about his involvement in The Last Jedi. The interview involved the legacy of Jim Henson via Variety, but the subject was brought about later on involving the reprising of Yoda in Lucasfilm’s eighth installment. He was indeed tight-lipped about it, but didn’t confirm nor deny his involvement based on the phrasing of his response. “I…

Netflix’s Iron Fist is on the way and although it has been thought that the street level characters have their own realm separate from the MCU, there had always been veiled references to the Battle of New York via the first Avengers movie in the Netflix series of shows. https://twitter.com/SuperHeroHypeYT/status/841364796142411778 A recent banner for Iron Fist was revealed with Danny Rand front and center. The image is quite impressive and hopefully the show will be as well. The last Defender makes his debut on March 17. Speaking of which, the Netflix team-up are also in the works and with the teased…

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 director James Gunn is pretty adamant about Marvel fans sticking around ALL the way until the end of the credits for his movie’s post-credits scene. A fan had asked him the details on that: “Mid and post credit scenes for GOTG Vol.2 or is that a nice big secret for us to find out? Either way I’m pumped!” Here’s how James responded: https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/840594103280660480 Since his first flick’s post-credit scene had no purpose but to amuse the audience with a Howard the Duck appearance that had no connection to the MCU. It sounds like it…

The casting list for Avengers: Infinity War continues to expand as confirmed by Kong: Skull Island’s Terry Notary. He did the mo-cap for the beast himself in the Kong flick and now he has confirmed that he’ll be playing Thanos’ right hand man. “Having one of those is important. What do you have left without him? A whole lot of work!” – Negan: The Walking Dead. “I’m working on four characters right now. I’m working with Josh Brolin and three other actors [in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War], and I’m playing Josh Brolin’s right hand bad guy in the film. I can’t…

Marvel Studios have been busy as a bee as of late and there was a Disney shareholder meeting in Denver, Colorado just yesterday that gave a sneak peak of things to come for future Disney, Pixar, and Marvel movies. We’ll focus on the three big Marvel projects though as footage was shown from Thor: Ragnarok, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Captain Marvel. A Slash Film reader sent over the details. The Walt Disney Company Annual Meeting of Shareholders first opened the shareholder meeting with a sizzle reel then CEO Bob Iger began the meeting and also showed more…

The director of the new Predator film, Shane Black, posted online a first look at the cast of the upcoming movie. Black starred in the original 80s flick and hopefully he’ll do this film justice with a pretty good ensemble cast. Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, and the rest of the cast appear to be sitting on a bus. https://twitter.com/Collider/status/839878475607650304 Perhaps this is a transport to some location via the ground instead of a “choppa”? Will more off-color jokes be shared once again? The cast will include X-Men: Apocalypse’s Olivia Munn, Keegan-Michael Key of the comedy sketch show Key & Peele, Logan’s Boyd…

Entertainment Weekly debuted 9 photos of the Thor: Ragnarok ensemble of characters from the third Asgardian installment. Jeff Goldblum is all costumed up as Grandmaster and he does exude the similarities not unlike the version in Marvel Comics. The publication’s version shows him with blue skin, whereas Goldblum’s character has the same color theme in a different fashion, minus the skin pigmentation. Chris Hemsworth has his hair all trimmed up, but this wasn’t the first time we had seen him like this on the set of Thor: Ragnarok. He was teased by Mark Ruffalo on set with the same hairstyle last year.…

It’s a passing of an era as Hugh Jackman gives up his claws as Logan/Wolverine after 17 years of playing the mutant. The Logan film was quite apropos at giving him his major send off, but now who will take on the mantle of the adamantium-clawed hero? Writer-producer Simon Kinberg hasn’t thought that far ahead into who would take on the Wolverine mantle in the X-Men franchise, but with the New Mutants, Deadpool 2, and others on their way, he should come up with something soon. Kinberg said they were also waiting on the response to the Logan movie and decided…