Author: Simon Andrews

With only 3 frustrating weeks left to go prior to the release of Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War movie, the 19th cinematic release and the biggest-ever event in the 10 year history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the internet continues to crash under the sheer weight of fan theories and wild speculation that have been generated by the film’s various trailers and TV spots. Not a day goes by without some new intriguing question or observation being generated from within the ranks of the Marvel fan base, and today has proven no different thanks to the announcement of a new Captain…

Despite a somewhat divisive first season, the Netflix incarnation of Luke Cage remains a firm hit with Marvel fans, largely due to his strong supporting appearances in both Jessica Jones and The Defenders. With the character’s follow-up solo outing nearly upon us, Marvel have gone and dropped a bunch of promotional pictures online, which also give us out first look at one of the main antagonists for Season Two. The photos (care of CBM) cover the typical level of insight that we’ve come to expect from the show-runners, hinting at a broad selection of aspects of Luke’s life, but holding…

Listen up, people, because we have some exciting news. We already knew that Amazon would be picking up Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s live action adaptation of iconic comic-book The Boys. We’d also already told you which actors had been signed up to play the storyline’s villainous superhero team The Seven. What we didn’t know until this week was who would had been cast as the show’s ultra-violent protagonists. Well, now we do, and there’s a HUGE A-List name attached. Karl Urban is pretty much already the undisputed king of geek-culture. In addition to appearances in franchises such as Riddick,…

Moving forward and away from some of the more unloved earlier offerings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and following a tedious two year gap between MCU movie releases, we arrive in New Mexico at the same time as a certain exiled Asgardian prince. With The Incredible Hulk and first two Iron Man movies having followed very terrestrial and scientific storylines, it was time for Marvel to unleash something very different on audiences. Frikkin’ Space Vikings… Thor, to be exact. Which was no easy task at the time. Bearing in mind the fact that neither Game Of Thrones or Vikings had…

A key strength of the Marvel/Netflix TV shows is the level of character development that they employ. Boasting multi-layered and engaging backgrounds for each of their main players, it’s this attention to backstory and individual motivations that have set the format a league apart from the rest of Marvel’s other televisual output. One of the few recurring characters this is not true of is Karen Page, but set photos from the currently filming third season of Marvel’s Daredevil that have appeared online earlier today suggest that’s something that’s about to be rectified. A legendary supporting character and love interest from…

Even by MCU standards, the number of Easter eggs that director James Gunn has managed to cram into the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies is impressive. Just after the first film dropped back in 2014, Gunn challenged Marvel fans to try and spot every single one that he had hidden in the movie. He’s gone to great lengths since laying down this gauntlet to point out that so far nobody has managed to succeed. Well. it seems this week the Marvel fan community got just that little bit closer to the goal, uncovering a hidden secret that might…

Between the various movies, TV shows, animated movies, MMPORPG environments, comics and the comics based around everything else we’ve just mentioned, it seems like there’s precious little room for any new additions to Marvel’s colossal media empire. Well, that’s not a view that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts holds, and this week saw him attempting to promote an idea for something just that little bit different, for Marvel fans to enjoy. Crashing his way into the public consciousness with the utterly bonkers Kong: Skull Island last year, the American director is currently working on the cinematic adaptation of the iconic Metal Gear…

When Scarlett Johansson carelessly let slip during an interview on The Late Show last June that there were 62 characters featured in Avengers: Infinity War (before dropping the further bombshell that one fight sequence involved 32 of them), the Internet went into speculatory meltdown. As writers and nerds battled to fill up the announced quota with existing and announced MCU characters, it seemed anybody who’d ever appeared in the franchise would be receiving a call-up. With the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest ever movie event now only a mere four weeks away, it’s been confirmed that that simply isn’t the case.…

It had been rumored that Bill Skarsgård, who recently became very popular after playing Pennywise the Clown in last year’s IT movie, would be in the upcoming Deadpool 2 movie. Well, that’s now been officially confirmed – thanks to today’s trailer for the film. What wasn’t confirmed though, is who the actor is playing. We have a pretty good idea, though – and here’s every possibility for the actor: 6. Bill, Agent of A.I.M. First up, the costume that Skarsgård is wearing in the one shot we see of him just screams “HENCHMAN” at us. A formless set of green overalls,…

It’s been revealed that Deadpool 2 will feature what’s being referred to as a “secret cameo” that was filmed in recent reshoots – that test audiences apparently loved. We decided to come up with a list of people we think it could end up being. 8. An X-Citing prospect This mysterious cameo can only realistically be pursuing one of two creative avenues. Either an actor/actress cast for a specific reason connected to their personal/work life, or a Marvel character that links in some way to the existing Deadpool canon. The smart money therefore is that it’ll be the introduction/re-introduction of…