Natalie Portman is Thor, Mahershala Ali is BLADE, and other MCU announcements

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ BLADE with Mahershala Ali. <a href="https://t.co/JPcrSqSerW">pic.twitter.com/JPcrSqSerW</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1152756106772516867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER with Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, and Natalie Portman. Taika Waititi returns as director. In theaters November 5, 2021. <a href="https://t.co/Lq4hM8GSRV">pic.twitter.com/Lq4hM8GSRV</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1152751520523403264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ BLACK WIDOW with Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour, Florence Pugh, O-T Fagbenle, and Rachel Weisz. Directed by Cate Shortland. In theaters May 1, 2020. <a href="https://t.co/oyUvYdzF3P">pic.twitter.com/oyUvYdzF3P</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1152752497255157760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ HAWKEYE with Jeremy Renner, an original series that will also introduce Kate Bishop. Streaming exclusively on Disney+, Fall 2021. <a href="https://t.co/n2u6G4i4iG">pic.twitter.com/n2u6G4i4iG</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1152749942278152192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ LOKI, an original series with Tom Hiddleston. Streaming exclusively on Disney+, Spring 2021. <a href="https://t.co/lDqAWtIE0u">pic.twitter.com/lDqAWtIE0u</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1152746382014521348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS, with Simu Liu, Awkwafina, and Tony Leung, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. In theaters February 12, 2021. <a href="https://t.co/WePmw8d5Gq">pic.twitter.com/WePmw8d5Gq</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1152744743790686210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Breaking from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MarvelSDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MarvelSDCC</a>! A new era dawns for the X-Men with &quot;X-Men,&quot; &quot;Excalibur,&quot; &quot;Marauders,&quot; &quot;New Mutants,&quot; &quot;Fallen Angels,&quot; and &quot;X-Force&quot; comic series. Find out which mutant powerhouses are taking the lead in &quot;Dawn of X&quot;: <a href="https://t.co/5QOM5N0kTj">https://t.co/5QOM5N0kTj</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1152704487716478976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


Also, Fantastic Four, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 , Black Panther 2, and Captain Marvel 2.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ THE ETERNALS with Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, Salma Hayek, Lia McHugh and Don Lee. Directed by Chloé Zhao. In theaters November 6, 2020. <a href="https://t.co/k6ZgfX38VW">pic.twitter.com/k6ZgfX38VW</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios/status/1152739611933700096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[Sixx]

Black Widow gets a movie and Hawkeye only some online series?

Guess we got Scarlett's boobs to thank for that.

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just announced in Hall H at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SDCC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SDCC</a>, Marvel Studios’ DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS with Benedict Cumberbatch and Elizabeth Olsen. Scott Derrickson returns as director. In theaters May 7, 2021. <a href="https://t.co/HtF68htiB1">pic.twitter.com/HtF68htiB1</a></p>&mdash; Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios/status/1152747705321439233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Mahershala Ali is a bad ass, so I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with Blade; Wesley Snipes is going to loom large, though.

Hopefully they won't tone it done to a PG-13, instead go the route of Logan and Deadpool.

[GD]

He dead, dawg. u no watch Luke Cage?

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Also, I think they going to make this Black Widow some kind of multi-verse film, which eventually brings the character back into the main universe. Fucking hell, this is going to get confusing.

[GD]

Natalie Portman to play Thor in "Love and Thunder".

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAAiaITU4AAJRCe.jpg

[Seanny One Ball]

Is Twitter "melting down" over this?

[Seanny One Ball]

I trust Taika Waititi

[Fignuts]

Is Twitter "melting down" over this?

The female Thor is generally a well liked character, so I don't think sio.

[Destor]

The outrage will be there. How else do you advertise in 2019?

[XL]

Why has it taken until today for this to be mentioned here?

[RP]

Why is she gonna be named Thor? I thought Thor was Thor's real name and not some name they hand out to any white person who can carry a hammer.

[Destor]

Why is she gonna be named Thor? I thought Thor was Thor's real name and not some name they hand out to any white person who can carry a hammer.

Yeah, its a dumb thing.

[Seanny One Ball]

Is Portman's character the person who's supposed to become the Mighty Thor in the comics? Was her character mentioned in any of the films since Dark World?

I suppose saving the universe is more important than love but everybody else got to have sappy moments with their significant other....

[Fignuts]

In the comics, she took the hammer and the name Thor while the real Thor was unworthy and only referring to himself as Odinson.

I assume in this one it's going to be something like "earth still needs a Thor" while the real Thor is away.

But yeah. Still dumb. But not dumb enough to really bother me.

[Seanny One Ball]

I'm just glad she's back. Natalie Portman is great.

[Fignuts]

Is Portman's character the person who's supposed to become the Mighty Thor in the comics?

Yes

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/9c/49/5e9c493335b76124a5b40af7452acffc.jpg

[Seanny One Ball]

In the comics, she took the hammer and the name Thor while the real Thor was unworthy and only referring to himself as Odinson


LOL

So Thor basically lets his dad take the flack. "When I'm shit I'll just call myself your son".

[Destor]

Was her character mentioned in any of the films since Dark World?


She was in endgame.

[Destor]

and they established Thor is still carrying a flame for her

[RP]

Don Lee is fantastic. If you havent seen Train to Busan, you're missing a outstanding zombie movie.

[Seanny One Ball]

She was in endgame.


Oh, still ain't out on home entertainment so I ain't seen it.
Glad they wedged her in.

[GD]

Without spoiling much, it's an interesting choice to cast Mahershala Ali as BLADE since he portrayed Cottonmouth in the first season of Luke Cage.

[GD]

That being said, Martin Starr has already played two separate minor characters in Hulk and the new Spider-Man series.

https://media.comicbook.com/2019/05/incredible-hulk-spider-man-homecoming-mcu-movies-conenction-mart-1171313-1280x0.jpeg

[Seanny One Ball]

William Hurt plays two fairly prominent characters in the MCU. It's fucking stupid.

[GD]

That being said, Martin Starr has already played two separate minor characters in Hulk and the new Spider-Man series.

https://media.comicbook.com/2019/05/incredible-hulk-spider-man-homecoming-mcu-movies-conenction-mart-1171313-1280x0.jpeg

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Martin_Starr

Nevermind, turns out Martin Starr is playing the same character.

[GD]

William Hurt plays two fairly prominent characters in the MCU. It's fucking stupid.

All I could find was that he has played "Thaddeus Ross" in multiple films.

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/William_Hurt

[Seanny One Ball]

I got him confused with Jeff Bridges.

Now I feel silly.

[Seanny One Ball]

The fact I have made this mistake before leaves me little hope for my memory in old age.

[GD]

Happens. I'm terrible at remembering names and confuse Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain.

[GD]

Wish they'd somehow bring back Killmonger.

[Seanny One Ball]

Happens. I'm terrible at remembering names and confuse Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain.


I think I've made that mistake too.

Elias Koteas/Christopher Meloni
Maria Belo/Mary McCormack

They look like twins.

[Tom Guycott]

Without spoiling much, it's an interesting choice to cast Mahershala Ali as BLADE since he portrayed Cottonmouth in the first season of Luke Cage.

He's a welcome addition to the pantheon of actors/actressess pulling double duty in the MCU.

As for Portman being Thor, I just hope (though they likely won't) make some sort of visual gag of some fangirl dressed like the kid in Adventures In Babysitting.

[Kalyx triaD]

Black Widow gets a movie and Hawkeye only some online series?

Guess we got Scarlett's boobs to thank for that.

Honestly they don't really rely on her sex appeal in the MCU since Avengers 1. She's mostly just flirty.

Also, I think they going to make this Black Widow some kind of multi-verse film, which eventually brings the character back into the main universe. Fucking hell, this is going to get confusing.

It's a prequel between Civil War and Infinity War.

The female Thor is generally a well liked character, so I don't think sio.

Eh..... Fairly significant comic fandom still aren't too crazy about treating Thor's name like a mantle, and certain panels where they take strawman shots at the arguments against her. It still doesn't make sense but hopefully that could expressed in some comedic fashion.

William Hurt plays two fairly prominent characters in the MCU. It's fucking stupid.

No he's Ross the whole time. From Incredible Hulk to Endgame. He merely got a promotion since we last saw him in Hulk.

Without spoiling much, it's an interesting choice to cast Mahershala Ali as BLADE since he portrayed Cottonmouth in the first season of Luke Cage.

The Hells Kitchen heroes are more or less non-canon. This isn't even the first time a Luke Cage actor appeared in an MCU movie as a different character. They don't care, they never cared.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

It's a prequel between Civil War and Infinity War.




I could definitely see Cap appearing and dragging her back into the "present."

[Kalyx triaD]

Don't think the Soul stone would like that at all.

[Seanny One Ball]

William Hurt plays two fairly prominent characters in the MCU. It's fucking stupid.

All I could find was that he has played "Thaddeus Ross" in multiple films.

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/William_Hurt

I got him confused with Jeff Bridges.

Now I feel silly.

The fact I have made this mistake before leaves me little hope for my memory in old age.


No he's Ross the whole time. From Incredible Hulk to Endgame. He merely got a promotion since we last saw him in Hulk.



Yeah I know...

[Tom Guycott]

The Hells Kitchen heroes are more or less non-canon. This isn't even the first time a Luke Cage actor appeared in an MCU movie as a different character. They don't care, they never cared.

They're canon with an asterisk. Mainly because they perpetually exist in a timeframe between the first two Avengers movies no matter how much unspecified time passes. However, just because they don't cross over doesn't mean they don't exist. The storytelling as a whole was better for it (outside of S1 of Iron Fist, I mean) not being saddled with having to constantly address any of the movies or Agents.

Even and still: the double duty thing, canon or no (including all X-Men and FF stuff and anything pre MCU), should be reguarded as honor, even if an unofficial one.

[Kalyx triaD]

If there's no functional difference between them being canon and non-canon, I'd just defer to them being non-canon.

And that old excuse of 'well you don't want TV writers chained down by events of the movies'? I never understood that. Their very existence, narratively, spins of events of the movies. I can understand cheesy tie-ins like Agents' tie-in episodes for Dark World and Ultron (more a scene in that case), but how the hell do you look at the Winter Soldier tie-in arc and not see the potential there? What was so out of line about seeing the Avengers tower in the akyline shots of DD or Jessica Jones?

They found organic and common sense ways to insinuate the Sakovia Accords and the Raft super prison. When they 'let loose' they name drop a hero under the tone that they exist. I'm not asking for Tom Holland to bump into Frank Castle here.

And to top it off - whatever excuse they had for not making a more organic relationship between tv and movies is right out the window. Obviously everybody writing Bucky/Falcon, WandaVision, Loki, and Haweye aren't constrained at all.

[XL]

She was in endgame.

I mean sort of, and barely.

[Destor]

I mean sort of, and barely.

There is no sort of. She was in End Game.

[Destor]

its a yes/no

[GD]

Alfre Woodard has played two separate characters

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Alfre_Woodard

[Kalyx triaD]

Yep.

[Fignuts]

That used to count. Doesn’t anymore.

[Simple Fan]

Phase 4 sucks. No one will watch those streaming shows. More gender swaps for the hell of it and then they tell us Phase 5 will have Blade, Fantastic 4, GOTG 3, and possibly mutants. Haven't talked to anyone who's excited for phase 4 at all.

[Lock Jaw]

Lots of people will watch those streaming shows

[Destor]

i will watch those shows

[Lock Jaw]

And Destor is lots of people!

[Destor]

100s easy!

[Destor]

ftr phase for is a transition phase, clearly.