- BEN FUCKING KINGSLEY

Something else Mandarin related then?

Well... Trevor related at least. Perhaps a comical follow-up to what the technically innocent Trevor is doing after IM3.

Maybe just some voice-over work.

Would be a letdown, though.

Any chance Trevor actually some how becomes a legitimate super villain and just takes on the Mandarin persona?

Probably a long shot.

Yeah, while I liked the swerve in action (hilarious), there's a part of me who wants to see Trevor go crazy and become the Mandarin full time. It's an interesting idea in that there's probably not going to be any more Iron Man movies, but perhaps he could be a recurring villain for Agents of SHIELD?

And why would you think it's just a voice over? Why would IM3 staff be needed for that? More than likely Shane Black isn't involved, I'm guessing the people he reunited with was for make-up and more importantly costume, adding some weight to a Mandarin reprise. The MCU One-Shots offer Marvel an inexpensive way to organically react to fan reactions, and we did like Trevor/Mandarin. It's the kind of thing that gave Sharon Carter a One-Shot, and the concept birthed an entire TV Show for Coulson.

Paul Rudd.

PAUL RUDD!

Okay, it's definitely about the Mandarin. I will say no more.

Watched The Wolverine during my flight to the middle of nowhere. I actually liked Wolverine Origins more.

Third Wolverine movie looking like a go-go.

I disagree with Lock Jaw. The Wolverine was mostly good. I love the ending for it.

i liked everything BUT the ending...

I liked The Wolverine, but I'm just saying that I liked Origins better.

I don't really follow. I've heard Logan has some hallucinations about Jean Grey in this flick?

Isn't that film supposed to take place before the X-Men?

The Wolverine takes place after the X-Men movies. Wolverine Origins takes place before the X-Men movies.

Hmm, I probably figured it takes place before X-Men cause it takes place in Japan and whatnot.

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^

There is a rumor it will involved the character of Omega Red.

This would be awesome.

He's kinda forgotten now but I remember him from my childhood as the ultimate Wolverine villain. Even more than Sabretooth.

Omega Red was tits. Hope the rumor is true.

Omega Red is my favorite!

Was gonna name my cat Omega Red when I was a kid but someone talked me out of it

That someone is not your friend.

There is no such rumor, stop that.

Every rumor starts somewhere...

:lol: is now

Here is my counter point to that.

If it's good does it matter? I think if something is good it supersedes everything else.

He still looks good.

I'm more worried about McKellen and Stewart dying.

When they go i am sure it will be a spectacular send off.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/disn...medium=twitter
Interesting. Hope it's better executed than Agents of SHIELD has been, but hey, at least they're using the characters for something.

Internet TV Network?

So it's gonna be on TV or not?

I fail at reading comprehension.

Nah it'll be like House of Cards, season 4 of Arrested Development, Orange Is The New Black, things like that - streaming on Netflix only or so I would assume.

Oh. So it'll probably be kinda low budget I'd assume.

The good side of this is at least Jaden Smith won't be interested in playing Luke Cage.

Pretty big news if you are a fan of these characters..

I really hope they "do good by" Daredevil.

MCU?

Yeppers.

YOU FUCKING SURE

Really cool idea.

I'm interested to see how these turn out.

Not as interested in this as I am in HOURMAN. Still pretty interested, though. Looking forward to Iron Fist and Daredevil the most.

I'm intrigued by Hourman, Im happy about this. This has a ton of potential. The level of talent these streaming shows have been able to attract has me wondering who will play Daredevil.

Sony confirms Venom and Sinister Six movies, building their Spidey Cinematic Universe.

Hmmmm. Well, I liked Amazing Spider-Man a lot more than a lot of people give it credit for, and frankly, doing the Sinister Six as a stand alone "Avengers for bad guys" movie makes a lot more sense than trying to crowd them all into ASM 3. Venom, though, I dunno- I assume they're going to go the anti-hero, "Lethal Protector" route, which I was never a fan of. Plus it probably means Carnage, who is far and away my least favorite villain in Marvel, so I can take or leave that one.

Is Spider-Man still Superior?

Yes. For now.

Ock's still running around in Parker's body, but I doubt it will last much longer-- they seem to be gearing up towards this whole "Goblin Nation" arc, and I get the feeling Otto isn't going to be able to take Osborn and his crew without handing the reins back to the proper Spidey.

That said, once you get over how horribly Pete got screwed, Superior has been an incredibly entertaining comic, if only for the sheer novelty of seeing how a super-villain would go about being a superhero.

Since Ock's physical body is dead and Peter will come back eventually, I'm betting Ock will be reborn and maintain as Superior Spidey, giving Marvel four Spidey's to play with along with Scarlet and 2099.

In my Armchair Editor opinion; I'd then have Peter Spidey do his duties in the main Spidey book and return to the Avengers. Scarlet can hook up with the Secret Avengers or whatever. 2009 Spidey can get promoted to cosmic heroism and join the Guardians. Superior Spidey can roll with the Thunderbolts or a similarly themed dark team.

Eventually we can get Arana/Spider-Girl and has a Spider Team story. Just spider people everywhere.

Superior Spider-Man is the most interesting Spider-Man has been since forever, it is literally the only book I anticipate and I've become very jaded with comics. Dan Slott's run is up there with Grant Morrison for Batman in terms of exciting and not the same ol' shit.

Waaaaay behind on Spider-Man comic-books (and Marvel in general), but it was pretty solid after the "Brand New Day" stuff where his marriage was killed.

superior spiderman is the best story they have done in a long time. The way slott is tying in the smallest things to be used in the future is kind of brilliant.


Peter's mind is going to break free again. Theres a series of panels where you see him rebirth when superior spiderman was searching his brain for the machine equation when horizon was exploding.

agree with all of the above, barring about one issue i think its been amazing but this is what got me back into the books for the first time since the early 90's so what do i know

Carnage is my favourite Spiderman villain. I'd love to see him in a movie.

Ahaaa forgot about this. Was reading an issue of avengers, and spidey was eating cannonballs food out of the fridge. He confronted spider-man on it, so he goes and bitches to stark that connonball and sunspot were "rude" and should treat him with more respect.

Had no idea why they were writing spidey to be such a douchebag in that scene, but now it makes sense. Weird because outside of that scene, you wouldn't be able to tell that anything is amiss. Then again, continuity hasn't been marvel's strong suit these last few years.

Rumored for the role since earlier this year, Paul Rudd is Marvel Studio's choice to headline Ant-Man! The Wrap reports that the Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues star will play Hank Pym in the July 31, 2015 release.

Set to begin production early next year in Georgia, Ant-Man will be directed by Wright, who co-wrote the script with Joe Cornish (Attack the Block).

Although there's no assurance yet that it remains the case, Wright's original plans for the film called for both Pym and the later Ant-Man of the comics, Scott Lang, to appear in the feature.

"The idea that we have for the adaptation is to actually involve both... Henry Pym and Scott Lang," Wright told SuperHeroHype some years ago. "So you actually do a prologue where you see Pym as Ant-Man in action in the 60's, in sort of 'Tales to Astonish' mode basically, and then the contemporary, sort of flash-forward, is Scott Lang's story, and how he comes to acquire the suit, how he crosses paths with Henry Pym, and then, in an interesting sort of Machiavellian way, teams up with him."

The film, which is supposed to launch "Phase Three" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will follow Avengers: Age of Ultron's May 1, 2015 release.

Well, it ain't much, but better Paul Rudd than Paul Reiser...

Can't imagine Paul Rudd running around with The Avengers

Can't see Paul Rudd as Hang Pym, but Scott Lang? Sure, why not?

Also been catching up with my reading. Mostly Avengers and the big Infinity crossover. Infinity was okay. Just lacked something, imo.

Starbrand just seems like another "I can do anything" Sentry character. Would honestly have preferred it if they just ressurected Sentry.

Captain Universe is hilariously damaged. More of her, please.

No idea who or where Paul Rudd acted without google. But that Ant-Man clip a few months back was cool. Hope the movie is good.


Glad I skipped Infinity*

I'm not gonna judge to be honest. I've only ever seen Paul Rudd doing comedy, no idea if he's ever actually done anything else, but I see no reason why he couldn't be Ant-Man.

Do you know who everyone was skeptical of doing comedy and turned into the greatest comedian of our generation then went totally batshit crazy trying to stay there?

Leslie Neilson.

Give this guy a chance.

Keaton, many people's favorite Batman, was a comedic actor who heard the same shit Paul's hearing right now.

And consider this is Edgar Wright we're talking about doing a movie in a united universe where all the other movies have a fair degree of comedy bits. Paul actually makes more sense when you think about it.

Every Marvel Universe movie is basically half jokes/comedy and half action.

Maybe the fact he also shares a name with your beloved by all PM.

Hadn't heard he'd resigned. Clearly out of touch with Australian current affairs.

Kick ass fan film of MCU Tony deploying 'Mark Z' armor.

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Would have been epic in live action. As is tradition, stay after the credits for an IM1 homage shot.

I'm a Paul Rudd fan so, as someone that knows next to nothing about Ant-Man, I'm pretty happy.

You might wanna give it a chance. I still liked it. You might like it more than me. Plus, it's got Thanos, and Thanos is always good.

I'm sure it's alright or good since it's Hickman but I honestly with all the titles and fake hype I lost my ambition to keep up or read 'big' stories and grew jaded with like 95% of comics and in the last few years they piled up and I'm running low on space. Now that Scarlet Spider ended all I get is Deadpool, Superior Spider-Man and Thunderbolts (I may stop since it's terrible so far) but the only book that I'm legit interested in is Dan Slott/Superior Spider-Man and I may pick up Forever Evil in trade. I might get Moon Knight because it's by Ellis and I like MK, but I really need to lay low with how many I get.

I like Thanos as a villain but don't like space marvel very much, but I learned to be content with reading the synopsis :lol:

Uncanny Avengers has been very good so far. Look into that if you end up dropping Thunderbolts.

ACtually kind of surprised at the Groot pic. Thought he'd be some big cgi thing.

He most likely will be CGI. That is probably just a model (which may or may not be to scale)

Not hyped about GoTG but that Groot does look good.

Machine gun wielding raccoon would like a word with you.

The newest Marvel short "All Hail The King" is indeed about Trevor Slatery as I thought.

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Please some how turn him into an actual supervillain. Please.

I rather liked Trevor.

Actually the plot, as much as they wanted to reveal, shows that nobody knows who that the real Mandarin was taken out by an Avenger's girlfriend. As far as the world knows, the real Mandarin is in jail. Of course he would likely be in a Gitmo but let's have fun, I guess.

Some random guy in a comment section of a news site asked a very good question;

Does Sony have the rights to Miles Morales, the current Ultimate Spider-Man?

Some background...

Years ago it was revealed during Raimi's run that Marvel has this weird thing with Spider-Man where his chief books at the time, Amazing, Spectacular, and Ultimate - were separate entities that had to be licensed each. If this is true, and remains true, Marvel/Disney could in fact use Miles in the MCU. We could know for sure if anybody would ask if the current Spidey movie-verse was the use of a past acquisition of Amazing, and if Ultimate is fair game.

Both Sony and Marvel Studios seem to dip into the Ultimate universe more often than not, so I could be riffing moot ideas right now. But with the unusual set-up that allowed Magneto's kids to appear in two separate movie universes, I wonder where things stand taking the Marvel multiverse into account.

So, how would you guys feel if Miles became an Avenger in the MCU?

Would rather have no spider-man, if the they can't get the peter parker version.

Also, I feel like Spider-man works better as an avenger on the page, than he would on the screen. Can't really explain why. Just feels out of place.

FUCK YES

New Iron Fist ongoing announced. Last one by Brubaker was excellent. Good enough where I bought all 5 trades.

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Well, all good things must come to an end, eventually. They've announced that in April, Superior Spider-Man will come to an end and the one true Spidey will be back for good.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/...ior-spider-man

I'm torn on this. On the one hand, Peter Parker is far and away my favorite character in all of comics, and I hated the way they killed him off, so I've been begging for him to come back and finally give Otto his comeuppance. But on the other hand, Superior Spider-Man has just been so damn fun that I kinda don't want to see it end.

Haven't been keeping up with it, but please tell me it's not another "sell me your soul and we'll all pretend this never happened".

I want to see how Pete deals with whatever Otto might have done while in control.

It wont be like that. If you pay attention, theres seeds in an earlier comic where you see petes subconscious get reborn when otto is trying to remember an equation to stop a bomb

I theorized before that Superior Spidey isn't going anywhere.

MICHAEL FUCKING DOUGLAS IS HANK PYM

what?

I thought it was going to be Paul Rudd?

This explains the answers to my questions, and is (possibly) spoiler-ish.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/01/...-man-hank-pym/

Seems dumb to have an Ant-Man movie and not have Hank Pym, the most "well known" Ant-Man be Ant-Man in it.

Taking this discussion to the new thread.

Casting rumours regarding Josh Trank's Fantastic Four reboot began heating up last week. Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, initially reported months back, continues to be the strongest rumour, with whispers of Miles Teller as Reed Richards, and both Saiorise Ronan and Kate Mara up for Sue. No news of Ben Grimm, until now. Movies.com reports that Josh Gad is the leading candidate to play Mrs. Grimm's baby boy. Gad's probably best known from Trey Parker and Matt Stone's musical, The Book of Mormon.

For y'all unfamiliar, here's the gentleman in question.

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Looks like they're going outside the box for this flick, I'll say that.

Miles Teller as Reed Richards?

Like, I guess