Editor: Please welcome guest author Peter Orrestad as he breaks down the big news in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what it means for our favorite super heros: As was covered on the blog yesterday, Marvel pretty much blew the minds of fans everywhere with… Read More »Behind Marvel’s Big Announcement for Iron Man and Captain America
Last week, while promoting his new movie, The Judge, Robert Downey Jr. teased the audience of The Ellen DeGenerous show by seeming to announce that Iron Man 4 is in the works. Later that day, on the David Letterman show, he denied that announcement. However,… Read More »Iron Man joins Captain America in Marvel Civil War
Ellen DeGeneres had Robert Downey Jr. on her show yesterday and she was able to extract an answer to one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most interesting questions… will there be any more Iron Man movies staring Robert as Tony Stark? Much to every one’s… Read More »Robert Downey Jr. Confirms Negotiations for Iron Man 4
A new featurette has been released by Disney for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. It features an look at the character of Gamora, the green alien member of the Guardians. In the Marvel comics universe, Gamora is the adopted daughter of the supervillain Thanos, who… Read More »Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Featurette – Character Profile: Gamora
If you weren’t able to make it out to the 17 minute IMAX preview of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, you really missed out. Consider yourself lucky that you won’t have to wait until August 1st to see some of the footage from that special event. Marvel and Disney have released the new trailer that has a ton of new footage from the film. It’s the same preview we saw at the end of the 17 minutes.
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This makes it a lot clearer that GotG is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,. which I think will help attract a lot of Marvel Avenger fans who just want to see what’s up.
Full plot synopsis below the jump:
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A little over two weeks after announcing they were parting ways with director Edgar Wright on “Ant-Man,” Marvel has announced his replacement. Peyton Reed will be helming the film, which is already in pre-production. Reed is best known for directing the comedies “The Break-Up” with… Read More »Marvel Confirms Peyton Reed as New Ant-Man Director
Well, that depends on who you ask. You may or may not know this, but not all Marvel movies are created equal. By that, I mean that Marvel doesn’t put out all of the movies that have their characters in them. Fox owns the movie… Read More »Will We Ever See Wolverine And Spider-Man Join The Avengers?
I wrote a post on my blog about the MCU tie-in comics which essentially said, “They’re good, but they could be so much better,” so when I went to the store today to pick up a copy of the Captain America: Winter Soldier Prelude I wasn’t expecting much.
I knew that it would include a graphic novelization of the first Captain America movie and the official prelude to the new one, but it also included classic comic stories that introduced characters like Hawkeye, the Falcon, the Winter Solider, and Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury.
My biggest complaint about this collection is that, of the seven collected issues only three of them are related to the MCU. Despite being a prelude to the new movie this weekend, more than half of this graphic novel has nothing to do with it.Read More »Review: Marvel’s Captain America: Winter Soldier Prelude Comic