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- Diego Luna Says to Expect “Familiar Faces” in Star Wars: Andor
- Does NASA’s New Graphic Novel Ignore an Already Inclusive History?
- YA Superhero High Series Spin-Off of ‘The Boys’ is Underway
- What If…? Marvel Just Did a Clever Ultron / Vision Mash-Up
- Is a Director’s Cut of Thor 2: The Dark World in Our Future?
- Director Calls Venom & Eddie Brock’s Relationship a “Gay Romance”
| Diego Luna Says to Expect “Familiar Faces” in Star Wars: Andor Posted: 01 Oct 2021 08:25 AM PDT
A smile widens on Diego Luna's face when asked about what's ahead for his Star Wars character Cassian Andor in the upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: Andor. The cheeky grin is a combination of anticipation, excitement and a splash of secrecy regarding the 12-episode project he executive produced and stars in, set to be released in 2022.
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"You'll definitely see familiar faces," Luna told Deadline about Andor while promoting the return of his Amazon Prime Video original series Pan Y Circo on October 8. "I can tell you about this project like no other because I can't spoil the ending if you've seen [Stars Wars: Rogue One] already. No matter what I say, I can't ruin the ending."
While Luna shared a laugh about how open he is to discuss Andor's big-screen demise, he also avoided getting too deep into what lies ahead in the prequel series. Sho0ting is done on the film now and “… we’re getting it ready for audiences to see it," Luna said.
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| Does NASA’s New Graphic Novel Ignore an Already Inclusive History? Posted: 01 Oct 2021 06:25 AM PDT
The Jerusalem Post says NASA’s releasing a graphic novel starring a fictional lady astronaut, in a story meant to reflect their quest to train and send a female member on another moon journey. But, it would seem there’s political correctness at work here too:
It may be an inspiring idea to send a lady astronaut to the moon, but is it that big a deal to make it a POC who’s chosen, rather than training and talent? Because that’s what this GN risks making it look like in its vision. Let’s be clear. Space travel, as we know it, can’t be politicized, yet that’s become the norm in the USA these days, and it doesn’t bode well for development of space travel.
I’m sure someday, a woman – and also POC – will be able to travel on planetary journeys like these in the depths of outer space and the solar system. But astronomy can’t be held to the standards of leftist politics and social justice pandering, or else the projects will never be realized properly. Nor for that matter will fictionalized comics stories telling what we hope to achieve in the future.
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It so happens there already has been a woman who flew into space, Mae C. Jemison, who’s also African-American. She made her first journey in 1992, almost 3 decades ago. So what’s the point of NASA’s new graphic novel, when there happens to already be a lady who’d made the amazing journey to the stars on board the Endeavor shuttle years before? This is just stunning how history’s being obscured for political correctness.
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| YA Superhero High Series Spin-Off of ‘The Boys’ is Underway Posted: 01 Oct 2021 04:45 AM PDT
The Boys spinoff is still moving forward at Amazon, THR reports.
The retail giant/streamer has handed out a series order for its college-set spinoff from Eric Kripke's breakout superhero drama. As part of the pickup, Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters — who previously oversaw ABC Marvel drama Agent Carter — have boarded the untitled series as showrunners. The longtime writing duo take over for Craig Rosenberg, who departed the drama following creative differences with Amazon and producer Sony Pictures TV.
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In the works for more than a year, the untitled series is set at America's only college exclusively for young-adult superheroes (run by Vought International). It's described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive superheroes as they put their physical, sexual and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. It's part college show, part Hunger Games — with all the heart, satire, and raunch of The Boys.
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Jaz Sinclair (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Lizze Broadway (Here and Now), Shane Paul McGhie (Unbelievable), Aimee Carrero (Elena of Avalor), Reina Hardesty (Brockmire) and Maddie Phillips (Teenage Bounty Hunters) will play the young superheroes. Additional castings are expected to be announced later. The post YA Superhero High Series Spin-Off of 'The Boys' is Underway appeared first on Bleeding Fool.  |
| What If…? Marvel Just Did a Clever Ultron / Vision Mash-Up Posted: 30 Sep 2021 03:25 PM PDT
After the big reveal at the end of the most recent episode of What If…?, Marvel Studios has released a new episode poster showcasing and giving us our best look at Ultron/Vision, whose appearance surprised both Thor and the Watcher when he and his drones appeared in that universe. The character appears to be taken from a variation on Avengers: Age of Ultron, where Ultron is able to complete the building of the Vision's body and then uploading his "consciousness" into it.
One can extrapolate from there that he met Thanos when he came to Earth to get the Mind and possibly Time stones and was able to defeat the Mad Titan, allowing him to have access to all six stones. But this leaves some questions that hopefully the next episode will answer… like how do the Infinity Stones from one universe work in another when we see specifically in Loki that they don't? Does having all the stones make one a Nexus Being, allowing them to exist the same in all realities? And how does one stop a synthetic man with the Infinity Gauntlet as a chest plate?
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| Is a Director’s Cut of Thor 2: The Dark World in Our Future? Posted: 30 Sep 2021 01:35 PM PDT
There's a lot of buzz about the upcoming Many Saints of Newark film, the prequel to the hit HBO series The Sopranos, and a lot of attention is going to the film's director Alan Taylor. And while he is celebrated for his work on that series as well as Mad Men, Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire… he is also known for making what many consider the worst of the MCU films, Thor: The Dark World. Even know, while out supporting his new film, Taylor discussed with Inverse just what happened on his one Marvel film and while he has great respect for Kevin Feige, he'd really like to have his own "Snyder-Cut" moment.
“First of all, I have huge respect for Kevin Feige. I think he's doing something that no one else has ever done before and that nobody thought was possible until he did it. Now, everyone’s trying to imitate it. For me, the process was not fun. I focused all my attention on making a certain movie. And then in the editing process, decisions were made to change it a lot. He's got an empire he's running and things have to be changed to fit into other things. My regret was that the movie that got released was changed quite a bit in a way that I couldn’t shape really. I mean, I shot all the material that we put in the movie, but we set out to make one movie, and then major plot points were reversed in post. It's not the ideal way to work.”
Taylor believed he was brought in to gritty up the franchise, to go from Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones. “I have a great fondness for some of the things that went away in the original cut. There was a kind of quality a wonder to the thing that was beautiful to me. I think I was brought in to bring some Game of Thrones-iness to it in reaction to the first Thor, which was a little too shiny, was my feeling. And then partway through, they started to realize that they wanted to hit in a different direction. So it was kind of a stumbling process.”
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And while he would love to get a chance to do what Snyder did on Justice League, he doubts Disney will make it happen. “I was cheering for Snyder when he was doing that and thinking, Will he pull this off? I think every director was kind of rooting for that. I would love to, I mean to. Can you imagine that? They give me however many millions of dollars they gave him to go back in. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to get that phone call.”
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| Director Calls Venom & Eddie Brock’s Relationship a “Gay Romance” Posted: 30 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT
Sony Pictures has released a new vignette for the upcoming Venom: Let There Be Carnage film that premieres this weekend. In the video, director Andy Serkis discusses the relationship between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom (also Tom Hardy).
“In this movie, it’s like the seven-year itch cycle of a relationship. You got two characters that are literally stuck with each other. That odd couple relationship is what this movie was always going to be about, as a progression from the first one. It’s like living with an oversized toddler. They have had enough of each other. They can’t be together, can’t be apart. Eddie’s far too selfish. Venom just wants to be the hero.”
The last line there might be the most interesting of the entire clip. It's always seemed that Eddie controlled Venom by giving him rule of who he can attack, similar in the way Harry gave Dexter Morgan rules of who he could kill. But here Serkis seems to be implying that the urge to be a hero comes from Venom and not from the restrictions place on him by Eddie.
Breitbart also has the following from an interview with the director:
In one scene, the alien symbiote that had bonded with Brock (Tom Hardy) has an argument with Eddie, separates from the reporter, and then attends a rave party to drown its sorrows. At one point, the symbiote delivers a heartfelt speech to the crowd talking about how much he misses Eddie. This, Serkis says, is to symbolize the queer relationship the symbiote and Eddie have. It is, Serkis added, a gay love story. Serkis told Uproxx that the original idea for the scene was that it was like "the carnival of the damned," but that focus changed. "Well, Tom and [co-writer] Kelly [Marcel] were always about Venom coming out and going to a party that was a very sort of an LGBTQIA kind of festival, really, I'd call it, and so this is his coming out party basically. This is Venom's coming-out party," Serkis said. Serkis insists that during the scene, Venom begins to "speak for the other" — "inadvertently" advocating for the LGBTQ community. "Well, what is interesting is that it's just like, here he is kind of, he says in the movie, 'We must stop this cruel treatment of aliens.' He said, 'You know, we all live on this ball of rock,' you know? And so, he inadvertently becomes a kind of… he's speaking for the other. He's speaking for freedom of the other," Serkis enthused. The director, also famous for giving life to the Lord of the Rings character Gollum, then claimed that the movie is really a "love affair" between the symbiote and Eddie. "Absolutely they do love each other and that's the kind of the center of the movie is that love affair, that central love affair," he said.
The studio has also released a new clip, which reveals the scene in which Woody Harrelson’s character, serial killer Cletus Kasady, transforms into the evil symbiote, Carnage. It’s the sort of “money shot” that Marvel Comics fans have been waiting years for, ever since Carnage made his debut in Amazing Spider-Man #361 in 1992. Now, despite a long wait and numerous delays, Carnage is getting his live-action debut on the big screen, and from the look of the scene below, Carnage will indeed be getting his due — and Harrelson’s going to have a lot of fun hamming it up as the Marvel villain.
No word from Srrkis on the relationship status of Kasady and Carnage… Venom: Let There Be Carnage will be in theaters tomorrow, October 1st.
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