Tag: Avengers
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Marvel’s Kevin Feige Had A Sly X-Men Cameo You Would Have Never Noticed
Long before Kevin Feige transformed the blockbuster business via the miraculous 11-year Avengers saga that began with 2008’s “Iron Man” and ended with 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” he was an assistant to producer Lauren Shuler Donner on non-superheroic fare like “Volcano” and “You’ve Got Mail.” The USC film school grad had an encyclopedic knowledge of comics…
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson ‘Didn’t Care’ for Blockbusters Like ‘Avengers’ and ‘Godzilla,’ So He Rejected Other Huge Franchises: ‘I Didn’t Give a F—‘
Aaron Taylor-Johnson revealed to Esquire magazine that he turned down “big, huge franchises” after he started making a name for himself in Hollywood with roles in blockbusters such as “
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson Thought He Was ‘Done’ with Blockbusters After Turning Down ‘Huge Franchises’
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stuck to his guns when selecting smaller films early in his career.The “Kick-Ass” breakout star revealed in an Esquire cover story that he turned down large franchise roles that “nobody knows about” to lead indies.“There was ‘Kick-Ass,’ and then there was ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Avengers,’ and all those things lined up for me. But…
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Every Superhero (And Villain) Power In Secret Invasion’s Super Skrull Cocktail
This article contains spoilers for “Secret Invasion.”Well, that just happened. The season finale of Marvel Studios’ “Secret Invasion” was a scant 38 minutes including the “previously on…” recap and credits, but the blur of events included a fight between two Super Skrulls imbued with the superpowers of Captain Marvel, the Avengers, the Guardians of the…
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‘Secret Invasion’: Dermont Mulroney Had No Clue Ritson Existed in the MCU
The President of the United States in the Marvel Cinematic Universe must be one of the most stressful fictional career paths that could possibly exist, but one man has been brave enough to take on the responsibility. Dermot Mulroney plays President Ritson in the latest television series set in the successful franchise, Secret Invasion. But…
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‘Secret Invasion’: Dermot Mulroney Had No Clue Ritson Existed in the MCU
The President of the United States in the Marvel Cinematic Universe must be one of the most stressful fictional career paths that could possibly exist, but one man has been brave enough to take on the responsibility. Dermot Mulroney plays President Ritson in the latest television series set in the successful franchise, Secret Invasion. But…
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‘Secret Invasion’ Is Trying Too Hard to Go for Shock Value
Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Episode 4 of Secret Invasion.There’s no denying that Secret Invasion started with a bang. But given its self-contained nature, there are some constraints that keep the series from reaching its full potential. So, to compensate for the fact that Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is not being joined…
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Simu Liu Says Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ Sequel Keeps Getting Pushed Back
Simu Liu recently took to social media to share an update on the Shang-Chi sequel, which is currently in development.The actor posted on his Threads account, a new social media app that launched Wednesday, telling fans to ask him anything. One fan responded, asking for a status update on the highly-anticipated sequel to Shang-Chi and…
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Ryan Gosling Played a Superhero and No One Even Remembers It
Fans of Ryan Gosling waiting for his arrival on the superhero scene need to look no further to the early days of his career, specifically 1999’s nearly-lost television movie (and quasi-pilot) The Unbelievables. The 23-minute short follows the titular Unbelievables, some sort of retired blue collar crime-fighting squad of superheroes. Imagine if the Avengers or…
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‘Rogers: The Musical’ Debuts at Disneyland Resort, With All-New Songs
From the moment that Hawkeye sat down in a Broadway theater to experience Rogers: The Musical in the first episode of that Disney+ series, there was no way that Disney and Marvel Studios weren’t going to take advantage of that, in some way. That stage musical, which had a five-star review on a banner outside…