Lupita Nyong’o, best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in 12 Years a Slave, is on track to play the love interest opposite Chadwick Boseman in Marvel’s Black Panther. The Mexican-born Kenyan beauty is in talks to take on the unspecified role, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Should she sign on the dotted line Nyong’o […]
[Review] Deadpool
Superhero fatigue: It’s a very real thing, especially at the beginning of a year in which we’ll see Deadpool, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocalypse, Suicide Squad, and Doctor Strange representing the superhero film genre. By now, we’ve grown tired of the standard Marvel formula, as showcased by the less-than-stellar reviews of Ant-Man and Avengers: Age of […]
[Review] Fantastic Four
The name Fantastic Four suggests a certain joie de vivre, a delight in its own comic book silliness. When Marvel’s first family were translated to the big screen by Tim Story in 2005, and again for a 2007 sequel, that lightness of touch unfortunately slipped into kitschy smugness, with the excessive focus on camp humour […]
Red Band Trailer for Deadpool’s Deadly Debut
[youtube id=”FyKWUTwSYAs”] At one point, it seemed like Deadpool was forever going to be tainted and mishandled thanks to his “appearance” in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It’s so hard to tarnish an insanely popular superhero, yet Fox found a way to do the Merc with a Mouth wrong in that film. Since then, Ryan Reynolds, who portrayed […]
Channing Tatum Might Leave Gambit Solo Film
All seemed well for Fox and their X-Men film properties out of San Diego Comic Con ’15. After all, they cemented their status at the comic book convention with a great panel showcasing all of their upcoming films (Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, et al) and an epic on-stage selfie. All seemed well and good coming out of the successful […]
John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein to Write Spider-Man Reboot
The Spider-Man reboot finally has screenwriters, and they’re a formidable duo. Following the announcement of Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Jon Watts as the director comes news that the writing duo of John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein will be handling script duties. The two have written Horrible Bosses, Horrible Bosses 2, and are making their directorial […]
[Review] Ant-Man
There was a concern that Ant-Man would lack personality. Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) had spent ages developing the Ant-Man screenplay, but he left the project due to creative differences with Marvel Studios. Peyton Reed replaced Wright as director and the screenplay was retooled by Adam McKay (Anchorman) and star Paul Rudd. Ant-Man wrapped principle photography in December 2014 to […]
Marvel Comics’ Hip Hop Variant Covers
Hip hop has become an undeniably large influence on pop culture; the same can be said for comics, especially in light of Marvel Studios’ takeover of Hollywood over the last decade. With the level of artistry behind the hip hop’s lyricism and comic books’ increasing level of illustrative talent, it was only a matter of […]