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howe_sam posted:It's a Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek situation. This is the one issue I have with the casting (assuming it's true), is that they're pulling the 'mystery box' poo poo on us. When has it really ever worked?
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Or they're going to announce it sometime in the 11 months before it comes out.
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Codependent Poster posted:I really liked Seeking a Friend for the End of the World so hope Scafaria gets it.
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Aphrodite posted:Or they're going to announce it sometime in the 11 months before it comes out. If they were going to announce it before release, why hide it in the first place?
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Yvonmukluk posted:If they were going to announce it before release, why hide it in the first place? Probably so they could have a teaser/trailer out before the racist fans began to notice that both of Peter's love interests are black. If they can show its interesting/fun before the racists come out they could avoid a GB situation with the down votes, harassment of black actresses, etc. Look what happened to Leslie Jones. It's horrible. Another thing now I think about it.. I don't understand how you be fan of certain heroes, especially ones like Spiderman or Superman who are characterized by their goodness and big hearts and be racist and about what's going on in their stories. Do you really think Peter Parker would be cool with that? Maybe it's because I looked at these figures as inspiration when I was a kid. I dunno. I really don't believe that Peter especially, who grew up in Brooklyn wouldn't love MJ if she showed up the first time with the same personality but looking like Zendaya. I mean, come on. This gif has "Face it, tiger..." written all over it. 
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Yvonmukluk posted:This is the one issue I have with the casting (assuming it's true), is that they're pulling the 'mystery box' poo poo on us. When has it really ever worked?
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Someone suggested that she should spend the whole film as dowdy, dress down and kinda boringly normal Ultimate-style MJ then, right at the end, Peter goes to pick her up for their prom and boom, in true Clark Kent fashion she is revealed as mega glam, internationally renowned teenage supermodel Mary-Jane Watson and busts out *the* line. That could be a fun note to end it on.
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Yvonmukluk posted:This is the one issue I have with the casting (assuming it's true), is that they're pulling the 'mystery box' poo poo on us. When has it really ever worked?
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I really hope they don't go for the Michelle/MJ reveal. It sounds so lame. Like the audience is going to be blown back into their seats with a Sixth Sense-level twist that someone whose name starts with M is called MJ in a totally unexpected way! Whoa, it turns out this girl who is Peter's girlfriend is actually... Peter's girlfriend?!?
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Still expecting that MJ is already famous and it's a Hannah Montana thing.
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Cythereal posted:Yes. According to a big supposed leak, Justice League introduces the idea that Darkseid invaded Earth a long time ago and was driven off by an alliance of humans, Atlanteans, and Amazons. Three mother boxes were left behind, one in the hands of each race. Now Darkseid is sending his greatest general on an advance mission to reclaim the boxes before a full invasion. Doesn't this premise kinda defeat the purpose of our Justice League? If some no-name regular humans, Amazons, and Atlanteans pulled it off, how does this threat necessitate Superman? Hell, send the Suicide Squad.
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Michelle was almost definitely just a name used in production. There's no reason to think there's going to be an in-fiction reveal like that. Like a lot of high profile movies have coded titles during pre production to throw people off the track, they don't make a jokey reference to the secret title in the finished movie.
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INTIMIDATION GAME aka Batman Begins
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Maybe they changed her name to Michelle Jane to get away from the pot connotations 
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Koalas March posted:Probably so they could have a teaser/trailer out before the racist fans began to notice that both of Peter's love interests are black. If they can show its interesting/fun before the racists come out they could avoid a GB situation with the down votes, harassment of black actresses, etc. More like a 'deal with it' face
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Die Laughing posted:Were you beating her to death? I think we figured out your forum origin story. Nice try, I am frail and cowardly
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Dario the Wop posted:Batman Begins. The Ra's al Ghul reveal. Halloween Jack posted:I never suspected that Guy Pearce was actually the Mandarin, sort of. Well, he yelled it.
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SlimGoodbody posted:Nice try, I am frail and cowardly Frail and cowardly Slim Goodbody by day...
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AnonSpore posted:Frail and cowardly Slim Goodbody by day... 
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So you're the villainous ThickBadbody! I never would have guessed.
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Wouldn't he be the one that gets tearfully beaten to death, then?
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Madkal posted:Maybe they changed her name to Michelle Jane to get away from the pot connotations They should change her name to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DaJT7Sk6g8
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Madkal posted:Maybe they changed her name to Michelle Jane to get away from the pot connotations I remember that being a joke in one of those live-action Scooby-Doo movies James Gunn wrote.
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I was watching the Marvel Youtube show and they straight up referred to her as Mary Jane so that's pretty much as good a source as anything.
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The guys who wrote the movie adapatation of "The Fault In Our Stars" (Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber) are apparently the guys writing the New Mutants movie, working alongside the director of "The Fault In Our Stars" (Josh Boone). The reported lineup is gonna be Dani Moonstar, Magik, Sunspot, Cannonball, Wolfsbane, and Warlock, so basically a mix of the first and second teams of New Mutants. Good, fairly diverse lineup - would've preferred Karma over Wolfsbane, but I won't quibble as long as they portray the Greatest Bromance In Comics well and do right by Magik. Although with this news and the reports that Noah Hawley's Legion is gonna be a big influence - whatever that actually means and assuming that's actually true - on the X-Universe moving forward, I feel like we're seeing the first bits of fallout from the supremely disappointing performance of Apocalypse in the box office. It does feel like Fox is trying to pivot and actually reach into the insanely deep roster of mutants they have access to over another loving Wolverine/Mystique/Xavier/Magneto movie, and I hope that this movie does well. THR link.
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Weird to have warlock and no Doug since that means douglock will never happen, which is the only reason you'd make a new mutants movie.
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Scaramouche posted:Weird to have warlock and no Doug since that means douglock will never happen, which is the only reason you'd make a new mutants movie. They probably don't want to sort out who Hulkling belongs to (I'm assuming that's who Doug is) Edit: Wait, I'm thinking of Wiccan and Hulkling. Who do you mean by Warlock? I never read much New Mutants
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SlimGoodbody posted:They probably don't want to sort out who Hulkling belongs to (I'm assuming that's who Doug is)  Basically he's a technoorganic alien who unlike the rest of his species is largely pacifistic. He's BFFs with Cypher AKA Doug Ramsey, a mutant with the power to understand any language.
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OOOOOH duh yes, Warlock. He's part of the... Phalanx? I think? He's all crazy black and yellow looking.
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muscles like this? posted:Captain Marvel director shortlist: Pretty typical Marvel short list. Young and hungry, but this time them being all women is nice. The lack of stature probably allows Marvel to marshall more control as well.
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Shageletic posted:Pretty typical Marvel short list. Young and hungry, but this time them being all women is nice. The lack of stature probably allows Marvel to marshall more control as well. Well, one of them I suppose. quote:Niki Caro was born in 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. quote:Lesli Linka Glatter ... Born: July 26, 1953, Dallas, Texas quote:Lorene Scafaria ... Born: May 1, 1978, Holmdel, New Jersey
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I hope Glatter gets the gig. And describing her as young and hungry, haha.
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Lobok posted:Well, one of them I suppose. Due to sliding timelines they are still all in their early 30s
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Man it looks like Glatter has done basically everything.
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They've stated that even if they don't go with one of those three they're still definitely going with a woman.
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So apparently the plan was if the Russo's couldn't get Robert Downey Jr. For Civil War, the ending to the film was going to use the Madbomb from the classic Jack Kirby Cap story. http://www.gamesradar.com/captain-america-civil-war-almost-zombie-movie-robert-downey-jr/
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The Question IRL posted:So apparently the plan was if the Russo's couldn't get Robert Downey Jr. For Civil War, the ending to the film was going to use the Madbomb from the classic Jack Kirby Cap story. "How can Captain America disable someone without killing them" is a hell of a lot less interesting a concept when the film pretty shamelessly shows Captain America disabling-without-killing all the time. Unless Cap is in fact murdering a bunch of police officers in which case way to be a poo poo, Cap.
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I wonder if they'd ever do a Marvel Zombies standalone, with a zombie MCU invading the regular one.
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Wouldn't want to give Arthur Suydam royalties, given the uptick in trade sales, I suppose. It seems like a logical idea from a board room pov though.
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