This video exudes cool and sheer awesomeness. Simple as that. Sign me up for a full-length CGI movie. If the coming Avengers movie were created in this style, well, I'd be one happy Marvel fanboy.
Marvel's next animated movie will be Wolverine and the X-Men, featuring all of your favorite characters like Professor X, Beast, Storm, Cyclops, Nightcrawler and Wolverine in the starring role.
They discover the world has spiraled out of control because the X-Men have given up. So now the most legendary of all X-Men, Wolverine, must take the lead on the ultimate mission—to prevent the world's destruction—while fending off enemies Magneto and The Brotherhood.
Amazing how a $200-million opening can kick-start the notoriously slow moving wheels in Hollywood, evidenced by yesterday's announcement that Iron Man 2 would be hitting theaters in 2010. Now the Jon Favreau, the film's director, is already talking up the sequel with Entertainment Weekly.
Will you be involved with the sequel?
We've been speaking informally about it, and in concept we would all love to work together again. But I found out about the announcement last night, so it's not something that — we would definitely love to collaborate more with the sequel. There's no formal arrangement yet, but in theory we would all love to see it happen.... There's definitely a lot of ideas that we all have now. This type of movie is based on serialized materials, so it lends itself very easily to [many different sequel possibilities]. There's definitely a level of enthusiasm from myself and the cast to tell more stories.
Is Robert Downey Jr. under contract to do another movie?
Marvel reported their financial numbers over the weekend, which were quite nice, especially on the heels of Iron Man's incredible opening, but the real news was specific announcements for new films in our future.
Here's what we know:
Thor is coming in Summer 2010.
Iron Man 2 arrives on April 30, 2010.
On May 6, 2011, is The First Avenger: Captain America, followed in July with The Avengers!
Cinema Blend is reporting that Sgt. Fury has a a brief cameo in the new Iron man movie, but you'll have to wait for the end credits to wrap before you'll see an eye-patch wearing Samuel Jackson chomping on a thick cigar.
Jackson, was supposed to show up as the comic character Nick Fury, an eyepatched, hardass agent of a secret government organization known as SHEILD. Well there may be more than one reason it was reported missing in those early prints of the film.
It will however definitely be on every print in theaters this weekend when the film is officially released. So if you want to see what Sam Jackson looks like with an eye-patch, make sure you stick around until after the Key Grips get their due.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Marvel Comics is set to debut a new villain by the name of Anti-Venom starting in Amazing Spider-Man #568. Very few details are known, but Anti-Venom appears to be a separate entity from Venom, though it still looks pissed-off and up to no-good.
Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood has been documenting the ongoing feud between Edward Norton, star of the forthcoming Hulk flick, and Marvel Studios. It appears Mr. Norton wanted a better edit of the movie, one that placed more emphasis on character development, while Marvel Studios wanted a lean, mean, green fighting machine. Marvel won and the film you may (or may not) see in theaters will be what Marvel wants.
I've said before that Edward Norton's warm support of The Incredible Hulk is vital if the pic's gonna have any street cred. Now the movie's core fans know that Marvel put commercial viability ahead of character development. It was always a risky gambit for Marvel to start self-financing its comic book movies. So, if this film disappoints (and considering this is a remake of Ang Lee's audience-dissed Hulk, that's a real possibility), it's all Maisel's fault. As an insider put it, "Maisel is an ass. There's truth in that statement."
The extended trailer for the upcoming Iron Man movie starring Robert Downey Jr. aired during Lost last night. This movie looks frickin awesome, but they've fooled me before (Spiderman 3, Hulk). In either case, it at least looks like we'll get our fill of a smart-ass billionare strapping on a massive piece of expensive weaponry and blowing stuff up. That's worth my ten bucks.