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  • ‘THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY’ Casts Its Sparrow Academy

    ‘THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY’ Casts Its Sparrow Academy

    After being renewed for a third season this past November, we now have further confirmation on how the cast for Umbrella Academy‘s new season will look like. The Hargreeves children discovered that their actions have led to a brand new timeline. This led up to the final scene of season two teasing the appearance of the Sparrow Academy. Following these events in Dallas, Sir Reginald got a glimpse of what the future held for both himself and his Umbrella Academy. In order to give himself a future, where he didn’t have to die in order to bring his estranged children back together, he decided to get different children altogether. As such, making up a team that would hopefully be able to avoid the apocalypse in a way the older ones couldn’t in the first season.

    This new team is now confirmed to feature Justin Cornwell, Genesis Rodriguez, Britne Oldford, Jake Epstein, and Cazzie David. Justin H. Min. will also be part of the ensemble after portraying the main timeline’s Ben Hargreeves in the first two seasons of the show. The third season, which will consist of 10 episodes, will hopefully begin production this February and will see the return of stars Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, Aidan Gallagher, Ritu Arya, David Casteneda, Emmy-Raver-Lampman, and Robert Sheehan. It will be interesting to see the conflict between these two families escalate throughout the next season, and how much it’ll follow the original comic. The Existential Dread Inducing Psykronium Cube is already going to be an interesting addition to an already crazy show.

    Source: Deadline

  • Kevin Feige Willing to Experiment with Episode Lengths for Marvel Studios Disney Plus Series

    Kevin Feige Willing to Experiment with Episode Lengths for Marvel Studios Disney Plus Series

    The length of the episodes of Marvel Studios Disney Plus streaming series has been the subject of internet debate for quite some time. With WandaVision’s early episodes all checking in around 30 minutes, it’s clear that somewhere down the line the episodes are going to get longer in order to add up to the 6 total hours of time promised by the studios. In an interview with Collider, Kevin Feige shed some light on how the studio is experimenting with the episode lengths in some of the upcoming series.

    Well, we’re looking a little differently. We’re looking at it as developing them as either six hour-episodes, or nine or 10 half-hour episodes. So, for instance, WandaVision started that way and Falcon and the Winter Soldier as 30 minutes, but because it’s streaming, it’s Disney+, and the rules have blurred over the years, yes. Some can be 23 minutes. Some can be much longer than that. But She-Hulk, for instance, is being developed as 10 30-minute episodes. Some will be longer and some will be shorter. Loki, Falcon and the Winter Soldier is being developed as six 40-50-minute episodes.

    Some of what Feige said confirms things we’ve been hearing for some time, such as She-Hulk’s ten episode first season. However, it’s the first time we’ve heard any info on episode lengths for either The Falcon and The Winter Soldier or Loki, both of which are apparently going to be 6 episodes averaging 45 minutes a piece, giving a total run time of about 4.5 hours, or 2 movie’s worth of time devoted to these characters.

    Source: Collider

  • Kevin Feige Confirms ‘Deadpool 3’ as an R-Rated MCU Film

    Kevin Feige Confirms ‘Deadpool 3’ as an R-Rated MCU Film

    The Marvel Cinematic Universe is ever-expanding. Avengers: Endgame ended the era of the first three phases with quite the bang. Now, we are opening up new avenues for Marvel Studios to explore. The first major addition is the expansion into long-form storytelling through Disney+. WandaVision will kick-off this new direction in just a few days, which will highlight the franchise taking new chances with its stories. It also looks like they are opening up to also introducing characters from other franchises, as is the case with Ryan Reynolds‘ Deadpool. When it was announced that the third film was moving forward, many wondered how it would fit into Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige‘s master plan. Looks like

    In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Feige revealed that the third entry of the Deadpool franchise is indeed part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not just that, he also said that the film will keep its R-rating. So, those worried that Deadpool becoming a part of a larger universe could change his rating can breathe a sigh of relief. He did confirm that Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin and Wendy Molyneux are still hard at work on the script alongside Reynolds, but it will not enter any form of production until 2022. Here is his comment:

    It will be rated R and we are working on a script right now, and Ryan’s overseeing a script right now… It will not be [filming] this year. Ryan is a very busy, very successful actor. We’ve got a number of things we’ve already announced that we now have to make, but it’s exciting for it to have begun. Again, a very different type of character in the MCU, and Ryan is a force of nature, which is just awesome to see him bring that character to life.

    Deadpool will certainly shake-up the Marvel Cinematic Universe in major ways. It will be interesting to see how they integrate the third entry for the character into the larger MCU. There could be a good chance that he has a multiverse story of his own, or his time travel actions from the last sequel led to him crossing dimensions. Either way, it’ll be interesting how they will balance his fourth-wall-breaking while still trying to keep the existing franchise as grounded in its own reality.

    Source: Collider

  • Kevin Feige Talks the Possibilities of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse

    Kevin Feige Talks the Possibilities of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse

    No upcoming Marvel Studios film has been the subject of wilder rumors and speculation than this year’s Spider-Man threequel. Charlie Cox. Toby Maguire. Andrew Garfield. Emma Stone. Jamie Foxx. Willem Dafoe. Alfred Molina. The list of actors we’ve heard attached to this film and their attachments to previous iterations of Spider-Man seem to have no end. In an interview with Comicbook.com’s Brandon Davis, Kevin Feige spoke to this impressive list of rumors.

    I’ve read some things. I’m not sure I’ve read all things. The fun thing about online speculation when it comes to our stuff is how sometimes it couldn’t be more off the mark and sometimes it’s shockingly close, and that’s held true for the last few years. But saying which is which would take all the fun out of everything.

    As you’d expect, Fiege didn’t confirm any of the dozens of rumors out there, but it is interesting that he didn’t flatly deny any either. Instead, he may have actually thrown gas on the fire by pointing out the fact that the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel will explore the multiverse.

    The biggest clue is the title of the second Doctor Strange movie. That’s the biggest clue of where the Multiverse of Madness is taking us and how we’re exploring that. It’s surreal to me that we’re talking about a Spider-Man 3. I worked on a movie called Spider-Man 3 many years ago directed by Mr. Sam Raimi. So this clearly, the shorthand of calling it Spider-Man 3 now, it’s fine. We call it Homecoming 3.

    At this point, it seems that any and everything is possible. Spider-Man 3 is set to hit theaters this December; Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness is set to follow it in March of 2022.

    Source: comicbook.com

  • Paranoia Will be at the Heart of Marvel Studios ‘SECRET INVASION’

    Paranoia Will be at the Heart of Marvel Studios ‘SECRET INVASION’

    Secret Invasion was one of Marvel Comics largest scale line-wide events; however, according to Kevin Feige, the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney Plus streaming series won’t try to match the scope of the comics. In an interview with comicbook.com’s Brandon Davis, Feige set some expectations for what to expect from the newly announced series:

    Well, there were more characters in the Secret Invasion comic series than there were in Endgame so, no,” Feige admits. “It’s not that but it very much is a showcase for Sam Jackson and Ben Mendelson and tapping into the paranoia elements of the Secret Invasion comic series that was great with the twists and turns that that took. So, that’s certainly our focus more than, ‘Can we cram in more characters than Endgame? like publishing?’

    The marketing campaign for the comic series centered on a series of “Who Do You Trust?” ads, adding to the uncertainty of just which Marvel hero was a Skrull and which one wasn’t. It’s great to continue to hear that Feige’s plans aren’t to outdo Endgame in terms of scope, but rather to explore new pathways to deliver on some of the classic Marvel Comics stories.

     

    Source: comicbook.com

  • Rumor: Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones to appear in ‘SHE-HULK’

    Rumor: Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones to appear in ‘SHE-HULK’

    In 2019, Netflix released the third and final season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones. The series starred Krysten Ritter as detective Jessica Jones, a woman haunted by her traumatic past with extraordinary abilities. Jessica then settles in New York City after an accident ended her career as a superhero and she opened up Alias Investigations, her own detective agency focused on solving cases involving people who have special abilities like her.

    Jessica Jones season 3 finale recap: AKA Everything | EW.com

    Since her final appearance as the character, fans have been anxiously waiting to see whether or not Marvel Studios will step up to the plate and save the Netflix characters in some shape or form, and include them into the larger scale MCU. While fans may have to wait until February 2021 for the rights to Jessica Jones to revert back to Marvel Studios, we already may have our first hint at when this vigilante badass could pop up in the MCU.

     

    A tweet by @MarvelNewsHub, sourcing Daniel Richtman, states that Krysten Ritter is RUMORED to appear in the Disney+ streaming series She-Hulk, reprising her role as Jessica Jones for the Disney+ show.

    https://twitter.com/MarvelNewsHub/status/1348381482113372160?s=19

    Now, again, the keyword here is RUMORED. None of this has been confirmed, although Daniel’s reputation certainly precedes him. Nonetheless, if Ritter were to appear in the upcoming She-Hulk series, I’d expect her to appear as a rebooted version of the character, with no link to the previous Netflix version beyond the same actress portraying the character. It’s been already told multiple times that Kevin Feige is not interested in incorporating Loeb’s Marvel TV properties into the MCU, but he didn’t say anything about rebooting them. This isn’t the only time a Defender from Marvel TV has been brought into the MCU. An example of this is the news that our very own Charles V. broke regarding Charlie Cox appearing as Matt Murdock in the upcoming Spider-Man 3 film, due out 2021. Whatever the case may be, we’re definitely ready to see if this unbreakable superhero make her way back to our TV screens in 2022 when She-Hulk premieres on Disney+.

  • Kevin Feige on the Genesis of ‘WANDAVISION’

    Kevin Feige on the Genesis of ‘WANDAVISION’

    During today’s WandaVision press junket, I was able to ask Marvel Studios One-Above-All, Kevin Feige, about how his late grandfather’s work on the Dick Van Dyke Show might have led to the creation of this series.

    WandaVision Enlisted Dick Van Dyke as a Classic Sitcom Advisor

    Me: “You guys just did talk quite a bit about Dick Van Dyke and while we were researching and thinking about what to talk to you about, we noticed that your late grandfather, Robert Short, worked on the show as an executive for like 5 years. I was wondering if you could talk about how that might have led to this project and how special it is to you to get to pay tribute to him in this way.“

    Former Procter & Gamble Executive Robert E. Short Dies at 95 - Variety

    Kevin Feige:

    It is special. My grandfather worked for Proctor and Gamble…and Proctor and Gamble was, back in the day, sponsor and producer on mainly soap operas but in the early, early, like 50s and 60s I think they did some primetime, so I don’t know that he was actually on the show but he was one of the sponsors and companies behind the show. And that might have had a little to do with it.

    Feige went on to explain how his childhood love for sitcoms lead to the development of WandaVision:

    There’s something fun that has happened. It’s mainly I watched too much TV as a kid and TV meant a lot to me and I found comfort in television families. One thing we talked about early on is these are not parodies, this is not direct satire…we love these things and they meant a lot to us, dated and silly as they may seem now, there’s a comfort factor there. So that was the primary factor behind…and the comic inspiration, of course, is what lead us to putting these ideas together.

    WandaVision': Disney+'s Marvel Series Gets 2021 Premiere Date – Deadline

    And it wasn’t just Feige’s background that led to the series. Many of the people involved with the show, and with Disney, have a history with sitcoms:

    There is a wonderful thing though that happened with Matt’s background as he’s talked about, which is so amazing. Lizzie’s background with her sisters, which didn’t even occur to me until I think we were standing in the writers’ room with pictures of Full House on the wall and I went, “Oh, right.” And yes, the connection with my grandfather going way back and even the people who oversee Marvel Studios and created Disney Plus, Bob Iger, ran ABC, I think, he was very influential in putting Family Matters on the air. And Alan Horn ran some of the greatest, biggest sitcoms of all time. And to a certain point, Matt included, this was everybody’s past, and it was fun to hear stories as we worked on this series about all these people that we worked with every day and getting an insight into where they come from. My grandfather being one of them.

    Kevin Feige Teases What's Next For Marvel After Avengers: Endgame | Cosmic Book News

    And then there was Feige’s last comment of the day, “That was a good backup question.”

    We’ve heard plenty about WandaVision was something near and dear to Feige’s heart and there’s no doubt that this interview shed some light on that.

    WandaVision streams THIS FRIDAY, January 15th.

     

     

  • Kevin Feige Teases Their Approach to ‘WandaVision’ And Future Disney+ Shows

    Kevin Feige Teases Their Approach to ‘WandaVision’ And Future Disney+ Shows

    Marvel Studios has become an established force within cinema. Their films have become Blockbuster mainstays since they kickstarted with 2008’s Iron Man. Now, they are heading into completely new territory, as Disney+ will kick-start their new venture into long-form storytelling. At first, it just sounded like we were getting the type of films we are familiar with just stretched out to explore characters in new ways.

    Well, it was until all the pieces came together to reveal how the upcoming release of WandaVision would change that impression. It wasn’t what we used to, as we saw our favorite heroic couple living a suburban life inspired by classic sitcom shows. During today’s press junket, it seems Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed that we can expect a lot more wackiness in the future.

     

    Kevin Feige: “And the idea was always to do something that can’t be done as a feature. Plays with the format and plays with the medium. And there were a lot of meetings before people understood what we were going for.”

     

    It certainly sounds like their future projects will redefine our understanding of what the Marvel Cinematic Universe is. There is also a good chance that the films will start to embrace more creative directions as the franchise continues to expand. When the MCU started, it’s big selling point was that each film tried to replicate a different genre with superheroes. To give a few examples, Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a 90s spy thriller while Guardians of the Galaxy added a space opera to the franchise. It is exciting to see them expand the concept more, as many announced projects already tease this direction. She-Hulk was teased as a legal drama and Moon Knight will dive deep into his broken psyche. It is going to be exciting to see how the franchise continues to grow in the coming years.

  • ‘WandaVision’ Stars’ Performances Were Inspired By ‘I Love Lucy’, ‘Bewitched’, and Many More

    ‘WandaVision’ Stars’ Performances Were Inspired By ‘I Love Lucy’, ‘Bewitched’, and Many More

    When WandaVision was first announced back in 2019, fans were promised something, unlike anything the Marvel Cinematic Universe had done before. As news from the show started to trickle in, we learned that WandaVision would pay homage to various sitcoms across multiple eras of television. During today’s press junket for the upcoming Disney+ series, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany discussed a bit where their inspirations came from, as they explored the history of sitcom actors to base their various interpretations off of.

     

     

    Elizabeth Olsen: “It was an amalgamation of Mary Tyler Moore and Elizabeth Montgomery, and I think I accidentally threw in some Lucy [Ball] in the 70s, just because there was so much physical comedy.”

     

    Paul Bettany: “I was just so worried about that initially I was like: “Wow, this feels so different”, as I read the script and how do I keep him the same…and then I realized, he’s always being or becoming something else, you know? He’s J.A.R.V.I.S., he’s Ultron, he’s part Tony Stark and he’s Omniscient, but he’s also this sort of naive. And then I realized; “Well, I’ll just throw a little bit of Dick van Dyke in there in a little bit of Hugh Laurie.” I think what Vision is is just decent, honorable, and only exists for Wanda.”

     

    It certainly sounds like they did their homework to showcase the physicality and portrayal based on the era they were in. Jac Schaeffer also referenced their approach with each different era’s accent being embraced and adopted. She likened it to creating a period piece for each entry. We can’t wait to see how it all plays out in WandaVision, when it hits Disney+, this coming January 15th.

  • Phase 4 Slate Still Uncertain

    Phase 4 Slate Still Uncertain

    In the Summer of 2019, Marvel Studios One-Above-All Kevin Feige unveiled the MCU’s Phase 4 which, at the time, consisted 10 projects stretching from May of 2020 through November of 2021. Of course, the COVID pandemic changed everything and here we are in January of 2021 without having seen any Marvel Studios content in over a year, though WandaVision is just around the corner. With all the shifting and shuffling, today’s WandaVision press junket seemed like a great time to clarify just how much things have changed.

    MCU Phase 4 Details at SDCC 2019! Jane Foster is Thor!

    Me: “I know we just talked about WandaVision kicking off Phase 4, with all the shuffling that’s been going on with the release slate changing and then some of the announcements, could you clarify where Phase 4 kind of ends at this point.”

    Kevin Feige: “No.”

    I’ve never been so excited to be told no in my life. Now it’s easy to read too much into this, but given the amount of time Marvel Studios had to think things over during the pandemic, it’s entirely possible that they have rethought the structure of Phase 4. At any rate, it would certainly seem that it’s no longer exactly what it was at SDCC ’19.