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  • Michael Mando Teases a Monstrous Turn for Mac Gargan in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

    Michael Mando Teases a Monstrous Turn for Mac Gargan in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

    After appearing briefly as Mac Gargan in Spider-Man: Homecoming, it seemed as though Michael Mando‘s homicidal baddie was being prepped to be a major pain in Peter Parker’s side. However, the Spidey trilogy went in a different direction and director Jon Watts never came back around to Gargan and the promise of Homecoming’s post-credit scene was seemingly forgotten.

    New director Destin Daniel Cretton did not forget, as it turns out. As filming on Spider-Man: Brand New Day got underway in Glasgow, Scotland, a trade report revealed that Mando had signed on to reprise the role of Gargan. Now, the actor has taken to Instagram to share a pair of interesting teases about the character’s role in the film.

    In a pair of Instagram stories, Mando teased the potential for Gargan to not only suit up as Scorpion but also become a host for the symbiote that Tom Hardy‘s Eddie Brock left behind in the MCU.

    Both options are incredibly enticing and there’s plenty of room to adapt Gargan’s Scorpion origin story in the MCU. While Doctor Strange’s spell may have caused people to forget who Peter Parker was, Mando‘s Gargan would have plenty of reason to continue holding a grudge against Spider-Man. More interesting, however, is the idea that Gargan could somehow become the MCU’s Venom, bonding with small fragment of the character that stayed on Earth-616 during all the Multiversal Madness that took place in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Gargan was a far more monstrous and murderous host for the symbiote than Eddie Brock after bonding with the Klyntar in the comics and it would certainly be a fun way to set the MCU’s Venom apart from Sony’s version. Gargan has more reason to hate Spider-Man than just about any other MCU character, allowing for this iteration of Venom to incorporate that core feature of the character.

  • Tom Holland Suits Up and Takes on a Tank in Fresh ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Set Photos

    Tom Holland Suits Up and Takes on a Tank in Fresh ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Set Photos

    Filming on director Destin Daniel Cretton‘s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is underway in Glasgow, Scotland and the production has come out of the gates squarely in the public eye and come out swinging. After a few days of set construction and some rehearsals, star Tom Holland was captured on set in the new Spidey suit that generated so much hype when it was recently revealed on social media.

    In full daylight, the suit’s color scheme becomes much more apparent and looks much closer to the suit the hero wore as he swung over New York City follow the main events of Spider-Man: No Way Home. The new photos also offer a great look at the hero’s new web shooters, which seem to include some elements of the classic comic book design.

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    According to insider Daniel Richtman, the scene currently being filmed features Spidey chasing down a tank driven by Frank Castle who is attempting to take out Michael Mando‘s Mac Gargan. Certainly Peter Parker’s sense of justice won’t mesh with The Punisher’s!

    As it turns out, this is not the first time we’ve Holland’s new suit. Despite widespread disbelief at the time, the suit Holland is sporting on set is the same as the one shown off at the  Disney Blockbuster Consumer Products presentation in May, where Scorpion, Tombstone, Tarantula and Boomerang were revealed as villains and word of the Savage Hulk’s appearance in the film first came down.

  • ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ First Look: Tom Holland Reveals the New Suit as Filming Begins

    ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ First Look: Tom Holland Reveals the New Suit as Filming Begins

    A day after teasing a new, raised-webbing Spidey suit for Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, official social media accounts have posted a video celebrating the beginning of principal photography in which the star shows off the new web threads!

    For the sake of comparison, here’s a look at some of Holland’s other suits from his time as Spidey in the MCU.

    The new suit shares some similarities with the Swinging Spidey Suit sported by Holland at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home but also has a much larger spider on the chest. It’s possible an in-universe explanation could be that the latest suit could feature updates inspired by his time with Andrew Garfield and Toby Maguire’s Spideys.

  • New Report Reveals Marvel Studios First Post-Multiverse Saga Film

    New Report Reveals Marvel Studios First Post-Multiverse Saga Film

    With just four movies set to release over the next two and a half years, Marvel Studios Multiverse Saga is slowly approaching the finish line. Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday will land in theaters in 2026 before a yet-to-be revealed project and Avengers: Secret Wars wrap up the studio’s second cinematic saga. Of course, work is already well underway on the MCU’s next chapter, which will feature a new take on the X-Men.

    Though studio head Kevin Feige and Disney boss Bob Iger continue to promise a reduction in Marvel’s theatrical output, the most recent release calendar shows four Marvel Studios films intended to release in 2028. That’s as many films in 2028 as the studio intends to release over the next 29 months! And now, a new report reveals which film the studio is currently hoping will launch its saga.

    According to Jeff “The In” Sneider, the third installment in Ryan Coogler‘s Black Panther franchise is slated to go into production in early 2027 with a targeted release date of February 18, 2028.

    In January, a flurry of reports clouded the future of the Black Panther franchise as Sneider and fellow insider My Time To Shine Hello shared conflicting information about the studio’s plans to recast the role of T’Challa, originally filled by the late Chadwick Boseman. Producer Nate Moore addressed those rumors in February, saying “None of that’s true. We just haven’t gotten there yet, to be honest, but I am very excited to start those conversations hopefully this year.” According to a recent report by Variety’s Tatiana Siegel, those conversations have begun and “ideas are percolating” for Black Panther 3 “creating excitement internally” at the studio.

    With the studio skipping SDCC this year, the trade report, which also included an update on the studio’s plan for their X-Men film, is about all there is to go on in terms of a look at the studio’s upcoming slate, which Feige recently teased extends into 2032.

    Source: YouTube

  • New Report Provides Casting, Release Date Updates for Marvel Studios ‘X-Men’

    New Report Provides Casting, Release Date Updates for Marvel Studios ‘X-Men’

    As The Fantastic Four: First Steps enyers the second weekend of its global launch, Marvel Studios is reportedly preparing to begin work on another project made possible by the 2019 Disney-Fox deal.

    According to Variety’s Tatiana Siegel, Kevin Feige and the Marvel Studios Parliament are currently “fine tuning” the script by Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes writer Michael Lesslie and that casting for the project will “begin soon.”

    Though there’s been no word from Marvel on which X-Men will comprise the team, rumors have claimed that the team will be female-focused and though it will introduce some characters who have not yet appeared in live-action, the plan is to include “main characters we all know” with Kitty Pryde and Gambit set to play large roles.

    Jake’s going to make a youth-focused reboot. That may be reflected in mutant castings, and it’ll definitely be felt in the tone and perspective of the film.

    -Kevin Feige

    Director Jake Schreier, who also helped Thunderbolts* for the studio, has called the source material “inherently interesting and complex”  adding that “the core idea of what X-Men is involves complexity.” And while that sounds like a story that might be better suited for experienced stars, Siegel ‘s report indicates that Marvel is “looking for younger talent, rather than A-listers” in an effort to shrink the film’s budget. That idea certainly meshes well with recent comments by Feige, who describedarvel Comics line of mutant books as places to “tell stories about young people who feel different and who feel Other and who feel like they don’t belong,” adding that’s the same direction the studio is heading with the new film.

    Even as the studio begins the casting process, Siegel’s report cautions that fans should not get too excited about the film hitting theaters soon. Despite having a July  23, 2027 date set aside for an unnamed film, Marvel does not intend to use it for X-Men. As previously stated by Feige, the studio’s “new age of mutants” won’t get underway in full until after Avengers: Secret Wars which will cap off the Multiverse Saga on December 17,2027.

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    Source: Variety

  • Anthony Mackie Teases Looming Conflict in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Anthony Mackie Teases Looming Conflict in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    After having moved the release date of Avengers: Doomsday back several months, Marvel Studios gave themselves more time to make sure the first Avengers film in the Multiverse Saga is every bit the blockbuster fans are hoping for. With a massive cast–half of which was revealed in March and half of which remains rumored as of now–and a plot that’s likely to span the Multiverse, it’s still unclear just who the leads of the film will be. However, it seems that Anthony Mackie‘s Captain America is set up to play a large role as it sounds as though he’s going to be filming in the UK for some time yet.

    “No. Hell no. No, we are in the midst of it,” Mackie replied when asked by Screen Rant if he was nearly done with his work on the fifth Avengers film, perhaps indicating his character will log some major minutes.

    “I mean, it’s such a big, moving set piece, and it’s such a big story,” the star teased about the film’s plot which has been kept almost entirely under wraps by Marvel Stduios. He continued, “The best part of shooting a Marvel movie is that it’s always an ever-evolving canvas. There are those staple pieces, and then there are the pieces that circulate throughout the course of the shoot.”

    After a strange interlude about the number of sheep nearby the London studio, Mackie then teased the conflict brewing between his Sam Wilson and Sebastian Stan‘s Bucky Barnes.

    “I talked to Sebastian [Stan] yesterday. We’re still butting heads. All we do is fight,” said Mackie, referring to the turbulent ongoing relationship his character shares with Barnes, which may turn briefly contentious again in Avengers: Doomsday as was first hinted at during a post-credit scene of Thunderbolts*.

    Set 14 months after the conclusion of the film, post-credit scene–which runs a Marvel record 2 minutes and 54 seconds and was filmed by the Russo brothers as part of Avengers: Doomsday–finds the team, complete with fancy new uniforms–regrouping at their new HQ, The Watchtower. Though it’s not clearly stated, the New Avengers seem to have an assistive AI helping them out as that may well be an homage to C.L.O.C. or Centrally Located Organic Computer, who helped run The Watchtower in the pages of Marvel Comics. While the team’s discussion about Sam Wilson filing a lawsuit to prevent them from calling themselves The Avengers leads Shostakov to reveal his “New Avengerz” outfit, Yelena’s conversation discloses that they are aware of a “space crisis.”

    While there are clearly going to be far more important things happening than worrying about who the official Avengers are, given their past work with the characters, you can be sure the Russos will spend at least a few minutes of the film’s screentime to give Mackie and Stan a chance to trade shots.

    Avengers: Doomsday is set to hit theaters On December 18, 2026.

    Source: Screen Rant

  • BTS Look at ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Seemingly Confirms Two Classic Spidey Villains

    BTS Look at ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Seemingly Confirms Two Classic Spidey Villains

    After years of perhaps the most wide-ranging rumors and speculation to which any Marvel Studios film has been subjected, production on Spider-Man: Brand New Day has gotten underway in Glasgow, Scotland with principal photography set to begin soon. A recent look at a set under construction in Glasgow revealed that the film will be set, at least in part, between Spider-Man: No Way Home and Avengers: Doomsday despite rumors that it was set to take place during the events of Avengers: Doomsday. Now, another peek behind the scenes of the production may have confirmed a pair of villains who have previously been reported to be attached to the film.

    Destin is doing an amazing job right now on that movie, which starts shooting very soon. And he’s got eight or nine comic covers up on his wall in his art department that he is bringing to life in this movie, which is super cool.

    -Kevin Feige
    After Marvel Studios Head Honcho Kevin Feige recently told reporters that director Destin Daniel Cretton was using comic book covers as inspiration for his art department, Cretton’s assistant, Ziyi Cao, shared a post on Instagram that potentially revealed two of those covers. Should those covers truly be among those referenced by Feige and not an effort to be intentionally misleading, they may well confirm that Tarantula and Boomerang, both of whom were previously said to be in the film, will indeed appear in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

    Following the Disney Blockbuster Consumer Products presentation in May, journalist Chris Higashi reported the Boomerang and Tarantula, along with Tombstone and Scorpion,would appear in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Interestingly, Higashi also reported that Mark Ruffalo was set to appear as the Savage Hulk in the project, something that while not officially confirmed has since been backed up by several social media insiders.

    With cameras rolling soon, it’s possible, though not certain, that additional members of the film’s cast will begin to either be seen on location or revealed through the trades, shedding light on whether or not these characters are indeed in the film.

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which will feature Jon Bernthal‘s The Punisher, is set to hit theaters on July 31, 2026.

  • New Details Emerge on Marvel Studios “Complex” Take on the X-Men

    New Details Emerge on Marvel Studios “Complex” Take on the X-Men

    After helping bring the X-Men to the screen in the early 2000’s at Fox, Marvel Studios Head Honcho Kevin Feige is preparing to do so again, this time as a flagship property at Marvel Studios. With a script being written now, X-Men is primed to launch the studio’s post-Multiverse Saga plans in 2028.

    Feige has entrusted the first of what will be many X-projects to Jake Schreier, whose work on Thunderbolts* helped boost Marvel back toward the stratosphere the studio had inhabited for well over a decade before coming back down to Earth following a string of disappointing projects. Ahead of the release of Thunderbolts* on physical media, Schreier met with The Playlist and, for the first time,  discussed taking on X-Men.

    Jake’s going to make a youth-focused reboot. That may be reflected in mutant castings, and it’ll definitely be felt in the tone and perspective of the film.

    -Kevin Feige

    “I mean, yeah, without going into too much—really almost any detail,” said Schreier when asked if he could talk about his involvement with the new Marvel Studios project. “What I can say is, it’s just inherently interesting and complex material. The core idea of what X-Men is involves complexity,” he added.

    Since launching during the Civil Rights Movement, X-Men stories have always been subtextually complex, featuring characters who are often feared and hated for being different, something Schreier looks to putting front and center in his film. “It’s an incredible opportunity with super interesting characters and [much] internal conflict. These characters are wrestling with their identity and place in the world—that’s inherently interesting and complex material,” said Schreier.

    They have been a place to tell stories about young people who feel different and who feel Other and who feel like they don’t belong. That’s the universal story of mutants, and that is where we’re going.

    As with Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four: First Steps, X-Men will need to be fundamentally different from Fox’s previous big screen efforts. While Schreier chose not to elaborate on how the studio will accomplish that, he did confirm the studio’s plans to set the new film apart from the films in the Fox franchise. “Yeah, I think that’s fair to say,” said Schreier when asked if his film would be “recognizably different” from the prior projects, adding  “There’s that red sniper dot out there somewhere, you know…“

    It seems unlikely that Marvel sniper will be coming for Schreier, however, as he seems not only to have a handle on how to bring a fresh perspective to a genre that continues to fight audience fatigue (whether real or imagined) but also stay true to the stories that made fans fall in love with the characters. “…to be able to explore all of the ideas that are inherent to that rich source material, but also at the scale inherent to the source material, that’s like a very rare and fortunate opportunity. That’s very exciting,” he said. With enough ideas in the source material to last a decade or more, it is indeed a very exciting time for X-Men fans.

    Sources: The Playlist

  • ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Set Photos Reveal Film’s Place in the MCU Timeline

    ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Set Photos Reveal Film’s Place in the MCU Timeline

    As production on one 2026 MCU blockbuster, Avengers: Doomsday, continues in the UK, preparations are well underway for another to get started soon as sets are now being built in Glasgow, Scotland for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. As has been the case before, it seems as though Glasgow will serve, at least in par, as a stand-in for New York City and some signs spotted on set have answered one frequently discussed aspect of the new Spidey film.

    As seen in the photos below, the fictional A.J. Huntley Construction Corps will have a pair of projects underway during the film and both are expected to be completed by December 2027, meaning at least part of Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be set before New Year 2028.

    Connecting the dots we have, that means that the events of the fourth installment in the MCU-set Spidey franchise will take place BEFORE the post-credit scene of Thunderbolts* which has been confirmed to be a scene from Avengers: Doomsday. To summarize, Spider-Man Brand New Day will take place before Doomsday, not during or afterbas had often been rumored.

    Setting the project before Avengers: Doomsday also provides an opening for star Tom Holland to appear in the next Avengers film, something that has also been subject to rumors and debate for the past year. Whether or not that will happen or how large of a role Holland might play if he does appear in Doomsday remains to be seen but for now, there’s finally some clarity about the new Spidey film.

  • Marvel Studios Rumored to Be Mulling Over Options for the Future of the MCU’s Biggest Star

    Marvel Studios Rumored to Be Mulling Over Options for the Future of the MCU’s Biggest Star

    It was inevitable. After launching the MCU in Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. became the face of the franchise, leading the way through the Infinity Saga before taking a well-earned rest. With the studio’s Multiverse Saga in free fall, Marvel called upon Downey to save the day, casting the actor as Doctor Doom, the new big bad set to menace the Multiverse in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. However, with just a brief cameo to his credit in The Fantastic Four: First Steps and production still underway on Doomsday, a new report claims that there may be more in store for Doom.

    According to insider Daniel Richtman, Marvel Studios One Above All, Kevin Feige, has begun mulling over the MCU future of Doctor Doom and is considering keeping Downey on in the role after the conclusion of the Multiverse Saga.

    SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – JULY 27: Robert Downey Jr. attends the Marvel Studios Panel in Hall H at SDCC in San Diego, California on July 27, 2024. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)

    How can we not go backwards? How can we not disappoint expectations? How can we continue to beat expectations? And he brought up Victor Von Doom. I looked into this character. Later on, he goes, ‘Let’s get Victor Von Doom right.’

    -Robert Downey Jr. on Kevin Feige’s pitch for him to return to the MCU,THR

    Feige went to great lengths to lure Downey back into the fold, beginning with a conversation in 2023, over a year before the actor officially took the role. And while the character is set to play a major role in the next two Avengers films, Doom is also one of Marvel Comics’ greatest characters who would certainly provide some great options for the studio as it moves toward resetting the MCU into a singular timeline post-Secret Wars.