It looks like Marvel Studios is moving full steam ahead with their Halloween special, which has long been teased to be about the iconic Werewolf by Night or also known as Jack Russell. Some time ago, Gael Garcia Bernal joined the project as its main star and Deadline has now shared that The Nevers‘ Laura Donnelly has also joined the project in an undisclosed role. They believe she might be playing Nina Price, who eventually becomes Vampire by Night and is Jack Russel’s niece.
The character is actually not just a vampire, but also a werewolf hybrid. It’s not an uncommon trope within vampire stories, as the concept has also been explored in series like The Vampire Diaries. Her inclusion could hint at this being more than just the story of a man fighting his transformation into a werewolf. Deadline believes the project will start production soon, as it’s eyeing a release during next year’s Halloween.
Donnellyis a great catch, as she’s well known for her role in the HBO series The Nevers, Outlander, Britannia, and The Fall. She also had some cinematic outings with Tolkien and The Program. It’ll be interesting to see if her role might expand into a bigger one, especially with Marvel Studios introducing more horror-themed characters. Perhaps she and Bernal signed on for multiple projects, like a potential Midnight Sons crossover.
Marvel Studios streaming series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier allowed Sebastian Stan to showcase his talents and really dive deep into who Bucky Barnes was. By the time the season was over, Bucky had seemingly moved on from the haunting memories of his time as The Winter Soldier and was, for the first time in nearly 100 years, free to move on and purse a life of his own choosing.
Like many of the other characters from the Disney Plus streaming series, it’s clear that there’s another chapter in Bucky’s story waiting to be told, but it isn’t clear when that chapter will be told. While it makes sense the Stan would reprise the character in CaptainAmerica 4, there’s hardly been any word on that film, much less its cast. With so many people wondering when we’d see Bucky next and no clear answer, Collider went right to the source, asking Stan when he’d next appear in the MCU during an interview for his next film The 355.
I don’t know. Per usual, I can’t answer that question. I have no clue, but look, I think it’s sort of about seeing what’s next for him, right? To some extent, the show, I felt, really graduated him to another level of experience and taking on his past a lot better and gave him another sense of place and sense of family that he’s found there with Sam. So he’s in a pretty good spot right now. I’d be curious to see what the next interesting thing that we could tell with him would be, and as you well know, that is above my pay grade. There are far wiser men and women who are making those decisions.
Stan did go on to promise that Bucky was not among the multitude of rumored cameos in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Animated projects aside, it doesn’t seem as though Stan has been a part of any of Marvel Studios projects that have wrapped recently or are still filming, meaning it might be until 2023 before the live-action return of Bucky Barnes. But as much as Stan loves playing the character and as much as fans love him, there’s certainly a future in store for him.
Marvel Studios first canonical animated series, What If…?, introduced fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Variants of dozens of their favorite characters. From Party Thor, to a redeemed Thanos, to one character who was immediate a fan favorite: T’Challa Star-Lord.
Taken by accident by Ravagers looking for Peter Quill, T’Challa took on the mantle of Star-Lord and had a major impact on the events of his universe. Voiced by Chadwick Boseman, T’Challa Star-Lord eventually came back home to Wakanda and was reunited with his family who had long thought him dead. Now, fans can add a great looking Funko Pop! version of the character to their collection at Entertainment Earth.
Shipping this month, the Funko comes with a stand allowing T’Challa to take flight. The collectible show T’Challa Star-Lord complete with his mask, gun and jet boots and makes for a great addition to any Funko collection, especially beside the other pieces from the What If…? wave.
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Marvel Studios had its first venture into animation last year with What If…? but that was just the beginning. During Disney+ Day, we got the announcement that they will revive the classic X-Men: Animated Series. It’ll continue the 90s nostalgia classic under the new title X-Men ’97. Of course, they went the extra step and will have the original cast return. We already learned that Le Zann started recording her lines for Rogue, but it looks like Cal Dodd, the original Wolverine voice actor, shared a picture of his work on the project.
Dodd continued to voice the character in the Marvel vs Capcom game series and has been what everyone thought of when it came to the character before Jason Blum and Hugh Jackman reinvented the characters in other animated and live-action projects. It’s great to see him return and there’s a lot of hope for the animated live-action revival. It’ll also be Marvel Studios’ first time tackling the X-Men characters and Wolverine since they purchased 20th Century Fox. It’ll be interesting to see how they tackle the revival, as well as his eventual live-action return.
As per usual, we have little insight into how exactly these various shows and projects are doing over at Disney+. Viewership numbers remain tightly locked up for only Disney to see. Luckily, third-party companies do offer some insight through external analysis such s SambaTV. Deadline has shared their latest report on the premiere of The Book of Boba Fett, which shows that it was slightly ahead of the latest Marvel series, Hawkeye by around 13%.
Does that mean one is better than the other? Not at all, as both shows are showing overall strong viewership numbers of those that watched at least five minutes. They compared the 5-day premiere between the series based on 46M TV devices and a panel of 3M Smart TV households. Hawkeye had a premiere at around 1.5M, while Loki still holds the record of the highest 5-day premiere with 2.5M based on their data. Boba Fett is around 32% behind its premiere, which kicked off the new Wednesday release trend.
The Book of Boba Fett had quite a bit of momentum behind it, as it was the first solo project focused on one of Star Wars’ most popular characters. His return in The Mandalorian built up quite a bit of excitement and it’s understandable that the series would do well. It’ll be interesting to see how the series grows over time, as more and more happens.
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Charles Murphy
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Joseph Aberl
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Megan Murphy
Spider-Man: No Way Home Avengers: Infinity War Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings Captain America: The Winter Soldier Iron Man Hawkeye Black Panther Avengers: Endgame Spider-Man: Homecoming Spider-Man: Far From Home Loki WandaVision Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Thor: Ragnarok Captain America: Civil War Iron Man 3 Doctor Strange Ant-Man The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy The Avengers Captain America: The First Avenger Black Widow Ant-Man and The Wasp Captain Marvel Thor Eternals Iron Man 2 Avengers: Age of Ultron The Incredible Hulk Thor: The Dark World
*Megan did not watch What If…?
Joao Pinto
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Mary Maerz
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Avengers: Endgame The Avengers Captain America: Civil War Thor: Ragnarok Avengers: Infinity War Spider-Man: No Way Home Avengers: Age of Ultron Iron Man 3 Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings Black Panther Guardians of the Galaxy Ant-Man WandaVision Doctor Strange Iron Man Iron Man 2 Hawkeye Loki Spider-Man: Far From Home Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Spider-Man: Homecoming Captain America: The First Avenger Eternals The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Black Widow What If…? Captain Marvel Ant-Man and The Wasp Thor The Incredible Hulk Thor: The Dark World
Filip Manka
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Anthony Canton III
Avengers: Infinity War Spider-Man: No Way Home Captain America: The Winter Soldier Thor: Ragnarok Avengers: Endgame Spider-Man: Far From Home Captain America: Civil War WandaVision Loki Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings Black Panther The Avengers Spider-Man: Homecoming Guardians of the Galaxy Hawkeye Ant-Man and The Wasp Black Widow Avengers: Age of Ultron Ant-Man Iron Man Doctor Strange Eternals Captain Marvel The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Thor Captain America: The First Avenger Iron Man 3 Iron Man 2 What If…? Thor: The Dark World The Incredible Hulk
Arlyn Murphy
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John Sabato
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Nathan Miller
Avengers: Endgame Avengers: Infinity War Eternals Black Panther Spider-Man: No Way Home Captain America: The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War Loki Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings Hawkeye Thor: Ragnarok Captain Marvel Wandavision Spider-Man: Homecoming The Avengers Guardians of the Galaxy The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Doctor Strange Ant-Man Black Widow Captain America: The First Avenger Avengers: Age of Ultron Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Spider-Man: Far From Home Ant-Man and the Wasp The Incredible Hulk Iron Man 3 What If…? Iron Man 2 Iron Man Thor Thor: The Dark World
Hunter Radesi
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Murphy’s Multiverse Ultimate Ranking
***In order to create the Ultimate Ranking, we created a point system, totaled up the points for each movie and divided by the number of rankers to create an average. Each rankers top film received 32 points, their bottom film received 1 point.***
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (362 total points, average rank of 30.17) Avengers: Infinity War (341 total points, average rank of 28.42) Spider-Man: No Way Home (336 total points, average rank of 28) Avengers: Endgame (329 total points, average rank of 27.42) Thor: Ragnarok (300 total points, average rank of 25) Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings (299 total points, average rank of 24.92) Black Panther (297 total points, average rank of 24.75) Loki (283 total points, average rank of 23.58) Guardians of the Galaxy (267 total points, average rank of 22.25) Captain America: Civil War (256 total points, average rank of 21.33) The Avengers (244 total points, average rank of 20.33) Hawkeye (235 total points, average rank of 19.58) WandaVision (231 total points, average rank of 19.25) Spider-Man: Homecoming (229 total points, average rank of 19.08) Iron Man (201 total points, average rank of 16.75) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (188 total points, average rank of 15.67) Spider-Man: Far From Home (186 total points, average rank of 15.5) Doctor Strange (178 total points, average rank of 14.83) Avengers: Age of Ultron (177 total points, average rank of 14.75) Eternals (168 total points, average rank of 14.00) Ant-Man (163 total points, average rank of 13.58) The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (162 total points, average ran of 13.5) Black Widow (146 total points, average rank of 12.17) Captain America: The First Avenger (142 total points, average rank of 11.83) Ant-Man and The Wasp (131 total points, average ran of 10.92) Iron Man 3 (130 total points, average rank of 10.83) Captain Marvel (120 total points, average rank of 10.00) Thor (72 total points, average rank of 6.00) Iron Man 2 (59 total points, average rank of 4.91) What If…? (52 total points, average rank of 4.33) The Incredible Hulk (30 total points, average rank of 2.5) Thor: The Dark World (27 total points average ran of 2.25)
Following the cancellation of Netflix’s streaming series, Daredevil, fans united under the #SaveDaredevil movement to make it clear that Charlie Cox’s iteration of the character shouldn’t be retired. In late 2020, the first reports of Cox’s return to the role in Spider-Man: No Way Home circulated and sparked a debate among disbelievers that wasn’t truly settled until nearly a year later when Kevin Feige finally declared that Cox would be returning in the role. Though his appearance was brief, it was met with thunderous applause in theaters and has fans wild with anticipation about when they might see him again. Several months ago, a source who confirmed Cox’s return to the MCU last December shared something that should add to that anticipation. When asked where Cox might appear again, the response was, “expect to see him everywhere.” With a recent run of rumors lining up with that statement, let’s take a look at what’s next for Cox’s character.
She-Hulk
Rumors have persisted that the next place we’ll see Charlie Cox is in Marvel Studios yet-to-be-dated for 2022 streaming series, She-Hulk. This rumor (is it even still a rumor at this point) makes too much sense for it not to happen and promises that Cox will have quite a bit more to do than catch a brick. Rumblings have Cox showing up in the court room as Murdock, where he’ll probably go up against Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters. The two, of course, faced off in Charles Soule’s 2014 She-Hulk, and had quite a fun relationship. It is worth noting that while the rumor has them facing off in a court case involving a superhero tailor, issue #9 of Soule’s run found the two on opposing sides of a case involving an old, depowered Steve Rogers. With Chris Evans rumored to return for two non-Captain America projects, his presence would make for one helluva surprise.
Of course that’s only half the rumor and the other half sounds a whole lot more fun. Probably also inspired from the same Soule run, the rumor suggests that Cox, sporting a shiny, new, yellow suit and kicking some ass as Daredevil. It looks as though Cox’s reintegration into the MCU is going to be step-by-step with She-Hulk giving fans their first chance to see Daredevil hit the skyline again. So we’ll see the character at least once in 2022, though there is a rumor he has some role to play in Moon Knight as well.
Echo
Daredevil is also rumored to be appearing in the Marvel Studios streaming series, Echo, which is currently slated to go into production in April. Echo will feature several new Native American roles and a couple of new, female villains but there’s definitely room for Daredevil. Whatever role Cox’s character plays in the series, it’ll be markedly different from the source material. Echo was first introduced in Daredevil Vol. 2 and was trained and sent out by Kingpin to take out Daredevil, who he blamed for the death of Echo’s father; along the way, she met and fell in love with Matt Murdock. While the two did battle, Murdock was able to convince her of the truth before she killed him. Echo went on to take her revenge on Kingpin by shooting him in the face, similar to the scene we saw at the end of Hawkeye.
Even though that story seems like it’s off the table (we could always see a flashback if Marvel really felt the need to tell it), there’s plenty of room for the two to run into one another. The end of Hawkeye is just the beginning of Echo’s journey. Everything she once thought to be true about her life was revealed as a facade that came crashing down. It’s likely that her journey will lead her back to New York and the Kingpin and that her path will intersect Murdock’s along the way. This should be the first of at least two 2023 appearances for Cox.
Armor Wars
Armor Wars is still a long way off and very, very little is known about it but the premise is that a group of villains mysteriously come into possession of Stark Tech and that James Rhodes will have to deal with the fallout. One of those villains is engineer Wilbur Day who uses the tech to upgrade his original suit. It would represent a major missed opportunity not to include Stilt-Man, originally a Daredevil villain who first appeared on the page in 1965, in Armor Wars and have Rhodey enlist the help of Daredevil in taking him down. Assuming we also see Cox in Echo, this will mark at least his second 2023 appearance (there’s also a rumor he’ll appear in Ironheart, which would come out before Armor Wars).
Spider-Man 4
Spider-Man: No Way Home gave fans the first onscreen meeting of two longtime comic book friends: Spider-Man and Daredevil. Although they only met as Peter Parker and Matt Murdock, hope remains that the two will team-up again down the road to take on a shared foe: Kingpin. While he’s best known as Daredevil’s archenemy, Kingpin first entered the world of Marvel Comics in 1967’s Amazing Spider-Man #50. The stage is set up perfectly for an adaptation of that arc where Fisk united crime bosses into the international crime syndicate known as the Maggia.
Both Tom Holland and Vincent D’Onofrio have expressed their interest in their respective characters coming into conflict, making Fisk a very likely possibility to appear in the next Spider-Man film. With Spider-Man now known to be sticking close to his new NYC neighborhood and Daredevil likely patrolling the city as well, it’s only a matter of time before these two bump into one another and unite to take down the head of NYC’s organized crime. With Kevin Feige revealing that they have already begun work on the next Spider-Man film and Sony’s eagerness to have the character appear every two years, it’s possible that this film could make it into theaters for late 2024.
Daredevil
The final rumor is that a solo Daredevil project is now in development at the studio. I’ll caution (though it’ll do absolutely no good) that being “in development” never, ever means a project will get made but, given the enormity of the popularity of Cox in the role, this odds that this ends up getting a green light have to be high. It it happens, it’s probably 2 to 3 years off but given the possibilities outlined above and Cox’s other contractual obligations, it may well be that long before he can lead his own project. At this point, all we really know is that it is not currently slated to enter into production in 2022.
The Marvel Cinematic Multiverse is in full-swing and, as it turns out, in a point of transition as it moves from a semi-grounded MCU into the next phase of the content Marvel wants to put out. I’ve long theorized that Phase 4 would be made up of smaller phases building out over one big story, as opposed to the first 23 films where it was all building to Thanos. We have original Avengers transitioning their titles to the next generation of heroes, some of which are even younger than they were when they joined the fray. One transition in particular deserves special attention, both for what it means for the future and how it handled the present in the shadow of the juggernaut that is Marvel’s latest big-screen offering. It also deserves kudos for successfully landing the plane on the mentor-mentee relationship in a way that Peter Parker’s arc really didn’t. We now have a new Hawkeye and that is Kate Bishop.
After being put through the ringer while finding out her parents were willing members of organized crime, the world’s greatest archer ensures that her mother faces some consequences for her actions. The Elder Bishop is last seen asking her daughter if sending parents to jail is what heroes do after she is unable to gracefully exit the Kingpin’s criminal enterprise. It would not surprise me to see the Kingpin enlist a masked vigilante like Madame Masque to take the younger Bishop down if we get a Season 2 or a Hawkeye and Black Widow movie down the line. Whatever form she next shows up in, Kate Bishop won’t be alone.
At the end of Hawkeye, Clint Barton solidified his relationship with Kate Bishop, and completes the arc that began in 2012’s Avengers. His family is safe, his wife’s past life is secure, and he can now finally rest. Not only does he do this, but he brings Kate home with him. At this point, only Nick Fury and the Avengers even knew his family existed. This shows how much he actually cares about Kate, and how much the “your mess is my mess” line isn’t delivered just for kicks, but actually symbolizes a partnership that began reluctantly. It’s a much better partnership than that of Peter Parker and Tony Stark.
Whereas Iron Man recruited Spider-Man out of necessity, he then took the young man into space and watched him die in his arms. Before taking him to space, Stark wanted to have Peter join the Avengers: this was his grand gesture since letting him go against The Vulture alone as a way to clean up the public relations mess after Captain America broke the Avengers out of The Raft. He let a 16-year old kid keep a hyper-advanced suit and it was the way he treated past employees that led to one of them targeting Peter to the point of outing his identity. In a lot of ways, it was Tony Stark’s recruitment of a starstruck Peter Parker that has now led to the multiverse exploding.
Clint Barton is no Tony Stark.
Clint went out of his way to protect Kate from the beginning, and he risked his family just to make sure she was safe. He didn’t want her to get involved, then got to know her and doubled down on protecting her, and even tried to send her home when he realized things got too dangerous. When Kate wanted to confront her mother after receiving the video of the Kingpin, he told her he’d help. Clint taught Kate how to make arrows and how to assess targets. Compare that to Stark, who didn’t take Peter seriously when he told him about the Vulture and who left him (and the rest of the Avengers) absolutely no financial stability after his passing. Given her mentor, Kate Bishop has a chance to be a better Avenger than Spider-Man’s ever been.
Marvel Studios is going through an interesting phase, as they reintroduced characters from the Marvel TV era into their universe. Vincent D’Onofrio‘s Wilson Fisk and Charlie Cox‘s Daredevil made their return in style, which opened the floodgates of others making a potential return. It made many wonders if they’ll also answer some questions left behind from the series, such as Colleen Wing’s new time as the Iron Fist. Luckily, during her press tour for The Matrix Resurrections, actress Jessica Henwick gave her opinion on a potential return.
Look, the way we left Iron Fist, spoiler alert, Colleen has the power and she’s in a really good place. I would love to revisit her. That character meant a lot to me and really changed my life. And I would love to revisit her one day, but it would really have to be the right place, and the right time, and the right script, but never say never
Jessica Henwick
What is interesting to point out is that she was offered a role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, but declined due to her hope to revisit Wing’s storyline. It’s unclear if this is even something that Marvel Studios is willing to revisit given the overall reception of that part of The Defenders, but we’ll see if her choice may have sparked an interest to continue further down that path after all.
It’s been a little over a year since we first reported that Charlie Cox was making his big MCU debut in Spider-Man: No Way Home, an appearance that has garnered praise and excitement. The future of Daredevil in the MCU is bright with many rumored appearances in the pipeline. In addition to the long-rumored She-Hulk appearance of Matt Murdock, the subreddit /r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers now alleges that the Man Without Fear is slated to appear in Armor Wars as well.
Daredevil’s inclusion in such a sci-fi industrial spectacle may seem unusual at first but one look at the show’s source material, the titular Armor Wars by David Michelinie and Bob Layton, gives an idea of how he could possibly tie in.
For the uninitiated, Armor Wars is basically about a bunch of supervillains getting their hands on coveted Stark technology. Characters like Titanium Man and the Crimson Dynamo are some of the many tech-based baddies to get a Stark upgrade in the story. One particular tech-based that appears early in the story is Stilt-Man, infamous for being… a man with stilts. And it so happens to be that Stilt-Man is a classic Daredevil villain.
Interestingly enough, MODOK showrunner Jordan Blum said a while back that they originally had plans to bring Stilt-Man into the show but were prohibited for reasons uncertain. Blum’s quote coincided with Kevin Smith‘s own comments about how they weren’t allowed to use Werewolf by Night in the Howard the Duck show they were working on. As evidenced by the MCU’s history, when things like this happen, it’s usually because Marvel Studios has dibs on those characters. Months later, We now know that Marvel Studios is, in fact, already working on a Werewolf by Night D+ Halloween special, adding credence to Blum’s comments. ‘
Could a fun Stilt-Man appearance in the MCU be on the books? Is Kevin Feige revving up to give us a Daredevil vs. Stilt-Man showdown, a match-up harkening back to the 8th issue of Daredevil from 1965? Should the rumor be true, it certainly would be a nice way to bring Daredevil into the fold while staying true to the tech-based premise of Armor Wars.
It does seem like Marvel Studios is keen on bringing more of the Silver Age elements of the character into the fold, such as the rumored classic yellow costume for She-Hulk. Bringing in Stilt-Man would be another great Silver Age aspect that would deepen the tapestry of the live-action Daredevil.
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