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  • ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Rumored to Feature a Classic Marvel Comics’ Odd Couple in the Lead

    ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Rumored to Feature a Classic Marvel Comics’ Odd Couple in the Lead

    Despite being two of Marvel’s most popular icons, Spider-Man and Wolverine spent the first few decades of their history largely avoiding each other. The pair finally met in 1982’s Marvel Team-Up #117 and then in 2005, Brian Michael Bendis struck gold when he added both characters to the roster of his New Avengers.

    Living together in Avengers Tower, the two quickly developed into the publishing house’s premier “odd couple” with Spider-Man as the talkative, moral optimist and Wolverine as the silent, lethal cynic. Eventually, Wolverine admitted that he respects Peter Parker more than almost anyone because of his unwavering moral compass, telling his fellow heroes that he believed Parker to be “the best of us.” Now it looks as though Marvel Studios is looking to tap into that magic in Avengers: Secret Wars.

    Following up on a report by industry insider Daniel Richtman that claimed Hugh Jackman and Tobey Maguire were set to play major roles alongside Tom Holland in Avengers: Secret Wars, social media scooper My Time To Shine Hello has now claimed that Jackman and Maguire are set up to be the leads of the final film of the Multiverse Saga.

    According to MTTSH, “The end of Doomsday set up Tobey [Maguire] and Hugh Jackman as the leads of Secret Wars.” Prior reports have indicated that the two heroes will square off in the final act of Avengers: Doomsday before making nice and FINALLY teaming up on the big screen. With reports that Marvel Studios is prepping a new, Hugh Jackman-less Wolverine project, it sounds as though the studio is willimg to give Jackman and Maguire‘s heroes a fitting send off as a thank you for starting the ball rolling on the modern CBM genre in 2000 and 2002, respectively.

  • Rumors Suggest the Russos Brothers May Have Cleverly Sown Chaos into the Mix in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Rumors Suggest the Russos Brothers May Have Cleverly Sown Chaos into the Mix in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

    Slowly but surely, fans are starting to believe that Avengers: Doomsday might not be so bad after all. Teaser trailers featuring Steve Rogers, Thor, Magneto, Charles Xavier and Cyclops have all generated significant buzz and it sounds as though the studio plans on keeping the momentum going with additional teasers yet to come.

    The marketing for the film has cleverly appealed to multiple different demographics but there’s one large sect of the fandom that hasn’t had reason to be excited just yet. However, a new rumor may be about to change that and get the Wandas back in the game.

    John “The Outlaw” Rocha shared an update on an old rumor about Avengers: Doomsday featuring multiple Doctors Doom. According to Rocha’s source, “Doom has a female sidekick [who] also has a mask. This person thinks it is a female Doom. You’ll get a male and female Doom team.”

    A “female Doom” is interesting enough on its own but it’s also not something that would seem to serve the story well when there are so many other options available to the Russo brothers that would.

    As Rocha’s news makes its way around the usual spots, social media scoopers and leakers and bullshitters have begun chiming in about the true identity of Doom’s masked “sidekick.” While some have suggested it’ll be Lucia Von Bardas–Latveria’s Prime Minister in the comics–her inclusion wouldn’t really move the needle for fans. However, another rumor about who is behind the mask that seems to be gaining traction would indeed move the needle, perhaps to 11: Wanda Maximoff.

    There really is so much more to explore. We still haven’t touched on many of her core storylines from the comics. I don’t know that we saw her under rubble? I saw a tower coming down, and a little red flash. I don’t know what that means.

    -Kevin Feige

    Though Elizabeth Olsen has denied her involvement with the project, Marvel Studios One Above All, Kevin Feige, previously made it clear that there Marvel would always bring her back for more and that there is “so much more to explore” with the Scarlet Witch. Adding her to the mix in Avengers: Doomsday as the mysterious masked counterpart of Doom might just be the best option as it would not only tie up several threads left hanging over the course of the Multiverse Saga but allow for an adaptation of a comic project that has long been rumored to be on Marvel Studios radar.

    Prior to Bob Iger’s return to Disney, Olsen was rumored to be at the center of a pair of projects: an adaptation of Alan Heinberg’s limited series, Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, and a Scarlet Witch solo film.

    On the surface, adapting The Children’s Crusade provides the perfect opportunity to continue the story of Wanda Maximoff in the MCU. Following her multi-year arc as a villain which concluded in House of M, Wanda Maximoff lived powerlessly and without her memories for years. It wasn’t until her son, Billy Maximoff, aka Wiccan, began to lose control of his own immense powers that a search began for her in earnest.

    While it’s hardly the same sequence of events, Wanda’s heel-turn as the Scarlet Witch over the course of WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and her apparent death in the final act of the latter provide the opportunity for a similar story to be told within the shared tapestry of the MCU,. especially once Billy and Tommy are reunited, presumably by the conclusion of Marvel Television’s upcoming D+ streaming series VisionQuest.

    Revealing the “female Doom” an amnesiac Wanda would retcon Doctor Doom’s presence in the MCU back to the conclusion of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, provide a reason for the Young Avengers/Champions to become involved in the plot(s) of Avengers: Doomsday and/or Avengers: Secret Wars and get one Marvel’s most talented stars involved in the two biggest projects of the decade. Obviously it’s nothing more than a barely-sourced rumor (and likely just a guess) at this point but it makes more sense than any other option in terms of the story-telling possibilities it opens up.

    Source: The Hot Mic

  • Get Out! New Report Claims Recent Rumors Teasing Us about an Academy Award-Winning Director Teaming Up with Marvel Studios Project Are a Nope

    Get Out! New Report Claims Recent Rumors Teasing Us about an Academy Award-Winning Director Teaming Up with Marvel Studios Project Are a Nope

    24 hours after a report from a trusted industry insider generated some serious hype, another report from another insider has shut it down. Following the news that Jordan Peele and Marvel Studios had met over the possibility of Peele leading an MCU film—and the subsequent social media reaction to the news from Peele’s production company–it’s beginning to sound as though it’s all just old news.

    According to Jeff “Th In” Sneider, it is true that Marvel is interested in Peele helming an MCU flick.

    Nope – It was the emoji seen around the world… A pair of eyes tweeted from the official account of Jordan Peele’s production company, hovering over a report from noted-yet-somehow-faceless scooper DanielRPK that suggested Marvel wants Peele to direct a movie for the studio. Here’s a news flash for ya – l said that last year. Peele did, in fact, take a meeting with Marvel Studios.

    -Jeff “The In” Sneider

    However, according to Sneider, “Peeley is not directing a Marvel movie as of now” and is “still hard at work…at whatever he’s working

    So what? That’s what Marvel Studios does – it takes meetings with the town’s best and brightest filmmakers. So while I’m sure Marvel would love to work with Jordan Peele one day – it’s true!!! – I can assure you that Peele is not directing a Marvel movie as of now. Not Blade or Midnight Sons or Doctor Strange 3, or anything else that Kevin Feige & Co. are cooking up in Burbank. I get that it’s fun to speculate, and meetings can be tempting to report on, but there simply is no story here. It’s pure vapor that came out of thin air. Maybe next time, we shouldn’t Jump to conclusions based on emojis, eh, folks? Peele is still hard at work on… whatever he’s working on… which could be ready as soon as 2027. Stay tuned!

    -Jeff “The In” Sneider

    And so, for Blade, it seems it’s back to the drawing board; and as for Midnight Sons, plenty of rumblings about the film have emerged without an official peep from Marvel Studios.

    Source: The Insneider

  • Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions Responds to Rumors Marvel Is Interested in Working with the ‘Get Out’ Director

    Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions Responds to Rumors Marvel Is Interested in Working with the ‘Get Out’ Director

    After passing on directing Marvel Studios highly-anticipated X-Men film, expected to hit theaters in 2028, Jordan Peele has reportedly found himself the apple of Kevin Feige’s eye once again. Industry insider Daniel Richtman shared the news that Marvel had circled back to the Academy Award-winning creative to helm an as yet unnamed Phase 7 project and while these types of stories usually come and go without hearing from the parties involved, the cookie seems to have crumbled a little differently this time around.

    In response to a post on X which shared the news about Marvel’s interest in teaming up with Peele, Monkeypaw Productions, founded by the creative in 2012, reshared the tweet with the eyes emoji.

    While it certainly can’t be counted as any type of confirmation–nor can it be certain that Peele is behind the social media post–it is absolutely one of the most interesting things going on today.

    The news comes after Peele‘s next project, originally planned for a 2024 release, was removed from Universal Pictures’ 2026 slate earlier this year.

  • ‘Avengers: Doomsday’: Tom Hiddleston Teases Loki’s Role and Hypes the Film’s “Monumental” Story

    ‘Avengers: Doomsday’: Tom Hiddleston Teases Loki’s Role and Hypes the Film’s “Monumental” Story

    Marvel Studios certainly had its fair share of missteps during the Multiverse Saga; however, nobody counts the two seasons of Loki–ironically a project directly at the center of the Multiverse plot–among them.

    For as complicated as the sci-fi weirdness of the show seemed to be, in the end, Loki remained a fairly straightforward character study of one of the MCU’s greatest characters. And powered by one of the MCU’s greatest talents in Tom Hiddleston, Loki became the warm light for all mankind to share in what became the MCU’s “Breaking Good.” As it concluded, Loki found himself making a choice that nobody, including him, could have ever predicted. No longer the conqueror or mischief maker, Loki reanimated the dead branches of reality and set himself about the endless task of giving life to others at the expense of his own freedom. Free will outside of the boundaries set by He Who Remains, Loki became the God of Stories.

    In that role, Loki will certainly find himself face-to-face with Doctor Doom as the villain unleashes “a cascading crisis across the entire multiverse” in Avengers: Doomsday. While some.fans have bemoaned the inclusion of Chris Evans in the 2026 film, it’s hard to find anyone too upset about Hiddleston stepping back into the horns again, though plenty of theories about his role in the film have been crafted over the past year.

    Whatever that role might ultimately be, Hiddleston–as veteran of an MCU actor that exists–is not ready to share it; he is, however, very ready to let everyone know that they’re in for something “brilliant” in Avengers: Doomsday.

    Speaking to GQ, Hiddleston confirmed that while there’s scheduled additional photography for the project, he has completed his “contribution” to Avengers: Doomsday, which he hyped as something “monumental” and “surprising” while insisting the film’s story is something that “just has never been done before.”

    My contribution has been contributed. It is monumental. The centre of the story is absolutely brilliant, and was so surprising when I read it. It just has never been done before.

    –Tom Hiddleston on Avengers: Doomsday

    Its no small praise coming from Hiddleston. For over a decade, the star has remained devoted to curating and protecting the legacy of Loki in the MCU, making it unlikely he’s return simply for a payday nor to slather praise over a story that didn’t do his character’s arc justice. Now the author of not only his own story but also those of the entire Multiverse, Loki is a true hero, fulfilled in his quest for glorious purpose and the timeline–his timeline–won’t fall without a fight.

    Source: GQ

  • Marvel Studios Circling Back to Academy Award-Winning Creative for Phase 7 Project

    Marvel Studios Circling Back to Academy Award-Winning Creative for Phase 7 Project

    With a pretty clear path established to the end of the Multiverse Saga, Marvel Studios has begun the brick-by-brick process of building its post-Secret Wars slate. As it stands, a sequel to Fantastic Four: First Steps, Black Panther 3—to be written and directed by Ryan Coogler–and an X-Men film directed by Jake Schreier are believed to be among the studio’s first theatrical projects in Phase 7. That’s a pretty robust start to the MCU’s new saga; however, the studio currently has dates set aside for four films in 2028 and a new report has shed some light on who the studio may want to bring it to the big screen.

    According to industry insider Daniel Richtman, Marvel Studios has circled back to Jordan Peele, who they originally approached to direct X-Men, to direct an unknown Phase 7 project.

    Though he’s only directed four projects to date, Peele boasts and incredibly impressive resume as a screenwriter, with an Academy Award for his screenplay for Get Out, which he also helmed. Peele also wrote the screenplay for Nope, 2021’s Candyman, 20 episodes of Paramount+’s The Twilight Zone and Us, which he also directed. With that horror-heavy filmography, it would seem as though Marvel may be looking to Peele to take the reigns of the long-delayed Blade film or perhaps the rumored Midnight Sons team-up film, which would reportedly see Sacha Baron Cohen reprise his role as Mephisto.

    You can start and have a good script and make it a great script through production, but we didn’t feel confident we could do that on Blade. We didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us. We didn’t want to put a leather outfit on [Ali] and have him start killing vampires. [We] landed on modern day and that’s what we’re focusing on.

    -Kevin Feige on Blade

    However, even as synonymous with horror as Peele‘s name has become, Marvel’s interest in having him direct its X-Men film would seem to indicate they haven’t pigeonholed the talented creative. Reports indicated that Peele and Marvel Studios cordially parted ways on X-Men over the dormer’s desire to both write and direct the project. Perhaps Peele and Marvel have found a project–whether it be Blade, Midnight Sons or something else entirely–on which Peele can have more of the creative control he’s accustomed to.

  • New Report Lists Three Multiversal Heroes Set to Star Alongside Tom Holland’s Spidey in ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’

    New Report Lists Three Multiversal Heroes Set to Star Alongside Tom Holland’s Spidey in ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’

    For Marvel Studios, the beginning of the end of the Multiverse Saga is almost here. In just a few months, cameras are scheduled to roll on Avengers: Secret Wars, the final film in the Multiverse Saga. While the film’s script has certainly undergone some changes since its inception–especially with Stephen McFeely returning to work with Anthony and Joe Russo–it is still largely believed to feature Battleworld, a patchwork reality created by Victor Von Doom by assembling fragments of other realities destroyed by incursions into a kingdom ruled over by him as its God Emperor.

    Stephen McFeely is writing the script. We are right in the middle of the writing process. We’ve always worked very closely with Markus and McFeely through all the work that we’ve done together. It’s a little bit like getting back on a bike. We have a really codified process that we all work together through… It’s very complicated to iron out a story of this scale.

    -Joe Russo

    As in Marvel Comics 2015’s Secret Wars, the patchwork nature of Battleworld should allow for Avengers: Secret Wars to feature plenty of interesting Variants pulled from throughout the Multiverse. And according to a new report, a trio of familiar heroes will be among them.

    According to industry insider Daniel Richtman, Hugh Jackman‘s Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds Deadpool and Tobey Maguire‘s Spider-Man will have major roles in Avengers: Secret Wars, as will Tom Holland as the MCU’s Spider-Man.

    Though this is certainly not the first time these heroes have been mentioned, recent comments by Jackman and Maguire and rumored plans by Reynolds to remain involved with the MCU as it moves into its next saga certainly seem to reinforce the possibility that these stars will help close out the Multiverse Saga and launch the studio’s continuity reset. Additionally, rumors have the trio playing some role in the final act of Avengers: Doomsday, making their return for Avengers: Secret Wars a necessity.

  • Marvel Studios Reportedly Wanted Robert Pattinson to Bring Vengeance to ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ as This Oft-Rumored Character

    Marvel Studios Reportedly Wanted Robert Pattinson to Bring Vengeance to ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ as This Oft-Rumored Character

    He is vengeance. Or at least he said he was in 2022’s The Batman. And it appears as though the Marvel Parliament were impressed enough by Robert Pattinson‘s performance as the tortured and vengeful Caped Crusader that they had the character in mind to portray a different character driven by a deeply-rooted desire to extract retribution.

    According to social media scooper @ApocHorseman, Marvel Studios met with Pattinson over the last year in hopes of convincing the actor to take on the role of Marvel’s Spirit of Vengeance: the Ghost Rider.

    Blazeinson? Ketchinson? Maybe just Ghostinson? Whatever the case, it seems as though Pattinson turned down the role–maybe because he thought he might be busy filming The Batman-Part II. “Pattinson was eyed for [Ghost Rider] at one point,” said ApocHorseman during a Q&Abon X, before revealing that “it’s not gonna be him.”

    Ghost Rider’s arrival in the MCU has been rumored to be imminent for several years now with ApocHorseman and Jeff “The In” Sneider leading the last year’s round of rumors that had the character appearing in Avengers: Doomsday. Stars such as Ryan Gosling and Keanu Reeves have been associated with role in the past and Marvel Television boss Brad Winderbaum has made it clear he’s interested in bringing the Danny Ketch iteration of the character to the MCU one day.

  • Sadie Sink’s ‘Spider-Man Brand New Day’ Character May Have Been Inspired by One of Mark Millar’s Ultimate Creations

    Sadie Sink’s ‘Spider-Man Brand New Day’ Character May Have Been Inspired by One of Mark Millar’s Ultimate Creations

    Marvel Studios’ Infinity Saga was widely influenced by Marvel Comics initial Ultimate Universe. While the studio famously doesn’t directly adapt anything from the comics–and more recently has prompted its creatives to stay away from them entirely in some instances–the characters that built the MCU shares more than just a passing resemblance with their Earth-1610 counterparts. As the studio prepares to move on from its Multiverse Saga and into the next phase in which it will introduce its own team of X-Men, the Ultimate Universe may once again provide some inspiration.

    While the identity of Sadie Sink‘s Spider-Man: Brand New Day character remains unconfirmed by Marvel and Sony, social media insiders have begun indicating that the Stranger Things star will be portraying Earth-616’s Jean Grey. Though rumors have had Sink playing a half dozen different characters, industry insider Jeff “The In” Sneider first pegged Sink as a front runner to play Grey months before she was cast in the new Spidey film. Should that indeed be the case, it’s possible that this iteration of the character may have a little more in common with her Earth-1610 counterpart than with the original Marvel Girl.

    Sink‘s character–whoever she ends up being–is clearly a bit of a street urchin who is certainly not on the right side of the law. That’s a far cry from Earth-616’s Jean; however, the original Ultimate Jean Grey, created by Mark Millar, had a little more of a difficult past before joining Charles Xavier’s team of mutant heroes.

    Ultimate Jean was far more caustic and contemptuous than the original version and the early emergence of her tremendous powers resulted in her being committed to a psychiatric hospital. Tormented by visions of the Phoenix, Millar’s Jean was much more of a “tortured youth” and that seems to be the case with Sink’s character who, by the way,  appeared to be dressed in Jean’s traditional green and yellow colors when she was seen on set.

    Of course, with all the misinformation out there, it does seem as though nobody is quite sure who Sink is playing in the new film. But some things such her knowledge that Peter is Spidey and the shape-shifting abilities (Earth-1610’s Jean frequently invaded people’s minds and made them see her as someone other than who she was) do line up with the possibility.

  • Fan Favorite Netflix Defenders-verse Character Reportedly Joins the Cast of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

    Fan Favorite Netflix Defenders-verse Character Reportedly Joins the Cast of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’

    Following the creative retooling of Daredevil: Born Again‘s first season, the Netflixification of the MCU’s street-level storytelling on Disney Plus was underway. Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Jon Bernthal and Ayelet Zurer all took on major roles AFTER the overhaul and the back half of the series started down a dark and familiar path that will continue in what’s begun to sound more like Daredevil Season 4 than Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, especially with the return of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones.

    Bernthal‘s Frank Castle playing a major role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day marks the first time that a Marvel Netflix character will feature in a Marvel Studios film. The powers that be have made it clear that this version of The Punisher won’t be quite as bloodthirsty as fans have grown accustomed to (they’re saving that for The Punisher Special Presentation) but he also won’t be the only Netflixer making an appearance.

    According to insider Daniel Richtman, Rosario Dawson will appear as Claire Temple, aka Night Nurse, reprising her role from the Netflix Defenders-verse projects.

    Fans are already beginning to believe that Dawson’s appearance will be part of a recreation of a scene depicted in Marvel Comics Civil War #5 in which Castle saved Spidey from an ambush by Jack O’Lantern and the Jester before rushing him to the hospital for medical assistance.

    After patching up Matt Murdock in Daredevil Season 1, Dawson’s Night Nurse  popped up in Jessica Jones Season 1 and Daredevil Season 2 before taking on a much larger role in Luke Cage Season 1, Iron Fist Season 1 and The Defenders. In the past, Dawson has shared her willingness to return to the role and fans will certainly be happy to have her join and already jam-packed installment in the Spidey franchise.