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Oscar Isaac doesn’t look like Apocalypse – and it doesn’t matter

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Luke Owen on X-Men: Apocalypse… It’s a common complaint from comic book fans whenever the first images of their favourite characters from a new movie are released: “they don’t look like the comics”. Even going back as far as Bryan Singer’s X-Men, there were those in the comic book community who bemoaned the fact Wolverine was […]

Jennifer Lawrence open to Mystique return after X-Men: Apocalypse

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Back in March, Jennifer Lawrence suggested that she’d be calling time on her role as Mystique in the X-Men franchise, describing next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse as her “last one.” However, it seems she may be contemplating a change of heart, with the Oscar winner telling Yahoo! Movies that she’d consider a return to the mutant […]

The Week in Spandex – San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Edition

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In this  (abridged) edition of The Week in Spandex, we round up all the big superhero news coming out of the San Diego Comic-Con… Well, the curtain has fallen on the geek mecca that is San Diego Comic-Con for another year, and over the past four days we’ve been treated to a wealth of superhero […]

SDCC: Deadpool leaked footage – Flickering Myth Reaction

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The Flickering Myth Team react… In a previous edition of Flickering Myth Reaction, the team gave their thoughts on the concept footage that leaked online for the Deapool movie. Since then, the movie was not only announced by has been made with footage shown at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. As with all footage […]

SDCC: Ryan Reynolds on the possibility of Deadpool appearing in other X-Men movies

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As Ryan Reynolds prepares to bring Deadpool to Comic-Con, the actor has been speaking to Screen Rant about the possibility of the Merc with a Mouth popping up in 20th Century Fox’s main X-Men series, or other spinoffs such as the third Wolverine movie. SEE ALSO: New Deadpool images featuring Weasel, Copycat, Ajax, Angel Dust […]

SDCC: Halle Berry keen for a Storm spin-off X-Men film

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With 20th Century Fox’s big panel coming up over the weekend – where we may see our first glimpses of Bryan Singer’s upcoming X-Men sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse – former X-Woman Halle Berry said that she would love to reprise her role as Storm, perhaps in her own film. Speaking at her SDCC panel for CBS […]

Former Gambit Taylor Kitsch gives Channing Tatum his blessing

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Channing Tatum may be playing Ragin’ Cajun Remy LeBeau in 2016’s Gambit solo film, but he’s not the first actor to play the card-throwing mutant on the big screen. That title belongs to True Detective and Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch, who played the character in the critically derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine. When the X-Men universe was course-corrected with last year’s X-Men: Days […]

The Week in Spandex – The Pre-Comic Con 2015 Edition

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In this pre-Comic Con edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?, Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Avengers vs. X-Men, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four 2, Deadpool, […]