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Rob Liefeld compares Deadpool 2 to James Cameron’s Aliens

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This past week we got our first real look at Deadpool 2 with the arrival of a new trailer for the hotly-anticipated follow-up to 2016’s blockbuster X-Men spinoff [watch it here]. Following its release, comic book writer Rob Liefeld – who co-created both Deadpool and the newly-introduced Cable – spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about […]

Donald Glover discusses his Deadpool animated series

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Back in May of last year it was announced that Donald Glover is developing a ten-episode Deadpool animated series for FXX, and speaking to PopCulture to promote the second season of his hit show Atlanta, Glover was asked if he’s feeling any pressure tackling such a fan-favourite character. “That it’s funny,” he replied. “That one […]

Rose Byrne’s Moira MacTaggert won’t be in X-Men: Dark Phoenix

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Just as she did with X-Men: Days of Future Past, it seems that X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse star Rose Byrne will be sitting out the next – and possibly final – instalment of 20th Century Fox’s main X-Men series, X-Men: Dark Phoenix. “Unfortunately, Moira MacTaggert is not showing up,” Byrne told CinemaBlend . “I wish […]

Meet Cable in the latest Deadpool 2 teaser

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20th Century Fox has released a rather splendid new sneak peek for Deadpool 2, which introduces audiences to Josh Brolin’s Cable – thanks to a little help from the Merc with a Mouth himself; watch the trailer here… SEE ALSO: Deadpool 2 spoofs Flashdance with new poster https://youtu.be/rXZa4g396wo After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, […]

Exclusive Interview – Patrick Meaney, director of Chris Claremont’s X-Men

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Tai Freligh chats with Patrick Meaney about Chris Claremont’s X-Men… Chris Claremont came to Marvel as a young man, and was assigned a book that no one else wanted, a book on the brink of cancellation: X-Men. Over the next 17 years, his work on the title turned it into the biggest franchise in comic […]

Marvel releases trailer for Wolverine: The Long Night

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Marvel New Media and top podcast service Stitcher have released a trailer for Wolverine: The Long Night, Marvel’s highly-anticipated first-ever scripted podcast. You can listen to the trailer on the official website here. The Wolverine: The Long Night story is a captivating hybrid of mystery and the larger-scale fantasy of the Marvel Universe. It follows agents […]

Marvel’s Legion gets a season 2 premiere date and synopsis

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Fox has released a new banner for the second season of Marvel’s X-Men series Legion featuring Dan Stevens’ David Haller along with a premiere date reveal of April 3rd and a series synopsis; check them out below… “Based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, “Legion” is the story of David Haller […]

Deadpool 2 spoofs Flashdance with new poster

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The marketing for Deadpool 2 has been just as strange and full of out-of-the-box, breaking the fourth wall ideas as the original. First we received a teaser parodying Superman: The Movie and then we got another teaser of the Merc with a Mouth pretending to be painter Bob Ross as well as making fun of the painting ‘The Creation […]

Legion has been praised by the character’s creator Chris Claremont

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X-Men hall of famer Chris Claremont has praised the TV show Legion, 30 years after he helped create the star character with Bill Sienkiewicz. Legion was certainly proved to be a different beast from your usual superhero TV content when it debuted last year. The FX series by Noah Hawley was visually audacious and kept […]