Our weekly round-up of the latest news and talking points from the world of screen superheroes, including X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Infinity War, Daredevil, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers Assemble, Big Hero 6, Spider-Man, Hit-Girl, Suicide Squad, Aquaman, Justice League Dark, Superman: Flyby, Gotham, The Flash, Arrow, Constantine, Supergirl, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Batman Unlimited, DC Super Friends, Unbreakable 2 and more…
First of all, an apology. We’ve had some technical issues on Flickering Myth this week and lost a few days worth of posts, which we’ve been working on restoring. Unfortunately one of those was The Week in Spandex, and sadly there’s just not the time to rewrite the article. However, considering this week has brought us some big superhero news – including the first trailer for 20th Century Fox’s The Fantastic Four – we didn’t want to skip a weekend (and break our streak of 202 consecutive weekly editions!), so instead we’ve collected links to all of our superhero coverage, which you can peruse below. Sorry. Things will be back to normal next week…
THE FANTASTIC FOUR
Teaser trailer and poster for The Fantastic Four
Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg discuss the Fantastic Four trailer, video commentary released
The Flickering Myth Podcast – The Fantastic Four trailer
The Flickering Myth Reaction – The Fantastic Four trailer
HD images from The Fantastic Four trailer
Easter egg in The Fantastic Four trailer reveals potential plot point
Behind-the-scenes image from The Fantastic Four
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Sophie Turner talks playing Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse and “emulating” Famke Janssen
James Marsden comments on Tye Sheridan playing young Cyclops in X-Men: Apocalypse
Simon Kinberg talks X-Men: Apocalypse, confirms Rose Byrne return as Moira MacTaggert
DEADPOOL
Ryan Reynolds talks Deadpool: “We get to make the movie we want to make”
X-MEN
Fox developing a live-action X-Men TV series
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Ultron featured on Empire covers
New images from Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron
First TV spot for Avengers: Age of Ultron
Elizabeth Olsen talks Scarlet Witch role
Aaron Taylor-Johnson on Quicksilver, East European accents, and being compared to X-Men: Days of Future Past
Joss Whedon talks the fate of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes: “I fucking kill them”
Paul Bettany on the future of the Vision after Age of Ultron
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes assemble for Avengers: Age of Ultron promo shot
ANT-MAN
Peggy Carter and Hank Pym feature in preview of Marvel’s Ant-Man Prelude #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
Robert Downey Jr. talks Civil War, Daniel Bruhl will reportedly play Baron Zemo
Anthony Mackie says Captain America: Civil War “is gonna be so much better” than Avengers: Age of Ultron
DOCTOR STRANGE
Ewan McGregor says it was fun to be part of the mix for Doctor Strange
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2
Lee Pace will not return for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, says James Gunn
CAPTAIN MARVEL
Joss Whedon would “never rule out” directing Captain Marvel
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
Joss Whedon says “it’s very doubtful that I would take on the two-part Avengers: Infinity War”
DAREDEVIL
Charlie Cox talks Daredevil costume
A.K.A. JESSICA JONES
David Tennant joins A.K.A. Jessica Jones as The Purple Man
David Tennant talks A.K.A. Jessica Jones
Rachael Taylor cast as Hellcat in A.K.A. Jessica Jones
AGENT CARTER
Agent Carter season 1 episode 4 review – ‘The Blitzkrieg Button’
Promo images for Agent Carter season 1 episode 5 – ‘The Iron Ceiling
MISC. MARVEL
Joss Whedon clarifies his “sexism” comments about Marvel
Hot Toys Thanos collectible figure from Guardians of the Galaxy
Hot Toys Captain America collective figure from Avengers: Age of Ultron
LEGO S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
Terry Crews has a new Marvel hero on his list to play
Watch a clip from Marvel’s Avengers Assemble – ‘Dark Avengers’
BIG HERO 6
SPIDER-MAN
J.K. Simmons hints at return as J. Jonah Jameson in future Spider-Man films
HIT-GIRL
Mark Millar talks solo Hit-Girl movie, Gareth Evans would have directed
SUICIDE SQUAD
Margot Robbie talks playing Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad
Deathstroke could feature in Suicide Squad, Jason Clarke and Joe Manganiello eyed for roles
David Ayer teases Suicide Squad script and storyboard
AQUAMAN
Jason Momoa talks Aquaman, says he won’t be blonde
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK
Is this the line-up for Guillermo del Toro’s Justice League Dark?
SUPERMAN: FLYBY
Jude Law talks Superman and how his was almost Brett Ratner’s Man of Steel
GOTHAM
Gotham season 1 episode 12 review – ‘What The Little Bird Told Him’
Promo for Gotham season 1 episode 14 – ‘The Fearsome Dr. Crane’
Promo images for Gotham season 1 episode 15 – ‘The Scarecrow’
Colm Feore cast as The Dollmaker
Robin Lord Taylor on The Penguin’s first scene with The Riddler
Gotham Series 1 Episode 13 Review – ‘Welcome Back, Jim Gordon’
THE FLASH
The Flash season 1 episode 11 review – ‘The Sound and the Fury’
Gorilla Grodd heading to The Flash says showrunner
First look at Devon Graye as The Trickster
ARROW
Arrow season 3 episode 11 review – ‘Midnight City’
Trailer, promo and images for Arrow season 3 episode 12 – ‘Uprising’
CONSTANTINE
Constantine season 1 episode 9 review – ‘The Saint of Last Resorts: Part 2’
Promo and images for Constantine season 1 episode 12 – ‘Angels and Ministers of Grace’
SUPERGIRL
Mehcad Brooks to play Jimmy Olsen in Supergirl TV series
The first villain to feature in Supergirl will be The Lumberjack
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THRONE OF ATLANTIS
New clip from Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Two more clips from Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
DC ANIMATION
Warner Bros. announced Batman Unlimited and DC Super Friends Animated Projects
Gary Collinson is a writer and lecturer from the North East of England. He is the editor-in-chief of FlickeringMyth.com and the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.
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