…It’s a little over a week since Daredevil landed on Netflix, and this week has brought us a couple of new featurettes from the series, as well as an official ‘Hero Costume’ image of Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock in his red suit; Flickering Myth’s Luke Owen has been working his way through reviews of the series [at the time of writing, he’s ten episodes in – check them out here], and be sure to check out James Garcia’s op-ed ‘One Lesson the Marvel Cinematic Universe can learn from Daredevil‘ [warning, contains spoilers] and Anghus Houvouras’ ‘Why Television is the Superior Medium for Comic Book Characters‘…
…Next up for Netflix is A.K.A. Jessica Jones, and this week has brought some new set photos from the Alias adaptation, including our first look at David Tennant as Zebediah Kilgrave / The Purple Man and our first look at Mike Colter as Luke Cage. You can also see another batch of images here, which includes shots of Tennant and Colter alongside leading lady Krysten Ritter…
…If you were wondering when we might see Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist making the leap from Netflix to the big screen side of the Cinematic Universe, you may have a few years to wait yet. According to a report this week, The Defenders are set to make an appearance in 2019’s Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2 – although considering the two-part Avengers sequel has only just found its directors and screenwriters, this is another rumour that you can probably file away as guesswork, and I’d certainly recommend taking it with a pinch of salt…
…It looks like the proposed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff isn’t the only Marvel show in development at ABC, with Oscar-winning producer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, American Crime) busy developing a mystery project for the network which “involves reinventing an existing Marvel superhero character or property for ABC.” No further details are available at present, but its said that this is a different project to that of the S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff; personally, my money is on Cloak & Dagger…
…Sticking with ABC for a moment and you can read our review of this past week’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode ‘Melinda’ here, and if you’re wanting a sneak peek at Tuesday’s upcoming episode ‘The Frenemy of My Enemy’, you can take a look at a promo and batch of images here, as well as a promotional poster here…
…The creative folk over at Poster Posse have put together a couple of Marvel Cinematic Universe galleries this week, debuting a series of rather nice fan posters for both Avengers: Age of Ultron and Daredevil; check their work out here and here…
…Moving on to 20th Century Fox now and Ryan Reynolds has given us another official look at the currently-in-production Deadpool movie with a first-look image of Brianna Hildebrand’s Negasonic Teenage Warhead alongside the Merc with a Mouth, while another batch of set photos has popped up showing Reynolds, Hildebrand, Ed Skrein (Ajax) and a mystery mo-cap man as Colossus…
…Not content with bringing the cast of Fox’s two X-Men timelines together for X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer has continued his quest to include every single mutant in the Marvel universe into the cast of next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse, with the director revealing this week that Olivia Munn (Magic Mike) has signed on to play Betsy Braddock, a.k.a. Psylocke., and Lucas Till is set to reprise the role of Havok from X-Men: First Class and Days of Future Past. Munn joins an ever-expanding roster that now includes X-Men veterans James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Evan Peters (Quicksilver) and Rose Byrne (Moira MacTaggert) and new additions Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) as Apocalypse, Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) as Jean Grey, Tye Sheridan (Mud) as Cyclops, Alexandra Shipp (House of Anubis) as Storm, Kodi Smit-McPhee (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Nightcrawler, Ben Hardy (EastEnders) as Angel and newcomer Lana Condor as Jubilee…
…During a Q&A this week, Jamie Bell shared a few words on his upcoming role as Ben Grimm, a.k.a. The Thing, in Fox’s reboot of The Fantastic Four: “Obviously I’m not made of rocks and obviously I’m not 6 foot 8! t’s about capturing the essence of a human being inside of that character when he is transformed and you do that through motion capture. It’s a technique that my friend Andy Serkis has very much spearheaded — he is the guru of performance capture. I’ve been lucky to work with him three or four times actually, so I very much consider him my mentor. It’s a huge responsibility. I think people were kind of confused when I was cast, but this is very much an origin story of these characters. I haven’t seen the film yet. I’m very excited to see it, but what I can tell you is just from the making of the film and the journey that we’ve been on with it, it’s very much an experience, it really is. I’m very flattered and humbled to be a part of it…”
…After announcing earlier this month that he’s started work on the script for The Incredibles 2, Brad Bird has now shared a few words on his approach towards the sequel to the 2004 animated superhero hit: ” I worry if you comment too much on other movies then you might just be coasting off their good will. There was a very lazy trend in comedy where somebody would start singing the theme song from The Flintstones and you’re supposed to dig on it just because you recognise it. So I don’t like that. I think that movies ought to work in and of themselves. I think that the greatest special effect is caring about a character. A lot of movies seem to forget that, and they bring out a lot of fireballs and then wonder why the fireballs don’t have that much impact, no matter how loud and how big they are. But the truth is that the fireball isn’t that exciting unless you care about the person running from it. It can be fun, and certainly I had a blast getting to do the action sequences in The Incredibles, but that’s the dessert. Every movie is kind of a risk, and you’re thrown into a new pool and you haven’t learned how to swim in it yet, so I’m going to bumble along and make the same mistakes that I usually do and hopefully spot them and correct them. I really love those characters and that aspect of getting to be with them again is exciting to me…”
…NBC’s Heroes Reborn has added another new face to its ever-expanding cast, with Rya Kihlstedt (Dexter, Masters of Sex) has signed on to the NBC event series in an as-yet unrevealed role in the 13-part Heroes revival. Kihlstedt joins fellow newcomers Zachary Levi (Thor: The Dark World), Ryan Guzman (The Boy Next Door), Gatlin Green (Finding Cody), Henry Zebrowski (The Wolf of Wall Street), Robbie Kay (Once Upon a Time), Danika Yarosh (Shameless) and Judith Shekoni (Twilight), as well as returning stars Jack Coleman (Noah Bennet), Masi Oka (Hiro Nakamura) and Jimmy Jean-Louis (The Haitian)…
…And finally, with the 2015 Superhero Season set to get underway this week, I’ve posted my annual Superhero Showdown here on Flickering Myth this week, predicting the box office performance for Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and The Fantastic Four. You can read the article here, and be sure to leave your own predictions.
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.
