Tag: Marvel Phase 2

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Avengers: Age of Ultron Will Rewrite Ultron’s Origin and Some Speculation On What It Might Be

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Yesterday [you read that Avengers 2 is officially going to be called “Avengers: Age of Ultron”](https://awesomefriday.ca/2013/07/awesome-avengers-2-is-age-of-ultron/). This raised quite a few questions, especially regarding Hank Pym, aka Ant Man, who in the comics created Ultron.

MovieWeb spoke to Joss Whedon about it and now we have some answers and also a few more questions.

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Awesome: Benicio del Toro Joins Guardians of the Galaxy and The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Benicio del Toro

Holy Moly!

[Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood](http://www.deadline.com/2013/06/benicio-del-toro-takes-lead-role-in-marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy/):

> Benicio Del Toro has joined the killer cast of the James Gunn-directed Marvel Studios franchise launcher Guardians Of The Galaxy. They are keeping his role under wraps, but he’s playing a character that is built to be part of future Marvel films, which means he has signed a deal with options that put him into multiple movies.

So let’s the speculation begin: _who do you think he’s going to be?_ Could he be Thanos? Or Rocket Racoon? Or someone out of left field?

Either way, Marvel keeps adding more talent to its universe and that’s a good thing. I can’t think of a franchise that I am more excited to see more films from, not Bond or Star Wars or anything.

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Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan Joins Guardians of the Galaxy Cast

Karen Gillan

In more Doctor Who related News, Former Co-Star Karen Gillan has joined the cast of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Well that’s very exciting.

[The Hoolywood Reporter broke the news](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/doctor-who-star-joins-marvels-561293) the other day. We don’t yet know exactly who she’ll be playing but we do know she’ll be the lead female villain.

I rather liked Gillan as Amy Pond and I think she might be great in this part. She’s feisty and I think she can carry the bad guy vibe pretty well and it’ll be cool to see her playing off Michael Rooker and Lee Pace (who are the other bad guys).

What do you guys think?

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Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Full Trailer!

Agents of SHIELD

It’s here! The full trailer for Joss Whedon’s *Avengers* TV follow-up, *Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.*, looks ridiculously shiny –

(Here’s where you imagine Matt got to this news first and embedded the video properly. Think of this as me adding to your anticipation.)

_**Update:*** I actually did get to this first but I scheduled it for the morning. I’ve since added a header image and the embedded video. -Matt_

Needless to say, it looks amazing. This man made Firefly. Can’t wait!

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Nagging Feelings About Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3

The more I think about Iron Man the more I am of two minds on the movie. For all the reasons [I previously stated](https://awesomefriday.ca/2013/05/review-iron-man-3/) the movie works, but there’s a lot of things nagging at me.

I’m going to talk about a few of those things and this is going to contain spoilers. Pretty massive spoilers actually so if you haven’t seen the movie stop reading right now. Go see it. It’s definitely a movie you should see in theatres. Once you’ve seen it come back and read this.

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Review: Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3

As a sequel not only to Iron Man and Iron Man 2 but also to The Avengers, Iron Man 3 has a lot to live up to. The Avengers changed everything, not only for the characters involved but for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as well; how do you sell these characters as solo acts again?

Luckily Marvel has employed some very smart people because as it turns out Iron Man 3 follows up nicely on a everything that preceded it, is one of the strongest stand alone films produced by Marvel to date and is probably the prefect anchor for the second phase of Marvel films.

Unfortunately in reviewing this there are going to be what could be considered some very mild spoilers involved. I promise that I won’t reveal anything big and keep the rest to a minimum, but if you want to go in blind (which I recommend you do) then just know that this is a movie I absolutely recommend seeing and stop reading right now. If you want to know what I think in detail, hit the jump.

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