Outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe the X-Men universe maintained by 20th Century Fox is tied for longest, and is probably the next best in terms of continuity, but over all the films have been incredibly hit or miss. We’ve had two truly great movies in _X-Men: First Class_ and _X2: X-Men United_, a good movie in _X-Men_ and two pretty terrible films in _X-Men 3: the Last Stand_ and _X-Men Origins: Wolverine_.
So how does the latest entry stack up? Pretty good actually. Or mostly, anyway.
Remember before I mentioned that Marvel has made a [short film starring Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter from Captain America](https://awesomefriday.ca/2013/07/awesome-poster-for-marvel-one-shot-agent-carter/)? Well MovieClips has a sneak peek!
Wolverine comes out this week but next year we get a full on sequel to _X-Men: First Class_ with _X-Men: Days of Future Past_. That film seeks to unite the First Class timeline with the existing X-Men timeline via time travel, which maens we’ll see the younger mutants from First Class interacting with their older selves as well as some familiar faces from the first three movies.
And now, thanks to Entertainment Weekly we have some teaser posters.
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.
We were all expecting Thanos to be the big bad in Avengers 2 but suddenly that doesn’t seem to be the case. Holy shit.
I was reluctant to post about this but I’m finding it more and more intriguing.
Continue reading “Vin Diesel: Marvel News At The End of This Month”
Remember a while back I posted some [awesome sumi-e style posters for The Wolverine characters](https://awesomefriday.ca/2013/06/the-wolverine-sumi-e-posters-are-awesome/)? Well I totally forgot to post the other two that were available, so here they are now.
Good news everyone! Agents of S.h.I.E.L.D. now has a release date. We’ve known it was going to be on Tuesday’s for a while but now [thanks to Collider](http://collider.com/abc-fall-2013-premiere-dates-agents-of-shield/) we know that it’ll be 24th September when the show hits the airwaves.
What’s interesting too is that it looks like the show is going to anchor Tuesdays on ABC, there aren’t any big name shows returning that night. In fact, all four shows are new. Looks like ABC is placing a lot of confidence in the Marvel universe and after The Avengers made all the money and then Iron Man 3 made the rest, can you really blame them?
So mark your calendars folks! We’ll be recapping the premiere at least!
Speaking of Captain America, remember his girlfriend Peggy? She’s getting a Marvel One Shot short film this fall and it has an amazing poster.
Continue reading “Awesome: Poster for Marvel One Shot ‘Agent Carter’”
Captain America was one of the better standalone Marvel films of the first phase and a sequel was greenlit pretty quick. And now we have a poster.
Continue reading “Captain America: The Winter Soldier Teaser Poster”
Here are four new posters for The Wolverine all done in the style of japanese Sumi-E (Inkwash) art.
In an utterly unshocking turn of events Marvel has ponied up the cash to get Robert Downey Jr. Back in the suit for Avengers 3 and Avengers 3. Full details after the jump.
Continue reading “Awesome: Robert Downey Jr. Signed for Avengers 2 and Avengers 3”
In case you weren’t sure just how much money The Amazing Spider-Man made for Sony, they’ve just confirmed that it was indeed _all_ the money by announcing both a third and fourth film in the franchise set for 2016 and 2018 respectively.
Full release and more after the jump.
Continue reading “Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 Announced; Mary Jane cut from Amazing Spider-Man 2?”
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.
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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