Holy crap this looks good. Good enough to get me to break my streak of nothing but Fake Movie Friday posts. Too bad the trailer has premiered as the same day as Hangover 3, which we will not be sharing on this site.
I want to see this so badly. It looks fantastic. I can’t wait. I watch this trailer and can’t help but think about how bad ‘The Great Gatsby’ looks compared to this film made in black and white by Joss Whedon. He shot it at his own home with a bunch of his friends.
Either Ruth Wilson or Emily Blunt.
Either way they decide to go on this one I’m into for Avengers 2. Carol Danvers being brought into the Cinematic Marvel Universe is nothing short of brilliant. I, like many others, feel like she’s the woman who Phil Coulson dated, so bringing her in for that reason makes sense. The fact that she is one of the better female characters in the Marvel U and they are going the cosmic route for the next set of films, this makes sense. The fact that they are pretty much only looking at English actresses, because they are better at acting also makes sense.
Emily Blunt I think is the safer choice, but slightly more expensive choice. I think she could play this role well. She was originally set to play Black Widow, but had to drop out of the role due to scheduling conflicts. She can play an american very well (see: Looper), and she’s not so recognizable that you’ll associate her with other films. She can BE Carol Danvers.
Ruth Wilson I think is the better choice. Marvel likes to hire their actors on a shoestring pay scale, but wrap them into multi-film deals, which would likely work better for Wilson than Blunt. She’s already the female lead in The Lone Ranger, another Disney film, which despite being a mess of a production, I’m going to see. She’s purely MAGNETIC in Luther. She plays the best female character on tv, this side of Homeland. She’s unusually gorgeous, and I feel like she would greatly fit the mold of awesomely strong, funny, smart female characters that Whedon writes.
I honestly don’t care which way they go, because I’m so happy Danvers/Ms. Marvel/Captain Marvel is going to brought into the fold. I hope it’s Wilson though.
James Gunn is confirmed for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy!’ Thankfully it has a release date of August 2014, so he has plenty of time to rewrite it with his own voice, Joss can help out, and take is time planning the film. So we don’t have a space epic that looks like ‘Green Lantern.’
In the director’s own words
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I have wanted to write about TV at about 1031 different times this year so far. With Breaking Bad being as good as it’s been, I need a place to write about that, but I dont. This is the MOVIE MOVIE podcast. Not Tv Tv. Anyway, the powers that be at ABC have greenlit a pilot based on S.H.I.E.L.D.
This is the right way to go. Because they are a giant,shadowy organization, the stories can happen all over the place and they can have other smaller characters from the Marvel U make appearances. The best news about all of this is that Joss Whedon will be writing the show, along with his brother Jed and possibly directing the pilot. Because we’ve already seen his vision of SHIELD in Avengers, it already feels like this project is closer to Buffy/Angel, than it is to Dollhouse. My only question is what do they do with Nick Fury and Maria Hill? Sam Jackson is too big for tv, Cobie Smulders is still finding out about how he met his mother, and Phil Coulson is dead.
I’m curious, but totally faithful.
Joss Whedon has been signed on to write and direct Avengers 2. We can now all breathe a bit easier. Not only will he be shepherding the Avenger franchise, but he’s also being brought along to help flesh out the Marvel TV Universe. They haven’t done anything with the TV verse yet, so taking Whedon’s already stellar TV past and connections, he will be a lot better at helping bring that world along well.
I am pleased.
I would love it if Marvel took some of their darker characters and retrofitted them for TV, like Punisher and Daredevil (especially with his rights likely reverting back to Disney).
Big important people at Disney have announced that Joss Whedon is coming back. He will be writing and directing the next Avengers film (which will probably have a subtitle taking cues from the non-Iron Man phase 2 films).
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‘World War Z’ is a book that is dismissed by a lot of people. It’s really more of a hands on look at a world gone wrong and their attempts to rebuild more than a zombie action story.
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