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Marvel Announces New Animated Franchise with “Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors” (Video)
Six Ghost-Spider (aka Spider-Gwen) digital shorts will be followed by a feature-length film featuring voice talent that includes Dove Cameron, Chloe Bennet, Tyler Posey, Kim Raver and BooBoo Stewart.
Chadwick Boseman plays the King of Wakanda in the latest look at Marvel Studios’ February 2018 release, directed by Ryan Coogler (Creed) and co-starring Martin Freeman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and Daniel Kaluuya.
Introduced during Season 2 of Marvel’s Daredevil, Jon Bernthal’s portrayal of Marvel’s popular vigilante generated enough interest for them to quickly greenlight a full series focusing on the character and his past.
After five previous series produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios for Netflix, the four heroes — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist — finally come together to confront a new villain, played by Sigourney Weaver.
With Mississippi Grind directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck on board to direct Marvel Studios’ March 2019 release and Brie Larson starring, a new writer was bound to be brought in for rewrites.
Sony and Marvel have tapped Gina Prince-Bythewood to direct Silver Sable and Black Cat, the Tracking Board has confirmed. Prince-Bythewood marks the first woman of color and the first woman to direct on her own for a Marvel film.
Donald Glover’s impressive juggling of Atlanta and Deadpool for FX (not to mention thriving film and music careers) mirrors that of Noah Hawley, who created Fargo for the network before launching the comic book adaptation Legion to great success.
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Project details are being kept under wraps, but the film will be set in the 1990’s and center around Jean Grey and the Dark Phoenix comic story.
Credit lies with Taika Waititi, a director with a unique comic sensibility and an outside-the-box choice to direct a big-budget comic book movie if there ever was one.
The stop-motion animated feature follows the King of Pop’s pet chimp as he journeys through the jungle of human life and tries to make sense of the world.
Marvel Studios has finally announced the full cast of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and not only are Martin Freeman and Andy Serkis confirmed to return as Everett Ross and Ulysses Klaw, respectively, but part of the movie will be filmed in South Korea.
Fox has committed to a pilot about Marvel’s popular mutant heroes and villains: the X-Men. From writer Matt Nix, the untitled series will follow a family who discovers their son is a mutant and must go on the run, eventually joining up with a underground team of other mutants.
