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Speaking with Collider Simon Kinberg confirmed that the forthcoming Wolverine sequel will be r-rated. He continued to add that the film will be set in the future, have a western feel, but declined to address additional specifics.
Hugh Jackman returns as Logan / Wolverine and is joined by Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier / Professor X.
Many believe the rumors to indicate that the film will be based upon the Old Man Logan comic book story arc in which the Super Villians Won the "war" and created a dystopian future.
Over the past week several actors have been "announced" to joining the film, including Eric La Salle (ER), Boyd Holbrook, Richard E. Grant, and Stephen Merchant.
Additionally the casting call sheet for the film was looking for a body double that many people think is for Laura Kinney / X-23.
The film is set for release on March 3, 2017.
Next X-Men film to be set in the 1990's
Posted by Labels: Simon Kinberg, The New Mutants (film), X-Men, X-Men 7Talking to comingsoon.net Simon Kinberg revealed the next X-Men film will be set in the 1990's.
In 1991 Marvel revisioned the X-men in to separate comic books, The Uncanny X-Men chronicled the storys of the X-Men lead by Storm while the X-Men [comic book] followed the blue team lead by Cyclops. The new comics brought in new costumes and new story lines and were some of the most successful comic books in history financially. The X-Men issue #1 sold an estimated 3 .5 million copies and marvel shipped nearly 8 million copies making I the largest selling single comic book of all time.
There is no indication on whether Simon Kinberg was referring to X-Men: New Mutants or the untitled X-Men 7 film rumored to be in pre-development.
It should be noted that 20th Century Fox has already booked time at the same Montreal Studio that Bryan Singer filmed X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse. Bryan Singer has recently noted he wanted a crack at the Dark Phoenix Saga.
It is believed that most of the reoccurring cast from second trilogy, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult, all signed 3 movie contracts which would be complete with X-Men: Apocalypse. The cast from the original trilogy, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Halle Berry, James Marsden and Rebecca Romijn signed individual contracts for each movie they have appeared in.
Hugh Jackman has indicated that he is retiring after one final outing as Wolverine in the untitled Wolverine Sequel currently filming.
Ryan Reynolds character Deadpool, would be difficult to incorporate into a X-Men film according to Bryan Singer. One would have to imagine it would be even more difficult set in the 1990's.
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| From Twitter |
“I am going to do a Marvel movie. I’m just doing a wee part in a Marvel movie, upcoming, and I can’t tell, because you know, you have to sign confidentiality agreements. But I’m going to do a wee part in a Marvel movie now. That’s it.”Rumors quickly began circulating that she was playing Janet van Dyne in the forthcoming Ant-Man and Wasp film. The reasoning, the "wee part" in her statement.
Emily Carmichael - Director of Captain Marvel
Posted by Labels: Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel (film), Emily Blunt, Emily Carmichael, MCURumors running around the web this afternoon is suggesting that Emily Carmichael has landed the coveted position as Director of the forthcoming Captain Marvel film.
Emily Carmichael is an indie director known for making shorts rather than feature length films but supposedly a film named Arrow caught Marvel's eye and is the reason for bringing her in for interviews.
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| Emily Carmichael |
A few weeks ago Jeff Sneider from the Wrap had this to say.
There was a rumour about an actress being up for it; an already existing rumour, that’s not new. I’ve definitely heard there’s some truth to that rumour, and that there’s a director with the same first name who has also been eyed. I don’t think that [an announcement] is too far off. If they can make it to Comic Con, they will.Does that mean Emily Blunt will be Captain Marvel?
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Last year Sony Pictures Entertainment [SPE] and Marvel Studios announced a blockbuster deal allowing Spider-Man and other characters from Spider-Verse to appear in Marvel Cinematic Universe as well as characters from the MCU to appear in SPE films and for the future live-action Spider-man films to be filmed by Marvel Studios while SPE retains distribution rights and funding the films.
Even though that all sounds like a great deal, there are those at Sony who wonder if they gave up the house to save the car in the deal. Here is how that argument works.
Under the terms of the IP that SPE controls there are a great number of villains (approximately 36) from Doctor Octopus, The Lizard, Electro, Green Goblin, Kraven the Hunter, Rhino, the Hobgoblin and so forth. There are some compelling secondary characters including Aunt may, Jay Jonah Jameson, Harry Osborne, Gwen Stacey, Mary-Jane Watson amongst others.
If you look at Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, in other media, when the character is most compelling and audience friendly it usually involves Peter's interaction with another super-hero.
The reason for this is it gives the writers a better outlet for Peter to express his problems. Since no other super-hero has appeared in a Spider-Man film that automatically leads to the question, what other Super-Heroes does SPE control under the terms of the IP. The answer is none. Not Daredevil, Punisher, Ice-Man, Firestorm, Wolverine, Nova, Tigra, Power-Man, Spider-Girl, Silk or even Miles Morales. The closest thing to a Super-Hero that SPE controls is the Black Cat. This creates a situation where SPE's Spider-Man is virtually stuck on a hamster wheel telling variations of the same story.
Spider-Man: Homecoming in theory allows SPE to do just that, with Robert Downey Jr reprising his role as Tony Stark/Iron Man with some sort of mentorship program between Iron Man and Spider-Man. In that solution is the bigger problem, instead of multiple movies you still only have Spider-Man and 36 Villains. They didn't get Miles Morales, Cindy Moon, Mayday Parker or Jessica Drew all of which are Spider-Verse characters in other media formats but not in SPE IP.
So as these dissenting voices are suggesting, SPE has taken one step forward, but will have to take two steps back after Spider-Man: Homecoming is released as they only have one avenue, Tom Holland as Spider-Man, to release these films.
What about Venom and Sinister Six, anti-hero films that SPE has in the works. The Sinister Six is now too late, no matter how good or bad the film could be it will always be compared to Suicide Squad and Deadpool. Venom has possibilities but it will take real work to succeed, and with Tom Rothman in charge at SPE I doubt it will get the effort it needs (see X-Men: Last Stand).
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From the top at SPE, Tom Rothman CEO, it may not matter, the hope is that Spider-Man: Homecoming will cost $50 to $70 M USD less than Amazing Spider-Man 2 and earn $50 to $70 M USD more domestically at the box office and $50 to $100 M USD more at the international box-office. In essence earn $100 M USD more and cost $50 M USD less means $150 M USD more in their pockets. So the question for this blog to answer, can it Spider-Man; Homecoming do that?
Costing less money is the easier part of the question, Marvel Studios and Disney have a solid recent history of doing just that, getting a better band for your buck than other studios.
Box Office wise can a stand alone Spider-Man movie, with a young director, unknown cast, hit $325M USD domestically and $500M USD internationally?
My answer today is no. That doesn't mean it won't or that the things stacked up against it today won't change, but today's road makes that very tough to do.
The first problem is rating. The Amazing Spider-Man and the Sequel were both rated PG-13, a very mild PG-13, but still PG-13. SPE attempted to market both films as being family friendly, that marketing didn't work. So the question becomes how far away from family friendly is SPE and Marvel Studios willing to take a movie about your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. It is a quandary I am sure that Amy Pascale and Kevin Feige are still talking about. Tom Rothman and other leadership at SPE would love to see the film rated PG not PG-13 and that really effects what you can and cannot do in the film. It is the compromise that hurt the story telling in the latest two movies, besides obvious story issues.
The next problem is competition, Tentpole films usually have a week or two to lead the way, not the case for this release schedule. Despicable Me 3 is released the week before and War for the Planet of the Apes the following week. I got to believe the date is going to change for this film. There are better more solid dates where the competition is not so fierce.
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The final question is whether or not the audience is comfortable with a THIRD Peter Parker in 10 years. I know I am not, I think there were far better ways SPE and Marvel Studios could of handled the situation.
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