MCU Phase Five
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First things first, Jonathan Majors has been found guilty of assaulting his then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari (a "movement coach" on Quantumania) - on two charges of reckless assault and harassment, but also not guilty of two charges of intentional assault and aggravated harassment - and will be sentenced in February.
That's the important bit, and the subsequent "find out" phase I'll now post is a mere frippery by comparison.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Majors dropped as Kang, Kang seemingly dropped from Avengers as the title is now referred to as "Avengers 5" instead of "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty" (not sure why they couldn't recast, having established that the same character can be player by different actors on purpose in Spider-man No Way Home, rather than by accident in Iron Man 1, or by death for Thunderbolt).
Not that he'd been particularly impressive thus far. The HWR monologue from Loki S1 was pretty good, but Timely was bad and KTC in Quantumania was pretty ropey (like everything in that film). I'm not sure it's a massive loss, except to the recently striking writers who now have to work out what the smeg to do about it.
Speaking of HWR and Loki, here's the Loki S2 Pitch Meeting - which, although I enjoyed it a lot (best MCU project since Loki S1), is pretty spot on:
And the Honest Trailer, which I think misjudged the reaction:
That's the important bit, and the subsequent "find out" phase I'll now post is a mere frippery by comparison.
Marvel Drops Jonathan Majors After Assault, Harassment Verdict
The actor starred as Kang the Conqueror in 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' and was poised to star in 'Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.'
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Majors dropped as Kang, Kang seemingly dropped from Avengers as the title is now referred to as "Avengers 5" instead of "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty" (not sure why they couldn't recast, having established that the same character can be player by different actors on purpose in Spider-man No Way Home, rather than by accident in Iron Man 1, or by death for Thunderbolt).
Not that he'd been particularly impressive thus far. The HWR monologue from Loki S1 was pretty good, but Timely was bad and KTC in Quantumania was pretty ropey (like everything in that film). I'm not sure it's a massive loss, except to the recently striking writers who now have to work out what the smeg to do about it.
Speaking of HWR and Loki, here's the Loki S2 Pitch Meeting - which, although I enjoyed it a lot (best MCU project since Loki S1), is pretty spot on:
And the Honest Trailer, which I think misjudged the reaction:
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I saw that last night and I'm still scratching my head.
They're going with Princess Margaret, Eddie from Stranger Things, Sameen's partner from Person of Interest (and also the hacker from the first season of The Punisher; guess it's a good job we won't see his face for long), and Pedro Pascal all the things?
SMH.
They're going with Princess Margaret, Eddie from Stranger Things, Sameen's partner from Person of Interest (and also the hacker from the first season of The Punisher; guess it's a good job we won't see his face for long), and Pedro Pascal all the things?
SMH.
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Pascal's last live action superhero movie was a disaster iirc. His last animated outing for (non-MCU) Marvel was pretty good though.
I haven't watched The Office US but some people are saying John Krasinski would've made a better Stretcho.
I liked the aptly named Kirby in Mission: Impossible but have no idea what her American accent is like.
I haven't watched The Office US but some people are saying John Krasinski would've made a better Stretcho.
I liked the aptly named Kirby in Mission: Impossible but have no idea what her American accent is like.
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The internet losers are flipping their lids at Julia Garner being cast as the Silver Surfer, because the Silver Surfer is a man, and that's a scientific fact.
Of course the original Silver Surfer gave some of his power to his paramour to allow her to be the Silver Surfer and bring life back to their home planet and that's who she's supposed to be playing (meaning we may well see a male Silver Surfer too), but apparently that's lost on these zeebs.
Personally I'm concerned that she's just too good for what this film is looking like being and, like Christian Bale, she'll put in a great turn, be utterly wasted, and can't wash the stink off for the rest of ever.
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Saw Deadpool and Wolverine. The first movie is still the best, but damn the cameos in D&W! I’m not spoiling a damn thing. The trailers are just the beginning of the movie. Everything else no one saw coming. I’d say Ryan Reynolds and the rest of the crew were very respectful to all the characters involved.
Fox and Disney get clowned on big time. One particular character, a surprise character, the actor claims there’s only one.
Shots fired big time! The crowd roared in the theatre.
It’s a shame it’s taken so long to do certain fight scenes. Shows how weak past movies were even without CGI.
Fox and Disney get clowned on big time. One particular character, a surprise character, the actor claims there’s only one.
Shots fired big time! The crowd roared in the theatre.It’s a shame it’s taken so long to do certain fight scenes. Shows how weak past movies were even without CGI.
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Saw Deadpool and Wolverine. The first movie is still the best, but damn the cameos in D&W! I’m not spoiling a damn thing. The trailers are just the beginning of the movie. Everything else no one saw coming. I’d say Ryan Reynolds and the rest of the crew were very respectful to all the characters involved.
Fox and Disney get clowned on big time. One particular character, a surprise character, the actor claims there’s only one.
It’s a shame it’s taken so long to do certain fight scenes. Shows how weak past movies were even without CGI.
It’s was fun and full of fan service, which is what I wanted from a Deadpool and Wolverine film.
I didn’t believe Disney would actually do a proper Rated R Deadpool and it’s full of swearing and gore compared to any regular MCU movie. 🍿
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I'm undecided if this could be just what the MCU needs right now or is creative bankruptcy. I think the ending of his story was handled great, bringing characters back (even as alternate universe versions) can really undermine that. The twist that he's playing villain now, might make it work, and the directors are responsible for the best MCU films so far, so that is positive.
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I'm reminded of Brian Michael Bendis's Infamous Iron Man run when Vic babysat Shellhead's role for a year. Hopefully the Russo's haven't jumped the shark with this one or they may take what's left of the MCU with them. I still believe it has too much potential to squander.
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I'm just mindblown that they all think the problem with the MCU since Endgame (and, honestly, Endgame was a turd but the sunk cost fallacy meant we all had to see how it "ended") hasn't been weak writing, sudden power scaling/McGuffining, a barrage of content bordering on homework, "Marvel over the topness" (thanks, Pitch Meeting), expensive but somehow cheap CGI, installments ending with coloured skybeams and/or faceless CGI armies, not supervising directors properly while they inhale their own farts, dead-ends and absurd plots intended only to introduce characters, complete lack of consequences with just about anything being able to be undone... except their really shoddy treatment of female superheroes (hey, it was nice they had their own unit in Endgame though) like Black Widow, Gamora, and Wanda, or anything else...
... except a lack of Robert Downey Jr.
Like... that's the problem is it? So much so that we're just going to ignore the whole "Council of Kangs" thing (which was CGI, so easy to retcon on Disney+ and future home media) and pretend one of them wasn't a lizard - so we could really easily recast the role and say "multiverse" - and somehow have no-one spot that the ruler and monarch of a whole entire eastern European nation for the last 20 years* has been the dead spit of actual Iron Man the whole time?
Whatever they do with this, it just seems creatively bankrupt.
Also Julian McMahon was ace as VvD. Fight me.
*Assuming they hold to that backstory
