Author: Martin Lis

The newest reference of Netflix’s adult Daredevil series has come from a very peculiar form of a kid’s toy line. Captain America: Civil War featured a new line of LEGO sets earlier this week, the merchandising focusing on the Spider-man branding as the selling point. With other characters from the film featured on the set, there was a hidden Easter egg in the form of the tanker truck. The truck included is branded with the Roxxon oil corporation logo. The very same corporation that was featured in Season 2 of Daredevil, where Murdock learned of its sinister actions from Elektra.…

Empire Podcast organized a Q&A session with director Shane Black for his new film “The Nice Guys”. With exchanges with producer Joel Silver, Black got into some detail regarding the upcoming Predator film he’s taken on, entitled “The Predator”, taking the tone to a more “inventive sequel”: “It’s an attempt to ‘event-ise’ the Predator again. Make it more mysterious. The Predator has been so overdone. Every couple years, there’s a knock-off churned out. Very low budget with a guaranteed return.” The sister franchise alongside Alien, Predator has come across as a cult classic with its debut in 1987. Since then,…

When out promoting his latest films The Nice Guys, Shane Black noted back his experiences with directing Iron Man 3 in an interview with Uproxx. Whether the split reception of the film has caused you to like it hate it, there may be more fingers to point than Black’s involvement. Black spoke about Marvel’s control over the matter of the script, with one particular of him stressing the identity of the villain. There was an early draft of Iron Man 3 where we had an inkling of a problem, which is that we had a female character who was the villain in…

Despite the devastating cancellation of Marvel’s Agent Carter, female leads are far from gone from Marvel’s plans, as Jessica Jones is gaining praise and another season to follow. Nerdist sat down with Melissa Rosenberg, showrunner of Jessica Jones, and was asked about how Season 1’s set-up will follow suit for the upcoming future: That’s the trick of a show called Jessica Jones. If she’s not in the scene, it’s not a guarantee that scene will end up in the final picture. You have to earn secondary character stories. You have to flesh them out enough so they can eventually carry stories of…

Famed actor Michael B Jordan (Creed, Chronicle, The Wire) has reportedly signed on to be part of Marvel’s Black Panther film. Negotiations are also taking place with Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave, The Force Awakens) to also star alongside. As of this moment, Jordan’s role for the film is still unknown, but one source reports the character will be a villain. No reply has been made by Marvel regarding this. Jordan was also involved in 20th Century Fox’s other infamous Marvel property, that being the 2015 remake of Fantastic Four. We recommend not seeing it, but if Jordan has…

From the treatment of a side character to Loki’s pawn, Hawkeye hasn’t had the most outstanding presence featured in the Marvel universe compared to the likes of powerhouses like Iron Man or Cap. A truly under appreciated character with his own cult following, it turns out Clint may have his chance in the spotlight soon enough. Umberto Mayimbe touched upon this spill on his latest episode of Heroic Insider when discussing poll numbers of character popularity and the potential of a Black Widow film: There was a pitch document – might be a little bit of a scoop here –…

With Marvel’s new show The Defenders announced to air, speculation of filming schedules has been brought to mind to those awaiting for the television’s grittier Avengers, which is set to unite Marvel vigilantes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage against an unknown force in NYC. It’s been updated, however, that Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter is already working her way for filming for both her title show’s new season and The Defenders “back to back” and even going as far to mention “overlap”. Ritter spoke to Digital Spy on her preparation for both shows: It’s about to be…

Avengers: Infinity War is clocking down closer to its 2018 release, described by the Russo directors as “the culmination of the MCU to date”. It was only a month ago that Guardians of the Galaxy announced Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord to be making an appearance, and fans of the series have been stoked to hear announcements of other Guardians having a face. Wait no more, as Infinity War writers Christopher Markus and Steven McFeely finally unveiled a hint of a favorite gun-trotting rodent, Rocket Raccoon. In addition, Markus spoke about how characters so versatile in their appearance would fit the tone:…

Fans who have watched the new Captain America: Civil War film may notice a certain Samuel L. Jackson with an eye patch wasn’t present in the events of the biggest superhero clash in cinemas. The character of Nick Fury has not been seen anywhere in the newest film, despite having such a huge presence of uniting the heroes together in the series and, for that matter, keeping them under control at points. So where was the father of the Avengers throughout this whole time when the kids were trying to kill each other? Writer Christopher Markus spoke to Los Angeles…

Syfy has picked up a new television-adapted DC series, featuring the setting in the very planet that birthed Superman. Little detail has been released, but from the premise, we gather this will follow the story of Kal-El’s grandfather, “whose House of El was ostracized and shamed – as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos”. Bill McGoldrick ,Executive Vice PResident of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment,  spoke at the press release in promotion of the film:  [Krypton] is one of the most iconic stories in the comic book universe. In the talented hands of…