Author: Simon Andrews

Both Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter are in the process of filming new episodes, and with Daredevil (I, for one, would love for there to be some truth in the rumors about the Stath circling Bullseye…) and several other new Marvel Netflix projects either in production or planned, it’s clear that we’ll be seeing more and more previously unseen Marvel bad- guys on screen. Now, when you’ve been around as long as the Marvel Comic Universe has, you have to create a hell of a lot of villains to face off against all the heroes you’ve come up with.…

Put down your keyboards, conspiracy theorists, because some promo work that’s just been released online for ‘Rogue One’ has put some of your ideas to bed. The forthcoming release ‘Rogue One: A Visual Story Guide’ has been previewed online, and it’s unveiled a great deal more information about some of the main players and vehicles that are going to be involved in December’s Star Wars heist flick. Firstly, a number of the more outlandish theories about the film have been blown out of the water. There was some speculation that Ben Mendelssohn might be playing a new version of either…

Even without the quite brilliant and titillating post-credits scene that the ‘Deadpool’ movie gave us, it was obvious to any discerning comic-book fan that any sequel to the film would have to contain one key element.. Cable. Wade Wilson’s bromance with Nathan Summers is the stuff of comic legend, and well before the release of this year’s runaway success story, there was already rampant Internet speculation as to who might end up playing the grumpy mutant warrior. There’s been a number of possible actors put in the frame already, and as soon as they’ve been named, fan mockups have quickly…

Beloved by both Audiences and critics alike, Michael Fassbender is one of the most diverse actors you’re going to find in modern Hollywood. As comfortable in a Summer Blockbuster as he is in an independent film, a drama or a comedy, he’s turned his hand to pretty much everything during a 15 year acting career that’s seen him twice nominated for academy awards, only to be cruelly denied. Sure, these days Michael’s best known for playing Magneto or Macbeth, but very actor has to start out somewhere, so what Fassbender performances does a little journey through the pages of IMDB…

For those amongst you who prefer your material a little bit bloodier and darker than the mainstream, it would appear that two comic books that are right up your street may soon be making the transition from page to screen. First up is the news that after the massively positive feedback they’ve just received for ‘Deadpool’, 20th Century Fox are looking to try and repeat their success by adapting an equally cynical story. ‘Irredeemable’ sees a thinly-veiled incarnation of Superman going rogue, and tracks a frantic alliance of his former heroic colleagues and as they try to deal with his…

Hugh Jackman’s reported appearance in this year’s ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ will be the eighth time he’s stepped up to portray everybody’s favourite ‘Crazy Canucklehead’ onscreen, over a sixteen year period. Which isn’t bad going when you consider he only got the role because 1st choice Dougray Scott dropped out at the last minute… But it won’t be his last outing in the role, as the final film in the divisive ‘Wolverine Trilogy’ is planned for release in March 2017. The as yet untitled Wolverine 3 will be helmed by returning Director James Mangold, and franchise producer Simon Kinberg has been dropping…

At the outset of their collaboration, Marvel and Netflix went to great pains to keep fans updated and informed about how they intended to bring their ‘Defenders’ project from page to screen, and since then the two companies have stuck somewhat rigidly to their planned format. In orderly fashion, the four nominated characters that would make up the team have each been allocated their own TV series and have been given a release date, with no deviation from the initial announcement. Until, that is, the introduction of a certain Frank Castle. Ever since it had been revealed that The Punisher…

It’s been a real rollercoaster of a year for comic-book fans so far, and we’re not even halfway through it. As we sit here at the breaking dawn of Marvel’s ‘Civil War’, dissecting next year’s ‘Dr Strange’ trailer and hypothesizing about who will might be playing Captain Marvel in ‘Infinity War’, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Geek truly have already inherited the Earth. But there are warning signs that the market has become a more dangerous prospect for the two big studios. Marvel have experienced their first wobbles with ‘Age Of Ultron’ receiving uncharacteristically mixed reviews, the…

What with all of the excitement around last week’s ‘Rogue One’ trailer release, you could be forgiven for having temporarily forgotten there was the little matter of another two remaining films in the Star Wars franchise’s newly created trilogy. Well have no fear, as Episode 8 Director Rian JOHNSON has today released two teaser photos from the set of the untitled next instalment, just to remind you that Finn and Rey’s story is still in the process of unfolding. The ‘Looper’ Director, appointed by the studio to carry on where JJ Abrams left off, released the two black and white…

Whilst it maŷ have been divisive to the point where it verged on controversy, there’s no denying that last year’s ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ was a massive success. The movie was roundly criticised for having a pretty neanderthalic representation of gender, and a final act that left a significant portion of critics and audiences alike cold, but having returned $414m worldwide and cost less than a quarter of that to make, there was no doubt whatsoever that we’d be seeing a sequel. The sequel will retain a lot of the elements of the first movie. It’s working title is ‘Kingsman:…