It’s practically a universal certainty that when a remake is announced, there is will be a Pavlovian backlash against it by fans of the original who take it as a personal affront that anyone could even considering reworking it. However, the script for the upcoming remake of Troma’s cult classic The Toxic Avenger has been declared by studio president Lloyd Kaufman to be superior to that on which it’s based.
Seth Rogen having anything to do with a movie typically guarantees it will, if not feature a litany of stoner jokes, at least be a lot of profane fun. And one of his earliest and still best films, 2007 teen comedy Superbad, has now found a place in Netflix’s US Top 10 chart after dropping at the start of the month.
Now that it’s confirmed that Wade Wilson will be joining the MCU, there’s been much speculation on how he will enter the shared universe and what form the story of Deadpool 3 might take. And one rumored choice, the unambiguously titled Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, has received some fan art this week to suggest how it might look.
When Disney reacquired the Marvel properties that were controlled by Fox, it paved the way for the House of Mouse to use characters in the MCU that were previously unavailable to them. There's been much speculation on how the likes of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Deadpool will be introduced into the shared universe, then, and in the case of the latter, there's a suitably demented possibility.
The Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, is set to return to Doctor Who. Not on TV, unfortunately, but in new audio drama Out of Time 2: The Gates of Hell, which will be released in June and team him up with the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison.
Now that Deadpool 3 has been confirmed to be set in the MCU, it's opened the floodgates for a plethora of meta references from the animation giant’s back catalogue of classics. Following this, Ryan Reynolds has stated on Instagram that Wade Wilson's first order of business will be to hunt down whoever killed Bambi’s mom.
The MCU has a well documented track record using an intense diet and fitness regimen to turn its actors into something resembling the implausibly jacked comic book counterparts of the characters they portray. One of the latest to come out the other side of such a regime, though, Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani, has been on the receiving end of steroid use accusations.
