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One of the most difficult parts of casting a movie is ensuring your cast have chemistry with one another. It's an indefinable and tricky-to-pin-down element, but all great casting directors have it. Over the last ten years, the MCU has generally nailed it. Think Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow, Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan or... well, every single Guardian of the Galaxy with every other Guardian of the Galaxy.
All the most loved Star Wars prequel era characters are back in this Age of Republic special issue. Including Mace Windu, Asajj Ventress, Captain Rex and Jar Jar Binks.
HBO’s take on the seminal graphic novel Watchmen is already picking up an enormous amount of hype. Network executives adored the pilot, the casting is excellent and the sense of mystery around the production (described as a ‘remix’ of the original comic) has fans desperately theorizing about what it is. While it’s unlikely that Alan Moore is ever going to comment on the show, the original artist and co-creator Dave Gibbons has read the screenplay for the pilot and gave it the thumbs up.
In 1994, Roger Corman finished production on the first live-action film adaptation of the classic Stan Lee comic The Fantastic Four. The movie then promptly went straight into hiding. Despite trailers promising it was coming, it was never to see a full release. The reason for this mysterious disappearance is simple: it's absolutely terrible. But now you can easily see just how terrible it is as the full thing has been uploaded to YouTube for your viewing displeasure.
Let's face it, being named the Sexiest Man Alive has got to brighten up a dull day. Idris Elba, star of TV show Luther, the MCU's Heimdall and constantly mentioned as a future 007, recently received this honor courtesy of People Magazine.
Mark Ruffalo and Tom Holland could take some lessons in secrecy from Jude Law, who's being so tight-lipped about his role in Captain Marvel that he won't even confirm which character he's playing. Most have assumed he's set for the part of Mar-Vell - the Kree warrior and first Captain Marvel who disguises himself on Earth as Dr. Walter Lawson. After all, we already know that Law's character is the leader of the Starforce group that Larson's Carol Danvers joins which, in all honesty, pretty much means he's Mar-Vell. Or does it?
It's been almost a year since Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit cinemas and certain corners of the internet are still bent out of shape about the direction Rian Johnson has taken the franchise. One of the ongoing sticking points is the way he wrote Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker, with attacks on the movie frequently stating that the Luke in The Last Jedi doesn't logically follow from the man they saw take down the Emperor and bring peace to the galaxy in The Return of the Jedi.
The Walt Disney Company cleared another hurdle today in their impending purchase of Fox and its assets, when the European Commission (who are responsible for managing the day to day business of the European Union) gave the thumbs up to the deal - as long as a few conditions are met.
When Disney cancelled Star Wars: The Clone Wars, with the explanation that they wanted to “pursue a new direction in animated programming,” fans were dismayed. After a couple of ups and downs in early seasons, the show found its feet when introducing and developing one of the all-time greatest Star Wars fan favorite characters: Anakin Skywalker's Padawan, Ahsoka Tano. Now, with the show unexpectedly brought back from the dead for a final 12 episode run, Ahsoka's voice actor, Ashley Eckstein, wants to update us on the current status of it.