Though the Star Wars saga is very much Disney’s domain in a legal sense, the fans have long told stories of their own from that galaxy far, far away, and with this unofficial new Darth Vader movie, we see a testament to the dedication of the franchise’s followers.
Marvel Studios has managed to sneak in one last promo before the year is out in the form of a 14-second Captain Marvel video, and while the preview doesn't offer much in the way of new footage, it's still a stylish enough teaser to ensure fans will be ending 2018 more pumped than ever.
It’s been an unusually long wait for Zombieland 2, and part of you has to wonder if the public demand is still there for a follow-up to the original 2009 hit, but if there’s just one moment from the first Zombieland that’s proven to have genuine staying power in our pop culture, it’s the Bill Murray cameo. And according to a new report, the upcoming sequel will include a callback to this sequence that aspires to do one better.
Comic book movie fans can be a passionate and highly defensive group, and one only has to take a quick scan of your average comments section to see that many will start some online drama at the drop of a hat. With a film as big as Aquaman it was only natural that emotions would run high, but director James Wan has taken it upon himself to remind his followers that it’s okay to have a differing opinion.
Star Wars: Episode IX remains a project shrouded in mystery, and that goes especially for the role of Leia Organa in this trilogy-closing work. But while the late Carrie Fisher’s brother Todd Fisher is prohibited from offering any details on how the upcoming release will use its old footage of Leia, he at least seems very happy with what director J.J. Abrams has planned.
It’s still hard to know what to make of Detective Pikachu, which is surely looking like one of the weirdest franchise films of 2019, but as the trailer released back in November amply demonstrated, the technology is very much there to pull off a live-action Pokémon movie, making the portrayal of a crime-fighting Pikachu voiced by Ryan Reynolds a lot less awkward than many of us were anticipating.
There’s an intriguing symmetry to the first Avengers: Endgame trailer when it comes to the respective various fates of Iron Man and Ant-Man. While the teaser’s first minute gave birth a new line of speculation on how Tony Stark will escape his drift through space, the preview’s final moments effectively resolved the cliffhanger that Ant-Man and the Wasp ended with, confirming that Scott Lang will find some way of getting out of his own, similarly lonely predicament.
From a commercial perspective, 2018 was very much the MCU’s year, but for just these last few weeks, the box office has belonged to Aquaman. And as Arthur Curry’s solo debut maintains its dominance in theaters, the film continues to earn the praises of fans and insiders, including at least one notable figure from the Marvel camp.
More than four decades later, the original 1977 Star Wars remains a continuing source for speculation among the fans, with this latest theory about Obi-Wan Kenobi even linking loosely into potential developments in next year’s Star Wars: Episode IX.
Ever since Avengers: Infinity War fell slightly short of the North American gross total for Black Panther, it's felt pretty inevitable that T’Challa’s solo debut would finish 2018 as the year’s biggest domestic box office earner, but as December nears its end, we’re on the verge of this achievement finally being official.
