In the busy and lucrative world of superhero cinema where fans and studios are constantly thinking several films ahead, it comes as no surprise to see that people are already speculating on director David F. Sandberg’s future in the franchise months before Shazam! has arrived in cinemas. That being said, it’s also perfectly understandable that the Annabelle: Creation helmsman isn’t feeling ready for such discussions just yet.
With Lucasfilm refusing to spill any details on the upcoming Star Wars: Episode IX and the cast kept silent by the studio's increasingly excessive spoiler security measures, fans have been relying on rumors and alleged leaks for a lot of their info, leaving the forums pretty vulnerable to false claims and fakery.
Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds may be the most notorious troll of superhero cinema, but Avengers: Endgame directors Anthony and Joe Russo aren’t far behind, between their maddeningly ambiguous social media posts and the way they dangled the official title reveal in the faces of fans weeks before the actual drop. So when the pair saw that Reynolds was getting a taste of his own medicine, the Russo Brothers took the opportunity to pile on the ridicule for the recently embarrassed star while also celebrating their own history of messing with their followers.
When he isn’t trolling fans with fake Star Wars: Episode IX reveals or chatting with his new friend Ariana Grande, Mark Hamill apparently spends his Twitter time teasing his co-stars, including Star Wars Sequel Trilogy regular John Boyega.
A couple of weeks ago, Reddit user Garrett Thomas relayed the alleged info that the official title for Star Wars: Episode IX will be “Star Wars: Son of Darkness,” adding that “this should be public knowledge by Christmas.” Fast-forward to Christmas Eve, and we’ve yet to get any confirmation that this is the case, and yet the same fan came back just last night with some visual evidence for their assertion.
Avengers: Infinity War was the story of victory in the face of adversity as Thanos completes his mission to eradicate half of all life from the universe. But while that gloomy tale chose its villain as the main focus, a new post on Reddit argues that next year’s Avengers: Endgame will serve as the more optimistic flipside, showing how the deaths are undone from the point of view of one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, has been the butt of a lot of jokes over the years, mostly because his skills with a bow and arrow seem pretty underwhelming on paper compared to the abilities of his super-powered peers. But as we await Jeremy Renner’s return to the franchise in next year’s Avengers: Endgame, one fan on Reddit has made the case that the Phase 1 hero may be a lot more important to the team than many of us realize or appreciate.
From the sound of things, next year’s Spider-Man: Far From Home is a film with quite a few key villains, but according to the cast of the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel, Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio won’t be one of them – well, at least not at first.
Last year, John Wick: Chapter 2 built on the world and the narrative introduced by the first movie but went bigger in just about every way, boasting a larger budget, a longer runtime, and a significantly higher body count. And seeing how that movie ended with Keanu Reeves’ character on the kill list of almost the entire global assassin community, it’s unlikely that director Chad Stahelski has any intention of scaling things down for next year's John Wick 3: Parabellum.
Ever since it was first announced that the upcoming Captain Marvel would see the introduction of Skrulls in the MCU, the fans have continued to present their theories on how Marvel Studios could make use of these shape-shifting beings, with much of the speculation drawing on the Secret Invasion plot from the comics. And in a new post on Reddit, a suggestion is offered for how exactly this story of infiltration and deceit might be set up over the course of Avengers: Endgame.
