Next year’s John Wick 3: Parabellum will reportedly serve as the final installment in the titular assassin’s saga, but that doesn’t mean director Chad Stahelski has finished exploring the treacherous world he inhabits.
Watching IMAX footage on a small screen may sound a little redundant, but thanks to the video’s expanded aspect ratio, the forum theorists now have a whole new reason to scrutinize the footage from the first Avengers: Endgame trailer.
The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy has so far offered a drastically different post-Return of the Jedi world from the one offered by the Expanded Universe fiction, now known as Star Wars Legends. Nonetheless, some fans are clinging to the hope that a few of their favorite non-canonical characters will make the jump to the big screen, and in a new piece from CinemaBlend, the case is assessed of whether Luke Skywalker’s EU wife Mara Jade might show up in next year's Star Wars: Episode IX.
In the past year, there’s been nary a character from Star Wars mythology who hasn’t been rumored to make an appearance in next year’s Star Wars: Episode IX, and so it was inevitable that the speculation would touch on the possibility of Kylo Ren’s grandmother Padmé Amidala showing up, be it in visions, flashback, or other means. And while this idea was never especially plausible to begin with, actress Natalie Portman has helped put the theory to bed once and for all in an interview with BuzzFeed.
Though the Nova Corps has already popped up in the MCU by way of Guardians of the Galaxy and may even show up again if some theories are to be believed, Nova himself has so far remained absent from the saga. Still, the rumors are ongoing that Marvel Studios has a Richard Rider project in mind, and a recent statement from Vice director Adam McKay will only help fuel the speculation.
As one of the co-writers of Ant-Man, Vice director Adam McKay has already dipped a toe into the MCU, but earlier this year, it seems the filmmaker had the opportunity to go all the way as James Gunn’s replacement at the helm of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Next year’s Avengers: Endgame looks set to cram an overwhelming number of characters into the grand finale of Marvel’s Phase 4, but as the new video from the How It Should Have Ended YouTube channel aptly demonstrates, the team could’ve been a lot bigger.
Being an MCU cast member can be a confusing and disorienting experience consisting of fake scripts, last-minute info, and multiple movies being shot at the same time. So when Sebastian Stan said last month that he doesn’t even know if he’s in Avengers: Endgame, the claim wasn’t as farfetched as it might have initially sounded. What’s more, the Bucky Barnes actor is continuing to distance himself from next year’s release, asserting just recently that he didn’t have anything to do with the project.
In many ways, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is the swashbuckling equivalent to Michael Bay’s Tranformers movies, in that they’ve made a lot of money and kept on going despite few critics having kind words to say about them, but after the fifth film marked a dip in box office numbers, it became clear that the same old formula had started to wear thin with moviegoers.
The upcoming Child’s Play reboot remains a controversial matter among longtime viewers of the series, not least because of the film’s drastic reworking of Chucky’s origins, replacing the killer’s voodoo backstory with that of a murderous A.I. But while this new take on the franchise’s devilish mascot has yet to earn the favor of the fans, a recent press release from MastersFX can at least provide some context on the freckled face of Lars Klevberg’s upcoming flick.
