As a standalone outing that exists independently from Jared Leto's escapades in the DCEU, Todd Phillips’ Joker movie was once regarded by many as perhaps the most perplexing DC adaptation scheduled to hit theaters in the next couple of years. These last few months, however, have offered plenty of clarification on what’s to come from the upcoming origin story, with the film’s New York production being an ongoing source of highly informative set photos.
Though the new Aquaman sees Patrick Wilson’s Orm as the main villain, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II also gets to enter the fray as David Kane, aka Black Manta, and if the movie’s post-credits scene is anything to go by, then the character will continue to play an important role in the DCEU.
Next year will see the release of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and director Simon Kinberg has repeatedly gone on record offering his assurances that he’s learned from the mistakes of X-Men: The Last Stand in adapting the popular comic book storyline. And as it turns out, the longtime X-Men producer and writer isn’t the only one involved in the 2006 movie who thinks the journey of Jean Grey could’ve been handled better.
Though we’re still over a month away from hearing the official nominations for the 91st Academy Awards, the organization has now released shortlists for nine different categories, and it seems that Marvel Studios has several horses in these particular races.
As James Wan’s DCEU debut Aquaman makes its way to cinemas this Friday, the Conjuring helmsman still has one foot in the cinematic universe he helped create, with the filmmaker serving as producer on the upcoming Annabelle 3.
With the exception of 2015’s Fast & Furious 7 and 2007’s Death Sentence, the feature film output of director James Wan is horror movies across the board, making the new Aquaman a bit of a departure for the prominent genre filmmaker. Nonetheless, Wan’s upcoming journey to Atlantis may not be quite as radically removed from the Insidious helmsman’s usual work as you might suspect, with the director recently claiming that he pitched the project to DC as a “horror monster movie.”
It’s now been well over a week since the first Spider-Man: Far From Home teaser premiered at CCXP in Brazil, but while the recent rumors suggested that the rest of us only had a few days longer to wait before we saw some footage, a new report has pushed that impending trailer drop even further into the future.
As the events of 2012’s The Avengers take on fresh significance in light of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’ ongoing fight against Thanos, 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and its one-movie antagonist seem to have only faded further in relevance. But while the Avengers’ second outing may not be quite as important a chapter in the overarching MCU narrative as, say, Infinity War, a new theory suggests that the upcoming Avengers: Endgame could reveal that the feature's villainous A.I. has a bigger part to play in the superhero saga than we’ve been led to believe.
The old rumor that the official title of the upcoming Avengers 4 would be “Avengers: Endgame” was an idea that more or less came and went several months ago, but since the film’s first trailer confirmed this hearsay to be 100% correct, it’s become increasingly clear with 20-20 hindsight that the signs were there for us to see.
Anyone who kept track of the various build-ups and letdowns leading up to the recent Avengers: Endgame teaser will know that trailer predictions should always be taken with a grain of salt, and this new report about the first preview for Star Wars: Episode IX is definitely no exception. Still, if the previous rumors that the footage will be dropping by Christmas are anything to go by, perhaps it’s not completely absurd to think that we’ll be getting our first official look at J.J. Abrams’ next film as soon as this Wednesday.
