Though Zack Snyder likely directed his final DCEU movie with last year’s Justice League, Jason Momoa has made it all too clear that he’s still a fan of the man for the role he played in shaping this superhero saga, and in one recent interview, the Aquaman star expressed his gratitude to the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice helmsman for bringing him into the franchise.
Since the demonic little Annabelle was introduced as one of the breakout stars of 2013’s The Conjuring, her standalone movies have proven so popular that Warner Bros. is releasing the untitled Annabelle 3 over a year before the spinoff’s mother series has been given its third installment.
Though the DCEU spent its early years as a saga led by Superman and Batman, the franchise is becoming gradually less reliant on such obvious big names, and the pattern continues with the upcoming solo debut of Aquaman. But as this cinematic universe heads into a future that reportedly includes quite a few names that the average filmgoer is currently oblivious to, actor Jason Momoa observes that the MCU took important strides several years ago in opening audiences up to lesser-known superheroes.
With the exception of the odd producing credit, the Zack Snyder era for the DCEU pretty much came to a close with last year’s commercially underwhelming Justice League, and in the months since, it’s become increasingly clear that the franchise is in a period of transition as Warner Bros. try to figure out how to put the superhero saga back on track. That being said, the new Aquaman is kicking off the next phase pretty well, with the film earning respectable reviews, high international box office figures, and some promising projections for its domestic release.
The first Avengers: Endgame trailer gave the fans a lot to process, but perhaps the biggest question raised by the footage is how exactly Tony Stark is going to be saved from his lonely drift through space. The internet has suggested plenty of ways in which Iron Man’s salvation might come, but few have been more practical in their assessment of the situation than the team at NASA, and for their guidance, Robert Downey Jr. is most grateful.
It’s been a long and ironically slow journey for the Flash’s big screen solo debut, which has seen the project go through multiple directors before coming into the hands of Game Night helmsmen John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. And on the extensive list of filmmakers who almost brought Barry Allen back to theaters is apparently Aquaman director James Wan.
The MCU has its share of dysfunctional families, from Thor and his villainous siblings, to Peter Quill and his Celestial father, but the most messed up of them all just might be the Thanos clan, with the Mad Titan sacrificing his daughter Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War after torturing his other adopted child Nebula. And with next year’s Avengers: Endgame, we could be seeing all this tense history come to a head.
Big Little Lies star Nicole Kidman is hardly starved for work these days, making her a pretty impressive catch for the new Aquaman movie (all the more if they’ve got her locked in for the film’s probable sequels). And as it turns out, Kidman’s decision to say yes to the project was based less on the DC property’s appeal and more on the man they got to helm the pic.
The mass dusting that concluded Avengers: Infinity War casts a long shadow over the promotion for next year’s Avengers: Endgame, from the disintegrating Marvel Studios logo in the film’s first trailer, to the purple-tinted lettering that the marketing material has been using lately to remind us that Thanos is coming back.
The partnership between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures has proven to be a fruitful one, with former Sony head and Spider-Man: Homecoming producer Amy Pascal recently hinting that she’d like to keep their deal going a while longer. Nonetheless, throughout their time collaborating on some major franchise releases, it was inevitable that there’d be some disagreements between the two companies, with Vanity Fair recently reporting that the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home was the subject of one such clash.
