Though the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker sizzle reel that screened at yesterday’s D23 panel has yet to receive an official online release, the new footage showcased in the promo has already inspired a fresh wave of fan speculation.
The Eternals may be one of the lesser know properties to have a film scheduled for Marvel’s Phase 4, but the cast of Chloé Zhao’s upcoming flick already seem pretty confident that they could hold their own against the MCU’s biggest stars.
At yesterday’s D23 panel, Marvel Studios revealed that Kit Harington of Game of Thrones fame will take on the role of Black Knight in Chloé Zhao’s The Eternals. And while the news was well received by much of the MCU fandom, some filmgoers were disappointed to learn that the Jon Snow actor hadn’t been cast as a more famous comic book character.
Though yesterday’s D23 panel yielded a fair amount of promotional material for the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, fans were still left with plenty of unanswered questions about J.J. Abrams’ much hyped trilogy-closer, many of them concerning the long-awaited return of Emperor Palpatine.
It’s been an emotionally exhausting week for Spider-Man fans, and we can probably assume that the staff at Marvel Studios have been feeling pretty stressed out themselves. Nonetheless, in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, producer Kevin Feige offered a glass-half-full perspective on Peter Parker’s journey in the MCU.
The first teaser for the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was a cause for much conversation when it dropped earlier this year, and the moment that inspired the most speculation was undoubtedly the three seconds of familiar laughter heard at the end of the preview.
At yesterday’s D23 panel, Disney officially confirmed that an Obi-Wan Kenobi TV show is headed for Disney Plus, and while we still have much to learn about the series, we can at least tell you where Ewan McGregor’s small screen adventure lies in the chronology of the Star Wars franchise.
As you may’ve heard by now, Kit Harington of Game of Thrones fame is set to appear in an upcoming MCU movie, and while that’s pretty much all we know about the situation at the moment, the news has proven more than enough to send the internet into a frenzy of excitement.
With all due respect to the How to Train Your Dragon films, Jon Snow in Game of Thrones is currently Kit Harington’s most famous role by a staggeringly wide margin, but now that the HBO series has reached its conclusion, Marvel fans are hoping that the actor has just landed an even more high-profile part in the MCU.
Long before the Disney/Fox deal came into effect last March, Marvel fans were speculating and fantasizing about the possibility of X-Men in the MCU. Sure enough, at last month’s San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige dropped a couple of vague teases for plans to bring “mutants” into the superhero saga. But while there’s no doubt at this point that Marvel intends to make use of their newly acquired characters, a new piece from ScreenRant argues that they may steer clear of using the term “X-Men” for a while.
