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Ahead of 20th Century Fox's Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, posters for Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse have been handed out to convention attendees, revealing our first glimpse at the film's titular villain.
Those who were looking forward to seeing Josh Trank's Fantastic Four in 3D this summer are about to have those hopes clobbered, as the director himself has announced that the film will not get the three dimensional conversion that was originally planned.
We already know that more speedsters will be showing up in Central City when The Flash returns for its second season, and now the identity of one such hero has been revealed. According to DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns, Jay Garrick will be speeding his way onto television when The Flash returns this fall.
Just last month, fans' wishes to see the Punisher join the Marvel Cinematic Universe came true with the news that The Walking Dead alum Jon Bernthal would be taking on the role of Frank Castle in Daredevil's second season.
According to TVLine, the big bad for Arrow's fourth season has been cast. Damien Darhk, a former student of Ra's al Ghul who turned to evil and was namedropped in the final few episodes - will be played by none other than Justified and Minority Report actor Neal McDonough.
Rumor has been swirling ever since he was cast in the role that Ben Affleck would not only play the Caped Crusader in the DC Extended Universe, but direct the next solo Batman film, which is expected to hit theaters before 2020. Now, that news has seemingly been made official, if a new report from Deadline is to be believed.
Though they have certainly taken over the convention in recent years, big budget superhero tentpoles aren't the only movies to get announced at San Diego Comic-Con. Case in point, Image Comics' science fiction/horror piece Roche Limit has just been given a one-way ticket to the big screen.
Many attribute the success of the contemporary superhero genre to Bryan Singer's X-Men, which hit theaters in 2000 and helped usher in a new wave of comic book adaptations. However, the first successful Marvel Comics adaptation was Blade, which arrived in 1998 and starred Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire superhero.
Back in 2001, television producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar pitched a Superman TV series with a strict "no tights, no flights" rule. That series became Smallville, and starred Tom Welling as a Man of Steel effectively grounded, having to resort instead to his other abilities to defeat a wealth of Kryptonite-mutated baddies and out-of-this-world supervillains. The series relied heavily on dramatic irony to allude to Clark Kent's caped destiny, and only fully committed to the concept that he was Superman in its final seasons.
San Diego Comic-Con has finally arrived, and with over 30 superhero films and countless tentpoles on the horizon, this could be the biggest year yet (even without Marvel Studios in attendance). Here are 8 things we hope to see this year, from footage from our most-anticipated superhero projects to information about a beloved galaxy far, far away...