Wil Traval played damaged, pill-popping police officer Will Simpson (a variation of Marvel Comics villain, Nuke) in the first season of Marvel and Netflix's Jessica Jones, but it seems the actor is preparing to jump ship to DC for a much more heroic role. According to TV Line, Traval will play Christopher Chance, AKA Human Target, in season 5 of The CW's Arrow.
Towards the end of the season 3 finale of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. we found out that Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) had been replaced as the team's director. Most of us assumed another established character must have been promoted in his stead, but then a couple of weeks ago it was announced that Irish actor Jason O'Mara (Life on Mars, Terra Nova) had been cast in the role.
When it was first announced that actress/singer Zendaya had joined the cast of Marvel and Sony's Spider-Man: Homecoming, reports indicated that she'd be playing someone named "Michelle". Many assumed this must be a minor love interest of Peter Parker's from the comics, Michelle Gonzales, but apparently the young star is actually going to be a new incarnation of a much more prominent character: Mary 'MJ' Watson.
Yesterday, Variety reported that Ray Fisher would be reprising his role as Cyborg in The Flash, which stars Ezra Miller and is set to speed into theatres in 2018. It made perfect sense, too, given that various members of the Justice League are starting to show up in each other's films now that we're in the process of building up to Zack Snyder's highly anticipated team up flick.
A couple of months ago we reported on some Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 character breakdowns, and it came to light that Marvel and ABC were looking to cast an actress to play a "very attractive" robot named Aida. Now, TV Line has revealed that the actress in question will be Australian Galavant star, Mallory Jansen.
A big-screen adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona's Runaways comic series has been on the cards at Marvel (in one form or another) since back in 2008, and over the years we've been constantly reassured that a movie outing for the teenage heroes was still a possibility. Well, fans may have to forget about that for the foreseeable future, because there's a TV series in the works.
With the DCEU now in full swing, characters from the Justice League are starting to pop up all over the place as we build towards Zack Snyder's film. Batman V Superman gave us a glimpse of almost everyone, while Suicide Squad featured both the Flash and the Caped Crusader himself. Now, we're hearing of yet another cameo.
Lionsgate's Power Rangers reboot is really starting to heat up now ahead of its March 24th release next year. That's still quite a ways away, but we've already seen a healthy dose of promo material from the film, and it all looks great. That first official trailer still eludes us, but to tide us over until it eventually hits, we now have a new photo of big bad Rita Repulsa.
Deadpool may have proven that there's still plenty of life left in the R-rated superhero movie, but that doesn't mean you can expect to see blood 'n guts or hear any F-bombs in a Marvel Studios flick any time soon. With that in mind, Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson took to Twitter to tease/joke about his film's inevitable PG-13 rating.
