With Marvel’s Phase 2 now in full swing, with Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier already out and Guardians of the Galaxy’s release date fast approaching, it is becoming the norm for a piece of news about the upcoming films to be released weekly. But that side of Marvel is not what this article is about, no there are two pieces of rather exciting news concerning the two Marvel franchises owned by 20th Century Fox and Sony.
The first being the upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four. Due to the first two attempts at taking the adventures of Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, The Thing and Human Torch to the screen failed to dazzle film and comic book audiences alike; even Captain America on fire couldn’t save it. 20th Century Fox have now decided to give it another go, here’s hoping that they do it justice this time; as the Fantastic Four are one of the most famous superhero teams in the Marvel universe and really deserve a great franchise. Josh Trank (Chronicle) is helming the new adaptation, and the film stars a much younger cast than its predecessor, with Miles Teller (Mr. Fantastic), Kate Mara (Invisible Woman), Michael B. Jordan (Human Torch) and Jamie Bell (The Thing).
Doctor Doom will once again be the main villain for the 2015 film, however it has recently been released that Tim Blake Nelson (whose last Marvel film role was as Samuel Sterns/The Leader in The Incredible Hulk) has signed on to the film, and will be portraying Harvey Elder. A scientist who is shunned by civilisation and eventually becomes the Moleman, who rules over an underground species called ‘Moloids’. Although Nelson will feature in this film, his character is more likely going to be a set up for the next Fantastic Four movie, set for a 2017 release.
The other half of the big news comes from Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man. If like me you sat through to the end of the credits at the cinema when watching The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and all you got was a little clip from the new X-Men: Days of Future Past film; you might have felt slightly disappointed. Well it actually turns out that if you have the smart phone app ‘Shazam’, then you can Shazam the end credits song – ‘It’s On Again’ by Alicia Keys – and you will be shown various different images that tease at the line-up for the upcoming Drew Goddard directed ‘Sinister Six’ film.
The pictures, from SuperHeroHype, are shown below:
From the images it appears that the villains who will be assembling in their own film will be: Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Rhino, Vulture, Kraven the Hunter and Mysterio. Personally I can’t wait to see how the back story of Kraven will be shown on-screen, and what a new-age version of Mysterio will look like.
Big things are coming.
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