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    Wednesday, January 15, 2014

    Drew Pearce and Ben Kingsley Talk 'All Hail The King'! Hints at Luke Cage


    An audio clip for Marvels upcoming One-Shot 'All Hail The King' was featured exclusively on Sirus XM radio last night. They have now uploaded it to soundcloud. It also includes a interview with Trevor himself Sir Ben Kingsley and director/writer Drew Pearce:


    Marvel One-Shot: All Hail The King will be on Thor: The Dark World DVD & Blu-Ray

    Thursday, January 9, 2014

    Luke Cage Reference in 'All Hail The King' Marvel One-Shot!


    Today we got confirmation that Thor: The Dark World DVD will indeed have yet another Marvel One Shot titled 'All Hail The King'. It was confirmed to follow the events of Iron Man 3 and follow Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley) as he is sentenced to Seagate Prison. Now why is this important? Well Seagate Prison happens to be the same exact prison Luke Cage is sentenced to as a criminal before being experimented on and becoming Power Man!

    Now with Netflix moving forward with Marvel Street universe does this confirm that Marvel Street will also be connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe? It just might but seriously we knew it would. Will we see the actor playing Luke Cage in the Netflix series cameo in this Short Film? Doubtful but at least we know that Seagate Prison is now officially planted in the MCU just like Roxxon Oil Company is from past Marvel One Shots.

    All Hail The King will be in the Thor: The Dark World DVD & Blu-Ray

    New Preview of Marvel's One Shot: "All Hail The King" Featuring Ben Kingsley

          Entertainment Weekly has reveal four new stills and interview with writer Drew Pearce from the upcoming one shot "All Hail The King" showing the return of Trevor Slattery. The short film gives us a look into the life of Trevor in prison which is not going so well for him due to his false identity.

    “Imagine a real terrorist organization whose beliefs were long held and religious for thousands of years, and imagine a drunk, British actor coming along and essentially telling the world that he’s the face of your organization,” says Drew Pearce. “I think they would be right to be quite angry.”

     
    Drew Pearce goes on to talk about what convinced him to bring back Ben Kingsley for this particular One Shot. 

    “I had spoken to Sir Ben a lot on set because Trevor was a tricky character that everyone was involved with right from the beginning. And it was always a huge risk. I was so grateful to him when he pulled it off after a year of truly worrying about whether we could land that turn. So, 'The Further Adventures of Trevor' was something we had talked about on set all the time, and when we sat down to talk about what the short would be, it was Stephen [Broussard, executive producer of Iron Man 3] and Kevin [Feige, Marvel Studios president] and myself and Joss Whedon and Jeremy Latcham [executive producer of The Avengers.] So we kicked around a bunch of ideas and there were loads of them that we liked, and it was actually Joss who at a certain point went like, “Or you could do the one that has Sir Ben Kingsley in it because you have access to Sir Ben Kingsley.”

     
    Pearce continues on talking about the unsure feeling of doing a One Shot about the false Mandarin until Joss Whedon gave him some tips.

    “No, no, no, no. There were lots of possibilities from the Iron Man 3 world. Joss that said, “You got Sir Ben” at which point we all went, “Hopefully we get Sir Ben” and then I had to go write a script that would mean Sir Ben would commit. We stayed in touch and I sent it to him. I don’t know if he’s ever, and it’s nothing to do with me, but I don’t know if he’s ever been funnier than he is as Trevor. Like, obviously he’s not as funny as Trevor when he’s Gandhi or in Schindler’s List, but what he does with Trevor is incredible.” 


       

    Pearce also commented on the possibility of this One Shot expanding the Marvel Universe, and if it does open up a possibility to Iron Man 4. 

    Oh, it couldn’t possibly. [Laughs.] I think short movies in general, whether they’re Marvel ones or not, you kind of want them to feel like they’re opening you up to a bigger world. Yeah, I definitely think there are – the non-spoiler way for me to say it — by the end of the short, there are definitely a lot of exciting other places that are brought up in it that could then go in the Marvel universe. You know, whether that’s an Iron Man movie or another one going into Phase Two or Three.

    All Hail The King will be on the THOR The Dark World Blu-ray out February 25th.

    Thursday, January 2, 2014

    Details on Marvel's One-Shot on 'Thor: The Dark World DVD' & Blu-Ray


    Some new details on the special features that will appear on Marvels Thor: The Dark World DVD & Blue-Ray have emerged. They list a brand new Marvel: One-Shot titled All Hail the King is this the suppose 3rd Mandarin One-Shot Latino-Review reported on several months ago?! Also is a 3 Minute sneak peek at Captain America: The Winter Solider! Which is most likley the 3-Min trailer from the IMAX Screenings of Thor: The Dark World:


    00:13:13:16
    ALL HAIL THE KING – A MARVEL ONE-SHOT
    00:16:14:22
    A BROTHERS JOURNEY – THOR & LOKI (PART 1)
    00:14:02:12
    A BROTHERS JOURNEY – THOR & LOKI (PART 2)
    00:03:23:19
    EXCLUSIVE LOOK – CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
    00:05:05:00
    SCORING THOR: THE DARK WORLD WITH BRYAN TYLER
    00:01:32:04
    DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES: EXTENDED CELEBRATION SCENE
    00:01:38:17
    DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES: JANE LEARNS ABOUT THE AETHER
    00:01:00:11
    DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES: LOKI: THE FIRST AVENGER
    00:01:07:08
    DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES: THOR AND FRIGGA DISCUSS LOKI
    00:00:19:17
    DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES: DARK ELVES PREPARE FOR BATTLE
    00:01:42:02
    DELETED & EXTENDED SCENES: EXTENDED VANAHEIM SCENE
    00:01:32:04
    EXTENDED CELEBRATION SCENE COMMENTARY BY ALAN TAYLOR & KRAMER MOREGENTHAU
    00:01:38:17
    JANE LEARNS ABOUT THE AETHER COMMENTARY BY ALAN TAYLOR & KRAMER MOREGENTHAU
    00:01:00:11
    LOKI: THE FIRST AVENGER COMMENTARY BY TOM HIDDLESTON
    00:01:07:08
    THOR AND FRIGGA DISCUSS LOKI COMMENTARY BY KEVIN FEIGE
    00:00:19:17
    DARK ELVES PREPARE FOR BATTLE COMMENTARY BY KEVIN FEIGE
    00:03:18:24
    GAG REEL
    01:47:23:24
    THOR THE DARK WORLD (FEATURE WITH AUDIO COMMENTARY)
      Thor: The Dark World hits DVD & Blu-Ray this February!

    Tuesday, December 31, 2013

    SuperheroMovieNews' 2013 Award Show - Winners


    Earlier this month, we posted an article featuring nominees from what we believed to be some of the best comic book movies of 2013, with awards ranging from Best Actor all the way to Best Visual Effects, we have all the awards under control. 2013 was rather interesting, we had some major disappointments and we had some amazing surprises, but now, we give you the winners for 2013's SuperheroMovieNews Award show. You won't find movies like World War Z or Pacific Rim in these awards, cause they are not, Superhero Movies. Our Twitter account received your votes, and with the help of our readers, we were able to come up with an award show that you, the fans, should love! So without further ado, we give you the winners for 2013!



    Best Visual Effects: Man Of Steel

    Iron Man 3
    Thor: The Dark World
    Man Of Steel
    The Wolverine


    Best Production Design: Thor: The Dark World

    Man Of Steel
    Thor: The Dark World
    Kick-Ass 2
    The Wolverine


    Best Score: Man Of Steel

    Iron Man 3
    Man Of Steel
    Kick-Ass 2
    Thor: The Dark World


    Best Superhero Costume: Iron Man 3

    Superman (‘Man Of Steel’)
    Iron Man (‘Iron Man 3’)
    Kick-Ass (‘Kick-Ass 2’)
    Thor (‘Thor: The Dark World’)


    Best Supporting Actress: Svetlana Khodchenkova as 'The Viper' in The Wolverine

    Diane Lane (‘Man Of Steel’)
    Rebecca Hall (‘Iron Man 3’)
    Svetlana Khodchenkova (‘The Wolverine’)
    Natalie Portman (‘Thor: The Dark World’)


    Best Supporting Actor: Ty Simpkins as 'Harley' in Marvel's Iron Man 3

    Russell Crowe (‘Man Of Steel’)
    Ty Simpkins (‘Iron Man 3’)
    Tom Hiddleston (‘Thor: The Dark World’)
    Will Yun Lee (‘The Wolverine’)


    Best Actress: Jamie Alexander as 'Lady Sif' in Thor: The Dark World 

    Chloe Grace Moretz (‘Kick-Ass 2’)
    Jamie Alexander (‘Thor: The Dark World’)
    Rila Fukushima (‘The Wolverine’)
    Amy Adams (‘Man Of Steel’)


    Best Actor: Henry Cavill as 'Clark Kent/Superman' in Man Of Steel 

    Henry Cavill (‘Man Of Steel’)
    Robert Downey Jr. (‘Iron Man 3’)
    Hugh Jackman (‘The Wolverine’)
    Chris Hemsworth (‘Thor: The Dark World’)


    Best Villain: Tom Hiddleston as 'Loki' in Thor: The Dark World

    Sir. Ben Kingsley/Guy Pearce as The Mandarin (‘Iron Man 3’)
    Michael Shannon as General Zod (‘Man Of Steel’)
    Tom Hiddleston as Loki (‘Thor: The Dark World’)
    Christopher Mintz-Plasse as The Mother F***er (‘Kick-Ass 2’)


    Best Superhero: Iron Man in Iron Man 3

    Wolverine (‘The Wolverine’)
    Iron Man (‘Iron Man 3’)
    Hit-Girl (‘Kick-Ass 2’)
    Superman (‘Man Of Steel’)


    Best Director: James Mangold for The Wolverine

    Shane Black (‘Iron Man 3’)
    James Mangold (‘The Wolverine’)
    Alan Taylor (‘Thor: The Dark World’)
    Zack Snyder (‘Man Of Steel’)


    Best Picture Of The Year: Fox and James Mangold for The Wolverine

    Iron Man 3 (Marvel Studios/Shane Black)
    The Wolverine (Fox/James Mangold)
    Thor: The Dark World (Marvel Studios/Alan Taylor)
    Man Of Steel (Warner Bros/Zack Snyder)


    Announcement Of The Year: Warner Bros and Zack Snyder for the Ben Affleck as Batman

    Ben Affleck Will Play Batman (Warner Bros/Zack Snyder)
    X-Men: Apocalypse For 2016 (Fox/Bryan Singer)
    Robert Downey Jr. To Return For Avengers: Age Of Ultron & 3 (Marvel Studios)
    Venom & Sinister Six Films (Sony Pictures)


    Trailer Of The Year: Sony Pictures and Marc Webb for The Amazing Spider-Man 2

    The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Sony Pictures/Marc Webb)
    X-Men: Days Of Future Past (Fox/Bryan Singer)
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Marvel Studios/Russo Brothers.)
    Robocop (Sony Pictures/Jose Padilha)

    Thanks for reading, everyone from SuperheroMovieNews wishes you the best, and may you have a happy new year!

    Thursday, December 19, 2013

    IRON MAN 3 Writer Drew Pearce Talks The Mandarin Reveal and Pitch to MARVEL

    Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin has to be named as the biggest WTF moment of the year. By now everyone has seen the big shocker of The Mandarin which some hated and some thought was a great idea. But what was going through the mind of the writer of the film, Drew Pearce.

    It's interesting: When you're doing a massive movie like this, on a technical level, the really hard scene to write is always at the end of act two. It's the tesseract of all these agendas and plotlines, and that gets even trickier on a Marvel movie because you're often rewriting on set as you go, so it's like a weird cross between Cassavetes and a Rubik's cube. And narration is always hard, too — I literally wrote and rewrote the narration for this movie 2,000 times over the course of two and a half years. But overall, as tricky as those things both were on a prosaic level, I think the Mandarin reveal scene was the most difficult one to write, conceptually.

    For the Mandarin, I'd been kicking around lots of ideas about false faces and terrorist pop stars and I was really worried about telling Marvel — I thought we'd get strung up — but Shane said, "Fuck 'em, this idea is kind of indelible. We should run towards it." And to both of our surprise, when we pitched it to Kevin Feige, who's the president of Marvel Studios, he took it in and said, "I love it." He'd been trying to crack the Mandarin concept since the first Iron Man. The Mandarin was actually in the first Iron Man up until six weeks before they shot it!


    Wow the Mandarin could have been in the first Iron Man. That would have been quite interesting to see. Iron Man 3 is out on Blu-ray and DVD now. 

    Friday, November 15, 2013

    FEATURE: 10 Things You May Not Know About The SPIDER-MAN Franchise



    Spider-Man is perhaps the most successful superhero of today’s generation. You name it, Spider-Man’s done it. The Spider-Man franchise is deemed one of the most successful franchises of all time, with four feature films to it’s name, with another three films set to come out before 2020, the franchise has also grossed over three billion dollars worldwide over the course of its four films. But, believe it or not, there was a time when Spider-Man was impossible to bring to the film screen. The likes of James Cameron and David Fincher couldn’t bring the character to life, so without further ado, I invite you to take a seat, and sit back and enjoy ‘Ten things you may not know about the Spider-Man franchise’.


    1.  James Cameron Tried To Bring The Wall Crawler To Life… Twice


    Who would ever think that a film by James Cameron, the guy behind fricking Titanic would never get made? Well, thank God this Spider-Man movie didn’t get made. James Cameron was a fan of Spider-Man and attempted to bring a realistic, gritty version of the character to the big screen in the early 90s. Cameron’s film was set to feature Doctor… Or should I say, Professor Otto Octavius as the bad guy. Octavius would have been portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger and would have featured Leonardo DiCaprio as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. After the studio declined Cameron’s original script, he sent in an updated 47 page screenplay, instead of Professor Octavius as the bad guy, it featured Electro and Sandman as the film’s main villains. The film was heavy in profanity, featured a climatic battle atop The World Trade Center, and featured Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker having sex… How touching. When Sony announced the rebooted Spider-Man, Cameron was offered the director’s chair but declined saying he didn’t want “sloppy seconds.”

    2  2. The Joker Almost Played Spider-Man


    When Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man film entered pre-production, Sony Pictures went looking for some of the hottest actors of the time. On the shortlist to play the wall crawler was none other than Leonardo DiCaprio, Freddie Prinze, Jnr, Chris Klein, Wes Bentley and believe it or not, The Joker himself, Heath Ledger. Ledger read for the part, but nothing else was ever revealed, and Harry Osborn actor, James Franco screen tested for the role, despite not getting it, Franco impressed Raimi so much that he cast him as Harry Osborn instead. Despite the list of A-list actors, unknown Tobey Maguire was cast and the rest is history.

        3. Add Green Goblin To The List Of Roles Nicolas Cage Almost Played


    When Sam Raimi was looking for his perfect Norman Osborn/Green Goblin, he went to the best, so why did he offer Nic Cage the role? I am of course joking, but Nicolas Cage was offered the role but turned it down. No word on why he turned it down, but eventually Willem Dafoe was cast, and now whenever I hear Willem Dafoe, I always scream, “avenge me.” Dafoe has since slammed the rebooted Spider-Man film, The Amazing Spider-Man, calling it "unoriginal." Harsh words from a guy who starred in John Carter.

        4. Spider-Man 2’s original pitch and title were ‘Amazing’


    Just after Spider-Man swung into theatres in May of 2002, Sony hired Michael Chabon to rewrite the Spider-Man 2 screenplay and to shake things up a bit, shake things, he did. The film’s title was originally going to be ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ named after the character’s long time comic series. The film’s storyline was also significantly different, with Dr. Octopus actually being a love interest for Mary Jane and resembled more of the Ultimate Doc Ock than the 616. Harry Osborn also teamed up with The Daily Bugle, with putting a $10 million price on Spidey’s head. Producer Avi Arad turned down the idea, but tweaked the Osborn idea a little. The film was then rewritten a third time, and was based on the ‘Spider-Man: No More’ storyline and Superman 2.

       5. Trevor Slattery Was Almost In Spider-Man 3


    Ghandi himself! Sir Ben Kinglsey was in negotiations to star as Adrian Toomes/The Vulture in Sam Raimi’s original draft for Spider-Man 3. Kinglsey was a fan of the previous films and was looking forward to playing the role, before the part was cut due to the studio wanting Raimi to add Venom instead of Vulture, thanks Sony! Kinglsey later starred in Iron Man 3 as Trevor Slattery/The Mandarin. Venom’s alter ego, Eddie Brock, did however have a small part in the original screenplay, and it was said that Topher Grace was always Raimi’s ideal Eddie Brock.

       6. Sony Hired James Vanderbilt To Write Two Separate Spider-Man Films


    James Vanderbilt, the man behind 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, was hired by Sony Pictures in May of 2008 to rewrite the Spider-Man 4 script and to write a reboot of the film series if worse comes to worse. Of course, Spider-Man 4 was scrapped and the studio went for a new, fresh take on the Spider-Man character, simply using Vanderbilt’s screenplay. Vanderbilt’sSpider-Man 4 screenplay featured such iconic characters as The Vulture, Mysterio, The Lizard and Felicia Hardy. While his reboot, featured Green Goblin as the main villain, resembling the first six issues of the successful comic book series, Ultimate Spider-Man.

        7. David Fincher Was In Early Negotiations To Direct The Reboot


    When it was announced that Sam Raimi had left Spider-Man 4, the Internet exploded, people were confused and sadden. And then out of nowhere, a new man arrives, Marc Webb. Webb who was most famous for his indie rom-com, (500) Days Of Summer, was not however the first man to pitch something for Sony. The Social Network director, David Fincher pitched an idea to Sony that would have been based on the graphic novel, Spider-Man: Blue and would tell the story of Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy’s love, from the moment they first lay eyes on each other to Gwen’s horrible death.  As much as I love Webb’s film, it would have been bloody brilliant to see what David Fincher would have done.

    .   8.  Mary Jane Was Originally In The Amazing Spider-Man


    Before Marc Webb was announced to direct, Sony were pretty keen on keeping Mary Jane Watson as Peter Parker’s main love interest. The studio even looked at some actresses for the part including Ophelia Lovibond, Diana Agron and Emma Stone, the latter of course went on to play Peter Parker’s other love interest, Gwen Stacy in the film. Mary Jane’s part in the film was cut and was left on the shelf for the sequel, which again, the part was cut, this time having Shailene Woodley miss out. Maybe third time lucky?

       9. Ang Lee’s The Amazing Spider-Man?


    Ever since The Amazing Spider-Man hit theatres in 2012, fans have been coming up with multiple theories and explanations for the origin of Spider-Man. While at the film’s surface it may just seem like another ‘boy gets bit by spider’ story, there is apparently a lot more there. The whole storyline with Peter’s parents was actually expanded on in the original test screening for Sony executives in February of 2012. Marc Webb held a screening of his cut, at his home in February, his cut of the film explained how Peter Parker got his powers in what has since been described as “Ang Lee Hulkish.” According to many sites, Sony hated Webb’s cut because it simply gave away a storyline that they felt could be a mystery throughout the entire franchise. The film was taken back to the editing room.

    110. Jamie Foxx Is (Apparently) Writing A Song For The Amazing Spider-Man 2


    A very recent entry in this list is arguably one of the coolest ones. Grammy winning Jaime Foxx revealed in an interview a few months ago that he is planning to write a song for the anticipated Spider-Man sequel, which he will star in as Electro. Foxx has revealed a few details about the song saying “"When it (music) really ramps up, when the orchestra comes in, that's when you see the big fight. Imagine the orchestra playing and then, in slow motion, breaking their instruments and running from everything." Honestly, I’m super keen.


    Well that brings this ’10 Things You May Not Know’ to a close, hopefully you guys enjoyed it and maybe we can do this again? If you like what you see here, you can always bookmark us, and even follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook!