Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase 4 & Beyond (and a chance to change your vote)

They got the actor, they just haven't figured out the turning her green part yet.

MCU could've been so much better

Angie Bowie as Black Widow and Ben Carruthers as Daredevil in publicity photos for a proposed TV series in 1975. Angie had bought the TV rights to the Marvel Comics characters, hoping to develop and sell a series. The series failed to secure a studio deal. pic.twitter.com/WuGhTqCauB

— DrPopCultureBGSU (@DrPopCultureBG) March 16, 2022

real kate bush vibes

Or Kathy Griffen

looks like the Netflix shows are officially going to be on Disney+

they sent an email out saying that you need to “update your Parental Controls to show more mature content”

Disney: After Hours.

“The truth is that nobody is one layer,” Zhao continues, “In this case, we truly stepped out of the box that I think the world put us in, and met in the middle because of our shared interests. And by truly doing that, it made a lot of people uncomfortable on both sides. But there are also people who are more comfortable with the order of their world (being) disturbed. And then they look at our love-child and go, ‘Oh! This touches different sides of me!’ I like that. So I completely understand the divisiveness coming from critics and the fans. Because when you take this to extremes that are seen as opposition—the world I come from and the world of Marvel, that has been divided in a way that’s so unfair and unfortunate—and to merge the way we did, I actually see the reaction as a testament to how much we had merged with each other; how uncomfortable that might make people feel.”

Or, maybe your movie was just bad and boring? Until I saw this interview just now I literally forgot the movie even existed.

they look at our love-child and go, ‘Oh! This touches different sides of me!’

gross

Side one: I like boring things!
Side two: I like bad things!
Zhao: What if I told you I could bring both sides together?
Both sides: Sounds terrible! We love it!

the world I come from and the world of Marvel, that has been divided in a way that’s so unfair and unfortunate

is she complaining about Strange Tales, or cheering for the Lethem/Dalrymple Omega?

Lol JiC

Josh OTM

I have no doubt that she could make a great MCU movie, this was the absolute wrong property. (And honestly, could any director have made this a great movie?)

they’d need a cool angle, which has yet to exist in the comics. as far as I could tell, they riffed on the Neil Gaiman series a bit and added in the dance number

even Jack Kirby’s original take was “uhh, I did the New Gods thing at DC and want to do more stuff like that” and it was just… halfhearted?

Nova comin'

https://gizmodo.com/marvel-is-finally-taking-on-nova-with-moon-knights-wri-1848698149

Interesting going w/ Rich Rider versus new Sam Alexander (who was in Ms. Marvel's Champions team, maybe an easier intro connection). Rich is 'my' Nova. RR/Nova also opens up having the Annihilation War as a big Phase finale event, plus his relationship with the Guardians and other space MCU characters.

Some GotG news from the weekend

We are shooting the #GotGHolidaySpecial & #GotGVol3 simultaneously. The Holiday special comes out first, this Christmas season. Vol 3 comes out May 2023. The Holiday special happens between Vol 2 & Vol 3. https://t.co/Znn0JkUNrS

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 26, 2022

Loved Moon Knight E1.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Thought Isaac was great.

Looking forward to more of it anyway.
Don't know the character much

I need the entire season now

loved it

Yup, pretty fantastic. Great music choices too.

Englebert!! Love that choice <3

Thought Isaac's accent would infuriate me, but he was very likeable by the end.

I guess the MCU has reached the "low-selling 1990s Peter Milligan miniseries" portion of its content, which, great

I would have watched another couple of episodes straight off if it was being dropped like that. Got a few other things to catch up on though.
Kept forgetting what time Killing Eve was on so turning onto it half way through but have now watched most of teh season.

Love too try and make oscar issac seem dorky and not handsome

i mean he cant not look the way he looks but he did a p good job of seeming shlubby when he did the terrible shirt & tie … and the bags under his eyes look v authentic

dorky AND handsome is pretty much oscar isaac's brand tbh

I am amused by his performance I was not clear!

a part of my soul died when steven ordered the well done steak

yeah wish they had released the whole show, this was a fun opener, Isaac's lame "laterz gatorz" was such a lonely, Nathan barley-esque catchphrase and that well done steak scene was pretty sad and tragic, a man melting, in his bizarre world. Enjoyed pharoah hawke scenes, he's up for this mystic guru schtick. Don't know anything about this character so have no clue where this is going. kinda wish they didn't use an identikit venom voice for his alternate persona, was a bit distracting.

I thought the Khonshu voice was an… interesting choice. I did crack up when I saw in the credits that it’s F. Murray Abraham

i have a dumb queztion - is the statue he sat & talked to meant to be someone recognizable? or is it just Random Statue of a Guy Gesturing

The street performer?

He's a character from the comics but no-one you'd recognise from the MCU

ok thx - i wasnt thinking MCU so much as general popular culture

Frenchie "Duchamp's" number was in the cell phone, so I am sure he will show up at some point.

I got to wonder if at some point 'Jake Lockely' will show up.

Dr. Strange tickets on sale and one last trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLTYw1s4e-8

Also looking ahead to the Echo series, a snippet via io9:

According to costumer Stacey Caballero’s resume on her personal website, both Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio will return for the Echo spinoff series at Disney+.

Ooh looking fwd to that one.

Meanwhile, Moon Knight continues to be good, loved ep 2. Oscar Isaac has excellent comic timing.

Absolutely, especially with himself

loving it - ep2 had some v funny moments

also enjoying Hawke in this too, he’s v good imo

Digging MK too. Is there a villain in Dr Strange MoM?

The teasers show Mordo and Gargantos (tentacle monster). Scarlet Witch could go either way, and they might be hiding a main villain like Nightmare until release.

There also appears to be at least one evil Dr. Strange

yeah evil Strange merging with all the dark spirits was the scariest part of the trailer

About right

/2 Also: Moon Knight is part of a genre that depicts ancient pantheons not as distant beings with unknowable goals but as collections of petty slap-fighting assholes, which is FAR more mythically accurate. I mean Zeus is not Liam Neeson. Zeus is weekend Andy Dick.

— HatIsWithCriminalDefendants (@Popehat) April 8, 2022

Okay so Moon Knight continues to be awesome.

Haha, yes. I was thinking it was beginning to get a bit more standard Marvel and then that last 15 minutes was fantastic

Once you start hearing Stath lets Flats in Oscar Issac's 'British' accent, you cant ever unhear it.

7mins into Ep2, when he talks to the statue is a good example.

This show rules so hard