You could easily criticize me for an overload of Marvel news but they just have so much going on at the moment, namely the confirmed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Fantastic Four, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Force The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man 4 and Big Hero 6, TV’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and the in production Captain America 3, Thor 3, Deadpool, Wolverine 3, Black Panther, The Inhumans and The Avengers 3.
The first bit of news comes from a second viral site for 2014’s most anticipated superhero project, X-Men: Days of Future Past. Before there was Trask Industries but now Fox have launched a conspiracy site called The Bent Bullet. Cast your mind to well over a year ago, Days of Future Past wasn’t yet the title of this film. First Class’ director Matthew Vaughn was set to call the shots and stated that he was considering “The Magic Bullet” idea that in November 1963, fifty years ago just now, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John Kennedy in Dallas the bullet hit but didn’t kill JFK and the young metal controlling mutant Magneto/Erik Lehnsherr (to be played by Michael Fassbender) manipulated the bullet to come back a second time to finish the president off.
As soon as Bryan Singer and Days of Future Past was announced in August 2012, we thought that idea was gone with the new story clearly about time travel. The Bent Bullet has proved us wrong as it’s filled the whole of Lensherr’s story in ’63. We can now presume that he goes on a wild rampage after crippling his closest friend, Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), or, as he said, is framed, most likely by the mutant hating industrialist Bolivar Trask, who designed his cell because he wants him locked up for good after in disaster at Cuba in 1962, see 2011’s X-Men: First Class.
Ten years later in the film’s primary setting, 1970s Magneto (still Fassbender) escapes from his cell with the assistance of 1970s Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence). However, Magneto isn’t best pleased that it’s took this long. Upon Magneto’s escape, Beast (Nicholas Hoult) confronts and attacks the master of magnetism. This is our own speculation but it’s likely that that’s what’s going to happen. Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, Lucas Till and Ellen Page reprise their roles from previous X-Men films while Peter Dinklage, Evan Peters, Booboo Stewart, Omar Sy, Josh Helman, Adan Canto and Fan Bingbing take on new roles such as Quicksilver, Blink and Bishop.
Stan Lee truly is the grandfather of Marvel Comics, TV and film. With regular producing and writing credits, plus his priceless cameos, on the new pictures, he’s still a part of Disney, Sony and Fox’s continuation of his epic franchises from the 1950s and 60s. He’s teaming up with The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man and X-Men producer Avi Arad for a new top secret project that’s being kept within the closed borders of Sony so it could be a Spider-Man tie in, such as Venom, that we mentioned last week.
Arad, Sony’s Israeli secret hero, told the Hollywood Reporter that Stan Lee: “At the ripe old age of 90, can still put together magic. He’s as sharp as a Japanese cooking knife. His mind is as young as it used to be.” That hints at a brand new, original idea that Lee’s brought together in his imaginative cooking pot but, for now, I’m sticking with Venom. Arad added that the next step would be to find a writer.
Meanwhile, The Grey and Warrior star Frank Grillo is counting down the days until Marvel sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where his performance as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones should make him go stellar. He describes to Crave Online “It’s an origin film. You meet people who are going to be around for a while, so they introduce the characters. It’s almost like it’s a series. It’s fun. I can’t say very much about it because Marvel’s very strict about what you’re allowed to say. The movie, we’ve seen bits of it, and it is spectacular.” We think he could be referring to his future with new characters like Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford) or Agent 13 (Emily Van Camp). Cap 2 also stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L Jackson and Sebastian Stan and is directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.
X-Men: Days of Future Past – May 22nd 2014
Captain America: The Winter Soldier – March 28th
Venom/untitled Stan Lee and Avi Arad project – 2016?
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