Don't say we didn't warn you! Spoilers below!
There is a lot out there, so let's jump in.
Lionsgate released a new poster for "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," with a tag-line that kind of spoils the ending. It's a great catch-phrase, but anybody who's read the book knows what up. I guess they'd know what was up anyway, though.
"Doctor Who" Showrunner Steven Moffat has had a busy week. In an interview with
"Doctor Who Magazine," he opened up about the controversy surrounding Peter Capaldi's The 12th Doctor:
"The Doctor's always said he’s thousands of years old, and suddenly he’s going to look closer to what we know he secretly is" says Steven Moffat, in an exclusive sneak-peek quote given to doctorwho.tv. "He’s going to look like an older man. A fiercer man. He won’t be the dashing young man he was a minute ago, and I think that’ll be rather exciting…"Also, at the AdLib Comedy event in Edinburgh, Moffat was full of vague, wibbly-wobbly answers during a Q&A with the audience:
What are the chances of Peter Jackson directing an episode?
"He's serious about it. We talked at The Hobbit premiere - he just wants a Dalek. So we'll give him a Dalek and he'll direct an episode. I think he'd like to us to go to New Zealand. I think it's entirely possible."
Rumour that JK Rowling is writing a short story for the 50th Anniversary.
"I can't confirm that..., right now."
A return for the Doctor's daughter, Jenny?
"The door is open, it's entirely possible."
Similarly, a return for Romana?
"I have actually given no thought at all to Romana. The Time Lords are dead in my mind. They died."
Will Peter Capaldi's Doctor have a Scottish accent?
"I'd be very surprised if he didn't"[Blogtor Who]Harrison Ford spilled the beans about "Star Wars: Episode VII."
Sort of.Joss Whedon will be featured in a 10-page "Entertainment Weekly" interview that promises to be quite candid. In it, he offers a
little tease on how Ultron will differ from the comics:
“I knew right away what I wanted to do with him,” Whedon says. “He’s always trying to destroy the Avengers, ... he’s got a bee in his bonnet. He’s not a happy guy, which means he’s an interesting guy. He’s got pain. And the way that manifests is not going to be standard robot stuff. So we’ll take away some of those powers because at some point everybody becomes magic, and I already have someone [a new character, Scarlet Witch] who’s a witch.”It's a tough call. The recent trend in entertainment based on comics is to make everything as "real world" as possible, so a lot of stories are shying away from things like magic and ghosts and whatnot. This is going to get trickier as time goes on, and characters like Doctor Strange start getting their own movies.
It looks like Thor and Asgard are due to arrive at Disneyland.
This kind of vague blog post on the Disney Parks blog states:
"In celebration of “Thor: The Dark World” coming to theaters November 8, guests at Disneyland park will be able to visit Asgard this fall and come face-to-face with the Mighty Avenger, Thor."Which is all you get, apparently.
Fox and Marvel released the first officially groovy image from "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
Mark Millar, the creative consultant for 20th Century Fox’s Marvel superhero movies spoke to
SFX about the upcoming "Fantastic Four" reboot:
“These first two movies were not very good but I’m quite sentimental towards them. I took my youngest daughter to see the first one, she was only five when it came out, and she thought it was the best film ever made. At the end, when Johnny Storm says, ‘Flame on!’ for the first time, she thanked me for taking her to see it. So even though it was a crap movie that memory makes me sort-of like it in a strange way. For the new one all they have to do is make it great. It sounds obvious and it is. Sam Raimi gave us a great Spider-Man. Christopher Nolan gave us a great Batman. So a brilliant director is probably the most important thing for a great Fantastic Four. Tim Story was seen as an odd choice for Fantastic Four but when you have a Josh Trank you know you are in safe hands.”Josh Trank is the writer/director of 2012's "Chronicle," which made waves for being cheap and awesome.
Here is a new trailer for "300: Rise of an Empire."
That's all the big stuff.
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