While many have their fingers crossed that the first footage from Avengers: Age Of Ultron will screen at Comic Con, ahead of the Marvel panel a set of great concept art posters has been released.
We don’t have all of them yet though, as it’s thought four more are due to be released. Eventually it will be possible to piece them all together into an image of a massive battle (you can see that complete pic so far below). That complete pic also confirms that the Avengers won’t be just up against a single Ultron, but a whole army of them.
So far we have Captain America, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch and Black Widow. It’s presumed we’ll get Hulk, Quicksilver and Hawkeye posters soon, with the final one either featuring Nick Fury or the main Ultron (who will be voiced by James Spader).
In the actual film it’s known that Ultron is sentient tech that Tony Stark builds in order to help save the world without the need for The Avengers. However as is always the way with sentient robots in films, he soon turns evil.
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Edgar Wright may be out and Peyton Reed has come in to replace him, but it’s full steam ahead with Marvel’s Ant-Man. While it’s too early to show off footage at Comic Con, Marvel has taken the opportunity to release a rather cool concept art poster, which gives us our best look yet at the hero in his suit, along with Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas in the background.
It’s perhaps not surprising that the first trailer for the film version of Fifty Shades Of Grey isn’t too hot and heavy, although it certainly hints at all manner of kinkiness. Hopefully we’ll get a red band trailer soon which will show us just what sort of extremes the movie might go to.
When there’s a major gay role in a film or TV show, there’s often grumbling if its played by a resolutely straight person. There are actually fairly complex arguments surrounding this – it’s not just a question of whether gay people ought to play gay roles, but whether the fact gay people are so often typecast into particular types of parts, that by casting a straight person you are both perpetuating the idea that having homosexuality on-screen is okay as long as it’s not ‘real’ and that you’re taking work away from gay actors who are often overlooked for major roles.
Ever since its started, Arrow has seemed more interested in luring in gay men and women than the young men traditionally associated with superheroes. However while the general shirtlessness has been close to gay-baiting, there’s been a severe lack of actual LGBT characters, other than the blink-and-you’ll miss it inclusion of Nyssa Al Ghul (Katrina Law) as Sara Lance’s (Caity Lotz) former lover. While Sara technically remains bisexual, we’ve only actually seen her in heterosexual situations since then.
Mad Max Fury Road finally started shooting at the end of 2012 after years on delays. We’re now in the summer of 2014 and we still have to wait until May 2015 to see it. However the marketing is kicking into gear with the release of the poster above, ahead to the film’s Comic Con panel on Saturday at 10am in Hall H.
The Fault In Our Stars showed there’s a big market out there for teen-focussed weepies, and If I Stay is hoping capitalise on that when it’s released next month.
Yesterday we posted a teaser for the Jake Gyllenhaal movie Nightcrawler. Now it’s been followed up with a proper trailer and a poster, which you can see above and below.