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CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 Gets A Release Date And Brief Synopsis

The news has just broken that Marvel Studios has set a release date for Captain America 2. Hit the jump to find out when Captain America will be back on the big screen as well as a brief description of what we can expect from the sequel.


The news has just broken through Twitter than the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger will hit on April 4th, 2014. As of right now, there are no further details, but stay tuned and we'll update you as more information becomes available (a press release should be online sooner rather than later). Let the countdown begin!

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NEWS: The sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger will hit theaters April 4,

2014! More details soon! #Avengers pic.twitter.com/PJmzZDeK

UPDATE: Here is the press release from Disney. There aren't a lot of details as of right now, but this confirms Kevin Feige's recent comments that S.H.I.E.L.D. will continue to play a role in Captain America's universe.

The Walt Disney Studios has announced a release date for Marvel Studios’ sequel to the blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger on April 4, 2014. The second installment will pick-up where the highly anticipated Marvel’s The Avengers (May 4, 2012) leaves off, as Steve Rogers continues his affiliation with Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D and struggles to embrace his role in the modern world.

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Jeremy Renner And Kevin Feige Look Back On The Actor Being Cast As Hawkeye

The Avengers star reveals how exactly he ended up being cast in the superhero ensemble, while both Joss Whedon and Kevin Feige comment on just how impressive Renner was in regards to performing his own stunts.

"Avengers was the first big movie I signed on to,"

Jeremy Renner told The Hollywood Reporter.

"It was something Zak Penn was the writer on; he's a friend. Then I met [Marvel Studios president and Avengers producer] Kevin Feige, and Zak was really pushing, saying 'You guys have got to hire Renner.'"

"I had a general meeting with him just when Locker was gaining steam,"

Marvel Studios President and executive producer, Kevin Feige recalls.

"He doesn't just have the guts to do the stunts but also a level of knowledge and skill that's impressive. He can even talk about 'pick' points -- where a wire attaches to your body when you're pulled through the air."

The scene in the trailer which sees the actor leaping backwards and shooting an arrow towards the camera is one particularly memorable sequence for Feige.

"That was him, not a stuntman. And it was impressive. He's got this great intensity and is very focused."

Adds director Joss Whedon:

"He's an amazing fighter -- his fight work is wonderful: precise, heroic, and you seldom have to double him. But one day he just turned wrong and his whole body shut down. He could not do anything. He was in enormous pain, and we had to shut that sequence down and shoot it a couple of weeks later."

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Ben Kingsley In Talks For IRON MAN 3 Villain Role; Movie Will Be Based On "Extremis"

Marvel Studios are in "final talks" with Ben Kingsley to star in Iron Man 3 in a currently undisclosed role. Sources indicate that he will NOT be playing The Mandarin and the the film will be based on "Extremis".


Showblitz reveal that Ben Kingsley is set to play the villain in Iron Man 3. Director Shane Black has previously revealed that he has no interest in bringing the Mandarin to the big screen (describing him as, "a racist caricature"). While Marvel has refused to comment on the deal, insiders have confirmed his involvement and denied that he will play the iconic villain.

In Iron Man 3, which the site reveal will be loosely based on Warren Ellis' "Extremis", Kingsley is set to play a villainous role which revolves around the spread of a virus through nanobots. The arc didn't actually feature a villain who matches Kingsley, so whether his character will be a new creation or based on another character from the Marvel Universe remains to be seen. Depending on just how much they end up taking from the popular storyline, the actor could be either a very different version of "Mallen" (the main villain of the arc) or a modified version of "Dr. Aldrich Killian" (who commits suicide after releasing the virus and has only a very minor role in the first issue).

UPDATE: According to The Hollywood Reporter,

"Kingsley, however, will not be the primary villain...Insiders say there is a chance Kingsley will play the Mandarin but at the same time say since the script is still being written, the character may be reconfigured for silver screen presentation."

So, it sounds as if Kingsley might just play the Mandarin (or at least a version of him) after all! Stay tuned for details.

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Director Shortlist for CAPTAIN AMERICA 2 Shortened

The shortlist of potential directors for Marvel Studios' Captain America: The First Avenger followup has been narrowed, with F. Gary Gray no longer in the running. Hit the jump & check it out!


Marvel Studios announced last week that a sequel to their Joe Johnston-directed Captain America: The First Avenger flick had been given a 2014 release date. And while they've "declined to comment" on the sequel's potential director(s), Deadline has provided an update via their ever-reliable "insiders".

The list includes Community‘s Joe & Anthony Russo and The Adjustment Bureau helmer George Nolfi, but I’m told Marvel is talking to others for a film that Disney just dated that film for April 4, 2014, with a storyline that picks up after the upcoming Joss Whedon-directed The Avengers. F. Gary Gray had been on that short list, but I’m hearing that he has withdrawn from consideration and is in hot and heavy negotiations to direct the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton for New Line Cinema.

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Marc Webb Reveals Even More Drastic Changes To Spider-Man's Origin Story

No wrestling match and possibly no radioactive spider either. Following the reveal that Uncle Ben's death won't play too drastic a role in Peter Parker's decision to become Spider-Man, director Marc Webb now lets slip even more shocking changes to the well-known origin story.


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I wanted to give the audience something new, so that started off with getting underneath the parents' story, which will unfold over probably a few movies,"

director Marc Webb told MTV Splash Page in a recent interview.

"We don't totally wrap up that story in this first movie. It's sort of an ongoing mystery. That was something that was interesting to me."

So far, so good, right? Well, in news which is sure to leave most hardcore Spider-Man fans fuming, Webb went on to reveal that they are completely removing an important moment from Peter Parker's journey to becoming the superhero.

"This is probably a reveal, but there is no wrestling match in this movie. The character is evolving in a different way. It's about finding a balance between iconic elements of the 'Spider-Man' mythology—like how Uncle Ben's death transforms him emotionally—but it happens in a different way."

And that's not all! He added,

"He's bitten by a spider, but maybe it's not a radioactive spider. Or maybe it is! You'll have to see. There are elements that we were very conscious of, but it all emanated from [the idea of] this kid who got left behind by his parents many, many years before. I thought that was interesting enough for me to explore."

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What?!

Apr 13th 2012 By: Graeme McMillan

Marvel's Kevin Feige Confirms 'Guardians of The Galaxy' Movie Development


If you were wondering just how Marvel could up the stakes for their movies after introducing Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Marvel's The Avengers, then Kevin Feige has four simple words in response: Guardians of The Galaxy.

Talking to Crave Online, Feige said that, while Marvel did already know what its second movie release of 2014 (behind Captain America 2) would be, it wasn't ready to name the project yet. However, when listing projects in development at the studio, he mentioned Ant-Man, Dr. Strange, The Inhumans and Guardians of The Galaxy, before going on to say,

We are very excited about bringing things like that, maybe things exactly like that, to the screen. [...] When you tell people, you know what would be really cool? This movie, and there's a raccoon, and there's a tree... And they go, 'What?' And people like you know what it is, and get excited. And the majority of people go, 'Did you say a raccoon and a tree?' 'Oh yeah, they're going to steal the whole movie. They're hilarious.' 'Okay, I'll believe it when I see it.' I like that.

That definitely sounds like the most recent incarnation of Marvel's earliest cosmic super team, a fact that Feige confirmed when asked, saying "Yeah, it's more Star-Lord and Drax and Gamora, and less Vance Astro and that team."

The Guardians of the Galaxy were created in 1969 by Arnold Drake and Gene Colan as super-heroes from an alternate future Earth that had survived both ecological disaster and alien invasion (all but one of the characters was an alien, in fact); after guest-starring in various series such as Marvel Team-Up, The Defenders and The Avengers for much of the 1970s, the team disappeared for the majority of the next decade before receiving their own series in the early 1990s.

The name was revived in 2008 by writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning for an entirely different team that spun out of the critically-acclaimed Annihilation: Conquest mini-series. The second team -- made up of various b-list-or-lower supporting characters, failed leads (Star-Lord, the leader of the team, had been the subject of some of the earliest collaborations between Chris Claremont and John Byrne, long before they teamed up on Uncanny X-Men) and, yes, a talking Space Raccoon -- carried their own monthly series for twenty-five issues, before the team disbanded with the book's cancellation.

This mention of a Guardians film counts as the first on-the-record confirmation of the project's existence following months of speculation. No writer or director has been attached in those rumors, however.

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/0...#ixzz1s2iiEACa

[Jack Roller]

I thought Giffen was the one that put most of these characters together? Article just talks about DnA...

[Dr Doom]

Giffen might have brought some of the characters back into the fold with Annihilation but he had nothing to do with the GotG revival. That was all DnA so I can see why they'd get full credit, especially since the fan favorites (Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Cosmo) were DnA's additions to the existing line-up of characters present from Giffen's series.

[Jack Roller]

Nah. Rocket Racoon and Groot were in the Giffen mini.

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hopefully it's inspired by the DnA run.