(and survive these awful photoshop jobs on the official poster above) First up, some bacon for ya~
It seems Magneto will get his helmet from Sebastian Shaw actually, who might or might not build it to protect his mind from Xavier/mutants/mind readers?
Now, this lackbuster's main big epic CGi/action scene, already revealed in trailers like Fox tends to do:
The X-men in action:
Banshee's in this movie?
And finally a last one, a "character spotlight" for Mystique:
Time for a new round of trailers! First up the real actual trailer for the upcoming Conan the barbarian movie!
We've already saw some first pics and the teaser. Now we get a better look thanks to this real trailer. I gotta say...not really confident here..could turn out boring... Too much trying the realistic modern approach loses the fun sometimes. (the new live Street Fighter movie compared to the JCVD one from the 90's anyone?)
And now, here's a bunch of character-centric trailers for that X-Men: First Class movie!
Alex Summers? So they'll keep him related to Cyclops in the movie? Will Scott Summers' comics brother become his father? Uncle perhaps? (note in case you forgot: this "lackbuster" takes place waaaay back in the past, in the ~60s)
Wow...the crazy Irish X-Men is in this movie? Seems..okay-ysh. Nerds are already trying to connect him to the Syrin cameo in the previous movies...guess what guys? It was only a cameo and has nothing to do with this "new" character. And I don't imagine the writers/producers involved in First Class thought this as much as you're doing!
The movie's still looking like a big hit or miss... (looming towards the "miss" moreso..)
Cowboys, aliens and mutants... All different, all comic book adaptations. So there's a new Cowboys & Aliens trailer out.
Are you motivated to see this Jon Favreau movie? The original indie comic was a fun & fresh original take on such a B-movie subject. Hope the movie turns out great. (heck, with Harrison Ford in it, how couln't it be fun to watch?)
Second trailer, it's a brand new good trailer of the (hopefully not) bad new X-Men installment, X-Men First Class.
Alright... as bad as I can smell this movie's going to be...this trailer was pretty decent. Clearly, at 20th Century Fox, they got some pretty trailer maker guys... How could this turn out 100% bad, I mean, there's some Bacon in it! XD
Witness the horror...the crazy...the wicked...trailer to X-men First Class!
Duuun duuun duuuun!!~
I already covered this plenty times in the past. Some had doubts it would follow the previous 20th Century Fox movieslackbusters.
Like it was going to be a "reboot" (side note: What's up with Hollywood and reboots lately??) Of course it would by in the same series as the past titles.
Don't try to hard to connect this Emma Frost to the one in Wolverine Origins. It's not like its their first time doing so (Shadowcat in X-men1/2 compared to X-men 3? :P)
I knew this would tie in to the previous movies. From a marketing point of view (they're not trying to make "art" here, just cash in before a license reverts back to Marvel) it makes more sense. You can build upon the previous audience of Fox's X-men movies and even sell "Complete series" DVD/Bluray bundles, etc..
We've been getting an awful lot of sneak peaks at upcoming superheroes movies. Marvel showed how awesome and aunthentic Captain America will look like. Sony had angry gritty Spider-man looking all serious and stuff.
Now it's 20th Century Fox, trying to impress us with...
Air-xmen, 2nd class tickets. Huh... I mean, X-Men First Class!
What are we looking at exactly?? In the order, introducing:
Michael Fassbender as Magneto
Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert
January Jones as Emma Frost
Jason Flemyng as Azazel
Nicholas Hoult as Beast
Lucas Til as Havok
Zoë Kravitz as Angel Salvadore
Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique
James McAvoy as Professor X
Matthew Vaughn's movie isn't a reboot! It's in fact a prequel. Of the spinoff Wolverine Origins. (which showed Xavier near the end recruiting a young Cyclops amongst others) This mess of a movie will actually take place in the current Fox's X-men movie continuity, it's not a retake of the franchise by Marvel films! (also like the new reboot Spider-man at Sony's) The story will take place in the 60s (huh?), which fans thought we'd get a funky/retro-ysh take on the classic Stan Lee-era costumes...yet we will get what looks like a drunk fratboy's idea of what the 60s would look like in a popcorn flick, directed by Michael Bay.
Strangely, they're still slighty comic book-inspired (I remember the X-men sporting X-yellow jackets at one point). And in the middle of all this, some girl seems to be cosplaying as Emma Frost (!?). What about the rest? People loved Nightcrawler, so now they've made a palette swap and TADAAA! here's his father. And Havok will be ~50 years older than Cyclops yet call him his brother, and since his costume usually has a circle-logo in the middle, they put it right above his X-yellow jacket (because why try to make original costume or base the design on the originals when you can just randomly mix up things with no clear idea what you're doing!). Mystique is...well, similar to the one from X-men 1, 2 and 3 only with a different actress. No opinion here. And since there's no clear look at who is Magneto or Xavier, no recognisable character from the past movies..the question everyone will have from this movie: Who are these character and why should we care?? Seriously, this looks like a bad direct-to-dvd sequel for the moment, without trailer.
The big question now is why!? Why this movie? It's simple. $$$
If Fox doesn't make this movie, the rights wil lrevert back to Marvel/Disney. Marvel's beeng trying to regain all of their proprieties, which has been pretty succesful until now. They now can use any of their characters in most medias, cartoons, games, etc.. Spidey and the Ghost Rider are trapped at Sony if they don't use the rights until 2012 (which explains both upcoming sequels/reboots) Fox will lose all their franchises if they don't put out new movies as well. The Fantastic Four will revert to Marvel at the end of this year (so they announced a random reboot to keep the rights, which they'll produce, write, direct improvise this summer I guess). So will the X-men, that's why they started making this prequel and will have the sequel to Wolverine Origins nobody was expecting, amazingly titled The Wolverine, later this year/early 2012, and why they also announced Brett Ratner's X-Men 4 for 2012 next year/2013. Oh, but they already lost Daredevil. One down, 2 more to go!
UPDATE Jan.20:
And here's some Hi-Res pics to have a better look at this...disaster in the making as well as some other pics!
Kevin Bacon brings some "meat" to First Class as "Sebastian Shaw" (head of the Hellfire Club in the comics)
This looks more and more like a failed pilot from the late 90s. than a proper movie.. And they're supposed to be in the 60s.... They couldn't look more modern/gritty if they were trying...
Here's a new round-up off the upcoming new Comic Movies adaptations!
VROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~
First up, Captain America: The First Avenger! We can finally have a good look at Cap's costume, thanks to some shots taken during its production. His costume, the shield (pictured above), some henchmen and some old school vehicles of the era.
As you can see, in the costume it's not Chris Evans, the actor playing Steve Rogers, but a stuntman. (or an older Captain? some other "character" in the suit..?) Anyway, the suit looks good. Very Ultimate Marvel-ysh. The helmet makes me think of those awful TV movies of Captain America (not the watchable later movie with the great costume)
Here's some more shots:
I like those Rocketeer-like henchmen! Old school!
A little info about the new Ghost Rider movie. Yep, another one! I kinda liked the first one, despite how supra-powerful the Rider was and how easily he defeated those "boss fights". And Blackheart, the main foe, was pretty stupid and kinda lame.. Oh well... At least the Rider looked great, there was a ghost horse on fire, Sam Elliot and the Rider even used his "Penance Stare" (TM), something I wouldn't even imagine someone adapting live in a movie ever!
So the movie will be called Ghost Rider: Spirits Of Vengeance. It is written by David S. Goyer, Nicky will be back as the torso for the good ol' CGi flammehead and it will be directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor who made the movie Crank.
It is supposed to take place some years later after the first one, Johnny Blaze is on the run, still kickin' demon's ass and such... The movie will be darker and more violent.. but I guess producers say that for every new super hero movie now these days, specially after the Dark Knight...
And finally, some stuff about the new lackbuster straight from the super-duper producers at 20th Century Fox, the brilliant minds behind such "classics" as Elektra, the Fantastic Four and X-Men 3... -sigh- X-Men First Class! A movie which just finally started after adding to the cast a ton of unnecessary more charaters to an already convulted mass characters-filled movie...
It will be a prequel in the Fox's X-Men movies, taking places in the 60s... and...oh god... that's already too much right there.. I would have prefered an in-movie-universe Marvel flick X-Men. Not another Fox' movie. Another lackbuster.. It's not even a real movie, but a cheap cash-in, 20th Century Fox is only making this movie to keep the rights before they revert back to Disney/Marvel, they even admitted it!! (like they'll be doing with the Fantastic Four soon too)
Anyway, the whole concept sounds crazy...
Moving on!
Here's a first look at Emma Frost, the White Queen. Who's in fact an 80s/90s character (and with her current "interpretation" being from the 2000s). Couldn't they use like Quick Silver or the Scarlet Witch instead? Those would be great for a story taking place in the sixties.. (I completly hate this concept as well.. it could have been an excuse to use retro costumes, the original X-Men First Class characters.. instead.. we won't have Cyclops but Havok..making the movie Summers Brothers completly unrelated..)
I see...double!!
Sure, her costume's not as skimpy as the comic one...Rather, she looks soviet-ysh. Call me pessimistic, I'm not really feeling this direction...
Some new pics have been floating around teh inter-webs:
It looks... pretty decent so far. The game actually looks like a Sonic Unleashed 2 without the Werehog this time. It will feature high speed action in 3D alternating with 2D platforming scenes, much like SU. The game makes a little return to more bizarre and surreal landscapes like the 16 bit Sonic games (instead of the modern/realistic/urban look of the 3D Sonics). The DS version will look more like a Sonic Rush 3, while the Wii version is coming pretty close to Unleashed on the Xbox 360 and PS3! Impressive! I remember complaining a bit about SU Wii grainy/foggy visuals. Love how close these pics look to the next gen SU version, sans the HD resolution maybe, but looking quite pretty here.
Let's stay on the subject of gaming news, and talk about Marvel VS Capcom 3 now! A kickass teaser poster has been spotted lately:
First Deadpool Capcom artwork ever!
We knew Deadpool was gonna be in it, but looking at his official artwork on this poster...wow! It's quite impressive to really realize how much popular he is nowadays! He truly has become the Wolverine of the 2010s! Featured in a japanese fighting game! Anyway, I love the look of this poster. Shinkiro has always been my favorite SNK artist and I'm loving most of his recent Capcom art done so far^^
The official trailer is also out now, watch it here:
Capcom and Marvel's main man against each other. Science vs Magic. Brainy hulkster vs hulking smartass. The two Ds at it, both carrying swords and gunys. Love how they paired the characters!
Leaving games now. But still related to superheroes. Here's a behind the scenes featurette of Thor:
Watch some scenes being filmed featuring Thor! And a first look at Odin!
There's an horrible news about Marvel's first family, the Fantastic Four. 20th Century Fox is trying to quickly make a new lackbuster title, in pure Century Fox-ness style, just to cash in their IP and keep it from returning back to Marvel. And instead of making a brand new sequel to their awful franchise, they're gonna reboot it. Yep. Pure non-sense. It will be called Fantastic Four Reborn and is supposed to came out under less than a year. It's very cheap of Fox to do that. People, general mass audience, will mistake it for Marvel's own in "movie universe" reboot like Incredible Hulk and Ironman. Plus Marvel might re-reboot it later on at some point when they'll get their IP back from Fox. It would be more profitable to Fox to just make it a sequel to their previous bad movies. People might get interested in the past movies, if they were related, and but more home releases of those (FF and FF2 dvds&blurays), so simple profit!
Instead they're making a cheap reboot. And I'm afraid of two things. One - it will retell the origin story, exactly what we don't need to relive once more, we get their creation we just wanna see the heroes!! Plus Marvel might retell the origins at some point like I said previously. Two - if it will "skip" the origins, why not connect this movie to the previous two movies?!?!? Darn it!
I hate 20th Century Fox so much nowadays.. it may actually be my least favorite and most hated studio now... (I'll just write you guys a rant at some point... I have some serious points and good reasons for it!)
Oh, but the worst thing isn't just that, but I quote, this point of view they have:
I think there's room to readjust the tone in "Fantastic Four" as it was for "Batman". You know, "Batman" took on a very cartoony feel towards the end and even in the beginning. It was a lighter movie, even though it was Tim Burton. It was still a lighter film and the newer Batman's have just been amazing, so I'm all for good filmmaking. If they can go make a good dark edgy "Fantastic Four" right on.
1) Tim Burton's Batman movies weren't light. They were very dark, gothic and Tim Burton-esque. Batman Begins and the Dark Knight weren't intended to be taken as dark, even they ended up a bit. But more realistic and closer to a real-life superhero would be like. 2) BB and TDK didn't make a ton of money because they were "dark edgy", but because they were good movies at heart. 3) Making the FF (the team composed of an invisible woman, a stretchy scientist, a clobberin' time rock and a guy on fire) darker won't make the reboot "good filmmaking". A good story and characters will.
And Fox's only in it for the money, or they would simply let Marvel regain control of their franchises. Like X-men and Daredevil, for which they're also currently planning sequels (X-men 4, Wolverine Origins 2), prequels (X-Men first class) and reboots (Daredevil). If they were smart and would make money while making a good movie, they could just strike a deal with Marvel and just distribute their own reboot (like Universal did with Marvel and Incredible Hulk).
Finally, back to games. I'm very much expectingKing of Fighters 13, probably one top of my own wish list. People may have criticised KOF12, but XIII is coming along nicely so far. There's a ton informations on the updated official website. Such as all the team's own music themes, which all sound great so far! And all the character's profiles.
You can see the in game sprites, they look quite amazing!
And here's a pic for all the last revealed characters. It's the N.E.S.T.S team, the main character of the 2000s KoF games. K', Maxima and Kula!
Click to see those full view!
I cannot wait to play with those guys! (Kula :'3)
Well, that's all for now! Expect to see Street Fighter 2 in this blog, first thing tomorrow!
I knew this would tie in to the previous movies. From a marketing point of view (they're not trying to make "art" here, just cash in before a license reverts back to Marvel) it makes more sense. You can build upon the previous audience of Fox's X-men movies and even sell "Complete series" DVD/Bluray bundles, etc..