Marvel Studios Reveals Phase 3 Movie Line-Up

All the Groundbreaking News from Marvel's October 28th Event:

Marvel Studios went REALLY BIG today with a huge announcement of every movie slated for the MCU through 2019.



Captain America 3 will be released May 6, 2016. The crowd was faked out at first by a false subtitle: Serpent Society. Beware! Some websites are still reporting this as the official subtitle. Rest assured, the real subtitle is Civil War. Later in the press Q & A, Kevin Feige elaborated on what Civil War will be for the MCU. 

"Civil War [is the] Civil War of the cinematic universe, which will be greatly inspired by the Civil War of the comic universe, but we have very different continuity there... This will be the Civil War based off of all the other films that you’ve seen up to this point, particularly Winter Soldier and particularly Age of Ultron.”

For those wondering how the Civil War story line is going to work in the MCU with so many missing factors from the comics, Feige gave us a vague idea:

"I don’t want to give too much away, but needless to say, the generalities of the act are the same. Something happens, perhaps it’s cumulative for things that have happened though all of the movies leading up to this point. It has made the governments of the world say 'we need to have some oversight of these guys. They need to report to somebody.' So it becomes more… it falls under that umbrella, rather than 'you have to take off your mask.' It’s not about the secret identity thing, as much as it is about, overall, who reports to who, and who can agree to oversight committee. Because as of now, in Avengers 2, there is no more security council, there is no SHIELD, obviously. Stark is paying for it, Captain America is running it, and things occur that will make governments begin to question."

November 4, 2016 will be Doctor Strange. Scott Derrickson will be directing. No casting announcements about Dr. Strange today surprisingly. Feige later says that casting has not been confirmed or they would have announced it today.



May 5, 2017...the untitled Guardians of the Galaxy sequel! Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot more to report on this one except that the studio has moved the date up a couple of months from the previously announced date of July 28, 2017.



July 28, 2017 - THOR: Ragnarok! Feige explains "Ragnarok means 'The end of all things'"



November 3, 2017...Black Panther! CROWD GOES CRAZY, Chadwick Boseman announced as Black Panther.



July 6, 2018...CAPTAIN MARVEL! This is pretty exciting news. Feige confirmed that this Captain Marvel will be Carol Danvers. Carol Corps rejoice!



November 2, 2018...THE INHUMANS



AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Part 1, May 4, 2018 and Avengers: Infinity War, Part 2, May 3, 2019

Apparently, Dan Slott is a Twitter troll as he tweeted this ahead of the event:

Set your watch. Your next Spider-Man related freak out is on the way... :-O

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) October 28, 2014

There was MUCH speculation that Marvel would make an announcement concerning Spidey's movie rights. But, alas, there was no such luck this time around. The only response Feige gave to all the rumors was pretty much a non-answer:

“Anything that wasn’t specifically and obviously revealed today is either not true at all, or still rumor until it’s worked out,”

In fact, for as much great news as we got, there were quite a few missing pieces. We didn't get any confirmation on the casting of Dr. Strange and there was zero new info on Ant-Man either. As for all the open space in 2019 (and beyond) Feige had this to say:

“If there are more years after 2019, there are more movies after 2019,”

CW Picks Up Full Season of The Flash

The Flash Continues DC's TV Winning Streak

Today, CW President Mark Pedowitz's press release revealed that the network will be ordering an extra nine episodes of The Flash for a full season run totaling 22 episodes.



The press release reads:

"We have had a fantastic start to our season this year, with THE FLASH launching as our most-watched series première ever, and JANE THE VIRGIN recognized as the best new show this season by critics across the country. Over the past three seasons, we have made it our mission to grow and to broaden out our audience, and to keep raising the bar with the quality and impact of our new shows, and THE FLASH and JANE have both exceeded our expectations on all counts. I'm thrilled to announce full season orders for both of these terrific new series."

While Marvel may have the heavyweight championship title at the box office, DC seems to know what they are doing when it comes to the small screen. With Arrow in its third season, Gotham winning ratings over at Fox, and now a full season of The Flash, DC is definitely doing something right. And that's not to mention, we still have Constantine to première on NBC next week, and a Supergirl show is also in the works from the show runners of Arrow and The Flash.

The Flash airs Tuesdays on CW.

Hoverboards are Coming! Just in Time for the Future!

Nerd's Rejoice! Hoverboards are Here!

Hendo corporation has launched a Kickstarter campaign for an actual, working Hoverboard. This is real people!



From the Kickstarter campaign, you can read a statement for Hendo:

So where does the HENDO hoverboard stand today? Well, about 1 inch off the ground. As you can see from the video above, the prototype is real and it works! But to see it hover in person, and better yet, to defy gravity by riding it, is something you need to experience as well.

With the support of the Kickstarter community, we all can. We need your help to put the finishing touches on the Hendo Hoverboard, to help us produce them, and to create places to ride them.

Looks like if everything goes to plan, we'll have that hoverboard just in time for the date that Marty McFly travels to in Back to the Future II.



As you may have seen, there are redundant hoaxes that have occured on social media, touting "this day" (whatever the day was at the time) as the date that Marty McFly travels to in the future. But, we still aren't there yet. The actual date is one year from today. And it looks like Hendo is in the business of making dreams come true. I doubt they will have any trouble getting funding for a project like this.

Apparently, there are some pretty serious limitations to the Hendo Hoverboard. The original design was meant to help save buildings from earthquakes. If you consider how that technology works, then you can imagine how limited this version of our coveted hoverboard will be. That being said, in the hands of some of the skateboarding and snowboarding greats, who knows what they might be able to pull off!

Luckily, with the future just around the corner, our fashion sense is MUCH better than they were expecting in that 80's influenced flick.

Robin Rises

It looks like there’s some Robins in the air.

Throughout the years, The Caped Crusader has had many sidekicks but all have shared one name: Robin.

Batman’s famous sidekick has been in the headlines today. Rumors range from the character appearing in the film, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice to returning in the latest issue of Batman and Robin, issue 38.

The latest film will have Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and now, Robin. However, it won’t be Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, or the latest crimefighter, Damian Wayne. It will be a female, and possibly, Carrie Kelley. We do know that this movie is heavily influenced by Frank Miller’s comic The Dark Knight Returns which features a female Robin but we don’t know if the movie will have Carrie or just a version of her. NBC is currently reporting that Hunger Games: Cathing Fire actress, Jena Malone, will be Batman’s sidekick.

In other news, Batman and Robin writer Peter J. Tomasi has posted a photo on Instagram page of issue 38’s cover, which reveals Damian Wayne as Robin. (Spolier alert) Damian, the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Gul, was killed by The Heretic in Batman Incorporated. Since then, Batman has teamed up with various allies which have included Aquaman and Wonder Woman to recover Damian’s body from Raja al Gul in the comic arc titled Robin Rises.  This title has lead many to believe that Damian will return and with Tomasi’s latest photos, those rumors may have been confirmed.  However, this may just be a ruse and the cover may be a way to honor and remember Damian as Robin.

Batman and Robin, issue 38 cover.

Warner Bros. Reveals Full DC Comic Film Slate

Warner Bros. Reveals Plans To Make DC Cinematic Universe a Reality

UPDATE: A recent tweet from Time Warner indicates there will also be more solo movies for Batman and Superman that have yet to be announced.  See the tweet below:

.@WarnerBrosEnt plans to release at least 10 @DCComics -based films beginning in 2016, not counting stand-alone Batman and Superman films.

— Time Warner (@twxcorp) October 15, 2014

Earlier today in a Warner Brothers stockholders' meeting, chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara revealed the full line-up of DC movies coming through 2020. You can read the full report by David Lieberman at Deadline.com.



As you can read below in the official line-up, some other big news is the casting for The Flash.  Ezra Miller will take on the role of the "fastest man alive" in a solo movie coming 2018. Also, we have our first official confirmation that Jason Momoa is Aquaman. Really there are more than a couple of hardly-kept-secrets in this announcement that are getting confirmed for the first time by WB. What are your thoughts on the new official line-up?

The line-up from Warner Bros press releases is as follows:

“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” directed by Zack Snyder (2016)

“Suicide Squad,” directed by David Ayer (2016)

“Wonder Woman,” starring Gal Gadot (2017)

“Justice League Part One,” directed by Zack Snyder, with Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams reprising their roles (2017)

“The Flash,” starring Ezra Miller (2018)

“Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa (2018)

“Shazam” (2019)

“Justice League Part Two,” directed by Zack Snyder (2019)

“Cyborg,” starring Ray Fisher (2020)

“Green Lantern” (2020)

 

Marvel's Civil War Coming to the Big Screen

Variety.com Reports Robert Downey Jr. In Talks to Join Cast of Captain America 3, Kick Off Civil War

In an earlier post today, we reported that Marvel would be reviving the Civil War crossover mega-event in new comic books for Summer 2015. Now in an even bigger development, Variety.com is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. is in the final negotiating stages to join the cast of Captain America 3. The key quote from the article reads:

Robert Downey Jr. is on the verge of signing on to “Captain America 3,” a move that would bring the Civil War storyline from Marvel’s comicbooks to the bigscreen and trigger the start of a new phase of movies from Marvel Studios.

While there have been lots of rumors flying about a possible Civil War based movie hitting the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the future, there was much resistance to the idea from fans. The main problem being movie rights of certain characters in the Civil War story line, namely Spider-Man, are not owned by Marvel Studios. There have also been the normal bi-annual rumors of Sony being in talks to let Marvel use Spider-Man in the MCU just last week. Is this just a coincidence? Or is it all connected?

Either way, it seems that Marvel is set to ret-con the Civil War event so that Spider-Man may not be necessary. While that seems like a possibility, it's confusing that the promotional art for new Civil War comics prominently feature Spider-Man in his Iron Spider costume.

The Russo brothers and Robert Downey, Jr. have been teasing that big news would be coming sooner than later about Captain America and the future of Iron Man respectively. Man, they weren't kidding! This is pretty huge. What do you think this breaking development forebodes for the MCU?

Civil War Announced by Marvel for Summer 2015

Civil War Again for the Heroes of Marvel Comics?

According to a new article from ComicBookResources.com, Marvel has teased a return to the popular Civil War story line. There are literally no other details than this image of Iron Man and Captain America playing tug-of-war with Spider-Man in his Iron Spider costume. The image was rendered by Adi Granov with the familiar cover treatment from the original 2006-2007 crossover event. The event was widely popular, even spawning a variation of the story for the multi-player, button-masher video game, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. There has been wild and unfounded speculation that Civil War might be the foundation of a future Avengers movie. But as many of us know, this would be a very different version of Civil War with so many of Marvel's movie rights held by other studios.

What is Marvel thinking here? And what are your thoughts on all these revisits to earlier events from Marvel History?

Fox Picks Up Full Season of Gotham

Gotham Gets the Thumbs Up for Full Season One

Breaking news this morning, Fox orders an additional six episodes of Gotham according to a report from EW.com. This mean that the show is green lit for a full season.



Although there have been mixed reviews from both fans and critics, it seems that Fox has at least enough confidence to keep the show going to a full season. Lots of speculation has been flying as to how Gotham will fair on Fox with their record of prematurely cancelling shows. *cough cough* firefly *cough* Much of the critical review has been on the subject of how the show can keep up believable story lines 15 years before Batman ever hits the scene. It's a relevant argument. There is something of a catch-22 going on with this show. Some say that the show can never have any satisfying resolutions if the overall narrative is supposed to leave us believing that Batman will someday rise to save Gotham City. On the other hand, anything that Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock accomplish (which would be necessary to leave the viewer with some sense of satisfaction) then why would Gotham ever need Batman? It's a fine line that the show runners will have to walk. But even with the waning ratings over the last couple of episodes, the premiere of Gotham gathered some of this season's highest ratings.

Gotham airs on Fox at 8/7 c on Monday nights. Keep up with our regular reviews of each episode from Aaron Evenson on every Wednesday.

Marvel Reveals Daredevil Concept Art

Joe Quesada's Daredevil Concept Art Revealed

Marvel's presence at New York Comic Con this year includes a panel for the new Netflix show "Marvel's Daredevil." The cast and show runner will be making their first public appearance at New York Comic Con later today. With little more than an hour to go, Marvel has unveiled Joe Quesada's Daredevil concept art for the show. Earlier today Netflix posted the first official webpage for the show featuring a brief synopsis. Go check it out here. What do you guys think of our first look?



 

"Marvel's Daredevil" is just the first of 5 superhero focused series coming to Netflix in 2015. Along with Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron First, Daredevil will team up to create The Defenders. With each hero first getting their own series, the four characters will join forces for a mini-series aptly named The Defenders. There hasn't been much news for any of the other characters slated to come to Netflix next year, but there has been lots of chatter and rumors flying about who will be cast in these superhero roles.  Matt Murdoch has already been cast for Daredevil by Charlie Cox  with a supporting cast of Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin and Rosario Dawson in an undisclosed role. Along with Showrunner Steve S. DeKnight the cast will be making a presentation at New York Comic Con today to shed some more light on the show.

For all you NYCC-goers the presentation begins at 5:15pm EST. We will be featuring more NYCC news as we hear it, so stay tuned to Nerdbinge.com. Check out Franklin Michael Vengas' recap of the first two days at our post here.

 

Nerd News: Goblins, Dark Crystals, and Spiders, Outrageous! (Truly)

Nerd News for Friday, October 10th

OK! It's Friday and the weekend is upon us. With so much interesting news coming this weekend from NYCC, I thought it might be good to do a little roundup of today's Nerd-related news.

[caption id="attachment_497" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Goblin King meme created by psbox362[/caption]

First up, news about a sequel to Labyrinth was snuck under the radar in a recent article from Variety.com. The item is literally in the very last paragraph of the article and provides no other details.  The original exclusive article was a feature with Billy Crystal about joining the cast of Which Witch. (Mmm Which Wich... now I just want a sandwich). Anyway, the article reads:

It’s also working on a quartet of legacy titles in the Henson library — a “Fraggle Rock” movie that’s been in development at New Regency; a sequel to 1982’s “The Dark Crystal”; a sequel to 1986’s “Labyrinth”; and a movie based on the Emmet Otter character.

Let's not just gloss over The Dark Crystal either. How have we not heard more about these? Oh my little fantasy loving nerd heart be still. Can we hope for a return of David Bowie as the Goblin King? I don't see HOW they could do the sequel without him.



Moving forward with more 80's nostalgia loveliness, IDW announced a new Jem ongoing comic. With a Jem movie in production for release in 2016, this development is not super surprising. I can't say I'm excited about the movie with what news I've heard, but let's hope the comic will bring more of that truly, truly, truly outrageous Jem that we all know and love. There aren't any details as far as who will be behind the book, but we know it's slated to début in April.

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Luckily by February 2015, we'll have another awesome heroine to focus on, Gwen Stacy. That's right, Marvel announced today that Spider-Gwen will be getting her own ongoing series. I think that is a great idea. My love for Spider-Gwen is no secret to regular readers at NerdBinge. I have hoped that Marvel was seriously considering this property. There were lots rumors flying that all the buzz for Edge of Spider-Verse #2 had the studio considering the option. With the news that it's real, I'm a little bit giddy.  The same creative team of writer Jason Latour and artist Robbi Rodriguez will return to create the book.