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When Avengers released we all shared the opinion that DC has
fallen behind as Marvel was at full sprint building a shared universe of epic
proportions.
This past weekend Marvel, Fox and DC had panels at Comic Con
to showcase their latest projects and after 4, maybe 5 years of Marvel stealing
the spotlight at Comic Con, DC and Fox Studios came flying out at full steam
with their latest projects, Superman & Batman film, and X-Men: Days of
Future Past, respectively.
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| Zoe Saldana at Guardians of the Galaxy Panel |
Truthfully Marvel have nothing to fear, they have a SHIELD
TV series that will be making its way to the small screen pretty soon, Thor:
The Dark World will be releasing in November, Captain America: The Winter
Soldier is constantly being touted as one of Marvel’s finest work, while
Guardians of the Galaxy just looks like it will be some awesome crazy Sci-Fi
fun.
The one big surprise that Marvel had was the announcement of
the title for Avengers 2, now titled Avengers: Age of Ultron. Which was a
pretty big deal confirming that the next story would feature Ultron as the main
villain, with Vin Diesel possibly playing Ultron or Vision (if they decide to
go that route).
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| Tom Hiddleston as Loki at Comic Con |
Ultron also hints at a possible appearance for Hank Pym and
Janet Van Dyne, aka Ant-Man and Wasp, but we will have to wait and see if they
will be in the film and if they will possibly suit up.
The other big surprise Marvel had was Tom Hiddleston coming
to greet the Hall H crowd as Loki, in his full costume and character, which was
pretty cool.
Fox on the other hand surprised the crowds by having a panel
with the almost the entire cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which included……
Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy,
Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore,
Ellen Page, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Evan Peters and Director
Bryan Singer.
With an impressive cast like that, Days of Future Past could
well be on its way to beating the Avengers and from the description that we read
of the footage it could well be that Days of Future Past will be an instant
classic! This was by the best Panel for fans and offered many surprises and was
incredibly fun, you can catch footage of the panel on YouTube!
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| The Cast of First Class, Original Trilogy and the New X-men all in X-Men: Days of Future Past |
Now onto the announcement that stole headlines all over the
world, Zack Snyder announcing that the next Man of Steel film, will indeed
feature Batman to finally put THE WORLDS FINEST on the big screen together!
This is an incredible decision by Snyder and Warner Bros. as
they essentially just announced a Billion Dollar hit.
While this will not be the Batman from the Nolanverse, Nolan
still keeping his name on the credits as an executive producer ensures us that
Nolan has given Snyder his blessing for the most part!
This is an incredible move by Snyder will certainly have the
world buzzing, for the simple reason that this is what people have been waiting
since Superman made his way to the big screen in the 70’s. This is an event
film by itself, with record breaking potential.
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| Henry Cavill as Man of Steel |
Even though it wont be Nolan’s Batman, Batman is still a hot
property, we have just witnessed one of the finest versions of Bruce that we
will probably ever see, meaning that people could potentially be open to a new
Batman as this time his first appearance will be with Superman instead of on his
own. However, while The Dark Knight Trilogy was grounded in a pseudo reality
that was made to mirror ours, this new Batman can take on some of those
unwieldy aspects that wouldn’t work in Nolan’s films. We might get the
detective, genius that we come to know Batman is in the comics.
We also know that Lex will probably be making an appearance,
we also know that this film might bringing in Kryptonite and we also know that
this film is drawing inspiration from The Dark Knight Returns, a comic written
by Frank Miller. It tells the story of Bats coming out retirement to clean up
the city, but his methods don’t go down well with Superman, and the two entire
a battle of epic proportions.
We could see the film take a similar route, I for one think
that we will see Lex publicly voice his concerns about Superman while Bruce
publicly voices his approval of Superman, placing these two billionaires at
each others throats, however as Batman, Bruce shares the same concerns that Lex
brings up.
Who knows Batman might have been crusading in Gotham before
Superman made his public appearance; Batman could even be the one investigating
all these “Special” people from around the world. Batman might create profiles
on all these heroes, who will eventually become the Justice League! I’m just saying!!
So while marvel resisting the urge to do team up films, as
they want to prove that there characters are just as interesting on their own
as when they are in a big ensemble film, DC looks like they may have a lot more
fun building their Cinematic Universe, as THE WORLDS FINEST will prove.
Who knows maybe we get a Green Arrow & Green Lantern
crossover film, The Trinity (Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman) and Teen
Titans somewhere down the line. Who knows we will just have to wait and see.
All I know, DC is well on there way to make something that
will be truly epic every step of the way, if Man of Steel is anything to go on
by!
DC Starting to make fan wishes come true!
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