Scarlett Johansson has joined the cast of writer/director
Jon Favreau's Chef, which also stars Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Sofia Vergara,
John Leguizamo and Bobby Cannavale.
"Scarlett is a tremendous talent and I'm honored to be
collaborating with her again. I'm so fortunate to be working with such a fine
ensemble," said Favreau in a statement.
Scarlett Johannson
Favreau directed and co-starred with Johansson in Iron Man
2. Johansson also starred in Iron Man 2 and Marvel's The Avengers with Downey
Jr.
The film follows a man, Carl Casper (Favreau), who loses his
chef job and cooks up a food truck business in hopes of reestablishing his
artistic promise. At the same time, he tries to reconnect with his estranged
family. Johansson will play a woman named Molly, a restaurant manager and love
interest of Favreau’s character.
Will Smith is looking
to star in and produce a contemporary remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western
classic The Wild Bunch.
Will Smith
The original story follows an aging group of outlaws in 1913
looking for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is
disappearing around them. It starred William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert
Ryan, and Warren Oates.
The Wrap reports that modern remake involves cartels south
of the border, and it's "expected to follow a disgraced D.E.A. agent who
assembles a team to go after a Mexican drug lord and his fortune."
“Last spring, Bob Iger sent us some bonus footage from The
Avengers, with a simple question, ‘Is there a show here?’” said ABC
Entertainment Group chief Paul Lee at the network’s upfront presentation recently.
Joss Whedon was nervous and rambling as he faced TV media
buyers and advertisers right before the end of the presentation. He appeared on
stage with the entire cast of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett
Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge. Whedon at first
tried to be funny. “I’ll be brief. I was born…” But then he grew serious. “I
wasn’t born. I was grown in a lab… and fed on Marvel Comics — and that turned
out OK for me.” As to why Avengers was so successful, Whedon said, “It worked
because everyone felt included” and predicted the TV show would have the same
effect on viewers.
He praised S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s unorthodox leading man Clark Gregg
as “an actor so talented even I couldn’t kill him” so Whedon said he “built
S.H.I.E.L.D. around him” because he “had a story to tell [how] to be an
ordinary person in an increasingly extraordinary world. We wanted to say that
everybody could be a part of this - men, women, children and “grownups who love
comic books”.
Earlier in the day Paul Lee told reporters that SH.I.E.L.D.
“tested so well in all four quadrants”.
Here’s the extended trailer which ABC showed at its upfront
and just released now:
Clark Gregg spoke with EW about the upcoming series and how
Coulson fits into the grand mythos of the Marvel universe.
“Agent Coulson represents the people who don’t have
superpowers, the guys who actually can be killed — or at least seem to be and
yet come back sometimes … Marvel has such a lock on how to do really incredibly
visual affects and stunts that we’ve got stuff on our show that I just don’t
think we’ve seen on TV before.”
Gregg doubled down on his bet that you'll love the show too.
“If you love The Avengers, if you love any of Joss Whedon’s
work, you’re going to absolutely love the show. It’s about these people living
in a super world dealing with being human. You see these superhero movies and
you see the superheroes struggle but you don’t see how humans do in a world
like that. That’s what will draw people in. It’s so human. And it’s so super
and awesome still.”
If there's one person we've learned we can trust in the
Marvel universe, it's Phil Coulson.
The Wolverine director James Mangold has posted this new
photo of Hugh Jackman and Hiroyuki Sanada on the set with the following Tweet:
"Hiro Sanada and HJ rehearse clash of claws and blades.
Hiro is a truly great actor, martial artist and friend."
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic
action-adventure takes Wolverine (Jackman), the most iconic character of the
X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world, he
will face a host of unexpected and deadly opponents in a life-or-death battle
that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed
to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai
steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality.
Carry on in one of Marvel’s newest traditions the One-Shots
will still continue on Blu-Ray/DVD without Agent Coulson, but it would seem
Peggy Carter would be stepping up.
Peggy Carter played Haley Atwell
Hayley Atwell talked more to The Big Issue about returning
as Peggy Carter in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the upcoming Marvel
One-Shot.
“Fans of the first film really wanted to find out what
happened to Peggy afterwards, so Marvel are also making a short film, which is
basically ‘What Peggy Did Next’, which will be shown at Comic-Con [the annual
international pop culture convention held in San Diego] and be on the DVD
extras of the second film."
Carter appears only in a few flashback scenes in "The
Winter Soldier."
