Queen Lucy has signed on to a role with Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. She will probably be playing a Mary Sue crafted from Joss Whedon's masturbatory fantasies, but allow me to indulge my hope for a minute that she will instead be playing Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, a spy and Nick Fury's long-time love interest. My first choice for ( Read more... )

Casting news from the Daredevil set! Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica from True Blood) has been cast as Karen Page on the Netflix Daredevil series. She's a New York native with an astounding set of blue eyes, so this is pretty cool news.

Y'all may have heard that Rosario Dawson is also on Daredevil; she's apparently got a pivotal role, but Marvel is ( Read more... )

theladyscribe and I attended Marvel's sneak peek of Guardians of the Galaxy on July 7! It was in IMAX, so booo because my inferior eyeballs can't see properly in those glasses, but whatever.

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Very interesting find! The actual dogtags Chris Evans wore in the first Captain America movie turned up for auction. SourceHis dogtags read ( Read more... )

I am currently praying on my hands and knees for Guardians of the Galaxy to spawn a really kinky, iddy fandom. I want all the tropey idfic! Badwrong Gamora/Nebula pseudo-incest fic! AUs where Peter is prince of the Spartax and he conquers Hala/Earth/Zen-Whober and takes Ronan/Drax/Tony Stark/Gamora as his body slave but they FALL IN LOVE dun dun ( Read more... )

Charlie Cox, a boyishly handsome British actor who's background is more Brideshead Revisted than Hell's Kitchen, is our new Matt Murdock in Marvel's upcoming Daredevil series for Netflix ( Read more... )

The news broke that, due to "differences in their vision of the film", Edgar Wright and Marvel have parted ways on the Ant-Man movie. On the surface, this doesn't seem like that big a deal -- except that Edgar Wright has been working on this movie for over eight years and he was the driving force behind it getting greenlit in the first place. ( Read more... )

I'm so tired of seeing comments like "Marvel couldn't be bothered to get Russian names right! Black Widow's name makes no sense! LOOOOL".

1. Black Widow was created in 1964. This is before the internet, before Google; there was no Skyping some Russians to do some Russopicking. The Iron Curtain was in full effect. Very little was known about life ( Read more... )

Finally we get a clear look at Lee Pace as one of the baddies from the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy!


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So far, mothers have been almost as conspicuously absent from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as they were from most of Disney's princess movies. Tony Stark's mother, Maria, who in the comics he loved so much he named his charitable foundation after her, barely warrants a name, as her husband takes center-stage in Tony's daddy issues. Steve Rogers' ( Read more... )