This is Michael Shannon’s penance. After being in that awful turd Premium Rush, he’s back to remind us that he’s a legitimately great actor. In The Iceman, Michael Shannon plays a contract killer with a code. This feels like a role he was born to play. Even more awesome, is that the cast (Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, James Franco) looks like it’s having fun. Anyway it’s based on a true story and looks awesome.
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It almost seems like we need to have a separate website devoted to Marvel news. Anyway, it appears that Joe and Anthony Russo are close to finding their woman to star alongside Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, and Sebastian Stan in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. While it has not explicitly been stated, the role is likely that of Sharon Carter. Sharon is the niece of Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), and would make the most sense to be the lead character in this film. She’s been Cap’s girlfriend and was also a SHIELD agent at one point, so she fits in the world perfectly. Anyway Marvel has shortened it’s list to three acresses:
Anna Kendrick
Felicity Jones
Imogen Poots
While Anna Kendrick is the biggest name and is an actress I really like, I don’t know that this role is right for her. She does bright and bubbly well, but I can’t imagine her to be any kind of agent of SHIELD.
Imogen Poots just looks a little young to me, but she’s gorgeous and I think could pull off the strength required for a character like Sharon.
Felicity Jones I know nothing about but from a quick google search, she looks like she could easily play a relative of Peggy Carter. They have a bit of a likeness, I just know nothing of her skill set as an actress.
Anyway they decide to go, I think they are all pretty good choices. Kendrick might surprise me considering, she’s probably the best actress out of the bunch and this would give her more of a lead role than she’s had up to this point. I bet they have this all wrapped up within the next few weeks.
It is being reported that Marvel is actively in negotiations for Anthony Mackie to play the character of Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Almost anything being reported on the Marvel front these days ends up happening so I’m going to assume this is going to happen. Here is what you get by incorporating Falcon into Captain America:
-You get a black character
-You get people to chill on asking for Black Panther
-You get a character that will require less of an origin story than B.P. does
-You get a character who will be introduced into the new Avengers cartoon as the eyes of the viewer. So here you are going to get a bunch of kids who see themselves as him, happy to see him in a movie.
While I would rather see Black Panther become an Avenger over Falcon, I think Anthony Mackie can bring the requisite coolness to a character like this, and it will also flesh out the Captain America world more. Considering all his buddies are dead (minus Bucky), this helps keep his movie-verse active. Only issue now is what happens with Bucky. Lets assume Chris Evans and Mackie are the good guys this time, can Sebastian Stan really hold his own this time around? I guess we’ll have to wait and find out.
Jonathan Hickman has been writing this book like a mad man. He’s trying his best to tell these grand stories because he realizes the FF are so much more than what we’ve seen lately. He’s hitting the mark that the two films missed so much.
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