Best geek movies throughout history.
Excitement continues to build for next year's Spider-Man: Homecoming! Starring Tom Holland's #SpiderMan, the film is skipping the origin story and showing us a Spidey who - although still in high school - has been part of the superhero world for nearly a year. As such, he's already been building up his rogues' gallery, and now we can say for certain that the Shocker is a part of it...
By Tom Bacon9 years ago in Geeks
Today, with Suicide Squad still in the cinema, we got a tantalizing rumor about the future of the DC Expanded Universe; it seems that a sequel to 2013's Man of Steel - which launched the DCEU - is now in active development! If the rumors are correct, the film is a long way from production stage, so now's an ideal time to ask: what can we expect from a Man of Steel sequel?
Inspired by the legends and ballads of China, Mulan has always been one of the most fascinating Disney animated movies. It tells the story of Fa Mulan, a girl who — for the sake of her family's honor — dresses as a man and joins the war against the Huns. The original Disney animated movie was a tremendous success, and now it seems we're about to get a fresh re-imagining of the legend. The live-action remake of Mulan just got a release date — November 2, 2018!
Modern-day fans are more familiar with the Transformers as the stars of Michael Bay's ongoing live-action film series. But to children of the 1980s, the Transformers were very, very different. Rather than live-action, with the majestic robots rendered through CGI, we '80s children grew up with the Transformers as animated heroes who assembled to a majestic theme-tune!
In 1982, legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont and superb artist Bob McLeod created an X-Men spin-off called New Mutants. The New Mutants were the next generation of the X-Men, a group of young students at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. They're adored by fans, with a rich and diverse history behind them. It's no wonder, then, that Josh Boone is now working on a New Mutants movie!
Guardians of the Galaxy released in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim. Fans have pored over the film ever since, rewatching it over and over, and it seems to get better every time! In spite of that, director James Gunn has long been saying that there's one final Easter egg out there that fans haven't spotted. Over on Facebook, he's spoken about it again:
Suicide Squad - one of the most hotly-anticipated movies of the summer - is out, and first reactions are mixed. On the one hand, the film's opening weekend looks to be outstanding - by Saturday morning, the film has already grossed a phenomenal $135.1 million at the box office! This makes it officially the third-best domestic opening of any film in 2016 to date, the second best of the summer, and the best opening of Will Smith's career.
Fox's Gambit film has been in the works for some time - it was originally supposed to be released in October this year! Today, we learned that DC Film has successfully tempted Doug Liman off the project - in a notable win, they've persuaded him to move on to Dark Universe, the Justice League Dark film!
Created in 1986, Amanda Waller is one of the most fascinating #DC characters. She's a shady government official, using her political skill, ruthless intelligence and incredible connections to manipulate events to her best advantage. In the comics, she's often portrayed as an antihero, sometimes even as a villain; but I want to hone in on the character's portrayal in Suicide Squad, where she's expertly portrayed by Viola Davis. Is she a hero or a villain?
I'm pretty sure that, in the eyes of many readers, just the title of my post is blatant heresy. 2015's #FantasticFour was critically condemned and disliked by fans, while - in spite of critical reviews - Suicide Squad is still getting a lot of love. So putting these two films side-by-side? Surely that's heretical!
When DC announced that #SuicideSquad would be the third film in the DC Extended Universe, it came as something of a surprise. Rather than continue to focus on the core Justice League superheroes, DC Film was choosing to build up a very different part of their Extended Universe. Now we've seen Suicide Squad, it's time to ask; what does this add to the DCEU?
When writer Louise Simonson and artist Jackson Guice created the villain Apocalypse, it didn't take long for the Four Horsemen to turn up. Fanatically devoted to En Sabah Nur, their powers enhanced beyond belief, the Four Horsemen are consistently portrayed as a deadly threat to the X-Men. Apocalypse — joining the ranks of the most powerful X-Men villains — recruits the strongest to his cause, transforms and enhances them, and then unleashes them on the X-Men! Although the name Apocalypse has more than one connotation, the Four Horsemen have always played a key role in any apocalyptic event.
