Ah, slowly we’re working our way round all the directors. Okay. Let’s see what he has to sa-
I’m not remotely qualified to unpick any of that beyond my god, the bad taste in my mouth, but honestly I feel this… this is mean in the way only a certain strand of racist, very rich, never-held-accountable white men can be.
(Also, it was FILMED IN Africa.)
No-one owns the tale of Star Wars, especially not Disney.
No-one owns the heroes of the MCU, especially not Disney (again.)
No-one owns the characters of Harry Potter, especially not JK Rowling.
It’s impossible to own a story! Once you’ve read or seen it it’s in YOUR hands! It all lives in YOUR brain! It’s yours! Go do something good with it!
After leaving fans guessing for months, the first openly gay Marvel superhero has been revealed in the trailer for The Eternals. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that there would be an openly gay superhero at the D23 Expo in California in August, but did not confirm the name of the character or the actor…
Marvel’s first openly gay superhero has finally been revealed in new trailer for The Eternals — PinkNews – Gay news, reviews and comment from the world’s most read lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans news service
Okay, I had no idea about this. Honestly, Gemma Chan aside, I don’t really have much interest in The Eternals. But hey, well done MCU! It only took you, what, over a decade…
I’m reblogging this mostly for the “great quote I saw”, because it really is great.
I like it all, David Harbour’s character looks great, but oh man, I also kinda feel like this would have more impact if we didn’t know already she was dead and will never truly get a happy ending.
(also, for a while I wondered if the framing device for this movie would be Natasha flashing back to her past as she falls into the Soul Pit, but I guess not.)
The teaser poster has also been released and I like it so much more than that leaked one that went around a few months ago.
No thigh gap on this one! Hooray!
Number 2 and 3 really sell the epic feel of it all. Number 1 has far too much Iron Man for my liking (he’s in virtually every photo, I definitely remember there were some other people in the movie?!), but eh, aesthetically it’s quite nice.
You can see the artist’s name on the picture but here’s a direct link to his website: https://www.jamesyusufi.com/
Disney+ released in the USA today, I hear! But not the UK, we don’t get it til March. And since Disney still does not comprehend how the non-corporate internet works or how fans will react upon deliberately being excluded, I have watched the Endgame deleted scenes on YouTube. Or the ones I’m interested in, anyway. (i.e. the Guardians ones)
It took me til now to realise that Peter and Rocket didn’t actually have a reunion scene in Endgame. Here they have… approx two lines. The fistbump is nice though, assuming that would’ve been CGIed in later.
This I like better, except that everything that’s happened to Gamora is written off and undermined once again. “This one?” Shouldn’t Peter be making somewhat more of a distinction between the Gamora who loved him and is dead and the past version of her? Y’know what I mean, right? Plus how does he even know why and how she’s alive? Is this meant to be before or after the bit where she kicks him in the balls? Oh, I don’t know, but I don’t like it.
I do like the rest of the scene, where everyone bands together. Well done for breaking up Tony’s fight and helping with the plan, Peter, you are treated with more respect in this deleted scene than you were in the whole rest of the movie.
Finally Okoye gets more lines. And Valkyrie seems to approve of Mantis, and I approve of that. (It’s all that confirmed that Valkyrie will shortly be the MCU’s first (finally) LGBT character but I really hope Mantis will be another one.)
Anyway! My problems with these scenes are the same ones I had about the whole of Endgame, a) things that should be serious are played for laughs b) Gamora’s arc is given absolutely no thought whatsoever when the whole story should have been about her and c) Honestly… this whole movie is basically just “Iron Man 4 feat. some other people”. Gah, I try not to be bitter about it, I did have an absolute blast watching Endgame, but MCU-wise the only movies I’m really interested in for the future are GOTG 3 (obviously), Black Widow, Black Panther 2, probably about half of Thor 4 and maybe the third Spider-Man, even though I still can’t connect with him because that particular spider-verse is so far from the one I intitially loved. (Far, far too much Iron Man, again, for starters.) But we’ll see.
God, Disney. I’m being left out of Disney+ and I’m still going to end up making you richer. You owe me.
So you probably know that I had a couple of issues with Endgame, especially what happened to Gamora, and this is my attempt to fix them. (Pay attention, James Gunn.)
Title: A Scar on the World
Fandom: MCU/Guardians of the Galaxy
Characters: Gamora, Natasha
Summary: Gamora is trying to come to terms with being alone and displaced in time. Luckily, the universe isn’t done with either her or Natasha Romanoff.
So it was afewdaysago o’clock that I learned Sean Gunn filmed some scenes for Endgame, and they got cut! I consider this an epic injustice. Look at this green-screen bit from the behind the scenes doc on the DVD. We almost got Peter and Kraglin fighting side-by-side!
And check out his look! He’s got a new fin and looks badass!
Here’s a shot of him aboard a space bike. (The Twitter account that first posted this has mysteriously gone, did the Mouse get them?)
Whether Kraglin was supposed to be besides Peter for the whole scene or on the space bike, I’m not sure. Apparently you can just about make out a space-bike-riding blob in the finished cut of the movie:
So maybe the scene of him on the battlefield was cut early on. I’d have really, really loved to see him there, though. Not only do I like the relationship between Peter and Kraglin and wanna see more of it, if the intention was for Kraglin to be wielding the Yaka Arrow (and he does look a bit like he’s whistling in the top image) that would have meant a part of Yondu was sort of present beside Peter in that battle as well. And that breaks my tiny GOTG-obsessed heart.
This is material ripe for fanfiction! After I’ve finished working on the post-Endgame fic I’m going at the moment, I reckon I’ll give something with Kraglin a whirl. I love that boy (and Sean too, meeting him at ComicCon was a true delight).