Released: 11 November 2022Director: Ryan CooglerDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $250 millionStars: Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta, Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Dominique Thorne, and Martin Freeman The Plot:With Wakanda in mourning after the tragic death of…
Released: 16 February 2028Director: Ryan CooglerDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $200 millionStars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, and Martin Freeman The Plot:After helping to bring his father’s killer to justice, Prince…
Released: 9 July 2021Director: Cate ShortlandDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $200 millionStars: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Olga Kurylenko, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz The Plot:On the run after the events of Captain America: Civil War (The Russo…
Story Title: “The Black Panther!”Published: 12 April 1966 (cover-dated July 1966) Story Title: “The Way It Began…!”Published: 10 May 1966 (cover-dated August 1966) The Background:The popular story behind the Fantastic Four is that Marvel Comics head honcho Martin Goodman wanted…
Story Title: “Here Is the Sub-Mariner!” (or possibly just “The Sub-Mariner”)Published: April 1939Writer and Artist: Bill Everett The Background:The brainchild of writer/artist Bill Everett and billed as Marvel’s first Mutant, Prince Namor McKenzie/The Sub-Mariner owes his creation to Carl Bugos’s…
Air Date: 30 March 2022 to 4 May 2022Network: Disney+Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy, Gaspard Ulliel, and Karim El-Hakim and F. Murray Abraham The Background:In May 1975, Doug Moench, Don Perlin, and Al Milgrom’s silver-clad mercenary, Mark Spector/Moon…
Released: 6 May 2016Director: Anthony and Joe RussoDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $250 millionStars: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Olsen, Daniel Brühl, and Chadwick Boseman The Plot:After saving the world from a…
In September 1961, DC Comics published “Flash of Two Worlds” (Fox, et al), a landmark story that brought together two generations of the Flash: the Golden Age Jay Garrick and the Silver Age Barry Allen thanks to the concept of…
Released: 3 September 2021Director: Destin Daniel CrettonDistributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion PicturesBudget: $150 millionStars: Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Meng’er Zhang, Florian Munteanu, and Tony Leung The Plot:Desiring a normal life away from his father, Xu Wenwu (Leung), who has led the…
Those who actually read my articles may recall that, some time ago, I wrote a piece discussing some ideas for the inevitable integration of the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Disney reacquired the rights after their big purchase…
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