Hugh Jackman has been in media blitz mode promoting his next film Pan, earlier this week Jackman suggested that Tom Hardy would make a good replacement as Wolverine. As we all know, Jackman will retire from the X-Men franchise after the third solo Wolverine film which is rumored to be based on the Mark Millar storyline ‘Old Man Logan.’ Adam Chitwood from Collider talked with Jackman about the third film and had a real nuts and bolts conversation about what is going in the mind of Jackman.
Jackman stated that he won’t start filming the project till the script is perfect.
“I’m saying ‘but’ and I’m sounding a little cagey because this is the last time I’m playing him, and I have just made the commitment to myself, really, and told everyone that until that script is perfect, until it is that perfect way to sign out, I’m not gonna start shooting. So that’s why I don’t wanna say ‘Yes’ for sure, because until Page 115, 120, whatever it is…,” said Jackman.
As a fanboy this next quote sounds great, the guy playing Wolverine wants to leave blood on the studio floor everyday. As a former sports reporter this comes off as catch phrase and the only thing that matters is the script or have we already forgotten X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
“I feel that I’m pushing harder than I’ve ever pushed before. I suppose the stakes just go up when you announce before your last season that this is your last season, you don’t want one game to not be your best… People ask me, ‘How are you gonna be able to let it go?’ To me the only way you can let it go is if you left blood every day on the studio floor,” said Jackman.
Jackman ends the interview with plan for filming and a glimpse into what he wants to accomplished with Wolverine 3 a.k.a. Old Man Logan.
“The ultimate plan is let’s start shooting next year… I’m starting the training, I’m starting the eating and mentally really preparing for it. It’s not just me, the studio as well—I’m trying to do something with this that’s a little special, a little different. I’ve got a very, very strong idea of what that is. I really have known for quite a long time how I want to finish this sort of odyssey that I’ve been on, this amazing journey. And I won’t let it fall anywhere in between. I won’t fall short of it,” said Jackman.
James Mangold is set to direct Wolverine 3 and Patrick Stewart has been cast as well, the film is scheduled for release on March 3, 2017.
Yeah I know I didn’t do a review last week when episode 12 of Charlotte came out, but I was busy doing other things. And personally I had given up a little due to my hatred for episode 11 and distaste for episode 10. I figured I should watch the last two episodes together, sort of like ripping off a band-aid. But once I did finish both episode 12 and 13, I found myself rather surprised.
Episode Summary’s
Yu recovers in episode 12 and decides to go and plunder everyone’s ability with the prospect of coming back to Nao and becoming lovers.
Episode 13 is him plundering every ability in the world and slowly losing his mind. He comes back to Nao not being able to know who she or anybody is. But Nao sees that he kept her gift to him this whole time and they begin their relationship as lovers.
Episode Thoughts
It took me a while to put aside my personal feelings about the direction that Charlotte has taken. I can be rather stubborn and if a story totally changes direction I have a knee jerk reaction to the point of feeling betrayed by the show. But once I took a two-week brake and came back to Charlotte, I realized that, while the change in shift was a major negative for the show as a whole, I still could try to salvage where it was going. Thankfully episode 11 must have been a fluke in the plot, because episode 12 sort of brought the show back to form. And in doing so, brought my interest level slightly back to what I had expected of this show up until episode 10.
Sure nothing really happens in episode 12 but the anticipation of what is to come is enough to warrant the episodes existence. They didn’t really have to show Yu healing for a whole episode. But if they didn’t it wouldn’t have made his choice to go and save literally every ability user in the world believable. The episode helps sink in the reasons for why he needs to go and save everyone as a character. And not why he needs to save everyone because that’s the plot of the show. It feels like there is legitimate decision-making again and not just characters being jerked around by what needs to happen to move on with the plot.
Plus I have been anchoring for closure with Yusa/Misa ever since their intro. So the fact that they implemented it so well and didn’t really beat around the bush really made that scene. I mean sometimes its really easy to say what you need to say, especially when its a second chance you’re getting. I think that this was the perfect place to implement this closure and have it be as important to what was going on in the story.
So if episode 12 left me hopeful about how the show was going to wrap up, episode 13 brought be back down to reality. 16 minutes of him hoping countries stealing abilities and losing his mind just wasn’t effective this time. Maybe it would have been if we didn’t already see this when Ayumi died, but we did. It felt like the same thing and that’s all I could think of when watching the majority of this episode.
Well that’s not completely true. Once he got the ability to heal I started to scream at my TV “Why don’t you just heal every one with abilities? It’s a disease, isn’t it? You are fucking retard!” From then on everything that happened with his mental state I couldn’t get into because I knew he had this ability that literally could solve everything he was going through. And you might be thinking, “Well you don’t know if the healing ability only works on wounds and isn’t able to heal the ability disease.”
First of all, if his ability to speed up diseases works on abilities, then he should be able to heal them as well. Secondly, all it would have taken was him attempting and failing to heal an ability, and then I would have known. But no, that doesn’t happen. I’m just left with the rest of his journey thinking this whole situation could have been avoided if he weren’t a fucking idiot. They introduce that ability to show how he is resolved to not use abilities for personal gain, but they ignore it because otherwise they wouldn’t get the stupid sappy ending that they wanted.
What would be so wrong with him coming home fine and having his memory in tact. Why did we have to see 16 minutes of him saving the world and only got four minutes at the end to tie up the most important relationship of the show. Isn’t that what people want to see? The resolution of Nao and Yu’s promise. Sure we get scenes of him being overly protective of her gift to him, but again that only is touching if you don’t think about how he could be healing himself, and that this shouldn’t even be a problem! And somehow Nao’s brother is calm with an autograph from Sarah again. when did that even happen? That was in a previous timeline. How does Yu even contact Sarah? He met her by chance. Ugh, this doesn’t make any sense!
Episode 13 just makes me mad because they set up everything so well in episode 12 to have an emotional fulfilling finale. But they instead took too much time on things I didn’t care about and used stupid reasoning to make the ending feel as sad and emotional as possible, almost to the point to where I feel I’m being manipulated by the story.
I have many more thoughts about these set of episodes but I think I’ll save it for my series review, because those points pertain to Charlotte as a whole. Also I need some time to cool down for what feels like a second betrayal from this show. As it stands I don’t know what I’m going to rate this show as a whole. Episode 12 was really good, but the complete face-plant in the finale ruined the ending for me.
As a life long Spider-Man reader and fan the end of an era for the franchise was with Amazing Spider-Man #545 and the reboot of the status quo with Dan Slott’s ‘Brand New Day.’ The ‘One More Day’ story arc ended the marriage between Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson through the magical effort of Mephisto. This journey down the rabbit hole of no return start with Spider-Man revealing his secret identity during the events of ‘Civil War’ written by Mark Millar.
We can talk the pros and cons of the change all-day long but it really doesn’t matter while Joe Quesada is the Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment.
“I remember editors and editors in chief lamenting that a married Spider-Man was not where we want to be,” said Quesada in an interview with USAToday. “A married Peter Parker makes for a less interesting soap opera than a single Peter Parker going about his nerdy kind of life.”
It was too hard to write interesting stories for Spider-Man?!
I will always say that Quesada needed to find better editors and writers that don’t mind that it is difficult to write great comic books.
Here we are eight years later and Millar is opening old wounds and pouring gasoline on them. The writer did an interview with IGN about his two new comic book series: ‘Chrononauts’ and ‘Jupiter’s Circle.’ During the conversation Captain America: Civil War was brought up and Millar discussed the day they decided to revealed Spider-Man’s secret identity on national television in the original story.
“People remember that because it was such a good stunt. It’s a seven-issue series, which is 150 pages or something, and Spider-Man appears it it for three pages, one of which is a splash. It was such a tiny part of it. To be honest, it was just a way of boosting up our sales. We were just sitting there thinking, what can we do with Spider-Man for three pages? And that worked,” said Millar.
Some one at Marvel has to respect the history of the product they are working on, and this comment by Millar demonstrates that no one in the ‘Civil War’ conversation did. We all understand that it is a business and Marvel’s sole job is to sell as many comics as possible, but the gimmicks don’t work and they insult the fans that have invested time and money supporting the product.
“Looking into the future, this is really the right thing to do for the long-term health of the character,” said Quesada in 2007.
Now that time has past, almost a decade, do you think Quesada made the right decision?
Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out on October 2 to the home theater and their marketing campaign has been directed at us nerds as they reveal some deleted scenes from the film that foreshadow Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War.
In the Norn Cave Thor (Chris Hemsworth) explores the future in this deleted scene.
Tron was released in 1982 on a $17 million budget and almost doubled its return in box offices receipts. Tron: Legacy came out 28-years later to lack luster reviews and box office return in 2010. If this trend continues, we will see Tron 3 in 23 years. UGH!
The star of Tron: Legacy Garrett Hedlund was out promoting his latest film Pan, he plays pre-captain Hook with two hands. While talking with comicbook.com Hedlund talked about the future of Tron and the chances that fans will see Tron 3 anytime soon.
“I haven’t been told it’s totally dead. Ever since we did Legacy, we knew that to have another story follow it up, it had to be concrete and exciting. Disney needed to have the right story to go forward. I think it was going to introduce some things that were as exciting as Legacy was and then some, though,” said Hedlund.
“Who knows, maybe it’ll be like Legacy was to the first Tron, it’ll be 30 years, and I’ll have my young Flynn CGI face, who knows? But they could do it anytime from now, and I would of course jump back in. Something like that could be quite fun, though,” said Hedlund.
‘Writing’s on the Wall’ by Sam Smith is the theme song to latest James Bond film Spectre was released Friday.
Smith said: “This is one of the highlights of my career. I am honoured to finally announce that I will be singing the next Bond theme song. I am so excited to be a part of this iconic British legacy and join an incredible line up of some of my biggest musical inspirations. I hope you all enjoy the song as much as I enjoyed making it.”
Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment today confirmed that Sam Smith has recorded “Writing’s On The Wall,” the theme song to SPECTRE, the 24th James Bond adventure. SPECTRE will be released in the UK on October 26 and in the US on November 6. The song, released by Capitol Records, will debut and be available to purchase and stream on September 25.
Multi-platinum selling artist Sam Smith has co-written the title song, “Writing’s On The Wall,” with fellow GRAMMY® Award winner Jimmy Napes. It is the first James Bond theme song recorded by a British male solo artist since 1965. Smith’s debut album In The Lonely Hour launched at No. 1 in the UK and bowed in at No. 2 in the US, and has since earned five No.1 UK singles, four GRAMMY® Awards, three Brit Awards, six MOBO Awards, Q and AMA Awards.
Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the producers of SPECTRE, said, “Sam and Jimmy have written the most inspirational song for SPECTRE and with Sam’s extraordinary vocal performance, ‘Writing’s On The Wall’ will surely be considered one of the greatest Bond songs of all time.”
The 23 previous James Bond theme songs make up some of the most memorable movie music of all time. The previous Bond theme song, “Skyfall,” was performed by Adele, and was honored with the Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, the Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
ABOUT “SPECTRE”
A cryptic message from the past sends James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a rogue mission to Mexico City and eventually Rome, where he meets Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci), the beautiful and forbidden widow of an infamous criminal. Bond infiltrates a secret meeting and uncovers the existence of the sinister organisation known as SPECTRE.
Meanwhile back in London, Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott), the new head of the Centre for National Security, questions Bond’s actions and challenges the relevance of MI6, led by M (Ralph Fiennes). Bond covertly enlists Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Q (Ben Whishaw) to help him seek out Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the daughter of his old nemesis Mr White (Jesper Christensen), who may hold the clue to untangling the web of SPECTRE. As the daughter of an assassin, she understands Bond in a way most others cannot.
As Bond ventures towards the heart of SPECTRE, he learns of a chilling connection between himself and the enemy he seeks, played by Christoph Waltz.
Sam Mendes returns to direct SPECTRE, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as 007 for the fourth time. SPECTRE is produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The screenplay is by John Logan and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth, with a story by John Logan and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade.
SPECTRE is set for release in the UK on October 26, 2015, and in the US on November 6, 2015.
Probably the biggest shocker of last season’s Game of Thrones was the death of the wildly popular Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) at the hands of the men of the Nights Watch. For months now, speculation has run wild as to whether or not what we saw was truly the end of Jon Snow. Well, thanks to our super fans on the internet, we know now the truth about Jon Snow’s fate.
As you can see, that is Kit Harrington on set in Belfast, Ireland filming the new season of Game of Thrones. The only mystery now is exactly how Jon Snow went from being dead in the snow to being very much alive and well.
A new Marvel’s Jessica Jones has been released through an international Facebook page for Netflix and Marvel Entertainment. Marvel’s Jessica Jones is the second of four epic live-action series that are all premiering on Netflix. The show takes places after a tragic end to her short-lived Super hero career.The series follows Jessica as she rebuilds her personal life and career as a detective who seems to get cases involving people with super abilities in New York City. Marvel’s Jessica Jones premieres on November 20th on Netflix.
The series stars Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, David Tennant as Kilgrave, Mike Colter as Luke Cage, Rachael Taylor as Patricia “Trish” Walker, and Carrie-Anne Moss. Marvel’s Jessica Jones is Executive Produced by series Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg and Liz Friedman, along with Jeph Loeb, who also serves as Marvel’s Head of Television.
Marvel’s Jessica Jones is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix.
Coors Banquet is a golden colored American Adjunct Lager by Coors Brewing Company.
American Adjunct Lager – Light bodied, pale, fizzy lagers made popular by the large macro-breweries (large breweries) of America after prohibition. Low bitterness, thin malts, and moderate alcohol. Focus is less on flavor and more on mass-production and consumption, cutting flavor and sometimes costs with adjunct cereal grains, like rice and corn.
This beer was brought out of retirement in 2013 as the craft beer craze continues Coors instead of creating a craft beer brought back a cult favorite.
If you are a millennial you’ve probably never heard of Coors Banquet. If you go to Coors’ website the company boasts of the beer, “The Banquet Beer’s rich heritage is something to be celebrated. So we wanted to do it as authentically as possible. Inspired by our history, the Banquet Heritage cans are our annual toast to the Banquet spirit, past and present.”
But what does it takes like? Watch the video below for my review and leave your thoughts and beer recommendations.
The Doctor is back and if it starts with a hell of a hook: The Doctor given with the greatest mortal he could ever face and set out the highest stakes to start a Doctor Who season since “The Impossible Astronaut.”
On a war torn planet a young boy is cause in the middle of the battlefield and trapped when hands with eyes in the prams surround him. The Doctor arrives just in time to attempts to save the boy, until he reveals his name, Davros, the eventual creator of the Daleks. Centuries later Davros is dying and he sends his herald to find The Doctor across time and space.
On Earth Missy causes mischief by stopping all plane in midair, sending it as a message to meet Clara. Together the pair go through set to find The Doctor who has been partying for three weeks in Medieval England.
As mentioned “The Magician’s Apprentice” bares similarities to the start of Season 6, setting up a major event that is going to key for the rest of the series. Both openers also use the idea of intersecting personal time-lines, characters meeting each other in a different order to each other: Davros’ first meeting of The Doctor is not the first time The Doctor meets Davros. One of the greatest strength of the episode was it references to the continuity of the series, old and new, particularly a scene from the “Genesis of the Dalek”, linking into “The Magician’s Apprentice”, being a great nod for fans of the old series while also allowing fans who only know the new series to understand the reference and its importance.
The main theme of the episode is its moral dilemma which is pretty much question if you can go back in time and kill Hitler as a child would you do it? The story is also like the 1989 Tim Burton of Batman where in that film The Joker created Batman before Batman created The Joker. The Doctor abandons Davros to die and by leaving the boy did The Doctor inadvertently create his own enemy?
One of the other main strengths in the episode is Michelle Gomez returning as Missy. Gomez is a fantastic comedic actress in the UK and she is clearly enjoying herself respiring her role: she was revels in Missy’s sadistic as she enjoys killing UNIT guards and perfectly condescending towards others. The Doctor’s reintroduction was ridiculously over the top, riding a tank while playing an electric guitar in a Medieval gladiatorial arena. Yes it is silly but it does at least lightens the tone for the more heavier subject manner and allows Peter Capaldi to loosen up as he acts more like an aging rocker.
In Britain “The Magician’s Apprentice” was nearly universally praised by critics, getting many perfect scores from different outlets. But this was an episode that so dense in the continuity and mythology of Doctor Who that is near impenetrable for any newcomers or casual viewers. The idea of the new Doctor Who was that it was meant to allow newcomers to come into the show without any prior knowledge. There are many episodes in the new run that work as standalone adventures that allow people to jump into show and the season opener for Doctor Who is a opportunity for new viewers to be eased . But this opener needed encyclopedic knowledge of the series. It may have been better as a season finale then an opening.
Doctor Who has had stronger opener episodes but “The Magician’s Apprentice” is solid start for season 8 and it does end on a incredible cliffhanger that will entice viewers to see how it the two-parter concludes. Audiences in England and Wales are going to be torn between The Doctor and the rugby.
