The art was courtesy of Drew Struzan, who famously created the most iconic posters for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. This poster seems to confirm that Finn (John Boyega) at the very least will be wielding a lightsaber in the film or perhaps even a Jedi. The poster features Han Solo (Harrison Ford) , Finn (John Boyega) , Rey (Daisy Ridley), and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). The Force Awakens hits theaters on December 18th, 2015.
Walt Disney Studios just released this captivating new poster for Jon Favreau’s upcoming live action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. It gives as our first look at rising star Neel Sethi as “Mowgli” as he faces off against “Bagheera” who will be voiced by legendary thespian Sir Ben Kingsley.
The Jungle Book adaptation is written by Justin Marks, and directed by Jon Favreau to be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures in 2016. The film’s executive producers are Molly Allen, Karen Gilchrist, Peter M. Tobyanse. Music will be written by John Debney.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyongo, who was having a blast at this weekend’s D23 Convenstion, will also star in The Jungle Book as mother to Neel Sethi’s Mowgli.
Kevin Feige brought Anthony Mackie and Chris Evans to the Marvel D23 Expo presentation and they came bearing gifts! The audience in attendance got an exclusive sneak peak of Marvel’s upcoming Mega Event movie Captain America : Civil War. The footage they presented has not been released online yet but Entertainment Weekly has the full description here to get you excited. Ready to get your nerdgasm? Here we go!
The new Avengers are in buildings overlooking a crowded market in what appears to be a third-world country. “Eyes on target, folks,” Captain America says. Falcon says, “Red Wing, launch,” and a small drone hovers free and dives down to the street, swooping beneath a truck, which is loaded with explosives. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson is in a café.) “It’s a battering ram,” she says. The team closes in, and the truck opens up—revealing Crossbones, a.k.a. Brock Rumlow (played by Frank Grillo, from The Winter Soldier). He spots Cap moving in and throws a magnetic bomb onto Cap’s vibranium shield. Cap thinks fast, throwing the shield into the sky just as it detonates.
He is now unarmed, and Crossbones pummels him. The rest of Crossbones’ crew springs to action. Falcon blocks machine gun fire with his wings. Black Widow flips through the air, sending bad guys flying. Crossbones grips Cap and slams him into a concrete wall. He leers at the hero from behind a metallic, skull-shaped masked. “You dropped a building on my face,” he snarls, a reference to the conclusion of The Winter Soldier. Cap rips his gauntlet off and pushes free, then tears off the metal mask. Crossbones kneels, defeated, and mutters: “You know … he remembered you. Your pal … your buddy … Your Bucky.” Turns out, Captain America does have a weak spot.
From there we get the Marvel Studios logo and cut to William Hurt as Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross—the former general, known as the nemesis of The Incredible Hulk. “The world owes you an unpayable debt,” Ross says as images of past heroism play onscreen. “While a great many people see you as a hero, there are some who prefer the word vigilante. People are afraid.” Cap is indignant. “This job, we try to save as many as we can. Sometimes that doesn’t mean everybody,” he says. Then we see a shot familiar to anyone who waited for the end credits scene after Ant-Man. The Winter Soldier himself, Cap’s old friend Bucky Barnes (played by Sebastian Stan), is trapped in a warehouse with his metallic arm locked in a vice. “Buck … You know me?” The assassin whose mind was wiped in the previousCaptain America movie looks up. “My mom’s name was Sarah,” he says. “You used to wear newspapers in your shoes.” Then we get a reunion between Cap and another powerful being: Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. “Sometimes I want to punch you in your perfect teeth,” he says.
Something has happened. Something that can’t be undone. The world wants heroes to stay heroes, but they need to be regulated. Controlled. We see a flash of heroes. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Paul Bettany as The Vision (wearing street clothes! A dapper suit), Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye striking a pose with his bow and arrow, Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa– in regular clothes, and also in his Black Panther armor, complete with gloves that extend razor-sharp blades from the fingernails.
As we see various teams of powerful beings running at each other, the footage cuts to another van—this one with Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man inside. He meets Cap and totally geeks out. “Captain America…” he says, awestruck, shaking his idol’s hand. And shaking it some more. And then some more. “I’m shaking your hand too long,” he says. Pinwheeling around, he looks at Scarlet Witch. “I know you, too!” Ant-Man says. “You’re great!” He tries to play it cool. “I want to say I know you know a lot of super people, so thinks for thanking of me,” he says. Then pauses. Blinks. “Thanks for thinking of me,” he corrects himself.
Whew! Have you recovered yet? Hopefully Marvel follows Warner Bros. example and release the teaser online or everyone. Until then, be sure to come back to Monkeys Fighting Robots for more from D23 2015.
We apologize for misleading you but the trailer was fake and we took it down.
Here is the transcription of the Captain America: Civil War presentation at D23:
The new Avengers are in buildings overlooking a crowded market in what appears to be a third-world country. “Eyes on target, folks,” Captain America says. Falcon says, “Red Wing, launch,” and a small drone hovers free and dives down to the street, swooping beneath a truck, which is loaded with explosives. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson is in a café.) “It’s a battering ram,” she says. The team closes in, and the truck opens up—revealing Crossbones, a.k.a. Brock Rumlow (played by Frank Grillo, from The Winter Soldier). He spots Cap moving in and throws a magnetic bomb onto Cap’s vibranium shield. Cap thinks fast, throwing the shield into the sky just as it detonates.
He is now unarmed, and Crossbones pummels him. The rest of Crossbones’ crew springs to action. Falcon blocks machine gun fire with his wings. Black Widow flips through the air, sending bad guys flying. Crossbones grips Cap and slams him into a concrete wall. He leers at the hero from behind a metallic, skull-shaped masked. “You dropped a building on my face,” he snarls, a reference to the conclusion of The Winter Soldier. Cap rips his gauntlet off and pushes free, then tears off the metal mask. Crossbones kneels, defeated, and mutters: “You know … he remembered you. Your pal … your buddy … Your Bucky.” Turns out, Captain America does have a weak spot.
From there we get the Marvel Studios logo and cut to William Hurt as Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross—the former general, known as the nemesis of The Incredible Hulk. “The world owes you an unpayable debt,” Ross says as images of past heroism play onscreen. “While a great many people see you as a hero, there are some who prefer the word vigilante. People are afraid.” Cap is indignant. “This job, we try to save as many as we can. Sometimes that doesn’t mean everybody,” he says. Then we see a shot familiar to anyone who waited for the end credits scene after Ant-Man. The Winter Soldier himself, Cap’s old friend Bucky Barnes (played by Sebastian Stan), is trapped in a warehouse with his metallic arm locked in a vice. “Buck … You know me?” The assassin whose mind was wiped in the previousCaptain America movie looks up. “My mom’s name was Sarah,” he says. “You used to wear newspapers in your shoes.” Then we get a reunion between Cap and another powerful being: Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man. “Sometimes I want to punch you in your perfect teeth,” he says.
Something has happened. Something that can’t be undone. The world wants heroes to stay heroes, but they need to be regulated. Controlled. We see a flash of heroes. Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), Paul Bettany as The Vision (wearing street clothes! A dapper suit), Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye striking a pose with his bow and arrow, Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa– in regular clothes, and also in his Black Panther armor, complete with gloves that extend razor-sharp blades from the fingernails.
As we see various teams of powerful beings running at each other, the footage cuts to another van—this one with Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man inside. He meets Cap and totally geeks out. “Captain America…” he says, awestruck, shaking his idol’s hand. And shaking it some more. And then some more. “I’m shaking your hand too long,” he says. Pinwheeling around, he looks at Scarlet Witch. “I know you, too!” Ant-Man says. “You’re great!” He tries to play it cool. “I want to say I know you know a lot of super people, so thinks for thanking of me,” he says. Then pauses. Blinks. “Thanks for thinking of me,” he corrects himself.
Kevin Feige took to the stage at Disney’s D23 Expo earlier today and dished out a few new details on Marvel’s highly anticipated Doctor Strange live action adaptation. Feige started off the panel saying
“Today, 2015, I stand here, and we have now completed Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and I want to say think you,” he said. “So the question is what am I going to talk about today. It seems to make sense … to talk about the beginnings of Phase 3.” And continued
“The first one I’m going to talk about today is Doctor Strange. The goal is to continue expanding what a comic book movie is, what the Marvel Cinematic Universe is. The comics traverse these dimensions, and film by film, we try to do that in a cinematic way, Next year with Doctor Strange continuing to push the boundaries of that cinematic universe.”
Feige also confirmed that filming on Doctor Strange doesn’t begin until November, as well as Tilda Swinton’s casting as ‘The Ancient One” and Chiwatel Ejiofor as “Mordo”. Fans in attendance were treated to a very early concept art, which is described by Deadline as “kind of great and makes Doctor Strange look like a cross between Inception and Krull”.
Benedict Cumberbatch who wasn’t in attendance appeared via a prerecorded video where he promised fans
“You’re gonna get girls, cars, explosions and astral projection.”
Marvel’s Doctor Strange will hit theaters on November 4 2016 and stars Cumberbatch as the titular hero.
Stay tuned to Monkeys Fighting Robots for more news from D23
Netflix released two exclusive looks of the brand new season of Longmire. The crime drama moves to the streaming service after 3 seasons on the A&E Network. It seems based on these clips that next seasons theme will center around 2nd chances and that seems fitting as Netflix is the reason why the show is having it’s 4th season.
Netflix also provided us with a sneak peek of the season premiere.
Deadline Reports that NBC is looking to develop a TV Series adaptation of DC Comics ‘Red’, based on the Movies of the same name. While Red was originally a limited comic series created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammer (Under Dc Comics imprint Homage), it is reported that the hour long series will take inspiration from the film adaptations (which starred Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louis Parker, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich) instead.
The show will be created by Jon and Erich Hoeber who also wrote the 2010 film adaptation and its 2013 sequel.
The series will be written and executive produced by the Hoeber brothers and will retain the core concept of the films but will be set in a more grounded and authentic world, focusing on the characters’ darkly hilarious struggles to survive civilian life as they simultaneously fight for and against the very organization that threw them out. di Bonaventura and Vahradian are also on board as executive producers.
‘Red’ will become the third DC Comics property to be developed by NBC following ‘Supergirl‘ which premieres this fall and ‘Powerless‘ which has just received a pilot order.
Friday kicked off Disney’s D23 Fan Expo in Anaheim, California. The focus of the 1st day was on animation. Here’s a video recap of the 1st day. Keep it locked on Monkeys Fighting Robots as we will bring you all the news coming out of Disney’s 3 day event.
“The Rock” Dwayne Johnson talks about how he’s always wanted to be in a Disney animated film and how he hopes his character Maui from Moana has a chance to become iconic.
About Moana – A young woman uses her navigational talents to set sail for a fabled island. Joining her on the adventure is her hero, the legendary demi-god Maui.
"The Rock" Dwayne Johnson talks about how he's always wanted to be in a Disney animated film and how he hopes his character Maui from Moana has a chance to become iconic.About Moana – A young woman uses her navigational talents to set sail for a fabled island. Joining her on the adventure is her hero, the legendary demi-god Maui.Moana will be in theaters on November 16, 2016.
Lost in the hysteria of Disney’s D23 expo, details about Frozen 2 were made public. Co-director Chris Buck said in an interview with Fandango, “Elsa had such a dramatic journey, and at the end she’s just starting to feel like she can open up and have some fun again. That’s what was really good about Frozen Fever – we could have fun with Elsa. You will see more of that in the next one.”
It certainly seems like we will see a fun loving Elsa in the next film. Even with having a fun loving Elsa in the highly anticipated sequel, I’m sure that Frozen 2 will have the same emotional depth that made the original an instant classic. No date has been set for the release.
