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The Avengers

The Mary Sue Exclusive

Exclusive: Saoirse Ronan Talks To Us About Joss Whedon And Scarlet Witch

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:33 pm, May 23rd, 2013

Considering the secrecy usually surrounding our most anticipated blockbusters, we were happily surprised when director Joss Whedon flat-out admitted Marvel characters Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch would be appearing in the sequel to The Avengers. But there followed a rumor about Irish actress Saoirse Ronan being Whedon’s “prototype” for Scarlet Witch so when we had the opportunity to speak with the actress recently, we just had to ask – would she do it? 

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Oh Hollywood

If Movie Posters Had Used the Film’s Working Title

by Susana Polo | 10:15 am, May 17th, 2013

While some of these are humorously ironic (Captain America: The First Avenger), kind of adorable (The Avengers), some of these titles are just so completely nonsensical that seeing them dressed up in serious font with serious images is outright hilarious.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Art Nouveau Katniss Everdeen

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, May 15th, 2013

By Megan Lara, available in shirt or poster form at RedBubble.

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Review

Sticking to the Original Blueprints Keeps Iron Man 3 Working

by Zoe Chevat | 11:00 am, May 6th, 2013

“The world is getting weird,” declares faithful former bodyguard Happy (Jon Favreau) early in the first act of Iron Man 3. He’s not wrong. Everybody’s favorite genius billionare playboy philanthropist is back for a fourth round, facing a changing world, and a changing self. After the invasion of New York, and the start of the Avengers, there’s plenty on the table for Mr. Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to handle, from terrorists to his mercurial relationship to his own obsessions. Fortunately for us, though, IM3 doesn’t take too steep of a dive into Tony’s demons. It stays at a neat cruising altitude: charming, effusive, with requisite explosions aplenty. Much like the most used and battered of Tony Stark’s suits, Iron Man 3 has some loose pieces that rattle, but it holds together for a fun, familiar ride.

Material under the cut contains arc-reactor-powered SPOILERS. Read at your own discretion.

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Mutatis Mutandis

More Hints at Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch in The Avengers 2

by Susana Polo | 11:46 am, May 2nd, 2013

With Joss Whedon‘s mention, on the red carpet of Iron Man 3‘s Los Angeles premiere, that he’d managed to “lock” in his favorite brother/sister characters into the script for The Avengers 2, comics fans were very surprised, for a semi-complicated reason. It seemed very much like Whedon was hinting at the roles of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff, alias Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, reformed members of a terrorist group who were a major part of the second incarnation of the Avengers, lead by Captain America.

What’s surprising about this is that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are mutants, and were long thought to probably be characters that Marvel Entertainment couldn’t touch due to licensing agreements that left the X-Men and their supporting characters with Fox Studios. But was Whedon really hinting at Magneto’s wayward twins, or at a different sibling pair? According to Entertainment Weekly’s sources, it’s mutants all the way down.

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Rumory

True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård Flying Toward The Crow Reboot?

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:01 am, April 30th, 2013

The last time we heard about casting for The Crow reboot/remake, it was The Avenger’s Tom Hiddleston up for the gig. A new report is now claiming True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård might take the lead role.

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Excelsior!

Iron Man 3 Beats The Avengers Opening World Wide Box Office, Should Enjoy This While it Lasts

by Susana Polo | 2:46 pm, April 29th, 2013

For Americans, Iron Man 3, the first installment of Marve’s Phase 2, is still tantalizingly out of reach, close and yet far on the other side of the work week. But for forty two other countries, it opened this weekend. And it opened pretty well.

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Fact From the Vapor of Nuance

Did We Just Find Out How Coulson Survived The Avengers?

by Rebecca Pahle | 12:55 pm, April 27th, 2013

A tipster over at /Film has shared how Joss Whedon will supposedly bring Agent Coulson back from the dead for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. So, y’know, have your grain of salt ready. But their explanation certainly sounds like it could be legit.

Unmarked spoilers beyond the cut, be ye warned.

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Mutatis Mutandis

The Avengers 2 Might Bring Mutants to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

by Susana Polo | 11:44 am, April 25th, 2013

The Iron Man 3 had its Los Angeles premiere last night, and that means that there were plenty of folks with an inside line on the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe walking down a gauntlet of reporters. It’s probably inevitable that somebody would drop a bombshell on the red carpet. When the dust cleared, Joss Whedon was standing alone, in his hand a direct quote about how the first draft of The Avengers 2 he’d locked in a new brother/sister duo for the film.

Before you go out and cross reference sibling teams and the Avengers in comics, you should probably just be told that the very likely culprits are Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Which is very, very interesting from a licensing standpoint. I swear.

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Supergirly

How Nick Fury Got His Eyepatch

by Susana Polo | 12:14 pm, April 24th, 2013

As someone who has only recently developed the skills for an occasional application of eyeliner and shadow, the mysteries of the mascara wand seem dark and foreboding. Maybe it’s just the flashbacks to being nigh-on attacked with one when some well meaning friends found out I was makeupless an hour before prom, but I can really relate to markmak’s Fury here.

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