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Marvel’s GENERATIONS Coming – A 10-Way Crossover Event

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Marvel’s teased Generations has been revealed as an expansive crossover of 10 characters/titles this summer pairing classic heroes with younger characters who have taken up their names. First revealed by Marvel through their Disney sister company ABC News, Generations will kick off in July and run through September – during the same time as the overarching Secret Empire event. Marvel has released a list of the 10 pairings, as well as who is writing the stories, although they don’t specify in which titles their stories will take place: Iron Man…

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Fox’s X-MEN TV Show THE GIFTED

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Fox has released the first teaser for its X-Men spin-off show The Gifted. Focusing on a family who goes on the run when its discovered the two children are mutants, the show has also been picked up for a full series based on a pilot directed by X-Men film director Bryan Singer. No premiere date for The Gifted has been announced. A full trailer is scheduled to premiere May 15.

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Marvel’s The Defenders | Netflix First Trailer

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Marvel’s The Defenders is an upcoming American web television miniseries developed for Netflix by Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise and is the culmination of a series of interconnected shows from Marvel and Netflix. The miniseries is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios, with Ramirez and Jeph Loeb serving as Producers. The limited series stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock…

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Slott’s Silver Surfer Rides a Cosmic Adventure

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When you explore the galaxy with one of the most powerful figures in the Marvel Universe, every day is an adventure — but what happens on those days where a major cosmic crisis arises, or, worse, the events of your previous exploits come back to haunt you? Dawn Greenwood, the girlfriend and traveling companion of the Silver Surfer is about to find out. Writer Dan Slott and artist Mike Allred’s fan favorite “Silver Surfer” series is ramping up the action with some big stories that pay off long plot threads…

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Marvel’s new Spider-Man chat bot: Captain America evil?

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[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Secret Empire.] To celebrate the start of the miniseries, which sees Captain America lean into his new Hydra-aligned history and take over the country, Marvel released a new chat bot that allows readers to chat with Spider-Man about the series. Although, the term chatting might be giving the bot a little too much credit. The conversation, which takes place in a Facebook Messenger window, starts with Spider-Man asking if you’re ready to join the fight against Hydra, but instead of allowing you to simply…

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Black Lighting: First Look At Costume

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Check out a first look at the Black Lighting TV series costume. Cress Williams is playing Black Lightning, and the series has officially begun filming in Atlanta. Black Lightning is coming to The CW from executive producers Greg Berlanti, Salim Akil, Mara Brock and Sarah Schechter, from Berlanti Productions and Akil Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Salim Akil is directing and wrote the Black Lightning pilot. “I knew way too much about the world as a young boy growing up in Richmond, California,” Akil said. “I was no…

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X-Men ResurrXion Coming From Marvel

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The X-Men were originally second stringer characters when Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created them back in 1963. It was canceled after a few years. When Marvel Comics resurrected the title, they became the Marvel’s marquee characters, and easily the biggest selling comics of the ’80s and ’90s. In the last few years of comics they have put the beloved mutants through the wringer – they got de-powered, lost their school/home, their leader Cyclops went psycho, and they all eventually had to live in another dimension due to a deadly…

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Possible Dune Adaptation from Denis Villeneuve

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In February, we learned that Denis Villeneuve, who directed Sicario and the heavily Oscar-nominated Arrival, not to mention the upcoming sequel Blade Runner 2049, has signed on to direct a new adaptation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s classic novel about the machinations surrounding a desert planet which supplies the universe’s most valuable commodity. This is excellent news: Villeneuve is an outstanding director. But it’s also interesting because this could be the start of a much bigger franchise. Frank Herbert’s son Brian, who has co-written more than a dozen Dune books of…

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Marvel’s Cloak And Dagger Have Been Cast

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Marvel and Freeform have cast Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph as the lead characters in the upcoming Cloak and Dagger television series. The show, which has already been ordered to series, is a coming-of-age drama set in the Marvel Universe about two teens who gain superpowers. Created by Bill Mantlo and Ed Hannigan for Marvel Comics, Cloak (Joseph), real name Tyrone Johnson, and Dagger (Holt), really name Tandy Bowen, are two teenagers from different worlds who are given superpowers against their will. The two fall in love after running away…

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Legion First Look: An inside look

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FX and Marvel Entertainment have released a new Legion First Look that takes you behind the scenes of the anticipated series, premiering on FX on February 8. Fargo‘s Noah Hawley serves as Executive Producer, along with Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory and John Cameron. Legion is the latest project from Hawley and Cameron, two of the executive producers of the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning FX limited series Fargo. Legion, based on the Marvel Comics by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, is the story of…

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Producer Comments On Lost Series Revival

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Lost was a big event in 2000s television that it still around on in streaming service form, generation to… another generation there is still interest in the story. Like any big property of the past, there’s always continued fan debate/speculation/wishful thinking that the show could be rebooted or continued, as return to The Island for more mystery/horror/sci-fi/drama fun. Executive Producer and writer Damon Lindelof recently spoke on the subject. Lindelof enthusiasim about bringing Lost back was mostly due to the nature of the show’s ending. As Lindelof puts it, “I…

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“Marvel’s Runaways” is Coming to Television

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After years and years of development, abandoned film scripts and more than a few canceled ongoing comic series, the long-awaited moment has arrived: “Runaways” is making a major comeback in the form of a television series. A live-action adaptation of the fan-favorite/bordering-on-iconic Marvel comic just got ordered to series by Hulu, where it will become the latest in a long line of streaming Marvel Television series. Of course “Runaways” marks a change in how Marvel Television has previously operated; instead of arriving on Netflix like “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” and “Luke…

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Trollhunters New Netflix Series

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Watch a new featurette below for Guillermo Del Toro’s Netflix series, Trollhunters, which features the voice talents of Ron Perlman and Kelsey Grammar. Trollhunters premiers December 23rd and is described as: From the limitless imagination of acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a tale of two worlds set to collide in the epic saga DreamWorks Trollhunters. When ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. stumbles upon a mystical amulet on his way to school one morning, he inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia.…

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CAPTAIN ATOM Creators Get To the Core of The Character

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As “Rebirth” scales back some of the elements from the New 52 — getting characters back to their “core,” as the publisher describes it — a new DC miniseries is taking that transition to a new level. Not only will The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom see the rebirth of the character, but the two writers who were originally responsible for his modern “core” will be the ones doing it. Cary Bates and Greg Weisman, the two writers responsible for the 1980’s revamp of the Charlton Comics hero, will…

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JEAN GREY’s First-Ever Ongoing Comic Is Coming

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Founding X-Man Jean Grey is getting her own ongoing series as part of 2017’s “ResurrXion” line, and according to series writer Dennis Hopeless “this has been a long time coming.” Hopeless and artist Victor Ibanez are setting the time-displaced young telepath on path to understand her connection to the Phoenix Force to fight the future that’s prescribed for her before it returns. “It’s a sort of trials of Hercules story. Jean gets a premonition of sorts. She’s told the Phoenix is back in play and that the Earth is doomed…

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