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Thor – Destroyer design confirmed

Following the recent spy pic scoop, the Marvel Movies Facebook page has posted a model of The Destroyer, which seems to confirm the earlier image was genuine. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, Thor stars Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Idris Elba, and is due for release summer 2011 Link to this article… Hide Sites

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X-Men: First Class – James McAvoy cast as Professor X

The Hollwood Reporter’s Heatvision Blog is reporting that director Matthew Vaughn has lined up James McAvoy to play the role of Professor Xavier in X-Men: First Class.     20th Century Fox’s synopsis reads: “First Class chart the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr took the names Professor X [...]

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Captain America – Tommy Lee Jones casting confirmed

Following recent rumours, Tommy Lee Jones’s involvement in Captain America has been confirmed by fellow cast member Hayley Atwell. Atwell, who will be playing love interest Peggy Carter, let the news slip in an interview with Leicester Square TV, which you can see below, at around the 2m 20s point. It’s thought that Jones will [...]

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The Avengers – Jeremy Renner up for the role of Hawkeye?

The ever enthusiastic Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that Hurt Locker and 28 Weeks Later star Jeremy Renner has signed up to play Hawkeye in the upcoming Avengers movie.     According to AICN, Harry Knowles: Heard today from a first time source with a very interesting connection to all of this. One that [...]

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Captain America – Howard Stark casting rumours

Given the not so subtle clues laid down in Iron Man 2, it’s a given that Tony Stark’s dad Howard will be playing a pretty major role in the WWII set Captain America movie. There has been no official word on the casting of the role, but during an interview last week in Cannes, Salon.com [...]

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The Avengers to be followed by SHIELD movie?

Apologies for the lack of updates recently – it’s been a busy few days around here, but now we’re back. In a recent chat with Radio Big Boy, Samuel L Jackson let slip some information on where his character Nick Fury is headed in future Marvel movies. Amongst the more interesting titbits is his claim [...]

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Spider-Man – Alvin Sargent re-joins the series for a script pollish

Alvin Sargent, who has performed script-polishing work on the 3 previous films, as well as the cancelled Spider-Man 4, has been hired to run his word processor over Jamie Vanderbilt’s script before production begins. According to Heat Vision, the new film will be “more emotionally anchored and realistic than the previous movies”, which seems to [...]

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X-Men: First Class – Jane Goldman joins the writing team.

Just days after Matthew Vaughn accepted directing duties on the the new X film, his Stardust and Kick-Ass colaborator Jane Goldman has jumped onboard to polish the script. She is joining Thor co-writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz, who are already carrying some work on the project. According to Goldman’s husband, UK TV presenter Jonathan [...]

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Captain America and The Avengers in 3D? Maybe…

LA Times have posted in interview with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, who hints that Captain America and The Avengers may be shot in 3D. While timing constraints meant that Iron Man 2 could not be retro-fitted for 3D in post-production, that’ still an option for Thor. As far as filming natively in 3D: “The [...]

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Captain America – Toby Jones lining up for evil Nazi scientist role

Heat Vision Blog is reporting that Brit actor Toby Jones is about to land the role of Arnim Zola, and Nazi scientist, presumably connected to the creation of Red Skull. Filming starts in London soon, so we can expect to see a flurry of final casting announcements over the next few weeks. Captain America: The [...]

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