Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk... which one's the coolest? It's just too hard to say! (Pro-tip: the correct answer is "Hulk.") If you're having trouble deciding which one of Earth's mightiest heroes is your very favorite, today's edition of Tights has the cure.
Get your "Avengers" fix and read up on some new video game news when you put your Tights on past the jump!
Posted 5/17/12 2:59 pm EST by Josh Wigler in Dark Horse, News
After years of feeling hopeless, waiting with bated breath for even the slightest forward momentum on a "Sin City" sequel, we can finally start marking our calendar: the movie has a release date!
Both THR and Jeff Sneider with Variety have the news that "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" will be released on October 4, 2013 through Dimension. It's believed that both Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller are returning to direct. Details are still coming, but for now, the very fact that "Sin City 2" actually has a release date is enough to make my day complete. Breathe your own sighs of relief in the comments below or on Twitter.
Looks like we're not the only ones thinking about She-Hulk's big-screen future! Hot on the heels of our She-Hulk casting call comes word that a television star is already lobbying for the part of gamma-radiated lawyer Jennifer Walters… and she's already got the legal chops the role requires!
Angie Harmon of "Rizzoli & Isles" fame is apparently championing herself as the perfect candidate for She-Hulk. She's already posted a photo of herself on Twitter in full-on rampage mode, fist destroying the ground, glowing green skin on full display.
Harmon told EW.com that her initial interest in She-Hulk came about while watching "The Avengers," and realizing the character that she related to most is the incredible Hulk. When she found out about Bruce Banner's equally green cousin, Harmon latched onto the idea of playing the character in a future Marvel project.
Posted 5/17/12 2:15 pm EST by Terri Schwartz in News
Even though "Battleship" is based on a pre-existing property, there's not too much backstory to go on in the pencil and paper game. Director Peter Berg and writers Jon and Erich Hoeber had to start from scratch when it came to creating a concept for this month's alien-invasion blockbuster.
In "Battleship," Earth is invaded by a group of aliens called Regents. Even though we spend an entire movie watching Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson and Alexander Skarsgard fight them, it turns out that we still don't learn all that much about the invading force. Berg told MTV News that he is hoping to get a graphic novel off the ground that explains some more of the Regents' backstory.
Posted 5/17/12 1:26 pm EST by Josh Wigler in DC Comics, News
We've heard lots about "Arrow" over the past several months. We've seen round after round of casting announcements. We've seen an official photo or two. We even got the fantastic news that "Arrow" was going to series, and would air on Wednesday nights this fall. All of that helps inform our opinions of what "Arrow" might be like, sure, but there's nothing like seeing the hero in motion.
Today, we're getting exactly that in the form of an official "Arrow" teaser trailer, released by The CW following the network's upfront announcements earlier today. The teaser is heavy on Oliver Queen and light on everything else—and by light, I mean there's not a single other character to be found here.
Posted 5/17/12 1:04 pm EST by Fallon Prinzivalli in News
When "Men In Black 3" hits theaters next weekend it's not just bringing back our favorite extraterrestrial detective duo of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Thanks to the creative mind and incredible talent of legendary monster makeup artist Rick Baker, the film is introducing us to a whole slew of new aliens. From creatures with no mouths, to ones with an array of jagged teeth and others who look like gelatinous blobs of blubber, the aliens are (literally) out of this world.
SuperHeroHype released a new "MIB 3" featurette that takes viewers on a tour of Rick Baker's world to show how these foreign friends and foes come to life.
"When I was first approached about the original 'Men in Black,' we didn't know what 'Men in Black' was," Baker said. "The first thing I said is, 'It's gonna be really hard to do aliens that don't look like ones that we've seen a million times. We wanted to take the aliens seriously, but the movie is also a comedy."
Posted 5/17/12 12:27 pm EST by Matt Harper in Commentary, Marvel
Earlier this week, Sony brought us a four-minute super preview of “The Amazing Spider-Man” during the season premiere of "America’s Got Talent." For the most part, the preview was just the last trailer, with a complete scene tacked on to the beginning. Not that I’m complaining – this is the first real look we’ve gotten at an action sequence in the upcoming flick, and its not too shabby.
In the scene, we see Spider-Man involved in a Manhattan bridge rescue (one of Spidey’s classic action scenarios, right up there with rescuing children from a burning building). In fact, I can't help but think that the reason the filmmakers decided to show this sequence is to immediately set-up how different this version of Spider-Man will be from Sam Raimi’s 2002 version. Most people will remember that the climax of that earlier film showed Spider-Man battling Green Goblin on the Queensboro Bridge. During that fight, Green Goblin drops a tram full of kids off the bridge and Spider-Man is barely able to catch them in time… but he is left stranded mid-air, one arm holding his web attached to the bridge, the other holding on to the falling vehicle.
Sound familiar? It should – it’s the same position Andrew Garfield finds himself in during his bridge rescue in the new Spider-Man film.
Posted 5/17/12 11:13 am EST by Jeremy Gordon in Commentary, Marvel, News
The news that "Rubicon" actor James Badge Dale has been cast as Coldblood in the upcoming "Iron Man 3" requires a little backstory on his deal.
There are a few things you can infer from Coldblood’s name — namely, that his blood is cold, either because he’s a cyborg or because he wasn’t loved enough as a child. But otherwise, the inclusion of the relatively minor Marvel character into the "Iron Man" movies mythos is a little surprising. Coldblood isn’t the type of character who warrants much adaptive consideration — in fact, he hasn’t gotten much attention on any front.
Posted 5/17/12 10:04 am EST by Josh Wigler in Hero of the Week, Marvel
Not that you need any more reasons to love "The Avengers," but here's one anyway: the Marvel Studios movies have inspired some tremendous creative efforts from their fans. Case in point is our Hero of the Week: Mark Pearson, the creator of Cardboard Iron Man.
Oddity Central reports that Pearson, a 44-year-old repairman from West Yorkshire, spent 14 months creating his very own replica of Tony Stark's Iron Man suit using a combination of household items and cardboard covered in fiberglass. Standing at only 5'6", Pearson himself isn't tall enough to even fit into the Iron Man suit, so he recruited local supermarket manager Darren Higgins to assume Stark's metallic alter-ego.
Some additional details on the creation of Cardboard Iron Man:
Opinion: Why [SPOILER] Will Become The Vision
Posted 5/18/12 10:00 am EST by Splash Page Team in Commentary, Crazy Talk, Marvel
by Ryan Rigley
With the immense success that "The Avengers" has seen in recent weeks, it's only natural to speculate about the possibilities for the inevitable sequel. Talk of adding additional heroes to the team for "Avengers 2" has sprouted up all over the web, with Ant Man and the Wasp leading the charge. However, there is one superhero that seems more likely than you'd initially think.
In the comics, The Vision is a synthezoid created by the the evil robot Ultron in order to wreak havoc on Earth's mightiest heroes. Granted, this version of The Vision may never see the silver screen. Yet we have a sneaking suspicion that a certain deceased "Avengers" hero might just be the perfect candidate for a mandroid makeover.
Click past the jump to find out who we're talking about! Also, SPOILERS.
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