New Age of Ultron Poster – Characters and Clues

The excitement for Marvel’s Avengers 2: Age of Ultron is ever growing stronger with the impending UK release on April the 23^rd and rightly so. Marvel fans have been looking forward to the sequel to the first box office smashing Avengers Assemble in 2012 when the big-screen superhero franchise got catapulted into popularity; a popularity that Marvel universe creations had been struggling with for years with the less than successful examples such as Fantastic Four, Daredevil and the infamous third instalments of Spider-Man and X-men.

     With our hearts and cinema ticket money firmly dedicated to the new wave of the Marvel cinematic universe it is with no doubt that Age of Ultron will have cinemas across the world packed full of dedicated fans ready to welcome in the next phase of the superhero continuity.

     Just to further peak the anticipation of the film franchises multitude of keen fans, Marvel Studios has released a new pre-release poster to wet our appetite for the hero-fest. This poster even features some clues and revelations of what we’ve got to look forward to the $250million budget production.

     As a friendly warning, this article may contain potential spoilers.

 

One of the most noticeable aspects of this poster is the presence of the highly anticipated hero, Vision. However as with the trailers and other posters the studios continue to tease the character’s appearance with leaving the new character a mere silhouette against the sky. However, could this be more of a hint than it seems?

     We see our new arrival to the film continuity against a backdrop of swarming Ultons pouncing upon the collected Avenger heroes. Vision however, does not seem to be the target for the androids. Could this be hinting that the Marvel hero may not be featuring in this film as a hero and the robotic character may be another pawn of the Ultron AI? Only the film itself can answer that question it seems.

     Also revealed in the newly released poster are the credits to a few familiar faces from past films. Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Anthony Mackie and Stellan Skarsgard are all credited no doubt to return as their respective roles as Peggy Carter, Heimdall, Falcon and  Erik Selvig. All this further revealing the huge cast the film will be using and raising plenty of curious questions as to how the plot and characters will all fit together.

   

 

     Finally is a sneaky look at the various costume changes coming to us in the new film. As we can see Captain America is donning a new set of freedom themed uniforms, a trend it seems the fashion conscious all-American hero is sticking to with each film he stars in features him in a whole new set of stars and stripes. This uniform however features itself an Avengers spin on it with the well-known logo proudly emblazoned on his super-soldier shoulders (trying saying that 5 times fast).

     Tony Stark too is featuring the next mark in his set of armour. This is unsurprising however as in his previous title, Iron Man 3, the billionaire playboy philanthropic genius destroyed his extensive collection of super suits and hung up his helmet. But what gadgets will the mechanics master be adding to his next suit’s arsenal? We can only wait and see.

    And finally, the Russian beauty Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow seems to have made some of her own upgrades as well. We see in the new poster not only the take-no-prisoners attitude stance of the master assassin but also some particularly groovy neon trimmings along her suit and already high-tech gadget wrist guard given a futuristic revamp. Could this be a sign that Tony Stark has taken some liberties and given the already deadly force of nature, Black Widow, an even deadlier upgrade?

    In overall the poster alone has raised numerous questions, hints and theories and yet Marvel still know how to play their cards close to the chest. As always the studios knows how to market their work and the anticipation is on the rise amongst fans across the globe. Will Avengers 2 meet the hype? Will our expectations be met and overcome just as the masterpiece Avengers Assemble supremely achieved? We can only hope. But hey, let’s be honest, don’t they always?

    So remember that on April 23^rd in the UK, Avengers Fans, Assemble!

Deadpool: Are big screen Chimichangas in our Future?

“Ryan is ready, I am ready, the fans are more than ready, we just need that elusive green light.” The studio green light is all that fans of our favourite antihero, Deadpool have between them and the big screen film that they are dying to see. The loveably psychotic “merc with a mouth” first hit the shelves of our comic stores in 1991 in New Mutants #98 and was the genius brainchild of writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Robert Liefeld. Since 1991 Deadpool has gone on to become one of Marvels greatest successes and has one of the largest fan followings of all of Marvel’s characters.

This week fans fell into geeky love with the leaked test footage of Tom Miller’s Deadpool movie project. I personally was considering writing an article on how I believed portraying the undying mutant would be a difficult task but after seeing the test footage staring the voice of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool I feel that is no longer an issue. 

The incredible official hd test footage can be found at this link (as blogspot doesn't like to embed anything other than yotube videos) http://dai.ly/x22eged

And if that isn't the epitome of what a Deadpool fight scene should look like I don't know what is. We have the truly brutal scenes of throwing people under cars, neck snapping and playing with freshly severed heads to the surreal yet hilarious comedy that is what makes Deadpool. It also seems that Tom Miller is holding onto Deadpools signature awareness of the 4th wall which fans have always loved about the killer. The animation of the scene is also truly beautiful, seemingly almost a true perfect blend between the cgi and live action footage to the point where I know I'm unsure as to what's one or the other at times.

Ryan Reynolds is a guarantee to be voicing the immortal psychopath as shown in the released footage. Reynolds last role as the antihero however was met with disappointment from fans in his role in the film Xmen Origins: Wolverine. This disappointment mostly came from the very odd transformation Wade Wilson went through towards the end of the film...

Lazer eyes, sword arms and teleportation powers? If someone could let me know what director Gavin Hood was thinking showing this to appeal to hardcore Deadpool fans I'd be very interested to understand. But as Ryan Reynold's hilarious role in the new test footage has shown we can't blame him for the far less than perfect X-Men Origins Deadpool, can we? Overall it is no doubt that fans having fingers, toes and duel katanas of death crossed in hopes for the single green light needed to make the long awaited Deadpool film a reality and with the new test footage, we're hoping that is not going to be a far fetched hope for much longer.