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Next week's Contraband will end a mini-drought for Mark Wahlberg, who hasn't appeared in a movie since 2010's The Fighter. Even before the boxing biopic earned Wahlberg's co-stars Christian Bale and Melissa Leo Oscars for their performances, Wahlberg was talking about a Fighter sequel, revealing that a second installment would follow "Irish" Micky Ward's trilogy of fights with the late Arturo Gatti.
As late as last June, Wahlberg was still confident about a Fighter sequel, saying "We're not going to do Fighter 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, but we're gonna do 2." In an interview with Collider, Wahlberg offered the latest update, claiming that a script is in the works.
Wahlberg talks The Fighter sequel, Pain and Gain >> Posted 01.08.12 by Ryan -
Earlier this month, Marvel Studios scheduled the release dates for two mystery projects, one of which could potentially be Captain America 2. With screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus in place there are plenty of ideas to work with.
In June, McFeely revealed that a sequel, which would follow 2012's The Avengers and Cap's (Chris Evans) subsequent dethawing in the present day, would still have "room to go back to World War II." However, as the sequel would be set "in the present day," the writers later clarified that any potential World War II scenes would be told in "flashback."
More recently, Markus and McFeely revealed that they would like the sequel to include other characters from the Captain America comics, including Cap's crime-fighting partner the Falcon and Sharon Carter, Cap's love interest in the comics and a relative of his War-time girlfriend Peggy Carter, played by Hayley Atwell in The First Avenger. But what about a villain? In a conversation with The LA Times, Markus talked about the villain he'd like to see in Captain America 2.
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Though Marvel Studios has yet to officially put a sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (CATFA) on the calendar (or have they?), the continuing box office success of the movie in foreign markets, added to its substantial domestic numbers, makes it pretty much a given. Marvel even began making preprations for a sequel to CATFA months before its release by hiring the writers of the movie, Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus, to write Captain America 2. Whenever the pair have spoken about the movie in the past few months, they've made it clear that, due to Cap's (Chris Evans) presence in the present in The Avengers, the sequel "will likely be in the present day." However, both the screenwriters and CATFA director Joe Johnston have talked about the sequel "possibly staying in the 1940s," if only in "flashback." In a recent interview with NBC, McFeeley and Marcus reiterated their interest in setting "at least a portion" of Captain America 2 in the '40s and also teased some of the characters from Cap's comic book supporting cast that they would like to see, including one high-flying costumed superhero.
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Despite Captain America: The First Avenger not opening until this Friday, Marvel Studios hired the movie's screenwriters — Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus — in February to write a sequel. While box office receipts will be the ultimate determining factor for a sequel, McFeely and Markus revealed in June that the potential Captain America 2 will have "room to go back to World War II" and won't entirely be set in the present day, though the sequel would take place after Captain America's first adventure in the modern era in 2012's The Avengers.
In an interview with The Playlist, McFeely said, while a Captain America sequel is still in the "'What if?' stages", going back to WWII is still a part of the conversation.
will tthe Avengers show up in a Cap sequel? >> Posted 07.18.11 by Ryan -
A pair of new featurettes about Marvel Studios' latest comic book movie adaptation, Captain America: The First Avenger, recently aired on the epix channel and they can now be viewed online. There isn't any new footage in the featurettes, but they do provide some interesting insight into the making of the movie, from the vintage '40s cars and costumes used to bring the WWII period to life on screen to the construction of Cap's iconic shield, with commentary from stars Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell.
watch the new videos >> Posted 07.06.11 by BrentJS -
Marvel is clearly pleased after hiring fanboy favorite Joss Whedon to direct its upcoming Avengers movie (sorry, Louis Leterrier). So pleased, in fact, that Marvel is planning to have Whedon do some rewriting on not one, but two of the studio's upcoming Marvel movies.
Get details on Whedon's changes to the Marvel universe >> Posted 04.15.10 by Ryan -
Actor Chris Evans must live a charmed life. Several up-and-coming young Hollywood actors have spent the past couple months vying for the lead role of Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in director Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America. However, Evans, who eventually landed the role, told IGN at the WonderCon comic book convention in San Francisco that he got the role by "luck," without having to audition for it.
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The biggest news coming out of Marvel Studios lately was the announcement that Chris Evans would be donning the winged mask and hoisting the trademark shield of the "Star-Spangled Avenger" in director Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America. Publicized just one week before San Francisco's WonderCon comic book convention, everyone expected Evans, who was invited as part of the panel discussion for his latest movie, The Losers, to discuss the role, but he was extremely tight-lipped. After dodging several interviewers, he did say that Captain America is "a great character to play." In a new interview snippet, MTV tried to get him to comment on the casting of Sebastian Stan as James "Bucky" Barnes, Captain America's WWII sidekick, and Evans' response was hilarious!
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On the heels of the news that Joe Johnston will direct the film version of First Avenger: Captain America, now Variety reports that the writing duties will go to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the writers of both Chronicles of Narnia films. Before fanboys start worrying that Steve Rogers and Bucky will be jumping out of a wardrobe to keep a Red Skull from bringing an eternal winter to the Allied powers, remember the screenwriting pair also won Emmys for their Life and Death of Peter Sellers script. So, clearly, the costumed heroes will instead jump out of a wardrobe to find the thief of a valuable pink diamond.
So far there's no casting news for the movie, scheduled for release on May 6, 2011, with Avengers Movie scheduled to follow two months later on July 15. However there is a heated debate on who should be cast. (Click on User Comments tab).
Posted 11.21.08 by Ryan