The Avengers is looking to Cast another Female?

Word on the street is that Marvel isn’t done casting The Avengers, and who they want to add will be another female for an as yet to be named role. Assumption says it will be a core Avenger (because we still don’t know who the big bad is) and that leads most assumptions to The Wasp – rumoured at one point to be played by Eva Longoria.

Ramascreen says:

When the key cast of THE AVENGERS were announced back at Comic-Con ’10, poor Scarlett Johansson was just there by her lone female self, surrounded by Jackson, RDJ, Renner, Evans, Ruffalo, Hemsworth. Scar-Jo is set to play Black Widow. According to Hollywood Reporter, Marvel is looking for another female actress but the role is not yet revealed.

Now of course with a female role being mentioned, the gut reaction is to suggest The Wasp, but also remember that The Scarlet Witch is also a predominate classic Avengers girl too. I would assume Scarlet Witch is not part of the rights deal that Fox has over X-Characters as she is primarily an Avenger despite the fact that she and her brother Quicksilver are Magneto’s children. A detail easily overlooked for the films.

However with each of those two comes man baggage and people are suggesting if they add the Wasp they HAVE to add Ant-Man, and with Scarlet Witch they would HAVE to have The Vision – their respective love interests in the comic series.

I personally don’t see the need for either of them to be brought down with love interests in an ensemble film. If they add either one of these girls there is no reason to insist on their eventual boyfriends to be involved either.

But in the end of the day, it sounds more like Marvel is trying to throw some balance of the double X chromosome into the mix so Scarlett is not the only girl at the party. In that case I vote for The Wasp and let her cross over into Ant-Man’s film where there will be time to develop a love interest if they want.

I don’t have time for love interests in The Avengers.

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Back to the Future 1&2 Overlap Scene Comparisons

It’s no secret that actress Claudia Wells was replaced in the second chapter of the Back to the Future Trilogy. It wasn’t that big of a deal considering the actress was barely even in the first movie. She was the token girlfriend and irrelevant to the plot until the second movie (You and Jennifer turn out fine… its your KIDS!!) and all the subsequent appearances of Marty’s girlfriend were then played by Elizabeth Shue – still a relatively minor role.

But as the storylines overlap, the very beginning of Back to the Future 2 used the closing moments of Back to the Future to kick off the story, but this time they had to reshoot the scenes with Shue in place (and include Biff seeing the flying DeLorean taking off)

Check out this side by side of the two scenes.

It is neat to see the two side by side like that, seeing the upgraded video, effects and obviously how Michael J Fox had aged slightly.

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Propworx Caprica Auction Online!

Propworx is a great auction event service that delivers the highest quality of authentic memorabilia for any fan looking to get their hands on items directly from their favourite TV show or Movies. They got their start with a Battlestar Galactica Auction and now they do everything from Iron Man, Stargate, Kevin Smith Askewniverse and others.

And their most recent event will feature collectables from the Battlestar Galactica spinoff/prequel Caprica.

Propworx, in association with NBC Universal Television Consumer Products Group, announces The Official Caprica Prop and Costume Auction. The auction will commence on January 2, 2011 with six weekly auctions hosted on eBay (see www.propworx.com for auction participation details). Hundreds of props, costumes, production artwork, concept drawings, and set pieces will be up for bid, starting with the first week of auctions January 2 – 9, 2011 and coinciding with the airing of the remaining five episodes of Caprica on Syfy on January 4, 2011 from 6pm to 11pm ET/PT.
Most notable among the lots is the spectacular purple dress worn by actress Alessandra Torresani as Zoe Graystone. Worn by Zoe throughout the entire series, this custom dress was made by production and features a spandex construction with silver braiding and faux jewels around the neckline.
Also up for sale is Lacy Rand’s Hero motorcycle helmet, worn by actress Magda Apanowicz. This screen-used helmet was worn by Lacy while riding Nestor’s motorcycle and includes vintage-looking goggles.

I have always supported the Propworx people as they always seem to have the fans interests at heart. One of the more amazing things they do is release these Catalogues for their larger events that showcase the auction items which is in itself a collector’s item. I have a few of them already and they are incredible.

Check out just some of the items up for grabs:

Some pretty awesome stuff there if you are a Caprica fan!

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Antman Cameo in The Avengers?

With the Avengers coming out, we anticipated that it might include some of the supporting Avenger characters in lesser roles to catapult them into their own spinoff solo films to follow up the epic ensemble.

But Antman (still waiting in the hands of Edgar Wright) and the Wasp were not mentioned among their ranks.

Still, a rumour has sprung up suggesting that Whedonite alum Alan Tudyk is going to appear in a cameo in Avengers. The scene will be a stinger apparently building the Ultron android staging his own villain.

In fact another Firefly star Alan Tudyk is not only locked in for a solo film for the character, but will briefly appear in The Avengers as the character’s scientist counter part Hank Pym Along with wife and fellow super hero Janet Van Dyne (both [of] whose transformation into Ant-Man and Wasp will be shown as the after the credits scene in The Avengers).

Interestingly enough it was Ultron who created The Vision, a synthazoid that eventually joins the ranks of The Avengers. So this story could run full circle into The Avengers 2 with Antman, Wasp, Scarlet Witch and Vision involved.

While I thought that Nathan Fillion would have been the perfect blend of vulnerability and confidence to play Ant-Man, but now that I picture it, Tudyk could do that as well. We just see Tudyk playing a lot more of the vulnerable than the confident.

But this is just a blind rumour so I won’t preach it as gospel until we get something more solid on the matter.

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Tron Uprising TV Miniseries in Production

I was surprised in this day and age that a sequel to Tron Legacy wasn’t instantly greenlit during the casting process of the film. But still no one is pulling that trigger, however a TV Miniseries is planned to spell out what happened between films.

Zap2it says:

Adam Horowitz and Eddie Kitsis, the film’s screenwriters, confirm that they’ve also written a 10-part animated television miniseries that will fall in line with the continuity of the films. While a third film has yet to be greenlit, the cast and crew of the TV series, titled “TRON: Uprising” certainly speak to its quality.

Bruce Boxleitner, who played Tron in both films, is signed on. “Bruce Boxleitner is in it, Elijah Wood, Linda Moore, Paul Reubens, Lance Henriksen. I mean, we’ve got a really cool group of actors,” Horowitz tells Box Office Magazine

The series promises to explore a time before Sam’s arrival to chronicle how Clu took over the Grid and the events leading up to Legacy.

A third film didn’t get the green light yet, but an animated miniseries sounds like it could be fun to fill in the blanks.

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The Avengers to Focus on Kree-Skrull War?

After a local newspaper, the Albuquerque Journal reported on The Avengers set to film in the city we are now lead to believe that the Kree-Skrull war will be the central conflict of The Avengers film.

The alien civil war finds its way to earth and the Heroes have no choice but to defend the planet from the conflicting forces set on making Earth its battlefield.

GeekTyrant shares:

Thanks to an Aiint It Cool News reader who picked up this copy of Albuquerque Journal on Christmas Eve saw the story about The Avengers and noticed this line “The Avengers’ script will blend Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger story lines as the Avengers battle with two alien races, the Skrulls and the Kree.

I could see this as an epic battle worthy of The Avengers as our heroes get caught up in this Alien Civil War.

Most of the character development in The Avengers has been taken care of with the individual films (and a few yet to come out) and the few extra faces will get introduced in the movie itself then on to the big conflict.

But is this revelation just the assumption and error of a local newspaper journalist? Or did he see or hear something while reporting and break this wide open?

There is also a wild rumour that Camp Rock starlet Demi Lovato might be up for a minor role too, but until they name her character I will assume its just rumour

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Red State Teaser Trailer Online

A teaser trailer was released on Kevin Smith’s Smodcast website showing a splattering of images from his upcoming Horror film Red State.

Red State is strongly influenced by religious extremists like Fred Phelps and while this teaser could have used a soundtrack, the singular voice singing away is also pretty creepy.

I cant wait to see what he does with this.

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