CIVIL WAR casting, synopsis and leak:
Our first piece of news is about the much anticipated Captain America Civil War. Hot off the heels of Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Marvel is already starting to push their next big venture, most likely to try and deflect the recent negative comments made by director, Joss Whedon. We got the basic synopsis which really doesn't reveal anything that we didn't know - the superheros are causing too much collateral damage and the government wishes to have more control over them. What's REALLY interesting is the recent cast that's been given to us. We have Chris evans, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johanson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bethny, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Macky and finally Sebastian Stan all reprising their roles.If you think this cast is huge, well, it's about to get bigger! We have Emily van Kamp and Frank Grillo return from captain america:winter soldier and we have Daniel Bruhl playing Baron zemo the villain of the film. Now we get into the truly juicy parts of the cast we have William Hurt return as Thunderbolt Ross from the Incredible HulkTmovie (which wasn't actually made by marvel studios even though it's a part of the MCU).
This movie was made by Universal studios. The studio holds the film rights to The Hulk, and it is THIS studio that is more or less preventing us from getting a solo Hulk movie in the foreseeable future. After the incredible hulk movie did poorly at the box office, Marvel was given full reign to do whatever they wanted and the first thing they did was replace The Hullk with Mark Ruffalo, thier original choice for the movie. The studio has been moving away from that movie so it is interesting to see them pull characters back in. Thunderbolt Ross is a perfect character for this film because he is one character that would truly want to control enhanced people, and he also becomes the character known as the Red Hulk.
Next, we Chadwick Boseman playing the role of T'challa aka Black Panther, the king of Wakanda. This is a very good choice, as it not only adds more of a global diverse feel to this movie, but he is also a perfect choice for bringing out the political themes this movie is going to embody.
The most interesting return was probably Paul Rudd reprising his role as Scott Lang aka AntMan. Now Marvel has been advertising AntMan in an interesting manner. It's almost as if the movie is a stand alone film , mainly due to the controversies clouding it,and the fear of it tanking in the box office. If the movie failed, it would not have been a part of anything larger and the failure could have simply been swept aside. But now, it seems like Marvel has taken the plunge and decided to put their faith in the movie once and for all.
While Paul Rudd has gotten the call to be an Avenger, we also have Martiin Freeman cast in an unknown role and finally we'll see our new Spider Man in this movie (though the role is still uncast)! The story which was supposedly leaked, seems plausible, but derivatived - sort of like someone putting together pieces and assuming this is the story. To be fair, it very well could be, but then again, the movie has just entered it's filming stage and can easily be changed.
Finally we have some cool concept art of what to expect.
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