The Man in Black is coming, and the DCEU will never be the same again. After years of being stuck in development, Black Adam is now finally in production. So far, we’ve yet to get a full glimpse of the ruler of Kahndaq’s costume – like we have for the redesigned suits for Shazam! 2, for instance – but Teth-Adam himself Dwayne Johnson has now revealed our best look to date. In a new Instagram post, The Rock shared a behind-the-scenes image showcasing himself in character as Adam from behind.
Along with the photo in question, Johnson penned a lengthy caption, explaining why this BTS pic is indicative of what fans can look forward to when Black Adam comes out in a year’s time. Check out the image below and then scroll down for what The Rock had to say about it:
Dwayne Johnson Reveals Tantalizing New Look At His Black Adam Suit
In his caption, The Rock pointed out the “intricate and beautiful texture detail” of Adam’s bodysuit, promising that there’s no padded muscles in this super-suit. What’s more, he drew our attention to the destruction surrounding the anti-hero, declaring that Adam doesn’t have the same “code of justice” as the other heroes in the DC pantheon.
“This image of Black Adam from behind gives you a tactile sense of the absolute massive scale and size of our movie. You also see a little of the intricate and beautiful textured detail of Black Adam’s body suit. (this is not your typical DC or Marvel padded muscle suit),” Johnson wrote. “And finally you get a glimpse of the enormous and appropriate destruction. As we all know, superheroes have a code of justice and don’t kill the bad guys. But, Black Adam does. The hierarchy of power in the DC UNIVERSE is changing. Antihero. Man in black. Protector of his people.”
While he’ll no doubt face off against Zachary Levi’s Billy Batson in some future crossover, this first Black Adam film will pit the character against the Justice Society of America, which includes the likes of Hawkman (Aldis Hodge), Doctor Fate (Pierce Brosnan), Atom Smasher (Noah Centineo) and Cyclone (Quintessa Swindell) in its ranks. Sex/Life‘s Sarah Shahi, meanwhile, will play Adam’s long-lost love Isis, reincarnated in the modern-day as Adrianna Tomaz.
Black Adam is due to smash into theaters on July 29th, 2022. We’re fast approaching exactly one year to go until its release, then, so maybe Dwayne Johnson will drop the first full reveal of his costume by the end of this month.
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A lot of fans are increasingly hedging their bets that Kang the Conqueror will ultimately be revealed as the brains behind the Time Variance Authority when the Loki finale airs this coming Wednesday, and on paper it makes a great deal of sense looking at the myriad of connections established across the first five episodes.
Jonathan Majors has been cast as the time traveling warlord in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is now shooting, and in the comic books Kang has a long history with Ravonna Renslayer. Factor in the line of inquiry that believes the TVA is operating out of the Quantum Realm, and things are certainly looking as though they’re falling into place.
Episode 5 offered yet another Easter Egg in an installment positively overflowing with them, by showing a decimated Avengers Tower having been rebranded as Qeng Enterprises, which was pulled from a comic run where Tony Stark mistakenly sold the building to a man named Mr. Gryphon, who turned out to be Kang all along.
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A new theory claims that it’s all going to tie back to Spider-Man: Homecoming, where it was confirmed that Avengers Tower was under new ownership, which would establish Kang as having been present in the MCU’s modern timeline since the Infinity Saga, meaning that it may have been a deliberate slow-burning choice on Kevin Feige to hold off on revealing who actually acquired the property, with Norman Osborn and the Fantastic Four having previously been rumored.
Given Kang the Conqueror‘s well-known penchant for time travel, it wouldn’t be the craziest thing in the world to discover he’s been hovering around the Sacred Timeline waiting for the ideal moment to strike, but we’ll be finding out for sure in just a couple of days when Loki draws to a close.
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It’s not easy to write the script for a blockbuster sequel, especially one that’s coming burdened with the levels of hype and expectation attached to the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The first installment is the franchise’s highest-grossing solo movie ever, one of the biggest commercial hits in the history of cinema, a genuine cultural phenomenon and the first superhero epic to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. All that, and the cast and crew were then hit with the monumental tragedy of leading man Chadwick Boseman passing away last summer after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
Shooting is now underway on Wakanda Forever ahead of a July 8 release date next summer, and it sounds as though the screenplay is still in the midst of revisions, even with cameras rolling. That’s according to star Angela Bassett, who revealed in a new interview that she’s aware of at least five different iterations and counting.
“I don’t know what it’s going to look like at all. There have been about five incarnations of the script and I hear another one’s coming. Of course, with our dear king going on to glory, a lot of things had to be shifted and changed. So, thankfully, Ryan and Joe Robert Cole, they’re just such masterful storytellers that they’ve found a way into this world and hopefully it will be satisfying, I think, for the fans and it will be honorable of our Chad. We love our king.”
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You’d have to imagine that Bassett hasn’t yet returned to the set as Wakandan matriarch Ramonda if she’s still completely in the dark as to what shape the script is currently in, but it was always inevitable that it would take a lot of time and even more effort to settle on the final draft.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever needs to ensure that it continues building out the mythology and delivers a sequel worthy of living up to the standards of its predecessor, all while paying tribute to the life and legacy of Chadwick Boseman’s iconic stint as T’Challa, without leaning too far into hagiography at the expense of the story being told. It’s an unenviable task, but we’ve got faith that Coogler and his team can pull it off.
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Star Wars is one of the longest running film franchises in history. Originally, there were only three films: The original trilogy, and the subsequent prequel films. But after Disney acquired LucasFilm in 2012, the House of Mouse began production on a wide assortment of Star Wars movies and TV shows.
Now, there are nearly two dozen Star Wars movies and TV shows to catch up on.
For new fans to the franchise, it can be quite confusing to work out which films came first. So, where should you start? In this article, we’ll be ordering all the Star Wars films and TV shows, first in chronological order for their events, and then in the order of their release. This should give new Star Wars fans a better look at how these films were intended to be watched.
Star Wars films in order of release
The original trilogy, or episodes four through six, is where the franchise first began. Then, George Lucas returned to direct three more films, now called “the prequel trilogy.” Since then, Disney has nearly doubled the number of movies available to watch.
Here’s the full list of released Star Wars films, from 1977 to the late 2010s.
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Plenty of TV series fill the gaps between each of the films and provide more context for fans to learn about the wider Star Wars universe. Here is a list including those series as they were released.
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Droids (1985)
Star Wars: Ewoks (1985)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Star Wars: Rebels (2014)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (2017)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Star Wars: Resistance (2018)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures (2018)
The Mandalorian (2019)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
Watching the series in its released order provides the clearest connection between films. The story begins with Luke Skywalker’s journey into Jedi mastery, Darth Vader’s relationship with Luke, and the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire. Then, the series shifts to Anakin’s story, the end of the Galactic Republic, and the rise of Darth Vader. Finally, the series concludes with Rey’s story as she takes on the First Order, the Galactic Empire’s successor.
LucasFilm purposefully released its films in this order as part of a larger story about the Empire’s rise, galactic politics’ impact on the world, the Force’s role in world events, and the Skywalker family’s powerful legacy across three generations.
Star Wars films in chronological order
For those who plan on taking in the events of the franchise as they unfold within the universe, you’re going to need to watch the films in a completely different order. Here is how you should go about it.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Here’s the list again with the Star Wars TV series weaved in.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Star Wars: Droids (1985)
Star Wars: Ewoks (1985)
Star Wars: Rebels (2014)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Mandalorian (2019)
Star Wars: Resistance (2018)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The following TV series take place across the entire Star Wars canon and don’t fit neatly into a chronological list.
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (2017)
Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures (2018)
In this order, viewers watch as Anakin Skywalker comes to power, aids in the destruction of the Galactic Republic, and becomes the Emperor’s right-hand in the Galactic Empire. Luke then emerges, works with the Rebel Alliance to destroy the Galactic Empire, and paves the way for Rey’s emergence as the First Order grows.
Watching the series this way provides a clear progression of the Star Wars universe and how the Skywalker family’s long-term generational story fits into the world.
While this is the preferred way to watch the series for some, it’s not without its small issues. The original trilogy is flanked by both the prequels, the sequels, and Disney’s spin-off films, which each work off existing Star Wars lore and round out the larger galactic universe. In comparison, the original trilogy was created without any prior lore available from previous productions, which means the original three films may feel slightly distant from the more recent Disney spin-offs and Lucas prequels, ironically.
Still, chronological order provides a crash course through Star Wars history—even if the original release order tells the larger Star Wars tale as it was intended.
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Remember that Bruce Willis VOD genre film that released last year? No, not Survive the Night, Hard Kill or Out of Death. The sci-fi one? No, not Breach, the other sci-fi. It was a low budget effort with Frank Grillo, remember? No, not Reprisal or A Day to Die either. Cosmic Sin, that’s the one!
The Die Hard legend is nothing if not prolific these days, with the 66 year-old apparently hellbent on starring in as many movies as humanly possible in the shortest amount of time. To illustrate that point even further, between now and the end of next year we’ll be seeing Willis in Midnight in the Switchgrass, Reactor, Apex, American Siege, Gasoline Alley, The Fortress, Killing Field, White Elephant, Soul Assassin and Paradise City, and that’s if he doesn’t sign on to anything else between now and then.
Cosmic Sin initially arrived on digital earlier this year, where it was promptly torn apart by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the intergalactic actioner holds a pitiful 3% rating, whereas audiences have rated at an exponentially higher 68%. It’s the latter that’s the most important, though, with the movie coming to Netflix this week and looking to find a new lease of life.
Of course, subscribers have been burned by Bruce Willis titles getting added to the library before, but star-powered sci-fi and fantasy can typically be relied on to pull in some decent numbers. Cosmic Sin is a little like Armageddon meets Edge of Tomorrow in concept if not execution, and it’ll be interesting to see if viewers can be convinced to dedicate 88 minutes of their time to watching the actor fend off yet another alien invasion.
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Shark Week is a recognized global phenomenon, having become the longest-running cable TV programming event in history since first launching in 1988, and it’s gotten to the stage where mega budget comic book blockbusters are now paying tribute to Discovery’s beloved festivities, as evidenced by the latest teaser for The Suicide Squad.
Creator Tom Golden would never in a million years have imagined that 33 years on from the first-ever Shark Week, it would be used as the basis for a promo video showcasing the fact that Sylvester Stallone is voicing an anthropomorphized Elasmobranchii descended from an ancient shark god with a taste for human flesh in a violent R-rated action extravaganza from the mind of Guardians of the Galaxy‘s James Gunn, which you can check out below.
When Stallone was first announced to have boarded The Suicide Squad very late on in production, King Shark was always named as the most likely character for the actor, based on nothing more than his instantly recognizable vocal delivery. The first trailer for the soft reboot highlighted King Shark to the extent that he could well turn out to be the true breakout favorite in a movie that looks to be packed with instant cult favorites.
While it seems unlikely that King Shark will be making it out of The Suicide Squad alive given James Gunn’s insistence that almost everyone is going to die before the credits roll, the very thought of Rocky and Rambo legend Stallone playing Nanaue is more than enough to ensure that he’s going to be one of the main talking points coming out of the film, which is just a little over three weeks away from coming to theaters and HBO Max on August 5th.
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Over the years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has perfected the art of the cameo. Long gone are the days when characters were shoehorned into movies with no apparent rhyme or reason, not to mention any Jeremy Renner in Thor in particular, but Black Widow made a conscious effort to shy away from overt connective tissue.
Of course, the film is bookended by brief appearances from William Hurt’s General Ross and the post-credits scene teases Yelena Belova’s return in upcoming Disney Plus series Hawkeye, not to mention the countless references to the Avengers peppered throughout the script, but there’s nothing particularly ham-fisted.
During the long road to Black Widow finally landing in theaters and on Disney Plus Premier Access last Friday, countless MCU favorites had been rumored for guest spots, with Hawkeye and Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark typically at the top of the list, which obviously didn’t happen. In a new interview, director Cate Shortland explained why the decision was made to move away from the wider universe and narrow the focus to Natasha Romanoff and her surrogate family.
“Initially, there was discussions about everything, about all of the different characters. What we decided was, and I think Kevin was really great, he said, ‘She doesn’t need the boys’. We didn’t want it to feel like she needs the support. We want her to stand alone. And she does.”
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You understand where Shortland is coming from, even if the presence of Yelena, Alexei Shostakov and Melina Vostokoff means that Natasha hardly accomplishes all of her goals single-handed. A prequel set in between Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity Warprovided almost limitless cameo possibilities, but it was arguably the smartest move to keep the nods and winks to a minimum.
That way, Scarlett Johansson remains the focus, which is the least the actress deserves after spending eleven years as one of the franchise’s most popular recurring heroes, and Black Widow has introduced several new faces that could yet have major roles to play in the future.
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Husband-and-wife duo Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich are known for repeatedly collaborating on effects-driven fantasy movies, mostly adapted from video games, that tend to do decent business at the box office while leaving critics cold. However, the pair’s most recent console adaptation generated no shortage of controversy, to the extent that it almost caused an international incident.
On the surface, there’s nothing particularly offensive about Monster Hunter, and it allowed both the director and star to remain in their respective wheelhouses and play in their favored sandbox. Based on the video game favorite of the same name, Jovovich leans into her action hero credentials as Captain Natalie Artemis, caught between two worlds as a slew of gigantic beasts threaten to invade our planet.
Monster Hunter hit the big screen in December of last year when the industry was still suffering heavily from the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, and losing out on the lucrative Chinese market is one of the main reasons why the project failed to recoup the $60 million production costs at the box office. Now that the dust has settled, though, it’s enjoying a new lease of life on Netflix.
At the time of writing, Monster Hunter is currently the fourteenth most-watched title on the platform, so subscribers clearly aren’t paying much heed to the backlash.
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