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– Have you been watching Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD? I haven’t, but apparently Phil Coulson will no longer be Director of SHIELD in the upcoming fourth season. Revealed over at Marvel.com, Jason O’Mara – the voice of Batman in DC’s Animated Films ever since Justice League: War – will be playing the organisation’s new Director, a mystery character with a history reaching back to the 1940s in Marvel’s comics.
– Also announced was the news that Calista Flockhart will in fact be returning to Supergirl as Cat Grant when it’s second season hits CW in October. The downside to this is the fact that she is listed as a recurring guest star for this season. Hopefully the show won’t suffer to much in her absence and that she’ll still steal every scene she’s in like she did last time, but I’m just glad she’s coming back at all.
– In what might be the weirdest thing I’ve ever had to type: Curtis “50 Cent” Jaskson is developing a superhero TV show for Starz. I mean, what? Based on a screenplay written by Jackson, Starz is developing the show titled Tomorrow, Today, which focuses on a veteran from the south side of Chicago who is falsely imprisoned and experimented on while in prison. Which… sounds like 50 Cent read a Luke Cage comic once and didn’t realise Marvel was already making that show. Yeah, this is just… weird.
– Moving swiftly on, we have our first look at Transformers: The Last Knight, the next instalment in Michael Bay’s Transformers series, by way of the official poster. Taking a very different visual style that feels way more reminiscent of Suicide Squad‘s graffiti art gimmick, the poster shows Optimus Prime fighting what looks like some kind of Transformers dragon. This movie’s gonna be weird.
– Did you ever think Jeremy Renner got the short end of the stick in The Avengers? I mean, you get to be in a million-dollar action movie that leads into roles in some of the biggest superhero movies of the past ten years, but you have to play a zombie for most of it. Well, Renner certainly resented having to portray the mind-controlled Hawkeye in The Avengers, claiming he faked a heart attack in every scene just in case they wanted to eject him from the film.
