75% Marvelous End of the Week Wrap-Up!

Sorry for the scarcity of posts lately, but I've been finishing a writing project that took nearly every atom of free time. So what's been going on in the big wide world? Surprisingly, Edgar Wright departed Marvel's Ant-Man, where he'd been attached for ages. The whole "differences in vision" routine, with it sounding like a lot of covert script meddling being the culprit. In a class move, Joss Whedon tweeted this Cornetto-wielding pic of solidarity upon hearing that Edgar had left the production. No substitute has been named yet, though Marvel/Disney claims they're on track to release the film in 13 months. Wright's eccentric take being gone is a major blow.

After threatening to abandon his Hateful Eight western after Gawker.com leaked his script, a successful mother-of-all table readings has revealed that Quentin Tarantino is going to shoot this new saga in Wyoming this November with one hell of a cast, including Bruce Dern, Michael Madsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, James Remar, Amber Tambly, Walt Goggins and Zoe Bell. Sounds like an amazing snowbound bounty hunter yarn, taking place in one remote, claustrophobic location.

Mark your calendars, Captain America: The Winter Soldier will debut on blu-ray September 9th. This time Marval is forgoing the One-Shot short film that has accompanied so many of their recent home video releases. Sounds like there's plenty of behind-closed-doors mayhem going on at Marvel these days. If The Winter Soldier doesn't make you confident, then I don't know what will!

Finally, word's just arrived that James Brolin will voice ubervillain Thanos in Guardians of the Galaxy and presumably any of several other Phase II or III Marvel films where Thanos makes his presence known, including Avengers: Age of Ultron. Nice call, fellas.




Don't forget, Sunday night sees the first of the final three episodes of this season's Game of Thrones, which all promise to be doozies. You'll want your popcorn for the first episode's epic smack-down with Gregor "The Mountain That Rides" Clegane!

Have a spectacular weekend, people!