Sentences with phrase «for superhero character»

Not exact matches

It will be part of Marvel's All - New All Different Marvel» initiative kicking off this October, which will include new comics for Marvel's superhero characters like Iron Man and the Avengers.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Disney already has extensive game licensing deals for its huge stable of characters and worlds, which now includes Marvel's superheroes as well as Star Wars and Disney's homegrown animated stars.

After Iron Fist was rightly criticized for racial insensitivities, using the character's well - established comic book friendship with one of Marvel's most prominent black superheroes to directly confront systemic racism is a bold, smart move.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

This is the campy, colorful, comedic adaptation of the titular comic book character, produced for ABC from 1966 to 1968; it... Crochet a Batman hat for your little superhero fans with our free pattern from Craftown!

Granted, these movies are based on superhero comics, which do this sort of character development a lot, with characters baldly stating what they're thinking or feeling because of the comparative struggle of comics to delve into their characters» heads, lacking consistent devices for inner monologues (as a more traditional novel would have) or the benefit of an actor's performance (as a movie or TV show would have).

Still, for older kids and the adults that accompany them, this script offers an engaging twist to the superhero genre and more rounded characters than most animations.

The storyline - which follows alcoholic superhero John Hancock (Smith) as he reluctantly allows a struggling public - relations expert (Jason Bateman's Ray) to mold him into a traditionally heroic figure - has essentially been crafted to act as an origin story for the central character, yet screenwriters Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan brilliantly ensure that Hancock rarely apes the conventions and tropes that one has come to expect with such a tale (ie one doesn't entirely realize that they're watching an origin story until everything's been said and done).

The sequel to 2016 ′ s surprise hit — which proved that the global box office could not only stomach a comic - book character who swears and slays, but was desperate for such a bad widdle boy — is the closest Hollywood's superhero industrial complex has come to appealing directly to the mind of a Grade 5 classroom.

With solid actors, good writing, vibrant costume work, a terrific score from Coogler - regular Ludwig Goransson (Central Intelligence, Stretch), humor that's delivered with refreshing subtlety, and Coogler's taut pacing that also takes the time to build up its scenarios, Black Panther succeeds at delivering an unlikely solo effort in the superhero genre, and leaves skeptics and those completely unaware of the characters within the comic books hungry for more.

These inconsistencies of story, tone, and character have solidified in this sequel, and it's enough to make one wonder if Deadpool, the masked smart - ass with pistols and swords, is even suited for the current climate of superhero movies.

As Jamil Smith writes for Time, the character of the Black Panther — the first black comic - book superhero — was created in 1966 during the civil - rights movement and very much represented «a vision of black grandeur and, indeed, power in a trying time.»

Ably supported by Lady Luck Domino (Zazie Beetz), Reynolds does for you what the recent superhero orgy did with the help of infinite characters and infinity stones (pun intended).

There's some awkward plotting to catch the viewer up with the characters and it all makes for a wonderfully boring superhero movie.

The screenplay, by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost, gives each of the characters something worthwhile to do and something amusing to say, and when its various strands are tied together in time for the momentous finale, even the most superhero - wary viewers will have smiles on their faces.

It has been a brilliant strategy to refrain from using any images of Batman in the trade ads for this film, focusing on Bruce Wayne throughout, ushering the story through further as a character piece, not a superhero extravaganza.

Despite wasting Oscar Isaac's talent and having all - around boring villains, X-Men: Apocalypse is still a must - see for fans of the franchise, while more casual superhero enthusiasts will enjoy its bold action sequences and emotional character backstories.

Batman v Superman might already sound like a decent number of superheroes for a single movie just in the title alone, but add in Wonder Woman and then all the other DC characters who are supposed to appear to set up Justice League, and you're going to run into some logistical issues.

It was critically embraced, commercially successful ($ 333 million in box - office receipts) and a high - water mark for an obscure superhero character in from an obscure comic book horror series.

The Afro - punk and Afrofuturism aesthetics, the unapologetic black swagger, the miniscule appearances from non-black characters — it's an important resetting of a standard of what's possible around creating a mythology for a black superhero.

For a 160 - minute epic that unifies a far - flung superhero universe that took a decade to build, packs 76 characters into one story, and has four to six plotlines cooking at any given time, «Avengers: Infinity War» hangs together pretty well.

There are literally dozens of major characters (you pity whoever had to fit all of these A-list names onto the poster), in service to a story that's simultaneously every superhero movie ever and, for those who aren't obsessive readers of the comic books, a bit confusing.

The movie features dozens of major characters in service to a story that's simultaneously every superhero movie ever and, for those who aren't obsessive readers of the comic books, a bit confusing.

For those keeping track at home, that's 11 superheroes, two or three villains (depending on what mood The Winter Soldier is in this time), and a handful of other characters, all fighting for screentiFor those keeping track at home, that's 11 superheroes, two or three villains (depending on what mood The Winter Soldier is in this time), and a handful of other characters, all fighting for screentifor screentime.

The two characters led the way in the R - rated superhero movie revolution, and now fans want to see Wolverine and Deadpool team up for the ultimate X-Men universe crossover film.

LEGO City Undercover was remastered and released on Xbox One, LEGO World, a Minecraft - like, hit all platforms over the summer, LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2 dropped (which I reviewed), and even though LEGO Dimensions was canceled, there was a new Goonies Level Pack released along with Character Packs for The Powerpuff Girls and Teen Titans GO!.

As this hilarious teaser for the teaser trailer points out, the people behind Reynolds» previous onscreen incarnations in X-Men Origins: Wolverine effectively ruined him by taking away the character's defining potty mouth (not to mention the whole thing being one of the worst superhero movies ever made).

Bringing on Shane Black and pushing for a character driven story in a comic superhero movie was a risky move.

So much of the movie is spent on the set up and exposition, but the character development is thin and the dialogue lacking the snappy humor and relationship drama necessary for these ensemble superhero stories to shine.»

Even more crucially, these characters came from a place of angst and inadequacy, whereas Wilson stands for the very thing that made us believe in superheroes in the first place: social injustice.

Take a look at the unused design for Topher Grace's villainous character from the 2007 superhero sequel.

However, the character has been significantly rewritten here — in fact, superhero fans have been waiting for over ten years for Deadpool to hit screens as the project hit various development and writing issues from the mid-noughties.

Deadpool breathed new life into the superhero genre for me thanks to Ryan Reynolds just OWNING his character, and Popstar held a mirror to everything that's ridiculous about our celebrity - obsessed culture, in true Lonely Island style.

It helps too, of course, that moviegoers around the world have embraced the superheroes unequivocally they've met over the last decade (key to long - form, serial storytelling regardless of genre), reducing the need for long, drawn - out, character intros and giving plot, plot driven by action and spectacle, the predominant, primary role.

I was among other outlets and we talked about what's it like to «act» like they have powers, superhero movies they are looking forward to (since, you know, there are about 567393959649303 coming out for years to come), which characters from other comic universes they would be BFFs with, or which they would hook up with, if they would switch powers with each other, and MORE!

Next, you're doing another superhero film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, featuring the Superman you've scored before for Man of Steel, and also a character that you've approached before in a different cinematic context, Batman.

As promised, Marvel has finally released the first official trailer for one of the most - hyped superhero movies of all time, as Infinity War is bringing almost every character in the MCU together to face a cosmic threat who they've been teasing for half a decade: Thanos.

For over half the film we watch these characters work on building something, then in a flash they become superheroes with powers they haven't even learned to use before they are stereotypically tasked with saving the world.

In order for a superhero to be properly introduced, audiences would need to become acquainted with the character's backstory, not necessarily from birth but at least from the moment that inspires them to take up a cause such as crime - fighting and world - saving.

Avengers 4 will be the final superhero adventure for many characters fans have grown to love over the years.

He has become a component of that bigger universe of super-powered characters, where heroes pop in and out of other heroes» movies (mostly during post-credit scenes) for little reason other than to set up an unstoppable team of superheroes.

Civil War further benefits from including several fun interactions between the movie's various superhero characters, with the dynamics between Scarlet Witch / Vision and Bucky / Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon (Anthony Mackie) among the highlights - while Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow's (Scarlett Johansson) tendency to shift allegiances makes the scenes between her and both Steve / Tony all the more interesting for it.

Vimeo «Life Inside Jabba the Hutt» EW longform goes «sex lies and fifty shades of grey» Film School Rejects allows for the non-story silliness of imagining Ava DuVernay directing a superhero movie Hubpages how Franklin became the first black Peanuts comic strip character Pajiba on the relatable marital awkwardness of HBO's Together starring Melanie Lynskey and Mark Duplass AV Club remembers Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen in Starman (1984).

After a few comments from the actors — Lilly knows almost nothing about her character as she's not yet seen a script, Stoll alludes to his character being the scientist bad - guy, and Rudd prepares for superhero stardom — they played a video made just for Comic - Con, as the film hasn't started any filming.

Doctor Strange (PG - 13 for action, crashes and pervasive violence) Benedict Cumberbatch plays the Marvel Comics character in this origins tale revolving around a neurosurgeon who morphs into a superhero in the wake of a tragic car accident.

Ryan Reynolds» character makes the same joke in the sequel as he returns to the similarly vacant School for Gifted Youngsters... with a twist: Unbeknowst to the loud - mouthed superhero, the annoyed X-Men do briefly appear on - screen before Beast hastily closes the room's doors to avoid further interruption.

A trailblazer, the Black Panther set the stage for numerous black superheroes to follow, including such favorites as the Falcon (1969), Luke Cage (1972), the John Stewart version of Green Lantern (1971), Storm (1975), and Black Lightning (1977), the title character on a current CW TV show.

It's easy enough to follow, and the film wastes no time establishing these characters» backgrounds in order to get the ball rolling, the problem is, it's the same tired structure that's plagued comic superhero blockbusters for the better part of almost a decade.

In his review for The Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, «A superhero movie whose characters have integrity and dramatic heft, filled with engaging exploits and credible crises all grounded in a vibrant but convincing reality, laced with socially conscious commentary as well as wicked laughs that don't depend on snark, this is the model of what an involving popular entertainment should be.