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2018 is set to be a big year for Marvel, with Black Panther — Marvel's first superhero film with a black actor in the lead role — and the almost overwhelming star - studded Avengers: Infinity War on the docket.

On top of all that, it's also the superhero film with the highest score on movie critic - aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with a rating of 97 percent.

Join Oli and Luke for a run down of the week's biggest superhero news — including the rumoured titles for DC's two - part Justice League movie, which Academy Award winner is in talks to play Marvel's first ever female - led superhero film with -LSB-...]

Black Panther, which stars Chadwick Boseman as the titular character, isn't the first superhero film with a black lead.

Marvel has done a really good job over the last few years of creating a rich cinematic tapestry that's almost interactive in the way that it feeds off the excitement of its fans, and «The Avengers» is the culmination of all that careful planning — a superhero film with style and substance.

Combining a superhero film with a spy thriller, as well as a few new great characters makes this film a big step up from the first.

Over the summer, Evangeline was spotted filming the upcoming sequel to the Marvel superhero film with co-stars Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.

Black Panther is the first superhero film with a black lead since Hancock in 2008 (and the first based on a comic since Catwoman in 2004), and that's certainly contributed to its success.

Now the studio is starting to address the lack of superhero films with leads who are not white men, including upcoming projects such as «Captain Marvel,» starring Brie Larson, and a Black Widow movie with Scarlett Johansson that is in development.

Last weekend, Ryan Coogler's Black Panther slashed box office records left and right around the world, answering the question of whether or not we are tired of superhero films with a resounding «NO».

After Memento and its follow - up, Insomnia (the only one of his films on which he does not have a screenplay credit), he changed the way many people thought about superhero films with his Dark Knight trilogy (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises), punctuated by a few mind - bending films with original screenplays (The Prestige and Inception).

Not exact matches

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

Last year, with sales of $ 821 million, Wonder Woman became the highest grossing superhero origin film of all time.

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.

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

Following Thor: Ragnarok in 2017, we'll get a slate of brand new heroes, including Black Panther (starring Get On Up «s Chadwick Boseman as Marvel's first black superhero), along with Captain Marvel (which will be Marvel's first female - starring film) and an Inhumans movie in 2018.

Marvel's first black - superhero film smashed records at the box office with a huge opening in the UK.

Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.

This animated superhero parody makes so many zippy references to film, music and other mass obsessions, it's like watching stand - up comedians trade riffs with each other on a Just For Laughs stage.

While it's hard to deny the ineffectiveness of both Peter Berg's directorial choices and the film's final half hour, Hancock primarily comes off as an engaging and thoroughly innovative spin on the superhero genre - with Will Smith's admittedly impressive performance certainly ranking high on the movie's list of positive attributes.

As with Wonder Woman last year, Black Panther is not only is a kick - ass superhero film, it uses the platform to address deeper issues, in this case racism, still - lingering colonial attitudes towards Africa, the role of science and technology in improving the lives of the disadvantaged, and what it means to be a leader.

With Marvel's latest, the Russos take the trope of every superhero film — an evil villain intent on destroying the world — and fashion a crafty antagonist.

The future of blockbuster films such as these lie with directors like Coogler (and Patty Jenkins, and Taika Waititi), ones who are bringing much - needed new life and ideas to the superhero genre.

What separates Black Panther from the rest of the superhero pack is the fact that the film truly agrees with its villain.

Yes, Deadpool 2 eagerly puts many of the hoariest superhero tropes on blast — so many that this ceaseless mockery quickly supersedes the film's actual plot (which has to do with Deadpool befriending a troubled young mutant played by Hunt for the Wilderpeople's excellent Julian Dennison) to protect him from Brolin's time - traveling cyborg).

With all the emphasis these days on big screen blockbuster action, superhero, sci - fi, and fantasy movies these days, it is refreshing to watch a well - made, well presented, historical based film that can touch you on a personal level.

And yet, amid all that overdue and well - deserved scorn, the lone aspect of Deadpool 2 that is treated with gravid, wet - eyed sincerity — the thing the film wants us to care most deeply about, that acts as the plot's triggering action — is itself the biggest, oldest, dumbest and most useless superhero - genre cliche of them all.

Director Ryan Coogler, working with a script he co-wrote with Joe Robert Cole, doesn't just meet but exceeds those expectations, delivering a film that fulfills the most rote demands of superhero spectacle, yet does so with style and subtexts that feel bracingly, joyfully groundbreaking.

OK, obviously none of that happens, except for Wade blowing himself up — and if you've ever read a comic book in your life, or seen a movie, or drawn breath, you know that a superhero film doesn't start with the hero offing himself unless it plans to undo the damage as soon as possible.

Black Panther may not be the first superhero film to place a black lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audience.

We expect a superhero film to be an action packed adventure but Thor: Ragnarok is primarily a comedy with some great action sequences sprinkled in at just the right moments.

A big - budgeted studio film about a black action superhero with a nearly all - black cast is a huge step forward.

2017 was a landmark year for superhero cinema, with amazing films including The LEGO Batman Movie, Logan, Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

A film that fulfills the most rote demands of superhero spectacle, yet does so with style and subtexts that feel bracingly, joyfully groundbreaking.

And while the films plot may not be as good as some other superhero films, it still is an enjoyable movie with that set aside and is pretty faithful to the comics as is.

Based on the Marvel comic by Stan Lee (who makes a cameo as he does in all the films based on his work), it picks up the story of those cosmic - rayed superheroes dealing with the end of the world and a fifth attempt at a wedding.

Then, shortly after Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005, Warner Bros. started looking into ways to unite the character with other DC superheroes - and so began work on George Miller's unrealized team - up film, Justice League: Mortal.

I know — and respect — that some moviegoers take their superhero films quite seriously, and that many people are looking forward to this latest installment with great anticipation and high hopes.

Director Luc Besson of films like «Nikita», «Transporter series» and «Taken» is back with superhero flick, «Lucy».

While his idolization of the superheroes he grew up with approaches commentary on the blind loyalty of the fanbase, Holland keeps the film grounded with believable youthful restlessness.

The first reactions for Ryan Reynolds «superhero film «Deadpool» are in, and people seem to love the Merc with a Mouth.

Elsewhere, the Gotham Independent Film Awards named Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman best film ahead of Boyhood, with Michael Keaton winning best actor for his turn as a faded former star of superhero movies vying to make a comeback.

It also received highly positive reviews with some critics lauding it for doing the near - impossible task of compressing more than a dozen superheroes in a film that while feeling overstuffed never overwhelms moviegoers with exposition.

... With all due Respect ~ this typist is of opinion that it is Dredd that «marked» that territory (quite distinctly, too) first, — as first superhero film (thru - and - thru) for the adult demographic..

I'm not incredibly familiar with Warner Bros.» line of DC animated films, but they seem to do well and, at the very least, keep things interesting by introducing twists on the superheroes as in Gods and Monsters.

Moving on, as recently reported, talks are already underway with cast members Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz - Plasse to reprise their roles in the black comedy superhero film that grossed $ 48 million domestically and $ 96 million globally back in 2010.

Though it will never beat the BEST SUPERHERO movie EVER — Captain America: Winter Solider, the film and Dr. Stephen Strange gives the MUC a feeling of rejuvenation which will hopefully continue with the upcoming releases of Black Panther and Captain Marvel.

With adaptations of superhero comics to film, it seems that the only thing of interest to the film maker (s) is getting the shiniest and biggest effects on screen along with «kick - ass» action sequences and one - upping each other on the adrenaline leWith adaptations of superhero comics to film, it seems that the only thing of interest to the film maker (s) is getting the shiniest and biggest effects on screen along with «kick - ass» action sequences and one - upping each other on the adrenaline lewith «kick - ass» action sequences and one - upping each other on the adrenaline level.

During an interview with Collider, Incredibles 2 director Brad Bird shared some juicy tidbits about the film's script, the release date, and how it will stand out from the current crop of superhero movies.