Deadline.com has the scoop that 20th Century Fox and Hugh Jackman have chosen James Mangold to direct The Wolverine. Negotiations haven’t yet begun, but Deadline’s sources have told that Mangold will accept the position. The original director for the movie was set to be Darren Aronofsky, but he dropped out of the project in May, [...]
I’ve kinda lost track of how many trailers we’ve seen for this movie now, but another new theatrical trailer has been released for X-Men: First Class! This one reveals a bunch of new footage, including scenes of Havoc using his mutant power, via some weird chest-harness contraption, and a scene with Angel spreading her wings. [...]
A second International trailer has been released for X-Men: First Class, and you can watch it below! X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names [...]
This weekend at WonderCon 2011, Jason Aaron held a panel on this summer’s big X-Men event - X-Men: Schism. I wasn’t there for the panel, but luckily, Marvel have posted some fantastic coverage of the panel on their website: X-MEN: SCHISM puts writer Jason Aaron at ground zero as the simmering tensions between Wolverine and [...]
As part of Marvel’s MMXI X-Men event, there is set to be a schism in the X-Men, leading to the X-Men seperating into two teams, one headed by Cyclops, and one headed by Wolverine. Marvel were set to reveal the events that lead to said schism, this weekend at C2E2, but according to Rich Johnston [...]
From the press release: This May, leading up to the biggest decision of the X-Men’s lives, Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Jenkins and rising star artists Robert De La Torre and Laurence Campbell sow seeds of this discontent amongst the ranks of the mutant nation in X-Men: Prelude #1 (of 4)! There is a calm before [...]
During the Cup O’ Joe column on CBR, Marvel Senior Vice President of Publishing Tom Brevoort has revealed the first details about Marvel’s next big X-Men event. He announced that Paul Jenkins will write a four-issue miniseries called X-Men: Prelude, beginning in May. Each issue will each feature a connected standalone story focusing on a [...]
Thanks to the fine folks over at Robot 6 , I just discovered that Taco Bell and Marvel announced this week that for a limited time , the fast-food chain’s kids’ meals would come with one of four Marvel comic books: The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, Invincible Iron Man, or X-Men. According to Marvel, each [...]
Wizkids have released several images of figurines from their upcoming Marvel HeroClix: Giant-Sized X-Men set. The set is too big to contain in a normal booster, so WizKids are introducing the “Super Booster,” containing figures unlike any done before for HeroClix! This new series consists of 67 new collectible HeroClix figures (55 in the regular [...]
From the press release: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at New Mutants #22, from writer Mike Carey and artist Steve Kurth! The Age of X races into its epic second chapter! The secret compound known as Fortress X is mutantkind’s only safe haven on planet Earth…or is it? There’s a traitor in [...]
