Quick note to Boston-area and Boston-area-visiting fans; I'll be out and about at the Arisia convention for much of the weekend. Not as a panelist or guest or whatever - I'll just be hanging out and seeing what's up - but if any of y'all are going to be around maybe I'll see you around :)
Captain America and New Spider-Man: REVEALED! (Update!)
Seen here, via ComingSoon: A Superhero costume-redesign done right.
Chris Evans, in full mask and gear as Captain America. It works. It just effin' WORKS. The mask/helmet works. The "repainted combat gear" works. The shield really works. Even the wings work.
I'd call it a near-perfect "compromise" between the classic look, the Ultimate look and real life; though I wouldn't be surprised if they give him something close to the "modern Ultimates" look in "Avengers." But THIS is going to look fantastic onscreen, versus all the Hydra gear and the (supposedly) note-perfect Red Skull look.
We've got four major "question-mark" comic movies this year, and THIS is easily the one that's looking like the surest-thing at this point - with the awesomeness of this uniform being the biggest assurance of that (to me, anyway) yet. After the jump: How NOT to do one of these...
...Okay, maybe a little hyperbole there, but the overall impact is pretty "meh" at best. Underwhelming, certainly, but not disasterous.
Andrew Garfield, unmasked but otherwise offering our first look at the "new" Spider-Man outfit. They've kept the "textured" look from the Raimi films, but with lots of reworked "angularity" on the web-pattern and the insignia. I'd be amused to know if anyone at the design phase mentioned that losing the "belt" of red around the midsection now essentially leaves Spidey wearing either a giant red arrow pointing to his Spider-Junk or a custom version of Borat's bathing suit.
Of course, he probably won't dance at all in this one automatically making it The Best Spider-Man Movie EVER!!!! Right? Yes?
UPDATE: Commenters here and elsewhere are taking note of a curious-looking bulge on the interior of the gloves, hugely-suggestive of this new Spider-Man having traditional mechanical webshooters as opposed to the "biological" ones from the previous films.
If so, AWESOME. I'll say that without any qualification: That would be awesome. I'm actually getting pretty sick of the "you want to hate this!" nonsense that gets thrown around every time I cover this project, to the point that I've begun to greet each new item with hope that there'll be something that excites me about this other than Denis Leary being in it just to alleviate some of that.
FWIW, the biological-shooters thing goes back a long way: It was a surprise-twist in the James Cameron script, and in the script Raimi initially signed on for he had mechanical devices to "control" his built-in webs.
UPDATE: Commenters here and elsewhere are taking note of a curious-looking bulge on the interior of the gloves, hugely-suggestive of this new Spider-Man having traditional mechanical webshooters as opposed to the "biological" ones from the previous films.
If so, AWESOME. I'll say that without any qualification: That would be awesome. I'm actually getting pretty sick of the "you want to hate this!" nonsense that gets thrown around every time I cover this project, to the point that I've begun to greet each new item with hope that there'll be something that excites me about this other than Denis Leary being in it just to alleviate some of that.
FWIW, the biological-shooters thing goes back a long way: It was a surprise-twist in the James Cameron script, and in the script Raimi initially signed on for he had mechanical devices to "control" his built-in webs.
Evil Squared
Superherohype has some POSSIBLE SPOILER scans from the UK version of SFX Magazine, purportedly showing Hugo Weaving holding what looks like a Certain Ridiculous Silver-Age Marvel Item in a still from "Captain America." This has been pretty heavily hinted at, but for those who'd consider it a POSSIBLE SPOILER the details are after the jump:
Hugo Weaving as pre-monsterface Red Skull, holding what would seem to be The Cosmic Cube. For those sans-context for that: What you're looking at is a Nazi holding up a Magic Wishing Rock. Yes, really.
It still trips me out that the various "Avengers" lead-ups are actually dipping this far into the stranger side of their universe right out of the gate - typically, stuff like this is the first thing a movie adaptation decides to drop. Awesome.
