So D23 at Anaheim has come to a close and for us movie fans, we were treated to a few real treats and at least one frustration. Despite the fact that the Captain America: Civil War trailer did not leak, to the disappointment of people like myself, there are still plenty of movie news stories to breakdown.
Marvel
The first of which was that Bucky or The Winter Soldier is going to have a massive role within the film. In the opening action sequence of the trailer, Cap is fighting Crossbones. If you are unaware, Crossbones is the new alter ego of one of Cap's adversaries in The Winter Soldier, Brock Rumlow, who now sports a menacing new look. After he is defeated, Rumlow is quick to drop a small hint to Cap that Bucky may just be regaining his memories.
And that's how we get to the Ant Man post credits scene, which was apparently shown again only this time a little bit longer with more dialogue from the film. It seems that the plot to Civil War will be that "the accords" (the superhero registration act) will be passed around the same time Cap conducts his search for his missing friend.
The trailer is also quick to highlight the growing rift between Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, both leading the charges on the opposite sides of the conflict. Stark even goes as far to say, "Sometimes I just want to punch you in your perfect teeth". What was also interesting to read was that at one point Black Widow and Hawkeye are at odds with each other. Considering both characters are from a similar "SHIELD agent" background it was interesting to read how both of them will be divided ideologically. With many heroes set to turn against each other, this one relationship will be one of the more interesting ones to see develop.
It's still unclear as to what the exact teams will be during the conflict simply because I don't know out of Hawkeye and Black Widow who is going to side with Rogers and who will side with Stark. However, my gut instinct is telling me that Widow will support Captain America's cause due to the written description of some of the movie's other scenes. I think the teams are as follows:
Team Captain America
Falcon
Winter Soldier
Black Widow
Scarlet Witch
Ant Man
Team Iron Man
War Machine
Hawkeye
Vision
Spider Man
Neutral forces/Villainous threats
Black Panther
Crossbones
Baron Zemo
Spiderman did not make an appearance during the trailer by the looks of things, but I'll tell you who did; Ant Man. In fact, the last scene is devoted solely to Scott Lang completely fanboying over Captain America and the other Avengers on Cap's team. The humorous tone from Ant Man is being carried over into Civil War with the Scott Lang character, which is a nice thing to hear simply because Paul Rudd utterly nailed the Marvel-style humour in his solo film.
Also, Marvel showed off the next film on their Phase 3 slate Doctor Strange, set for a November 2016 release. They showed off various pieces of concept art and visual effects tests plus also a pre-recorded message from Doctor Stephen Strange himself Benedict Cumberbatch, who apologised that he could not be there in person. However, what I took away from this was confirmation that Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tilda Swinton were confirmed to play both Baron Mordo and The Ancient One respectively. If one things for certain, they have an incredible cast of Oscar-calibre talent. And with Doctor Strange promised to be Marvel's version of an acid trip, I just keep on getting more and more excited to see the film.
Star Wars
With Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens coming to theatres in 4 months time, it was to be expected that D23 would deliver a lot of news concerning this new trilogy of films on top of the various anthology films that Disney and Lucasfilm have planned. Among this news was confirmation that director of Jurassic World Colin Trevorrow was confirmed to direct Episode 9, the movie responsible for concluding the stories which will be set up in The Force Awakens.
For those of you who haven't seen my Jurassic World review, you'll know that I seriously disliked the film. However, I'm not at all disheartened by the directorial choice for Episode 9 simply because Lucasfilm seem to know what the are doing when they hire people to make their movies (with the exception of Josh Trank). If Trevorrow is a director who loves the original trilogy and was inspired by those 3 films growing up, I think we'll have another director determined to please the fans and get a Star Wars movie right. Therefore, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Just please don't return to the Jurassic Park franchise... just let it die.
Other Star Wars related news included the confirmation of the cast for Rogue One, the first Star Wars anthology film, directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) set for a December 2016 release. The cast included Felicity Jones, Ben Mendelsohn, Forrest Whitaker and Mads Mikkleson. Boasting a diverse and talented cast, Rogue One is set to tell the story of a group of daring rebels who undertake a mission to steal the Death Star plans.
Pixar
Fresh off the critical and financial success of Inside Out, Pixar were also kind enough to unveil their slate of films for the remainder of the decade. The slate is as follows:
The Good Dinosaur
Finding Dory
Toy Story 4 (which is meant to be somewhat of a love story between Woody and Bo Peep)
Coco (directed by Lee Unkrich, the man behind Toy Story 3)
Cars 3
The Incredibles 2
Is a third Cars film really necessary? I don't know. But it is nice to know that we will finally be receiving a long-awaited sequel to The Incredibles, one of my personal favourite Pixar films.
Kingdom Hearts 3
Thanks for reading,
Matt
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