The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: DC’s dubious decisions

WEDNESDAY

Nerd God Joss Whedon graces the cover of Entertaining Weekly with also awesome Clark Gregg and potentially awesome Chloe Bennet:

Whedon gets a 10-page interview where he talks about all his proyects and other geeky stuff. But specially he talks about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

There’s a world of superheroes and superstars, they’re celebrities, and that’s a complicated world — particularly complicated for people who don’t have the superpowers, the disenfranchised. Now obviously there’s going to be hijinks and hilarity and sex and gadgets and all the things that made people buy the comics. But that’s what the show really is about to me, and that’s what Clark Gregg embodies: the Everyman.

Of course he also talked about The Avengers: Age of Ultron, specially about the baddie that gets the movie titled after! He sure ain’t going to be like the comicbook version!

[Ultron]’s not a happy guy, which means he’s an interesting guy. He’s got pain. And the way that manifests is not going to be standard robot stuff. So we’ll take away some of those powers because at some point everybody becomes magic, and I already have someone [a new character, Scarlet Witch] who’s a witch.

Back to the theme of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., producers say to think X-Files. I like how that sounds!

It’s a little bit like the “X-Files” model: You can come each week and see [that episode] and not have seen everything, but if you have, it’s a richer experience. And as we move forward, those things will start to weave together more and more. But we do want to always have every episode have its own beginning, middle and end, and feel like its own [thing].

One a related but totally separate thing, here’s another totally cute trailer of totally cute LEGO Marvel Super Heroes! Doctor Doom’s Doomray of Doom, guys!

And on interesting news, another sci-fi short will get the feature film treatment! Yay! This time is Rob McLellan’s Abe, which is the story of a the story of a malicious but seemingly well-intentioned robot serial killer. Thanks, MGM! In the link you can also see the short film, which I might post later on my facebook. But check it out, it looks awesome!

THURSDAY

Happy Birthday, Richard Armitage!

Stephen Hawking is doing a biographical documentary. In it, Benedict Cumberbatch talks about playing the well-known physicist in Hawking, and Hawking also watches said movie and comments on it.

It has been a lot of fun and also very strange to see myself depicted in so many ways, but perhaps the strangest is to have part of my early life portrayed by an actor.

Also, no more Benedict Cumberbatch in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak… what! Why!?

Chris Evans is very sincere about the great things that come after playing such a notorious character in Marvel movies~

The best part of being a part of the Marvel world is that it allows you to do other things. If I hadn’t taken Captain America, I don’t think I would be able to direct. Doing those big movies with big profile properties, and movies that get seen and make a lot of money, in turn you’re afforded an opportunity to go do passion projects, but that’s not a very fun answer.

On Marvel casting news: Bradley Cooper was offered the role of voicing Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy? Apparently the negociations are just beginning and I am not entirely happy with the news. Also, Elizabeth Olsen also in negociation with Marvel in order to play Scarlet Witch in The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Does she look like she could be the twin sister of Aaron Taylor-Johnson?

Of course, for once Marvel was eclipsed by DC when they made their official annoucement of who’ll be their new Batman in the Man of Steel sequel: It’s Ben Affleck. My first reaction: Do not want! But after watching the fanboy outcry, the memes and even the petition to remove him, I kinda feel sorry for the guy. As much as I can feel sorry for a successful rich dude. Anyway, Batfleck becomes another actor who has played on both sides of comicbook movie houses (like Ryan Reynolds being Deadpool and Green Lantern), what with him playing a forgetable Daredevil. I hope he does better than Reynolds though. I really do. I guess Ben Affleck will have to start working out. Oh well, Cavill will remain the prettiest hero onscreen~ Also, here are some mean and some funny twitter reactions.