The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: Cha-la Head-Cha-la!

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Great news today! Dragon Ball is back with Dragon Ball Super, that is the first new Dragon Ball series in 18 years, after the not-so-great (and not-so-canon) Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball Kai doesn’t count since it was revised version of Dragon Ball Z. The new series is called Dragon Ball Super and will come to me (I mean us) in July 2015 (that’s a great birthday present, thanks Toriyama!). So yeah, the new series will continue after the events of the film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection “F”. You know what that means? Besides my inability to stop typing “Dragon Ball“? Dragon Ball Super will officially erase Dragon Ball GT‘s existence from canon.

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Avengers: Age of Ultron had a great opening in UK. In fact, had the highest one ever since Skyfall, and beat Furious 7 and Fifty Shades of Grey (thank Thor!).

According to Chris Evans, the two-part Avengers: Infinity War will shoot over nine months, which is kind of a big commitment… to anyone who wasn’t been in a Peter Jackson adaptation of a J.R.R. Tolkien book that is~

We start the Infinity War, I think, some time in the third quarter. Fall or winter of 2016. That’s going to be like nine months to shoot both movies back to back.

It’s been known that there’s hardly any Black Widow merchandising, specially for kids. And the merch that has most of the Avengers together (t-shirts, lunchboxs, backpacks, etc), Black Widow is almost always missing. In fact, that’s the reason the hastag #WheresNatasha was created. Well, Mark Ruffalo has also noticed it, and wants Marvel to do something about it.

As you can expect, the fanboys and fangirls made a lot of drama over Reed Richards’ “change” of powers in the new Fantastic Four movie. So much drama that cowriter/producer Simon Kinberg had to go out and clarify that Mr. Fantasic will indeed ‘stretch’. Also, the Fantastic Four website also changed the language of Reed Richards’ bio, in order to make it less “confusing”.

I think it was confusing. I was a little confused by it myself. The intent was to try to explain the power with some sort of scientific explanation, but as you pointed out, most of his powers defy what we know about physics. The upshot of it is that he stretches in his movie. That is his power. That’s the simplest explanation.

Here’s some concept art from X-Men: Apocalypse, where Professor X still has hair. Even if he seems to have a receding hairline. Also, Simon Kinberg talked about Professor X’s new students.

Scott is not yet the squeaky-clean leader. Storm is 
a troubled character who is going down the wrong path in life. And Jean is complex, interesting and not fully mature. It’s fun to see someone struggling with their powers when you know one day they’ll become the most powerful person in the world.

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Also, there’s this rumor that X-Men: Apocalypse and Wolverine 3 (or whatever they decide to call it), will be the last of the X-Men Universe films at the hand of Bryan Singer. So, a reboot? Can’t Fox work something out with Marvel/Disney?! Pretty please!

Seems Marvel/Disney and Sony have chosen their new Spider-Man. Nothing written in stone yet, but as far as the list I showed in the last column, Asa Butterfield is the frontrunner. Sure, Latino Review ain’t the most trustworthy of sources, but when it’s right, it’s right!

So Ben Affleck has been spotted on the Suicide Squad set in Toronto. Guess Batman will make an appearance in the film! How big or small his role is (if any) has yet to be known.

Finally! Habemus a picture (three actually) of Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Macbeth. Yes, Shakespeare at the cinemas, make me happy. What about it? Besides, I’ve been waiting for this film in ages! Now only it has The Bard, it’s also directed by Justin Kurzel! No, I don’t know that dude either, but he’s reteaming with both Fassbender and Cotillard for the Assassin’s Creed adaptation. Yep, that’s an interesting bit of trivia.

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Richard Armitage talked about his past work in The Hobbit and his current work in Hannibal. I’m just so glad he’s getting more visible jobs! Even if it’s just because he’s so good at growing a beard! Also, we are totally getting the funeral scene in the extended version!

There’s a big funeral scene which was cut from the final film, and I know they were quite upset that that had to be lost, so I’m looking forward to seeing that. There’s also a fantastic chariot chase during the battle – they built this incredible chariot with a crossbow on the back, and I think we had Dwalin and Balin and a couple of the other dwarves on the chariot. I heard a sneaky rumour that they may do a limited cinema release just because some of the footage is so epic, and WETA Digital have been working like crazy to get it finished.

mirella

YAM Magazine geek resident. Cloud Cuckoolander. Seldom web developer. Graphic designer.

2 Responses

  1. Your title got that theme stuck in my head now! Good memories though.

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