We thought Marvel would come out and really take the cake this year after a disappointing showing by DC. However, Marvel was a bit disappointing, too. They focused on 2015 and nothing else besides a brief nod to an excursion in 2017. Ignored was the Phase 3 films, Doctor Strange (especially considering the recent rumors of Joaquin Phoenix snagging the role), and casting for any other films.
We got info on 'Ant-Man' and 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron'.
We got info on 'Ant-Man' and 'The Avengers: Age of Ultron'.
'Ant-Man': Paul Rudd, Peyton Reed, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, and Evangeline Lilly were all present. Apparently the movie will revolve around a heist. It also seems like Douglas' Pym wants to retire and has chosen Lang as a mentee. Meanwhile, Corey Stoll was confirmed for the role of Darren Cross/Yellowjacket. What is interesting is that Cross and Pym were business partners until Cross took control and started running the company in a way that seemed evil. Evangeline Lilly was confirmed for the role of Hope Van Dyne, a.k.a. the daughter of Jane Van Dyne (who was most likely The Wasp with Pym and will hand the role off to Hope), which goes against the rumors that had her linked to the role of Jane Van Dyne. The movie will start filming August 18th in Atlanta, but they filmed something just for Comic-Con. The footage is as such:
"Voiceover of Pym telling Lang he needs him for a job, which plays over a one-take shot through a dark lab... the camera settling on the helmet to Ant-Man's suit for an instant -- and then, in a flash of blue, the helmet shrinks.The next scene shows (an all CG) Ant-Man running through what seems like a computer grid of sorts, as Pym talks to him over a headset telling him how to summon a flying ant to help him make a getaway.
Lang struggles to summon the ant to his will, because one of the transmitters in his helmet is busted and visibly sparking. He smacks the side of his helmet with an open palm but that just makes it worse.
Pym instructs Lang to just jump over a ledge to get out of the area and Lang does it... About to fall to his death when the flying ant catches him and takes him soaring out of an air vent, which leads back to some kind of mainframe. (The scene shown is what was depicted on the Comic-Con exclusive poster revealed earlier this week at the convention.)
Lang jumps on a flying ant and flies out of an air vent. End of clip."
Ant-Man will hit theaters July 17, 2015.
"Voiceover of Pym telling Lang he needs him for a job, which plays over a one-take shot through a dark lab... the camera settling on the helmet to Ant-Man's suit for an instant -- and then, in a flash of blue, the helmet shrinks.The next scene shows (an all CG) Ant-Man running through what seems like a computer grid of sorts, as Pym talks to him over a headset telling him how to summon a flying ant to help him make a getaway.
Lang struggles to summon the ant to his will, because one of the transmitters in his helmet is busted and visibly sparking. He smacks the side of his helmet with an open palm but that just makes it worse.
Pym instructs Lang to just jump over a ledge to get out of the area and Lang does it... About to fall to his death when the flying ant catches him and takes him soaring out of an air vent, which leads back to some kind of mainframe. (The scene shown is what was depicted on the Comic-Con exclusive poster revealed earlier this week at the convention.)
Lang jumps on a flying ant and flies out of an air vent. End of clip."
Ant-Man will hit theaters July 17, 2015.
'The Avengers: Age of Ultron': This was a fairly straight-forward panel. They had a Q-and-A and then had a trailer play. It sounded pretty epic. They also said the trailer won't be online officially anytime soon, but I will post a leak as soon as it is available. The footage description from
"The trailer opens with all the Avengers partying at Stark Tower, now Avengers Tower and Thor throws down his hammer on the table and asks if any of the Avengers can pick t up. So what do they do…? They try and pick it up. Tony and Rhodey try on their Iron Man hands and that doesn’t work… Banner pretends to Hulk out but he doesn’t and he too can’t pick up the hammer. But Cap, Cap get’s it slightly off the table when suddenly, a horrible buzzing takes the scene. All the Avengers cover their ears and look, off in the distance – a raged, beaten up and once destroyed Iron Man suit is lumbering at them. Very weird. Very freaky. It’s Ultron.
“You humans think you are so special. You are nothing but killers! And I will take you down.”
Blamo! Ultron sends hundreds of remote powered Iron Man suits at our heroes as we cut to the major action. Scene by scene of the most epic action we’ve seen so far this Comic Con, mind you
The world is going crazy because of Ultorn – all the Avengers are struggling to survive and it doesn’t look good for our heroes when suddenly, blamo again! The Hulk Buster suit fully formed and realized takes on Hulk.
Hulk Buster throws a car at Hulk (who is mighty pissed for some reason) and Hulk just SMASHES the car into pieces. After, a major roar from Hulk as we CUT TO:
More shots of the world – Humans in peril. A Hydra tank is taken out by Thor! (Hydra is in it???!!!)
And then, at the end of the trailer, Ultron turns to the camera…
“You are all puppets on strings. But I… I have no strings.”
Blamo: Title treatment: AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON.
And after, we slowly reveal a desolate wasteland. We see Thor’s hand reaching for his hammer; Tony Stark trying to move in his ripped apart Iron Man suit; Cap’s shield is broken in half. The team is down… And as we pull back we see that all the Avengers are trapped on some weird wasteland surrounded by stars."
Sounds pretty exciting. I definitely cannot wait to see this.
"The trailer opens with all the Avengers partying at Stark Tower, now Avengers Tower and Thor throws down his hammer on the table and asks if any of the Avengers can pick t up. So what do they do…? They try and pick it up. Tony and Rhodey try on their Iron Man hands and that doesn’t work… Banner pretends to Hulk out but he doesn’t and he too can’t pick up the hammer. But Cap, Cap get’s it slightly off the table when suddenly, a horrible buzzing takes the scene. All the Avengers cover their ears and look, off in the distance – a raged, beaten up and once destroyed Iron Man suit is lumbering at them. Very weird. Very freaky. It’s Ultron.
“You humans think you are so special. You are nothing but killers! And I will take you down.”
Blamo! Ultron sends hundreds of remote powered Iron Man suits at our heroes as we cut to the major action. Scene by scene of the most epic action we’ve seen so far this Comic Con, mind you
The world is going crazy because of Ultorn – all the Avengers are struggling to survive and it doesn’t look good for our heroes when suddenly, blamo again! The Hulk Buster suit fully formed and realized takes on Hulk.
Hulk Buster throws a car at Hulk (who is mighty pissed for some reason) and Hulk just SMASHES the car into pieces. After, a major roar from Hulk as we CUT TO:
More shots of the world – Humans in peril. A Hydra tank is taken out by Thor! (Hydra is in it???!!!)
And then, at the end of the trailer, Ultron turns to the camera…
“You are all puppets on strings. But I… I have no strings.”
Blamo: Title treatment: AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON.
And after, we slowly reveal a desolate wasteland. We see Thor’s hand reaching for his hammer; Tony Stark trying to move in his ripped apart Iron Man suit; Cap’s shield is broken in half. The team is down… And as we pull back we see that all the Avengers are trapped on some weird wasteland surrounded by stars."
Sounds pretty exciting. I definitely cannot wait to see this.
Surprises:
- They also brought on Josh Brolin and confirmed him as Thanos.
- Patrick Wilson and two others left the 'Ant-Man' and it is rumored that Corey Stoll took over his role.
- The biggest surprise was that 'Guardians of the Galaxy officially has a sequel. James Gunn and Chris Pratt sent a video message confirming the sequel and giving it a release date of July 28, 2017.