Marvel Entertainment (left, right), Warner Bros. (center)
While we were still recovering from the holidays and trying to pretend that January isn’t the worst month of the year (it’s so dark and so cold, especially after spending a month surrounded by brightly-colored lights watching videos of logs burning!), the machine that is the superhero movie business kept chugging along. This week, Marvel took advantage of the winter lull to get us excited about Ant-Man, while Fox decided that it was time to see how many X-Men movies an audience is prepared to pay money for in a 12-month window. Just as we did in 2014, may we present the highlights of the week’s superhero movie news.
SUPER IDEA: Gambit Getting a Release Date
Proving that it was (surprisingly) serious about spinning the X-Men’s comedy Cajun mutant thief character into his own solo movie Fox revealed earlier this week that Gambit, starring Channing Tatum as the roguishly charming—not to mention Rogue-charming—hero, will be released in October next year.
Why this is super: For those who feel Gambit is one of the more fun members of Marvel’s mutant franchise (or merely those who like Tatum as an actor), this seems like a good idea … until you realize it’ll be the third X-Men movie Fox releases next year (following Deadpool, which we’ll return to in a second, and X-Men: Apocalypse). Is Fox trying to drown its fledgling franchise in one fell swoop?
SUPER IDEA: It Really Is a Small World After All
Given its troubled creation—which included the loss of original writer/director Edgar Wright and last-minute addition of replacement director Peyton Reed—there were times when it seemed unlikely that anyone would ever get a chance to watch Marvel’s Ant-Man. Imagine the joy of all true Ant-Fans this week, then, when Marvel not only released the first poster for the Paul Rudd vehicle, but also the first official trailer for the movie. This is only part of Marvel Studios’ latest wave of promotion. In addition to this trailer, which debuted alongside the studio’s TV show, Agent Carter, Marvel will also release a second trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron next week.
Why this is super: Well, first of all, it’s proof that we’re actually going to get an Ant-Man movie in the first place. Secondly, as with all the Marvel movies to date, it looks fun—even if there’s also a feeling of sameness about Marvel projects beginning to seep in. What’s that saying about familiarity breeding contempt…?
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