When I was a child, I would go to to the arcade with friends – yeah, yeah, who didn’t? One section of the arcade had free games. Once I was out of change, I was over there. There was one game I was obsessed over. The object of the game was simple: as a huge monster, destroy everything in sight. How could a kid not love that? Smash buildings, punch cars, and eat people; it’s all innocent fun. The title of the game was on the mark: Rampage.
Task Force X assembled and ready. #SuicideSquad pic.twitter.com/fEV7E1aPsm
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) May 3, 2015
On this idle Sunday, director David Ayer tweeted a photo of his upcoming film, Suicide Squad. It gives us our first look of the entire cast in character.
I saw the headline for a Flash Gordon reboot and I recoiled in disgust. Granted, there’s been different incarnations of the comic strip, but the 80s movie was the definitive version for me. The theme song by Queen certainly helps. So could you blame me?
The other day, Ryan Reynolds had a mock interview with Extra’s Mario Lopez about Deadpool. Fans of the comics – including Reynolds himself – sorely wanted an R-rated movie. Deadpool, after all, has gratuitous violence and inappropriate humor. Great, inappropriate meta-humor.
Marvel Studios was really on something with their cinematic universe; other franchises started to follow its lead. Unfortunately, the next one is Transformers.
We’re all looking forward to our favorite superheroes teaming up again to face another threat in The Avengers: Age of Ultron. And besides a different villain, there’s two wild cards that are entering the fray: Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. To settle some curiosity – just a little – a little video was released, introducing these characters.
You know the drill. Watch.
The Avengers: Age of Ultron takes theaters over May 1, 2015.