Marvel Movies & TV: Phase 17

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I don’t know….I see a dozen Oscar nominations there!!!

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Mark Ruffalo Returning as the Hulk for ‘Spider-Man 4’ – Hollywood Reporter

But wait, that’s not all.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has found a smashing star to join Tom Holland in the Sony/Marvel movie sequel.

Mark Ruffalo is returning to reprise the role of Bruce Banner, aka the Hulk, in the feature, which comes 14 years after the actor joined the MCU in The Avengers. The move had been rumored for a while but only firmed up as the script came together and as production gears up for beginning this month in England.

At the same time, Michael Mando, known for his work on Better Call Saul, is returning to reprise the role of the Scorpion, the villain character whom he first played in Spider-Man: Homecoming, the 2017 feature that kicked off the Holland-centric Spider-Man movies.

Holland’s Spider-Man films have always paired him with a more seasoned actor, such as Robert Downey Jr. (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Samuel L. Jackson (Spider-Man: Far From Home) and Benedict Cumberbatch (Spider-Man: No Way Home), playing key characters Iron Man, Nick Fury and Doctor Strange, respectively. (The movies invoke the tone of classic Marvel comic Marvel Team-Up, a series from the 1970s and 1980s that featured Spider-Man partnering with another hero for an escapade.)

Brand New Day, however, is stacking the deck. Jon Bernthal is also on the call sheet to reprise his role of the vigilante known as the Punisher. It’s the character’s first big-screen appearance in the MCU and first movie appearance in general since 2008 action movie Punisher: War Zone, in which the late Ray Stevenson played the role.

The plot details are being kept under the vest, but you can bet that, in the mighty Marvel manner, Spider-Man, Punisher and Hulk will all fight one another before figuring out who the real bad guys are.

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Poor Spidey, always needs a babysitter.

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Todd

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POV: You thought Spider-Man 4 was filming in NYC…but Hollywood said, ‘close enough’ 😂🗽🎬 #spiderman #brandnewday #tomholland #nyc #newyork #fyp

♬ Spider-Man Theme – Epic Version (from “No Way Home Trailer”) – Samuel Kim

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Thunderbolts, da new team for great natio – back in your box Alexei, is a smart film. It’s a lot better than the last Cap movie and the New Avengerz could really take off.

It’s also a good demonstration of what the MCU should be doing on TV series and films. The film gives enough info about Walker regardless of watching the Falcon and Winter Soldier series.

The addition of Bob aka Sentry aka Void, combined with the film’s focus on mental health is a good one. The fractured personalities of him also, in part, reflect the cultural messages to him. That he has to be better, faster, stronger, more violent.

One oddity is the throwaway inclusion of Taskmaster, not sure what the idea there was. Overall the concept of these broken characters finding ways to recover together is well-executed.

The epilogues are good too, with the post-credits scene setting up both the team’s wider relationships and the FF movie.

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Ben wrote:

One oddity is the throwaway inclusion of Taskmaster, not sure what the idea there was.

The writer said that in the script Taskmaster is around for the entire movie.

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Todd, Ben

Ben wrote:

Thunderbolts, da new team for great natio – back in your box Alexei, is a smart film. It’s a lot better than the last Cap movie and the New Avengerz could really take off.

It’s also a good demonstration of what the MCU should be doing on TV series and films. The film gives enough info about Walker regardless of watching the Falcon and Winter Soldier series.

The addition of Bob aka Sentry aka Void, combined with the film’s focus on mental health is a good one. The fractured personalities of him also, in part, reflect the cultural messages to him. That he has to be better, faster, stronger, more violent.

One oddity is the throwaway inclusion of Taskmaster, not sure what the idea there was. Overall the concept of these broken characters finding ways to recover together is well-executed.

The epilogues are good too, with the post-credits scene setting up both the team’s wider relationships and the FF movie.

Of CA: BNW, Thunderbolts, and FF: FS, Thunderbolts was my favorite. Was it one of the best MCU films? Probably not, but I simply had fun with it. I had a good time. Of the three, it’s the only one I would watch again.

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Uncle Retrospective

Todd wrote:

one of the best MCU films? Probably not,

They should never have gone with this as their tagline.

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Todd

Dave wrote:

Todd wrote:

one of the best MCU films? Probably not,

They should never have gone with this as their tagline.

Unfortunately, a lot of MCU films having been using this tagline of late.

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Todd

Daredevil: Born Again Renewed for Season 3 at Disney+

So much for all that “two and out” chatter: Daredevil: Born Again has been renewed for Season 3 at Disney+, TVLine has confirmed.

Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios’ head of streaming, television and animation, first revealed the pickup to IGN, saying, “In terms of Daredevil, yeah, we are greenlit for Season 3 and we start shooting next year.”

In Daredevil: Born Again, “Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York,” according to the official logline. “When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.”

Season 1 kicked off with a two-episode premiere on March 4, and wrapped its nine-episode run on April 15. Season 2 is already slated for March 2026 — though an exact date has not been confirmed as of press time.

Cox had previously suggested that Season 2 would be the final one — but D’Onofrio was quick to refute his co-star, telling worried fans on social media, “Good chance there will be a third.”

Well, let’s hope the second one is more consistent than the first.

Tom Holland has suffered a concussion after an accident on the set of the new Spidey movie.

A bit concerning. Good job it wasn’t anything worse.

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Todd

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That actually looks really good.

I finished Agatha All Along at some point, by the way. The last episodes actually had some interesting twists and made more sense of some stuff that’d been happening that seemed a bit dumb. But overall, the quality of the show was all over the place, and it’s not exactly required viewing.

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Todd

Interesting they cast Menahem Golan for this

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Full trailer:

OK, that looks like it’ll be fun

Details on other Marvel shows: https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-television-animation-new-york-comic-con-2025-panel-recap

VisionQuest

Bettany treated fans to exclusive first footage from the show, revealing Henry Lewis as D.U.M.-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S., Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H., Ruaridh Mollica as Thomas Shepherd, and the return of James Spader as Ultron.

“What’s different about Vision right now is that Red Vision gave Vision all of his memories, including the memories from within the Hex. But White Vision is having real difficulty connecting to them,” explained Bettany. “White Vision’s journey during the show is about his attempt to connect to those memories and who he was… but with lasers!”

Interesting that they apparently couldn’t get Kerry Condon as live-action F.R.I.D.A.Y., so just cast a different Irish woman.

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