Martin Scorsese returns to television, although not as a director, but as a producer. Because the creators of Billions, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, will soon premiere a series on Netflix produced by Martin Scorsese set in the most terrible and wonderful city in the world: Las Vegas. Many big names Although it still doesn’t have an official name or release date, we know some things. It will be a thriller and will star Oscar Isaac, who will play Robert ‘Bobby Red’ Redman, the president of the most exclusive casino in all of Las Vegas. Something that will allow him to live surrounded by enemies who […]
Martin Scorsese returns to television, although not as a director, but as a producer. Because the creators of Billions, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, will soon premiere a series on Netflix produced by Martin Scorsese set in the most terrible and wonderful city in the world: Las Vegas.
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Although it still doesn’t have an official name or release date, we know some things. It will be a thriller and will star Oscar Isaac, who will portray Robert ‘Bobby Red’ Redman, the president of the most exclusive casino in all of Las Vegas. This will serve to surround him with enemies who will make his life miserable and will make his life much more difficult than it should be as he has to get his hands dirty to keep himself and his hotel alive.
The first two episodes of the series will be directed by J.C. Chandor, who, although he recently had little success with Kraven the Hunter, worked successfully in the past with Oscar Isaac in A24’s A Most Violent Year. Similarly, both Scorsese and Koppelman and Levien have great experience in stories of gambling and criminality, the former thanks to iconic films like Casino, and the latter due to films like Rounders or Oceans 13.
While we await more details about the production, this seems to be one of the major prestige bets of the year for Netflix, given the names involved. Therefore, it is likely that we will hear more details soon and that, as its release date approaches, we won’t stop hearing its name. Even if we don’t know it now.
Although the MCU is currently struggling and Sony hasn’t always known what to do with its Marvel properties, that doesn’t mean they aren’t still making movies. Some of them are fascinating. And in recent years, there has been a movie that has caught everyone’s attention for being a strange combination of a little-known character, a lot of problems surrounding the film, and a failure that has actually been more of a small bluff without much more significance. Because Madame Web is less than what people say. Madame Web is the […]
Although the MCU is currently struggling and Sony hasn’t always known what to do with its Marvel properties, that doesn’t mean they aren’t still making movies. Some of them are fascinating. And in recent years, there has been a movie that has caught everyone’s attention for being a strange combination of a little-known character, a lot of problems surrounding the film, and a failure that actually has been more of a small bluff without much more significance. Because Madame Web is less than what people say.
Madame Web is the fourth film in Sony’s Spider-Man Cinematic Universe, which includes Venom, Morbius, and Kraven the Hunter. Being the fourth film produced for it, but unable to use Spider-Man, they continued with the idea they started with when producing these films: to capitalize on the large number of iconic characters surrounding Spider-Man to produce movies
Madame Web, one of the most unique characters in Spider-Man
But who is Madame Web, anyway? For many people, she is not even a well-known character within the Spider-Man mythology, and we can’t blame them. Madame Web is a mutant, like the X-Men, who has the ability to see the future. Working as a medium and living connected to a life support system in the form of a web, hence her name, her connection to Spider-Man comes from helping him in moments when he has been lost and hasn’t known how to move forward through normal means, needing the help of someone capable of seeing beyond what anyone else can.
In the movie, as expected, we have an origin story that tells us not only how she becomes Madame Web, but also how she saved three young girls who will become Spider-Women in the future, unless they die before she can save them.
With a luxury casting, with Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb and Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, and Sydney Sweeney before deciding that she valued her career as a fascist muse more than as an actress like the three future Spider-Women, the movie is based on that premise. Dakota Johnson trying to come to terms with her body slowly failing her, her ability to see the future and the fact that these three girls will be crucial for the future of humanity, and that’s why she can’t leave them behind.
With a very interesting premise and a capable team, the movie falls short of being what it aims to be. With a disjointed script and direction lacking in personality, the potential of the film is evident, but it lacks a bit to be what it promises. This is also reflected in its box office performance. Costing 100 million dollars, it barely managed to gross a little over that same 100 million, making it a small failure.
The biggest failure was the reception from critics and the public. The critics destroyed it, reaching a 10% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 26 on Metacritic. On social media, it became a meme for weeks. It received awards, yes, but exactly the ones you don’t want to receive. It won the award for worst movie, worst actress, and worst screenplay at the Golden Raspberry Awards and was nominated for the most campy movie at the Dorian Awards. This demonstrates that there is little future for Madame Web in Sony’s plans.
But the movie is not, by any means, the terrible disaster that critics and the public claim. It is a movie that could have been much better, but it is not an absolute disaster either. And you can check it out by watching it on Disney+, now that they finally dare to bring it to the streaming platform for everyone to see.
Marvel Spider-Man 2 is shown at Comic-Con to give us all the clues about its story, hinting at a complex and tasty narrative
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is one of the most anticipated games of the year. And not without reason. Marvel’s Spider-Man is a fabulous game that, despite being an open world, knew how to perfectly combine the combat and stealth phases with the spectacular movement that is expected of a character like Spider-Man. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, on the other hand, knew how to expand the formula, taking it to a more intimate terrain in the narrative while emphasizing more aggressive mechanics in combat, giving a little twist to the formula that made it even more enjoyable than possible, apart from the pleasure of moving through the streets of Manhattan.
Now Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, released at the Comic-Con that is being held in California these days, offers us its story trailer where we get a glimpse of what to expect from the game at the narrative level. While it is true that it does not seem that many things are clarified, fans of the first game, and especially fans of the character, will have noticed that there are many threads that hint that this is not exactly going to be a short game or without conflict.
As we already know, in the game we will embody both Peter Parker and Miles Morales, with a particularity. Now Peter Parker will have the symbiote suit, which will give him a new set of powers. Something that seems to be very imbricated in the plot, as we can see in the trailer, with the concern of MJ, and the fact that Harry Osborn and his father, Norman Osborn, seem to have something to do with the symbiote. Considering that the trailer has confirmed that Venom will appear, and the developers confirmed in the past that Eddie Brocks will not appear in the video game, but Eddie seems concerned about his son’s condition, it’s not too hard to predict who Venom may become in this new iteration of the Spider-Man story.
Similarly, it seems that Miles Morales will have his own problems to deal with. While he will have to deal with the threat posed by the symbiote and deal with his friend and mentor being under its influence, a villain from the first game reappears: Mr. Negative. Which, as those who played Marvel’s Spider-Man know, is guilty of killing Miles’ father and almost killing him and his mother as well. So hopefully there will be at least some sort of closure in that area.
But we can’t skip what happens at the beginning of the trailer itself either. Suffering an attack from what looks like Grizzly, a supervillain who is a relatively unknown wrestling wrestler who after losing his legs got an exoskeleton that gave him superhuman strength plus a questionable grizzly bear costume, a brief gameplay scene gives way to what looks like it will be the other major villain of the story. Kraven The Hunter. A truly classic villain, who is going to get his own movie soon, who while he has relatively little screen time in this story trailer compared to Venom and the symbiote in general, will hopefully be of notable importance, as he was the star of the game’s first trailer.
With all these threads, it’s easy to imagine where the story of this Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will be heading. Kraven is a hunter. Symbiote is, if not a prey, at least an object of desire; one that also, in the purest Faustian realm, can offer powers beyond what is imaginable to mere mortals. And both Spider-Man, like Harry Osborn, have an extremely troubled relationship with their father figures that make them always looking for a way to redeem themselves in their face, which makes them easy prey for a symbiote. Something that we have already seen many times in the comic, which always works, and that it is difficult that in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 they are not able to give it a new interesting twist, now, by also involving Harry Osborn and Miles Morales at the same time.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will arrive on October 20 of this year exclusively for PlayStation 5. It is expected to arrive on PC at some point in the future, as did the previous two games, but nothing has been confirmed. The next Insomniac Games game after Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is already in development and it is Marvel’s Wolverine; a game with no release date and which have not yet transcended more details, but in which we will embody Wolverine, of the X-Men. And which we hope to see, even as a wink, in this long-awaited Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
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Kraven: The Hunter comes out with a very violent trailer that promises us an origin story for the villain of Spider-Man.
Spider-Man is one of the characters that brings more dividends to Sony’s coffers, so it should not surprise us that they want to exploit it to its ultimate consequences. With a whole universe of their own, full of heroes, villains and unlikely allies, they have a lifetime of movies and video games if they want to do so without always having to resort to the lovable neighbor who got bitten by a spider. They can also turn to some of the other important characters in their stories, such as Kraven the Hunter, the villain in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, this movie will tell the story of Kraven’s origins before meeting Spider-Man. With the highest possible age rating, this promises us high doses of violence, something that is confirmed by a fast-paced trailer, bordering on gore in some particular scenes, where we are presented with a Kraven like we have never seen before.
A trailer that divides fans
This has left many people dissatisfied with the approach to the character. Fans of the comic were expecting an adaptation of the highly celebrated comic Kraven’s Last Hunt, where Kraven usurps Spider-Man’s identity after burying him alive in one of the most mythical stories of both characters. This discontent is not helped by the fact that this is an origin story that also seems to change who the character is. Gaining powers thanks to an encounter with a lion, presumably radioactive, this differs greatly from the character in the comics, who is simply a man of enormous hunting skills and professional ethics beyond any doubt. Something that has got some of the fandom up in arms.
That doesn’t detract from the fact that the trailer stands on its own as an interesting reinterpretation of the character concept. Closer to a modern supervillain, with a more stylized and thuggish Kraven, it seeks to create a more contemporary idea of this iconic villain.
Sony’s reasons for making this kind of move are clear. Even after the Morbius crash, both the Spider-Man video games and the Spider-Man movies are still doing very well. And if they don’t use the license, it would return to the hands of Marvel. Something they don’t want under any circumstances at Sony, which is why, to avoid saturating the market with Spider-Man titles, they make these kinds of spin-off productions, associated with the character in a roundabout way, to maintain the rights to the character without burning the brand in the process.
That’s why, whether fans and detractors like it or not, Kraven The Hunter is a logical move for Sony. Whether this trailer will materialize into a great movie, like Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse, a good-looking movie, like Venom, or an unmitigated disaster, like Morbius, is something we won’t know until its release on October 6. What is clear is that, as long as it continues to generate profits for Sony, they don’t plan to let go of a brand as prolific as Spider-Man.
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