Extras! 26 September 2014
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: September 26, 2014
Bryan Singer confirmed for X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, writer Simon Kinsberg teases familiar and new characters
The X-Men franchise is in a good position right now. Director Bryan Singer started something magical with the first two films, while a third flick kept the franchise alive despite having a terrible effect overall, leading to Mathew Vaughn to give the series a soft reboot with X-Men: First Class. Enter X-Men: Days Of Future Past which saw Singer …
Extras! 12 September 2014
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X-MEN: APOCALYPSE is a disaster movie! Plus, Simon Kinberg talks GAMBIT and DAYS OF FUTURE PAST's ending
There’s a well known rule of escalation when it comes to blockbuster sequels, and based on that chilling post-credits scene in X-Men:Days of Future Past, things are going to escalate to *ahem* apocalyptic proportions in our mutant friends’ next cinematic adventure, 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Simon Kinberg, who will once again be pulling writer-producer duties, knows though that just sticking in …
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST post-credit scene explained
I’m sure that a lot of you watched the brilliant X-Men: Days of Future Past this weekend, and if you know anything about comic book movies, you knew that you had to stay behind for the traditional post-credits scene. And boy, did X-Men: Days of Future Past deliver! Well, that is if you actually knew exactly what/who it was you were looking at. …
Extras! 21 May 2014
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X-MEN and FANTASTIC Four will not take place in a shared universe after all
Ever since Marvel started doing their thing to much fanfare and mountains of box office greenbacks, every other studio in Hollywood with superhero rights suddenly started coming down with a very contagious case of “shared universe-itis”. Fox was no exception, with veteran comic book writer Mark Millar being brought in 2012 to turn their X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises into a cohesive whole. …
New Fantastic Four: Just add grit
Grit. It all comes down to grit these days. Batman has it, Superman has it, and now it looks like Josh Tranks’ highly anticipated and at times controversial reboot of the Fantastic Four will also have it. Producer Simon Kinberg has said the movie is going to be far more real and gritty “It’s a much more grounded, gritty, realistic …
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