Marvel Shows Off First Looks Of ‘Spider-Man: Freshman Year’, ‘What If…?’ Season 2, ‘Marvel Zombies’, ‘X-Men ’97’ And ‘I Am Groot’ – Comic-Con

a Black Spider-Man is now reality.Hoover is biracial — of Black and white ancestry — and stands at 6 feet 2 inches. And the story of his fandom illustrates an important point about New York City’s favorite super-powered wall-crawler: The appeal of the character long ago transcended its original iteration as a white, unimposing, orphaned teenager.The Spider-Man character’s classic costume, complete with wide-eyed and web-patterned mask, is a key ingredient to the character’s appeal across race, gender and nationality.

Anthony Ramos hides underneath a red cloak on the set of Marvel’s Ironheart in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday (August 8).

Did you know that Zoey Deutch had a small role in The Amazing Spider-Man, which was eventually cut from the finished film?

A man who recently scooped a massive £1 million win on the National Lottery after buying a ticket at his local Asda store says he owes his success to his late mum’s advice.

Insomniac Games has confirmed that Marvel’s Spider-Man is now Steam Deck verified, ahead of the game’s PC release.The studio made the announcement yesterday, when it tweeted: “Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is Steam Deck Verified!” Meaning it joins the likes of God Of War as a Sony PC port on the Valve handheld.The changes to the PC port for the Steam Deck haven’t been identified, but players can likely expect some edits to the user interface, so it can accommodate the much smaller screen.Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered is Steam Deck Verified! ✅— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) August 3, 2022This means there’s going to be a portable version of Marvel’s Spider-Man with a number of PC-focused improvements, which were outlined by Sony itself:Marvel’s Spider-Man coming to PC and Steam Deck marks the ongoing strategy of Sony, where it’s bringing its flagship games to PC a few years after they release, in an effort to expand the reach of its premium content.According to Valve, being verified means the game will have full controller support on the handheld, use appropriate icons, play seamlessly from the Steam Deck launcher, support to default resolution of 1280×800/720 and be supported by the Proton system.The PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man is set to release on August 12, with a Spider-Man: Miles Morales port set for a later date.“On behalf of everyone at Insomniac and our close partners at Nixxes, we’re eager for you all to get your hands, mice, keyboards, and GPUs on Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered when it releases on PC on August 12!” wrote Insomniac.In other news, the Halo 2 challenge with a reward of £16,000, that requires the game to be beaten on the hardest difficulty with all skull modifiers – has been bested.

Insomniac Games has made the upcoming PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man cheaper in seven regions, due to the game being “incorrectly priced” when it was announced.Today (August 2), a blog post from Insomniac revealed that regional pricing for Marvel’s Spider-Man has been adjusted in the following seven regions:This has translated to Marvel’s Spider-Man on PC becoming cheaper for buyers in those regions. While the game was originally priced at £54.99 in the UK, the adjusted price means it now costs £49.99.The blog post shares that the game was “incorrectly priced” in the above markets, and notes that no other regions were affected.

CCTV images have been released of a man police want to speak to over the death of a nine-year-old girl who was murdered. Lilia Valutyte was stabbed to death while playing with her sister outside a cafe, on Thursday where their mum worked.

Spider-Man: Freshman Year was given at San Diego Comic-Con this week – and Charlie Cox is officially back.The forthcoming Disney+ series, set to launch in 2024, has promised to be “bringing the heart and charm of Peter Parker,” according to Variety.Having seen the presentation, the publication reports that Freshman Year will feature a “young, comic book-inspired” new iteration of Peter Parker, while Charlie Cox will be reprising his role as Daredevil to voice the Man Without Fear.Nico Minoru, a character from the comics in the Runaways team will also feature, as well as Amadeus Cho who becomes Hulk, a Wakandan student and Harry Osborn.The publication also reports that no MJ, Gwen or Ned – all key characters from the more recent films – will be present.However, Unicorn, Chameleon, Scorpion, Speed Demon, Tarantula, Rhino, Butane, Doc Ock and Doctor Strange will all be present, played differently to the films released so far.Total Film shared images of the artwork for the series – you can take a look here:#SpidermanFreshManYear! pic.twitter.com/1asyvTEGvG— Total Film (@totalfilm) July 22, 2022Jeff Tramell announces Nico Minoru from The Runaways as Peter Parker’s best friend in #SpiderManFreshmanYear.

Charlie Cox is reprising his role as Daredevil in the MCU in more ways than one. The actor – who played the Marvel hero in the Netflix series “Daredevil” and made an appearance in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” – will wear the suit once more in the upcoming Marvel Studios-produced animated Disney+ series “Spider-Man: Freshman Year,” it was announced at Comic-Con on Friday.The series has also been renewed for a second season – titled “Spider-Man: Sophomore Year” – already, with “Freshman Year” dropping in 2024.“We went back to the roots, Ditko-inspired glasses and the color scheme and had him redrawn into an Alex Toth animated style from the ’60s,” said Ryan Meiderding, VP and Creative Director of Visual Development at Marvel Studios.“This is before ‘Civil War’,’ the show’s head writer and executive producer Jeff Trammel added.

Those awaiting several trailers from Marvel’s animation panel at Comic-Con were disappointed this afternoon; of all the various shows in development, the only trailer that arrived was the just-released “I Am Groot,” starring Vin Diesel’s “Guardians of The Galaxy” character. Still, fans looking for details about their favorite upcoming animated Marvel series did receive some new information.

San Diego Comic-Con provided plenty of updates on some epic upcoming projects! The panel opened with a voiceover from «The Watcher,» himself, star Jeffrey Wright, building the hype for fans to see all your favorite MCU characters take on new worlds and new threats in their animated adventures. director Kristen Lepore,  EP and head writer Jeff Trammell, and director Bryan Andrews,  EP and head writer Beau DeMayo and more took the stage during the Ballroom 20 panel to preview their upcoming series and share some sneak peeks at what fans can expect.Read on to see what we learned about some of the MCU's animated offerings coming in the next few months!We haven't seen the last of Baby Groot.

Jordan Moreau The animated side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding even further.After kicking off with the animated series “What If…?,” there are more previously announced shows in the works, including a Season 2 of “What If…?,” “Spider-Man: Freshman Year,” “Marvel Zombies” and “X-Men ’97.” The new shows all got first looks at San Diego Comic Con.“What If…?” explores alternate timelines in the MCU where the popular heroes we know and love have drastic changes, such as Peggy Carter taking up Captain America’s shield and turning into Captain Carter, T’Challa of Wakanda becoming Star-Lord of the Guardians of the Galaxy instead of Black Panther, and Doctor Strange becoming an evil villain named Strange Supreme. Hayley Atwell’s Captain Carter made her live-action debut in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” paving the way for other potential crossovers between animation and live-action.

Today’s big news on the Marvel front may foretell more about the MCU‘s future than any mid/post-credits scene has all year. Disney+ announced today that “Deadpool,” “Deadpool 2,” and “Logan” will arrive on the streaming service in the US tomorrow, July 22.

Zack Sharf Jeff Bridges was an integral part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s kickoff thanks to his turn as the villain Obadiah Stane in Jon Favreau’s 2008 franchise-launching “Iron Man.” Reflecting on his career in a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar winner said making “Iron Man” was “wonderful” but drove him “absolutely crazy” when Marvel threw out the script for the movie on the first day of filming.“It was Marvel’s first adventure into making movies,” Bridges said. “It was so lucky to have Jon on there and [Robert] Downey, because both of them are terrific improvisers, and we spent a couple of weeks working on the script and rehearsing together, because we didn’t like the original script and we thought, ‘Oh yeah, we fixed this, fixed that.’” “Then came the first day of shooting, and Marvel kind of threw out our script that we had been working on, said, ‘No, that’s no good.