Unless you are a hardcore listener to The Playlist Podcast, you may not recognize Kate Herron’s name. You won’t, but you should.
15.05.2022 - 19:47 / variety.com
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterSPOILER ALERT: This story discusses the endings of several titles released by Marvel Studios in 2021 and 2022, from “WandaVision” through “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”At the very end of 2021’s “WandaVision” — the inauguration of Marvel Studios’ post-“Avengers: Endgame” slate of titles, collectively known as Phase Four — we see Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) quietly sipping tea by a lakeside cabin, recovering from the traumatic events of the series finale.
As the camera pushes deeper into the cabin, however, we see that Wanda is actually astral projecting as the Scarlet Witch so she can study the Darkhold, a book of corrupting dark magic. Suddenly, she hears the voices of her two lost sons, and the screen cuts to black.
At the time the episode streamed in March 2021, we were left to wonder how that could happen and what Wanda would do next. Fourteen months later, those questions have been resolved in the Marvel Studios feature film “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”: Wanda heard variants of her boys from somewhere within the multiverse, and it causes her to break bad in pursuit of a way to get back to them.This kind of extended — and, for some, controversial — character evolution has been the promise of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since its inception.
Unless you are a hardcore listener to The Playlist Podcast, you may not recognize Kate Herron’s name. You won’t, but you should.
Unless you are a hardcore listener to The Playlist Podcast, you may not recognize Kate Herron’s name. You won’t, but you should.
Will Poulter’s career trajectory has been going nowhere but up in recent years, starting with standout roles in “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” “Midsommar,” “Dopesick,” and “The Maze Runner” films. The upcoming years seem that they’ll be no different, as he’s recently been cast as Adam Warlock in the upcoming Marvel Studios film, “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol.
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If anyone has a right to be jaded about superhero movies, it’s George Miller. Miller posses one of the great what-if superhero stories, having spent several years in the 2000s working on “Justice League Mortal,” a $200 million dollar movie that would have featured Armie Hammer as Batman and D.J.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has greeted his country’s victory at the Eurovision Song Contest with delight.
The long wait is over and its finally time for the Eurovision final. Plenty of acts have gone on in the first half including bookie favourite Ukraine and their performance has blown away Eurovision viewers. The group Kalush Orchestra performed Stefania representing Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy.This has prompted an emotional response from viewers, especially at the end when the lead singer shouted "Stop the war.
“Doctor Strange 2” screenwriter Michael Waldron knows a thing or two about the multiverse. He first burst onto the scene as a writer on the beloved animated series “Rick and Morty” and was in line to become the show’s new showrunner, that is until Marvel Studios came calling asking if he wanted to head up a live-action TV show about Tom Hiddleston’s trickster villain Loki.It was while working on the Disney+ series “Loki” that Waldron was offered the opportunity to take a crack at a few different things all in one project: Marvel’s first horror movie, a Sam Raimi movie and a “Doctor Strange” sequel.
Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch is becoming a key player within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but there was a time when the role left her feeling “frustrated” that she wasn’t being considered for other roles because she’d been typecast as an super-powered action star.