So this is just straight up great. If you don’t know Phil Noto you should seriously check him out, his Black Widow work is beautiful, as is pretty much everything he does.
And if producing this wasn’t brilliant(/sickening!) enough, he drew the black and white the day the trailer dropped. Within hours. As in he watched the trailer then just drew this (the colours followed the next day):
As you almost certainly know, the first trailer for Star Wars Episode 7 arrived last Friday. In the unlikely event you haven’t seen it you can watch it now:
Some people liked it (me!), some people didn’t, but most importantly the internet was aflame with fanart, remixes, jokes, theories, analysis, you name it, and today we’ll have a little round up of my favourites :) As I’ve been unable to blog for the last week or so you’ll no doubt have seen a lot them anyway but hey-ho!
PS: I defy anyone not to get goosebumps at the fanfare + falcon
I’ve had a week off so playing catchup a bit here but I’ll post everything you’ve probably already seen anyway :) (and yes I do have about 10 posts worth of Force Awakens crap, but first…)
Saul meets Mike.
So, they’re really going for it on the casting (as long rumoured):
Here’s the official cast/character list:
Jared Leto – The Joker
Will Smith – Deadshot
Tom Hardy – Rick Flag
Margot Robbie – Harley Quinn
Jai Courtney – Boomerang
Cara Delevingne – Enchantress
Brief aside: Harleen Quinzel is the most ridiculous comic book name ever. That shit is nominative determinism up the wazoo.
Smith’s Deadshot, meanwhile – who Courtney had been rumoured for – is really Floyd Lawton, a hired assassin who claims he never misses. Rick Flag (Hardy) is the son of a legendary military man called upon to lead the squad despite some seriously unstable tendencies. Robbie has taken the role of Harley Quinn, who might be familiar to Batman fans as the Joker’s female sidekick, but who has her own agenda. Courtney, meanwhile, will be Boomerang, whose skill you can probably figure out. Seen as something of a class clown by the others, he’s also been known for racism, though we doubt that will be covered in the film. Finally, there’s Delevigne as Enchantress, a woman who uses her magical gifts for villainous ends.
Not feeling too excited about this, at least not yet, but (as always!) I hope it’s good.
(More at Variety, Hollywood Reporter)
A mash-up of trailers from 2014.
A combination of my intense love for Jurassic Park (still the film I’ve seen on the big screen the most times, it blew my 10 year old mind, and the dinosaurs look more real than any other film dinosaur in the 21 years since) and my intense love for Chris Pratt had me pretty revved up for this trailer.
I didn’t quite leave me the way the Guardians trailer did (probably the trailer I’ve watched the most times), it was cool, I’m still very excited about it but there were a few things that niggle.
That Mosasaur was huge, right? I love that Jurassic World has a SeaWorld section, it’s so perfect, but that mosasaur is just colossal. If it gets a few jabs in about how small a space that huge creature is confined to I’m happy though.
The genetically engineered dinosaur is only a few rungs up from Sharktopus. The films are about man controlling nature, in the first they were trying to limit nature, I guess in this they’re playing God. Hopefully it won’t be too cheesy/crap.
Raptor biker gang? I’m game.