During Avengers: Endgame, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes travelled back to 2012 to retrieve the Mind and Space Stones. Unfortunately, things went wrong, and Loki managed to get his hands back on the Tesseract, using it to make his escape. With that, the stage was set for a Disney+ TV series which is currently expected to premiere next year. 

That will deal with the villainous God of Mischief travelling through time, only to run afoul of the TVA (Time Variance Authority). However, while you might think this was deliberate planning on Marvel Studios’ part, it turns out that it was a happy accident courtesy of the movie’s writers! 

During a recent live commentary, Christhoper Markus and Stephen McFeely revealed that they only had Loki escape with the Tesseract because it was a “juicy way to upset the heist.” That makes sense as it obviously forced Captain America and Iron Man to travel back to the 1970s, but Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige clearly used that moment as a launching platform for Loki.

It’s unclear whether Loki will still arrive as planned next year due to COVID-19, but here’s hoping, because it sounds like it’s going to be a fun ride – even if the premise came about by chance! 
 

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A new behind-the-scenes photo from the set of one of James Cameron’s Avatar sequels has been shared by the movie’s official Twitter account, and it gives us a first look at the returning Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Grace Augustine.

The Academy Award-nominated actress is pictures alongside Producer Jon Landau and costar Joel David Moore, who will also reprise his role as Dr. Norm Spellman.

Grace was actually killed off in the first movie, and Weaver has already confirmed that she will play a completely different character in the sequels, so this image would appear to confirm that we’ll be seeing flashbacks of some description.

Landau recently confirmed that production on the Avatar sequels was forced to halt because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and we’ve had no word on when filming is expected to resume.

The first Avatar sequel is set to be released on December 17th, 2021, with three more installments following in 2023, 2025, and 2027, but these delays will likely result in the first film, at least, being pushed back.

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While it remains to be seen whether we get a new episode after next week, the next episode of The Flash is shaping up to be quite the big one as the white hot speedster Godspeed returns to cause all kinds of trouble for Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and his team.

However, while he initially goes to Pied Piper (Andy Mientus) for help, it looks like the changes to the multiverse may land him in an unexpected pickle with his former enemy-turned friend-turned enemy again. Meanwhile, Iris (Candice Patton) begins to plan her escape from the increasingly dangerous Mirrorverse.

“Pay the Piper” – (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) (TV-PG, LV) (HDTV)

GODSPEED AND PIED PIPER RETURN – When Godspeed returns, Barry (Grant Gustin) turns to Hartley Rathaway (guest star Andy Mientus) for help. However, things get tense quickly after Barry realizes one of the changes from Crisis is that The Flash and Pied Piper are now enemies. Meanwhile, Iris (Candice Patton) tries to escape the Mirrorverse. Amanda Tapping directed the episode written by Jess Carson (#618). Original airdate 5/5/2020.

Matching wits with The Thinker, who by season’s end had harnessed the powers of all twelve bus metas he created, stretched Team Flash to their limits, but with the help of some new allies, Barry Allen (aka The Flash) and company were able to put a stop to the Enlightenment and save Central City once again. However, with the arrival of Barry and Iris’ speedster daughter, Nora, who arrived from the future admitting to having made a “big mistake,” things are anything but status quo. Will parenthood be the challenge that finally slows The Flash down?

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While being interviewed about playing Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises a few years back, Anne Hathaway mentioned that she actually thought she was reading for a different character when she first met the director about a potential part in the film.

Though she didn’t specify at the time, her comments seemed to suggest that it might be Harley Quinn, and the actress has now confirmed as much while telling an amusing anecdote about switching character mid-meeting once she realized her mistake.

“I came in and I had this lovely Vivian Westwood kind of beautiful but mad-tailoring top with stripes going everywhere,” Hathaway told The BBC. “And I wore these flat Joker-ey looking shoes. And I was trying to give Chris these crazy little smiles.” She continued, “About an hour into the meeting he said, ‘Well, I’m sure I don’t have to tell you this, but it’s Catwoman.’ And I was like, ‘Shifting into a different gear. Now ok, we’re slinky. We’re slinky. And I hate my shirt. I love my shirt, but I hate it right now. We’re slinky.’”

Hathaway doesn’t reveal what led her to believe she was up for Harley, but she obviously made a good impression despite the mix-up because she went on to play Selina Kyle to great acclaim.

Of course, Margot Robbie eventually wound up taking on the role of HQ in Suicide Squad, but one can’t help but wonder what Hathaway’s take on the unhinged antihero would look like.

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Michael Rosenbaum is best known for playing the evil Lex Luthor in Smallville, and he debuted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Playing original Guardian Martinex, a post-credits scene laid the groundwork for a return in the upcoming sequel, but the actor has admitted to ComicBook.com that he had to turn down a similar cameo in The Suicide Squad.

“It was close,” Rosenbaum revealed. “Let’s just say I supposed to be in it, but I had neck surgery and I couldn’t do a role. I couldn’t do the roll because it was too physical at that time, and I couldn’t jeopardize my neck, but there was, there was the role.” Unfortunately, the actor didn’t reveal which member of Task Force X he was eyed for, but is grateful James Gunn considered him.

“I won’t say the role, but there was the role. James is always so gracious and kind and reached out and so I think when the time’s right, look it’s nice when your friends think of you, it’s nice when your friends have a part.”

This isn’t the first time in recent memory we’ve learned that Rosenbaum turned down a big role, as he also refused to return as Superman’s most despicable foe in Crisis on Infinite Earths. That wasn’t due to an injury, however, and was instead blamed on producers offering him a tiny amount of money and no sort of insight into what they wanted him to do in the television crossover. 

With no plans for him to appear in The Suicide Squad, Rosenbaum will hopefully be given the opportunity to reunite with Gunn for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3!

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Thor: Love and Thunder was supposed to be released next November, but with the COVID-19 pandemic bringing Hollywood to a standstill, it was recently pushed back to 2022. Last week, it shifted again, but is now coming our way a week sooner than expected on February 11th, 2022. 

Earlier today, we brought you comments from writer and director Taika Waititi in which he explained why the delay has been beneficial to his creative process. Now, Chris Hemsworth (who has been doing the rounds to promote his new Netflix movie Extraction) has shed some light on what the original plan for the Thor: Ragnarok follow-up was before everything changed. 

“[I was] supposed to shoot Thor in a few months, and that’s sort of been put on hold,” he confirmed during a recent interview with ExtraTV. “But that was gonna be in Australia. So I was gonna be in Oz for a while. Now it’s nice just to be home with the kids.”

Thor: Ragnarok was also shot in Australia, so this isn’t overly surprising. It likely means that much of the movie will again be shot on soundstages, but given the fantastical nature of the God of Thunder’s adventures, that was to be expected (it’s not a franchise likely to use many real-life locations). 

With any luck, life will soon return to normal and we’ll get to see more from Thor: Love and Thunder once work resumes as planned. We’ll keep you guys updated on that front, but for now, we’ll just have to wait that little bit longer to see Jane Foster become the MCU’s Mighty Thor… 

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