After Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. pretty much stopped referencing the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe and became its own separate entity. It was also around this time shows like Daredevil and Luke Cage seemingly remained trapped in a post-The Avengers world and never really moved beyond that (not referencing the Sokovia Accords, for example). 

In an interview with the AV Club, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. executive producers Jed Whedon and Jeffrey Bell were asked whether they were ever stopped from doing anything in the series, and the former started by recounting a fun plan for Enver Gjokaj following his return as Daniel Sousa. 

“There was talk about Sousa having to do a detour undercover as a cop to fight in the streets in Avengers because Enver was in that film [as a police officer],” he explains, “but there was enough timeline problems. [Laughs.]”

That could have been a lot of fun for fans, but the conversation took a different turn when Whedon revealed Marvel Studios changed course on one character, in particular.

“We had a lot of ideas where we were—and I’ll say this, I don’t care—we were given the green light originally to use certain characters from Marvel, and started to break story based on those characters—[Coughs.] MODOK—and then they retracted it,” Whedon said of Marvel Studios. “So there were a bunch of things that were going to get a little batshit crazy that were above our pay grade, in terms of the toys we were allowed to play with.”

That could be taken as a sign that M.O.D.O.K. will indeed be part of Ant-Man 3, but also an indication that, as time went on, Marvel Studios started limiting who the show could borrow from the comics. 

There will, of course, be some fans who get upset about this, but M.O.D.O.K. on a TV budget? You remember Deathlok, right? Still, it will be interesting to see if the producers reveal any more…

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Entertainment Weekly reveals that Spider-Man: Miles Morales is set during winter one year after the events of Spider-Man, and it follows the young hero in Harlem as his home risks being torn apart by a war between an energy corporation and a criminal organisation armed with advanced tech. 

Despite being smaller in scale, the game’s creative director Brian Horton explains: “This is a full arc for Miles Morales that started in Spider-Man. We really are completing this hero’s coming of age in our game. It is a complete story. [We] realized that, with a little bit more of a compact storytelling style, we could tell a very emotionally impactful story that would fit really well as an experience that would take Spider-Man 1 and [Miles Morales] and do justice to this character.”

Fans can expect a very different Spider-Man when they take control of Miles, thanks to new animations, movements, mechanics, and powers (which include invisibility and bioshock). 

Asked about Miles’ transformation into this superhero, Horton explains that his is “more so born out of family. What I think is really compelling about Miles as a character is he has friends that he could actually let into his world — his human world and his Spider world. He’s a little different in the way he approaches it.”

The article also mentions that Miles very nearly didn’t have a leading role in Spider-Man as his appearance there was originally going to be saved for a post-credits scene. However, Insomniac decided it was important for us to get to know him as a character before getting to take control of him. 

Check out a new shot from the PlayStation 5 game below:
 

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Last month, Ray Fisher took to Twitter to call out Joss Whedon for what he perceived to be “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” behavior on the set of Justice League, while also accusing Geoff Johns and Jon Berg of “enabling” the director.

Fisher didn’t go into any more detail at the time, but did promise to elaborate at a later date, and the Cyborg actor has now followed up with a damning statement on then DC chief creative officer Geoff Johns.

“During the LA reshoots for Justice League, Geoff Johns summoned me to his office to belittle and admonish my (and my agent’s) attempts to take grievances up the proper chain of command,” Fisher said in his Tweet. “He then made a thinly veiled threat to my career.”

Previous reports have suggested that Johns practically rewrote Chris Terrio’s script while Zack Snyder was still on board as the movie’s director, and he has been accused of “sabotaging” the filmmaker’s vision for the superhero team even before he was forced to hand over the reigns to Whedon.

Whether any of that is true is obviously up for debate, but Fisher’s Tweet is certain to add a lot fuel to the fire.

What do you make of Fisher’s comments? Let us know down below, and we’ll be sure to update if Johns issues a response.

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Cameras recently started rolling again on Jurassic World: Dominion, but it looks like production may be forced to continue without a certain fan-favorite character who we had been led to believe would be returning.

Earlier this year, it was reported that Jake Johnson was set to reprise his Jurassic World role as Lowery Cruthers for the upcoming third installment, but, unfortunately, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may have thrown a spanner in the works.

“I was getting ready to go out and then this pandemic hit and so everything got pushed and the schedule got rearranged,” Johnson told Collider when asked if he’d filmed any scenes for the movie yet. “And now we’re trying to figure it out because obviously I’m in Stumptown and we’re going into Season 2 of that. So we’re figuring out the scheduling and how and if we can make it work. But Colin Trevorrow, the director, is a good friend, we’re old friends and we’ve been talking a lot and we’re trying to figure out how to do it.”

Hopefully Johnson and Trevorrow will be able to figure something out, because the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse actor was a definite highlight of the first movie despite his limited screen time. Johnson also has a fantastic idea for how Cruthers could be reintroduced.

“At one point I pitched that he has like a huge pony tail now and he’s got like an army jacket and he’s kind of going through some PTSD of what he lived through. I wanted the 70s glasses and he’s always smoking a cigarette, but luckily Colin said no so we’ll see what happens (laughs). I was like, ‘Man I think he should be tatted up from the ankles to the ears, he saw a dinosaur attack!’”

If Trevorrow has any sense, he will reconsider!

Would you guys be disappointed if Johnson was unable to return for Jurassic World: Dominion? Let us know in the comments.

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