User blog:LoveWaffle/Dr. Strange Has a Director, X-Force's Apocalypse, and Big Hero 6 Revealed!

For whatever reason, yesterday was a weirdly big day in superhero movie news, delivering three pretty big developments for three completely unrelated movies.



First up, Marvel, as they struggle to find a new director for Ant-Man, have found their director for a Doctor Strange movie in Scott Derrickson.

Derrickson is a director of horror movies, most notably Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, meaning that the Dr. Strange movie will most likely incorporate pretty heavy horror elements, and perhaps even be a lower-budget affair. It's also now very likely that the Dr. Strange movie will be either of Marvel's unannounced films slated for July 8, 2016 or May 3, 2017.

It should also be noted that Derrickson's directorial efforts have been met with tepid reviews, with his highest-rated film only having a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 53 on Metacritic

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A bit of bad news for those of you who like your 90s comics. Rob Liefeld has posted numerous messages on his Twitter account suggesting that the potential X-Force movie has been cancelled.

While he doesn't have any definitive answers, Liefeld is quick to blame the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse for the movie being shelved, stating "X-Force Movie Shelved Because of X-Men Apocalypse." If Liefeld's assumption is correct, that would most likely mean that an X-Force movie was only one of many projects being considered for the follow-up to X-Men: Days of Future Past, and was perhaps announced prematurely (leaked?) before what that follow-up would be was set in stone. It's also possible that Liefeld, who was always the most prominent source regarding the potential movie, exaggerated just how serious Fox was about making the movie from the very beginning.

Some fans are also speculating that an X-Force movie isn't shelved but was instead pushed back to give Cable a proper introduction in Apocalypse. However, with Bryan Singer's future in Hollywood in doubt, it's probably far too soon to speculate about any more X-Men movies.

An X-Force movie being in development was first reported on about a year ago.

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Finally, images and plot details from Big Hero 6 have been leaked.

The image in question is one of the entire team. In case Marvel becomes proactive about this image being out there, I'm not going to upload it myself, but you can see it in the link I provide below. The line-up for the film is still the same, but they don't really look like their comic book counterparts.

Wasabi-No Ginger has a green color scheme, energy blades coming out of his arms, and appears to be African-American. Honey Lemon looks much the same, but with a pink/magenta color scheme. Baymax...well, can see him right up there. Hiro Hamada (Takachiho in the comics) looks like a purple Mega Man. Fred is perhaps the most unlike his comic book counterpart, instead being a small, three-eyed blue reptile that can breathe fire (perhaps this is why the "-zilla" was dropped from his name, also to avoid copyright problems). On the other hand, Go-Go Tomago is almost identical to her appearance in the comics.

In other words, they're a Sentai team.

Then there's the leaked plot details, which involve Hiro's character. His parents no longer play a large role in the story, as Hiro is an orphan raised by his older brother Tadaichi, who goes missing near the beginning of the movie. Since this movie's coming from Disney Animation, I wouldn't doubt that Hiro and Baymax's relationship throughout the movie evolves from Creator and Invention, to Boy and Pet, to filling the void left by his missing family members.

Confirmed details on the film are still relatively scarce, as we only know of a small handful of people working on this. Those people include T. J. Miller, Jamie Chung and Maya Rudolph, who are voicing Fred, GoGo Tomago, and an unannounced character, respectively.

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