FEELINGS Daily: What Is the Deal with Marvel Right Now?

What is the deal with Marvel at the moment? The usually well-oiled machine is all over the place. First Robert Downey Jr. gets everyone excited about a big announcement yesterday. What was the announcement? Well, it seems the cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron are going on a media tour. Wow, super surprising right? It’s almost as though they’re publicizing a movie they’ve got coming out… oh wait. I love you, Marvel, but you need to chill.

The Daily Dot has a pretty good article about why Marvel missed the mark – read it here.

As if that mess wasn’t enough, we’ve also been told that there will be no post-credits scene at the end of Age of Ultron. Apparently Joss Whedon doesn’t think he can top the shawarma scene from last time. As someone that reads A LOT of Marvel fanfiction, I would love to see the team go out to eat something else because even though I’m not even the one eating it, just reading about it is making me sick of shawarma. That’s just one idea. Tumblr has some others.

Joss Whedon let the cat out of the bag because: “We want people to know so they don’t sit there for 10 minutes and then go: ‘Son of a bitch! I’ll kill them!’” Well, let me tell you something, Joss, I am probably still going to sit in that theatre until the end of those credits even though I know there’s nothing there because I would really hate to miss out if there was. So I’m going to be pissed even with the warning so you may as well just go shoot something already. (via Entertainment Weekly) 

I also heard some pretty upsetting rumours about Hawkeye in Age of Ultron that I am not going to share because I don’t want to get shot by the Disney sniper. But if they turn out to be true I’m gonna be pretty pissed. Anyway, here’s some Wade Wilson to cheer me up. (via io9) 

Wooop woop “@ScreenSaversID: Foto (leaked?) Ryan Reynolds sebagai Wade Wilson di set film “Deadpool”: @komrikmania pic.twitter.com/DFIqWBVwzL”

— lucky, handry (@LuckyHndd) April 5, 2015

HBO’s standalone streaming service HBOGo is now available! And here’s John Oliver to sell it to you.

OMG this Game of Thrones/The Legend of Zelda mash-up is pretty amazing. (via The Daily Dot)

Carly Rae Jepsen/Nine Inch Nails mashup because why not? (via Mashable) http://mashable.com/2015/04/07/carly-rae-jepsen-nine-inch-nails/

Check out the trailer for this new web series called OTP: One True Pairing. (via The Daily Dot)

What if Avengers: Age of Ultron had come out in the 90s? (via Mashable)

In Other News:

• It seems Arrested Development may be returning for 17 more episodes, according to producer Brian Grazer. (via A.V. Club)
• Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund are returning for Tron 3. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
• Star Wars is getting a digital release this Friday! (via Flavorwire)
• E4 is making two new sci-fi shows. Tripped, created by Jamie Mathieson, which is about two stoners who end up tripping in parallel universes. And Aliens, from the production company behind Misfits, about an alien ghetto. (via io9)
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe is getting its first animated installment. (via io9)

Finally let me introduce you to my new favorite fandom… it’s the Taylor Swift and Kristen Stewart should star in a Grease remake together fandom.

I mean it was a good idea to start with…

… and then it got better.

Then this happened and I have to cry now because this is not a thing.

Author: Undie Girl

Undie Girl (aka Von) has a BA (Hons) Major in Cultural Studies. The title of her honours thesis was “It’s just gay and porn”: Power, Identity and the Fangirl’s Gaze. She’s currently pursuing a Masters of Media Practice at University of Sydney. Von’s a former contributor The Backlot’s column The Shipping News and a current co-host of The Geekiary’s monthly webcast FEELINGS… with The Geekiary.

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