Welcome to Rumor Has It, Player Affinity’s weekly roundup of highly buzzed-about movie rumors circulating throughout Tinseltown. On this week’s docket, we have some things Kevin Feige, the President of Marvel Studios, said about Iron Man 3, Thor 2, the Hulk, and more.
Disney has been extremely busy planning for 2014 lately; the studio has quickly moved to shift a couple other high-profile projects in Lone Ranger and Steven Spielberg‘s Robopocalypse.
Haven’t gotten enough of The Avengers yet? Well fear not mere mortal, Disney and Marvel are planning a complete six-film, ten-disc collection of all The Avengers lead-ups, the ensemble spectacle itself and a bonus feature disc.
Struck with a dire affliction of perpetuating dourness and an affinity for the ominous, Snow White and the Huntsman is a revisionist fairy tale that wallows in grit and grunge and provides a twist on Snow White you’ve never seen before.
One is the loneliest number, it takes two to tango, but is three a crowd? We all know that modern Hollywood is more or less devoid of unique ideas, but one would think rival studios could, at the very least, resist the urge to each unveil a nearly identical film within months of one another—wouldn’t you? 2012 will soon witness such an occurrence with March’s comedic Snow White revamp, Mirror, Mirror, joining this Friday’s gritty Snow White reimagining, Snow White and the Huntsman.
Jason Bourne is better known for putting people in the hospital (and he killed a guy called The Professor), so it seems his actions have left a wake of destruction even in his absence, as the newest trailer forThe Bourne Legacy goes to show. Seeming to run concurrently and passed the events of the last film, Bourne’s exposée on the assassin-factory known as Treadstone at the end of The Bourne Ultimatum appears to have forced nefarious higher-ups to shutdown the program and fire it’s employees.Among those leaving Treadstone’s payroll is new lead Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross, as it looks like we’ll be exploring the more-super-than-usual soldier’s career both as the program’s top asset, and now it’s biggest target.As for the returning players, we get only glimpses of Joan Allen and David Strathairn but a greying Edward Norton gets some room to stretch and stress out as the new older white guy tasked with finding Cross by ordering around surveillance techies.
Today was a big day to get the lay of the blockbuster landscape for the next few years. With summer 2012 well underway, studios are looking to the future for their next hits—announcements for the sequels to X-Men First Class, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Thor all making news today.
