Movie News: The Wolverine, Kick-Ass 2 and Veronica Mars

          I’m back blogging, I know its been awhile since my last review and I know I’ve missed a lot since then so I’d like to try something new a bit of movie news and just general talking about movies.

The first thing I’d like to talk about is all the great trailers that have come out recently specifically trailers for The Wolverine and both Kick-Ass 2 trailers (the domestic(American) and international versions), both these movies look amazing, I’m a huge comic book movie fan and have been following both these films since I heard about them. And I'll be talking about the Veronica Mars movie.

          Let’s talk about The Wolverine first this is the kind of sequel to X Men (3) The Last Stand and X Men Origins Wolverine and potentially ties into X Men First Class, so yeah the fan boys will love trying to figure out the timeline and what’s canon and not, but for people who haven’t seen all the X Men films (read all the comics) it should be easy to follow and figure out on its own as a movie. It follows Wolverine/Logan (Hugh Jackman) after the events of The Last Stand as he comes to terms with everything that’s happened and trying to figure himself out in Japan, where he meets an old friend who’s live he’s saved and wishes to pay off him debt and offers to make Logan mortal. Now there are two versions of this trailer as well, a domestic and international version, the main difference is that the international version is more action orientated and that it ends with the tagline “When he’s at his most vulnerable, he’s at his most dangerous”, which sums up Wolverine brilliantly. At this point I should also mention that as of this film 20^th Century Fox will be tying their Marvel films (X Men and The Fantastic 4) together in a cinematic (shared) universe, in the same vain as Marvel has done with their Avengers films (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America) and this will be headed up by comic book writer Mark Millar. So what that means to both franchises is they could overlap and interact with one another and who knows potentially the Fox and Marvel universes could cross paths in upcoming films, who knows and just a quick mention that Sony own the rights to Spider Man so if all three companies interact with one another who knows what could happen. Ok you’ve either loved reading that or found it very boring but either way here’s a link to the trailer for The Wolverine The Wolverine International Trailer

Next up it’s the trailers for Kick-Ass 2, the domestic trailer focuses more of Kick-Ass

(Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Mortez) joining together with a group of other superhero’s (inspired by Kick-Ass himself) including Colonel Stars and Stripes (Jim Carrey) to face a bigger and badder enemy, an evil super villain team lead by Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin)’s character The Mother Fucker (the villain Red Mist from the first Kick-Ass). While the international trailer follows more Hit-Girls story and her adjusting to a normal life and the death of her father and then her becoming Hit-Girl again. Both versions however make it clear that this is going to be a great movie, if you haven’t seen the original I urge you to go out and get a copy if you can, be warned though it’s a violent film full of strong language throughout, but it’s also one of the funniest and most original Super hero films I’ve ever seen (or read). Here’s the links to both trailers, enjoy. Kick-Ass 2 International Trailer & Kick-Ass 2 Domestic Trailer

And lastly I’d like to mention The Veronica Mars movie. For those of you that don’t know Veronica Mars was a 2004 teen drama series revolving around the titular character initially in high school and then college moonlighting as a Private Investigator and is best known for being Kristen Bell’s break through role and is also somewhat of a cult classic. Unfortunately the series only lasted three seasons and was then cancelled, the series creator (Rob Thomas) then approached Warner Bros. with a script for a feature film which the opted not to produce, but they gave permission for Thomas to seek finance for the film himself. Now to the main point of this article, Thomas and Bell and the rest of the cast of the show took to KickStarter to raise the money for the film, the main reason I’d suspect that Warner Bros. passed on the film was because of the Niche cult following appeal of the series but that’s exactly what has successfully financed their film. So what I want to ask you is what cancelled TV show would you resurrect if you could in either a movie or follow up series, assuming money and studio cooperation were not an issue? Here’s the trailer for the KickStarter campaign if you want to check it out. Veronica Mars Movie