MARVEL PREVIEW
MAKE MINE MARVEL
WITH DAREDEVIL ALMOST HERE, SFX LOOKS AHEAD TO THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS OF MARVEL – AND BEYOND
WORDS: JACK SHEPHERD
This motley crew are coming to cinemas soon.
THUNDERBOLTS*
Release date: 2 May Director: Jake Schreier
Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Valentina Allegra de Fontaine has been hiring anti-villains for some time now. Thunderbolts* will finally see her plan come to fruition, as Yelena (Florence Pugh), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) are hired for a top-secret mission which has them meet Lewis Pullman’s Sentry, though it’s unclear whether he will be friend or foe. Louis-Dreyfus previously teased how de Fontaine is “after power, control, and just generally wants to kick ass.” As for what that asterisk means, rumours say the titular team could be renamed by the time the credits roll.
Ani-Spidey in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN
Release date: 29 January Episode count: 10
Peter Parker returns – but not as you know him. This animated series explores how the webslinger’s life would have been different had Norman Osborn, not Tony Stark, been his mentor.
Hudson Thames voices Parker, while Colman Domingo is a twisted Osborn who persuades his young protégé to do things the wrong way. The show “celebrates the character’s early comic book roots” and sees Parker face off against villains including Doc Ock, Chameleon, Rhino and Scorpion.
Plus, despite this series not taking place on the Sacred Timeline, Charlie Cox’s Daredevil and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk both appear.