Kick-Ass – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com Entertainment News, Celebrities and Fandoms Thu, 03 Jun 2021 12:25:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.geekfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-Geekfeed-Favicon-White-32x32.png Kick-Ass – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com 32 32 Jupiter’s Legacy Cancelled After One Season? https://www.geekfeed.com/jupiters-legacy-cancelled-after-one-season/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 12:25:29 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=59806 With Amazon’s success with The Boys, it looked like Netflix’s gritty superhero property was going to be Mark Millar’s Jupiter’s Legacy. After one season though, it looks like the series has effectively been cancelled—or has it?

As per Variety, the cast of Jupiter’s Legacy has been freed from their contractual obligations, implying that the show has been cancelled, but at the same time, Netflix has approved the series Supercrooks which is set in the same world as JL; this time, however, it will be following the supervillains in lieu of the heroes.

If anything, the first season of Jupiter’s Legacy is being referred to as an ‘origin season’ and the series is said to be adapting a more anthology style moving forward. Millar said about the upcoming show:

To do something exclusively focused on the villains they fight just feels incredibly fresh as we explore what it’s like to be a bad guy in a world crawling with good guys who want to put you in jail. ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ is a vast and rich space with lots of characters to mine and so I’m happy to share that our next step here is a live-action version of the ‘Supercrooks’ comic I created with Leinil Francis Yu a few years back.

If anything, Millar still opens the door for the cast of Jupiter’s Legacy and says, “We’re confident we’ll return to it later and just want to say thanks to you guys for your continued support and to the cast and crew who made this look so great.”

With Invincible already making the R-rated superhero property feel a tad redundant, it seemed that Jupiter’s Legacy was going to be more of the same. With this new direction though, it’s possible we could have a more interesting approach to this world moving forward.

Supercrooks is set to premiere sometime later this year, but you can catch Jupiter’s Legacy now available on Netflix.

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Former Avenger Aaron Taylor-Johnson Cast as Kraven the Hunter https://www.geekfeed.com/former-avenger-aaron-taylor-johnson-cast-as-kraven-the-hunter/ Fri, 28 May 2021 04:28:29 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=59709 A lot of people were disappointed that Aaron Taylor-Johnson didn’t make any kind of Quicksilver cameo in WandaVision, but it looks like the Kick-Ass star is going to be coming back to Marvel in another way.

As per The Wrap, Taylor-Johnson has been cast as Kraven the Hunter in planned solo movie by Sony. We don’t have any details when it comes to the plot, but Kraven the Hunter is said to be the ‘next chapter of Sony’s universe of Marvel-licensed characters.’ The film will be directed by J.C. Chandor with a screenplay coming from Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Richard Wenk.

In the comics, Kraven is considered to be one of Spider-Man’s most formidable villains. Essentially, he’s an obsessed big-game hunter who had his eyes set on Spider-Man, even going so far as to actually kill him. We don’t know what Taylor-Johnson’s take on the character can be, but seeing as he’s shed his ‘wimp’ image from Kick-Ass, it’s going to be interesting to see him go full-villain against someone like Tom Holland’s Spider-Man.

We don’t know what Sony’s Spider-Verse’s connections will be to the larger MCU, but with the new deal between Sony and Disney, it’s possible that the two universes can be more connected moving forward. While this could mean some confused casting with Taylor-Johnson’s Quicksilver, I think Marvel is just eager to not mention it—just like with Gemma Chan appearing in both Captain Marvel and Eternals as different characters.

Kraven the Hunter is set for a release on Jan. 13, 2023.

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