Recent content by Dan of Hats

I think there's potential for some interesting stuff you could explore with Hawkeye in a Netflix-style series - everyone rags on the guy for being boring or uninteresting, but that's only because he co-stars with such outlandish characters. Give him a good writer and explore a story where we...

So between April and July, we get the conclusion of Agents of Shield season 2, Daredevil, The Avengers 2, and now what is shaping up to be a rather enjoyable Ant-Man film, which I was fully prepared to write-off as the first Marvel movie I really had no interest in seeing before seeing the...

Wow, I'm honestly a little surprised at how "meh" the reception has been for this confirmation. I mean, no one is saying he's a bad actor at all, quite the opposite in fact, but there's an awful lot of opinions being voiced that seem to feel he won't do the role justice in some way. I figured...

OK, I'm confused. Why do they think, of all the ideas out there, that Robin Hood is the setting to base a shared universe of films around? Part of the reason it worked so well in Marvel, beyond the effort made to find good actors to inhabit the roles, good directors to make the films etc., was...

That's actually quite reassuring; if it's a horror director at the helm, I'd rather it was one who didn't rely on the very samey tropes that modern horror films seem to exhibit so much of. Marvel does have a nice record (for the most part) of picking directors you might not expect to work on big...

With the House of Mouse looming over their shoulders? I can't see that happening, and to be honest I don't really mind that at all; gory, shock-horror stuff isn't the kind of thing I associate with Doctor Strange, or at least the more memorable stuff I've read of his. Strange is about mystery...

I've always loved Doctor Strange as a character; I'm typically into most characters that have to work for their powers somehow rather than being born with them or bestowed through random chance or destiny (like Iron Man, or Batman). Being one of a small handful of occult-style heroes in the...