Syndicate Superhero Movie Roundup: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2, AGENT CARTER, THE WOLVERINE

The Columbia Pictures film, starring Andrew Garfield as the title hero opposite actor Jamie Foxx as the new villain, Electro, is expected to make its arrival at the San Diego Comic Con next week. The film also stars Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti, Dane DeHaan, Sally Field and Martin Sheen. The story will focus on character Peter Parker balancing life between high school and fighting crime as New York’s friendly neighborhood web-slinging superhero, conflicted between his feelings for love interest, Gwen Stacy, and keeping the promise he made in the first film to her father, played by actor Dennis Leary.

Recent reports also concluded that the character, Mary Jane Watson, once cast for actress Shailene Woodley, will not be included in the film.

The next two Amazing Spider-Man movies will be released on June 10, 2016 and May 4, 2018. You can few more photos by clicking HERE and HERE.

Also making its way to comic-con is an upcoming shortfilm starring actress Hayley Atwell in a reprisal of her role from the 2011 Marvel film, Captain America: The First Avenger as Agent Peggy Carter in the new Marvel One-Shot, Agent Carter. The shortfilm will also see actor Dominic Cooper back in the role of scientist and innovator Howard Stark, father of Tony Stark, the man who would become Iron Man in the Marvel canon. No info yet on where Agent Carter will debut, but it is slated to appear on the upcoming home release of Iron Man 3 this September.

You can read more about the developments over at Entertainment Weekly.

In the meantime, Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier has a new poster out this week. The film be releasing on April 4, 2014, as per Phase Two, the next slate of Marvel films to be released between later this year and next year.

Finally, two new clips from director James Mangold‘s July 26 release of The Wolverine are now online, featuring actress Svetlana Khodchenkova as the deadly femme fatale, Viper, in addition to Logan facing off against Shingen Yashida, played respectively by actors Hugh Jackman and Hiroyuki Sanada. The film will focus on Logan’s life after being an X-Man, as he spirited away to Japan by way of an old friend whose life he saved back in World War 2 as a P.O.W.. On top of dealing with the ghosts of his past, it is then that Logan will be forced to deal with his own mortality in the face of deadly new enemies.

For a recently released featuette for the character, Viper, click HERE.

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