Posts Tagged ‘ Nick Fury ’

Okay, Ain’t it Cool has an exclusive on a piece of casting in Jon Favreau’s Iron Man flick that – if true – could be part of setting up the live action Avengers movie that’s been touted lately.

The character in the movie is one Nick Fury.

….

….

And the actor is one Samuel L Jackson.

Shut yo’ mouth!

If this is right – and AICN has a long history of being right – I’m not sure how I feel. On the one hand it’s pretty much what Marvel have been quite obviously after since The Ultimates came out and I’m sure he’ll knock it out of the park.

On the other hand it pretty much scuppers the chances of ever seeing a non-David Hasselfhoff Nick Fury movie starring the real Nick Fury.

The other thing that I’m wondering about is the Avengers movie that’s supposed to be following the upcoming Hulk and Captain America movies. If they’re really trying to tie these franchises together, I can’t help but think they may have problems. Think about three principals that we know of:

Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark.

Ed Norton as Bruce Banner.

Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury.

And that’s not even counting who gets casted as Cap or who else they want to bring into the mix. This is going to be an expensive movie and a major investment.

I’d love to see it but still….

So. Samuel L Jackson is Nick Fury, apparently – read the original article here.

This week’s big book is Captain America #25 – the book that I looked at the cover of here.

Ed Brubaker teases at it- and predicts that it will go into multiple printings here.

And over in Tom Brevoort’s answers to Civil War questions on Newsarama, this came up:

Q: When will we find out who the “Fallen Son” is, if not in Civil War: Fallen Son #1?

TB: You’ll find out before FALLEN SON #1 comes out. More than that I cannot say at this time.

Hmmm…..Fallen Son is due out in a few weeks, so Cap is definitely out before that…

Not only that, but popular scuttlebutt (and how good is that word) has it that the series will actually be called Fallen SOLDIER – even Marvel’s own solicits say that Fallen Son isn’t the actual title

So could Cap be the Fallen Son?

Well if he is – and remember that #1, the Wolverine issue states that the series does revolve around a death – the third issue could be areal snooze as it focuses on Captain America himself.

So who else qualifies as a major character in the MU and a soldier?

Nick Fury, that’s who.

In fact, he’s about the only other character who would fit this. So what if he bites the dust in Cap #25 trying to spring Cap from jail?

Of course…I suppose the solicit for Fallen Son #3 itself could be a fake…gah….