by Kevin P. Sullivan 6 mins ago

The future of “Prometheus 2″ has been uncertain in the last few months, especially after director Ridley Scott chose “The Martian” as his next project. Based on what we’ve previously heard about the potential sequel, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace would reprise their roles, but that’s pretty much all we know.

When I sat down with Michael Fassbender to talk about his new movie “Frank,” in which he wears a papier-mache head most of the time, I realized that his character in the indie film is essentially the opposite of where we last saw David in “Prometheus,” only head.

Fassbender agreed and then gave me a little preview of the sequel.

Essentially, his impression what David might be up to breaks down to this:

And just to prove how flexible Fassbender’s peepers are, here’s this:

“Frank” opens in theaters on August 22, and it’s really good.

by Kevin P. Sullivan 23 mins ago

Everyone knows that Aquaman is the lamest member of the Justice League, but it’s not like that’s a really harsh insult. It’s like being the worst flavor of ice cream. It’s still ice cream.

Anyway, a Detroit radio station was “a little bit disparaging” toward the king of Atlantis (via /Film), so Zack Snyder, who’s currently filming “Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice” in the city called in to give the DJs what for.

“I don’t want to give anything away about the movie or anything like that, but Aquaman has some cool abilities,” Snyder said. “People are like, ‘Oh what? Does he talk to animals? Cause that seems like what he does. Or fish?’”

Don’t let the enthusiasm of “some cool abilities” fool you. Aquaman can kill Superman.

“The cool thing with Aquaman is he’s Triton, so you have to realize that could cut the flesh of Superman if they came in contact,” Snyder said. “That’s a thing that’s in the canon. He’s super strong cause of course he can exist at these super deep depths, so when he comes up here he’s crazy strong.”

Snyder sure is strongly defending a hero that’s only rumored to be in his movie. What gives?

“Anyway, not to say he’s in my movie or anything like that but he has the potential to be bad ass. That’s all I’m saying,” he said.

You hear that, guys? Don’t say anything bad about Aquaman, or he’s liable to use his some cool abilities on ...

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by Kevin P. Sullivan 7 mins ago

One of the many things that sets “Guardians of the Galaxy” apart from its summer movie peers is that it uses more practical, physical sets than the modern blockbuster.

For director James Gunn, having those sets, especially the one for the enormous prison break sequence, made a huge difference.

“The prison in ‘Guardians’ is called the Kyln,” Gunn told us. “The Kyln was an actual practical set composed of 350 thousand pounds of steel. The only way we could afford to build the set was because we went in, we built it, and then we melted it all down and sold it afterwards back as steel.”

The extra effort was worth it, according to Gunn, since most summer movies wouldn’t have bothered.

“It was an amazing, practical set. I think most movies that you see that are big movies these days use sets like that are almost always green screen,” he said. For us, we tried to build as much stuff as we possible could.”

“Guardians of the Galaxy” is in theaters now.

by Kevin P. Sullivan 1 min ago

For as weird as the original comic books are, it’s amazing that the new “Guardians of the Galaxy” film is as faithful to the source material as it is.

There’s the Kree, the Nova Corps. Hell, there’s even a severed Celestial head. But for every piece of the books that the movie incorporates, there are a few places where “Guardians of the Galaxy” diverts from the cosmic comics.

Here are the biggest changes made to the characters, setting and mythology in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

Minor spoilers!

Kyln

Not that the cinematic version of Marvel’s space prison was a luxury resort, but the Kyln from the comics is a much darker place. The giant penitentiary on the edge of our universe is more of a city than a cell block, as we see in the movie. Inmates there are essentially receiving a slow-motion death sentence, since most don’t survive three years.

This is where Marvel reintroduced the world to Peter Quill. The cosmic hero had turned himself in after playing a role in the destruction of a lunar colony, a sacrifice that saved countless others. While in Kyln, Quill added cybernetic enhancements to his face, which the Kree later removed when forming the proto Guardians of the Galaxy.

But more on that later.

Ronan the Accuser

Though the earliest incarnations of the Kree enforcer portray him as the tyrannical villain Lee Pace plays in the movie, when Marvel revived the cosmic side of their universe with the ...

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by Kevin P. Sullivan 1 min ago

The teaser at the end of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” not only set up the villain for “X-Men: Apocalypse,” but also his acolytes, the Four Horsemen.

Readers who know the rotating quartet of villains from the comic books are likely familiar with a few of the group’s most famous members, arguably chief among them, Warren Worthington III, a.k.a. Angel, who served as Death for Apocalypse.

But since Ben Foster appeared as Angel in “X-Men: Last Stand,” set during the modern day, does that rule him out of the ’80s-set “Apocalypse”?

Not quite, says writer Simon Kinberg.

When I spoke with Kinberg at San Diego Comic-Con, he first made clear that they haven’t announced who the Four Horsemen will be, but he did explain how the implications of “Days of Future Past” open up the possibilities for the roster.

“I would say in terms of making any character decisions on ‘Apocalypse’ is, we set back the clock on ‘Days of Future Past,’ so a lot could have changed from that point in 1973 forward, meaning people could have been born earlier,” Kinberg said. “The whole world changed after those events. Things that were represented even ‘X1′ and ‘X2′ and ‘X3′ wouldn’t have happened in quite the same way.”

So that means Worthington could have been born earlier after “Days of Future Past” or even look entirely different.

Either way, it means that Archangel could ride with Apocalypse when the next “X-Men” movie hits on May 27, 2016.