Sunday, September 02, 2018

Marvel Studios exhibition at ArtScience Museum

To celebrate a decade of MARVEL Super Heroes in cinema, Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes Exhibition has landed in Singapore at the ArtScience Museum. Taking you up close and personal to everything from the armour and weapons to the tech to even the surreal, the exhibition is brimming with interactive and immersive elements, and is one for fresh fans alike.

 
       
    
IRON MAN THE ARMORED AVENGER
Step into the unparalleled mind of the ever-brilliant Tony Stark as you enter his high-tech Stark Industries, complete with an Iron Man suit that stands at five metres tall. Watch the display of his plethora of armour via 3D projection mapping.

             
CAPTAIN AMERICA THE FIRST AVENGER
Discover the origins of Steve Rogers, the man who would become Captain America, the first of Earth’s mightiest Heroes. Opening with a mural of Cap, the space is designed to be evocative of the Smithsonian exhibit seen in Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The Winter Soldier.


THOR VS HULK
Ride the iridescent, magnificent Bifrost and arrive in the world of Sakaar, right in the middle of the epic gladiator battle between Thor and Hulk – “We know each other! He’s a friend from work!” – from Marvel Studios’ Thor: Ragnarok. Watch what happens when you get close to the Mjölnir, Thor’s legendary hammer.


DANCING BABY GROOT
Remember that opening scene in Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 where Baby Groot dances with carefree abandon even though chaos is happening around him? The cuteness repeats itself as with the interactive Baby Groot exhibit, where you lead and Baby Groot follows. Keep an eye out for Yondu’s flying arrow, though!


OPEN YOUR MIND
Imagine for a second that you had the ability to bend reality and create portals that can take you anywhere and everywhere, even to the icy, frosty peaks of the Himalayas. Just like Doctor Strange and watch your surroundings morph into the surreal with the calculated movement of your hands.


WELCOME TO WAKANDA
With all its tradition and superior technology, why wouldn’t you want to visit Wakanda? Enter King T’Challa’s world and explore everything from the iconic Black Panther to the gigantic panther cave.


GO TINY, REALLY TINY
Feel the world getting bigger and yourself getting smaller and smaller as you go through the tunnel to Ant-Man’s pint-sized realm and explore a section of Hank Pym’s laboratory from the perspective of an ant.

     
THANOS and the Infinity Stones

Thursday, May 24, 2018

MCU actors who have appeared in DC Comics films Part 4

This list comprise of actors who had appeared in the MCU as well as the DCEU.

MAN OF STEEL


Ayelet Zurer
She played the role of Lara Zor-Van, one of the first few characters to appear in "Man Of Steel", seen giving birth to a baby boy while being assisted by her husband Jor-El. Their son Kal-El was the first ever naturally born Kryptonian child in centuries, since all other Kryptonians had been genetically created. Lara was forced to watch Jor-El be killed by Zod right after watching Jor-El being transported out of Krypton on a pre-programmed spacecraft. Soon after Zod and his rebels were sentenced to imprisonment in the Phantom Zone, Lara watches from her home as Krypton explodes. Her son Jor-El would go on to be raised by a human couple and named Clark Kent, and take on the mantle of Superman.
MCU: Ayelet played the role of Vanessa Marianne, owner of the Scene Contempo art gallery in Manhattan and love interest of Wilson Fisk in "Daredevil".


Laurence Fishburne
Fishburne played the role of Perry White, top CEO of The Daily Planet and boss to Lois Lane and Clark Kent. He reprised the role in Batman v Superman.
MCU: Fishburne portrays the role of Bill Foster, an old friend of Pym who was once his assistant on Project Goliath, and surrogate father to Ava Starr aka Ghost. His younger self was portrayed by Laurence's own son Langston Fishburne.
Other role: Fishburne voiced the role of Norrin Radd the Silver Surfer (portrayed by Doug Jones via motion capture) in "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer".

BATMAN v SUPERMAN


Scoot McNairy
He portrayed the role of Wallace Keefe former employee of Wayne Enterprises who had his legs amputated after a steel beam crushed them following the brawl between Superman and Zod. He holds Superman responsible for his handicap and the death of his daughter, and some 2 years later goes to vandalize the Superman statue, being arrested by the Metropolis police as a result. Lex Luthor approached Wallace and promised to pay bail if Wallace agreed to testify against Superman at an upcoming hearing. He was given a brand-new wheelchair by Lex Luthor and was present at the congressional hearing where Senator June Finch questions Superman on the validity of his actions. A bomb concealed in the wheelchair detonated and killed Wallace along with everyone else in the room, with the exception of Superman.
MCU: Scoot portrayed the role of Jackson Norriss in the Marvel One-Shot titled "All Hail The King", Norriss is a member of the Ten Rings terrorist organization posing as a documentary filmmaker whose true motive is to break Trevor Slattery out of prison so he can meet the actual Mandarin and possibly answer for his impersonation.


Callen Mulvey
He portrayed the role of the KGB Anatoli Knyazev in "Batman v Superman". He was in Africa doing business with African terrorists, but double crossed them by killing his men when Superman arrived to the scene, following Luthor's orders. Bruce Wayne has kept tabs on him and when he was delivering the Kryptonite to Luthor, Batman chased after him for the Kryptonite only to be stopped by Superman, who has problems with his tactics, allowing Knyazev to successfully deliver the Kryptonite to Luthor. He was appointed by Luthor to kidnap Superman's mother Martha Kent following Luthor's instructions to burn her to death in one hour unless ordered otherwise, and holds her hostage in a warehouse with many armed men guarding the building, only for all of them to be taken down by Batman. The Dark Knight shoots the flamethrower tank he was wearing in order to rescue Martha from his grip, with Knyazev being caught in an explosion and perishing.
MCU: He portrayed the role of Jack Rollins, a member of S.T.R.I.K.E., which is depicted as the counter-terrorist organization under S.H.I.E.L.D.. He along with Brock Rumlow aid Captain America were instrumental in rescuing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from Georges Batroc. Later, it is revealed that he is a HYDRA double agent working for Alexander Pierce. He is present during Captain America, Black Widow and Falcon's capture and is one of the Winter Soldier's guards. He is later incapacitated by Black Widow (disguised as one of the World Security Council members).

SUICIDE SQUAD

Adewale Akinn
He portrayed the role of Waylon Jones, a human born with the disfiguring skin disorder epidermolytic hyperkeratosis that turn his entire skin into reptillain scales and also turning all his teeth pointed. Due to his freakish appearance, Jones was given the nickname "Killer Croc".
MCU: He portrayed the role of Algrim, right-hand man of Malekith the Accursed who augmented his strength significantly while bonding with the armor he wore to his body, becoming the last of the monstrous Kurse soldiers. Kurse went on to free some of the prisoners and kill Queen Frigga, and was later killed by Loki in his homeworld of Svartalfheim.


Kenneth Choi
He had a rather brief role as a Yakuza boss in Suicide Squad.
MCU: Kenneth portrayed Jim Morita, one of the Howling Commandos in Captain America :The First Avenger. He also portrayed Principal Morita, grandson of Jim Morita in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

SHAZAM! (coming in April 2019)

Zachary Levi
In the MCU, Levi portrayed Fandral the Dashing in Thor: The Dark World, and very briefly in Thor: Ragnarok. The original actor for Fandral in the first Thor movie was Joshua Dallas.
He is set to star as the adult form of Billy Batson aka Shazam in an upcoming DCEU film of the same name.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

MCU actors who have appeared in DC Comics films Part 3

The list comprise of MCU actors who have starred in live-action Batman films between 1992 to 2008.

BATMAN/ BATMAN RETURNS


Michael Keaton
Keaton portrayed the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the Tim Burton-directed "Batman" (1989) and its sequel "Batman Returns". He was the first actor to portray the Dark Knight in a serious toned live-action film, donning an all-black suit and equipped with a wide range of arsenal.
MCU: He portrayed Adrian Toomes/Vulture the main antagonist of "Spider-Man Homecoming".


Michelle Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer played the role of Selina Kyle/Catwoman in "Batman Returns". Kyle used to work as a secretary for Max Shreck, who happened to discover the true purpose of Shreck's power plant to drain Gotham of its energy and bring the city under Shreck's control. Shreck pushed her out of a window of his office to silence her, but she survived the fall after being revived by stray cats and vowed revenge, taking up the mantle of Catwoman. Eight of her lives were used up either by falling off a great height or being shot or electrocuted, and yet she had one remaining life by the end of the film.
MCU: She portrays Janet Van Dyne the original Wasp in the upcoming "Ant-Man and the wasp". Janet is the wife of Hank Pym and mother of Hope; in 1987 she sacrificed herself by continuously shrinking to detonate a nuclear warhead and possibly entered the Quantum Realm.

BATMAN FOREVER


Jon Favreau
Favreau portrayed an employee of Wayne Enterprises, walking past Bruce Wyane and Edward Nygma in a very brief scene in "Batman Forver".
MCU: he portrayed Harold "Happy" Hogan, bodyguard and close friend of Tony Stark in all 3 Iron Man films. He was also the director of Iron Man 1 and 2.
Additional role: Favreau played the role of lawyer Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, best friend of Matt Murdock in 2003 "Daredevil".


Tommy Lee Jones
Jones portrayed a campy version of Harvey Dent/Two-Face in "Batman Forever". Dent was the former District Attorney of Gotham City who lost his sanity after half his face was disfigured by acid thrown at him by Boss Maroni. Due to his obession with duality, he earned the nickname "Two-Face", and often uses his two-sided coin to decide the fates of certain victims. In this film, Two-Face was also directly responsible for the deaths of the Flying Graysons, which led to Dick Grayson taking on the mantle of Robin, sidekick of Batman.
MCU: he played the role of Colonel Chester Phillips in "Captain America: The First Avenger". He was initially skeptical about the scrawny and frail Steve Rogers being chosen for the Super Soldier Program. He later became one of the founding members of SHIELD in 1945 after the end of World War II.

THE DARK KNIGHT


Ng Chin Han
Chin Han portrayed Mr Lau, Gotham City's Chinese mob boss and CEO of Lau Security Investments Holdings, a major business in Hong Kong whose success drew the attention of Wayne Enterprises.
MCU: he portrayed the role of Councilman Yen in "Captain America: the Winter Soldier".
Additional role: he also starred as Frank Chen in "Arrow".


David Dastmalchian
Dastmalchian appeared as Thomas Schiff, the fake Guard of Honor who disrupted Loeb's funeral and was later held at gunpoint by Dent. Dent saw Schiff had a name tag which read Rachel Dawes, hence he kidnapped and threatened to shoot him if Schiff wouldn't give up what was going to happen to Rachel. Dent used the coin only to scare a confession from Schiff, but wasn't planning to actually murder him. Batman informed Harvey that Thomas was a paranoid schizophrenic who had served time in Arkham Asylum, and probably couldn't reveal anything.
MCU: he played a close friend of Scott Lang in "Ant-Man" and reprises the role in the upcoming "Ant-Man and the Wasp".


Joshua Harto
Harto portrayed Coleman Reese, an M & A law accountant at Wayne Enterprises who discovered Bruce Wayne's secret of being Batman when he stumbled upon some Batmobile blueprints in Lucius Fox's office, and offered to keep silent for 10 million dollars each year for the rest of his life, but then decided to not speak when Fox reminded him of Bruce Wayne's considerable wealth and influence, as well as his fighting prowess as Batman. Coleman later changed his mind and announced on live television that he pallned to reveal the real identity of Batman on "Gotham Tonight", but The Joker comes by via phone call, threatening to blow up a hospital if Reese wasn't killed within the hour, since the Joker didsn't want Reese to spoil the fun of the battle between himself and Batman. After Reese was saved by Bruce Wayne from being run down by a madman's truck, he gratefully agreed to keep Batman's true identity a secret, and vowed never to speak of it again.
MCU: he portrayed a CAOC Analyst in Iron Man 1 and Iron Man 3.