Dominique Thorne

The scream I screamt. The sharp intake of breath. The way I paused the trailer a dozen times to get this screenshot. I’m so pleased and excited. Hail the Black Panther! No idea who this is—I’ve said before, my bet’s on Shuri, but it could be Nakia or even Okoye. Someone even suggested Ramonda to me, which would be super cool, but is probably not the direction Marvel is going to choose to go. Regardless, the whole trailer is running on vibes and just barely showing the Big Fights, which I’m very pleased about, and it seems…

Larson, Parris, Vellani and DiCosta with Kevin Feige at D23 ExpoPhoto: io9/Jayne LyonsYou don’t even realize it but you’ve already seen footage from The Marvels. At D23 Expo Saturday, Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios broke news and showed footage for over an hour straight, culminating with the first ever footage from the Captain Marvel sequel, which also features Monica Rambeau and Ms. Marvel.The footage revealed that the end credit scene of Ms. Marvel, in which Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) randomly appears in Kamala Khan’s…

Image: Marvel StudiosSequels to Marvel films always have high expectations thrust upon them, but none of them have the expectations that Black Panther’s does. Wakanda Forever is an unenviable position, both as the follow up to a critical and commercial success that became the first superhero film to receive a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, and also as a film that has the shadow of lead actor Chadwick Boseman’s death hovering around it.This is something that Marvel Studios and director/writer Ryan Coogler were…

Here it is, the final shot of the Wakanda Forever trailer; a gold-decorated Black Panther suit. Eric Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), who was also known as N’Jadaka, famously wore a similar suit in 2018's Black Panther and was a Wakandan Emperor (as Black Panther) in one of the comic runs. Is this Killmonger, who very much died in the first movie, back again? Perhaps it’s Shuri, who took up the suit in the comics, or Nakia, who (again, in the comics) became an enemy of Wakanda and an ally of Killmonger. Hell, maybe it’s…

With 27 feature films and six Disney+ shows in 14 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe dominates pop culture through its shared comic book worlds. Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness was released on May 6, and the hype train keeps moving with Thor: Love and Thunder arriving July 8. Fans are amped up with anticipation as buzz only grows for its current phase, which hopefully we’ll learn more about during San Diego Comic-Con, coming up July 21-24.The MCU is already one of the biggest entertainment franchises ever,…