‘History of the Marvel Universe’ to retell the entire story
The book will run from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond. As Marvel Entertainment celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, the company is taking steps to ensure that newcomers to the comic book mythology won’t be left in the dark, as creators Mark Waid, Javier Rodriguez and Alvaro Lopez will launch an […]
The book will run from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond.
As Marvel Entertainment celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, the company is taking steps to ensure that newcomers to the comic book mythology won’t be left in the dark, as creators Mark Waid, Javier Rodriguez and Alvaro Lopez will launch an ambitious six-part retelling of the History of The Marvel Universe this summer.
The series is promised to run “from the Big Bang to the twilight of existence” and feature all-new information to explain the definitive version of Marvel’s comic book canon moving forward, including what Marvel describes as “every significant event [and] every fan’s favorite Marvel stories.”
“We’ve seen Marvel histories and Marvel encyclopedias and Marvel handbooks, and I love that stuff. I absorb them like Galactus absorbs planets,” Waid said Wednesday in a statement from the publisher. “This is not that. There’s information here, but there’s also a story. The Marvel Universe is a living thing, it is its own story, and we’re trying to approach it with some degree of heart to find the heart in that story so it doesn’t read like 120 pages of Wikipedia.”
Unlike Marvel’s primary counterpart, DC, the comic book incarnation of the Marvel Universe has, in theory, told one continuous story since its earliest publication, despite multiple minor retcons and rewrites in an attempt to keep the universe contemporary. As a result, any attempt to retell the entire history of Marvel’s comic book universe is at once simpler — there’s only one story to tell, without any do-overs — and more complex, as multiple contradictions may have to be explained, and the sheer volume of material to be covered is greater.
‘History of the Marvel Universe’ is set to launch in July.
Meanwhile, Fagbenle will be joining Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour and Florence Pugh as part of Marvel’s ‘Black Widow’ casts.
The ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ actor O-T Fagbenle is the latest star in talks to join the Scarlett Johansson film, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
He is joining a cast that also includes ‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour and rising star, Pugh, known for starring opposite Dwayne Johnson in the wrestling drama Fighting with My Family.
Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland is directing the project, which is written by Jac Schaeffer. Plot details are under wraps, but it will center on Natasha Romanoff (Johansson), a spy and assassin who grew up being trained by the KGB before breaking from its grasp and becoming an agent of SHIELD and Avenger.
The British-born Fagbenle is no stranger to genre fans. On Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, he plays Luke, husband of Elisabeth Moss’ June Osborne (who goes by the name Offred under a theocratic regime that’s overthrown the U.S. government). He has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work with the cast. He also led the 2015 British crime miniseries The Interceptor.
Black Widow currently has no release date, but it is expected to go into production in June in London.
Fagbenle is repped by Buchwald and Curtis Brown Group.
Source: THR.com