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What Marvel Character Will Vin Diesel Be Playing?

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Vin Diesel (an admitted big comics fan) admitted a few weeks ago that Marvel requested a meeting with him but didn’t offer any more info as to just what that meeting was about. Of course minds began racing about which Marvel movie franchise would the star of THE FAST & THE FURIOUS films be involved in with everything from the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy to Black panther being tossed out there by speculative fans and reporters.
Then Diesel posted the above image along with this message on his Facebook page:

Marvel meeting today… Only the people in the room can tell you what was discussed…P.s. Thanks to Our page, for pushing to make it happen… you know I get tunnel vision with my work… and after that meeting today… wow!

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The Daily Nerdgasm: My Kind Of Fillibuster

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Patton Oswalt‘s appearance on this past Thursday’s PARKS & RECREATION featured oswalt doing a fully improvised fillibuster of the Pawnee City Council using his fan-fiction of what the upcoming Disney version of STAR WARS should be like in a screed of geekily epic proportions. I have to ding him for calling the X-men’s plane a Quinjet though.
But he was right about one thing…when you are looking for A-list super heroes the first name on the list should be Moon Knight.

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The Daily Nerdgasm: The Avengers Get Pixar’d

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Illustrator and blogger Philip Postma put his Google searching and PhotoShopping skills to good sue to create some very cool looking Avengers characters as they could look if done by Pixar. Hopefully the bigwigs at Disney see these images and actually put a Pixar Avengers movie into production STAT! Click onward for more Avengers and go HERE to see more characters (including Spider-Man, X-Men and some of DC Comic’s finest) in all of their pseudo-Pixar glory.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Uncanny Avengers #1

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UNCANNY AVENGERS #1
GRADE: B
STORY BY: Rick Remender
ART BY: John Cassaday
COVER BY: John Cassaday
PUBLISHER: Marvel

SYNOPSIS:
Rising out of the ashes of the (overlong and really bad) Avengers vs X-men miniseries event comes Uncanny Avengers! Captain America has decided that he has not done enough for the mutant community over the years and sets out to rectify that by forming a combo platter Avengers/X-Men team.
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Lets Cast The Joss Whedon S.H.I.E.L.D. TV Show With Whedon Show Vets

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According to the fine folks over at TVLine, this is a casting breakdown of the characters that will make up the Joss Whedon-helmed S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show being spun off from the mega-successful Avengers feature film.
Being the rabid Whedonite that I am, I immediately started picturing Whedonverse actors in the roles.
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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Avengers

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The Avengers
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 94% (Critics) / 96% (Audience)
Directed By: Joss Whedon
Written By: Joss Whedon and Zak Penn
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Synopsis: Marvel Studios presents Marvel’s The Avengers-the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins. (Source)

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