Marvel Weekly News #5

This was a big week for Marvel, especially on the television front. Agents of SHIELD season 2 premiered on Tuesday with a different look. We also got news on Adrianne Palicki as Mockingbird, a Hawkeye solo movie, new casting for Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy DVD release, and a new rumor about Avengers 3.

Shea Whigham Added to Agent Carter Cast

Early this week Marvel announced a new addition to the cast of Agent Carter. Shea Whigham has been cast as Roger Dooley, the chief of the SSR. Whigham has recently had roles in Boardwalk Empire, True Detective, Non-Stop, The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, and Silver Linings Playbook.

Hawkeye does not want a solo movie

In an interview this week with MTV, Jeremey Renner revealed that unlike fans, he is not in a rush for a solo Hawkeye movie. Renner is one of the busiest actors around. He is involved with the Bourne franchise, Mission Impossible franchise, and Hansel & Gretel movies. Not to mention Avengers: Age of Ultron and very likely a role in Captain America 3.

Agents of SHIELD returns

Season 2 of Agents of SHIELD kicked off on Tuesday. "Shadows" had a lot to deal with like introducing new characters and answering questions. I thoroughly enjoyed the premiere and you can read my review of it here. Ratings wise it was down 58% from the season 1 premiere, but that should not be a huge cause for concern. Season 1 came directly after The Avengers so the amount of anticipation and excitement for the show was much higher than it is now. Hopefully as the show continues to improve it will draw in new fans and old that may have left at the beginning of season 1.

First look at Mockingbird

Marvel and Entertainment Weekly gave us our first look at Adrianne Palicki as Mockingbird in Agents of SHIELD. As you can see in the picture, her look has changed from the classic comic look. Her back story has also reportedly changed. This next piece of information could be considered a spoiler so read if you dare. In Agents of SHIELD Bobbi Morse will reportedly start off as a HYDRA agent before eventually turning to help SHIELD. We will get our first live look at Adrianne Palicki as Mockingbird in episode 5.

Guardians of the Galaxy DVD release

Amazon.com allowed fans to start pre-ordering Guardians of the Galaxy for DVD and Blu-Ray. With that, they revealed that the cosmic hit will be available to buy everywhere on December 9th. James Gunn took to twitter to confirm the release date and also said there will be plenty of extras and commentary packaged along.

Will Avengers 3 be a 2-part movie?

We got another new rumor about Avengers 3 on Friday. According to The Daily Marvelite and their sources, Marvel is considering breaking Avengers 3 into an epic 2-part adventure. This makes a lot of financial sense for Marvel and is something many have been speculating since Marvel announced their slate of movie dates. Making Avengers 3 a 2-part movie would give Marvel the ability to kill off Captain America and Iron Man in part 1 when their contracts would expire, then introduce new plot points and characters like the Black Panther in July and November before Avengers 3.5 hits theaters in May 2019 with the possible help of the Guardians to take down Thanos.

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