Marvel storyboard artist Grace Liu has gifted her Twitter followers with a blast from the recent past: her first storyboard art for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy animated show. You’ve seen the cartoons! Now see mostly black and white drawings that preceded the cartoons! Try to contain your excitement while you watch these videos: my first in-house storyboards for the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series~ pic.twitter.com/oRgRAdFcmG — Grace Liu (@rawrgyle) August 6, 2017 and more. Drax gets beat up a lot in this episode.

Photo by Gage Skidmore The first major piece of post-San Diego film news dropped via Deadline Tuesday: Jared Leto is currently in early negotiations to star in Sony’s big screen adaptation of Valiant’s Bloodshot comic series and anchor Sony’s five-film plan for parallel Bloodshot/Harbinger film franchises. Not only is Leto well known in superhero circles for his portrayal of The Joker in Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad, he is also an Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild-winning performer – the proverbial “actor’s actor.” With acclaimed turns in seminal films including Dallas Buyers Club, Re

The X-Men have grounds for a lawsuit. The latest trailer for the forgettably-named upcoming action-thriller American Assassin begins with a squadron of new recruits going through a training exercise in a high-tech virtual facility. Hard-light holograms act as attackers, and though they may be projections, the “shots” they fire definitely hurt like real bullets. This dangerous room bears a suspicious resemblance to the Xavier School’s Danger Room, to the point that the wheelchair-bound telepath could probably hash this out outside of court for a fat stack of settlement dough.

Decades before Taken got tooken, Charles Bronson went on a revenge rampage. Liam Neeson had his very particular set of skills, but in 1974’s Death Wish, Bronson had a well-kempt mustache, a dead wife, a hospitalized daughter, and a white-hot grudge. The middle-aged man cut a violent swath of retribution through the criminal underground in search of justice for the female members of his family, and in doing so, spawned a genre of brutal, occasionally sadistic action films rooted in mature masculinity.

Word from The Wrap is that Sony is ready to find it’s lead actor for the upcoming Bloodshot movie. Based on the Valiant Comic, Bloodshot is a nano-tech enhanced soldier created by a shadowy corporation and turned into a killing machine. He was created in 1992 by Kevin Van Hook, Don Perlin and Bob Layton. The film will be directed by Dave Wilson and written by Eric Heisserer.