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'Avengers: Doomsday': Marvel Enlists Hayley Atwell For A Return As Peggy Carter
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‘Avengers: Doomsday’: Marvel Enlists Hayley Atwell For A Return As Peggy Carter

Earlier this week it was reported that Chris Evans would be making his grand return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in “Avengers: Doomsday,” although it is somewhat unclear if the actor would be reprising the elderly version of Steve Rogers from “Avengers: Endgame,’ another variant (Hydra Supreme for example), or simply take another role (Multiverse adversary Hyperion?) like co-star Robert Downey Jr. as he’s playing “Fantastic Four” villain, Doctor Doom.

Well, another long-established MCU actor is coming back as the latest reporting from Deadline states that British actress Hayley Atwell (“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”) has joined the event film’s call-sheet. Suggesting she is indeed back in the role of Peggy Carter.

Atwell first debuted the character in “Captain America: The First Avenger” and got a spinoff TV series “Agent Carter” that followed her as the early stages of SHIELD were coming together post-WWII and remained part of the secretive agency. Still, it’s unclear if we’re getting the Agent Carter incarnation or the well-liked variant Captain Carter from “What If…?” and “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness,” where Peggy had taken the super-soldier serum during World War II instead of Rogers giving her those exact powers.

Captain Carter from Earth-383 was ultimately killed alongside most of her cohorts at the hands of Wanda, and if that specific variant returns there is a strong possibility it would be from another timeline/universe. There is also the “What If..?” version of her, where Steve Rogers is the pilot of a WWII-era Iron Man suit built by Howard Stark, another possible variant that Evans could be playing.

In the mainline version of the MCU timeline, the Earth-616 version of Carter died during the events of “Captain America: Civil War” but that likely has changed since Rogers went back in time at the end of “Avengers: Endgame” to be with Peggy and changing those events as they seemingly lived-out their own happy ending off-screen.

Again, I wouldn’t be all that shocked if Scarlett Johansson is the next name Marvel and the Russo Brothers resurrect for “Doomsday” given they don’t seem terribly interested in letting certain actors and characters rest after their graceful exits from the MCU.

SOURCE: DEADLINE

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‘Oppenheimer’: Matt Damon & Robert Downey Jr. Are Joining Christopher Nolan’s Atomic Bomb Movie

Christopher Nolan is returning to World War II after tackling Dunkirk, with a new biopic that will focus on J. Robert Oppenheimer that helped create the atomic bomb for the United States military.

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s development of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project ultimately led to the surrender of the Japanese after two atomic bombs were unleashed upon the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. military, killing countless civilians in an instant and even more than that slowly/painfully over time.

Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt have previously taken key roles on the project and two other actors have reportedly joined.

Deadline reveals that Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. are in talks to take unnamed roles. Damon previously worked with Nolan on the sci-fi drama Interstellar.

Cameras are expected to roll in early 2022. Universal Pictures won a bidding war to secure Oppenheimer after Christopher Nolan decided to part ways with Warner Bros. and the pic has an exclusive theatrical release window. It debuts on July 21, 2023.

It’ll be interesting to see if Christopher Nolan will attempt to document the Pacific War and the Japanese side of the story along with the civilians that were essentially erased from the planet as part of a power move by the United States to end the bloody South Pacific campaign with an extreme show of force before having to invade the mainland of Japan. It was one of the darkest moments in human history.

Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema will reunite with Nolan after working on, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and Tenet along with Oscar-winning Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson (Tenet, Black Panther, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) joining the film too.

SOURCE: DEADLINE

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Robert Downey Jr. Joins HBO’s Vietnam War Spy Series ‘The Sympathizer’ From ‘Oldboy’ Director Park Chan Wook

HBO has secured the rights to an upcoming spy series from Oldboy director Park Chan Wook and A24, an adaptation of Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer. It focuses on the tail-end of the Vietnam War with a French-Vietnamese communist spy and should be a thriller show. The project has landed a heavy-hitting western actor as the rest of the cast will be led by a majority of Viennese actors.

Thanh Nguyen’s novel is an espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States. A worldwide search is currently underway for the lead role and the rest of the predominantly Vietnamese ensemble.

Deadline reveals that Robert Downey Jr. had nabbed a supporting role as various American antagonists in the show, a likely nod to the idea that American interventionism is executed and exploited by faceless cogs.

According to insiders, Downey Jr., is set to play multiple supporting roles as the main antagonists, all of whom represent a different arm of the American establishment — including an up-and-coming Orange County Congressman, a CIA agent and a Hollywood film director, among others.

Park Chan Wook has dabbled with the genre before with John Le Carre series adaptation The Little Drummer Girl that starred Michael Shannon, Florence Pugh, and Alexander Skarsgard. He’ll direct episodes alongside being the show’s co-showrunner with Don McKellar.

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SOURCE: DEADLINE