Samuel L. Jackson Plays Nick Fury

Before I mentioned that there might be a chance that Sam Jackson won't be playing Nick Fury in any more Marvel movies because negotiations "broke down." But now it seems that Jackson has signed a long term deal to play Nick Fury for 9 Marvel movies.

Marvel probably made it 9 just to be safe in case of sequels and other Avenger movies that they haven't thought of yet.

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No More Nick Fury?

Sam Jackson said in an interview that he and Marvel Studios are having some trouble with negotiations and that there might not even be a Nick Fury at all for Iron Man 2, Captain America, or The Avengers. He said:

"There was a huge kind of negotiation that broke down. I don't know. Maybe I won't be Nick Fury. Maybe somebody else will be Nick Fury or maybe Nick Fury won't be in it. There seems to be an economic crisis in the Marvel Comics world so [they're saying to me], 'We're not making that deal.'"

Marvel Studios say that they are still interested in having Sam Jackson back as Nick Fury, but I assume that they might not have the money for it. With big name actors taking up roles as the Avengers, Marvel probably is have trouble paying all the actors what they are worth.


[LA Times]

Stan Lee and Joe Simon Talk About Their Heroes

Nothing incredibly new, but an article on USA Today talks about the upcoming Marvel movies. Zak Penn (X2: X-Men United, Elektra, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Incredible Hulk) is currently working on a screenplay for The Avengers.

Stan Lee, 85, creator of the Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man and Nick Fury, and Joe Simon, 94, creator of Captain America, (boy these guys are old) talks about the origins of the next few heroes to make it to the big screen. Here's what they said.

Thor
Release date: Solo film to be released June 4, 2010
Screenwriter: Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend)
Origin: Disabled medical student Donald Blake discovers a mighty hammer that transforms him into his alter ego, the Norse warrior Thor. Lee recalls meeting years ago with Fabio, the romance-novel cover boy, about playing the part. "Someone brought him up to my office to see if he could play Thor," Lee says. "Visually, he would have been good, but in those days we weren't even in a position to do a movie." Lee says Thor "will have to be someone big and strong and kind of blondish. And there should be a nobility."

Ant-Man
Release date: Solo film, but timing not yet available
Director: Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead)
Screenwriters: Wright and Joe Cornish
Origin: Biochemist Hank Pym can alter his size as well as communicate with and control insects. Ant-Man creator Stan Lee recently had lunch with Wright to discuss the direction of the film. "There's never been a hero like this in the movies," Lee says. "I did one comic book called The Man in the Ant Hill about a guy who shrunk down and there were ants or bees chasing him. That sold so well that I thought making him into a superhero might be fun."

The First Avenger: Captain America
Release date: Solo film to be released May 6, 2011
Origin: Captain America made his debut in 1941 as lowly U.S. Army Pvt. Steve Rogers. "We had him peeling spuds," creator Joe Simon recalls. "The government shot him up with a super-serum, which made him the first of what was to be an army of superheroes." Simon and comic-book artist Jack Kirby, who died in 1994, created the character during World War II as an all-American adversary to Adolf Hitler. "We were a war-consumed nation, just like today," he says. "Hitler was a comic foil for our character, and every comic sold out that first year." Simon now suggests that Osama bin Laden might be an appropriate foe for Captain America to pursue. But Captain America more likely will take on his most famous adversary, the Red Skull — a Nazi (later turned Communist) introduced by Simon in Captain America Comics #1.

Nick Fury
Release date: Not intended as a solo film, but character will appear in The Avengers universe in summer 2011
Origin: Lee introduced the character in 1963 in the war magazine Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. "It did very well," Lee says. "But after a couple of years, I got bored with it and wanted to kill it. Years later, I got a lot of fan mail asking, 'What happened to Sgt. Fury?' In those days, there was a popular show called The Man From U.N.C.L.E., so I brought Nick back as a colonel for S.H.I.E.L.D.: Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division."

Hehe, Fabio.

First Hint

When the movie Iron Man opened, everyone started talking about the additional scene after the credits and how I have to watch it. So when I watched the movie, I stayed the extra 10 minutes of credits to see this awesome scene.

When I watched it, Samuel L. Jackson appears and a kid trying to be funny yells out, "Morpheus?" What an idiot. Wrong black guy dude.

Basically in the Samuel L. Jackson appears as the character Nick Fury, and wants to inform Tony Stark about the Avenger Initiative. Here's the clip: