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Does a Chris Evans Captain America Return Undermine the Avengers: Endgame Finale?

This article contains spoilers for Avengers: Endgame and several Marvel Comics storylines. Few big screen superheroes ever get perfect endings. Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne got one in The Dark Knight Rises, albeit one fans weren’t particularly pleased with. Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark went out in heroic fashion during Avengers: Endgame, but it was bittersweet and at the cost of his life. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine got a haunting sendoff in Logan. And Chris Evans, the most successful actor to bring Steve Rogers to life on screen, also got a perfect moment to put an end to Captain America’s story, traveling…
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The Boys: Chris Evans Homelander Deepfake Has Internet Conflicted

This article contains spoilers for The Boys Season 2, Snowpiercer and Knives Out. A new deepfake that shows us what Chris Evans would look like as Homelander over on Amazon’s smash hit series The Boys has prompted a discussion online about whether the Captain America star would be able to nail the villainous role or not. Evans, who played Steve Rogers across three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has certainly been no stranger to playing against type in the past. Last year, we saw him as the murderous Ransom Drysdale in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, and he was almost…
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Netflix Movie The Gray Man Nabs Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, the Russo Brothers and a Big Budget

Netflix has revealed plans for its most ambitious movie project yet, tapping Avengers: Endgame conjurers Joe and Anthony Russo to direct an action-packed thriller that has two major headliners in Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, along with an estimated budget of $200 million! The Gray Man, an adaptation of Mark Greaney’s 2009 spy novel of the same name, will not only see the esteemed Russo Brothers serve as directors and producers via their AGBO shingle, but has locked in a duo of co-headliners in Gosling and Evans, reports Deadline. The streaming giant is designing the film to launch a prospective…
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Gareth Evans Next Movie Will be an Action Thriller set at Christmas

With Gangs of London out now in full on Sky Atlantic and Cinemax, and generating a lot of great buzz, it’s no wonder eyes are on what co-creator Gareth Evans will do next. While speculation is rife as to whether Gangs will get a second season, Evans has been working on a different project in lockdown. “I’ve been developing a film while we’ve been in post-production. All of my energy and all of my thinking has been on the film at the moment,” he says, chatting to Den of Geek on Zoom from the back garden of his house.  “Hopefully…
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Deathstroke Solo Movie Details Revealed by Gareth Evans

In the final moments of the perplexing chaos that was 2017’s Justice League, True Blood actor Joe Manganiello was introduced as supervillain Deathstroke, recruited by Lex Luthor for vengeance against the likes of Ben Affleck’s Batman. Indeed, a solo DCEU Deathstroke movie was in the works at Warner Bros, set to bring the iconic character’s origin story to life on the big screen, and The Raid director Gareth Evans was attached to direct. “I was actually quite enthused and excited about [Deathstroke] back in the day, when it was first pitched to me,” recalled Evans with Yahoo while promoting his…
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Beauty and the Beast Disney+ Prequel Series Set with Luke Evans and Josh Gad

Disney+ has already proven itself as an industry-altering streaming distribution pipeline for the monolithic Mouse House’s myriad properties, and it appears that 2017’s live-action $1.2 billion worldwide-grossing hit, Beauty and the Beast, is set to be the next example of this notion, proving that shows can be mined from the most unlikely of places. Luke Evans and Josh Gad are locked in to reprise their roles – as Gaston and LeFou, respectively – in an untitled live-action limited-run prequel television series that’s set for a Disney+ streaming run, as THR reports. The series, set at ABC Signature Studios, will manifest…
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Chris Evans Recalls “Begging” for Knives Out Role

Chris Evans so fully inhabited the role of Captain America during the near-decade he helped prop up the Marvel Cinematic Universe juggernaut that he ended up spending his downtime fighting bad guys online, too. The unequivocal cinnamon roll emerged from the relentless process of blockbuster junkets, red carpet grillings, tabloid rumblings and angry 3am tweets both uncancelled and mostly unscathed, unlike some of his co-stars, but after finally passing on Steve Rogers’ shield and leaving the MCU behind, who would immediately cast him against type as the kind of villainous rich prong who uses “SJW” as an insult? Well, Rian…
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