*Some guy named Kevin Pennington has signed on with Marvel Studios to appear in three Avengers and team related films for the studio. Apparently he's on CW's 90210 or something. That's still on? I thought they threw that out with The Beautiful Life garbage a long time ago? No? Pennington will play a SHIELD agent, but a popular known Marvel character. The rumors are that it could be Clint Barton, otherwise known as Hawkeye. This is all mere speculation, though.
*Anthony Mackie(The Hurt Locker
) and Evangeline Lilly(some TV show about an island
) have joined the cast of Shawn Levy's robotic boxing drama, Real Steel. They'll be co-starring alongside Hugh Jackman, who plays a prizefighter who must re-invent himself after robots take over the sweet science. Good to see Mackie continue to thrive after getting snubbed for a best supporting Oscar nom for The Hurt Locker.*Ahh, the A-Team, claiming victims already and it isn't even out yet. Sharlto Copley(District 9
) has been forced to drop out of the Spielberg/Michael Bay produced I Am Number Four. Why? Because he's got some A-Team junkets to attend. I loved Copley in District 9, but would anybody notice if they just got Dwight Schultz, slapped a 'stache on him and trotted him out next to the cocktail weenies? No. That's ok, because the always awesome Timothy Olyphant(Deadwood
, Justified
, Go
) is replacing him. We haven't said much about I Am Number Four on the site, but it sounds amazing even if it is directed by DJ Caruso. Check out the plot synopsis below:I AM NUMBER FOUR focuses on the fate of nine gifted children and their guardians, the sole survivors of a bitter war on their home planet called Lorien, who have settled on Earth under the protection of a charm that means their enemies can only kill them in numeric order. Three of the nine are dead; the novel’s narrator is number Four. The nine children and their guardians evacuate to earth and the protagonist, a Lorien boy named John Smith, hides in Paradise, Ohio, as a human and tries to evade his predators.
