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I could be wrong, but it seems like Hayley Atwell's Grace is being subtly set up to become the next main protagonist after Ethan Hunt.
"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" was filmed from November 2021 to May 2022. The photos in this Instagram post were shot during that time (February 2022), around the middle of the shoot:
[URL]https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ9h5lcOZyE/?hl=en[/URL]
And this was shot in April 2022, toward the end of the shoot (she even mentions her fingernails still still being blue from Nebula makeup due to having shot a scene the day before).
[URL]https://www.instagram.com/p/CcYyepfuKV_/?hl=en[/URL]
Her Instagram feed has photos that she posted during the time the movie was filmed in which she has a thin waist, though. One even has a caption about how her fingernails are blue because she had been filming scenes as Nebula the day before.
Having now seen the movie, I'm curious as to why she seemed to have a pot belly for the entire movie. Gamora and Mantis didn't look that way. It was distracting.
<blockquote>Adam Driver had ran quite a bit from the ship.</blockquote>
Which brings up another question: how did he outrun the dinosaur and get to the hot springs before it?
<blockquote>after Bumble Bee I personally dont like Hailee Steinfeld.</blockquote>
Why so? "Bumblebee" is very flawed due to a lot of its writing being bad, but I found Hailee Steinfeld's performance and the Transformers themselves to be the two redeeming factors. She's a very good actress, and her acting in "True Grit" is especially great (she was significantly better than Kim Darby was in the original John Wayne version).
I do. In fact, I had previously seen a clip of the movie (not knowing what movie it was from), and thought that he was Hailee Steinfeld. When I watched the movie and that scene started, I thought "Hey, this looks a lot like that clip I saw from some Hailee Steinfeld movie." After a little while, I started to realize that it *was* that scene.
Yes, but other characters get killed, including the woman's boyfriend or husband. I don't see what difference it would make in terms of kid-friendliness to have both characters get killed instead of jsut one.
But they killed the man right next to her and he is shown explosing into goo. I don't see what different it would make to the rating to have them both get killed instead of just one.
"It was especially hard to see the point of that speech considering she didn't mention any abortion of her own."
It's hard to tell. She worded her speech in a deliberately vague way that might or might not be referring to her having had an abortion. (I detailed this a few posts above in this thread).
She worded her speech in a very odd manner. Technically, she didn't say that she has had an abortion. I'm wondering if she worded it very carefully to give off the impression that she was admitting to an abortion when she really wasn't.
Here's part of her speech with two parts highlighted:
"I'm grateful for the acknowledgement of the choices I've made and I'm also grateful to have lived in a moment in our society where choice exists, because as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice. I've tried my very best to live a life of my own making, not just a series of events that happened to me but one that I could stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over, sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise, but one that I carved with my own hand.
<b>I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose. To choose when to have my children, and with whom.</b> When I felt supported and able to balance our lives knowing as all mothers know that the scales must and will tip towards our children. <b>Now, I know my choices might look different than yours</b>." But thank God or whomever you pray to that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours.
Now, notice that she first said <b>"I wouldn't have been able to do this without employing a woman's right to choose"</b>, then qualified it by adding <b>"To choose when to have my children, and with whom."</b> Here, all she outright states is that she couldn't have made it to where she has in her career without "employing her right" to be able to choose when and with whom to have her children. She doesn't state <i>how</i> she "employed" her ability to make this choice. Contraception? Abortion? Both? She deliberately doesn't say.
Then she states <b>"I know my choices might look different than yours"</b>. So they "might" look different. So maybe they also might not? And who are the "you" she is referring to? "Might" her choices look different from those of women who chose not to have abortions? Or to those who choose to have them? Again, her wording is deliberately vague. Vague enough that I'm too suspicious to take the speech at face value.
How would Decepticons know that? It seems like their attitude would be better safe than sorry.
And Luke Skywalker was only able to blow up the Death Star because Obi-Wan helped him. But he was still the star.
The script then states that Athena dies stunned to learn that Crystal had read "Animal Farm".
Crystal herself seems mortally wounded at first, but is too tough to be killed that easily. She cauterizes a stab wound in her chest with a blowtorch and makes her way onto Athena's private jet, holding the pilot and stewardess at gunpoint.
She gets a luxury ride back to America, all while eating Athena's caviar and drinking her wine. The pilot and stewardess realize that she is their new boss, and settle into this new status quo. The script hammers the parallel home by flat-out stating that Crystal is the "jackrabbit".
You can read the script here:
<url>https://www.scribd.com/document/421441195/Screenplay-The-Hunt-Damon-Lindelof-and-Nick-Cuse</url>
Here are some choice Athena quotes from the twist reveal portion of the script:
<blockquote>"It was just a <i>joke</i>. An <i>obvious</i> joke. But you ignorami took it literally because <i>nuance</i> and appreciation for <i>satire</i> were bred out when you people started fucking your cousins! I am worth <i>hundreds</i> of millions. I have a <i>doctorate</i>. I’ve chained myself to redwoods and nursed orphans in Zaire! What kind of fucking simpleton would actually believe that I WOULD FUCKING HUNT HUMAN FUCKING BEINGS FOR SPORT?!?"</blockquote>
And:
<blockquote>"<i>Now</i> it is. Now. Because you <i>made</i> it true. Your fucking lies cost me everything and the other fucking trolls <i>believed</i> them and <i>spread</i> them and nothing I said would convince you it was bullshit... so why not just <i>do</i> it?!? This was <i>your</i> idea. Not mine."</blockquote>
After hearing this revelation, Crystal tells Athena that she got the wrong Crystal. She says that she is Crystal <b>May</b> Creasey, and the real originator of the conspiracy theory was Crystal <b>Mae</b> Creasey, who lives in the same county as her, and whose mail she sometimes receives by accident. Athena asks Crystal whether this is true, to which she replies, "Maybe. Maybe not."
After this exchange, Crystal and Athena fight to the death with various kitchen implements. The scriptwriters didn't specify every single move, instead writing that the fight would involve (among other things) frying pans, meat thermometers, knives, a cheese sandwich grill, etc, and would be shot and choreographed in the style of the John Wick movies.
At the end of the fight, the two women seriously wound each other, but Crystal manages to apparently mortally wound Athena. As Athena is dying, the following exchange occurs:
<blockquote>"CRYSTAL: Why’d you call me “Snowball?”
ATHENA: It’s a reference to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” He’s... a pig.
CRYSTAL: Yeah... But why am I <i>Snowball</i>? Snowball’s an idealist. He wants to make the world a better place. That’s why the other pigs make up lies about him. To turn him into the enemy. You should be Snowball."</blockquote>
As Crystal steps into the house (having left her gun in the mailbox), there's a flashback. In the flashback, we see Athena (who is a rich high-society career woman) being confronted by people from the company she works for. They inform her that the phone of one of her co-worker friends was hacked, and a text thread (the one from the very beginning of the movie) has been leaked, and that conservative conspiracy theorists didn't realize that the texts were meant as sarcastic humor, and instead created a conspiracy theory called "Manorgate", which posits that Athena has a Manor in Vermont where she brings kidnapped conservatives to hunt every year. They then tell her that she's fired, and so are the others involved in the text thread.
Back in the present day, we see Crystal make her way into the mansion and find Athena in the kitchen. Athena implies that Don wasn't really a hunter, and she tricked Crystal into thinking he was so she'd kill him. Crystal asks her point-blank whether this is the case, to which Athena replies, "Maybe. Maybe not." Athena then finally tells Crystal why she and the others were kidnapped and hunted. It turns out that the text thread was indeed just a joke, and the Manorgate conspiracy theory was just a nutty theory made up by a kook. And Crystal was that kook.
Due to Crystal's conspiracy theory, Athena lost her job and reputation, and decided to exact her revenge by tracking down the person most responsible for destroying her reputation by making up the conspiracy theory, and punishing her by making "Manorgate" a real thing and making her and other people like her the prey.
While I'm nervous due to the BBC's involvement (they used to be fantastic, but times have changed), I'm hyped for this one as well. Until now, the only live-action adaptation to actually be set in the right era was the Timothy Hines version, which was less than impressive.
I've been hearing some interesting leaks and rumors lately, which may shed some light on the casting process for "Birds of Prey".
Apparently, Margot Robbie's next appearance as Harley Quinn was supposed to be in "Gotham City Sirens", but she decided that she wanted to make "Birds of Prey" her next appearance instead. Barbara Gordon was supposed to be in the movie, but Robbie had her kicked off the team and replaced by Harley Quinn. Warner Brothers has apparently let her turn the movie into her personal vanity project, giving her almost full control.
According to the rumors, she chose "Birds of Prey" because she is afraid of being upstaged by other characters or actresses, and being in "Gotham City Sirens" (which would feature Poison Ivy and Catwoman) would be too much competition. Allegedly, she had a strong hand in the casting decisions for "Birds of Prey", and has insured that anyone who could upstage or distract from her doesn't get into the movie. That's possibly why Vanessa Kirby didn't get the Black Canary role despite being the obvious choice out of all of the actresses on the official shortlist; she would probably have too much of a strong screen presence and is a similar physical "type" to Margot Robbie (light blonde hair, etc), making her too much competition for Robbie's tastes.
Now that I think of it, they might make her race the origin of her name in the movie. Someone might make a wisecrack about her "singing like a black canary" or something, thus giving her her nickname. It would be dumb, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
They've already cast Jurnee Smollett-Bell as the DCEU Black Canary in the upcoming "Birds of Prey" movie. A rather baffling choice, as Vanessa Kirby (who would have been about as perfect a casting choice as possible for Black Canary) was one of the actresses that were officially in the running for the role.
Maybe Katheryn Winnick could be Sue Storm if Marvel ever makes a Fantastic Four movie. But frankly, I'm pessimistic about her chances of getting a movie superheroine role at this point. It seems like everyone is determined not to cast her in such a role (probably because they think she's too old, or maybe because they want to change certain characters instead of casting someone who fits the comic book version). I even wrote a post a while back about how they keep passing her up for multiples roles that she's more qualified to play than the actresses that were actually cast. You can read it here if you're interested:
[url]https://moviechat.org/nm0935395/Katheryn-Winnick/598caea2c34b730011a5db33/Why-hasnt-she-been-cast-as-a-superheroine-yet[/url]