Agents of SHIELD spin-off Slingshot announced by Marvel, bridge gap between Ghost Rider and LMD The six-part series will focus on Inhuman Yo-Yo Wednesday 7 December 2016 11:28 GMT With the Ghost Rider story in Agents of SHIELD coming to its conclusion, fans of the series have another few weeks to wait until the AMC show returns. In the meantime, Marvel has announced a surprise web series will be made available online, focussing on the Inhuman character Yo-Yo. Titled Slingshot, the six-part series is said to be set between season three and four and focusses on the character’s ‘secret mission’ from SHIELD. The series will be watchable through the AMC app and begins on the 13 December. Agents of SHIELD will continue 10 January, focussing more heavily on the LMD storyline, so much so that the series is now titled Agents of SHIELD: LMD. LMD - or Life-Model Decoys - have a long running history in the Marvel comics, with numerous popular characters having robotic versions of themselves made.
Meanwhile, questions have arisen regarding the future of Agents of SHIELD following Marvel’s announcement that the previously announced Inhumans movie would now be a TV series. 33 Superhero films set for release between 2016 and 2020 Whether a fifth season will happen remains unknown, but considering how heavily the Inhumans played into SHIELD, it remains unlikely the two will run side-by-side. Perhaps a year out, then series five in 2018? 22 Jump Street and The Lego Movie co-director gleefully tweeted out the trailer for a new movie he says he’s behind: a soapy YA film MoonQuake Lake starring a blue-teary eyed Mila Kunis who has the hots for a wife-beater-shirt cum flannel clad dude, played by Ashton Kutcher. Rihanna is also in it, and a mermaid girl who says “Eeee”. MoonQuake smells an awful lot like Twilight, and if you click through the link below, it takes you to ’s website for the movie. The parody trailer is actually featured in Will Gluck’s reboot of Annie, which Sony is opening Dec. 19, in a scene where the orphan attends a movie premiere.
MoonQuake Lake also refers to a song on the Annie soundtrack performed by Sia & Beck. Whether Lord actually directed the trailer to be inserted into Annie, a Sony rep’s response was “No comment”. Gluck received a special thanks on Lord and Christopher Miller’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Proud to unveil our next project… Catch a sneak peek when you see #AnnieMovie in theaters December 19th. — philip lord (@philiplord) December 13, 2014 Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happyJurassic World Theory: Chris Pratt’s Character Was The Young Boy in ‘Jurassic Park’Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2015 by Peter ScirettaSo this Jurassic World fan theory has popped up a few times over the past year, but with the movie finally hitting theaters it seems to be gaining momentum and I thought it might be fun to discuss. Could it be possible that Chris Pratt‘s raptor-trainer character Owen in Jurassic World could be a character we’ve seen before in Steven Spielberg‘s original Jurassic Park?
Lets examine the evidence and then find out what director Colin Trevorrow has to say about it, after the jump.In Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 film Jurassic Park, Whit Hertford plays a character named in the credits simply as “Volunteer Boy”. The character is a young boy who is volunteering on Dr Alan Grant’s (Sam Neill) dig site who during Grant’s theory about how dinosaurs’s bird ancestry comments that the velociraptor “doesn’t look very scary”.The kid jokes that it looks “more like a 6 foot turkey.” Grant then goes on to scare the kid by telling him how raptors hunt and kill their pray. The presentation leaves the kid a bit scared, and he agrees to show “a little bit of respect”. Here is the whole clip of the early Jurassic Park sequence here:The theory is that that kid not only went on to respect raptors, but he grew up learning everything he could about them. And when it was announced that Jurassic World would be opening, he applied for a position on the island working with raptors.
Remember how Grant showed the kid to “show a little respect” to the raptors. In Jurassic World, Pratt’s character Owen even describes his relationships with the parks raptors as “a relationship based on respect”. You can hear Pratt’s character speak the line at the beginning of this Jurassic World trailer:Chris Pratt is 35 years old, only a year younger than Whit Hertford who played the “Volunteer Kid” in the original Jurassic World. So the age range chronology does fit.I’m not sure where this Jurassic World theory originates but I do know Community creator Dan Harmon (who I believe came up the theory) was the first person to share the theory to a large audience on his podcast Harmontown. Its an interesting and fun fan theory, but I’m not sure it lines up completely.The production notes for the film reveal that the character of Owen is an ex-military expert in animal behavior who has been hired to work at a secluded research base on the periphery of the main park.
Owen has spent years training and studying the pack of aggressive Velociraptors, “over whom he’s established an alpha relationship that balances the animals precariously between reluctant obedience and predatory revolt.” I’m not sure the military background gels completely with the theory but its fun to consider.So I decided to ask Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow if they had intended for Chris Pratt’s character Owen to be the grown up version of the volunteer kid character from Jurassic Park, and here is what he had to say in response:“I’m not sure I want to answer because the speculation is so much fun. Let’s not kill the fun.”So the mystery will remain a mystery. But don’t ask Whit Hertford, the actor who played “Volunteer Boy” in Jurassic Park, he believes otherwise:for the record, @prattprattpratt is not playing a grown up version of my character in @JurrasicWorld. that role is mine, dammit!— Whit Hertford (@whithertford) June 11, 2015What do you think of this Jurassic World theory?