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The announcements at San Diego Comic-Con charts Marvel's course
following mega-blockbuster "Avengers: Endgame," which Disney
said was set to top 2009 film "Avatar" by Sunday as the
highest-grossing movie of all time.
Jolie appeared on stage in front of 6,500 cheering fans, along
with other "Eternals" cast members including Richard Madden,
Kumail Nanjiani and Salma Hayek. The story about a group of
immortal aliens will debut in November 2020.
"I’m going to work 10 times harder," Jolie said when asked how
she would approach her role of Thena. "We all know what the task
is ahead, and we know what you deserve, and so we are all going
to be working very hard."
"So I am in training and thrilled," she added.
Disney also revealed it will release "Thor: Love and Thunder,"
the fourth "Thor" movie, in November 2021. Portman, who starred
in earlier films as the girlfriend to Chris Hemsworth's Thor,
will take up the superhero's hammer as a female goddess of
thunder.
"It feels pretty good," Portman said on stage. "I’ve always had
a little hammer envy."
Ali, who recently won Oscars for "Moonlight" and "Green Book,"
surprised the audience by walking on stage and putting on a
baseball hat with the logo for "Blade," a character played on
film in 1998 by Wesley Snipes. No details were given but the
crowed erupted in applause.
The films will be part of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic
Universe (MCU) that started with 2008's "Iron Man" and has
generated more than $22 billion at box offices worldwide.
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Other coming movies include "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of
Madness," which director Scott Derrickson described as "the first
scary MCU movie," and "Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings"
starring Chinese actor Tony Leung, Awkwafina and newcomer Simu Liu,
who said he was just cast in the lead role on Tuesday.
Scarlett Johansson introduced an action-heavy trailer for "Black
Widow." In an interview, the actress said having a stand-alone film
for the "Avengers" character was "mind-blowing."
"I hope it adds a gritty kind of groundedness, that's like a good
punch in the gut, and a literal punch in the gut too," she said. "We
all get the crap beaten out of us!"
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed a forthcoming
"Fantastic Four" film and sequels to "Black Panther" and "Captain
America."
Feige also previewed Marvel series being made for the Disney+
streaming TV service that will debut in November. They include
"Loki," "Hawkeye" and animated "What If."
The stories told on Disney+ will weave into Marvel's movie, Feige
said. For example, Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda will star in the "WandaVision"
series and in the new "Doctor Strange" film.
"The same teams that work on the movies are going to be working on
these mega-event limited series," Feige said in an interview. "They
are completely intertwined."
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Rollo Ross; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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