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MOVIE PREVIEWS: Super Action Heroes Dominate 2011
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- Published: Thursday, 20 January 2011 19:18
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The Green Hornet kick started 2011 with the first of many big screen treatments for super hero franchises and CineMovie breaks down the comic book and graphic novel adaptations hitting movie theaters this year.
After a lackluster 2010 for super hero action, 2011 will be saturated with masked crusaders and super humans… or aliens. Of course, you’ll have to wait until blockbuster season -- summer when Thor will be the first one out of the gate on May 6. The rest of the film releases such as X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Conan The Barbarian will also be clustered around the summer months.
Check out CineMovie's super breakdown by release date of these films and other blockbuster movies vying for box office gold in 2011.
March 5
Sucker Punch
It’s not a comic book adaptation but the Zack Snyder (300) original film feels like one as these superhuman ladies get in on some serious butt-kicking action which is sorely missing from this year’s line-up. This one is for the ladies. More info
Cast: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott G Glenn, Oscar Isaac
May 6
Thor
Relative newcomer Chris Hemsworth takes on Marvel Comic’s Thor with Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman. More info
June 3
X-Men: First Class
Kick Ass director Matthew Vaughn directs this origin story based on Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto's early days when they started out as friends. James McAvoy is the young Professor while Inglorious Basterd’s Michael Fassbender plays Erik. Kevin Bacon joins the cast as the villain Sebastian Shaw with Mad Men’s January Jones as his sexy Mutant sidekick. 2010 break out star Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) will don the blue paint as Mystique.
Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.
No official trailer is yet available for X:Men: First Class. With less than 5 months away from it’s June release, should fans be worried? Probably not since Matthew Vaughn is at the helm and will no doubt deliver a kick-ass movie. Fingers crossed.
June 17
The Green Lantern
Ryan Reynolds is no stranger to comic book characters having played Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine but in Green Lantern, Reynolds fights the villains, instead of being one. Gossip Girl’s Blake LIvely is the Lantern's love interest. More info
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