The announcement that the Captain Marvel sequel is called Captain Marvel 2: The Winter Soldier seems to confirm the rumour that Marvel has a subtitle crisis.
“Well, hang on, I’m not sure I’d call it a crisis,” laughed producer Kevin Feige.
“I’ll admit, we’re a little short on ideas for sequel subtitles. But that’s not a crisis. Not at all. We could have called this new movie lots of different things – Captain Marvel: Homecoming, Captain Marvel: The Age of Ultron. They’d be fine.
“Yes, we’ve used them before, but not for ages, and can anyone honestly say that they can remember Avengers: Age of Ultron? Of course not.”
Mr Feige was adamant that the use of the subtitle ‘The Winter Soldier’ is not because they can’t think of a new subtitle, but because it is best suited to the story.
“Hey, she’s called Captain Marvel, she’s a soldier. It’s a bit cold in the film. I mean, I’m not sure that comes across but, you know, it’s tricky to get across cold weather on screen so just take my word for it. You’d need a big coat if you were in this film. So, there you go – Captain Marvel 2: The Winter Soldier makes perfect sense.”
“There is definitely no subtitle crisis at Marvel.”
Mr Feige then went on to confirm that Ant-Man 3 would be known as Ant-Man 3: Infinity War, Black Panther 2 would be called Black Panther 2: The Second Black Panther Movie, and Guardians of the Galaxy 3 will be Guardians of the Galaxy 3: Guardians of the Galaxy Come Back Again.
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‘You’re a celebrity, get them out of there’ – New celebrity hostage negotiation reality show announced.
ITV has announced a new prime time celebrity hostage negotiation show for the Saturday tea-time slot.
“The format is simple, yet tremendously exciting,” said an ITV spokesman
“Celebrities are sent into a variety of tier one danger zones across the world in order to negotiate the release of hostages from a terrorist group or rogue state.”
“For example, we’d fly Ken Bruce into Somalia where he’d negotiate the release of local Christians from Boko Haram.”
“The fun of the show would be to see how the celebrities could use their talents gleaned from their successful entertainment, sport or political careers in the field of hostage negotiation.”
“Would Ken would try and engage the notoriously unstable Boko Haram leadership in a light hearted pop quiz? Perhaps he’d try to break the ice with some light-hearted banter? Or he might just simply play a load of terrible records from the late eighties.”
“We could see Len Goodman running Taliban tribal leaders through a jolly Charleston to lighten the mood, Carol Vorderman giving the Continuity IRA some tricky maths problems or Jimmy Tarbuck simply having a right old laugh with Hezbollah.”
“We’re particularly interested to see how Dean Gaffney handles the Mexican drug cartels, and I can tell you now that Amy Childs’ relationship with the elders of Al Mourabitoun is both surprising and hilarious.”
‘You’re a celebrity’ is set to run for twelve weeks, but with Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown set to perform a particularly delicate set of negotiations with ISIS, it’s possible events could conspire to shorten the run.
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