Late last year, Kumail Nanjiani shared a photo of his incredible body transformation which he achieved for Marvel’s upcoming The Eternals. Nanjiani’s pictures immediately went viral and became the talk of the town. In fact, even Nanjiani’s dad thought his son’s body transformations were worth commemorating and decided to get socks with his son’s body printed on them. Speaking with Variety, The Eternals star revealed the weird story of how his dad tried to show how proud he was of him.
It’s the only time they’ve said vocally that they’re proud of me. It’s the only time! My dad got socks with my shirtless body on it. I had aunts texting me like, ‘We’re so proud of you! You’ve worked so hard!’
If you’d like to see the socks that Kumail Nanjiani’s dad made, you can check them out in the video below at the 0:14 mark.
After Kumail Nanjiani's Marvel body viral, his dad bought socks with his abs on them https://t.co/44wO0px1Py pic.twitter.com/bk0wKr7Lr5
— Variety (@Variety) May 31, 2020
The Eternals star continued by discussing how getting and maintaining his new body has been tons of hard work.
“The hard thing is, it’s not like a video game where you just hit save and then it’s done. It’s every day. You have to keep doing it! What have I gotten myself into?”
What Kumail Nanjiani has done with his body is nothing short of impressive and it’s great that this interview highlights just how playful his dad is with the whole ordeal. Nanjiani’s dad isn’t the only one who is having fun with the body transformation as even PornHub decided to give The Eternals star 10 years worth of premium content. All in all, Nanjiani seems to be having a blast with how his new body is being received by fans.
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Here is the official synopsis for Marvel Studios’ The Eternals:
“Marvel Studios’ The Eternals features an exciting new team of Super Heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, The Deviants.
Directed by Chloé Zhao from a script written by Matthew K. Firpo and Ryan Firpo, The Eternals stars Richard Madden as Ikaris, Gemma Chan as Sersi, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Salma Hayak as Ajak, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Barry Keoghan as Druig, and Angelina Jolie as Thena. Kit Harrington was cast as Dane Whitman.
The Eternalsis currently scheduled to be released in theaters on February 12, 2021. Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for all the latest news surrounding the Marvel Cinematic Universe andsubscribe to our YouTube channel for more content in the future!
Source: Variety
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Even though Disney World in Orlando, Florida isn’t slated to reopen until July, the Disney Springs collection of shops and restaurants is back up and running. However, there are still social distancing policies in place, and in order to make sure guests adhere to the guidelines set by the Disney theme park locale, they’ve brought in First Order Stormtroopers to make sure people are keeping their distance from each other by way of some playful banter and crowd interaction.
Stormtropers Enforcing Social DistancingKeeping a safe distance away from guests by standing atop a balcony, a male and a female Stormtrooper banter back and forth about their current job and also doing a little bickering about keeping their distance from each other.
The female Stormtrooper is not too happy with her current assignment since she’s usually working on Star Destroyers, guarding flight decks and whatnot. But they look down among the crowd, telling them to move along and comparing them to banthas, the hairy creatures that Tusken Raiders (AKA sand people) are known to ride. When the male Stormtrooper offers some fun facts about banthas, the female responds, “Yeah, I’m going to need you to move one male bantha’s length away, please.”
The bumbling nature of Stortmroopers is played up to as one of them tries to show the other how to be more authoritative. The male trooper says, “Hey, you! With the face covering!” That prompts the female trooper to chastise him by saying, “They all have face coverings.”The male responds, “Well, we made them all look,” and the female backs him up with, “And now they all know who’s in charge.”
The Stormtroopers also try out different renditions of saying, “Move along,” talk about finding a Resistance spy among the crowd, and say that the face coverings on guests might be nicer than the helmets they’re wearing.
It’s all in good fun, but one can’t help but think about the optics of this setup. Even though the banter between the Stormtroopers is lighthearted, they’re also part of an oppressive regime that is trying to control the galaxy. It’s like making a police state environment playful and fun. And considering everything that’s going on with our own police in the United States right now, maybe turning the galactic equivalent of cops into family friendly comedy bit isn’t the best idea right now. But Stormtroopers are already situated around Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge and playfully hassle guests from time to time, so this is probably something we’ll see more of when Disney World reopens next month.
The post ‘Star Wars’ Stormtroopers Are Now Enforcing Social Distancing at Disney World’s Shops appeared first on /Film.
The Walt Disney Company is usually deathly allergic to politics. No doubt they’ve concluded that supporting with one side means alienating the other, so their movies and TV shows generally put forward a soft inclusive liberalism without ever committing to a specific political position. At least, that’s the case in normal times.
But right now things are anything but normal. The country is currently facing mass civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd by killer cop Derek Chauvin. By now the world has seen the incredibly disturbing video of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd’s neck, squeezing the life out of the terrified man. This has quite rightly kicked off a wave of civil unrest across the country, drawing a line in the sand between those that would perpetuate racism and those that tacitly or overtly support it.
This has put Disney (and their subsidiary companies) in an awkward position, facing internal pressure from their employees and external pressure from their fans to take a stand. Now they’ve released a statement, tweeted simultaneously from the @StarWars, @MarvelStudios, @Pixar and @Disney accounts, and you can check it out down below.
Predictably, reactions have been mixed. While many have congratulated Disney for the message, some of quite reasonably pointed out that it’s still a very milquetoast message that makes no commitment to actually do anything. A particularly pointed response parodied typical corporate messaging on this, saying:
“We at [Brand] are committed to fighting injustice by posting images on Twitter that express our commitment to fighting injustice.
To that end, we offer this solemn white-on-black .jpeg that expresses vague solidarity with the Black community, but will quietly elide the specifics or what is wrong, what needs to change, or in what ways we will do anything about it. this is doubly true if [Brand] is particularly guilty of exacerbating these issues.
We hope this action encourages you to view [Brand] positively without, you know, expecting anything from us.â€Â
Let’s face it, nobody is expecting to see Mickey and Donald on the barricades throwing gas canisters back at cops, so I suppose messaging like this is the most we can hope for from major companies like the Mouse House. Fortunately, individuals associated with them – like Star Wars‘ John Boyega aren’t so shy. Boyega has spent the last few days signal-boosting videos of the cops trying to arrest a black FBI Agent they assumed was a criminal, guides to protesting safely and promoting British-based protests in support of the US movement. Good for him.
Stay safe out there!
DC Comics Rejigging Its Timeline Continuity Impacting Generation Zero To Generation Five Project and Reason For A Recent Cancellation? (Sans Spoilers)
On the weekend, we reported that DC Comics has cancelled its upcoming Manhunters: Lost History 5 issue mini-series.
This was a surprise since this mini-series was a spin-off from recent big DC event series Event Leviathan. A second spin-off Event Leviathan: Checkmate continues and is expected to include former Manhunter and current Leviathan Mark Shaw and current Manhunter Kate Spencer who is a member of Checkmate.
However, with Dan DiDio no longer with DC Comics and Jim Lee as the sole publisher, it seems likely that DC is working to recraft its previous timeline plans tied to the Generations project. DC Comics could have always done this series digitally and collected it afterwards if it had concerns about physical copy sales.
It was all also supposed to kick off in a big way with May 2020 FCBD 2020 and Generation Zero: Gods Among Us, but due to the pandemic that was not to be. Generation Zero, nor the other Generation one-shots, have been MIA from recent DC Comics solicitations. Stay tuned as we follow this developing story.
We’ve got a trailer here for you to watch for an interesting looking indie sci-fi thriller titledVolition. The movie actually won the Best Feature award at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival last year.
The movie is described as a "tightly-wound puzzle of a ride," and a "mind-bending science-fiction thriller, where the line between fate and free-will blurs." This is the synopsis that was shared:
In this time-bending cerebral science-fiction thriller, a man named James Odin (Adrian Glynn McMorran) afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
The movie was directed by Tony Dean Smith (The Other Side of Being), and it stars Adrian Glynn McMorran, Magda Apanowicz, John Cassini, Frank Cassini, Aleks Paunovic, and Bill Marchant. As you’ll see, there’s a lot going in the trailer, and it’s hard to make sense of what’s going on, but I’ll give it a shot.
Giant Pictures will release the film direct-to-VOD on July 10th.
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