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Sorry, guys, I lost focus on comic-book movies for about five minutes there.  It won’t happen again.  Yahoo just posted two Comic-Con exclusive posters for Thor and First Avenger: Captain America (seriously, can I just call it Captain America? we’re well-aware that the godd*mn Avengers movie is happening).  You can right-click and hit “view image” to see them in all their super-sized glory. They look pretty cool — I like the Captain America one a little better, myself — but they should.  They’re concept art.  “Look cool” is sort of the end-all be-all mandate of concept art (and also what I whisper to the mirror every morning).Thor-Hemsworth-wet-muddy

Elsewhere, USA Today has a new picture of Chris Hemsworth as Thor, who apparently wears skin-tight v-necks and gets rained on indoors.  Whoa, did I wander onto the set of a Thunder Down Under fantasy photo shoot by accident?  Quick, put some leather and capes on the guy, this is starting to get a little gay.  Paramount also released this new picture of Thor and Odin.  In the email, they just called it “Thor,” even though this picture from Comic-Con seems to indicate that the full title will be “Thor: The Mighty Avenger.”  Again, enough with “The Avengers” stuff already.  We get it.

Lastly, FirstShowing is reporting a rumor from “a reliable inside source with a studio casting grid” that shows The Riddler as the villain in Batman 3, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the possible actor.  It’s the second time this particular rumor has surfaced (and was initially denied).  While I agree that Levitt’s Inception co-star Tom Hardy is a great actor who looks more villain-y, The Riddler is traditionally kind of boyish and spindly like Levitt, who’s also a fine actor and was awesome in Hesher.  Either one would be great. I just hope that the riddles will be all Inception-y.

“Riddle me this, Batman: If I show up inside your dream with my friend who’s impersonating your friend, and we then go inside a dream within that dream: whose subconscious will my friend represent? And when I look at his reflection inside your dream, why would I see his real face, when you can’t?”

“F*ck, dude, my brain hurts.  Just steal the art already.”

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