Marvel Cinematic Universe fans have been waiting for the next story arc for Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye ever since Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 have been in production. There’s long been rumor that the MCU Hawkeye would be undergoing the same kind of evolution that his Marvel Comics counterpart did in the 2000s, losing the purple archer theme and trading for the darker persona of the ninja/samurai crimefighter, Ronin.

Avengers 4 set photos and videos have indeed confirmed that Renner’s Clint Barton will get a big design change in the film, but we’re still waiting on the official look at what MCU Ronin will be.

Thankfully, Marvel fans have been pumping out more and more concept artwork of what Jeremy Renner’s Ronin could look like, and BossLogic has created what may be the best concept for a live-action Ronin yet!

Renner’s Ronin will come with some kind of hood option with his costume. The hood will make Ronin stand out and who doesn’t like a hoodie!

What makes this BossLogic artwork so stunning is the level of detail in the mask. It’s done in a way that definitely brings the comics to life, but also reflects a certain amount of personality in its look, if only a mysterious personality, as well as walking the tightrope between being heroic in the ninja or samurai mask tradition and just plain awesome.

That design aesthetic could be very important to both Ronin’s costume and character arc in Avengers 4. A lot of current fan theory leans towards a scenario in which the retired Clint Barton’s beloved wife and kids were disintegrated in The Snap, leaving Clint traumatized and broken. Instead of returning to Hawkeye work, Clint could presumably become either obsessed with reversing The Snap, or get violent and reckless as a man with nothing left to lose. Either path would definitely require the kind of fearsome Ronin persona depicted above. What do you think of the artwork?

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Should Infinity War even count as a summer movie since Disney bumped its release from May 4th to April 27th? In the past, a film released on the last weekend in April was a spring release, but Hollywood continues to blur the lines between actual seasons and “movie” seasons.

If we were being strict about the actual definition of “summer” then only movies released between June 21 and September 22, 2018, would count as summer movies. But Hollywood doesn’t do that. Here at Geekcaster, we decided to include Infinity War … simply because we can.

After Infinity War, Disney’s three other releases in the Top 10 include Incredibles 2 ($597.7 million), Solo: A Star Wars Story ($213.6 million), and Ant-Man and the Wasp ($212 million). Some people may say Solo didn’t live up to the hype, but I thought it was okay.

The Avengers and Ant-Man and the Wasp weren’t the only Marvel superheroes to dominate the box office this summer. Fox’s Deadpool 2 came in fourth place with $318.4 million. Deadpool right now is probably saying “In your face Thanos!”

After Disney, Universal took two spots on the summer box office’s Top 10, with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom ($413.2 million) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again ($116.2 million). Paramount (Mission: Impossible – Fallout), Sony (Hotel Transylvania 3), and Warner Bros. (Ocean’s 8) each scored a film in the Top 10.

Below is the synopsis for Deadpool 2:

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool meets Russell, an angry teenage mutant who lives at an orphanage. When Russell becomes the target of Cable — a genetically enhanced soldier from the future — Deadpool realizes that he’ll need some help saving the boy from such a superior enemy. He soon joins forces with Bedlam, Shatterstar, Domino and other powerful mutants to protect young Russell from Cable and his advanced weaponry.

Here are the Top 10 releases at the domestic box office for summer 2018

1. Avengers: Infinity War  $678.7 million
2. Incredibles 2  $597.7 million
3. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom  $413.2 million
4. Deadpool 2  $318.4 million
5. Solo: A Star Wars Story  $213.6 million
6. Ant-Man and the Wasp  $212 million
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout  $196.6 million
8. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation  $159.7 million
9. Ocean’s 8  $139.1 million
10. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again  $116.2 million

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Today we have a piece of Avengers 4 fan art that has quickly gone viral. The impressive image shows Tony Stark / Iron Man finally correcting the mistake that Thor made with Thanos in the Battle of Wakanda!

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This fan art is out of this world … Get it? … because the photo shows Iron Man in outer space … Anyway let’s move on. Many fans commented on the photo:

dante_ray_07Hell yea

davefromtelstraHow sick is this fan art

As you can see, in this fans’ version of Avengers 4, Iron Man isn’t taking any chances. The callback here is of course the fact that in Infinity War, Thor used his new axe Stormbreaker to strike down Thanos … only he didn’t aim correctly, and only hit the Mad Titan in the chest, instead of stabbing him in the head. That moment has been become one of the more debated parts of Avengers: Infinity War.

Do not blame Thor for the mistake of stabbing him in the chest … even gods can make a mistake.

Even though this fan art is on point, some people out there may think is too graphic. The last time I checked, Thanos snapped his fingers and wished half of humanity to go bye-bye … and he threw Gamora off a cliff.

To jog your memory, here is the synopsis to Avengers: Infinity War:

Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers unite to battle their most powerful enemy yet — the evil Thanos. On a mission to collect all six Infinity Stones, Thanos plans to use the artifacts to inflict his twisted will on reality. The fate of the planet and existence itself has never been more uncertain as everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment.

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Avengers: Infinity War is expected to surpass $1 billion at the global box office before the end of its second weekend. It will become the sixth Marvel Studios film to earn $1 billion, joining Marvel’s The Avengers ($1.5 billion), Avengers: Age of Ultron ($1.4 billion), Black Panther ($1.3 billion), Iron Man 3 ($1.2 billion), and Captain America: Civil War ($1.1 billion).

Avengers: Infinity War did not disappoint. It’s a spectacle unlike any movie before it, offering amazing narrative which fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will love but the average or young moviegoer might not be used to the new dark tone. The movie is larger than life and the Russo Brothers made sure to remind everyone why they were chosen to direct this film. It substitutes some of the focus seen in previous Marvel films with wider-ranging narrative to create a sprawling, jaw-dropping, utterly relentless epic.

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While Avengers: Infinity War was already packed with more than 30 key principal heroes, the Defenders and Agents of SHIELD characters almost got pulled into the mix. Ultimately, it was a creative decision made based on the theatrical experience as this film was a culmination of 18 movies and was never intended to bring together our heroes from Netflix or cable.

“We made the briefest consideration of [including TV characters in Infinity War],” Anthony Russo told Variety. “When we’re alone in a room with [screenwriters Christopher] Markus and [Stephen] McFeely, we consider every idea. We like thinking of everything. But it seemed like the story that had been told within the movies was so specific and elaborate already that once we started working through the story, we knew we had our hands full just with this set of characters and narratives.”

In the mean time, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Colleen Wing are fighting their own battles on the ground level of New York City. On the other hand, the sibling directors never made much consideration of including the Fantastic Four or X-Men characters due to their being owned by Fox. Honestly, including the X-Men characters would’ve been overkill.

“I think just as far as where that specific deal is at right now, it’s not at the point where we can start working with those characters on a creative level yet,” Anthony Russo said. “We’d love to and hopefully it will all work out some day, but it’s not in the time frame of these movies that we’re making right now.”

Such a fact, however, has not stopped the Russo Brothers from having exciting ideas in mind for those Fox characters should they come back to Disney and Marvel Studios for inclusion in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Which character from the small screen you would’ve like to see in Avengers: Infinity War? Where were Ant-Man and the Wasp? Were they so small I couldn’t see them? Please let me know on Twitter @BlueJayHJB

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