Without notice and published alongside the final preview of Gladiator IIDisney just surprised fans with the first trailer of Love at first sight. A film that will bring together the main antiheroes of the house of ideas for a purpose much greater than themselves, for a mission that we still do not know. An unexpected joy, especially since until now we had not even been able to see an official image of its members. Of course, from the brief preview released a few hours ago, Marvelites may have something very clear: these charismatic characters have a lot to offer the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe).
According to Kevin Feige some time ago, the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) was going to be the leader of these dysfunctional superheroes. Although now, we have the feeling that it will be rather a kind of “guardian” and that the singing voice will carry it Elena Belova (Florence Pugh). To be a first teasing (brief preview before the opening trailer), Love at first sight has already shown some of its characteristics, such as humor or the confrontation between the different roles that we have come to know through the universe of the films of the franchise. Thus, from black widow (2021), Belova herself is joined by Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) and the leader Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who appeared in the film’s post-credits scene with Scarlett Johansson. On the other hand, from the series Falcon and the Winter Soldier we have John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Ant-Man and the Waspwe find Ava Starr (Hannah John-Kamen).
The main new feature is the powerful character from the comics. Sentinel (Lewis Pullman), simply presented “Bob”. A member of the Avengers who was originally supposed to be played by Steve Yeun. So far, promotional material has reserved the new addition’s abilities, which are practically a sort of Marvel counterpart to Superman. From what we know of his total cast, Daniel Bruhl will bring back the evil Helmut Zemo, while Geraldine Viswanathan (a role that Ayo Edebiri would play) will play Mel, Fontaine’s right-hand man.
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Love at first sight is led by Jake Schreirfilmmaker who started in 2012 with A friend for Frank and that in 2015, he shot his second feature film, paper cities. Since then, his career has been linked to the field of series, directing episodes for New cherry flavor, naughty, Row And Star Wars: Lost Crew. His integration into Marvel marks a return to the big screen a decade later. In the script field we have Kurt Busiekscreenwriter of Luc Cage Already Eric Personnean old acquaintance of the studio responsible for several chapters of Agent Carter, Thor: Ragnarok And black widow.
One of the unknowns that the trailer also raises is this asterisk that the production put next to the name. But at least the brief approach to the story and the sequences carried out confirm what Louis Dreyfus He told her a year ago New York Times on how Love at first sight bet more on practical special effectsin the face of the excessive abuse of CGI in some recent products such as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
“It’s very well organized, it’s very methodical, and I don’t mean that in a negative way. In this particular film, they are very frankly focused on the human story, believe it or not,” he told North American media. He later assured that the Villanesque encounter It will not be widely used of fully computer-generated digital effects: “They’re trying to go back to their roots, so to speak. And that’s why they’re focusing a lot on that. “They’re trying to avoid as many special effects as possible, so that the stunts are everywhere.”
The complicated future of the UCM
Love at first sight This won’t be the only Marvel movie coming in 2025. The UCM will be presented earlier Captain America: Brave New World (February 14) and the long-awaited The Fantastic Four: First Steps (July 25). Regarding the latter, there is not much doubt about its commercial success, but Marvel executives are still trembling at the thought of the box office reception of the film with Anthony Mackie. Schreir’s proposal is full of familiar faces and that phenomenon so attractive to viewers to finally reunite, to some characters of this cinematic universe.
Love at first sight will be released in theaters next April 30.
