Marvel Studios Casts Samara Weaving as Emma Frost for X-MEN (2028)

 
Marvel has found their White Queen.

According to Deadline, Marvel Studios has cast Samara Weaving as Marvel Comics mutant Emma Frost for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's upcoming reboot of the X-Men film franchise, based on the Marvel Comics superteam.

The article states, "After meeting with a number of candidates, director Jake Schreier and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige landed on Weaving earlier this week to tackle the role." They also mention that the final list of actors tested for the role right after July 4th and that Weaving’s audition was "too hard to beat."

Weaving, 34, is an Australian actress and model who has appeared in such films as Bill & Ted Face the Music, Ready or Not, The Babysitter, Scream VI, Borderline, Snake Eyes, Guns Akimbo, Babylon, and Over Your Dead Body. She's also appeared in the TV series Ash vs. Evil Dead and Out of the Blue.

Created in 1980 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, Emma Frost first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men (vol.1) #129 as the White Queen, a villainous member of the Hellfire Club. Emma Grace Frost was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the wealthy Winston Frost and Hazel Frost. Her siblings are Christian, Adrienne, and Cordelia. Winston was cold, ruthless, and domineering, often imposing impossibly high standards, while Hazel abused prescription drugs to cope with the household tensions. Emma had no emotional support from her parents or her sisters, but got along with her brother Christian.

At school, Frost was bullied by her peers but found support in her teacher, Ian Kendall. When her mutant telepathic powers manifested, Frost was able to read the minds of others and glean information. Frost became a tutor to the other students. Kendall recommended that she become a teacher, something Frost's father refused. On her way home from school one day, Frost's car stopped functioning, and Ian gave her a ride home. After reading his thoughts and learning that he thought she was beautiful and intelligent, Frost kissed him. Her sister Adrienne recorded it, and her father used the evidence to get Kendall fired. Frost retaliated by blackmailing her father. Intrigued by her actions, her father offered her the family fortune, but Frost rejected his offer and decided to make her own way in life.

After enrolling at Empire State University, she began to learn about mutants for the first time and met fellow telepath Astrid Bloom, who became her friend and mentor. Frost later learned that Astrid had been secretly manipulating events. Furious, she attacked Astrid telepathically and left her comatose. Frost was later invited to the Hellfire Club, an underground elite society. Frost discovered the plans of Edward Buckman and Steven Lang to destroy all mutants. Alongside Sebastian Shaw, Lourdes Chantel, and Harry Leland, Frost battled Lang's Sentinels. Frost killed Buckman and the Council of the Chosen, then – along with Shaw – took control of the Hellfire Club, and set themselves up as Lords Cardinal of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club.

As White Queen of the Hellfire Club, Frost held many titles, one of which was chair of the board and CEO of Frost International, which helped to fund the activities of the Lords Cardinal. Frost also became the chair of the board of trustees and the headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy, a school for mutants which served as a counterpoint to Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Frost and the club's agents later attempted to recruit Kitty Pryde for the Massachusetts Academy, and captured (and Frost personally tortured) several members of the X-Men, including Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, and Phoenix. Frost engaged Phoenix in a psychic battle in which she was overpowered and on the verge of being killed. Frost launched a last-minute attack that led the X-Men to believe she had committed suicide, though in truth, she was comatose and recovering from Phoenix's attack under the care of Shaw. In another encounter with the Hellfire Club, Frost telepathically forced Pryde's parents to transfer her from Xavier's school to Massachusetts Academy. Frost then switched minds with Storm to defeat the X-Men from within their own ranks. However, the process was soon reversed, restoring the women to their respective bodies.

During her time with the Hellfire Club, Frost continued to run the Massachusetts Academy and mentored the mutant team known as the Hellions. Frost attempted to recruit several gifted youngsters to her cause: Firestar, Doug Ramsey and Kitty Pryde, all of which resulted in altercations. Alongside the Hellions, Frost encountered the Hellions' rival team, Xavier's New Mutants, several times. When the New Mutants were later killed and resurrected by the Beyonder, they were left traumatized and withdrawn. Frost offered her assistance in telepathically restoring them to their former selves. She then coerced their headmaster Magneto into allowing them to join the Massachusetts Academy. With Shaw and Selene, Frost invited Magneto to join the Hellfire Club. Alongside the Hellfire Club, Frost battled the High Evolutionary's forces to rescue Magma, helped Magneto search for the New Mutants when they had gone missing, encountered the effects of the Inferno, and eventually formed an alliance with Selene and Magneto to oust Shaw from the inner circle.

Frost later teamed up with the X-Men to defeat the Phalanx, and in the process, rescued a select group of teenage mutants who became a superhero team known as Generation X, to whom Frost and Banshee became mentors at the reopened Massachusetts Academy. After Frost's business ventures took a bad turn, she sought help from her estranged sister Adrienne, who was a psychometrist. Adrienne offered financial assistance but secretly plotted against Frost and planted a bomb at the school, resulting in the death of Synch. Frost tracked down and killed Adrienne, but after returning to the academy, grew increasingly distant from her students in an effort to hide her crime. When the students learned what Frost did, the students became estranged from her, and Generation X disbanded.

Struggling to move past the grief of having murdered her sister, Frost moved to the mutant haven island of Genosha, where she taught at a mutant school until a genocidal Sentinel attack killed most of the island's inhabitants; Frost survived due to the sudden manifestation of her secondary mutation: the power to transform herself into a flexible, near-invulnerable, diamond-like substance. Rescued by the X-Men, Frost was accepted as a member and resumed her teaching career at the Xavier Institute. She mentored the Stepford Cuckoos, a group of telepathic quintuplets who quickly became her prized pupils. Frost and the Cuckoos proved themselves when they helped fight and defeat Cassandra Nova. As a member of the X-Men, Frost began counseling over Cyclops' marital issues with Jean Grey. She quickly developed feelings for him but Cyclops initially rejected her advances.

As Scott Summers confided more in Emma, the two engaged in a psychic affair. While quelling a riot at the school, Sophie of the Stepford Cuckoos was killed, and the others rejected Frost's mentorship, blaming her for the death. They attempted to get revenge by telepathically contacting Jean about Frost's and Cyclops's psychic affair. In the aftermath of the riot, Jean caught Frost and Summers in bed together in their minds. In a rage, Jean unleashed reignited Phoenix powers and psychically humiliated Frost. Afterward, Frost was found physically shattered in her diamond form. As Bishop and Sage investigated the crime, Jean used increasingly growing Phoenix powers to reassemble Frost's body, acknowledging that Frost had genuinely fallen in love with Scott. Scott confronted Jean and demands that she read his mind; Jean finally complied, only to discover that Scott and Emma never engaged in any physical contact, though Emma had offered it. Revived, Frost was able to name her attempted murderer: Esme of the Stepford Cuckoos, who had mind-controlled fellow student Angel Salvadore into shooting Frost with a diamond bullet, under the direction of Xorn.

More recently, after the founding of the mutant nation of Krakoa, Emma again became the White Queen, now of the Hellfire Trading Company, which was responsible for legally exporting the miracle drugs produced on Krakoa. As White Queen, Emma had a seat on the Quiet Council, the ruling body of Krakoa. In addition, she created the Marauders, a team led by Kate Pryde, that was responsible for handling the black market for the miracle drugs, among other concerns.

Weaving will be the third actress to portray Emma Frost in live-action, after Finola Hughes in the 1996 Fox TV movie Generation X, and January Jones in the 2011 20th Century Fox film X-Men: First Class.

The MCU's reboot of X-Men is expected to arrive in theaters sometime in 2028.

THE FANDOM ZONE 357: "Nobody's Hero" Is Up!

 
"I need a drink. Lo, the irony. A man controls the flow of alcohol for a city of seven million souls, and yet, my throat is as dry as a camel's hole in a sandstorm."
-- Silvermane, Spider-Noir: "Nobody's Hero"

Hello again, everyone! DJ Nik and I are back with a new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast! This time, we discuss "Nobody's Hero", the seventh episode of Spider-Noir, featuring Nicolas Cage as The Spider/Ben Reilly, Brendan Gleeson as Silvermane/"Finn" Byrne, Lamorne Morris as Joe "Robbie" Robertson, and Abraham Popoola as Tombstone/Lonnie Lincoln!

In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like England beating Norway in the World Cup, the heat in Italy, Spider-Noir receiving 11 Emmy nominations, some comics background on Tombstone, the episode's bar fight being one of the very first ideas Nicolas Cage came up with for Spider-Noir, Megawatt's quote from William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Cat deserving to feel guilty over betraying Ben's secret identity, Megawatt and Sandman robbing Mayor Morris' campaign headquarters, Janet being Ben's protector and having Cat's number from the start, Ben beating up a bunch of barflies as The Spider while drunk, Robbie pointing out that Ben would've already taken the antidote vial if he was serious about getting rid of his powers, Ben probably being dead without his support system of Janet and Robbie, Cat being opportunistic, why Janet keeps putting up with Ben's bullshit, Robbie stabbing Tombstone in the eye with a syringe, men who show their feelings getting wives and girlfriends, Lonnie Lincoln's exit from the series, using a split-screen to deliver information faster from two sets of characters, our favorite quotes of the episode, new Fandom Zone Fan Mail from Dave Proctor, my tease for next week's finale of Spider-Noir, and more! 

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Marvel Announces New GHOST RIDER Movie Starring Ryan Gosling

 
The Spirit of Vengeance is going back to the big screen.

During yesterday's Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Marvel Studios confirmed rumors that Ryan Gosling will star in a new Ghost Rider film slated for 2028. The film will be directed by Shawn Levy and written by Jonathan Tropper, who worked with Gosling on the 2027 Disney film Star Wars: Starfighter.

Gosling, 45, is a Canadian actor nominated for three Academy Awards and winner of a Golden Globe award. His films include Blade Runner 2049, Project Hail Mary, Barbie, The Fall Guy (2024), La La Land, Drive, Remember the Titans, and The Notebook.

Created in 1972 by Gary Friedrich, Roy Thomas and Mike Ploog, the Johnny Blaze version of Ghost Rider debuted in Marvel Spotlight #5 as the son of Barton Blaze and Naomi Kale. He spent his early years in the Quentin Carnival, where his parents starred in a stunt show with Craig "Crash" Simpson. Johnny's mother walked out on Barton and Johnny and took the family's remaining two children, Barbara and Danny, with her.

Losing his mother caused Johnny to repress many of his memories of her and his siblings. When his father died in a stunt, Johnny was adopted by Crash and Mona Simpson. The Simpsons helped Johnny by fabricating his past with the hope that it would be less painful than the truth. Now believing that his real mother was Clara Blaze, who had died, Johnny became an enthusiastic member of the Simpson clan, growing closer to their daughter, Roxanne. The two soon became inseparable and, as they grew older, their fondness for one another moved beyond familial.

Blaze would eventually join the Simpsons in their own traveling stunt show, the Crash Simpson Stunt Cycle Extravaganza. Crash had become a father figure for Blaze and, on learning of Crash's life-threatening cancer, Blaze turned to the occult. His studies led him to a spell which supposedly could summon Satan himself. Johnny was unaware that he had, in fact, summoned Mephisto. Desperate to save Crash, Blaze sold his soul to Mephisto in return for Crash's cancer to be cured.

Crash Simpson's cancer was cured, but he was subsequently killed in a stunt trying to jump over 22 cars. Mephisto, when confronted by Blaze over Crash's death, declared that he had kept his end of the bargain. Johnny's exact words in the bargain had been for Crash to be spared the cancer which was killing him, not for him to live. Blaze was saved by Roxanne when she proclaimed her love for Blaze, driving Mephisto away with the purity of her emotion.

Blaze was unaware that Mephisto had bonded him with the demon Zarathos as an act of revenge, and was transformed into a Ghost Rider, a leather-clad skeleton with a flaming head. While Johnny still had his soul, he was forced to punish the wicked and evil upon Mephisto's demands whenever needed. Whenever he was in the presence of evil he would transform into the Ghost Rider, to exact the devil's revenge, returning the evil to Hell. Blaze was not completely lost in the transformation however, and would also help the innocent when they were in danger.

Eventually, Zarathos gained control of Johnny Blaze and the Ghost Rider became the spirit of Zarathos unleashed. Johnny himself was becoming stronger as well, and the conflicting personalities led to a battle over Blaze's physical body. A man called Centurious appeared, trapping Blaze's soul in his soul crystal. Zarathos, weakened from the ordeal used the last of his strength to shatter the crystal, freeing Blaze's soul and many others contained inside of the crystal. Before the crystal was reformed, Centurious was absorbed into the crystal. Zarathos followed him into the crystal, freeing Blaze from the curse, restoring his soul and ending his time as the Ghost Rider.

Gosling will be the second actor to portray the Johnny Blaze version of Ghost Rider on screen, after Nicolas Cage in the 2007 film Ghost Rider and the 2011 sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. The character also appeared in an episode of the animated series Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., voiced by Fred Tatasciore.

Ghost Rider is scheduled to arrive in theaters sometime in 2028.

LANTERNS Comic-Con Trailer Teases Guy Gardner, Sinestro, and the Manhunters

 
John Stewart is the backup quarterback...for now.

As expected, a new trailer for HBO Max's upcoming DC Studios TV series Lanterns made its debut earlier today at the Lanterns panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2026, showing a lot more green and broadening the scope of the series far beyond the small town of Rushville, Nebraska.

The 3-minute trailer opens with Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) sneaking into the room of John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) while he's sleeping and throwing cold water on him. "It's time to get up, Junior," drawls Hal.

We cut to a woman in a Rushville bar, who says to John, "So, you're a space cop." John replies, "No, I'm just being trained."

Next, Hal continues to instruct John in using his Green Lantern Power Ring. "All right, new lesson," remarks Hal as they stand in the middle of a parking lot. "Take the ring, you fly."

"Just fly?" asks John.

Hal shakes his head and answers, "I'm sorry. Fly, please."

John concentrates hard, but nothing happens until a light construct of a small bird materializes in the air and then lands on John's shoulder.

We go back to the woman in the bar, who observes, "You're the backup quarterback."

"For now," replies John.

As "Beside You in Time" from Nine Inch Nails begins to play, things get more serious. Hal lands in a remote town and finds a series of spent bullet casings near a bar. John asks in a voiceover, "What do you think is going on?"

"It's no accident we're here," Hal replies in a voiceover as he comes across a body.

In a separate scene, we go a high school football field, where we see another body having a sheet placed over it as Hal and John watch. "These victims are gonna end up being alien," Hal remarks. 

Sheriff Kerry Macon (Kelly Macdonald) asks, "Based on what?"

"I have a feeling."

Sheriff Macon feigns a gasp. "He has a feeling."

Later, we see John driving a car with Hal in the passenger seat. "I think this is more than a feeling," remarks John in a voiceover.

We cut to Garret Dillahunt as William Macon, who says, "This is a threat no one's ever seen before."

Back to the bar, Hal goes inside, finding more bodies before rapid gunfire suddenly erupts. Reflexively, he throws up a shield construct around his body as protection.

In another scene, John and Hal are back in the parking lot, this time at night. "What do you know about Manhunters?" asks John.

Hal replies, "Where'd you hear that word?"

We then head out into space as we see Hal and John on an alien world, finding an alien skull in the dust. A voiceover from a character called Antaan (Paul Ben-Victor) says, "Manhunters are the most dangerous beings to ever exist in the galaxy, and they can take the form of any species."

As we see a Manhunter shapeshift, John remarks in another scene, "So, it could be anyone?"

Another Green Lantern, Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), warns Hal, "He's gonna send an army to put you down."

After we see a construct formed to dig into the ground, an unnamed character played by Laura Linney asks John, "Do you resent Hal Jordan?"

"The ring's always been mine," says John. "Jordan's just keeping it warm."

We travel to an alien prison, where Hal, now wearing his Green Lantern uniform, confronts his arch-enemy, Sinestro (Ulrich Thomsen). Inside his cell, Sinestro tells Hal, "You don't really believe he's your backup, do you, Hal?"

"No," admits Hal.

"Then say what he actually is."

"My replacement."

We see John charging his Power Ring with the Power Battery, then briefly see him in his own Green Lantern uniform, launching upwards into the sky.

A series of fleeting images follows as Hal recites the Green Lantern Corps oath, "In brightest day...in blackest night...no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power, Green Lantern's light."

In the trailer's final scene, Hal pulls out a bottle of beer and offers it to Sheriff Macon. Using his ring, he creates a construct of a bottle opener and opens the bottle for her in smooth flourish.

If you'd like to check out the new Lanterns trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official HBO Max account on YouTube...

Lanterns premieres August 16, 2026 on HBO Max.

THE FANDOM ZONE 356: "Nightmare on a Gurney" Is Up!

 
"The Spider was never a hero. I only did it for the thrill."
"Well...maybe you weren't then, but there's still time for you to become one."
-- Ben Reilly and Ogden Faber, Spider-Noir: "Nightmare on a Gurney"

Hello again, everyone! DJ Nik and I are back for a new episode of The Fandom Zone Podcast! This time, we discuss "Nightmare on a Gurney", the sixth episode of Spider-Noir, featuring Nicolas Cage as The Spider/Ben Reilly, Brendan Gleeson as Silvermane/"Finn" Byrne, Amy Aquino as Dr. Alethea Faber and Andrew Robinson as Ogden Faber!

In this episode, DJ Nik and I talk about things like recording on America's 250th anniversary, Nik missing me, Ben Reilly changing his name from Peter Parker after returning from World War I, this episode being a drinking game where you take a drink every time Ben loses consciousness, Ogden not being down with Ben's plan to leave the city with Cat, Ben not listening to his Spider-Sense, the flashback to what happened after Ben was bitten by the man-spider, real life war criminal Klaus Barbie, Dr. Faber probably embracing being a mad scientist if she wasn't busy trying to save her son, Dr. Faber trying to rationalize her actions, Ben's various hallucinations, Ben being proven right about Ogden's mother, Ruby being Ben's "Uncle Ben", Silvermane's henchman not buying Dr. Faber's explanation, the irony of Dr. Faber succeeding in saving her son only for both of them to die an hour later, Silvermane calling out Megawatt's impulse control problem, Ben having the antidote to take his powers away, our favorite quotes of the episode, new Fandom Zone Fan Mail from Dave Proctor, my tease for next week's episode, and more! 

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DRUNK CINEMA 098: "Enter the Dragon" Is Up!

 
"Man, you come right out of a comic book."

-- Williams to Han, Enter the Dragon

Hello again, movie fans!  My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, Xan and I watch Enter the Dragon, the 1973 martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse, featuring Bruce Lee as Lee, John Saxon as Roper, Jim Kelly as Williams, and Shih Kien as Han!

This time, Xan and I discuss things like America's 250th anniversary, my birthday movie pick, The Master TV series from NBC and Mystery Science Theater 3000, both of us trying to remember Judson Scott's name, Jim Kelly being the first black martial arts movie star as Black Belt Jones, Keye Luke as the voice of Zoltar from Battle of the Planets, Lalo Schifrin as the creator of the iconic Mission: Impossible theme, Enter the Dragon being the most successful martial arts film ever made, Xan never watching Enter the Dragon before, why all of the Chuck Norris jokes should've been Bruce Lee jokes, Bruce Lee developing the martial arts style jeet kune do, Roper bringing way too much luggage to Han's tournament, the flashback of O'Hara forcing Lee's sister to commit suicide, action slacks, Zorak on Zorak crime, Williams being called to Han's office, Han resembling Bond villain Doctor No, Bruce Lee not fucking around, Bruce Lee vs. the cameraman, John Saxon being in movies with people who have knives on their hands, blaming John Saxon's agents for Williams being killed off, new Drunk Mail from Dave Proctor, Xan eventually picking Raising Arizona as our next movie, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks as Xan and I watch Raising Arizona, the 1987 crime comedy written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, featuring Nicolas Cage as Herbert "Hi" McDunnough, Holly Hunter as Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, John Goodman as Gale Snoats, and William Forsythe as Evelle Snoats!

First AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Trailer Assembles the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men

 
Something's coming...

Days before San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Marvel Studios has released the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, the highly-anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film directed by Anthony and Joe Russo that will finally unite Marvel superteams the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men.

The two-minute, twenty-second trailer opens with the unsettling image of a charred Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters sign as we hear a voiceover from Doctor Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) who warns in a thick Latverian accent, "Something's coming..."

We see Professor X (Patrick Stewart) being blinded by a flashing glare, possibly from a universal incursion, as Doom's voiceover continues, "...Something we may not be able to deter. Before this day is done, we shall be faced with an unthinkable decision."

We shift to an overhead shot of Manhattan as we see the renovated Avengers Tower. Inside, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is giving a speech as we see him and the Fantastic Four enter. "I've fought with many warriors in my time," he begins as we see Sam Wilson as the second Captain America, the Winter Soldier, and Ant-Man. "They were far stronger than all of us put together..."

The camera pulls back to reveal the former Thunderbolts, now known as the New Avengers, are there as well. "...and they died," Thor says omniously. "They died facing enemies and threats that scared me far less than this one..."

We get a montage of fleeting images including Namor and Shuri as the new Black Panther as Talokan soldiers surround King M'Baku and his men. This is followed by Cyclops firing an optic blast and what looks to be an impressive fight between Shang-Chi and Gambit.

As we see the return of Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is holding a Time Variance Authority (TVA) identification card, Thor continues his speech with "Everything that they sacrificed will be for nothing if we do not stand together." This is followed by the Thing shaking M'Baku's hand as he's accompanied the Invisible Woman, the Winter Soldier, and Joaquin Torres as the second Falcon.

"Put aside your petty squabbles..." Thor continues as we see Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) aiming her weapon at Mystique, who shapeshifts into a copy of Yelena, leading to a Yelena vs. Yelena fight. This is followed by a sad reunion of Professor X and Magneto. "...and presume nothing except this -- If you return, you will return as brothers and sisters." A montage of fleeting action images follows, ending with with Thor bringing Stormbreaker down on Doctor Doom, who blocks the weapon with two fingers.

"But mark my words, we're going to need a miracle," Thor concludes as Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) steps into view. "Hey, pal," says Steve.

"It's not possible," replies Thor as we holds up his original hammer, Mjolnir. Saying nothing, Steve holds up his right hand and Mjolnir flies from Thor's hand to Steve's. Thor is stunned by this, while Steve simply looks down at Mjolnir and gives a small smile.

The trailer ends with the return of the Avengers theme music, followed by a countdown clock to Doomsday.

If you'd like to check out the new trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube...

Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled to arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026.