Oscars Producers Tease Marvel Reunion 'For the Superhero Fans'

Oscar producers Katy Mullan and Raj Kapoor person opened up astir immoderate peculiar moments fans and audiences tin expect from the 98th Academy Awards connected Sunday — and they revealed that determination volition beryllium a Marvel reunion during the telecast.

“There’s besides going to beryllium a Marvel reunion for the superhero fans,” Mullan told The Hollywood Reporter during a caller Oscars property league alongside big Conan O’Brien, arsenic good arsenic the ceremony’s euphony director, accumulation designer, and supervising choreographer. “So we’re gonna person superstar superheroes, and determination is besides going to beryllium an extraterrestrial connected the stage. So you tin fig that 1 out.”

Needless to say, that’s immoderate beauteous breathtaking stuff. There person been truthful galore celebrated faces that person go Marvel staples implicit the years, truthful it’ll beryllium awesome to spot who ends up being portion of this breathtaking moment. But there’s going to beryllium adjacent much reunions during the telecast this year. “We person a immense reunion happening,” Kapoor, who besides serves arsenic Oscar showrunner, noted during the property conference. “There’s been rumors of what that is, and we are precise excited to denote that we person a Bridesmaid reunion that is going to beryllium precise special.”

That concealed reunion is anyone’s conjecture astatine this point, and it won’t beryllium agelong until we find retired precisely what that astonishment is. But Bridesmaids is coming up connected a 15th anniversary, and with Rose Byrne nominated for her archetypal Oscar successful the pb category, now’s decidedly the cleanable time.

During the property conference, the Oscars squad besides gave details connected their plans for the antecedently announced large Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters “moments” that volition grant some large films during the ceremony.

“We’re fundamentally taking songs from films, and we’re not conscionable recreating them similar the movie did. We’re creating them arsenic a solemnisation of the movie arsenic a whole,” choreographer Mandy Moore explained during the property conference. “In particular, the KPop Demon Hunters show of ‘Golden,’ I kept having this visual, and I talked to Raj astir these beauteous golden flags. It’s truthful beautiful. Well, I was moving connected it today, and it was like, oh, I haven’t done a batch with flags, but I was reasoning connected the stage, aft I saw the renderings, I was like, oh, possibly this, like, beauteous aerial prime could happen. And, oh, they’re walking down onto the diamond and each that should emergence astatine this constituent erstwhile each the flags spell out. We’re gonna spot however it each goes unneurotic connected camera connected Friday.”

For Sinners, it’s fundamentally a household affair. “It’s not conscionable astir the song, it’s truly however Ryan [Coogler] integrated euphony and wove that into the full story,” Kapoor noted. “It’s a truly beauteous package. We are celebrating that movie with the film’s costumer, Ruth E. Carter has travel connected committee to assistance us. We person Aakomon Jones, who is the film’s choreographer, moving with us. We person that euphony squad arsenic well, and past we person each these astonishing formed members, positive caller radical that weren’t adjacent successful the movie coming successful to assistance observe that. So we’ve benignant of similar blown it up."

He added, "We person the beauteous Misty Copeland making an appearance, and we person each these talented dancers, and it’s going to beryllium a existent celebration, not lone of the song, but of the film.”

The 98th Academy Awards volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected ABC, arsenic good arsenic streaming connected Hulu, connected Sunday, March 15 opening astatine 7pm ET. The Oscars is connected precocious alert amid an FBI informing of a imaginable Iran drone onslaught connected California successful retaliation for the war.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.