Rolling Marvel Cinematic Universe thread (+ a poll: Classic or Dud?)

Are they still doing comic book adaptations of comic book movies?

Don't miss this Avengers Assemble novelisation, which apparently stars "Nick Furry".

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13615968-avengers

TS: X-Men: Days of Future Past Quicksilver (top) vs. Agengers: Age of Ultron Quicksilver (bottom)

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Tuomas complaining about that Scarlet Witch costume in 3, 2...

Frankly, unless it's happened, I'm surprised there hasn't been a must-read fill-in-the-gaps comic book tie-in with the movies.

How can this surprise you after the last 13-odd years of Marvel tying in their publishing program with film releases

Because I don't read comic books anymore? And, from that vantage, I haven't felt any compulsion to check? I mean, I don't watch Agents of SHIELD, either, but I know the last ep tied in directly to Captain America 2. I realize the comics and movies sort of occupy the same plane, as it were, but my surprise is that, in the credits to Iron Man 3 or Avengers or Thor 2 or something - even a press release - there's not a direct, well, directive to pick up the current comic. Unless it's just implicit. But if they announced issues such and such of whatever title lay some groundwork for Avengers 2, wouldn't they get a reader bump?

Then again, Agents of SHIELD tie-in to Cap'n was apparently the show's ratings low.

Marvel puts out movie tie-in comics (and, yeah, there have been some fill-in-the-gaps books to go along with the straight adaptations), but they're generally shitty when it comes to synergy beyond that. Most recent case in point: a bunch of the Guardians of the Galaxy trades most pertinent to the upcoming movie are currently out of print and super expensive to acquire.

they did come up with "Nicholas Fury Jr."

I think there's a good chance of Guardians of the Galaxy being a relative flop, which will put an end to any idea of the cosmic/weird side of Marvel in favor of more mainstream/actiony stuff. That's just the way it goes with needing to appeal to an audience that mostly doesn't read comics.

Saw a trailer for the new Spidey last night, it looks absolutely terrible - whatever the MCU flaws, they're just so much better than the Spider-Man or X-Men movie universes.

xpost Yeah, they do kinda goofy and perfunctory stuff, like putting the X-Men in black leather when the first movie came out and revamping Spider-Man to give him organic jizz web shooters. I guess Coulson is part of the MU proper now? That's something.

The new Spider-Man action scenes still look like videogame cut scenes, which is pretty ridic for a blockbuster in 2014.

smash cut to Transformers: Grimlock Edition making crazy money

We got Dr. Strange movie: http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/marvel-doctor-strange-movie-scott-derrickson-sinister/

(Way too early for a dedicated thread, imo.)

Clooney or gtfo

My wife begs to differ: "Viggo or gtfo."

Elias Koteas, assuming he doesn't look weird with hair

Corbin Bernsen

oh that's good

The new Spider-Man action scenes still look like videogame cut scenes, which is pretty ridic for a blockbuster in 2014.
--Kiarostami bag (milo z)

That's why they got banished to canada

The Universe is not kind, it will be Patrick Dempsey.

rumour is Jared Leto. Ugh

Figured this was coming soon with that random shout-out in Winter Soldier

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Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk in the Daredevil series.

(announced by Marvel, that is)

weird, who's dd?

Some guy named Charlie Cox.

nice casting of VDO

Can't see the DD series being much cop.

Has there been a half-decent live action superhero show since Batman?

Well THERE'S your info dump:

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December 2, 2019

DOCTOR STRANGE: WAR WAR

wowzers

very excited for world war hulk and the inhumans. they should do planet hulk lead-in somehow maybe on tv

May 3, 2020

ANT-MAN: LITTLE DUDE, BIG WAR

this is never going to end is it

They'll cycle through and then...reboot!

I guess RDJ said "Eh, just gimme one more Avengers movie, I need to take a nap."

has this been confirmed anywhere aside from twitpic?

awful optimistic of them to assume phrases like WORLD WAR and CIVIL WAR won't be gauche in 2018

xpost -- Not really. But if you're going to release a fake, now's the time.

Didn't that come out months ago, though?

Wouldn't be surprised at all!

the dates have but they've announced no titles beyond dr strange

God I hope the world ends before then.

It's totally fake. Everyone knows Civil War comes before Fallen Son.

WOW, THE INHUMANS! A man who can't talk lest he destroy the world and a woman with magic mutant hair iirc. Maybe some kind of underwater green guy?

the big dog yo

Would definitely watch over Flash vs Green Lantern.

and miss this sort of trenchant social commentary?
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Or maybe the next one will be about Mosaic and we'll get commentary like this.

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