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

elba's already been campaigning for black panther right? not like it'd be too out there, there'd just be a scene where hemsworth was like "hm you look like someone i know *audience laughter*"

i don't like actors being more than one superhero

i don't like there being so few black actors in the major motion picture sphere that actors doubling up on roles in the same universe seems normal

Craig Robinson as Luke Cage

Michael Jai White as Luke Cage

Terry Crews as Luke Cage

Andre 3000 as Black Goliath

Maclolm Jamal Warner as Bishop

They already had a Bishop- he didn't have a single line of dialogue.

is michael b jordan a marvel superhero yet?

johnny storm

cool, that's good casting

yeah that's from that fantastic four that's already announced it plans to have nothing to do w/ the comics

director from Chronicle is doing it too, actually have my hopes up for that one

considering Trank is doing it i'm not worried at all it'll get the comic book stuff done, Chronicle was basically an X-Men movie

gotg 2 happening w/gunn returning

Guardians of the Galaxy 2: Garden of the Gods

*war garden

Savage Garden

Secret of the Lost Garden

http://i.imgur.com/u47G52O.jpg

who's the guy floating in the back?

vision

cool. did not now he was in this film. can't wait to see him cry.

when did hawkeye swell to hulk-like proportions?

huh. imdb says bettany will be playing vision as well as voicing jarvis. what do you know.

xpost trick of perspective. that's actually a life-size Renner

oh heh never noticed before but i guess if movie wolverine can be 6ft movie hawkeye can be a lefty

xpost trick of perspective. that's actually a life-size Renner

huh. imdb says bettany will be playing vision as well as voicing jarvis

Pym already got his own promo poster this weekend:

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2014/07/23/Ant-Man-Comic-Con_612x942.jpg

Michael douglas you say. At least that will spare him the indignity of contorting into some costume.

aside from gotg 2 release date (2017) nothing new outside ant-man and avengers. figured they might make some announcements.

also if they're really doing one sequel a year does that push thor 3 all the way back to 2018? tom hiddleston won't even be attractive anymore

On the latest Schmoes Know Podcast, our good friend- and overall reliable source- Devin Faraci made an interesting revelation about the direction that Marvel Studios is heading in. After discussing how the old script that Marvel had been tossing around for Doctor Strange has now ended up in the recycle bin, he drops this tidbit:

"Marvel's new thing is no more origin stories. So Doctor Strange's movie no longer has an origin. It begins in media res [literary term for "in the midst of things"]. It's got Doctor Strange all ready established as The Sorcerer Supreme. It's a totally new script [...] without any of the previous stuff. They're not even touching the previous script."

hallelujah

[literary term for "in the midst of things"]

finally!

i would be cool with them doing short origin story bumpers at the start of each marvel movie for the NEXT marvel movie, a'la pixar's preshow shorts.

but yeah, fuck wasting the first half of your movie with an origin story that was kinda lame when it was penned sixty years ago and that 75% your audience already knows anyway

OTM. The first few movies can be seen as an origin story for the whole milieu and let's get on with it from there.

skipping the origin story allows writers to backfill as necessary, which I would think is liberating.

fuck wasting the first half of your movie with an origin story that was kinda lame when it was penned sixty years ago and that 75% your audience already knows anyway

thing is, any character they launch now will NOT be familiar to 75% of your audience if your audience is a blockbuster one. I can see wanting to get away from movies where the climax of the film is "and that's how...he became...THE SUB-MARINER!" but I hope they find a middle-ground between that and assuming we don't need a little time to acclimate to a dude in a speedo with wings on his feet.

we still need to know why we should care about the character beyond the fact that they've been in the presence of nerds for decades, and origin stories are usually the easiest way to express that

i'm seeing guardians tonight so will be able to answer this question myself soon but didn't they just throw the characters in with like five minutes of exposition? And that's one where you can assume 95% of the audience DOESN'T know who these guys are.

no guardians is an origin story fo sho

each individual character gets a little exposition at the beginning, but the story is about their gradual transformation into a team

yeah, that's what I mean by "origin story": how they became who they are. Team dynamics tend to make good movies. But origin stories that stick to canon usually suck because this stuff was written by madmen on a deadline in 1953; nobody wants to hear about spiderman's daddy issues. if the origin story is a freshly rewritten take on the character (Thor did this pretty well i thought) then fine. Otherwise, I'd prefer we start with issue #75 and up plz

people loved spider-man's origin story the first time. it was huge. they just didn't need it again in the fourth spidey movie in a decade.

if dr. strange will already be sorcerer supreme at the beginning of the movie, they'll probably have an audience surrogate (maybe a laaady) going "wtf magic?" instead of strange himself

so it will really be the "origin story" of his assistant or girlfriend.

the smart thing about taking that road would be it allows for them to do a flashback "strange rising" prequel...and you knoooow they love prequels