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

Chris Evans is on film as the Human Torch and Captain America. They could probably start recasting the same actor in different roles and by now few would notice. Especially someone like Urban, who does a pretty good job disappearing. That is, that the same guy that can play Bones in Star Trek can play various heavies in the MCU or otherwise is pretty impressive. Acting!

Fantastic Four =/= MCU! At least not before now. Since the Fox acquisition I expect a watchable MCU FF movie at some point down the road.

just have brad bird direct, he's already done a couple of convincing practice runs

Do we have a Karl Urban thread?

do we need one?

Dude

look i’ll happily participate with endless posts about dredd if u wanna start one

(as long as it’s called ‘URBAN HYMNS: a thread of karl urban appreciation’)

Oh hey so I slept on it way too long but I'm happy to report (halfway through the season thus far) that Cloak and Dagger is actually better than some of the Netflix shows. So, y'know, check it out.

'cloak and dagger: better than iron fist!' raves ilxor dot com poster old lunch

Consistent, focused, compelling characters, well-acted, etc. It might actually help that there isn't a capital-v Villain per se (the big bads are a crooked cop and Roxxon, basically).

and no finn jones!

I thought season 2 of Iron Fist was much improved (I mean, how could it not be), but this is still at least maybe three times as good.

I watched the Cloak & Dagger pilot and was immediately put off by "Hey, attempted rape as a character motivation/plot point AGAIN" thing. I'm so sick of it. It's what made me not watch Bates Motel after seeing it happen to Vera Farmiga in the pilot.

Writers, there are other ways to push your female protagonists to their crisis points without raping them. See if you can think of some!

Shang-Chi film announced. Figured he would eventually pop up among the Netflix crew but, uh, it sound like all them shits are being cancelled.

Surprising choice but if they channel the Moench/Gulacy years I'm all for it. Presumably any Sax Rohmer characters would be renamed.

I figure Avengers 4 will have a title announced any time now, so the promotion machine can get going. 1st trailer at xmas movies, etc.

trailer is on Wednesday. There's a new Captain Marvel trailer tonight

oh nice x2

omg what exciting no-stakes fanservice merchandising tie-in will they reveal next

*checks stopwatch*

you’re slowing down, shakey, must try harder

Looking forward to the Shakey origin story/training montage.

Many shots of a trainer hustling his buns off while shakes stands on the sidelines rolling his eyes and then walks directly up to the trainer and emphatically rolls his eyes to make sure the gesture wasn't somehow overlooked.

irl lol

v glad no one knows who Lucrecia Martel is so she won't have to endure fanboy screeching over this

https://www.worldofreel.com/2018/12/director-lucrecia-martel-was-approached.html

The first thing I asked them was maybe if they could change the special effects because there’s so many laser lights… I find them horrible.

I don't know what she's talking about but otm

She’s certainly right about the music as well

totally otm on the music, but afaik there's no special gender bias operating wrt marvel handling the action sequences. that's how they do things.

is there any good writing anywhere on....what exactly that means, practically speaking

The 7th grader whose mom bought him white jeans and a black turtleneck, so he could look like Shang-Chi, is rejoicing at that movie announcement. Hope they've budgeted "Rhiannon" for the soundtrack.

Brie Larson Says Views The Upcoming ‘Captain Marvel’ As “My Form Of Activism” https://t.co/JwZZDFZguq pic.twitter.com/2fqPpsmHEr

— The Playlist 🎬 (@ThePlaylist) February 5, 2019

woke af 🔥

Two Namor omnibi announced in quick succession got my spidey sense tingling and sure enough, rumors are circulating that Marvel has the rights again and a film may be afoot.

At least part of the upcoming slate has to be dropping right after Endgame, as a multitude of projects are seemingly well underway with few/no official announcements beyond Spider-Man: Far From Home. Like I just read a thing that Dr. Strange 2 may be released next year, which has to mean that they've at least started filming.

Yeah, Scott Derrickson tweeted and deleted a cover featuring Strange and Namor a little while back

For those keeping score...

Basically 100% confirmed:
Black Widow
Eternals
Shang-Chi
Dr. Strange 2
Black Panther 2
Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Rumors a-swirlin':
Ghost Rider
Blade
Namor

Assumptions and wishful thinking but who knows how they intend to make it happen:
FF
X-Men

Feige (or someone) has also confirmed that they intend to keep minting money with more Deadpool films.

I’d loooove for Doom to show up at the end of Avengers

Doom should be the Thanos of the next slate of films for sure

Sub-Mariner film could be great fun, as long as they remember to make him a dick.

Rumors a-swirlin':
Ghost Rider

JUSTICE FOR NEVELDINE/TAYLOR

Ghost Rider already appeared in Agents of SHIELD, would they be treating it as a separate continuity then, like DC does with it's TV series and movies?

That was muscle car Ghost Rider, movie would presumably be original motorcycle Ghost Rider (not horse Ghost Rider, cyber Ghost Rider, ex-ILX poster ghost rider, or other motorcycle Ghost Rider(s)). hth

Oh yeah, I guess I hadn't thought of that. IMO Ghost Rider has always been a rather boring character concept, but I the movie could be a bit more interesting if it featured Johnny Blaze and was a Captain Marvel style period piece set in the '70s, so it could be informed by the interests of that decade (trick motorcyclists, occultism, etc), just like first GR comic was.

Having it set in a time period where there are (pretty much) no superheroes would also help alleviate the fact that Ghost Rider feels out of place in the fairly secular MCU (which was already evident in the Agents of SHIELD), as opposed to the comic book Marvel universe, where demons and deities lurk around every every corner.

Feige continued, “that’s right my little piss pigs, sit in your mess and watch me make another billion dollars.” https://t.co/aeoHR1a01C

— Lance St. Laurent (@LanceStLaurent) April 10, 2019

https://www.mskcc.org/sites/default/files/patient_ed/caring_for_your_urinary_foley_catheter-20241/foley-fig_1-en.png

Is that how all the superheroes go so long stuck in their suits? Just sloshing around, waiting for a spare second to drain their leg?

Stillsuits brah

Where does the Hulk poop? (A: Wherever he wants!)

why not this one morbs

I will piss for the entire length of this movie, fuck to the Feige https://t.co/74ESXuKNby

— K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen) April 11, 2019

A question for the nerds: they went through great lengths to show how powerful these heroes are, and how even that was (for a while) no match for a villain like Thanos, who they built up over several movies. So, as they ramp up the next phase of movies, are they going to do it again? Tie everything together around a big villain? What other villains of that stature are there left for the Big Bad grooming? Dr. Doom? They've sort of gone through or repurposed a lot of them already, haven't they? Fantastic Four seems most ripe for material, but a reboot of that under the Disney umbrella also seems a long way away.