Thank god they didn't. Imagine, a Civil War storyline without any Spider-Man bullshit, meaning no One More Day, etc.
[Movies] MCU: Phase 3 And Beyond
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Isn't Quesada no longer in charge over at Marvel? There's a chance we can get rid of that stupid, stupid event.
You are correct! It seems he left in 2011 and Axel Alonso took over. I may have to start collecting Spider-Man again. Or at least this summer's issue.
Rumor: Sony Japan may force Sony Pictures to take Spider-man deal.
Apparently the home office is well and fully pissed over the hack and the awful performance of the Spider-man movies. Having lost faith in them, it might be possible that they force Sony Pictures to take the deal in the upcoming January meeting. We all figured the only reason they hadn't hashed out the deal before was that some executive was worried about losing their job, but after the hack it's almost guaranteed to happen.
Apparently the home office is well and fully pissed over the hack and the awful performance of the Spider-man movies. Having lost faith in them, it might be possible that they force Sony Pictures to take the deal in the upcoming January meeting. We all figured the only reason they hadn't hashed out the deal before was that some executive was worried about losing their job, but after the hack it's almost guaranteed to happen.
Reportedly, the Russo brothers (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) revealed in an email to Sony Chairman Amy Pascal that they will be directing Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 and 2. If it's true that Joss Whedon is leaving the MCU after Avengers 2, I think I might be okay with them as replacement for the Avengers franchise.
Edit: Here is the article in question. It sites overtice.com, which is in Portuguese and so I don't know how reliable it is. But honestly, I believe it just because it kinda makes sense.
Edit: Here is the article in question. It sites overtice.com, which is in Portuguese and so I don't know how reliable it is. But honestly, I believe it just because it kinda makes sense.
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I'm also fine with that. Much as I love Whedon, if he's going, there's no point in griping about it, and I'd rather James Gunn keeps focused on Guardians 2 than have his time divided into too many major projects.
Not to mention Winter Solder is easily among the best of the Marvel movies.
Anyone in the Marvel stable of directors is better than Whedon, so this rules
Fortunately, they don't have to worry about INTRODUCING all those characters. Like Avengers, that's what their respective solo movies will be for.
Marvel's been very good so far about that, introducing characters ahead of time which will be major players later - Black Widow in Iron Man 2, Falcon in Winter Soldier, etc. I think they have enough movies to set up the characters for Infinity War ahead of time, instead of the DC Method of "The two guys you came to see... and 10 other people who'll be in it for like 5 minutes."
Supposedly the GotG will not be crossing over for Infinity War, if James Gunn is to be believed and he's not just throwing us a curve ball. He's stated that one or two Guardians might meet one or two Avengers at some point, but that he wants the Cosmic side of things to remain their own thing.
That's.. kinda disappointing. I was looking forward to the GotG interacting with the rest of the Marvel heroes. I could already picture Rocket giving Peter endless grief about his fellow Earthlings :"THESE are your people?!?"
Plus it's a challenge for the directors: How many Chrises can you get in one movie?
I think he's punking us to some extent, because the cosmic side is already involved in the same stuff leading up to the Infinity War. That said, even if all of the Avengers and all of the Guardians are in the same set of movies, it doesn't mean that all of them will be thrown together. The hero team of them + other characters would be over a dozen. That's too big a bunching of characters to give proper attention to everyone.
Yeah I think his earlier statements that one or two from one group might meet one or two from the other are more likely.
Perhaps the Guardians learn of Thanos going to retrieve the Tesseract and the Gauntlet from Asgard, and meet Thor, Loki, Sif, Heimdl, et al there. Maybe they manage to get Stark out to space for a bit. They had originally planned on an end credits scene where he made a cameo, after all.
I'm sure the Guardians will be in the in Infinity War movies, but not necessarily battling it out on Earth alongside the Avengers.
If the Avengers were the only Earthlings that the Guardians met, I'm sure Drax would be impressed.
This is quite possibly the stupidest way to hype something ever.
It's also ANOTHER goddamn trailer teaser, a practice that I absolutely loathe.
It's also ANOTHER goddamn trailer teaser, a practice that I absolutely loathe.
I actually think the Ant sized trailer is clever. I'm not a fan of trailers for trailers, but I think this move is smart of them if they want to give Agent Carter a boost.
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I don't think Ant Man will be as big a train wreck as Fox's supposedly upcoming Fantastic Four. That I'm looking forward to, because we're getting closer and closer to its release and haven't seen jack squat about it.
Ant Man I almost feel I need Edgar Wright's permission to go see. I'm still super bummed he was removed from the project, seeing as literally the only reason they decided to make it was because they wanted his version of it.
And Fantastic Four is going to be so terrible. It might be even worse than the last one.
And Fantastic Four is going to be so terrible. It might be even worse than the last one.
I like the idea, but I think it would have worked better if they had released the whole trailer in miniature. The fan community would have gone nuts for a week trying to analyze it and it would have gotten another boost when it was released in human scale.
I'm on board with Fantastic Four since it has great young actors (see me in 30 years when Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan have Oscars), Josh Trank's first movie was good and he's in high enough regard to already get a fuckin' Star Wars movie, and the screenwriter is a normal-ish pro whose name isn't Orzi, Kurtzman, or a list of 8 people.
Yep, that sure is a trailer. First Marvel trailer I've felt kind of ho-hum about. It being in production hell hasn't helped, mind you.
Yeah, I had a similar feeling. I mean, there are a few good elements in it, like the shrinking effect looks good, but on the whole that teaser felt...meh. I really hope all the pre-production baggage doesn't weigh it down and result in simply an okay (or, even worse, bad) Marvel movie.
I did enjoy the little jab about the name at the end, though.
Completely outside all that trouble it's had, that trailer is totally the mehest meh thing I've ever watched and I love every actor in it. The tiny little jokey jab doesn't in any way make up for the moroseness of the rest of it.
I think the problem is definitely the delivery. Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd seemed like they were bored just being there.
