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>The linking factor of all Marvel movies is that on some level they're how Howard or Tony Stark screwed up & ruined the world.

>>41173

Wouldn't surprise me if they reveal Vision. It's one of the big complaints fans had about the trailer, and it'd be a hell of a way to get some big buzz coming off that trailer leak.

It'll likely be part of the big party scene where Ultron walks in, but who knows besides Marvel at this point.

>>41182
Then again, he has a decent voice for shouting "By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!"

>>41182
Boooooo.

>>41182
I don't even dislike Zantbatch. He seems like a great actor from what little I've watched of him and a friendly enough guy IRL regardless of his... looks. But I'm really not looking forward to the shrieking fangirls and all the walking over eggshells I'll have to do when I talk about anything that has to do with this movie because of them.

>>41186

God help Tumblr if he and Loki ever have a scene together in a Marvel film.

>>41187
I'm surprised they aren't splooging out over War Horse as much as they could.

Speaking of new additions to the MCU, the end of Age of Ultron might have at least one.

http://411mania.com/movies/kevin-feige-says-avengers-3-will-likely-have-a-different-team/

>>41187
Tom Hiddleston isn't the most attractive guy either. He's damn average, better than Cumberbatch or Footface Smith at least but friendly looking to be charitable. I'm not fussy with my taste in men but I don't fucking get it. I'm halfway to expecting Danny Devito to become the next Tumblr sex symbol now.

>>41192
Ok, that just looks fuckin' hilarious. Like Hardy after a hardcore diet.

BLACK PANTHER, 2017

CAPTAIN MARVEL, 2018

DC, BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

>>41195
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=56670
There's a lot of HAPPENING IN HERE

>>41196

IT IS HAPPENING SO HARD THAT I AM CRYING TEARS OF JOY

WB’s DC film division literally just got its entire shit pushed all the way back in by that event.

>>41199

Other things of note:

* Feige teased a possible Hulk movie (likely for Phase 4)
* Captain Marvel is confirmed as Carol Danvers
* Easter Eggs for Inhumans could show up as early as Age of Ultron; Wakanda will also be featured in AoU, with a possible cameo by Black Panther
* Cap 3: Civil War is "not about secret identities and more about who do superheroes report to" (which makes sense considering all of the superheroes in the MCU don't really have secret identities)

Spider-Man in Avengers is deconfirmed. Anything not announced at the Marvel event today is a rumor.

Also, Black Widow won't get a solo movie; she'll only be featured in Avengers films.

Ant-Man is now a Phase 2 movie; Civil War will kick off Phase 3.

KEVIN FEIGE TEASED A RUNAWAYS MOVIE.

According to Kevin Feige, Captain Marvel will be the strongest superhero in the MCU.

Fuck yes.

>>41199
My thoughts as a casual Mahvel fan. Feel free to shit all over any bad tastes of mine.

>Captain America: Civil War
Meh. Does set up a convenient leaving point for Evans as well as a way to come back if he changes his mind in the future. A good chance to hopefully atone for Quesada's shit.
>Doctor Strange
Meh. Not knowledgeable enough about it to make a call but Dormammu and Umar are pretty cool characters and the magic focus could be interesting as long as they don't get too campy. Nothing against Cumberbatch but I don't think he's a great fit so I'm really hoping that casting's still just a rumor. Could really go anywhere at this point.
>GotG2
Yes! If it's close to as good as the first. Hopefully Moondragon and Adam Warlock will appear this time. Especially since Gamora suffers a bit from being the token girl of the team.
>Black Panther
Yes! Good to see some more diversity in the lineup, and I've heard amazing things about Priest's run so I hope they take inspiration from that. Would be a good entrypoint for Iron Fist and Luke Cage spinoffs as well.
>Thor 3
Not interested and absolutely hated both of the previous movies. However, as much as I loathe Loki fangirls and his performance in Avengers, I thought Hiddleston was one of the only good things in Thor 2 so the extra focus on him might be a reason for hype if they can get a competent director.
>Captain Marvel
Yes! Especially if it's about Carol Danvers. I would certainly appreciate the girl power, though at the same time I can understand the value of making it focused on original Mar-Vell as a launchpad for all the cosmic Marvelverse BS (unless Fox already has that stuff). In the off chance it's Monica Rambeau, it would be a horrible waste unless of all things it's really a Nextwave movie in disguise.
>Inhumans
I like Crystal, Black Bolt, and Medusa on their own, but I'm a little iffy on it. Not sure how they can be tied into the greater verse with the lack of the X-Men or Fantastic unless they see it as precisely the opening they're hoping to capitalize on.
>Avengers: Infinity War
Fuck yes, so hype! Granted most of my knowledge of this arc comes from the Capcom games but hey, they were my childhood.

>>41203
What about Hawkeye or Hulk? I'm OK with it seeing as she's tied so strongly to SHIELD and it wouldn't be interesting to make a SHIELD-centric movie, plus normalfags don't have the same appeal as the rest of Marvel's lineup. But I'd be happier knowing there's no double standards involved.

>>41210
>Hawkeye

No one cares. (Then again, Ant-Man gets a movie).

>Hulk

Disney wanted a new movie after the first Avengers film, but Marvel was hesitate, because of the poor performance of the previous films.

>>41209

Captain Marvel is confirmed to be about Carol Danvers. Black Panther will show up in Age of Ultron in some fashion (as will Wakanda). The Inhumans are going to be a stepping stone for an MCU expansion post-Phase 3 (as best anyone can figure, anyway). And according to what info can be gathered from things Feige said at the Marvel event, Thor: Ragnarok is apparently going to shake up the MCU during Phase 3 in much the same way Winter Soldier did during Phase 2. (Oh, and Thor is confirmed not to appear in Infinity War—or at least the first part, anyway.)

>>41210

According to @SuperheroReport, Feige supposedly hinted at a future Hulk movie (so I’d have to think he means for Phase 4, all things considered). Nothing on the Hawkeye front, though Age of Ultron will reportedly feature Hawkeye in a larger role than last time. Anything else not directly confirmed by anything said at the Marvel event today is just a rumor and nothing more.

>>41210
Hawkeye is alright but out of all the original 6 Avengers he's the least deserving of a movie by far. I'm OK with him showing up in Agents of SHIELD though if that kind of thing is allowed.

>>41213

Pretty sure it'd be allowed if it wasn't prohibitively expensive for Marvel to have Renner show up on an episode (not to mention having to work out scheduling conflicts and such).

Anymore news about the Agent Carter spinoff show?

>Thor: Ragnarok
Oh god no not Clor again.

>>41216
I'm fairly certain it's the death and destruction of all Asgard-Ragnarok, not Clor. Feige said that Ragnarok would shake up the MCU in a similar manner that The Winter Soldier did.

>>41217
It could be both, you never know. Considering they're touching on Civil War with Cap's next film, maybe Tony Stu makes Thor a robot buddy to rule over Asgard in his stead after beating Loki back for the time being or something bullshit like that.

//youtube.com/watch?v=eGwuoYKhqx8
>Captain America budging Mjolnir
Goddamn, I love that shit.

>>41221

I'm more excited about what the potential success of Black Panther and Captain Marvel could mean for both superhero films and films in general.

While Wonder Woman will beat Captain Marvel to the punch in terms of being the first female-led superhero film (fuck Catwoman), Wonder Woman herself is a "safe bet". She's a well-known property; she'll have that built-in audience acknowledgement right from the start. Captain Marvel, on the other hand, is a virtual unknown in comparison. Even Black Widow has more cultural cache than Carol Danvers right now. Much like Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel is a risky bet—but one that Marvel appears to have faith in, given the film's planned release date (right after Avengers: Infinity War - Part 1 and during the summer of 2018). If Captain Marvel succeeds, it could go a long way towards dispelling the notion that audiences don't want female-led films outside of rom-coms.

The real issue with superhero films these days, when you get down to it, is that they all feel too much alike in their final acts—you know, explosions and battles and the heroes save the day and whatnot. This is partially because of the studios employing the same second unit directors time and time again, but it's also because the studios think this is all we want out of superhero films. They think audiences only want to see superheroes destroy and smash and rip things apart.

I've heard that Feige wants to steer future "introductory" Marvel films away from the "origin story" mold that's helped define what we expect of superhero films. A further exploration of what defines superhero films—including rethinking that "third act superbattle"—could help studios redefine what a superhero film could be. Phase 3 represents the best opportunity from Marvel to do just that; everything is years away from hitting the screen, and that gives Feige more than enough time to start questioning what Marvel films can become in the future.

And I want to re-iterate a point I made on /baw/ a few days back: the reason superhero films appear to be so dominant in pop culture right now is that they're getting shitloads of press. Of course it seems like Marvel is dominating pop culture; their films are big business—specifically because of their status as summer blockbusters, which inevitably get more press (and make more money) than a "prestige" film that drops in November ever does. Keep in mind that, on average, we're getting about three superhero films a year (it will likely jump to four by the time Justice League 1 lands in theaters). In the 1950s, there were several dozen westerns released per year (Wikipedia actually had to split the list of westerns released in the ’50s into two separate pages). If you think we’ve hit peak saturation for superhero films, I’ll tell you to wait until Marvel’s releasing one film per month.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go wonder how long it'll be before Squirrel Girl shows up in the MCU somewhere. I’ve heard rumors that Robbie "Speedball" Baldwin might make an appearance in Agents of SHIELD…

So Dr. Strange is set to be directed by Scott Derrickson. Looks like it's going to be more of a horror film.

Any chance of Kamala showing up in either Inhumans or Captain Marvel? She's adorable even if her comic suffers from pushing the "totally average teenage girl" angle a little too hard.

>>41228

I’d bet on Inhumans more than Captain Marvel, but they’re both still years away anyway.

//youtube.com/watch?v=J5DA5DG4_yo

//youtube.com/watch?v=z_OQdaQcXRY
Strung together for her pleasure.

What's the chance we'll ever see RDJ hollering Proton Cannon or Unibeam?

>>41208
Well she is the hero out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe who actually bears the name Marvel in her title. I wonder what kind of movie it's going to be though though since most of the other films that star similarly overpowered single heroes like Iron Man rely on mixing with other genres to carry them through. A straightforward movie like the Supes films would be too comparatively mundane.

>>41241

Feige has said they're going to start moving away from the typical "origin story" movie that's come to define what we think of superhero films. There's also plenty of time for Marvel to explore the idea of what defines superhero movies and how it could change those definitions. (Read my big post a few replies above.)

Think of something like Blade: you learn how he came to be who he is during the film, but the film doesn't waste time with an in-depth look at his origins or background. That's the kind of thing that Feige is talking about doing with future Marvel movies (or so I'd hope).

>>41242
Speaking of Blade what are the chances that we'll see a MCU version of him?

>>41244
Low, unless it gets a PG-13 rating. (Which, honestly, could work). Don't expect Marvel Studios to produce any R-rated film of their darker characters and I'm not just saying that because of Disney. Marvel wants their properties to be all-age friendly. And with R-rated superhero films performing poorly at the box office (Watchmen, Kick-Ass), Marvel won't jeopardize its film success with a movie aimed at a limited audience.

Maybe Marvel could experiment on Netflix.

>>41242
> Feige has said they're going to start moving away from the typical "origin story" movie

Well, they technically already did that with The Incredible Hulk, the "origin" part took like two minutes during the opening credits

>>41247

Yeah, but then we got Thor, First Avenger, Guardians of the Galaxy, and likely Ant-Man (and technically Avengers in re: how the team came together for the first time). Even Iron Man was still stuck in the "origin story" rut.

I really do hope Doctor Strange and the other "introductory" films from here on out avoid the origin story model. It's boring, clichéd, and played out. Let that shit die with Phase 2.

>>41248
Guardians of the Galaxy wasn't really an origin story, it was an "Assembling the Team" story, like the Blues Brothers or Ocean's Eleven.

>>41248
I guess their origins will probably be embedded within the movies of the other more established heroes, like Black Panther and Cap 3. In which case I'm guessing Marvel may have her debut in GotG2 and one other Earth movie before starting her own.

>>41249

Similar principle, though. And really, the big problem with cape films (as I pointed out in that big post above) is that they all tend to end the same way—the third act superfight.

>>41267
It probably won't be any worse than Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Green Lantern, which were both horrendous but didn't even put a dent in the audience loving superhero films.

>>41267
If its clear enough that the whole film is just a sham to keep the licensing deal then I hope Marvel can use the Disney muscle to get the rights back. I want Kl'rt in GOTG 2.

>>41267

1.) Don't be so gloom and doom. If shit like Green Lantern, Catwoman, and Blade: Trinity couldn't stop superhero/comic book films from dominating the summer movie season, a shitty Fantastic Four movie (two of which already exist) won’t do much to derail the train.
2.) If anything, the impending cataclysmic failure of this film will just mean Fox has no idea what the fuck it’s doing with the property. It’ll give Mickey Mouse's lawyers that much more leverage to get the rights back and hand them over to Marvel. The real problem would be in getting people to give a damn about another F4 film after two bad ones and the incredible shitpile that’s about to be foisted upon us.

>>41265
This is such a trainwreck and it just keeps getting worse/better. Here's hoping it'll at least be entertaining as Sonic 2006.

>>41270
Is it even worth salvaging at this point? I like classic FF and all but I don't think it's possible to make even a good movie that isn't just retreading all the familiar ground of the previous MCU films. I can imagine Disney buying back the rights to it and sitting on it just to keep shittier people from dragging it down further, but the most mileage I can see coming from the license is cameos of the Richards appearing in other heroes' films, or maybe the Super Skrull (?) in Captain Marvel.

>>41272

>Is it even worth salvaging at this point?

Really…no. I can't think of a single reason for anyone (even Marvel) to do another F4 movie, especially after this shit-train derails. Hell, does anyone even still care about the F4 as a comics franchise?

>>41270
The thing is it looks Batman and Robin nearly genera killing bad.

>>41272
Yeah, if Marvel/Disney got the rights back I doubt we'd see an F4 movie for some time; it would just go towards a larger Avengers roster, perhaps make a genius trio of Richards/Stark/Banner. Maybe they'd get a movie in Phase 4 or Phase 5, but it wouldn't be an origin film. Maybe a proper Galactucus...

Same goes for Spider-man once it returns, I think. They might use the Amazing filmverse as a general backdrop and go forward from there, with him showing up in other movies for the start. Doing this for both Spider-man and F4 allows them to wash away any stink that Fox put on them, set up the characters in the MCU, and then give them their solo outings.

>>41275
I don't know if they should even bother giving the FF4 a solo film at all. Work some of them or their mythos into other films a little as a nod to the comics fans, or let them appear as secondary characters similarly to Black Widow, Hawkeye, and the Hulk. The MCU is in danger of getting bloated with too many actors and spheres as it is.

>>41274
That would require people caring enough about this movie in the first place. Even if it flops severely people are still going to look forward to Marvel's other stuff.

>>41274

If Batman & Robin, Elektra, Catwoman, Blade: Trinity, Green Lantern, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Constantine (the movie), Hulk (the Ang Lee movie), X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, and Superman Returns couldn't kill the genre, another shitty F4 movie certainly won't do the job.

Really, to kill the genre, Marvel would have to crank out a full MCU Phase worth of shit. Marvel's the strongest brand when it comes to comic book/superhero films due to all the good movies they've put out (even the worst Marvel movies are still watchable). With Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy doing well at the box office (nearly 800 mil worldwide for both) and the reviewer's table (89%/90% with critics and 92%/95% with viewers at Rotten Tomatoes, respectively)…well, like I said, Marvel would have to crank out a whole slate of films to destroy its brand and take comic book/superhero films down with it.

>>41294

I’m so glad that was actually a thing they filmed.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Various_Artists_Guardians_Of_The_Galaxy_Awesome_Mi?id=Btmdbtfzel2mdiai5ewdjd5nqui&hl=en

Free for today only.

Pina Colada is still terrible.

>>41296
Got it!

>>41296
>Free for today only.
What do you mean?
Musics always free on the internet!

Just watched Captain America 2 (yeah yeah I know Slowtakuing) and damn. Def my favorite, can't understand reviewer beefs with Black Widow because I thought she was a great female character but more importantly are they gonna bring Rumlow back to kill off Cap next film?

So does discussion of Big Hero 6 go here or the general?

>>41337
I'd say general (or even the Disney thread on /co/); it's based on a Marvel comic, but the movie's setting is entirely different (they even took out the two characters who were mutants) and the marketing doesn't even attempt to associate it with the Marvel movies.

>>41315
I am curious, what review beefs? The ones I recall reading, mostly noticed that it was the first time the character was developed in any significant manner.

//youtube.com/watch?v=vHKgqwLl2f0

//youtube.com/watch?v=rueL_xEU2wY

>>41358
I wonder why they're so keen on not showing him to viewers.

>>41359

My guess is they're not fully finished with the CGI—and they want to save something for the next big trailer (very likely a Super Bowl spot).

>>41358
Not really crazy about Iron Man's chestplate. Is it a new design.

Britguy Clumsyname is officially Doctor Strange. And yes, official MEANS official; Marvel sent out a press release and everything, so no bitching about ‘unofficially official’.

>>41364
Aww, I am disappoint.

>>41364
Stephen Strange never struck me as particularly handsome so I don't have a problem with it but he needs to go full Vincent Price/Tim Curry with the voice for it to really work.

>>41364
I'm already seeing a few people complaining about Marvel whitewashing Dr. Strange because of this. But I always thought he was already white to begin with. What in the fuck?

>>41364
Not a bad choice, but an uninspired one.

>>41369
Yeah I don't fear he won't be able to do the job but it's going to be a heavily by-the-numbers, typecasted performance. I'm not anti-hype for the movie but I'm no longer as interested in it as I used to unless Cumberbatch goes out of his way to do something novel.

>>41366
Cosigned.

>>41368
It is THE NEW ERA. Casting White Actors as White Characters is racist now. Do you not remember the anger on the pro- side of Spider-Glover and the Jordan Torch?

>>41372
Oh, and on the anti-side of Cavillman.

>>41372
Spider-Glover is fine as long as it's specifically for Miles Morales, but Jordan's race being a mismatch for Torch is the least of FF reboot's problems (his getting in for nepotism reasons being a way bigger one).

>>41372
Yeah but they're specifically calling it whitewashing, meaning that there had to be some indication that Dr. Strange had nonwhite-ness to wash in the first place, unless Tumblr's Windmill Chaser Warriors have really gone that far off the deep end. It's illogical because if Dr. Strange wasn't white, then why was there so much backlash over him being a "mighty whitey" figure, which I would have thought he'd have to be white to qualify for to begin with?

>>41379
Is the actual movie going to be in CGI or will it be live action?

>>41380
CGI was for the test footage, for all the action scenes.

>>41372
>Casting White Actors as White Characters is racist now.
TO BE FAIR most of these characters were created when black people still got beat up in public for demonstrating in favor of their civil rights.

I feel like there's a touch of irony there but its best I don't act upon it.

>>41382
If Marvel wanted to go the diversity route, then as a nonwhite person I think they're better off promoting more characters who are nonwhite to begin with, like what they're doing Black Panther and the (potentially to become Captain) Falcon, or adapting Kamala, Robbie, and Amadeus, than making originally white characters nonwhite, which is pandering to the point of tokenism and strikes me as a half-assed compromise that says they're too afraid of giving us a character who was nonwhite from day one and thus comes with all the cultural baggage that encompasses.

>>41383
>pandering
Bad choice of words there, meant to say "patronizing". Basically my point is, I feel like Marvel putting their faith into one of their nonwhite heroes is a more sincere effort towards diversity than sticking with someone from their stable of already more famous white heroes and slapping a racial coat of paint on them as an attempt to win us over.

>>41384

Long-time fan, I believe. He’s been working to get a Deadpool movie made for years.

In other Marvel news:
http://screencrush.com/marvel-jessica-jones-netflix-krysten-ritter-luke-cage-mike-colter/
I still have yet to watch Breaking Bad so I don't know what she's like, but Ritter looks kinda frail to be Jones.

>>41391
Either way I don't have much reason to get enthusiastic, Jeph Loeb is in charge of the television wing and he already turned Agents of SHIELD into a pile of mediocrity.

>>41381
I'm confused, are you saying the final movie is going to be a hybrid live-action and CGI film or what?

The reason why Deadpool was entirely CGI in the test footage is because it's easier and faster to shoot the action sequences for it. Again, it was just test footage. Made to give the studio an idea of what an actual Deadpool movie could be.

Deadpool will be a real life guy in the movie, with possible CGI for complex action scenes, like your standard action flick.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/10/7368943/leaked-sony-pictures-emails-show-how-marvel-tried-to-get-spider-man-back
Why the fuck would you guys even want that? The Peter subplot was one of the worst parts of Civil War, goddamn.

>>41410
An extremely lose adaptation of Civil War is really the only way to go, considering how bad the original was.

>>41410
>Sinister Six, Venom, and Spidey 3 movies
Meh. They're really risking oversaturating the market with movies that likely won't be as good as Fox and Marvel's offerings. If they want to succeed then spamming Spidermovies out like that probably isn't such a good idea after how bad Spiderman 2 did.

>>41412

If anything, this news offers further proof of Sony having absolutely no idea what to do with the Spider-Man franchise beyond "make movies to keep the license". They want the same success as Marvel without putting in the effort to understand why Marvel has reached its current level of success.

If Marvel does manage to get the Spidey license back from Sony who do you think they'd cast? Shame they can't just keep Garfield because I thought he was actually a pretty good Parker. At the least better than Maguire.

>>41451
Why don't they want Andrew Garfield? Contract reasons or because they just don't like him?

>>41452

They want an adult Spider-Man, apparently. One of their plans was to use Cap 3 as yet another reboot for the franchise by introducing an adult Spidey via that film, then carrying him over into the Spider-Man Cinematic Universe or whatever.

The news for Sony Pictures just keeps getting worse and worse.

>>41453
Captain America 3 is turning into less and less of a Captain America film as it goes.

>>41452
>because they just don't like him?
Not him, but the movies he's connected to by proxy. Also because he's seen as a liability and the audience will get confused. Big shame though because he's got the talent for it.

>>41454
Yeah I'm already worried about Avengers 2 having way too much shit on its plate to cram into one movie what with Ultron, the Hulkbuster, the Maximoffs and Strucker, Loki and Heimdall, Black Panther, Hawkeye, and so on.

Winter Soldier managed to intertwine itself with the greater universe pretty well while still being a great standalone movie, but then you also have Iron Man 2 as an example of what can go wrong too. The fact that they're movies and the unified creative oversight is an advantage compared to the comic book medium, but between all the different movies and all the new properties they want to adapt that's a lot of plotlines to juggle. I'm really worried that the MCU is going to eventually accumulate so much continuity cruft that it'll turn into a burden, especially if any of their movies misfires they're stuck with it and can't just retcon it away. Look what happened to the Ultimate Marvel universe.

>>41454
Captain America 3 wouldn't have turned to Cap v Iron Man, if not for Batman v Superman.

>>41460
No, they needed a way to ease Chris Evans out by "offing" Cap and replace him with Bucky. It's been long evident based on their contract lengths that was going to be the case. Out of all the possibilities a Civil War adaptation was the most likely and logical way to achieve that, and people had already been calling it for months.

The big issue for me is that there might be too many plot threads and characters running around that Bucky doesn't get enough character development before assuming the mantle, but considering how loosely a lot of other plotlines have been adapted it's probably still too early to really speculate.

And as for Batman and Superman, it sounds like Warner Bros. are the ones who are on the defensive, not Marvel.

>>41461
>And as for Batman and Superman, it sounds like Warner Bros. are the ones who are on the defensive, not Marvel.

I doubt Marvel would have announced a Captain Marvel and Blank Panther film, if WB didn't announce a Wonder Woman and Cyborg film before, consider how long the company has dodged the possibility. Outside of that, DC is scrambling to catch up with Marvel.

>>41462

>I doubt Marvel would have announced a Captain Marvel and Black Panther film, if WB didn't announce a Wonder Woman and Cyborg film before, consider how long the company has dodged the possibility.

Or maybe they didn’t want to give away any of its Phase Three plans before they were ready. Wonder Woman will come out before Captain Marvel, but Black Panther’s supposed to come out well before Cyborg (and BP’s rumored to cameo in Avengers 2).

Also, relating to the continuity issues raised earlier in the thread: yeah, that’s gonna get a bit worrisome as time goes on. Phase One went light on the inter-film continuity (Iron Man 2 aside), but Phase Two really cranked it up, and Phase Three looks to take it to a whole new level (given the Inhumans, Captain Marvel, Civil War, and the Infinity War two-parter). Phase Three is the critical moment for Marvel: can it keep the MCU going while avoiding the ‘continuity cruft’ that threatens to overtake the films? (I’m kinda hoping Infinity War helps ‘split up’ the MCU into manageable ‘chunks’ where continuities are still connected but nowhere near as dependent on each other to tell stories.)

>>41460
Dude, I know you've got this retarded hateboner for Marvel Studios but it has fuckall to do with them trying to one-up DC's movies (as if Warner has given them any real reason to worry yet) and everything to do with RDJ pushing them for more money:
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/robert-downey-jr-to-join-captain-america-3-exclusive-1201312229/
Oh, and the stuff other anon said earlier about Cap and Bucky's contracts.

>>41463
The key thing is whether Marvel has enough self-restraint to let some characters have a finite arc, maybe show up for a major crossover if need be, and then disappear once they're done. Don't milk a property like Atlus has been doing with Persona 4. Like, I would love to see Vaughn's Runaways arc adapted into one solo film each, but that should be the end of it. Even if it does extremely well the cast has worn out its novelty (besides, everything that comes afterwards sucks aside from Victor).

The other thing that worries me is how contract renegotiations that expire then don't become renewed until a while after the fact may result in the good old Comic Death Problem and all the half-assed resurrection problems that come with it.

>>41463
I would believe that, if Marvel Studios didn't have a history of turning down a female or minority-lead superhero movie with "Oh, we're waiting for the right script," and other lame answers of that nature. Especially when it tried to label The Winter Soldier as "basically a Black Window movie," when asked why she wasn't getting one. However, if speculation of her getting killed in Avengers 2 is correct, that may explain why Marvel keeps avoiding that question.

>>41466

>I would believe that, if Marvel Studios didn't have a history of turning down a female or minority-lead superhero movie with "Oh, we're waiting for the right script," and other lame answers of that nature.

Did you ever stop and think those answers might be true? I doubt Marvel wants to blow the goodwill it’ll receive from making a black/female superhero tentpole by rushing said tentpole out there as quickly as possible. Waiting for the right opportunity to present itself and putting out the best possible film is a far better approach than rushing a half-assed, poorly-written piece of garbage into theaters just to beat DC or get brownie points for "progressive" filmmaking. If it means waiting three years for a great Captain Marvel film as opposed to two or less for a mediocre one, I’ll deal with the wait.

>>41468
No one wants another Catwoman or Elektra if they can help it.

>>41468
>Did you ever stop and think those answers might be true?

Considering that's the typical Hollywood response on never making a movie starring a woman or a minority, no. Especially when a lesser character like Ant-Man got the greenlight, while Black Widow's fame in theaters only grew, along with demand for a movie about her. The only thing hard about making a woman superhero movie, or a black superhero movie, is getting the studio to actually do it.

http://comicsalliance.com/just-how-hard-is-a-black-panther-film-anyway/

>>41470
And when I say studio, I don't just mean Marvel. The same goes for DC/WB, Sony, Fox and whoever has rights to superhero characters.

>>41470
>>41471

Well gee, considering how botching such a film would mean watching the film get trashed for years (see: Catwoman, Elektra) and knowing a bad film would be part of the MCU continuity in a way Marvel likely couldn't just ignore, I'm honestly not surprised they've waited this long to do it. DC/WB just got the DCCU underway, so I'm willing to cut them a little slack in this area. Every other studio can eat a dick, though.

>>41214
>>41213
http://screenrant.com/agents-shield-hawkeye-jeremy-renner/
Huh, looks like it might be happening after all.

>>41525
It's just a pic. Doesn't mean anything. I'm more willing to believe that stoner due from Cabin in the Woods is going to be Speedball though.

>>41526

Especially since Speedball’s one of the catalysts for Civil War.

>>41527
Yeah but the Civil War of the movieverse is going to be of a wildly different nature though.

>>41527
Doubtful. I heard they're not doing secret identities this time and it's going to be Ultron not Speedball which motivates Iron Man to become pro-reg. I heard the rumor that in Age of Ultron Rhodey is going to die.

>>41529
Yeah, now that you mention it....none of the Avengers' civilian identities are secret, are they? Black Widow and Hawkeye both work for SHIELD, Captain America and Iron Man are both widely known by the mainstream, and Thor doesn't have a secret identity in the movieverse. Bruce Banner might not be widely known by the public, but the government definitely knows who he is and that he's the Hulk.

Spider-man and the X-Men are not part of the movieverse, so their identities aren't an issue. The Fantastic Four still aren't part of this universe either (I think?) and even if they were their identities are public.

So unless the new supers introduced in Phase 3 keep their identities secret, I don't know how you could make registration a big issue in the MCU.

>>41530
From what I hear it's not about secret identities at all, but more about superheroes making themselves accountable to the various governments around the world a la the ending of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and therefore the anti-reg side is people who don't trust the government or want to be vigilantes.

I'm fairly confident they'll be able to pull it off better this time around as (the original comics SHRA was always too stupidly unreasonable to make a good moral conflict out of), but I am worried about what they're going to do with possibly killing off Cap and replacing him with Bucky. Last we saw of Raiden 2.0 he was still barely able to break out of the brainwashing and is totally at large. I don't think one movie is enough time for his character to overcome it and develop into the role, especially not with everything else going on.

>>41532
It's funny because David Hayter has actually voiced Captain America and Bucky at several points.

>>41535
It actually looks sort of OK. Benedict looks better when he has proper facial hair covering his face to hide some of the unattractive facial features, and he's got the high cheekbones and slanty eyes early Strange had. My main disappointment though is that Cumberbatch will likely bring zero new to the role. He's already typecasted badly enough as it is.

>>41536

Did you really think Marvel would take a huge risk with this? Cumberbatch was cast precisely because he’s a safe bet.

>>41537
Hey it worked out for Cap.

>>41538
And Iron Man. Marvel Universe wouldn't have taken off if they'd gone with the safe bet on that one.

>>41539
Actually, Marvel didn't want RDJ to be Iron Man and Jon Favreau had to fight for it.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Jon-Favreau-Details-His-Fight-With-Marvel-Studios-Cast-Robert-Downey-Jr-Iron-Man-43293.html

>>41570
"Are you INHUMAN?"
"I am Groot"

>>41570
Maybe tease in some Ms.Marvel.

>>41527
The rumor I've heard was it's going to be the Winter Soldier going all Elfen Lied on his former HYDRA captors that will catalyze the Civil War rather than Speedball, and Tony's extra pissed because he's the one who killed his dad.

>It’s a movie that just didn’t work very well. I tried to make it work, but I didn’t really believe in all the characters, so that couldn’t be hidden from people who loved Spider-Man. If the director doesn’t love something, it’s wrong of them to make it when so many other people love it. I think [raising the stakes after Spider-Man 2] was the thinking going into it, and I think that’s what doomed us. I should’ve just stuck with the characters and the relationships and progressed them to the next step and not tried to top the bar …

>Rami: [But] directors don’t like to talk about their bad films.

>Hardwick: I don’t think that ‘bad’ is the right word.

>Raimi: Awful!

http://www.pajiba.com/trade_news/sam-raimi-opens-up-about-spiderman-3-and-his-other-failed-movies.php

Raimi sounds like a broken man, when talking Oz: The Great and Powerful.

>Matt Mira: “I think you pulled that off really well.”
>Raimi: *mumbles something under his breath*
>Matt: You don’t think so?
>Raimi: (dismissively) “I did the best I could.”

HEH, Bravo Marvel.

//youtube.com/watch?v=KQjhJf1R4k4

So how is that Peggy Carter show? It any good? Heard it's at least better than AoS which took until the Winter Soldier was released to become consistently good.

>>41594
Heard mixed things so far but it seems positive overall. Some grumbling by some that they cannot ship her with her best girl since we know how her story plays out in the end.

Someone made the Ant-Man trailer less generic. (Skip to 1:16 for the edit).

//youtube.com/watch?v=j1RwmrUM_Vs

Original.

//youtube.com/watch?v=xInh3VhAWs8

Test footage of the Edgar Wright version still has it beat.

//youtube.com/watch?v=Z-pFrplmexo

>>41594

Certainly enjoyed a lot more than AoS, if only because it's own more or less self-contained thing rather than the... overly smug tone that a lot of AoS seemed to have.

Like, I know that Jeph Loeb kind of had more control over Agents than Joss Whedon did, but it still seems more artifical than naturalistic, if that makes sense. Agent Carter in contrast has people acting like people. Flawed people, but more like actual human beings rather than the annoyingly quippy characters in the prior show.

>>41596
Aw man, I hope that Action Cop girl turns into Wasp 2 or something...

OK so I'm really fucking dumb and don't see a place on the website where I'm supposed to download the Watch ABC app that let's me actually download the thing.

//youtube.com/watch?v=MZoO8QVMxkk

>Ultron!
>In the flesh

>>41647
Was that Klaw around the middle?

Well, it looks like they're gonna take care of the problem where all the civilian deaths were poorly implied in the first film.

>>41647
Thank you Marvel, it's so nice to hear a trailer without the BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAing inception horns all over the fucking place.

Who's the woman getting naked? I don't think we've seen her before.

It can't be too much to hope to see a Proton Cannon/Gamma Crush/Charging Star bit show up at some point is it.

>>41660

Of the three, only the Gamma Crush is unfeasible. But I don’t see Marvel referencing the Capcom Vs. series in its films.

>>41664
If Winter Soldier ever made it into the MvC games (ha) what kind of moves and supers do you think he'd have? They've managed to make movesets out of people with more generic toolkits.

>>41671
Ummm, is it weird that I can't imagine him as an MvC character but a Killer Instinct character? Cuz Maya is kinda how I imagine him, like a trick character, throw the shield and use the gun to keep it rebounding for combos, if it lays on the ground ricochet bullets off it, that kinda stuff.

>>41671
Comics Bucky is a lot like Chris Redfield so to make him different they should probably draw more from the movie version of him. Emphasize speedy knife combos like Shiki from Melty Blood, with throwing knives and long distance-type guns like sniper rifles for projectiles. And to keep in line with the comics he'd probably be on the fragile side compared to people like Hulk and Cap since he's just a normal guy aside from the BIONIC AAAAAAAARM. For alts he could have his Robin tights and the Bucky Cap costume.

>>41672
If he's the Winter Soldier rather than Bucky Cap I doubt he'd have the shield.

Agent Carter is the most cancelled show ever, it's way too interesting, has a female lead, no romantic leads, etc.

It's reverse Constantine, instead of being too unfaithful it is SO FAITH AND GOOD.

Might as well ink up the big "FIREFLY" stamp.

>>41685

Psst. Agent Carter is a mini-series, not an ongoing.

>>41686
That's good.

>>41687
I'd like to see a few limited series. Maybe one on the Howling Commandos.

>>41685
Uh, how can it be faithful when its protagonist is as good as an original character and so is everybody else around her, even Howard Stark?

>>41689
Dude, The Carter's are a well established legacy in the MCU, granted we don't have much on Peggy but come on, when was the last time Marvel even THOUGHT about it's past?

Okay, granted, The Defenders, but still it's nice to see some gap filling.

>>41690
Well Sharon Carter is, but she got massively shafted in The Winter Soldier to the point I feel like the MCU isn't even planning to pair Steve up with her before his inevitable death and her presence was mostly there as a shoutout to the comics fans. While Agent Carter is awesome and all it's covering an area of the MCU which doesn't have much from the comics to line up with. Any shoutouts are probably going to be to other MCU elements rather than the comics, unless they work in another Daisy/Skye in AoS-esque reveal. In particular I'm hoping for Leviathan to turn out to be the first ones to find Bucky and collaborate with Zola before turning him over to them fully, which would deal neatly with that plothole from The Winter Soldier.

>>41695
IM2 had the best hair and TWS was the worst, I don't know what they were even thinking with that. First three suits are so similar I can't really judge which looks the best.

>>41695
Don't play KI, what's so KI about the design? Is it the Tron neon lines?

>>41701
"Ultron's malfunction appears to be due to sabotage by a rival company, Ultratech."

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/22/7876027/xmen-apocalypse-casting-storm-cyclops-jean-grey

I'm hellishly confused to the timeline of the X-men cinematic films. So just like the comics.

>>41739
Doesn't matter, DOFP basically retconned the fuck out of everything so hard it's as good as rebooted.

>>41739
Supposedly word is the time fuckery that resulted from Days of Future Past resulted in some characters being born at a different time than they were in the original X-Men trilogy, allowing for these kinds of time paradoxes.

I don't like the other two but I'm not all that happy with Jean Grey's casting. Sophie Turner wasn't terrible but she was inconsistent as fuck in Game of Thrones. Maisie Williams was a million times better.

>>41745
>I don't like the other two
*Don't know the other two, meant to say. Sophie Turner is the only one I recognize.

>>41754
>based on Ultimates Fantastic Four
So they're doing the ASM approach? Oh man I hope they don't keep the part about Reed going evil.

>>41755
The Ultimate Fantastic Four did a whole ton of stuff before they went with that. Hell, by the time Reed went evil UFF was basically dead.

Here it is.

//youtube.com/watch?v=e-BVs-KCSiA

>>41758
A joyless slog. Acknowledge that Guardians of the Galaxy worked but missing the point that it was fun. their Ben Grimm CGI okay, from the one backshot that we saw of him. Does Stan Lee cameo in this?

>>41759
>Acknowledge that Guardians of the Galaxy

How? By being a science fiction movie? Those existed way before GOTG.

An anon found the easter egg hidden in the trailer:

>The easter egg happens at 46 seconds in.
>The computer screen shows the IP-adress 23.21.190.125
>Just copy that into your address bar.

Trailer commentary by Josh Trank and Simon Kinberg.

http://geektyrant.com/news/fantastic-four-teaser-trailer-break-down-by-director-josh-trank-and-writer-simon-kinberg

http://www.newsarama.com/23331-casting-call-confirms-daniel-bruhl-as-civil-war-s-baron-zemo-superhero-registration-act.html
So apparently Daniel Bruhl's been confirmed as Baron Zemo in Civil War.

Can anyone explain what the big deal is behind him, other than he's got a long legacy as basically Cap's Joker? The "mask glued to face" gimmick seems campy as hell, as does the whole concept of the "Masters of Evil", especially since both of the Cap movies have been going for a relatively grounded feel, at least in contrast to things like the Spiderman and Thor films.

>>41768
They slowly retconned Zemo from just another Nazi to probably Cap's best enemy.

The long and short of it is the Zemo you are talking about was killed in WW2, when Cap reappears it's his child who becomes the good villain, Baron Helmut Zemo.

He was raised on neo-nazi ideology and repeats his father's errors but he is something his father was not, a capitalist.

Captain America frequently finds his countries willingness to do business with a known terrorist and neo-nazi disgusting and disheartening.

More than that thoughout his history he has a slow warping into what the movie will probably use his as, Captain America's Virgil, the rival villain who is like you but better.

The change came about during civil war so it's pretty likely to be what they are playing especially where his ideology shifts from nazi's to a more grey twisted altruism than Saturday morning cartoon selfishness.

>>41770
That makes me a bit worried. Unless he's mostly kept as a glorified cameo I'm worried he's going to be the man behind the (Iron) Man the movie is going to suffer from the same key problem Cap 2 did, in that what would otherwise be a genuinely compelling moral conflict is torpedoed by the fact that the side opposing Cap ends up being a strawman due to being run by literal fucking Nazis.

>>41771
Nah man, what I'm trying to say is that Zemo is way more complicated than that but that's where he started.

>Last week, 20th Century Fox released the first look at their upcoming superhero tentpole Fantastic Four, the newest onscreen incarnation of the First Family of Marvel Comics. The response online was immediate: Within a few days, the trailer had been viewed 42 million times, breaking a record for a Fox trailer. The last trailer to perform so well online was for last year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past—which coincidentally shares a screenwriter, Simon Kinberg, with Fantastic Four.

http://www.ew.com/node/2107302?hootPostID=a27d30f3e928180f6d6371cdaa4ba348

>>41796
I'm guessing a lot of it was out of curiosity for how trainwrecky it'd be rather than out of legit belief that it'd be any good. I mean, the trailer wasn't terrible so it's probably not going to be another Ghost Rider, but it was extremely boring and uninspired.

>>41798
Don't tell me you were actually confident about the movie being good a month ago? There was practically zero hope for it before the trailer broke, and while it's renewed some people's hope by dint of not being a total disaster, you're delusional if you thought the reboot was something people generally got excited over before this.