I think the big thing that they are doing is giving each franchise a distinct identity, and avoiding the trap of 5 films that all feel the same. Now that the intro films are done, they should separate apart more in terms of feel. That helps keeps things from feeling recycled and old. Guardians is definitely a big risk and I'm surprised they're so eager to tackle it. None of the members come close to mainstream recognition, and Adam Warlock is the only (erstwhile) member that casual comics types would know. But that's a key reason I'm 99% sure they'll send Thanos there instead of saving him for A2. Thanos can be the draw. As for Ant-Man, This'll draw from what I was pointing at before about the franchises. If they did Ant-Man straight, it would flop. Big time. But they're going an interesting route with it, making it a Simon Pegg-Edgar Wright film (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). The idea's to have fun with it and go more comedy/accidental superhero. Budget can also be more restrained that way. I think it's got a chance. It appears to be dead. Shane Black, the guy that directed Downey in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. He's good for this picture in that they want it to be more character driven than Michael Bay CGI/explosion driven. It sounds like it'll be more Tony Stark than Iron Man.
I would love a Luke Cage movie, but it couldn't be Pg-13. R is the only way. So sad that DC is not getting a piece of the big screen pie apart from TDK. That Superman movie better be AMAZING!
QFT. Haven't seen Avengers yet but Loki seems to play a prominent role in it from the post credits scene of Thor. In fact, I'm not even going to read the rest of this thread on the small chance that I see a spoiler by mistake.
From what I read, that was really Marsden's fault for deciding that playing Lois Lane's boyfriend was a better role than being Cyclops.
Thanks this is what I was looking for. Definitely much more of a chance at success if it's catered that way.
Screw the Sentinels. Time to redo a proper epic Dark Phoenix Saga. Top it off with them going to trial to defend Jean Grey and battling The Imperial Guard and Gladiator.
I swear I'm the only person that doesn't care for the Phoenix storyline. Claremont was watching too much Star Trek when he wrote that.
Look at them dinsaur eggs!?!?!? The only way to out do the avengers is to bring on the sentinels. @5:25 mark is where the action at. Just make a 30 min non stop sentinel killing action on their next movie and i be a happy camper <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Av9RtntEj_g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Love the Phoenix storyline, love the Sentinel storyline, REALLY love the Days of the Future Past storyline. I think a Sentinel storyline is perfectly setup with how the last movie ended, but I don't see how you could conceivably create appropriate Sentinels in the 1960s. That will be a stretch for me to accept giant robots running around in the 60s considering what we know about the era in real life.
All movie universes come with set rules and realities. In the Marvel universe there are aliens. So yes, it is "normal" for aliens to appear in Avengers. What would not be normal is if a film of the X-Men set in an otherwise normal 1960s universe (they establish it is normal with the Cuban Missile Crisis, acknowledging a real life president at the time, etc.) using giant robots en masse with technology significantly far too advanced for the time. They'd have to have a very good explanation of how they came about getting that kind of technology for me to accept it.
The X-Men trying to make things realistic is what held the franchise back. The comics had Sentinels, the movie can have Sentinels. Easy as that to me.
