[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;45411108]And Supes' parents.[/QUOTE]
That was a dumb change to begin with. When another DC reboot happens someone will bring them back.
Hopefully we get new info from the article.
[QUOTE=zeldar;45411126]That was a dumb change to begin with. When another DC reboot happens someone will bring them back.[/QUOTE]
I meant biological parents. But I agree on that about Pa and Ma Kent.
I really like how Joss summed up Ultron, it really reminds me of The Operative from Serenity.
So Steve is hanging up his shield and giving it to Sam Wilson on the comics.
I still think Bucky will take up the mantle though, in the MCU version that is
In other news, Marvel is doing a massive move where it's 'relaunching' it's big three. Sam Wilson, the Falcon, is now Captain America, a woman will be holding the title of Thor, and Iron Man will become Superior Iron Man (although it has been said it will still be Tony Stark).
Here's the reason I bring this up on this thread: all of this is coming along with a 'relaunch' of the Avengers titled Avengers NOW which will bring a new focus on some other characters as they join the team. Take a look.
[img_thumb]http://i.newsarama.com/images/i/000/132/736/original/avengers-now-poster.jpg?1405571926[/img_thumb]
From the start you can see that there are some familiar MCU faces in this list of new Avengers. We've got Winter Soldier, who was on CA2 and we have Deathlok, who was on Agents of SHIELD, with both being very popular characters from those two parts of the MCU. And we have Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and Scarlet Witch, who will appear on their own movies (for the first two) and Age of Ultron (for the latter).
Here's the part that's interesting. Remove the big three, remove Winter Soldier, Deathlok, Strange, Ant-Man and Scarlet Witch and you're left with three characters. One of them is Angela, the woman right next to the new Thor. She was an Image comics character that is being introduced into the Marvel verse as Thor's (the old Thor) lost sister.
The other two are Medusa and Inferno. Of Inhumans fame.
There's a pattern going on here. Everyone on this list (sans the new Thor and Angela, to some extent) is riding some kind of MCU high. Be it appearing on the movies or on the TV shows... except for the Inhumans. Which probably strenghtens what a lot of us were thinking, and what may be confirmed on Comic-Con next week: the Inhumans will be introduced into the MCU, and they will, most likely, be that verse's mutants.
Things are getting exciting.
[QUOTE=zeldar;45411075]Generally the only people who have stayed dead are Uncle Ben and Batman's parents.[/QUOTE]One of my favourite Batman comics is the one set in a alternative universe, where it is Bruce Wayne who dies in the alley instead of his parents, thus making his father Batman and his mother Joker.
My thoughts:
- Ultron looks cool as fuck
- The new suit of Steve Rogers looks amazing
- Love that Black Widow has short hair again, looked so weird in CA2
- Dat long-coat of Hawkeye
- Glad they kept the Mark 42 colours for Tonys new suit. Looks better than the red-golden he had in Iron Man 1-2 and The Avengers 1.
I'd love it if they just made mutants Inhumans in the MCU, but then, in the distant future, they get the X-Men rights back.
And then someone is like "something something INHUMANS", and Wolverine is just like "WE'RE MUTANTS, NOT INHUMANS, DON'T BE RACIALLY INSENSITIVE, BUB."
[sp]And then Magneto is like "I prefer Homo Superior."[/sp]
I wonder if this will be part of the MCU:
[video=youtube;etEkugzg8zA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etEkugzg8zA&feature=share[/video]
Good to see a Marvel property being approached in an entirely different way
[editline]17th July 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;45414890]In other news, Marvel is doing a massive move where it's 'relaunching' it's big three. Sam Wilson, the Falcon, is now Captain America, a woman will be holding the title of Thor, and Iron Man will become Superior Iron Man (although it has been said it will still be Tony Stark).
Here's the reason I bring this up on this thread: all of this is coming along with a 'relaunch' of the Avengers titled Avengers NOW which will bring a new focus on some other characters as they join the team. Take a look.
[img_thumb]http://i.newsarama.com/images/i/000/132/736/original/avengers-now-poster.jpg?1405571926[/img_thumb]
From the start you can see that there are some familiar MCU faces in this list of new Avengers. We've got Winter Soldier, who was on CA2 and we have Deathlok, who was on Agents of SHIELD, with both being very popular characters from those two parts of the MCU. And we have Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and Scarlet Witch, who will appear on their own movies (for the first two) and Age of Ultron (for the latter).
Here's the part that's interesting. Remove the big three, remove Winter Soldier, Deathlok, Strange, Ant-Man and Scarlet Witch and you're left with three characters. One of them is Angela, the woman right next to the new Thor. She was an Image comics character that is being introduced into the Marvel verse as Thor's (the old Thor) lost sister.
The other two are Medusa and Inferno. Of Inhumans fame.
There's a pattern going on here. Everyone on this list (sans the new Thor and Angela, to some extent) is riding some kind of MCU high. Be it appearing on the movies or on the TV shows... except for the Inhumans. Which probably strenghtens what a lot of us were thinking, and what may be confirmed on Comic-Con next week: the Inhumans will be introduced into the MCU, and they will, most likely, be that verse's mutants.
Things are getting exciting.[/QUOTE]
I think a big reason of changing the people behind the masks is to introduce this idea of superheroes not being stuck to one single identity.
So when the time inevitably comes that Chris Hemsworth doesn't want to be Thor they can bring in a new character to take the mantle of Thor without Marvel fanboys going "YOU CAN'T DO THAT IT NEVER HAPPENS IN THE COMC". It even lets them bring a woman to lead one of the biggest Super Hero franchises. Got no female superheroes with the potential to be an as popular film as a male one? No problem- make male super hero a female super hero when the actor leaves.
It allows Marvel to start approaching recasts in the Doctor Who fashion as opposed to the James Bond fashion. You don't have to replace RDJ as Tony Stark. Tony Stark played by RDJ can still exist alongside a new Iron Man even though you don't necessarily see him. You can still call the film Iron Man as Iron Man is still in it. Heck one day decades from now you can even make a Iron Man Anniversary movie involving every Iron Man ever and it's still canon.
It's a really really good movie. I just hope that Sony has the same ambition and (when Garfield wants to leave) don't recast Peter Parker but instead bring in somebody new for the Spidey mantel. Miles Morales for example.
Ultron's look kinda reminds me of LEGO's old Bionicle series.
[QUOTE=BanthaFodder;45410722]Also, I think Sam Jackson was listed in the cast of Age of Ultron for a good long while before Winter Soldier came out.[/QUOTE]
IIRC, he said his role in Ultron will [sp]be little more than a cameo, as he's just a guy with a gun who can't do much in a battle with super humans and robots[/sp]
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;45415479]My thoughts:
- Ultron looks cool as fuck
- The new suit of Steve Rogers looks amazing
- Love that Black Widow has short hair again, looked so weird in CA2
- Dat long-coat of Hawkeye
- Glad they kept the Mark 42 colours for Tonys new suit. Looks better than the red-golden he had in Iron Man 1-2 and The Avengers 1.[/QUOTE]
aou iron man's suit is the same design as the mark 42 but the color scheme is flipped, as it should be.
[QUOTE=Joz;45409398][sp]there's no such thing as permanent death.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Let me tell you about a man named Gabriel Vargas
[URL="http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/07/17/true-blood-actress-to-star-in-marvels-daredevil/?hootPostID=c31fc007189310fbc2210f9116098fc3"]Deborah Ann Woll to star as Karen Page in DareDevil Netflix series[/URL]
[editline]17th July 2014[/editline]
Textless EW cover:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jvo0uCA.jpg[/IMG]
[editline]17th July 2014[/editline]
[URL="http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/07/16/avengers-age-of-ultron-who-is-marvels-angry-metal-madman/"]EW: Age of Ultron - Who is Marvel's angry metal madman[/URL] SPOILERS
[QUOTE][sp]In Age of Ultron, those origins details remain the same, but the person who created him has changed. In the comics, Ultron was built by scientist Hank Pym (a.k.a. the first Ant-Man). This time, he is the handiwork of Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark—devised, essentially, as the ultimate drone, a way for Iron Man to abdicate his duties and offload them onto a fully mechanized protector.
The Avengers sequelbegins with Stark’s latest plan to fix the world: Ultron will be an all-seeing, all-knowing captain of a planetary police force known as the Iron Legion, a team of robotic beat cops who resemble blue-and-white versions of the Iron Man suit but have no human core—and less soul than a Carpenters album. If it all works out, the superheroes can rest easy.
In a bid to give his creation a dose of humanity, Stark programs Ultron (performed and voiced by his Less Than Zero brat pack costar James Spader) with elements of his own personality—which proves to be Mistake No. 1.
The problem is that our new robot overlord is an absolutist, who inherits Stark’s cynicism, but not his sympathy. “It’s not the good version that could’ve come from [Stark's] intellect and personality,” says Chris Hemsworth, returning as the hammer-hurling Thor. “It’s the bad son.”
In one of the opening scenes, the gang is celebrating with a swank party in the peak of Stark’s New York City skyscraper—formerly Stark Tower, it’s now the headquarters for the Avengers.
Stark sees the soiree as a chance for the Avengers to schmooze with the city’s powerbrokers in a post-S.H.I.E.L.D. environment, showing that they are not merely superpowered vigilantes. Half-filled glasses of wine, bottles of beer, and partially eaten plates of sushi and cookies litter the tables in this three-story marble and steel structure, constructed entirely within the soundstage—complete with a loading dock for the Quinjet and an upstairs laboratory for Stark and Banner (Mark Ruffalo) to blind themselves with science.
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has put aside the cape and chest plate for a t-shirt and slacks, while Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow has swapped her leathery catsuit for an empire-waist cocktail dress with a billowing skirt—which helps hide the actress’s real-life pregnancy.
Banner looks a little uptight in his purple button-down and tweedy jacket, while Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye is in wallflower mode, lingering on the periphery by himself, ever the loner. Chris Evans’ Captain America is making small talk with former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders). Most of the partygoers have left; now it’s just the old friends lingering.
That’s when all hell breaks loose. The Legionnaires have suddenly activated, and are inexplicably trying to kill the heroes. In the chaos, Ultron—in one of his first, metallic forms—announces his new plan to bring peace to the planet—by eradicating the most destructive thing that walks on it: humans.
In the midst of the assault scene, Downey finds himself suspended 50 feet above the set, riding piggyback on an actor in a motion-capture suit who will be digitally replaced with a hovering, hostile Legionnaire.
With no armor at his disposal, Stark grabs the only weapon handy—a fondue fork—and jams it into the robot soldier’s neck as they bang around the ceiling. “The deadliest fondue fork in all the land!” Whedon jokes. “From Odin’s melted cheese, I shall destroy thee!”
Even without their battle gear, the Avengers make short work of the traitorous, mechanical assailants. But Ultron is just getting started. He’s now thinking for himself … and they are not happy thoughts.
“I know you’re ‘good’ people,” he tells them. “I know you mean well… but you just didn’t think it through… There is only one path to peace… your extermination.”[/sp][/QUOTE]
[editline]17th July 2014[/editline]
[URL="http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/07/17/avengers-age-of-ultron-quicksilver-scarlet-witch-and-the-vision/"]'Avengers: Age of Ultron': Why Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and The Vision will fight the bad fight[/URL]
[QUOTE=Y U NO OBJECT;45419882][sp]“I know you’re ‘good’ people,” he tells them. “I know you mean well… but you just didn’t think it through… There is only one path to peace… your extermination.” [/sp] [/QUOTE]
Guarantee that'll be in the trailer
I already know Ultron will be best villain of 2015. though I shouldn't predict anything. After all I mad a big mistake thinking Ben Kingsley would turn up becoming a great villain in IM3. I just can't wait for that one quote to be in James Spader's voice
[QUOTE=Butthurter;45427012]i think youre just setting yourself up for even bigger disappointments
so far almost none of the villains in the mcu have ever been remarkable, the exception kinda being loki which even then hes just a brainwashed pawn with unreasonably exaggerated daddy issues[/QUOTE]
Loki was great because of Tom Hiddleston, and even then Marvel overused him shoehorning him everywhere. Other greats was Red Skull and Obadiah Stone, and by that I mean I remember them, because sure as hell I cannot mention anyone else.
We can shit all we want on DC and their tries in filmmaking, but they make much better villains. Excluding Nolan's trilogy, which was built on great villains (Ra's Al Ghul, Scarecrow, Joker, Harvey Two-Face, Bane all created unforgettable creations, that's how you make comic book villains), but even flawed Man of Steel did it right. I remember better Zod's henchwomann than anyone from Iron Man 2.
he looks scary
His costume and makeup looks great. Very memorable.
Red Skull was good but he still has so much potential for future Cap and Avenger films. Actually I'd like to see him as a villain in a non-cap film as he often crossed over.
Red Skull was greatly acted, but poorly thought out in the Cap 1's writing.
Shits starting to heat up over at Marvel in anticipation of next week's Comic-con
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=120785[/url]
[quote]The studio already had mystery placeholders for films that will be released on July 8, 2016 (following a third Captain America film on May 6, 2016) and then another on May 5, 2017. Now they've earmarked July 28, 2017, November 3, 2017, November 2, 2018 and May 3, 2019.[/quote]Given the timing of them assigning these latest dates we can probably expect to see most, if not all of them revealed at Comic-con. gonna be fucking cool to find out what they're planning.
Dr. Strange is one of them at the least. The Runaways was scripted and about ready to go into production when it got put on hold so it could be one of them as well.
Marvel Panel is set for Saturday, July 26th.
when will the MCU ever end!?
Comics never end. But three marvel studios movies in a year is still fucking nuts.
I have a prediction that the MCU will end up getting dumber and dumber if it keeps going on after 2020. I can imagine...2040....
[video=youtube;nVtKrGyUS5o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVtKrGyUS5o[/video]
I am incredibly ready for them to reveal any info for Dr. Strange.
Hopefully he is one of the earlier dates.
Honestly they wont stop making these until they stop getting money from it.
Which will probably never happen, look at how long the comics have ran and been popular.
[QUOTE=TheKritter71;45433002]when will the MCU ever end!?[/QUOTE]
Not until 2028.
[URL="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/marvel-studios-dates-five-untitled-movies-through-2019-1201264988/"]Dr. Strange confirmed for July 8th 2016[/URL]
[URL="http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/07/18/kevin-feige-talks-guardians-of-the-galaxy-the-avengers-the-sub-mariner?+main+twitter"]According to Kevin Fiege, Marvel have the rights to Namor back[/URL]
[QUOTE]IGN: Finally, there were rumours circulating awhile back that Universal and Legendary Pictures were developing a Sub-Mariner movie, but there was also some confusion about who holds the rights to the character. So could Legendary make that movie at this point?
Feige: No.
IGN: So if a film were to happen it would be you guys making it?
Feige: Yes, but it’s slightly more complicated than that. Let’s put it this way – there are entanglements that make it less easy. There are older contracts that still involve other parties that mean we need to work things out before we move forward on it. As opposed to an Iron Man or any of the Avengers or any of the other Marvel characters where we could just put them in.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Y U NO OBJECT;45437005][URL="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/marvel-studios-dates-five-untitled-movies-through-2019-1201264988/"]Dr. Strange confirmed for July 8th 2016[/URL][/QUOTE]No idea why Variety posted it like that lol but Doctor Strange has not been given any sort of official [B]release date[/B] confirmation by Marvel yet. People are just guessing that's the slot it'll take based on it already having a director attached. Is it the most likely slot given its production status? Yes. Is it confirmed?? No lol. Wait for comic-con.
Lots of news sites are just saying "It's probably Doctor Strange" so I guess this wonderful journalist decided to just run with it.
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