Post by Timothy on Jun 16, 2008 16:56:10 GMT -5
^ *looks at Batman Returns Soundtrack* "A track called 'WayneTech Heist?' What the hell? That wasn't even in the movie!"
Jk
I must say, they did kind of screw over the film a bit (mainly the Arctic scene and the additional scenes with Leonard Samson) and Edward Norton with those cuts. I'd love to have seen the longer cut that Norton was vying for. It seems that the closest I'm getting to that is reading the Peter David novelization.
Well, no worries, because Marvel will probably unload the "Super Extra-Maxi Special Spectacular Limited Edition Lenticular No Obligation Holographic Foil Variant First Collector's Edition" by the time Christmas comes around...
Back to Captain America, I don't know much about Cap, but a live-action superhero set during WWII intrigues me.
Cap is still one of my favorite Marvel characters, despite the fact that I'm a DC guy and he's a propaganda throwback to another time. There's just something about imagining "Band of Brothers" with a super-hero that just seems awesome...
The last superhero "period pieces" I can remember were The Shadow and The Phantom. Hopefully Captain America (or "The First Avenger: Captain America" as Marvel insists) will be more successful.
I can totally see them ending it with him frozen in the ice and then having him thawed out in The Avengers film.
I can totally see them ending it with him frozen in the ice and then having him thawed out in The Avengers film.
Sweet! Another person who knows what the hell I'm talking about when I mention "the Phantom" ;D
On that note, the apparent slate for Marvel is, after Wolverine next year, Iron Man II and Thor in 2010 and then The First Avenger: Captain America and then The Avengers in 2011.
I'm going to see all but Thor and The Avengers when they come out; there's just something infinitely lame to me about Thor and comic-bookized Norse mythology.
I have my doubts it will happen exactly like this, though. First off, Favreau and Downey are worried that 2010 is too soon. My advice to Marvel is to listen to these guys 'cause I'd much rather see an Iron Man movie when the cast and crew were given as much time as possible to make it good, rather than rushed to put it out there (I swear, whenever I heard X-Men 3 news, this is exactly what I thought. Ugh.).
I'm thinking that Marvel will rush it for 2010 because, let's face it, any studio that's going to feature Robert Downey Jr., fighting a villain named the Mandarin clearly isn't thinking things through.
Next, I can't see them releasing Captain America and The Avengers in the same year. I just can't, especially since you'd have to have an actor willing to bet his career on starring in two subsequent blockbuster superhero films in an iconic role with a huge fanbase and available for filming both movies.
All I know is that greed can be blinding; it's not certain whether it will happen, but I'm thinking it will (for good or ill).
And I think it would be wiser for them to do Captain America next instead of Thor because of how much the super soldier serum ties into the new Hulk movie.
I don't know... Kids these days love their Scandinavian superheroes ;D
I guess we'll see. I'm excited about the idea of having this Marvel film universe, but they have to do it right or else it will be a disaster.
C'mon guys, it won't kill you to take an extra year or two to properly develop these films. The public is not going to die if they don't see The Avengers until 2013 instead of 2011. In fact, they'd be much more willing to watch it if all the standalone films for each Avenger were well done, rather than rushed.
C'mon guys, it won't kill you to take an extra year or two to properly develop these films. The public is not going to die if they don't see The Avengers until 2013 instead of 2011. In fact, they'd be much more willing to watch it if all the standalone films for each Avenger were well done, rather than rushed.
If anything, I'm looking forward to seeing what Marvel can do so DC and WB can do it better ;D