Marvel Studios brought out their first film under their own banner with IronMan and they likely couldnt ask for a better kickoff. I speculated in an earlier post that it was inevitable that they would now be getting the ball rolling on IronMan 2, and that I hoped Thor would be along as well.
Then I tripped over this article at /Film
Marvel Studios opened its war chest up today, revealing the company’s in-house feature roll out through 2011. Here’s what it looks like…
2010 – April 30th: Iron Man 2
2010 – June 4th: Thor (directed by Matthew Vaughn)2011 – May 6th: The First Avenger: Captain America
2011 – July (day N/A): The Avengers
I like this timetable. It is bringing the core Avengers characters (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk) together and then in a final Avengers film they can introduce some of the peripheral characters that are iconic to the Avengers name, but not significant enough to get their own film. I like that Captain America is getting a film called “The First Avenger” and later that same year we will see a full Avengers flick!
Perhaps after the Avengers (assuming its success) they will then spinoff into stand alone films for the characters that get the most attention.
Oh and by the way.. Whoever is responsible for that rumoured Justice League movie?
This is how you do it.
If Spidey makes an appearance in the Avengers movie it will be a background cameo and nothing more. Sony has the rights to Spidey and they are not making the Avengers film.
And as for the Hulk, he was an Avengers enemy before he joined them. Loki is a Thor villain and will be in Thor’s movie alone not Avengers.
Their has been alot of talk about Spidey being in the Avengers movie, well that would be cool but spidey was not an original member . What they could do is give Peter a cameo taking pictures of some of the action or when they do a press conference.
Please don’t make the Hulk the villian ( I’m a big Hulk fan ) If you can’t stick with the original story in which Loki is the villian , find another major Avengers villian, PLEASE.
The interesting thing re: Cap is, he’s a Man Out of Time – frozen at the end of WW2, found by the Sub-Mariner, and awakened by the Avengers in the 60’s. He’s missing about 20 yrs time – hence the conflict: does the world need a Nazi-smashing Super Soldier (and one of the world’s top hand-to-hand combatants) anymore? He’s more complex than some folks give him credit for.
Please don’t introduce the Avengers’ line-up out of order…utter crap.
Jig, for the sake of the movie, which will have no bearing and yet completely influenced by it, Scarlet Witch and Vision are still iconic Avengers.
I have heard of plenty in the comic book world. But I was talking about a movie.
correction: they Were.
the Avengers as people knew them for 40 years are long disassembled..
The original Vision is long dead & gone (destroyed by She-Hulk).
& to say that the now depowered Scarlet Witch is a minor character implies you never heard of the Marvel summer event called House Of M.
Yes Dethlok, they were.
They also fall under that category of minor characters that couldn’t hold a movie of their own. If they are included in the Avengers Film (I would think they will) they might generate enough interest to spinoff, but they are not that pivotal.
they were.
Hey, wasn’t the Scarlet Witch and Vision part of the Avengers.
a DD movie should’ve been what Sin City became in look & feel considering Murdock’s hyper-senses & that outfit. as great as the coatume looks on the printed page, that’d never translate to a mainstream looking live-action movie. either go the Sin City route if Marvel decide to reboot the franchise or animate it like the recent TMNT.
They SHOULD do another Daredevil Movie, and Franks Born Again is a great idea.
As far as directors, they should get the guy who did Ironman to direct Daredevil.. then it would be SOOO much better!!
I They should do a daredevil sequel but base it on Frank Millars amazing Born again story line. Get a good directors this time though. Hes too much of a great character to lay down.
I m glad things are going well for marvel they have had a shit time pre-movie area with comic sales declining as they did. I want to see more movies though 1 a year is not good for me.
Captain America is still ongoing as a book. the repercussions from his death are still being felt & also the Winter Soldier a/k/a Bucky Barnes has stepped into Steve Rogers’ buccaneer boots. the saga just gets better & better as it goes. anyway the modern incarnation of Cap’s costume would look ok on film as it is more battle armor & utility belt than tights & spandex.
I really hope that Captain America will be set in the rigth WWII period!
A kind of “Saving Private Ryan” in tights…
And something better than the 1989/90 Cannon movie, the TV show of 1978 and the 1943 serial!
Sir Jig-A-Lot
caps my 3rd fav superhero. moonnight and the hulk being 1st and 2nd.
wait i thought they stopped making captain america comic books after that one comic book were he dies? that one was cool btw
they seriously need to consider whos going to play captain america…i wanna know now
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oh yeah. thats a good point. i just thought it woulda been pretty cool to have ironman the hulk spiderman and captain america in one movie at the same time…woulda kicked some serious ass.
i take it a lot of you comic heads posting here are from the old school & still think of Cap as a jingoistic & dated character? i used to think the same thing..until i read Ed Brubaker’s overhaul (the whole of Captain America Vol 5 – still ongoing) on the characater & his purpose & the world he inhabits. Cap is now a very adult,dark & realistic even though he was supposedly finally killed off for good. i suggest checking it out & predict even the most close-minded Caphaters will change their views.
still…recovering…from…Iron Man awesomeness….must breathe!……
Iron Man rocked damit! and there’s more on the way??
John, I concede to you that Robert Downey Jr. was the best actor for this role….and I’m glad to see him clean (and cut!)…..rock on Rob!!!!!
Spider-Man won’t be in Avengers becasue of Sony. They aren’t going to let him go that easily considering the trouble getting him in the first place
ho hum. Hardly necessary – Rodney’s point is valid as is his point about Spidey.
DC actually has like four or five atoms, if you count Black Adam and Captain Adam. :P
Sleazy, Ethan? You’re gosh damn right I’m sleazy!!!!!!
So sleazy that I have to tell Rodney that the Atom is a DC character.
Jamie, then it would be a Spiderman Movie. with the Avengers.
Why take the spotlight away cramming in a pointless crossover just because he is popular.
It would be silly to include Spiderman in an Avengers film for anything more than a brief cameo. Involving him any further than that would just ruin the movie.
An Avengers movie will be about the Avengers. They won’t need spidey to get attention.
your absolutely right.
but its a tiiny weezy bit different with spiderman then guys like daredevil or the torch- spidermans the most famous known marvel character…i just think it would be inteligent from marvels part to include him
Let my clarify this for you.
Spidey is a reserve Avenger. He is not on their regular roster.
Beast is also a reserve Avenger. As is Silver Surfer.
I could go on.
The point is that it is unlikely that they will EVER include anyone who is simply a reserve member in a feature film.
i know its too early to even think about this (perhaps 10 years too early) but i think that after all this it will be amazing to get a good civil war movie
i know its way too early but its my 2nd favorite comic book, ultimate spiderman being my 1st. it does have way too many characters and may not be good to make into a movie but this article by Rodney got me thinking.
@ ETHAN
actually, spiderman is an evenger. but not when they start out, so im wondering if theyll make it lik in the comic books or introduce him in an avengers sequel. the fact that people have opinions over spiderman 3 is utterly irrelevant. and it wont matter if spiderman 3 was bad because theyll announce if spidey will be an avenger in spiderman 4 not spiderman 3- and we dont know if spiderman 4 will be good or bad yet.
some people might think thor will tank (i actually think it might be good) but that wont change the fact that hell be in it because thor is simply an avenger
Let me take a stab at how they might be pulling this off. Iron Man defeats the Mandarin and his booze demon, and joins the Avengers at the end of his second film. Thor gets kicked out of Asgard near the start of his film, redeems himself and is invited back by Odin but chooses to stay on Earth so he can join the Avengers at the end. The Captain America movie takes place entirely during WWII and details the fights between him and the Red Skull. At the end, he ends up frozen only to get discovered by the Avengers at the start of their movie and they all team up to fight Red Skull, Mandarin and lord knows who else.
Hell yeah, i’m in:) I think there’s definately going to be a lot of people taking the Avengers trailer, when it hits, and putting it to the theme song from ‘Team America’ to make youtube videos, which might make the film a parody before it arrives but i’m sure Marvel will live with it.
I would have to disagree Jamie, I do not think Spider-Man belngs in the Avengers movie whatsoever. Yes I believe he should interact with other heroes but he should make up for the mess that was Spider-Man 3 before he appears in an entirely different movie.
Darren J. Sleezy, Ant Man is in developement but it’s release date has not been announced. I believe Pym and Wasp will be in one movie together, it would cut down the need for a solo Wasp movie (which would suck anyway lol) and show an already developed relationship between them.
hey will they put spiderman in this movie? cuz he turned into an avenger later on- maybe they can show a clue that leads to him being in this when they come out with SM4 in 2009.
same thing with wolverene…
Jon H
the ironman sequel will be amazing hence they already got the origin bs out of the way in this movie- now hopefully the sequel will show some more action
Me neither.
^ because they don’t know how hulk will do at boxoffice and frankly speaking I see that movie not doing all that great.
Funny that there doesn’t seem to be a place for INCREDIBLE HULK 2 on this time able ;-)
Marvel is doing it like it should be done. Very good. I don’t have all that much hope for an Iron Man sequel myself, but hopefully Thor will make up for it.
I mentioned the core characters and said that in an Avengers film I predicted the less popular supporting cast would be in it as well.
Pym, Wasp, Atom, Hawkeye. All good characters but nothing strong enough to carry their own movie.
Not yet anyways.
Where’s Pym/ Ant-Man???
Don’t shove this “we got the corps Avengers” down my way and there’s no signs of Pym or Wasp- the latter who actually COINED the group “Avengers” (with Hulk leaving not long after)
As for “The First Avenger: Captain America” yeech. Just say Captain America, thank you very much. The nly neat thing about it is that it suggests at the end of that film, Cap chases down Zemo and gets frozen up, only to wake up in 2011 when the Avengers thaws him out.
Of course, should any other characters be ruled out? I mean, if something can be worked out where Beast goes from X-Men to Avengers…
This looks great. Iron Man was such a great movie i couldn’t look more forward to the sequel. And Captain America will be interesting, i hope the first movie will be entirely in World War 2
I hope Thor turns out good.