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Back in the old days I wanted Denzel Washington for the part. Now a great relative unknown would rock, like how they found Christopher Reeve for Superman,,,,
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=115143
They already have four directors in the running to direct, too.
I swear it just happened! My uncle is a Marvel bluff, and I just commented him on what you're saying... And he appointed as a potential candidate for the part... No one but Timothy Dalton. He doesn't know this is a Bond forum. Funny...
Ironman wasn't really that famous until the Ironman movie was released. I like that they are going for the more unknown names, it gives more variety. At this point I'm starting to get tired of some of the more known names like Spider-Man (and he's one of my favorites), Iron-Man, and X-Men.
It's easier for a character to become popular if they have their own movie. That's why I'm pulling for a few movies like Namor the Submariner, MoonKnight, Black Panther, Iron-Fist, and Luke Cage (I think the last two actually have their own miniseries coming to Netflix next year).
How many Marvel heroes are really famous? I mean, really, think about it. The Hulk, thanks to the TV series in the 80s. Spider-Man, because he's Marvel's Mickey Mouse. The X-Men, mostly because of Wolverine and the many cartoons. Maybe the Fantastic Four, but I've met plenty of people who don't know who they are, and that's after the two films from last decade. Iron Man, as was already said, didn't really become popular until 2008, Marvel Thor didn't really come to prominence until 2011, people still don't know who the Guardians, Ant-Man and Doctor Strange are.
These heroes need recognition, they need to be known. How many people that you know can tell you who Ka-Zar is? How many of them know who Moon Knight, or Cloak & Dagger are? There's a lot of great Marvel characters that can be used, and just because they're not as famous doesn't mean they're not good.
This movie looks like Firefly...and it shows the tone that last three star wars films should have gone down.
With the old Del Toro connection, can someone spoof 'the usual suspects' police line up with the guardian's line up, pretty please?
DC are dead in the water.
DC's always been dead as far as movies go. There were two good Superman flicks in the late 70s/early 80s, then two sh*t ones. Then there were two good Batman flicks in the late 80s/early 90s (I'm seeing a pattern here...), then two sh*t ones. Superman failed again in 2006, while Batman went strong from 2005 to 2012. Then Superman was rebooted with Man of Steel which... is mixed. Some like it, others hate it, there appears to be no outrageous fans of it, but it's still getting a BatFleck sequel. Then there's Green Lantern, which sucked.
Marvel, on the other hand, has pretty much been going strong since X-Men debuted in 2000, with a couple misses (Daredevil, Elektra, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance).
DC just doesn't have a strong load of characters, like Marvel does. The are only two that can really hold a movie, one that might be able to in Wonder Woman, and a whole plethora of characters who can only work in either animation or as supporting characters (and notice, if you will, DC's animated films seem to be stuck on Superman, Batman and Justice League, with a couple others in Wonder Woman and Green Lantern). Sure, Green Arrow's doing well on TV as a rip-off of the Dark Knight Trilogy, and there's hope that the future Flash spin-off will be good, but otherwise, DC's characters are only really good on the comic book page.
Other DC superhero characters, including Green Lantarn, may simply be too thin to carry their own movie. Like Hulk, they perhaps work best in a team-up film, alongside the likes of Batman and Superman. And the often forgotten DC characters, like Swamp Thing, Tank Girl, Jonah Hex, ... may work better on page than on celluloid anyway. Constantine... I'm torn about Constantine; I can see a nugget of a good film in that Keanu project from a few years back. So yes, maybe a new attempt at a Constantine film could work.
Not all Marvel or DC characters work well in film I reckon. Though Howard The Duck is a guilty pleasure of mine and Sci-Fi Channel's Man-Thing is comic gold, they are clean examples of how easy it is for comic book material to fail big time.
That said, even though Marvel is preparing itself to shower us with even more superheroes than ever before, possibly culminating in a devastating sensation of overkill among fans worldwide, I am still very much excited about their films. I must admit that Captain America 2 is a film I'm looking forward to, and so is Days Of Future Past and so is Guardians. I wasn't overly enthusiastic about Thor 2's coda - Benicio needs to rethink his choice of hairdresser ;-) - but the trailer got me excited.
I know that Marvel and Disney are only looking for ways to pry away more of our precious money, I know that I'm being suckered into paying good money by cheap tricks, but I love them superheroes out there and unlike heroin, it's a harmless addiction. :-)
Because Marvel doesn't control some of its most famous characters. Sony leases Spider-Man. Fox leases Fantastic Four and X-Men. As long as those studios keep making movies, the characters don't revert to Marvel.
Daredevil had been leased by Fox, but Fox opted not to do another movie and it reverted to Marvel. But instead of a movie, Marvel is using Daredevil as part of a Netflix television series.
I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. As much as I'd like to see Hugh Jackman's Wolverine take on Mark Ruffalo's Hulk, or to see Robert Downey Jr. and Kelsey Grammer together in a lab as Tony Stark and Beast, FOX has done a good job with the X-Men franchise so far (I know some people aren't too keen on Origins: Wolverine, but I like it; The Wolverine didn't do much different, and people love that movie), and they don't need to lose the rights back to Marvel.
Granted, FOX is creating their own shared universe when Fantastic Four gets released. Sony, too, with future spin-off films for Spider-Man's rogues gallery (something I think they just should not do).
Only partially. This tangent started with somebody complaining that Marvel was stuck with the Guardians because they had used up all their good characters.
The more I watch the trailer, clips and poster, the more I get the feeling this is either the best marketing campaign in decades, or the best adventure film Marvel has produced up until now, and one of the best adventure films in the last 20 years. That Rocket Raccoon looks like it has the potential to be the coolest creature since Yoda.
Speaking of old Webhead, we'll only get to see him in an Avengers film in our dreams, unfortunately, something I have a hard time dealing with...
Poor Fantastic Four, it wouldn't be the first time a film had to be made...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109770/
I don't know anything about the Fantastic Four comics, but I didn't mind the 2005 and 2007 films. Okay, they were a bit lightweight, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.