Posts Tagged ‘Avengers’

Phase One art revealed

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , on December 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Marvel revealed the artwork for the massive Phase One dvd collector set. The dvd covers are below, created by Matthew Ferguson. Pretty awesome.

Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase One Art Work by Matthew Ferguson

Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase One Art Work by Matthew Ferguson

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Justice League goes all out!

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , , on December 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Everyone is reporting that apparently the villain of the upcoming Justice League movie will be… wait for it… Darkseid.

I’ll post to Bleeding Cool because I like what they have to say:

As far as I can see, Darkseid and Marvel’s Thanos seem like pretty similar characters – at least as far as the big two’s “Rogues Galleries” go. Will these Justice League plans see both reaching the silver screen in 2015? Have Warner Bros. inadvertently doomed themselves to looking like a bit of a rip off?

That’s what I thought too.

As a friend of mine pointed, Marvel built up to Thanos. There was the individual movies, then Loki busted a move and got them all motivated in Avengers. Now that they are working together, the big guns of Thanos are let out.

Why doesn’t Justice League do something similar? Are they thinking nothing short of Darkseid can get these guys working together? Are they thinking it will take nothing short of Darkseid to combat Marvel’s Avengers?

WB, sweetie, just so you know, there is enough love for both Marvel and DC out there… don’t worry about trying to compete… just make a darn good movie!

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Prospects

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , on October 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

CinemBlend carried and article discussion from a Crave Online interview and the nuts and bolts of it is that the lady who has produced all the X-Men movies is up for crossing the streams.

As I mentioned in my previous post about why I chose to have this series “air” on Fox, I mentioned that the ideal situation would be for Fox and Marvel to make a deal to produce the tv-series since Fox holds the cinematic licensing rights to the characters but Marvel has a better grasp on bringing those characters to life. Apparently the producer is up for such a cross-over/team-up on a larger scale ala the films.

Many commenters have cried gold-digger as Avengers has done so well and everyone wants a piece of that pie. The way I look at it, if it gets us an awesome X-Men/Avengers team-up movie (or closer to an X-Men live action tv series) then they can gold dig all they want.

The real problem is with the fact that Avengers is tonaly different from X-Men, especially in how X-Men attempted to make a more realistic spin on the comics while Avengers, while more realistic than the comics, is a lot more apt to ‘just go with it’. Also, unless they work it with the reboot supposedly happening with Days of Future Past, most of the main characters everyone knows are dead or been horribly mis-characterized (not to mention the actors are older and moved on).

Still, this could work, in the hands of the right writers, director, etc, a crossover movie more epic than Avengers is possible. All of the origin’s are out of the way for the Avengers team, depending on what we see in more X-Men films, those origins should be out of the way too. All you really need is a reason for them to either team up and/or fight each other and just let them go to town!

Personally, I’d have the movie start with the Avengers stumbling into an X-Men vs Brotherhood scenario and Rogue just kicking the butts of the Avengers (which is totally canon)… but then I am biased.

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What is Marvel up to?

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , on September 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Bleeding Cool pointed out that the Avengers movie has been edited for the UK and a few other European DVD releases.

Have a look-see, though you might have to go to the original site to see this:

US dvd release

Avengers DVD release in the US

UK dvd release

Avengers UK dvd release

It’s like one of those games on the back of the paper place mat at the fast food restaurant. But really, it’s kinda hard not to see the big spike sticking out (or not sticking out) of Coulson’s chest.

Why did they do this? There are a few theories but nothing flys.

It can’t be ‘censorship’ because the UK is way more forgiving than the US in these kinds of things.

It can’t be ‘reconning’ Coulson’s death because not all dvd’s have had this done.

It can’t be an accident either because, well, you’d have to literally go in and take this out. Then someone would have to put the wrong file into the machine to make these discs. I don’t really know how dvd’s are made but I assume that like most production stuff, if this was a mistake on the production end then not all UK discs would have the mistake.

Until we hear from Marvel, this remains a pretty interesting mystery…

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Behind the Scenes secrets from Avengers

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , on September 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »

io9.com posted a great article called Weird Secrets of The Avengers That You’d  Never Have Guessed. Totally worth a read if you like this kind of behind the scenes info.

3. When the Hulk is smashing Loki up and down, they inserted Tom Hiddleston’s real agonized face.
This took a lot of shooting of Hiddleston looking pained, so they could paste it into the digital Loki. “We’re not inventing how he looks when he’s in pain,” says Chu. “I had to get behind [Tom Hiddleston] and shake him violently,” so they could capture his real expressions. (He mimes violent shaking.) “I did it so long, he started laughing. So we didn’t use that portion.” And for one brief shot where Loki is just hanging upside down, they still had to cut Loki’s face from somewhere else and stick it in, flipped the opposite direction.

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Marvel NOW! Avengers lineup

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , on September 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Marvel NOW! is shaking up the Marvel universe and according to the reports, the Avengers main team has a new lineup:

Captain America, Captain Marvel, Cannonball, The Hulk, Wolverine, Black Widow, Falcon, Thor, Sunspot, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Hawkeye, and one mystery guest.

So Cannonball and Sunspot are getting their Avengers stripes… along with Rogue and Havok who will be joining the Avengers in Uncanny Avengers.

I need to do some checking, but I think that before NOW!, the X-Men outnumbered the Avengers… so this could be a smart move to help make the X-Men more manageable, and it’s a lot smarter plan than just turning a bunch of them into humans.

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Speaking of live-action tv series…

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , on August 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Joss Whedon gets to write a live action fan fic tv series… cause seriously… once the comics moved away from their original creators, everything became fan fic, professional fan fic, but fan fic none the less. Doubly so when you get a writer who is obviously a fan of the original.

Deadline reports that the live-action tv series that’s been talked about since Avengers blew away the box office has been greenlighted and it will center around S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. This is smart because it fits in universe without actually needing to pay the big names for anything more than perhaps the occasional cameo.

Am I looking forward to this? Yes and no. For one, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in this show are going to be either brand new originals or minor ones from the comics which only diehards would know about. So Joss has the task of making characters that are going to have to be appealing to an audience who mostly only know S.H.I.E.L.D. from the movies and it didn’t exactly have a large role.

I say this because the tv audience is much larger than the movie audience and the movie audience is larger than the comic fan audience. It’s the same issue I have with my X-Men fan fic, if it where to be an actual tv series then the assumption has to be made that most of the target audience would be made up of people who don’t exactly know who the X-Men are (and a few will probably accuse them of being a Heroes or Alphas rip-off) and the other main group will only know X-Men from the movies.

So a line has to be drawn, Joss’ show has to appeal to a much wider audience than Avengers did while at the same time pleasing movie and comic fans alike. By being mostly (if not all) original characters then he doesn’t fall into the traps that come with re-introducing known characters. Such as Captain America, comic fans know all his back history, movie fans know the history shown in the movies, but you’d still have to go through that in a tv show. You’d have to make sure people understood his origin without a) skipping over it so much you confuse/piss off those who don’t know and b) annoy those who do because it makes them think you think they are idiots.

Joss has created plenty of characters that we all know and love, he’s given us a great film in Avengers, so I’m excited to see where he will go with this, but it won’t be easy for him because he’ll have to create characters that get me interested beyond just being S.H.I.E.L.D agents.

Until we get more information, I’m going to be neutral to cautiously optimistic on this new Marvel endeavour.

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