Re: The Avengers: The Motion Picture Discussion Thread
Avengers 2 is all but guaranteed...SLJ signed on for 9 films, Evans for 6, and so on...
While technically Antman should introduce Ultron, its not out of the realm of possibilities for Start to in the movie universe. However, an Antman movie was mentioned and they could easily have a "scientist" (Antman) help or even build the bots for Stark. Then post credits hint towards Ultron and then have the Avengers bring on Antman in part 2...
Avengers 2 is all but guaranteed...SLJ signed on for 9 films, Evans for 6, and so on...
While technically Antman should introduce Ultron, its not out of the realm of possibilities for Start to in the movie universe. However, an Antman movie was mentioned and they could easily have a "scientist" (Antman) help or even build the bots for Stark. Then post credits hint towards Ultron and then have the Avengers bring on Antman in part 2...
I still call shenanigans on this rumor, you don't build a film for almost 4 years and leave it on a cliffhanger, especially since it is supposed to be the apex of all the other films. Pluz I find it highly discouraging if in the end they fail after all this hype
Re: The Avengers: The Motion Picture Discussion Thread
You're reading too much into it i think. The cliffhanger could simply be a post credit shot of Ultron lighting up or something or that nature.
I think this rumor of robots and whatnot is most likely false though. However, there are always some sort of "open" ending in these marvel films setting up for the next one.
Just because it says cliffhanger doesnt mean the Avengers lose the battle or the battle doesnt end...
I still call shenanigans on this rumor, you don't build a film for almost 4 years and leave it on a cliffhanger, especially since it is supposed to be the apex of all the other films. Pluz I find it highly discouraging if in the end they fail after all this hype
Ultron would be a great villain for an Iron Man film. Ultron could infest Jarvis and you could have Paul Bettany play one of the manifestations of Ultron.
I think it will only grow old if all the movies start looking the same, like if people copied Nolan's style or Jon Favreau's. Thankfully so far they have looked somewhat diverse
Re: The Avengers: The Motion Picture Discussion Thread
One thing I hated about the x-men films save First class, is that they mulled over the unique personality traits of each x-man,. They all seemed the same to me other than logan and professor X. This is what I love about the Avengers, they are embracing differences.
One thing I hated about the x-men films save First class, is that they mulled over the unique personality traits of each x-man,. They all seemed the same to me other than logan and professor X. This is what I love about the Avengers, they are embracing differences.
Agreed. I mean the first X-Men is smallish compared to this flick. Whats so impressive about Wolverine fighting magneto on the statue of liberty?! Master of Magnatism against a guy with metal skeleton?! Makes less sense than Black Widow going again aliens by far.
on that note anyone else notice how in the 360 team shot that widow's wrist bands have a bunch of blue (cube tech?) lights?
I still believe there are secrets not out of the bag yet. An unannounced Superhero or Superhero team will arrive at the end to help counter a big villain, end of movie.
Unlikely. Apparently Joss Whedon wanted to add more character to it, insert a few so he could then turn those into side projects and was told no. He was also told that no other major heroes could be added to the film as it was jammed packed already and given free reign to rewrite and rescript existing characters like Maria Hill.
Both DD and FF are in current rebootings, Slade most notably on Daredevil is said to be moving to castings so both of those are out as they would infringe upon the current work of 20th Century Fox. X-Men is also unlikely as James Marsden, Halle Berry, etc basically everyone who isn't Hugh Jackman was let out of their contracts which means that Marvel would have had to have cast them over or hired back the old cast and that would have made huge news not to mention meant that MS would have had to pay 20th Century Fox for every single character individually. Spidey is one character but Whedon said that Spider-Man does not appear specifically.
Marvel/Disney want their licenses and working in conjunction with other studios would go the opposite of everything they've said. It's a fanboy dream at best.
I know this is off topic by a huge margin (I needed an example), but if games like Street Fighter x Tekken, Marvel vs. Capcom, Capcom vs. Snk, and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe exist, why can't two movie companies work together to profit from Spiderman??? You're telling me movie companies are incapable of coming to mutual agreements for comic related characters? It's not like everyone at Sony and Marvel will go to prison if they came up with a plan together.
The thing is that they don't want to. It's NOT about fees or licensing per se what it's about is merchandising, neither company would want to give that up and they'd have to. As bad as Sony pictures is right now, they'd milk Marvel for everything they've got to use Spider-Man and I'm sure MS told them to go ____ themselves. It comes down more to dollars and cents than red tape.
Spider-man appearing in "Avengers Assemble" (i'm in the UK) might not be totally out of the question. Disney have the rights to the Amazing Spider-man merchandise so agreeing to a Spidey cameo in the Avengers would be a good sales tactic on both sides. It would be good promotion for the ASM movie and good promotion for any of Disneys ASM merchandise.
It is out of the question. We've discussed the merchandising thing already in this thread. Sony sold them to make a quick buck and try to stop the bleeding. It had no bearing on the licensing rights to the character itself. If Sony allowed Marvel Studios to use Garfield it would count as one of his films for that studio and throw Sony's plans off kilter. Now there are analysts who think that Sony is in such bad straights that they could sell back by the end of the next year but that is a whole other can of worms and has no bearings on this first Avengers film.
Spidey is NOT in this, Whedon has said no and unless Sony collapses and they decide to CGI him in, it's far past inserting him. Not to mention that Spider-Man was in active filming during the big fight sequence and Garfield was nowhere near them.
Comic Book yes. Film version no, that is owned and operated by Sony Pictures with exclusivities written in to the like. Marvel cannot even use the film costumes without paying Sony.
Film version no, That is owned and operated by 20th Century Fox. Marvel could not use anything from any X-Men film Wolverine or otherwise without having to pay 20th Century Fox. Hugh Jackman has already said that he isn't in The Avengers (he was asked) and that First Class was the only cameo he has done.
There is rumour going around that the movie ends in a cliffhanger with the Avengers being unable to defeat Loki's army and with Tony creating an army of robots with the help of shield to help fight the Loki's invading army.
That would go against what we've seen shot and the
Script and synopsis of final shooting that has Thor teleporting out with Loki defeated as well as Captain America and Tony parting ways, him in his Audi and Cap on his Motorcycle. It was the last shot in Cleveland that was reported over and over.
Mike 
