Marvel Cinematic Universe - Timeline

I don't know about you guys, but I pick up the Art of the movies books, and I'm really wanting an Art of the Incredible Hulk book. I'd love to see the process involved with making that movie.
 
Are the art books even worth picking up? I've never owned one for any film. Not even Pacific Rim.
 
Spoon_Wielder said:
I don't know about you guys, but I pick up the Art of the movies books, and I'm really wanting an Art of the Incredible Hulk book. I'd love to see the process involved with making that movie.
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That's what I wanted to create after I received the pack of the Phase 1: I've assembled some artworks by Aaron Sims, Rythm & Hues and Niles Heckman. Plus the behind-the-scenes of the dvd/blu-ray.

Are the art books even worth picking up? I've never owned one for any film. Not even Pacific Rim.
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They are nice tidbits: like the Mandarin in the Crimson Dynamo (IM), Valkyrie and a better view on each cosmic objects which could bring Ragnarok (Thor), graphics of the Tesseract showing another places when Red Skull has it (CA:TFA), concept Iron Man armors (IM & IM2)..
 
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wyokid said:
Are the art books even worth picking up? I've never owned one for any film. Not even Pacific Rim.
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It all depends with what you're into. I'm a Animation student, so I like looking at other people's work, and learning about how they make the movie. The majority of them are worth picking up if you're into that. I would maybe leaf through one at a bookstore first, to see if it's your cup of tea. Then if you like it order it on Amazon 'cause it's like 30 bucks cheaper.
I will say I like the Thor ones better, and I'm looking forward to the Guardians of the Galaxy a lot more than others coming out in the future. Simply because those movies have to create the world's around them much more when compared to say Iron Man. So the art in those ones are a lot more diverse and covers more. Whereas the Iron Man and Captain America books go heavily into the design of the costumes and gadgets, and not so much the layouts and background art.
But they're definitely cool. And there are nice tidbits like Captain France says, the Iron Man 3 one has art for all the armors, and the Avengers has the official timeline in it.
 
Spoon_Wielder said:
It all depends with what you're into. I'm a Animation student, so I like looking at other people's work, and learning about how they make the movie. The majority of them are worth picking up if you're into that. I would maybe leaf through one at a bookstore first, to see if it's your cup of tea. Then if you like it order it on Amazon 'cause it's like 30 bucks cheaper. I will say I like the Thor ones better, and I'm looking forward to the Guardians of the Galaxy a lot more than others coming out in the future. Simply because those movies have to create the world's around them much more when compared to say Iron Man. So the art in those ones are a lot more diverse and covers more. Whereas the Iron Man and Captain America books go heavily into the design of the costumes and gadgets, and not so much the layouts and background art. But they're definitely cool. And there are nice tidbits like Captain France says, the Iron Man 3 one has art for all the armors, and the Avengers has the official timeline in it.
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Even though the "official" timeline is incorrect in several instances.

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I finally watched the "All Hail The King" short. I liked it a lot. I wonder if they just made it to appease angry fans, or if it will actually go somewhere.
 
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Doesn't change the fact that it's in there, :wink:
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Lol, too true.

Captain Canuck said:
I finally watched the "All Hail The King" short. I liked it a lot. I wonder if they just made it to appease angry fans, or if it will actually go somewhere.
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I'm sure they'll pick up on the real Mandarin thread introduced in this short in a future movie. Whether that's Avengers 3 or Iron Man 4 (or a future One-Shot or even Agents of SHIELD), we'll have to wait and see.
 
Captain Canuck said:
I finally watched the "All Hail The King" short. I liked it a lot. I wonder if they just made it to appease angry fans, or if it will actually go somewhere.
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It's been stated in multiple interviews that the short was written well before the film was released.
 
wyokid said:
It's been stated in multiple interviews that the short was written well before the film was released.
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Oh yeah, I remember reading that. I guess my real point was that I hope it gets picked up and somewhere down the line we meet the real Mandarin.
 
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I watched The Incredible Hulk again last night (haven't seen it since that marathon thing that was held for The Avengers) and was surprised by how heavy the super-soldier serum was involved into the plot. It kind of made a good companion piece to Captain America: The First Avenger.
 
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wyokid said:
I watched The Incredible Hulk again last night (haven't seen it since that marathon thing that was held for The Avengers) and was surprised by how heavy the super-soldier serum was involved into the plot. It kind of made a good companion piece to Captain America: The First Avenger.
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Yeah, it's interesting too considering it was written before Captain America and before they really knew what they were doing as far as shared universe.
 
Updated for the Thor - The Dark World DVD/Blu-ray Chapters and Titles. I broke it up as usual, and placed the last few portions as such:

Thor - The Dark World Chapter 15: "The Aether Unleashed" (1:33:59 - 1:38:31)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 1x08: "The Well"
Thor - The Dark World Chapter 16: "Born to Be a King" (1:38:32 - 1:41:49)
Thor - The Dark World Chapter 17: "End Credits" (1:43:54 - 1:45:51)
Thor - The Dark World Chapter 17: "End Credits" (1:50:57 - 1:51:49)

The Agents of SHIELD episode "The Well" occurs very soon after the final battle in Thor - TDW, very likely the next day at latest (I'm assuming a preliminary team came in and secured the area immediately, and Coulson's team arrived the next day to begin cataloguing items, etc). In the "Born to Be a King" chapter of Thor - TDW, Jane mentions its been 2 days since Thor returned to Asgard, hence I placed it immediately after The Well episode, likely occurring the very next day or same day, along with the final scene between Thor and Odin (Loki) where Thor refuses the throne of Asgard, as well as the mid credits scene with The Collector and the post credits scene with Thor returning to Jane on earth and the Frost Giant monster jumping around the dockyards likely all occurring the same day.

I'll also FINALLY be getting around to breaking up the Captain America - The First Avenger Adaptation comics within the film's DVD chapters, once the TPB is released so I can compare and accurately place them. And so, within the next few weeks the timeline will be up to date until the Cap - Homecoming comic and Guardians of the Galaxy film and Prelude comics are released.
 
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All great work, DIrishB! Thank you! I thought that it might be worth noting that the Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier Prelude collection now has a different cover image on Amazon...this time including the Official MCU Comic stamp! While the Infinite comic is included, I don't see the Homecoming comic (which comes out this month, I think, unless it already came out) included.
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Yeah, but they likely release the Homecoming comic in a future CA MCU related trade. If I had to guess I'd assume they'll release Homecoming with the 2-issue adaptation of The Winter Soldier. Granted they haven't announced such an adaptation yet, but they've been releasing comic adaptations of almost all the MCU films (except Incredible Hulk) a few months before the sequel. So it'll probably be a few years, just before Cap 3 comes out, that they'll release such a trade with Homecoming and TWS adaptation, and likely a prequel comic to Cap 3. They'll also likely release a trade in a few years with a Thor - The Dark World adaptation, and a prequel for Thor 3.
 
It's also important to note Homecoming is being advertised as a MCU comic, and is written by Fred Van Lente (who does most of the MCU comic prequels/adaptations/spin-offs). I'm sure they'll collect it eventually. Perhaps even in a Phase 2 comic collection/omnibus before or after Avengers 2 comes out, collecting all the canon MCU comics released for Phase 2.
 
I keep thinking about how huge Phase 3 is going to be. We have

Ant-Man
Captain America 3
Thor 3
Whatever films that aren't announced are
Agents of SHIELD season two (assuming)
Agent Carter season one (assuming)
Daredevil
Jessica Jones
Iron Fist
Luke Cage
The Defenders
The tie-in comics
One-Shots

That's a LOT of stuff
 
well, I think Agents of SHIELD season 2 and potentially Agent Carter will both still be in phase 2. But assuming they continue on for third-fourth and second-third seasons respectively, yeah there still is going to be a whole heck of a lot of stuff. Even just in the tv series.
 
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