The All About Comic Book Movies Thread

Well with Sony and Fox's deals are never going to expire, but Disney could certainly buy them off

but at this point those licenses might not even be worth buying back, alot of damage has been done

I say Disney/Marvel should focus on cultivating new-to-film characters to bring into the limelight instead of rehashing the X-Men and Spider-Man again, they've done a great job so far

Sure Spidey and the X-Men are big fish, but they've started to go rotten you know what I mean?
 
Gemini said:
Well with Sony and Fox's deals are never going to expire, but Disney could certainly buy them off

but at this point those licenses might not even be worth buying back, alot of damage has been done

I say Disney/Marvel should focus on cultivating new-to-film characters to bring into the limelight instead of rehashing the X-Men and Spider-Man again, they've done a great job so far

Sure Spidey and the X-Men are big fish, but they've started to go rotten you know what I mean?
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Well, it's certainly poorly timed. Marvel clearly has a full slate with their Avengers based movies and their initiative to take lower tier properties and make smaller budget pictures with them. I'd guess they don't intend to immediately churn out Spider-Man and X-Men movies if they do get back the rights, but they want to own them now so they can sit on the properties a while and give them time to rest before rebooting them. If Fox and Sony have success with the new Spider-Man flicks and X-Men: First Class, they'll just be that much more difficult and expensive to buy back later. It also means their comic book films aren't competing with films of their own properties leased out to other studios. Maybe the circumstances of the film rights could also intrude on the possibilities of releasing, for instance, animated feature films with the characters, or would complicate a push towards live action TV using the properties? I don't know, just speculating.

One way or another, it's not great timing. If Disney had gobbled up Marvel shortly after Wolverine was released or after the Sam Raimi-helmed Spider-Man films nosedived, it surely would have been a lot easier for them.
 
Well, who knows how long they've been trying to get them back now. Disney was after Marvel for just about a whole year before it even made news. This could just be us learning about it now.
 
Ice said:
Well, who knows how long they've been trying to get them back now. Disney was after Marvel for just about a whole year before it even made news. This could just be us learning about it now.
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Hm. Good point.
 
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is going to be The Dark Knight of our times.
 
More Superman that could have been:
What would Dougherty's Superman sequel have been?
"There was never any official deal for the second one", Doughety tells The Hole Cast. "There was always talk and whispers and stuff but nothing ever got off the ground."
Had he gotten the call, the writer (now director; he helmed "Trick R'Treat") says he would've introduced "Other Kryptonians – I'll be purposely vague about that" into Supes' world.
These Kryptonians "wouldn't necessarily be evil right off the bat", says Dougherty, "That's too easy and cliché. I don't think people just show up and they're evil. In my mind, if the Kryptonians really were a space-faring race – which they obviously were – then it would only make sense that there would've been colonies and off-planet missions. So yeah, the possibility of other Kryptonians making their way to Earth seemed like a pretty big one in my mind.
"I think it'd be interesting to see how these other Kryptonians show up, land and have all these powers and [have to learn] how to adapt to them – when Clark got to grow up with [the powers]. Ya know… if you woke up with super powers tomorrow I think you'd have a pretty tough time adjusting to them".
Dougherty might have also written "certain other classic villains" into his sequel.
"Brainiac was always interesting", he admits.
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I figured it was too early to start an Iron Man 3 thread, so here we go:

Favreau being interviewed by MTV:
"In theory, 'Iron Man 3' is going to be a sequel or continuation of 'Thor,' 'Hulk,' 'Captain America' and 'Avengers,'" he said. "This whole world... I have no idea what it is. I don't think they do either, from conversations I've had with those guys."
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That sounds like a guy who does indeed have an idea (however vague, although he basically gave a vague idea of it right there) and isn't too excited about it.
 
nigma said:
Couldn't find the Transformers 3 thread......if this is already posted then please delete or move....if not enjoy

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/transformers-3/announcement-trailer
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It's cool that they're incorporating real history and having Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin be characters in the story, but if I'd seen that trailer in theaters not knowing what it was for at first, I probably would've been disappointed when you realize its a Transformers sequel. I guess Apollo 18 is gonna have it's work cut out for it.
 
Very cool trailer I also like how their using the Ark for the storyline here too
 
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It's probably for the best. It doesn't sound like he was given any control over Iron Man 2.
 
Seriously, seriously bad news. Whatever the amount of creative control he was given over IM2(a film I really, really like), its actual direction was spot-on fantastic. When you read about the process of making the two films, especially the vast ad-libbing stuff and not even having a script for the first one, it's hard to imagine another director handling it all so well or being able to recreate the atmosphere they've got going with all the actors. I hope he at least stays on to play Happy.
 
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