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Concept art from the 2015 Fantastic Four film of the Fantasticar:
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The hiiiiiiiills are aliiiiiiiive with the sound of caaaaarnaaage
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The hiiiiiiiills are aliiiiiiiive with the sound of caaaaarnaaage
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We’re Gonna Need A Bigger (Sym)biote
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Ahhh early Bagley… very Larsen-ish… always takes me a second to tell which is which =P
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The was a Twitter watch-a-long last night. I was watching something else but The Hollywood Reporter helpfully summarised a lot of the information that got shared, these were the ones I found most interesting;
An early draft of Markus and McFeely’s Infinity War script had Thanos (Josh Brolin) attacking Xandar and retrieving the Power Stone from the Nova Corps’ vault. Nova, Richard Rider, would have then crash-landed to Earth instead of Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and proclaimed “Thanos is coming!”
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McFeely revealed that there were several other versions of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Spider-Man’s (Tom Holland) rescue of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) from Ebony Maw (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor). One version had Tony sending his nano-suit to Strange which would have resulted in an Iron-suited Doctor Strange, with the Eye of Agamotto at the center of his chest piece rather than the Arc Reactor. The screenwriters shared a picture from the unfinished scene online.
Smart Hulk was originally going to debut at the end of Infinity War and Ruffalo shot a scene in which Banner argues with the Hulk, before compromising and emerging from the Hulkbuster armor as Smart Hulk.
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An earlier draft of the script saw Iron Man and Thor traveling to Asgard to collect the reality and space stones. Tony would have worn an invisible stealth suit, which debuted in Iron Man No. 152 in 1981, and fought Heimdall (Idris Elba). McFeely noted that while the scene was cool, it was not emotional, which makes sense given that Tony has no emotional connection to Heimdall. Similarly, Nebula and War Machine (Don Cheadle) were originally going to arrive on Morag while it was underwater, and they would have fought a giant sea-monster. Again, cool, but lacked an emotional connection.
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The screenwriters revealed that it was their intention to have Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) meet Red Skull on Vormir, but it never made sense story-wise for him to be there. There was also an original plan to have Nebula wield the Infinity Gauntlet as she does in the comics, but the screenwriters felt it took away from the weight of Tony inevitably putting it on and sacrificing himself.
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According to Marcus, Steve Rogers was not worthy to lift Mjolnir in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) because he still had the secret of Tony’s parents on his conscious. With that resolved by the third act of Endgame, Captain America is worthy to wield its power.
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Every week before filming on Infinity War and Endgame, the Russos would meet with Robert Downey Jr. so he could use that time to dig into Tony Stark’s character, work on improvisations, and play with line deliveries. The now famous line, “I love you 3000,” was something that Downey Jr.’s now eight-year old would say to him.
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I kind of think they made the right move – the end of infinity war is pretty hectic and I think the impact of what would ostensibly be the introduction of a new character would be lost when straight after ‘the snap’ happens
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After the snape, I agree.
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Also, though, Infinity War is meant to end with a feeling of hopelessness. Having a new fun character suddenly there sort of takes away from that.
Well, you know, they could have done the thing where the heroes are losing the battle but then Banner and the Hulk do their agreement and suddenly there’s fucking SMART HULK and he’s turning the tide of the battle because he’s so fucking awesome until Thanos kicks his ass and all hope is lost. And THEN Thor comes down from the heavens.
Smart Hulk can be a fun character later. For that sequence, the important thing is that the Hulk is finally joining the battle, and he’s the new, improved, smart Hulk and he kicks ass all the better for it.
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Maybe.
Maybe the Russos just cut that scene because they hate you. That’s the word on the street anyway.
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Well, you know, they could have done the thing where the heroes are losing the battle but then Banner and the Hulk do their agreement and suddenly there’s fucking SMART HULK and he’s turning the tide of the battle because he’s so fucking awesome until Thanos kicks his ass and all hope is lost. And THEN Thor comes down from the heavens.
Or, what I was kinda hoping to see… was for the snap to kill Hulk… but not Banner… that would’ve been fun… then he recreates the Hulk process and ends up refining it so he becomes a smart Hulk… that would’ve been pretty neat =P
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Take with a grain of salt:
Becky Lynch grabbing Hollywood's eye. (Psst: She's also in a certain upcoming Marvel movie…) https://t.co/Ses4qx2sNK
— Kris Tapley (@kristapley) May 2, 2020
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It’s happening. I’m scared.
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It’ll just be two hours of a Rick Astley music video.
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I’d feel like that after two hours of Rick Astley, too.
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Oh shit no, it was stopped in the middle of a shoot. Even if they finish their shoot this month it’d be hard-pressed to get it out by August.
I’d say a 50/50 chance to release this year.
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Well it’s not a secret but I assume Disney would rather keep everyone’s attention fixed on what they do have, instead of what’s being delayed, since there’s still no clear timeline for getting everyone back to work?
Sebastian Stan thinks it’ll be a few more weeks of filming once they’re up and running again;
In the meantime Marvel will be getting as much post-production done as possible on the footage they have, and that applies to the other shows that were filming as well.
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Hell, I wouldn’t mind an episode or two of them swapping stories about Steve on Skype.
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We pitched the Sony brass an ambitious tag involving Spider-Ham, Tobey, Andrew, and Tom. They felt it was “too soon”#SpiderVerse #QuarantineWatchParty https://t.co/E91H1eLysr
— Christopher Miller (@chrizmillr) May 7, 2020
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“I don’t have much proof”, then proceeds to offer no proof at all, total lack of any visible quantity of proof, zero proof
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I don’t have much proof”, then proceeds to offer no proof at all, total lack of any visible quantity of proof, zero proof
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It seems fitting that New Mutants would be released at a time when cinemas can only be half full at best.
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Disney Reschedules ‘The New Mutants’ & ‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’
August 28, 2020
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Sigh. One of my very first USA marvel comics, bought off a spinner rack at a holiday came Caister on Sea.
I have such memories. I must see this.But perhaps not at a cinema.
Okay, I’d settle for an omnibus, a beanbag and a darkened room. Can we make up a soundtrack?
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FYI: The New Mutants was originally set to be released on April 13, 2018.
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The distribution contracts aren’t necessarily related to the studio.
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Why waste valuable cinema real estate with dicey attendance at best when you could just dump it on one of the streaming services where it is possible more people will actually see it?
People seeing it isn’t as important as how much it earns. If that was the aim then air it free to air on ABC.
For all the hype about the Trolls sequel doing well with a VOD release, making $100m on domestic release, there are a lot of things to consider. The original Trolls made $153m at the domestic box office and $344m overall. Now with a VOD release you get to keep more of the money but we can forget that Trolls made $70m in the US home market, which is being cannibalised here by people who watched it at home already.
There’s also the fact that in many parts of the world people will go to the cinema but they ain’t ever paying $20 to stream at home. America’s higher income plus lower piracy rate and tougher controls mean I’d expect other markets to fall far short of that.
It also did that all of that with a grand total of zero competition for new material.
So as far as I can make the numbers it showed a market was wiling to pay and probably helped their cashflow a lot but made a significant loss of income over a worldwide cinema release, followed by a home release. We still don’t know how long this thing will go on, if cinemas remain closed most places for most of the year then I think decisions can change but to me the reason Disney is still pushing it for theatrical release is that’s the best way to make the most money.
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Yeah, that’s my take on it too. I know the people behind Trolls are trying to push it as a success but the $100m home takings compared to the $350m global haul for the previous movie, in addition to the cannibalisation of the home release afterwards, makes me think that they’d have to be taking a fuck of a lot more in terms of share to even come close.
It’s why I don’t see Disney taking the route that some people are suggesting of bunging something like Black Widow out on a home cinema release. For movies expected to take a billion dollars like the MCU movies I don’t think there’s a hope of coming close through VOD even at a premium price.
(I feel as though films for adults are an even riskier prospect as a premium rental than the kids movies. With Trolls I think there was an element of parents needing something to keep the kids occupied. But with adults they’re putting a £16 rental in competition with every other cheap or free entertainment option that is open to us. You’d have to really want to watch that specific movie.)
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in addition to the cannibalisation of the home release afterwards,
Which is probably an understated number. “The Numbers’ is the only place I know that covers that and they specify only DVD and Blu-Ray sales in north America, not anyone who bought or rented a movie on iTunes or Amazon or wherever. As with comics, digital revenue effectively becomes invisible unless someone boasts about it.
For just over a decade from around the mid 90s films made more revenue from home release that at the box office, while that fell away a lot it has kind of been regarded as having disappeared entirely. It is still a hefty chunk.
But with adults they’re putting a £16 rental in competition with every other cheap or free entertainment option that is open to us.
The other element is the size of the audience. Now if you have a couple of kids who cannot go to a cinema unattended you’ll be paying maybe $30 minimum on a trip before you get to snacks. So $20 doesn’t sound too bad. If the film is ‘Death of Stalin’ for example I can tell you the only person from my household going to that is me. So I’m not paying $20 for it at home on release day, I’d either go to see it in the cinema or wait until it falls onto a subscription service.
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.@clarkgregg #AgentsofSHIELD pic.twitter.com/wHnvaXHLuD
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— Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (@AgentsofSHIELD) May 20, 2020
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It’s probably the best thing live-action production Marvel have done, TBH.
Man, I thought for sure you’d pick this.
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Is Ming-Na Wen actually ageing backwards?
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It took me far too long to get that.
It’s been a long week
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It’s been a long week
It’s only friblergh today, there’s still saturblah and sunargh left man.
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Love AoS, and very much looking forward to the last season of it.
Is this coming to Disney+, too, or just ABC?
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Is Ming-Na Wen actually ageing backwards?
Asian don’t raisin.
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It’s probably the best thing live-action production Marvel have done, TBH.
Man, I thought for sure you’d pick this.
It’s a close-run thing. I’d love it if someone in AoS described themselves as an Emissary from Hell.
I mean, Ghost Rider was right there.
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It’s a close-run thing. I’d love it if someone in AoS described themselves as an Emissary from Hell.
I mean, Ghost Rider was right there.
We’ll just have to settle for:
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No need.
— Josh Trank (@joshuatrank) May 20, 2020
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Did anyone else crack a gigantic grin at the title card in Agents of SHIELD this week?
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Did anyone else crack a gigantic grin at the title card in Agents of SHIELD this week?
I felt it was a welcome acknowledgement of the show’s comic book origins. Would’ve been even better if it said “Marvel Comics Presents”, but I’ll take what they give me.
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I just finished watching it and yes the opening card did elicit a grin.
Other thoughts- this version of Koenig seems less of a putz. I’m glad Mac and Daisy’s reactions were toned down. We all know that blacks and women were treated poorly. The script acknowledged it and moved on. LMD Coulson looks to be quite interesting. His comment to Daisy about both being Superheroes was fun. Interesting plot twist.
I’m just happy it is back. I missed it.
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An Amazing Fan Created A Chronological List of Every Scene In The MCU
Well nerds, I fuckin' did it.
Took me a global pandemic and a damn quarantine, but I did it.
I figured out the precise chronological order of all the MCU movies (so far) BY SCENE.
I'm out of my Goddamn mind. You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/3VXjqk4kjQ
— puck the folice (@tonygoldmark) May 27, 2020
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So, Agents of Shield. We are getting Fitz back at some point, yes? (I haven’t missed some contract squabble or anything?).
Only 13 episodes, so I hope it’s soon.
I do like the fact it jumped, and I’m kinda hoping for more (keeps the writing tighter).
I also realize I missed this show. It’s not “must-see” but it hits a sweet spot for me.
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So, Agents of Shield. We are getting Fitz back at some point, yes? (I haven’t missed some contract squabble or anything?).
Given how cagey Simmons and Enoch have been about how long they were separated from the others, I’ve seen speculation that she’s either really old and wearing one of those holo masks from a few series back, or is another LMD because the real Fitzsimons died of old age.
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So, Agents of Shield. We are getting Fitz back at some point, yes? (I haven’t missed some contract squabble or anything?).
Given how cagey Simmons and Enoch have been about how long they were separated from the others, I’ve seen speculation that she’s either really old and wearing one of those holo masks from a few series back, or is another LMD because the real Fitzsimons died of old age.
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Moist
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I loved Coulson’s glee in quoting Blade Runner, which goes to a whole new level considering he’s an LMD.
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Simmons:” your last name wouldn’t happen to be Souza?”
Souza: “The woman has a such a bad fake accent”
What did the prototype EMP do to Coulson?
I also liked how both May and Yoyo got limited in the big fight scene.
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Another batshit insane fan theory:
Or is it?
Yes. Yes it is.
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Yes. Yes it is.
while Howard definitely had a thing for Peggy in the First Avenger, if Peggy= MCU Maria was true then when Cap went back to hook up with Peggy that would mean Tony never was born.
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