Marvel Releases Info on Next Slate of Films - Get ready for the whining

[Jimmy Higgins]

So any word on whether Black Widow is post End Game, because I think she is alive. The one thing we don't need is another origin story.

yes there is word, and no it isn't - it's post civil war, pre infinity war.

So any word on whether Black Widow is post End Game, because I think she is alive. The one thing we don't need is another origin story.

yes there is word, and no it isn't - it's post civil war, pre infinity war.

My understanding is that it is post Endgame, and that it introduces Yelena Belova as Black Widow. Yelena is a clone of Natasha Romanov, which explains ScarJo retaining the role post Endgame.

Alright, we have consensus!

 

[paladin.oa]

Besides, they need to bring Blade back to clear out the infestation of the 'sparkley' kind of vampires.

No.
Not actually sparkly... A bunch of wannabes, using glitter makeup to try to convince people they're sparkly.
Blade, Dracula, and Lestat work together to root out the idiots...

Add in Angel and Spike (Also perhaps Buffy and Faith) and you've got yourself a deal.

 

[Patooka]

Besides, they need to bring Blade back to clear out the infestation of the 'sparkley' kind of vampires.

No.
Not actually sparkly... A bunch of wannabes, using glitter makeup to try to convince people they're sparkly.
Blade, Dracula, and Lestat work together to root out the idiots...

Add in Angel and Spike (Also perhaps Buffy and Faith) and you've got yourself a deal.

Smiling Jack is the best vampire. Followed by Cuthbert Beckett.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Anyone ever watch Forever Knight back in the 90s, about a good vampire who only ate evil people? That was a cool show.

 

[KeepTalking]

So any word on whether Black Widow is post End Game, because I think she is alive. The one thing we don't need is another origin story.

yes there is word, and no it isn't - it's post civil war, pre infinity war.

My understanding is that it is post Endgame, and that it introduces Yelena Belova as Black Widow. Yelena is a clone of Natasha Romanov, which explains ScarJo retaining the role post Endgame.

Alright, we have consensus!

Heh. I have been looking at the info coming out from SDCC, and it looks like we were both wrong to some degree. Florence Pugh is playing Yelena Belova, and ScarJo is still playing Natasha, so it won't be post Endgame, it is a prequel movie apparently set during the cold war, so not after the events of Civil War either. It could set up Yelena for taking over as Black Widow in the post Endgame MCU movies, but given that there are no new Avengers movies known to be slated for Phase 4, who knows if that will ever come to pass.

 

[jab]

The beginning of the gnashing will likely surround the Jane Foster -> Lady Thor film. For whatever reason, Thor isn't worthy of the hammer... so his on again - off again girlfriend (?) and globally recognized astrophysicist, Jane Foster will make with some Hammer Time. This will surround a comic line that is relatively new, but certainly open to make some people upset because a female will be a main protagonist, also that she will be Thor... although she won't actually be Thor, she'll be playing a new character... but these sorts of nuanced points get lost on the rabid. Same director from Ragnorak, so I'm very hopeful... if not wondering how they manage to shift Thor into an unworthy guy and why Jane Foster is back in the fold seeing she's been out of it for several years... even noting in Ragnorak that she had dumped Thor.

Black Widow is going to get a film. This will likely make even the most rabid of people happy, as they typically complain, 'We didn't want Captain Marvel... she's "boring", we want a Black Widow film.'

Doctor Strange will have a new film which might have no one complain.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is getting a movie. I know nothing about it, but based on its title, I'm already certain the movie will do sub Ant-man numbers.

Mahershala Ali will take the lead role as Blade. Hard to gauge the white male anger of recasting a black man as a black man, because they might demand more whiteness to make up for the recent loss of white lead.

except for the Blade remake, these all sound boring to me, because they involve characters I dislike, finding them boring or too preposterous, regardless of who plays them.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The beginning of the gnashing will likely surround the Jane Foster -> Lady Thor film. For whatever reason, Thor isn't worthy of the hammer... so his on again - off again girlfriend (?) and globally recognized astrophysicist, Jane Foster will make with some Hammer Time. This will surround a comic line that is relatively new, but certainly open to make some people upset because a female will be a main protagonist, also that she will be Thor... although she won't actually be Thor, she'll be playing a new character... but these sorts of nuanced points get lost on the rabid. Same director from Ragnorak, so I'm very hopeful... if not wondering how they manage to shift Thor into an unworthy guy and why Jane Foster is back in the fold seeing she's been out of it for several years... even noting in Ragnorak that she had dumped Thor.

Black Widow is going to get a film. This will likely make even the most rabid of people happy, as they typically complain, 'We didn't want Captain Marvel... she's "boring", we want a Black Widow film.'

Doctor Strange will have a new film which might have no one complain.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is getting a movie. I know nothing about it, but based on its title, I'm already certain the movie will do sub Ant-man numbers.

Mahershala Ali will take the lead role as Blade. Hard to gauge the white male anger of recasting a black man as a black man, because they might demand more whiteness to make up for the recent loss of white lead.

except for the Blade remake, these all sound boring to me, because they involve characters I dislike, finding them boring or too preposterous, regardless of who plays them.

I know nothing of the cannon, but I do know that on paper Antman should be the worst of the films. Yet, I (I understand others didn't) really liked Antman.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Ya, a lot of the characters are kind of dumb. I remember back in the day when the whole MCU experiment was going to fail because some moronic executive decided that it would be a good idea to make a movie starring a talking raccoon and a tree and I was sad that superhero movies weren't going to be a thing anymore, not to mention the time when the entire concept was never going to get off the ground in the first place because they decided to have a film starring some C-list character called Iron Man instead of taking their cues from DC and making one using a well known and popular guy like Green Lantern.

It's the quality of the movies which counts, not how silly or lame the characters in it may be outside of the movies.

 

[ZiprHead]

Ya, a lot of the characters are kind of dumb. I remember back in the day when the whole MCU experiment was going to fail because some moronic executive decided that it would be a good idea to make a movie starring a talking raccoon and a tree and I was sad that superhero movies weren't going to be a thing anymore, not to mention the time when the entire concept was never going to get off the ground in the first place because they decided to have a film starring some C-list character called Iron Man instead of taking their cues from DC and making one using a well known and popular guy like Green Lantern.

It's the quality of the movies which counts, not how silly or lame the characters in it may be outside of the movies.

Luckily Deadpool went back in time and killed that before it happened.

 

[jab]

Ya, a lot of the characters are kind of dumb. I remember back in the day when the whole MCU experiment was going to fail because some moronic executive decided that it would be a good idea to make a movie starring a talking raccoon and a tree and I was sad that superhero movies weren't going to be a thing anymore, not to mention the time when the entire concept was never going to get off the ground in the first place because they decided to have a film starring some C-list character called Iron Man instead of taking their cues from DC and making one using a well known and popular guy like Green Lantern.

It's the quality of the movies which counts, not how silly or lame the characters in it may be outside of the movies.

Guardians of the Galaxy knew it was absurd, and played on that. MCU movies don't know that Dr. Strange, played by an actor whose work I generally find pretentious, is absurd, or that Black Widow, played by an actor whose work I generally like, is absurd--one of those non-super powered superheros.