Does it matter?

All Groot ever says is "Groot."

Hodor.

???

Go watch Game of Thrones. :)

It's quite simple really.

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2709/myyp.jpg

Hodor.

I can see it now: Hodor vs. Groot Debate Camp.

He says "I am Groot". That's three words.

Early in the comics, Groot actually talked like a blue blood. Then I think he got into the brevity thing after he got blown up a couple times.

I think Diesel is going to be doing motion capture for Groot as well. If so, that will be a much larger part of his role.

And it looks like they have already ****ed up Ant Man.

Michael Douglas will play Henry Pym while Paul Rudd plays shitty Scott Lang.

Pretty much eliminates any possibility of anything cool with Pym now. No Goliath, Yellowjacket or Wasp.

Nothing against Douglas but he's pushing 70. Not happy with this at all.

Rashida Jones And Bryce Dallas Howard On Ant-Man Casting Lists

According to Variety‘s story on Michael Pena’s involvement in Ant-Man, both Rashida Jones and Bryce Dallas Howard have caught Marvel’s attention in the search for a female lead.

Howard might be a hard booking to make as she’s already got Jurassic World lined up at more or less the same time. Perhaps a little Ant magic can be worked on the schedules.

Rashida Jones has oft been linked to the role of Janet van Dyne, aka The Wasp. I can see how that makes sense. She’s a proven pairing with Rudd so I’d like to see them share the screen again.

I’ve been told that the female lead of this film is the daughter of the second male lead. In light of the last day’s news, that pretty clearly marks her out as the offspring of Hank Pym. If he had a daughter in the comics, I don’t know about her.

It bears pointing out that Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish devised their take on Ant-Man a good while ago now and before any kind of briefing from Marvel Studios. They may have (rightly) felt at liberty to play fast and loose with comics continuity.

And the removal of The Wasp from Joss Whedon’s plans for The Avengers could be seen as circumstantial evidence too if you’re so inclined.

Perhaps the casting of Michael Douglas, who is of an age where either Howard or Jones could be his daughter, and they both look enough like him that it would work in a movie version, is also suggestive.

So I suspect that Van Dyne senior and Hank Pym may have been conflated. Perhaps. Or maybe Vernon van Dyne is about to be cast and he’ll have a bigger part than Pym.

Now that's some bullshit......

So we are gonna have two versions of Ant Man? Interesting.....

I trust Edgar Wright
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There is a rumor that dates back several years (and now seems pretty credible) that

There was an episode of the Avengers cartoon where that exact thing happened.

Seeing as how that's pretty much exactly how it happened in the comics, I'd say it's more than just a rumor.

‘Captain America 3′ Takes Shape at Marvel

Marvel is still focusing on “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” which arrives in April, but sources tell Variety that Anthony and Joe Russo will be back in the director’s chair for a third installment, even though the film hasn’t officially been greenlit.

Marvel and Russo’s reps had no comment.

Negotiations wouldn’t begin untill after “Winter Soldier” bows but sources say Marvel has been so impressed with the production of the film, as well as with strong results from recent test screenings, that the studio has moved fast to attach the brothers to the next installment.

Since many of the actors have options for a third installment, a threequel is likely in the cards as long as “Winter Soldier” performs well.

A writer and release date are still pending for “Captain America 3″ but sources say Marvel and the Russos are already putting together an outline of what the third film’s story arc would look like.

Kevin Feige will produce with Chris Evans returning in the title role.

Going back to “Iron Man,” when Feige announced the first phase of Marvel’s release plans, Feige and the studio have been reluctant to commit to directors for subsequent installments too early in the process.

The Russos, who previously directed over 30 episodes of NBC’s “Community,” stepped in to direct “Captain America: Winter Soldier” in 2012 after Joe Johnson helmed the first installment.

Marvel prefers to get these deals done early so that the director can help develop future sequels. But the studio can also move faster when necessary — when Kenneth Branagh passed on the “Thor” sequel, Marvel landed Alan Taylor.

The move is clearly a vote of confidence for the helmers of “Captain America: the Winter Soldier,” which bows on April 4.

Evangeline Lilly in talks to be the female lead in Ant-Man, opposite Paul Rudd: http://variety.com/2014/film/news/ev...an-1201059601/

All these DC rip off characters getting to hit the big screen before the real ones.. gotta hand it to Marvel, they really make DC look like idiots. Deadpool (Deathstroke), Hawkeye (Green Arrow), Winter Soldier (Nightwing), now Ant Man (The Atom) ROFL

winter soldier = nightwing how so?
the other two you are spot on
WS I could not believe the back story the sold it as in the books

and yeah DC only has batman and they are about to crash it into the Super man quagmire with two many characters

Winter Soldier is obviously not a blatant rip in terms of abilities/name/etc as the others but more of a conceptual rip. The first sidekick (Robin) was created in 1940 and a year after, Bucky was created as a direct response in 1941. The development of that character has always been on the coat tails of Dick Grayson. After Robin grows up and becomes Nightwing, years later Bucky grows up to be Winter Soldier. When Nightwing takes over for Batman who is lost in time, Winter Soldier takes over for Cappie who is.. lost in time.

Yeah, but Marvel does it better. I don't see an Atom or Nightwing movie coming out any time soon.

I'm waiting for the Vinny Chase Entourage stigma that goes away on Aquaman.

That's kind of a stretch. You're talking about a character whose defining characteristic for 50 years was being dead. The similarities between The Death of Captain America and Batman RIP were coincidental, though I if I remember right Cap's death and return both came out first. He's not anymore of a take on Robin than any other teenage sidekick, and in terms of ones who grew up to take over as the hero, Wally West beat them both by about 20 years.

Bucky was supposed to stay forever dead. For a long time, there were three cardinal rules in the Marvel writer's bullpen: Uncle Ben must stay dead, Gwen Stacy must stay dead, and Bucky must stay dead. They've stuck with two of them.

They nearly brought back Gwen a few years ago too. It was coming out of One More Day, which was the (terrible) storyline where Peter makes a deal with the devil to save Aunt May in exchange for erasing his marriage to Mary Jane.

The original plan for that story was that Peter would change the past so that he got Harry Osborn help for his drug problem sooner, which would have a ripple effect so that Harry and Gwen would have never died, Harry and Mary Jane would have never broken up, and Peter and Mary Jane would have never got together (this actually makes sense, because Harry's drug problem is one of the things that sent Norman over the edge and back into the Green Goblin persona). It didn't happen this way because editorial at Marvel was uncomfortable with altering continuity to that extent.

I take it you guys saw The Collector at the end of Thor 2?

He is the guy Thanos gets one of the Infinity Gems from. It seems it will be the Aether he holds.

It looks like objects are going to be the gems. The tesseract is the space gem it seems.
Not sure what the Aether is.

Edgar Wright just got bounced from Ant-man. That sucks........


http://badassdigest.com/2014/05/23/e...t-off-ant-man/

Please. It's an obvious arc for any Hero/Side-kick story line.
The other most obvious: Teacher vs Student.

When the hell are they going to make another Hulk movie? The best Marvel character and he doesn't even have a second movie.

smh

I asked the same question and got linked to an explanation. The tesseract and aether are two of the gems.

A Google search will probably turn up an answer for you.


Hulk as Marvel's best character? Come on now.

The most marketable right now has to be Spidey. His flicks make damn near a billion each go round and there hasn't been a truly great one since Raimi's Spider-Man 2.

Iron Man would probably be second.

'Most marketable' and 'best' are two wildly different things.

As for the Hulk, he's like Bluto from Animal House; the most fun character in the movie, but if you put him in every scene, people will get tired of his antics. There's only so much you can say about a big green caveman besides the opening story - that's why his first run only lasted six issues, that's why no one's played him twice in a row, that's why in the comics he goes through more outlandish and bizarre radical character and premise changes than anyone, and that's why they're not planning to give him his own movie any time soon.

I'm aware. "Best" is such a subjective term.

If you asked 100 people who's the best Marvel character Spider-Man and Iron Man would dominate.

Wolverine too since he's mainstream.

If you gave them a list it's

1. Spider-Man
2. Hulk

And probably a large gap between Hulk and the rest.

Shit, yeah. I forgot about Wolverine.

I'd guess:

1. Spidey

2. Iron Man (Downey Jr would win the chick vote for sure)

3. Wolverine

4. Hulk

5. Thor

As of RIGHT NOW.

Favorite among people over 13

Wolverine
Iron Man
Spidey
Captain America
Hulk

I'm the last guy that needs to do search on this subject.
;)
I put all the answers with videos to these questions in the GotG thread.

Interesting results among comic book fans:

Marvel Character Popularity Poll (CBR)

Ever wondered which Marvel characters are the most popular among comic book fans? Well, it looks like Comic Book Resources did a rather comprehensive and sophisticated poll on the subject back in February, the results of which were posted last month. Looking through it, some of the top contenders are pretty obvious, but others are more than a little surprising.

Two things should be mentioned first before I continue. First of all, the poll was based exclusively on the characters' comic book appearances, at least in principle. It's hard to imagine the film and TV versions of characters had no effect at all on the results, but they weren't the primary factor at least. Secondly, the poll was conducted by asking each poster to list their top 10 characters, rather than asking them to vote for one in particular. The character they ranked #1 scored the most points, the character they ranked #10 scored the least points.

First of all, let's talk about some of the characters who didn't make the top 100 (but were counted). Most of these weren't very surprising, minor characters who've only been in a couple of storylines, as well as a huge slew of alternate universe characters like the Ultimate line. A few of the biggest upsets were the Red Skull, J. Jonah Jameson, Gwen Stacy, Ultron, and Nick Fury (both versions). I was also pretty surprised, given all the fuss about the Mandarin in Iron Man 3 that he didn't score high enough to make the list. Assuming this poll is accurate, I think it's fair to say then that the complainers were a vocal minority.

Moving on to the characters that actually made it to the top 100, some real surprises begin to emerge. First of all, the Fantastic Four, Marvel's "first family" and the first major co-creation between Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, are surprisingly unpopular. The Human Torch, who was something of Marvel's mascot for awhile, barely made into the list at all, tying with the supervillain Apocalypse for 100th place. Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman did better, ranking #65 and #51 respectively, but it's still a poor showing for the team. The Thing proved the most popular character of the bunch, placing at #31 and scoring the most individual votes of any character (but ranking #1 on no one's list). One has to wonder how this bodes for Fox's upcoming reboot of the team.

There were some other upsets. Flash Thompson's Agent Venom (#64) is more popular than Eddie Brock's original Venom (#78). Miles Morales is tied with Norman Osborn (both #91) and significantly more popular than the Ultimate version of Peter Parker (who failed to make the list). Gwen Stacy didn't make the list, but Mary Jane Watson (#73) did, proving herself the most popular "civilian" character in the Marvel universe. Thanos (#47) is waaaay more popular than Galactus (#92), even though I'd never heard of the former until The Avengers came out. And the Guardians of the Galaxy really are bit players - only Rocket Raccoon (#91) and (#75) made the list at all, making the team significantly less popular than Namor (#35), Captain Britain (#28), or Dr. Strange (#27).

Moving on to the top 25, I was surprised by some but not all of the results. The MCU's biggest earner, Iron Man (#20), was ranked below the franchise's lowest earner, the Hulk (#18). Carol Danvers is Marvel's most popular solo female character, ranking at #15. Magneto (#11) is Marvel's most popular villain, followed by Dr. Doom (#19). And, perhaps to no one's great surprise, the fandom's ultimate favorite is Earth-616's Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man.

Looking at the list and considering what relevance, if any, this has for future movie adaptations, a few things occurred to me. People really like the X-Men, whose ranks made up 14 of the top 25 characters (Scarlet Witch and Magneto included). That bodes well for Fox, since it looks like they're in no danger of running out of characters people will show up to see. However, Fox's other superhero franchise, the Fantastic Four, may come with more baggage than expected.

In Sony's case, they're in a bit of a pickle. While Spider-Man himself is extremely popular, none of the other characters from his corner of the Marvel universe broke the top 50. Spidey's most popular villain, Otto Octavius, was ranked down at #59. And none of Parker's friends and family ranked outside of Mary Jane. This raises the question as to how "expandable" Spider-Man's universe really is.

Lastly, if Marvel's looking for a female character to launch solo in the MCU, Carol Danvers is the one to pick. She's powerful, she has a long-running solo title, and she's (according to this poll) very popular. That isn't to say Black Widow (#22) doesn't deserve a shot as well; she absolutely does and if Marvel can run several male superheroes at once they can certainly run more than one female-led franchise. But if the poll's results are to be believed, Danvers is actually more popular among comic book fans than any other Avenger besides Captain America (#9) and Thor (#5).

So those are my thoughts. What do you guys think? Did any of you catch a glimpse at this poll before now? Did of any you actually vote?

EDIT: For reasons which I am not aware of, the thread appears to be down. It's possible this is an error or standard procedure by Comic Book Resources. Whatever the case, I've altered the original link to direct to a cached archive of the thread's front page within Google's database.

In addition, I'll go ahead and list the full results below (in descending order):

100. Apocalypse / Human Torch (Storm)
98. Fantomex
97. Enchantress (Amora) / Moonstone
95. Wonder Man
94. Crystal
93. Meggan
92. Galactus
91. Norman Osborn / Rocket Raccoon / Scarlet Spider (Kaine) / Ultimate Spider-Man (Morales)
87. Firestar
86. Black Knight / Ghost Rider
84. Pixie
83. Mr. Sinister
82. Legion
81. Moonstar
80. Chamber
79. Mockingbird
78. Venom (Brock)
77. M
76. Juggernaut
75. Star Lord
74. Daken
73. Angel / Mary Jane Watson
71. Nico Minoru / Wiccan
69. Death's Head
68. Union Jack
67. Sif
66. Havok
65. Mr. Fantastic
64. Agent Venom
63. Hank Pym
62. Multiple Man
61. Bishop / Pete Wisdom
59. Spider-Man (Octavius)
58. Professor X
57. Vision
56. Luke Cage
55. Hawkeye (Bishop)
54. Quicksilver
53. Spectrum
52. Spider-Woman
51. Invisible Woman
50. Punisher
49. Colossus / Mystique
47. Cable / Thanos
45. Nova
44. Moon Knight
43. Iceman
42. Wasp
41. Jubilee
40. Rachel Grey
39. Bucky Barnes
38. X-23
37. Hercules
36. Beast
35. Namor
34. Black Panther
33. Silver Surfer
32. Loki
31. Thing
30. Dazzler
29. Deadpool
28. Captain Britain
27. Dr. Strange
26. Hawkeye
25. She-Hulk
24. Polaris
23. Iron Fist
22. Black Widow
21. Scarlet Witch
20. Iron Man
19. Dr. Doom
18. Hulk
17. Magik
16. Psylocke
15. Carol Danvers
14. Daredevil
13. Kitty Pryde
12. Emma Frost
11. Magneto
10. Cyclops
9. Captain America
8. Jean Grey
7. Gambit
6. Nightcrawler
5. Thor
4. Rogue
3. Wolverine
2. Storm
1. Spider-Man

My Top 10:

10. Cable: He will be on everyone's top 10 after X-men Apocalypse comes out.
9. Wolverine: Was my favorite as a child. Still love him, but over exposure and popularity have changed who he is. Not the wild animal he used to be.
8. Dr. Strange: Never really followed his line of comics, but was always a vital figure in large conflicts, and a favorite to see. Very Unique and useful "powers"
7. Galactus: The eater of worlds needs a new introduction into pop culture.
6. Captain America: Admittedly, The Winter Soldier movie complete changed my view of Cap.
5. The Incredible Hulk: Hulk Smash
4. Iron Man: I have IM #1. And I had it before the first Iron Man movie was released.
3. Adam Warlock: Wasn't a fav when I was into comics, but after revisiting the big stories, the anticipation of his introduction into the MCU is exciting.
2. The Silver Surfer: Absolutely defecated on by Fox. Have SS #1 too. It was worth $1000 bucks 10 yrs ago. Now it's worth 100.
1. Thanos of Titan: I'm a fan of Bad ass. I like so Bad Ass that a chuckle is given when challenged. Followed by a "surely you jest"
Smarter than Stark, Strong as the Hulk, Meaner than Mephisto, and Colder than Death Herself.
A Hero is only measured by the Villain he faces.
Thanos is the measuring stick of the Marvel Universe.

The list would probably be a little different if I took time to think about it.

Thanos isn't really anything special IMO

1. Xorn
2. Domino
3. Emma Frost (movie version sucked)
4. Stepford Cuckoos (:redface: <3)
5. Cyclops

NUFF SED.

Just the most dangerous villain in all of Marvel.

The guy was resurrected by death to deal with the over population of the universe.

No big deal.

Not a fan of your list..

I call BS on those in bold.

Really? Psylocke and Kitty pride above characters like Doom, Hulk, Dr. Strange, and Cable?

No way in hell.

And NO ONE I have ever known gave a $#it about Daredevil...

Yeah, there's something wrong with that whole poll. There's no way in hell that Psylocke trounces Hulk, Dazzler is more popular than Loki, or Death's Head (!) is above Juggernaut.

Plus, there's 111 people in their 'top 100'. That's just not right.

This

Yeah, that poll seems ... off. Storm is cool and all, but number 2?

But now you have at least heard of one person who gave a shit about Daredevil. I was always into the lower power superheroes that were graceful and acrobatic with cool martial arts shit. The Ben Afleck movie was ass, but I always dug the character.

I agree that the list seems off, but it does say that it was supposed to be based on comic book appearances, not film and television.

Aaaaand Storm is pretty ****ing cool in the comics.

And served as IT director for Annihilus.

That might be obscure..

<a href="http://31.media.tumblr.com/ec7beee1da8c166ed8a4287aa41460a9/tumblr_n1u6mmg08V1qz5pevo1_1280.jpg">Galactus working as IT director.</a>

If you want some great villains, read the Annihilation series. You have Annihulus, Thanos and Galactus in many of the issues.

I read it to get a bit more backstory on the Guardians of the Galaxy, but it also has great stuff on characters like Nova, Super Skrull, Silver Surfer and quite a few others.

Agreed. I especially enjoyed the Drax series. Not sure they'll make him as witty in the movie as he was in that book, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. That series also includes some general background info on each of the players at the back of each issue. It makes it relativity easy to get into that run without having Wikipedia open all the time.

josh brolin as thanos.

I can get behind this.

Adam (Will Ferrell) McKay in the running to direct Ant Man now.

Boooooooooo! :mad:

I guess that means they're definitely going for the comedic route with Ant-Man.

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn.

Nice Casting!!

Never even thought of him.

Fn Perfect.

Rumor was dead by about the time he posted that this morning. It won't be him.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/ad...or-1201199467/

UPDATE: “Anchorman” director Adam McKay, who was is in advanced talks Friday to replace Edgar Wright as helmer of Marvel’s “Ant-Man,” has decided to pass on the superhero project, sources confirm.

**** it, get Mel Brooks out retirement

Probably for the best. I think Marvel just wants to bring in mostly point and shoot/yes men types, not real creative/auteur types. Whedon is a great writer, but I wouldn't consider him some visual genius. He's basically point and shoot.

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Jared Leto rumored to be their target for casting Dr. Strange.

I think I like the choice if he'd do it?

He might be able to pull it off. When he was younger he really irritated me for some reason but the last few years he's done a really good job...

Some friends of mine and I were talking Benedict Cumberbatch.

Well he does kind of look like Matt Cassel

Ruined it for me...:(

http://screenrant.com/marvel-doctor-...tt-derrickson/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpPNTn8CEAA6o8_.jpg

BOOOOOOOOOOOO! :mad:

I've not seen any of his work, so I have no opinion yet.

He fits every cheesy horror trope possible in his movies.

There's nothing really new to anything in his movies. It's a collection of devices used over the years all collected under one roof.

Jump scare. Spooky kid. Birds smashing into windows. Furniture being stacked...

It seems to me like they want someone competent who will do what he's told, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

They way it seems some of the big name Directors want to go so far out of canon (Shane Black) that they don't want the same Iron Man 3 backlash from the ardent fans of the comics.

Marvel Starts ‘Doctor Strange’ Search: Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch Early Wish-Listers

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some hot superhero dish to take into the weekend. There are reports tonight that Peyton Reed and David Wain are being considered for Ant-Man, but man, we are progressing down the comedy director food chain, and this is starting to feel stale. So how about Doctor Strange? Marvel is BenedictCumberbatch putting together its cast list, and I’m hearing that Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch are on it. While Marvel has teased this property with mentions in films including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the film solidified and felt urgent when Scott Derrickson tweeted this week that he will direct the script by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer.


The character has been around since the early 1960s, during that crazy period where just about all the spandex-clad heroes in all the Hollywood blockbusters were hatched at Marvel Comics headquarters (that might be a movie). Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created the character in 1963 as a neurosurgeon who serves as the Sorcerer Supreme, protecting Earth against magical and mystical threats with powers of sorcery, mysticism, and martial arts. Marvel’s Kevin Feige is producing. These two guys aren’t the only ones in the mix, but let’s face it, they are both poised to become major stars. Hardy, by way of playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, is closer. He just starred in the superb Steven Knight-directed drama Locke, and he wrapped Child 44 and Mad Max: Fury Road. Cumberbatch, coming off August: Osage County and 12 Years A Slave, next will be seen starring in the Morten Tyldum-directed Imitation Game, which The Weinstein Company opens on November 21 during Oscar season. Both of them have been lining up movies left and right, so scheduling might be an issue. We’ll see who Marvel ultimately lands, but it’s hard to go wrong either way here if one of these guys get the job.

I still can't believe Hardy was the Nemesis in Star Trek Nemesis.

Dear God, not Tom Hardy. Why not Oded Fehr? (He was the guy with the face tattoos in The Mummy).

Ya know thats a great call. Too bad with the character a relative unknown to the masses they are going to want a familiar face / name I bet...

I don't get the Hardy hate. I've liked him in damn near everything he's been in. I even like him in that crap movie he was in with Chris Pine and Reese Witherspoon.

Only reason I wouldn't want Hardy as Strange is Superhero overload since he already did Bane in a DCU

That doesn't mean much now. DC doesn't seem to care about Ben Affleck's Daredevil past; Chris Evans was the Human Torch before he was Captain America; Samuel L. Jackson was in The Spirit before all of the Avengers movies; Ryan Reynolds has been three different superheroes, and is probably still on the short list for a few more.

In the 40's, actors played different gumshoes. In the 60's, spies. In the 80's, horny teenagers. Now, it's superheroes. It happens.