Marvel unviels their next four projects

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Marvel Unveils CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, THOR: THE DARK WORLD, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and ANT-MAN

Saturday’s Hall H panel for Marvel at Comic-Con was billed as Iron Man 3, but from previous experience we all knew to expect more goodies from Marvel Studios than just IM3. We were right, as the studio announced full, intriguing titles for Thor 2 and Captain America 2, confirmed Guardians of the Galaxy (including which characters will appear), and revealed test footage for Ant-Man with a surprise appearance by Edgar Wright.

Hit the jump for my full recap of this “update” portion of the Marvel panel. [Update: We've updated the article with concept art for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie as well as logos for all the upcoming Marvel films]

Chris-Hemsworth-Thor 2 the dark worldFeige opened the panel by saying that they’re working on four movies in active development. The first is Iron Man 3, hitting theaters on May 3rd, 2013. He then went on to reveal titles for two previously known sequels, and confirmed another property that we’d heard rumblings of in the past few weeks.

Iron Man 3 (May 3, 2013)
Thor: The Dark World (November 8, 2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (April 4, 2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (August 1, 2014)

For fans of the comics, the subtitle “The Winter Soldier” should provide a hint as to where the Captain America sequel will go. The title is a reference to a comics storyline that will find Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) taking an integral role.

guardians-of-the-galaxy-movieFeige added that Zachary Levi has been confirmed as the character of Fandrel in the Thor sequel, and revealed the team that will be unleashed for Guardians of the Galaxy:

StarLord
Drax the Destroyer
Rocket Raccoon
Groot
Gamora

In a fantastic surprise, Feige then introduced Edgar Wright to talk about Ant-Man. Wright had been tweeting about being in London for the past few days in an effort to throw fans off, but he came out to a very warm reception.

“I’m taking the Terrence Malick approach to superheroes,” said Wright referring to the long road of development on Ant-Man.
Wright and Joe Cornish wrote two more drafts of the script last year, but they’ve been done for quite a while.

ant-man-movie-logoThey then revealed test footage that Wright shot for Ant-Man, after Wright toyed for a bit with the audience saying they wouldn’t really want to see a clip of stuff with wires and blue screens in it. It’s completely unfinished since they shot it two weeks ago, but they showed the footage anyway because Marvel absolutely owns Comic-Con.

The footage opened with Ant-Man sitting on a ledge in an air conditioning vent that lead to a hallway guarded by two agents. The costume was pretty metallic looking, and he snuck through the vent hole and started running down the hallway. He morphed to normal size, shocking the guards, then morphed back down to ant size and kept running. Still in “ant size” he leapt up and punched one of the guys in the face, knocking the spit out of him, then he ran and attacked the other guard.

The footage was obviously rough, but I thought the big/small effects worked great. Wright found a way to make Ant-Man’s power work in a cool and useful way on screen, while still allowing room for the playful tone that he does so well. While I was hoping we’d see someone like Simon Pegg play the role just for fun in the test footage, the actor was wearing the Ant-Man helmet the entire time so we never saw his face. The lights then came back up.

“I’ve been doing one second of that for the last six years,” quipped Wright
Wright confirmed that the costume seen in the test footage will most likely be what makes the final film. He described it as a mix between the Silver Age and contemporary Ant-Man, adding “Ant-Man will kick your ass one inch at a time.”
Wright said there’s no casting to announce, but “revealed” that Ant-Man has been here in Hall H all day, pulling out an Ant-Man title card and putting it on the table next to him.

Wright then left the stage to make way for the Iron Man 3 panel, but these bits of news from Marvel were met with wild applause from the audience. Hit the comments to discuss the goings-on from today’s Marvel panel, and read Matt’s recap of Iron Man 3 right here. [Update: Simon Pegg tweeted that he, Nick Frost, and Wright start filming The World's End in 10 weeks, then Wright will film Ant-Man sometime next year.]

[Aries Walker]

Well, Luke Cage will be one of the mains in the Netflix Defenders series, and apparently Doctor Strange is on the way, so there's two of your three. For the Silver Surfer, just watch the Fantastic Four sequel and pretend the rest of the characters, story, and plot aren't there.

Yeah, nobody is frantically scampering for Blade. It's mostly a historical analysis by now, just showing how Marvel screwed it up at first before they hit the piles of gold they're swimming in these days.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Blade was sold away for even less. Marvel doesn't even get their logo at the start of those movies.

Dodged a bullet there, I think, because the Blade movies were pretty damn awful.

Marvel does have the rights to Blade back now, though.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

For the Silver Surfer, just watch the Fantastic Four sequel and pretend the rest of the characters, story, and plot aren't there.

That movie $3it all over the Surfer and Galactus.

Terrible movie.

A reboot of the character would make sense now that they've gone the GOTG route. Honestly, how the hell do you make an Infinity Gauntlet flick and not have the surfer in it? He organized the entire resistance movement from spiderman to universal (Marvel U) gods.

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

Yeah, nobody is frantically scampering for Blade. It's mostly a historical analysis by now, just showing how Marvel screwed it up at first before they hit the piles of gold they're swimming in these days.

Right now, while they have the money, they need to buy back as many of the rights to their characters as they can.

At some point people will reach a saturation point (like they are now with zombies) and Marvel will never have the financial power again they do now...

[unlurking]

Originally Posted by Rausch

...Honestly, how the hell do you make an Infinity Gauntlet flick and not have the surfer in it? He organized the entire resistance movement from spiderman to universal (Marvel U) gods...

I would hope like hell they don't try, but people have been speculating that Quill's father in the cinematic universe is Stardust. He fits the clues (pure light and a dick). He's also a Herald and could be used in place of the Silver Surfer.

I'm not advocating for this, but I could see it happening.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by unlurking

I would hope like hell they don't try, but people have been speculating that Quill's father in the cinematic universe is Stardust. He fits the clues (pure light and a dick). He's also a Herald and could be used in place of the Silver Surfer.

I'm not advocating for this, but I could see it happening.

Uh...stardust isn't even definitely male...

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by Rausch

That movie $3it all over the Surfer and Galactus.
Right now, while they have the money, they need to buy back as many of the rights to their characters as they can.

At some point people will reach a saturation point (like they are now with zombies) and Marvel will never have the financial power again they do now...

Fox and Sony would have to be willing to sell first, and right now they aren't. That could change if the movies start bombing. I don't see Fox giving up X-Men without at least attempting a reboot, but if the new Fantastic Four fails I could see them giving that up. And Sony is having financial problems, so if the Sinister Six and Venom movies fail they might be open to giving up Spider-Man.

So basically I'm saying, don't go see the non-Marvel Marvel movies.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Jamie

Fox and Sony would have to be willing to sell first, and right now they aren't. That could change if the movies start bombing. I don't see Fox giving up X-Men without at least attempting a reboot, but if the new Fantastic Four fails I could see them giving that up. And Sony is having financial problems, so if the Sinister Six and Venom movies fail they might be open to giving up Spider-Man.

So basically I'm saying, don't go see the non-Marvel Marvel movies.

If? When.

[Bowser]

These ****-o's need to come to some kind of arrangement. it screws up my OCD thinking that we could have an Infinity Gauntlet movie before we have a Secret Wars movie.

[Aries Walker]

You're not ever going to see a Secret Wars movie. It was created to sell toys, had a shallow plot and bad art, and is generally regarded these days as an embarrassing, simplistic disaster.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Jamie

So basically I'm saying, don't go see the non-Marvel Marvel movies.

Hasn't been difficult the last 5 years or so...

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

You're not ever going to see a Secret Wars movie. It was created to sell toys, had a shallow plot and bad art, and is generally regarded these days as an embarrassing, simplistic disaster.

Yeah, I never really understood the infatuation. It kinda sucks.
Plus no Galactus.

[ThaVirus]

I liked all of the Blade flicks, especially Blade 2.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

You're not ever going to see a Secret Wars movie. It was created to sell toys, had a shallow plot and bad art, and is generally regarded these days as an embarrassing, simplistic disaster.

Pretty much spot on.

Keep in mind though the seeds of the Infinity gauntlet came from Secret wars II and the Beyonder...

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by beach tribe

Yeah, I never really understood the infatuation. It kinda sucks.
Plus no Galactus.

Galactus was definitely in Secret Wars. He blasted the whole lot of them near the end of the series.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Pretty much spot on.

Keep in mind though the seeds of the Infinity gauntlet came from Secret wars II and the Beyonder...

Yeah, but that doesn't mean they have to slog through the whole story to get to it. Spider-Man's black suit came from Secret Wars, too, and the Sony people just blipped right over that with no harm done.