Marvel unviels their next four projects

[Tribal Warfare]

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.]

[ThaVirus]

Spider-Man back with Marvel?

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Spider-Man back with Marvel?

YES!!!!


can't even believe it has happened, but Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios have proven themselves as masters of the impossible again and again, and they pulled off yet another astonishing feat: they have brought Spider-Man home to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

After the Sony leak we learned that Marvel and Sony had been in talks, but those talks had gone nowhere. My sources had told me it was all dead, that Spider-Man wasn't in play anymore. And then... this. Late tonight Marvel blew up the internet by announcing Spidey would appear in an upcoming Marvel movie and that Kevin Feige would step on to produce the next Amazing Spider-Man film, now scheduled for July 28, 2017. Sony will retain final control and ownership of the character, but it's clear they're letting Feige and Marvel lead the way creatively.

This leaves us with a whole host of new questions. Will Amazing Spider-Man 3 be a soft reboot? What movie will Spidey first appear in as an MCU character? Which characters could show up in the Spider-Man films moving forward? What's going to happen to Andrew Garfield and Marc Webb, who had a trilogy planned to spring from Amazing Spider-Man 2?

There's a very good chance Spidey will show up in Captain America: Civil War; I know that the Russos love the character and would be great at redefining him in his new context. At the same time, does it make more sense for Marvel to hold him for Doctor Strange, to give that new franchise a boost? I am assuming that we're going to see him in Civil War, although I bet it's a smaller role (and not entirely the same as his role in the comic books, as this version of Civil War will not be a straight adaptation).

The Marvel announcement certainly makes it seem like he's going to show up in the MCU before July 2017, and if they're doing that it could be a sign that they're recasting. Having a new actor show up in Civil War and be like "Hi, I'm Spider-Man!" is enough of a soft reboot to allow Amazing Spider-Man 3 (which, I bet, will take on the Marvel naming convention and be called Spider-Man: The Sinister Six or something, further distancing itself from the prior two movies) to stand on its own - or at least as part of the MCU.

The announcement mentions MCU characters could show up in future Spidey movies. This could be a new backdoor way to introduce characters - Marvel suddenly has a new movie every couple of years in their strategy, and it's taking place on a different level of the Marvel Universe - somewhere between the streetwise stuff on Netflix and the big blockbuster stuff of The Avengers. I'd love Tony Stark or Bruce Banner to show up and reinforce Peter Parker as a science whiz.

Or... is it going to be Peter Parker? Here's a crazy thought - what if they make Spider-Man Miles Morales? If you look at the Marvel announcement you'll notice that Avi Arad is not mentioned once. Avi has been the roadblock to Spider-Man's success. and he's been very vocal in wanting Spider-Man to always be Peter Parker. But after the last film does it make sense to lay Pete to rest? The announcement doesn't mention Arad but it does have one mention of Peter, from Sony's Doug Belgrad:

This new level of collaboration is the perfect way to take Peter Parker's story into the future."

I certainly didn't expect this news tonight. It's a huge deal - the biggest deal since Marvel announced The Avengers, I think. It's unprecedented, it's an impossibility coming true and it's a potential blueprint for the future. There is no love lost between Marvel and Fox, but could regime changes and the passage of years (and the evidence of a successful partnership with Marvel that makes Sony plenty of money) lead to a detente on that front? Could the Fantastic Four or the X-Men come home as well?

All of a sudden anything and everything is on the table. We truly live in the Age of Miracles.

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[GloucesterChief]

Need Parker because they should adapt Kraven's Last Hunt.

[Jamie]

I've never liked Venom but I'm sort of excited about them being able to introduce the symbiote in Infinity War and follow it up with Venom in a Spider-Man sequel.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Spider-Man back with Marvel?

It was only a matter of time.

Now, they need to get the casting right.

A Toby McGuire or Andrew Garfield would be pummeled next to Mark Ruffalo, RDJ and even Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie and ScarJo.

It'll need to be someone with serious acting chops and charisma.

[Direckshun]

I'd vote Donald Glover if he was a better actor.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

It was only a matter of time.

Now, they need to get the casting right.

A Toby McGuire or Andrew Garfield would be pummeled next to Mark Ruffalo, RDJ and even Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie and ScarJo.

It'll need to be someone with serious acting chops and charisma.

It sounds like they might keep Garfield and just do a 'soft reboot' ?

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

It sounds like they might keep Garfield and just do a 'soft reboot' ?

Thought I read Garfield is out

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

It was only a matter of time.

Now, they need to get the casting right.

A Toby McGuire or Andrew Garfield would be pummeled next to Mark Ruffalo, RDJ and even Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie and ScarJo.

It'll need to be someone with serious acting chops and charisma.

If they decided to go older with Spidey, a couple options that were thrown out there were JGL and Luke Evans.

[keg in kc]

[The Franchise]

I still think that Aaron Johnson would have made a bad ass Spiderman.....but they already cast him as Quicksilver.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

... Holy shit.....

[DaveNull]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

I'd vote Donald Glover if he was a better actor.

By the time Infinity rolls around he would be way too old for this shit.

Or maybe that's the point.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

It sounds like they might keep Garfield and just do a 'soft reboot' ?

He's definitely out.

Dylan O'Brien is at the top of the list.

[DaneMcCloud]

The word is they want Spiderman in a couple of Avengers/crossover films, then a stand alone.