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filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Frank said:
Other reports indicate Marvel wanted big phase integration and Wright wanted a more standalone film.
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Honestly, that would be the best guess on what happened, considering that Edgar Wright and Marvel had been developing Ant-Man prior to the major success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

From what I understood Ant-Man wasn't supposed to really tie into anything anyway, and if anything was going to be the first push of the Phase 3 movies. Still though, really sad to hear this as I just watched Scott Pilgrim again the other day.
 
Frank

Frank

http://badassdigest.com/2014/05/24/is-this-the-end-of-the-marvel-movie-age/

It was a good run.

Yesterday Edgar Wright left Ant-Man when Marvel took him and Joe Cornish off the script and handed it to Eric Pearson, who had written the Marvel One Shots. Latino Review has the story here, and it's an ugly one of Marvel backing off their filmmaker at the last moment. The new script is apparently a disaster, and rumor has it that the problem is coming from higher up than Kevin Feige - Disney execs are sticking their fingers into the Marvel pie, I'm hearing.

This morning Latino Review got a new Marvel scoop - Drew Goddard is leaving the Netflix Daredevil show, they say. No reason is given yet.

On Twitter Joss Whedon, the big creative name behind Marvel these days, posted this:

Same picture as above post

a clear display of solidarity with Edgar Wright, who wasn't fired from Ant-Man but forced off the project when given a shitty script just weeks before shooting. Whedon, by the way, has hinted that The Avengers: Age of Ultron is the finale of his time with Marvel.

This follows on the heels of Marvel taking Thor: The Dark World away from Alan Taylor in post and having another director come on and shoot additional material. Marvel's always been autocratic - this is the house that Feige built, and he's been leading it with an iron fist - but things have been getting uglier over there for some time, especially now that Disney is getting involved. Why would the studio fuck with the division that's making money and having a huge cultural impact right when they're at their best? Because of dumb egos. Hollywood is dumb, run by dumb, venal people, and the executives who aren't creative resent the people who are, and want to get their stink on the movies. And you have to understand that Disney doesn't care about the movies - they want the Marvel IP so they can sell diapers and shirts and bedsheets. The movies are just commercials for the IP.

It's only going to get worse. Disney's notes on Ant-Man made the movie homogenized and flat. They're not going to stop there. How long will Marvel resist before they just give up? Kevin Feige's contract is up in 2018 - I would be surprised if he re-ups. I'm betting on the press tour for Avengers 3 being his big victory lap as he says it's time for someone else to lead Marvel into the next phase.

As for what's up with Ant-Man... does Marvel even want to make this movie? Everything I've heard about this new script indicates they really aren't behind the concept. And what's the point of making Ant-Man without Edgar Wright anyway? Could they simply scrap the whole project? What if they killed Ant-Man, abandoned that release date and announced Captain/Ms. Marvel for November 2015? They have the script. I think they have the role cast. They know that there's a lot of impact to be had with the first female-led superhero movie of this particular cycle.

LIke I said, it was a good run. There will be more good Marvel movies, but you can see the expiration date now.
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[DOUBLEPOST=1400965179,1400964636][/DOUBLEPOST]And now for something completely unrelated to anything.



The red and blue Power Rangers have both aged noticeably, but look pretty good for guys in their 40s. The black Power Ranger doesn't look like the march of time has fucking touched him. That guy is 43 years old.

And tasteless joke of the day, the yellow Power Ranger has definitely aged the poorest of them all.

 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

This whole business with Marvel is a little disheartening. I hope it's just a slight bump in the road and that they keep on making great films.
 
Espy

Espy

Let's face it, marvel had made a few really good films and a lot of okay/cookie cutter films. They need to step back and realize quantity doesn't mean quality. Firing great directors who don't let you fuck up what may be one of those great directors isn't going to help any.[DOUBLEPOST=1400978599,1400978409][/DOUBLEPOST]Also: let's hope the news that Whedon may be done sooner rather than later means somebody will snatch him back up to do the Wonder Woman film (I'm joking, no one is smart enough at Warner bros to do that.)
 
linglingface

linglingface

filmfanatic said:
Not only is there a Jem and the Holograms movie on the way (with some of the main parts already casted), but apparently Molly Ringwald is going to show up in it.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=118581
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I imagine it will be like "Josie and the Pussycats" which I adored. I'm pretty stoked about this movie!
However, they ran a contest for fans of the series to get cast in the movie, and said they really wanted true fans in a few of the roles. Some people went all out with their online "auditions," only to have them cast some young Disney stars. It's definitely not a bad thing that they have established actors in the role over some "normal" people, but it was just weird for them to give essentially false hope to these Jem fans.
ANYWAY, I'm excited. :)
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Zero Esc said:
I don't have a problem with them wrapping up at Avengers 3. This couldn't go on forever.
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I imagine they'll do Avengers Academy or something after Avengers 3... or just have an entirely new team with cameos from the old one. They certainly have enough material for a few years.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Wow. So, the Warcraft movie has finished shooting. I never thought it'd get this far.

But don't stand in line just yet. It's set to release March 2016. That's a loooooot of post-production. ILM is doing it though, so should LOOK good, if nothing else?
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

GasBandit said:
Wow. So, the Warcraft movie has finished shooting. I never thought it'd get this far.

But don't stand in line just yet. It's set to release March 2016. That's a loooooot of post-production. ILM is doing it though, so should LOOK good, if nothing else?
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Yeah, I can't believe how far they've gotten with this, either.

...Here's hoping it's a film that turns out to be good in a way that you don't have to add, "...but in terms of video game movies".
 
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