[Movies] MCU: Phase 3 And Beyond
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If I looked like that, I'd find every reason I could to dress like that all the time.
Who says he isn't.
Badass Digest is reporting that this has finally been confirmed.
Reportedly, Marvel is in talks with Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the guys who wrote the three Captain America movies as well as did work on Thor: The Dark World and helped create Agent Carter, to write the project.
I'm going to be honest here, I thought Agent Carter was boring as shit, so I hope they don't pull anything from that.
Basically all of Agent Carter's appeal comes from the setup: If you didn't care about the underlying premise of exploring what it meant for women to be told they weren't needed in the workforce anymore (especially if what was essentially super hero work at the time) then the show really didn't have a leg to stand on for you. If you did, it's one of the few mainstream works to address the issue. It certainly helped that the show had a lot of returning cast from the Captain America movies and tied up the ends of their relationship with Steve Rogers.
But that's also why I'm a bit wary of it getting a second season. I'd certainly like to see more of Carter but they need to expand beyond the initial premise if they do. It can't ride on JUST the feminist stuff anymore... it needs to tie itself more deeply into the comic world like SHIELD has done. Give me more Golden Age villains... have Carter and what will become SHIELD actually have to deal with some bigger threats and such. Expand the cast. The show needs to be able to stand on it's own.
There's certainly more potential for Agent Carter, but they have to really want to do something with this for it achieve it's full potential.
I did care about the premise, but when you spend 99% of your show on it without doing anything with it save for HEY CARTER GET US A SANDWICH HAR HAR, it's fucking boring.
A report has come out that one element of the reshoots for Ant-Man is that Scott Lang, instead of being a con man as plot synopses had originally described him, is now being referred to as a "master thief". It may not seem like much, but this suggests they may actually have him start as a full-fledged criminal before becoming a hero instead of just being morally dubious, which was one of the issues that emerged between Edgar Wright and Marvel.
Well, I think the idea is that as a con man character, they can play him a bit more morally gray his start before he becomes Ant-Man, whereas having him as an out-and-out thief would place him squarely in illegal activity. At least, that's the rationale I suppose they could have had. Apparently, the positive response to Guardians of the Galaxy got the execs more open to how roguish a hero could be, considering the numerous crimes of that lot.
The Mentalist is a con man. Many mentalists/magicians in real life are con men. It's not because you use tricks to deceive that you're necessarily using them for an illegal purpose (though, you'd normally assume one would if the term "con man" is used, I guess)
Counterpoint: Robin Hood.
"It's an illussion Michael, tricks are something a hooker does!"
Seriously, con man at least started out as a reference to tricking people into being defrauded, not as performing magic tricks for (paid) entertainment... at least as far as i recall.
As I said, that's the best rationale I could come up with. Still, cool to hear they're keeping Scott Lang as a criminal at his start.
I never understood movie-mystique's whole "Look at me, I'm hideous!" mentality...I think... I think this is where this goes.
Let's see, L to R: Red Skull, Bolivar Trask, Electro, The Destroyer, Emma Frost, Azazel, Nebula, Kyln Guard, The Collector, Venom, Ultron, a Chitauri, Thanos, Loki, Malekith, Magneto, Stan Lee, Curtis Connors (The Lizard), The Winter Soldier, Aldrich Killian, Silver Samurai, Emil Blonsky (the Abomination), Mystique, The Mandarin, Ronan the Accuser, and Laufey. Yondu Udina's arrow is zipping around but I don't see Yondu himself, and Deadpool seems have to left a half-eaten Chimichanga behind.I think... I think this is where this goes.
That's an awesome picture.
Bonus: trophies include Captain America's Shield, Spiderman's glove and webshooter, Baby Groot in a case, Mjolnir, Star Lord's walkman, Iron Man's helmet, and... a slightly bloody Arc Reactor chest implant.
Also Hiro's first battle robot (Big Hero 6) is on the floor behind the GotG jail guard for some reason.
Well, technically, that robot was the prototype for the microbots that the villain ended up stealing from Hiro. Seeing as this is a Marvel villain collage, it makes sense to have him as it would be hard to actually add in the main villain amongst all the others.
That's true, and it's probably more recognizable than the kabuki mask.
Gettin' all kinds of Kamen Rider in here.
Yellowjacket from Ant-Man. He has better Ultron eyes than Ultron does.
Actually, the one-shot called Hail to the King addresses the issue of the Mandarin.
It turns out the Ten Rings is a real terrorist organization, there is an actual Mandarin who serves as its head, and he is very pissed at Trevor and Killian for co-opting his organization and his identity.
Posted that over in the Marvel/Netflix thread but yeah, I really like what I can see. Can't wait to dig into the series when it goes live at midnight.
Him just playing with one of his fingers right where a ring would be while telling his ridiculous story to Stark and Rhodes and then disappearing at the end would have worked wonders imo.
They could still work him in, by just having him escorted before an empty throne... with 10 rings right beside it... and when he sees the rings, his eyes light up... BOOM!
Also, the 10 Rings not being real was a silly retcon, why would they make Stark build missiles in the 1st film if they where just a cover for people exploding form extremis?
I think the issue was more that some people, after seeing Iron Man 3, would wonder if the Ten Rings had been a real organization since the first film or if it was a fake then. The short just helped to clarify that they were a real organization in the MCU.
Been watching a buttload of Vikings and now I'm totally convinced Katheryn Winnick should play Carol Danvers. Though I remember a lot of things said why Katie Sackhoff could not play Captain Marvel, her age mostly and I checked up on how old Katheryn Winnick was and she's older by a few years than Sackhoff. She looks AMAZINGLY young for almost 40.
