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Jedi_Master_Conor
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The2ndQuest posted:
>>would the studios be willing to co-distribute?<<
Possibly, depending on the arrangement. Might also help alleviate budgetary concerns. Paramount and Dreamworks co-distribute material, and other time syiu have films like Titanic where (even though Fox funded most of it) Paramount got domestic distribution and Fox had international.
even though it's not a comic book movie, Univeral and Fox will be co-distributing the Halo movie when that comes out so now that i think about it I can see them willing to co-distribute for this movie and any comic book crossover one.
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Darth_Hydra
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Jedi_Master_Conor posted:
The2ndQuest posted:
>>would the studios be willing to co-distribute?<<
Possibly, depending on the arrangement. Might also help alleviate budgetary concerns. Paramount and Dreamworks co-distribute material, and other time syiu have films like Titanic where (even though Fox funded most of it) Paramount got domestic distribution and Fox had international.
even though it's not a comic book movie, Univeral and Fox will be co-distributing the Halo movie when that comes out so now that i think about it I can see them willing to co-distribute for this movie and any comic book crossover one.
Yeah, but Halo is one of the most popular video game series so it's not too surprising for Universal and Fox to co-distribute it. This movie might not appeal to big enough audience for them to take such a risk with it.
BTW, what is rough estimate of numbers for video game players and comic book readers(each group individually not together).
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It'll never happen the rights are owned by three companies...
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Drac39 posted:
It'll never happen the rights are owned by three companies...
Rights to what?
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Jedi_Master_Conor
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weezer posted:
Drac39 posted:
It'll never happen the rights are owned by three companies...
Rights to what?
I think he's referring to the different studios that have rights to the various marvel characters. although I'd think Marvel ultimately gets the rights to them. it'd make sense with them planning to do an Avengers movie.
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Darth_Hydra posted:
This sounds cool in concept but I've gotten serious concerns about it coming together. First off, the budget for this thing would literally go through the stratosphere. Next is making sure that none of the plot winds up contradicting the individual movies of whichever Avengers we get in this. Also who would the villain be? There's three main canidates IMO:
Ultron
Could audiences stand another evil robot? Sci-fi films are already drowning in this cliche. Plus if we drag The Vision into the picture we might have to bring in Hank Pym, and possibly Wonder Man, and things might become overcomplicated.
Baron Zemo
A power hungry evil genius, how original is that? Plus his costume has always been kinda of dorky.
Kang
Time travel is always a pain. Nuff said.
Adapt The Ultimates. Problem solved.
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Not if they want to attract readers from the past. I say using a classic plot is better than adpting the ultimates.
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Jedi_Master_Conor posted:
weezer posted:
Drac39 posted:
It'll never happen the rights are owned by three companies...
Rights to what?
I think he's referring to the different studios that have rights to the various marvel characters. although I'd think Marvel ultimately gets the rights to them. it'd make sense with them planning to do an Avengers movie.
Well thats why I asked. Most of the characters that make up the Avengers are owned by Marvel which is why they wouldn't have any problems doing it. If we're talking some huge eventual Marvel crossover it would probably be more difficult because I don't think that the rights to some of the characters would ever revert back to Marvel. For example I don't think that Sony would ever give up Spidey without a fight but that just brings me back to my orginal question because it wouldn't really matter for an avengers movie.
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Darth-Lando
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weezer posted:
I don't think that Sony would ever give up Spidey without a fight but that just brings me back to my orginal question because it wouldn't really matter for an avengers movie.
Unless it's a New Avengers movie. But then they'd have to get Wolverine from Fox as well. 
And I doubt that any studio currently has the rights to Luke Cage, Spider-Woman, or The Sentry.
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Isn't there supposedly an Ant-Man movie in the works, that isn't the Hank Pym version?
I'm not sure if it's Scott Lang, or not.
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ApolloSmileGirl posted:
Isn't there supposedly an Ant-Man movie in the works, that isn't the Hank Pym version?
I'm not sure if it's Scott Lang, or not.
I know it's on Marvel's slate of upcoming projects. I don't know if they have given a projected start or release date.
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Zak Penn Talks About Norton as The Hulk and Avengers movie
When it comes to bringing Marvel Comics characters into the movies, you can't get much more knowledgeable than Zak Penn, who's written or been involved with the last two "X-Men" movies, both "Hulk" movies, Elektra and a bunch of the Marvel movie-related video games. In two weeks, Penn's second movie as a director, the poker comedy The Grand, will be premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, and by pure chance, ComingSoon.net/Superhero Hype! had a chance to talk to the writer less than 24 hours after the casting announcement that Edward Norton would be starring in the upcoming The Incredible Hulk. Of course, we had to ask him for a few words about the news.
"I couldn't be happier about Ed Norton," he told us. "I worked on the first 'Hulk' movie and I remember talking about how awesome it would be if we got Ed Norton to play this part. He really was up for it the first time. I think Ed Norton's one of the best actors working, and even I was pretty shocked that he wanted to do it. It's one of those rare things where it turned out better than I [expected]. Look, there's a lot of really good actors who wanted to do it even before I wrote my script. I'm not just saying this, but I cannot think of a better person to play Bruce Banner. In this case, Ed Norton would have been at the top of my list.
"To me, the thing about Bruce is that he's a physicist, he's a super-smart guy who has a lot of repressed anger. To me, that is the essential thing you need to know about him. He could be tall or short, but you have to believe that he's a physicist, you have to believe that life is frustrating for him physically. Ed went to Yale. He's a really smart guy. He has an intelligence that you can see on-screen, which a lot of people who are great actors don't project that. He projects the guy that is smarter than you, and he also projects anger in a lot of his movies, 'Fight Club' being the most obvious example. If you think about 'Fight Club,' he has a lot of similarities to the Hulk as a character. Tyler Durden is his Hulk."
We also asked Penn to describe his take on the movie in terms of whether it's a sequel, a revamp or something different. "It's not going to be a sequel, but it's hard to describe," he admitted. "The best description I would say is something like 'Batman Begins' where it's not necessarily out of continuity with the other movies, though that was more of an origin story. It's much more of a reboot, the way that 'Aliens' is a sequel to 'Alien,' but the kinds of movie are different. It keeps the mythology of the worlds, but it's a totally different structure. It's more of an action movie than the first one was. This one is much more of a thriller, I would say. I don't think it's unfair to say like a 'Bourne Identity' type feeling to it. Certainly I've mentioned that the Bruce Jones comic book run were very influential or the TV series. It definitely harkens back much more to that, emphasizing a guy on the run with a secret, who cannot feel emotion and cannot risk having any close relationships with people for fear what it's going to do to them."
"The first movie is not about Bruce Banner dealing with the repercussions of being the Hulk, it's much more about him becoming the Hulk," he continued. "He gets taken to a base and put under observation pretty quickly. This movie is about Bruce Banner on the run and what life is like. There's stuff that I didn't want to deal with that was in the first movie. You're not going to see anything about his father or his experiments or anything, because to me, as a fan, that was the part that I found most frustrating and nooooooo dogs. I liked the fight, but I didn't like the poodle."
"There's a lot of skepticism towards this project, particularly online, despite the first movie, it's not just that," Penn opined to us, realizing the hurdles the second movie has to face. "Every time I go online and I read these people talking about 'X-Men 3.' I mean some of the vitriol I hear about that, which I think is just crazy and out of proportion to what they're watching. It makes it hard on me sometimes, because I'm the only one in the process who really goes online and reads all that ****. To me, that's very validating in my belief in the project."
With the second piece of casting in place for Marvel Films, they theoretically have actors to play two of the heroes who might end up being part of an Avengers movie, which conveniently enough, Penn has also been assigned to write. We asked Penn what he thought about having the actors now cast to play Iron Man and the Hulk appearing in Marvel's first team-up movie. "The truth is that would be ideal. The original plan when I talked to Kevin Feige [Marvel Film's President of Production] was that when we make an 'Avengers' movie, it should be the first time that the characters cross-over. It's what every fan has always wanted to see, is where you're watching the movie and there's Robert Downey Jr. and the Hulk intersects with the story. To be totally honest with you, I'm not even going to get started on that for a while. We've talked about it, but there's no point in dealing with it until after these movies even come out. What's great is that with Marvel, they own all the properties, so they can do it if they want to. I think a lot of it will depend on how 'Iron Man' and the 'Hulk' do. I've written a lot of comic book movies, and I need to take a little bit of a break first before I start writing that one."
"I've seen a lot of the 'Iron Man' stuff and that movie is going to kick ass," Penn raved about Jon Favreau's Iron Man movie, which is scheduled to come out a month before Penn's movie. "I'm not like someone who would tell you that if I didn't think it, but I was pretty impressed with what I saw down there and Favreau seems to be really on top of his ****. I think the cast of that movie is amazing."
"Marvel has done an incredible job of casting their first two movies so far, and I hope fans see that, too," Penn concluded. "To me, as a comic book fan, that is tremendously good news. Marvel's success would be an incredibly good thing for fans of comic books and sci-fi, because it would be good in terms of how much of the canon would continue to get turned into films, which to me, is exciting."
Check ComingSoon.net in the next couple weeks for a full interview with Penn talking about his new movie The Grand, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, which should do for poker tournaments what Best in Show did for dog shows. Iron Man is scheduled to open May 2, 2008 while The Incredible Hulk is scheduled to open a month later on June 13, 2008.
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If anyone kept an eye on the marvel panel at comic-con this past weekend you could tell that they are dead set on doing this movie! 
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As much as the fanboy in me wants to see this brought to life, I just see too many problems, and given the series of lackluster films coming from the Marvel camp in the last few years I am really worried about trying to cram in that many major characters and giving each their due. Granted the benefit of working off already produced movies and a connected series is that you dont have to waste time and exposition on each character already established. And I am more then elated at the prospect that Captain America may well indeed be coming to the big screen. I am still reserving judgement until I see some results.
Its also interesting to me that for the most part there have been very few Avengers that we have seen translated to screen in the recent years and the majority of the big ones still seem to be left to Marvel's discretion (as opposed to Spidey and X-men whose fate is in the hands of Sony and Fox respectively). I am wondering if this is happy fortune or if it was to some extent intentional.
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Spiderfan posted:
Its also interesting to me that for the most part there have been very few Avengers that we have seen translated to screen in the recent years and the majority of the big ones still seem to be left to Marvel's discretion (as opposed to Spidey and X-men whose fate is in the hands of Sony and Fox respectively). I am wondering if this is happy fortune or if it was to some extent intentional.
I think that is primarily due to the fact that Spider-Man and the X-Men are Marvel's two most popular titles. It makes sense that they would be among the first to be made into movies and be the most sucessful. The Avengers have only started getting popular again in the comics community in the past few years. I think Marvel has kept most of the Avengers characters to themselves so they don't wind up in a situation where all the characters have individual movies made by different studios. That would render any cross-overs impossible.
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