X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)

I'm kinda confused - how will this story fit in with the X-Men movie timeline? Will it be set after X-Men 3 or after First Class, but before X-Men 1?

Skerries wrote: »

Well there has already been 3 attempts at The Punisher without much success, so may not go for his character again

We will see a Punisher film within the next few years. He's one of those characters that Marvel can put on screen with a much smaller budget than their flagship characters.

Evilsbane wrote: »

Aside from Iron Man, each marquee character has only had one movie so far, so how you've gotten the impression that they're restrictive already is beyond me.

As for Doc Strange, he's already been confirmed by Feige for Phase Three. As for Punisher and Blade, they've only gotten those licenses back relatively recently, so I'd be surprised if they're not working on something. They also got the rights back for Daredevil fairly recently, so DD and Punisher are likely to get their own crossover stuff (they are enemies after all).

And obviously Marvel are in it for the money, they're a business after all. But thus far they've demonstrated that they actually believe in the product too - hence the eight-year delay in making Ant-Man: they want to get it right and are in no rush.

Anyway, I don't want to just spend my time defending Marvel since they've made mistakes too. My point was that I'd rather see existing characters develop than see an endless stream of new characters for the sake of new characters, and especially not origin story after origin story. I'll reserve judgment on GotG but I'd rather not see Alpha Flight shoehorned into their own movie for the sake of expanding a Cinematic Universe. I can't think of what I could really get out of watching an Alpha Flight movie that I couldn't get watching another superhero team movie from Fox, like X-Men. Their being Canadian isn't enough.

The flagship films are by their very nature restrictive. Marvel are not going to do anything too drastic with Cap and Iron Man. They will play it safe so as to capitalise on sequels and future Avengers films. I've enjoyed all the films to date and look forward to Captain America and Thor 2 and hope that Iron Man 3 will impress but I realise that Marvel are never going to do anything truly interesting with these characters. There's zero chance of them killing off Captain America or Iron Man.

Doc Strange as part of Phase three is an odd one. He's a rather obscure character who much like the Green Lantern would be unknown to anyone who hasn't an interest in comics. If the film is a big budget one then I can see it bombing big time though I imagine that they will introduce him in Thor 2 and go from there. I think that a character such as Dr. Strange would do a lot better in a smaller budgeted aimed at adults rather than families.

My comments about Blade and and Frank was more to do with me hoping to see films which aren't incorporated into the Avengers universe. I don't want some watered down PG-13 film for either them or Daredevil. I want a mature, well told story that doesn't have to hold back on the blood shed. I imagine that a Punisher who can't tear a mans face off would be a rather dull cinematic character.

Marvel have this grand idea of bringing all their heroes together into one world and then riding the gravy train. I think a distinction has to be made at some point between the various characters and their audiences as it's going to get rather boring if every film is aimed at the same audience.