Marvel Cinematic Universe general stuff

I think the problem with marvel is that they've fallen into the comics trap, there are so many stories and variations. That works when you're reading a single comic and you don't "have" to know what's happening in another series, and if there's a crossover or throwaway reference you can skip over it or it can be explained quickly. That's not as easy when you're dealing with films and TV.

But apart from that they've simply lost control and thrown too much crap at the wall in too short a period. They can't possibly keep track of it all and maintain a narrative anyone would want to invest in.

here's the boards thread.

I am looking forward to this one. August 2024

Hopefully Marvel told him he wouldn't be welcome back and hes just tryna save face saying he made the decision.

Love and Thunder just showed he needs to be kept on a tight leash. Full Taika is an utter disaster.

Feels like a reasonably high budget CW attempt at a feature film. Terrible stuff.

Destin Daniel Cretton likely no longer directing Avengers Kang Dynasty, but still with Marvel and will be doing Shang-Chi sequel and he's also involved with the Wonder Man series which seems to still be going ahead.

Lends further weight to the idea that Marvel might shift away from Kang altogether, possibly just go straight to Secret Wars but with a different villain behind it.

Must say I've totally lost interest in the entire thing lately. i've not bothered with Loki Season 2, still haven't watched the last Ant Man, The Eternals and have no interest in The Marvels. I don't like Larson in the role at all. She come across as being disinterested and is fairly bland in the role. Also wasn't that keen on the last Dr.Strange and Spiderman movies. They were fine and serviceable I guess. I'm just fed up and all this multiverse stuff tbh. The original attraction to the whole thing and I think part of the reason Iron Man was such an instant massive success, was that it was fairly grounded, so far as superhero movies go. The Guardians movies are actually my favourites, so I do love a big, fun far out space adventure with all the whacky stuff that comes along with it. It's nice to have a bit of a contrast though.

The Disney Plus shows started off great with Wandavision, but the rest were a bit of a non event. I had some hope for Secret Invasion. How could you not with that cast! But that shockingly ended up being the worst of all. Feige must be running out of credit at this stage.

Guardians 3 was of course excellent. So at least there was that. Disney should have done everything to hold onto James Gunn. He should be running things.

Pedro pascal linked to the new fantastic four movie ..appears to be up in the air if it's for Reed or the villain role

***Now confirmed ..Pedro is Mr Fantastic Reed Richards!!!*** That's some quality star power added to the MCU and especially to the revived fantastic four. Hopefully they can finally do it justice

any collapse from here would be more like the equivalent of it moving into palliative care 😅

Looks more or less confirmed alright, what a choice based on his performance as Oberan Martell alone, as that's all you really need to see to tell you Pascal will do a fantastic job.

I can't believe there's fans actually complaining from what I've seen elsewhere. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the possibility that this might be the biggest example of race changing a character yet. I'm struggling to think of a character bigger than Reed where it has happened.

The age complaints for example just don't hold up if you know anything at all about the character.