Marvel Entertainment: Hoping For A Movie Future So Bright That It Needs Shades
I thought that this would be the best place to share my thoughts on the state of the Marvel movie projects that are all slated to come out over the next couple of years.
The release of the Iron Man film in 2008 marked the beginning of Marvel Entertainment’s new approach to managing the motion picture rights to its comics properties; Iron Man was the first film that Marvel went ahead as well as produced itself instead of easily licensing out a character property to another studio in exchange for a licensing fee upfront. This change in direction meant that Marvel would be abandoning its usual guaranteed upfront money for the chance to rake in a to a great extent wider potential profit after release. Needless to say this in addition meant that Marvel was willing to risk that it might very well be left holding the bag if a motion picture it independently produced were to end up being a financial failure. In short, Marvel’s new approach might very well be summed up with the following: higher risk for potentially (a lot)higher reward.
Starting with Iron Man and proceeding in relation to with a variety of other announced subsequent motion picture projects, Marvel has deliberately chosen a few of its flagship character properties which it beleievs will have the greatest chance of succeeding with moviegoers. Marvel has additionally been transparent on the subject of the fact that it intends to have its self-produced movie ventures fit in to a cohesive motion picture universe which will help to ultimately lay the foundations for a Marvel Avengers film afew years down the road. Below I will take a look at certain of the movie ventures that are intended to be of great consequence pieces of the Marvel motion picture universe. From Iron Man to the impending Captain America movie, they each and every one have their part to play.
Iron Man(2008)
With Iron Man, Marvel was creating a new movie universe which they had acontrol of the quality of the product. With the huge financial success of this film, Marvel showed that controling their ventures in-home could work. Iron Man allowed Marvel to establish some central Marvel Universe characters, like Tony Stark/Iron Man(Robert downey Jr.) as well as Nick Fury(Samuel Jackson), that will possibly be included in all of the future Marvel motion picture ventures.
The Incredible Hulk(2008)
While not anywhere near the boxoffice success of Iron Man, the Hulk movie was successful enough,not costing Marvel within the long run. It was the first film that allowed Marvel to establich the commonality or cohesiveness of its motion picture universe by presenting it with the opportunity to have a character from one motion picture (Downey Jr as Tony Stark) appear in a impending movie (the Incredible Hulk) thereby establishing a shared universe for its characters.
Iron Man II(2010)
This will be interesting to watch and see if Marvel is able to build off of the momentum that they created with the huge success of the firts Iron Man motion picture. Genuinely, the gamble starts here since Marvel has established that they can do their characters successfully on screen as well as now they have to make sure to keep up the level of success thst they have all previously reached. Iron Man II kind of represents the next wave of movies as well as they want to keep the ball rolling in relation to it, so to speak.
Thor(2011)
This might be a thing of a wildcard for Marvel; Thor is a popular character for Marvel, on the other hand not about par with Captain America, Spider-Man or Iron Man, and as such I dont believe that there’s as a decent deal presure about the creative forces behind this film to have it be a success of the scale of the Iron Man franchise. If anything, Marvel is probably just using it as abuilding block for their impending avengers movie project and hoping that it finds itself a nice big receptive audience about the side. It will be intriguing to seehow Director Kenneth Branagh interprets the Mythology angle of this character for the big screen without getting to bogged down.
The First Avenger: Captain America(2011)
Talking regarding movie projects sense the heat: the impending Captain America movie is definitely going to be in that challenge. Everything from concerns vis-à-vis who they cast as the lead (it is now known that it will be actor Chris Evans of Fantastic Four fame), to how they interpret the famous red, white and blue costume as well as shield onscreen hasbeen fertile ground for comic fan forums over the concluding year or then. Now that the plot has been confirmned as being prepared in WWII, we can expect this film to mainly deal with the back story of the character and prepared him up for his participation in the next Marvel Avengers film. Director Joe Johnston will be beneath the gun to come through on this cornerstone film.
The Avengers(2012)
This motion picture is what it will every one have been building up to. The Avengers film is a thing that if done correct, will be more than the sum of its parts – or as a minimum that is what Marvel has got to be expecting of this project. Marvel would be lying if they claimed otherwise: it’s pretty apparent that Marvel wants the Avengers to be nothing less than a mega successful motion picture that will get a flagship franchise for them, with potential to spin off a lot of other projects. the cast for this film will be pretty a great deal decided by the time it goes into production since it will be within the works after the other Marvel movies have all been cast as well as the major actors of the other Marvel films will have the Avengers motion picture in their contracts, accordingly it will be up to whoever is chosen to direct to make sure the several actors concerned offer up an effort that is indeed more than the sum of its parts. Marvel has a couple of years as well as counting to make sure they get it right.
Obviously, with the culmination of the future Avengers film, Marvel will be hoping to have a well established and cohesive film universe framework from which they can launch new franchise projects for so many years to come. Also to the film projects mentioned above, Marvel has as well acknowledged that they are viewing some other movie ideas, such as Ant Man as well as Doctor Strange; with Marvel’s contemporary acquisition by Disney, there is some speculation that an Ant Man movie might become an animated venture, while the nearly all likely approach to a Doctor Strange motion picture could likely well be a film that shares a lot in common with the Harry Potter franchise in its look or style due to that series of motion pictures success dealing with the subject of magic.
Accordingly how well will Marvel fare with its flagship properties in such upcoming ventures as the Captain America movie as well as the Avengers film ?
Honestly, each and every one us comics movie supporters can do is wait as well as see which approaches Marvel chooses for its next motion picture projects as well as hope that their decisions meet with both significant as well as box office success down the road. So far, Marvel seems to be about the correct track and following a enormously reasonable road map…
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