Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 (Movie Lineup Through 2019)

[RoninFox]

Age of Ultron looks pretty dark so far, Marvel can pretty much go anywhere at this point (which is great because that's what you can do with comics in general.)

[Edward J Grug III]

So the Civil War is only going to last for one movie?  Seems like kind of a waste if it does.

You can do a lot in one movie. I be OK if it's their first three hour movie though.

...plus Cap 2 *kind of* laid some groundwork for it, I imagine Age of Ultron will do the same.

And Agents of SHIELD is also building on that.

[Edward J Grug III]

At least Marvel is going for the more lighthearted approach.  Just heard the Wonder Woman movie is using her grim and edgy New 52 version.

The Brian Azzarello Wonder Woman? I just got interested for the first time.

[The Lurker]

At least Marvel is going for the more lighthearted approach.  Just heard the Wonder Woman movie is using her grim and edgy New 52 version.

The Brian Azzarello Wonder Woman? I just got interested for the first time.

It's more about how the Amazons were handled.

[Edward J Grug III]

It doesn't matter, I remembered it was part of the Justice Legue universe and my eyes glossed over again.

[LucasM]

Looks like a great line-up.  I'll be getting each on Blu, probably on release day (since I can rarely make it to theaters).

They had better introduce Adam Warlock before Infinity War.  Thanos with the gauntlet, without Warlock, is simply wrong.  [It would have been nice if there'd been an individual Warlock film, possibly covering the territory of Starlin's first run with the character from Strange Tales 178-Marvel Two-In-One Annual 2.]


What they really need to do is increase the number of films per year by at least one more.  They can't keep up with demand - something that Hollywood hasn't seen in years (decades?  ever?).

[k1]

Maybe they'll start doing more small run stuff like they plan on doing with Netflix?

[LucasM]

Maybe they'll start doing more small run stuff like they plan on doing with Netflix?

That would be great, though it has its advantages and disadvantages.  If it is in continuity (like crossover information on Howard Stark/Cap/Agent Carter/Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ties together through Iron Man, Cap, and AoS...) then it will be good for fleshing out the characters and the entire Marvel Universe.  But the down side is that many of those venues aren't common to the average person.  "Common" like broadcast TV is - (e.g. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), so all those without Netflix, or Amazon Prime (if anything goes there), or Hulu Plus (if anything goes there), would miss sometimes crucial information to Marvel Filmic Universe continuity (character introductions and such).

While not everyone goes to theaters, most people who have an interest do see films either from purchase or rental or streaming (as long as they are streamed across venues [all of them - Netflix, Prime, Hulu - not exclusive to one or another]).

[Edward J Grug III]

THey have said their plan eventually has five movies a year! I can't wait!

[ScottotD]

Looks like a great line-up.  I'll be getting each on Blu, probably on release day (since I can rarely make it to theaters).

They had better introduce Adam Warlock before Infinity War.

Wouldn't he be in Captain Marvel?

[LucasM]

Looks like a great line-up.  I'll be getting each on Blu, probably on release day (since I can rarely make it to theaters).

They had better introduce Adam Warlock before Infinity War.

Wouldn't he be in Captain Marvel?

Warlock was around and had the majority of his adventures without (the original, or any other) Captain Marvel.  But, that's a good point: for the sake of the films, they could very well introduce him there.   I suspect that the characters would work fairly well together, as they have rather different approaches to the universe in the comics (quite different, actually, which could make for interesting interactions).

And I should feel enheartened... after all, I remember reading a few weeks back that Kevin Feige confirmed that Adam Warlock's coccoon did show up briefly on screen already, in the back of the collector's collection (though it was green instead of orange-brown, like it should have been).

[ScottotD]

Looks like a great line-up.  I'll be getting each on Blu, probably on release day (since I can rarely make it to theaters).

They had better introduce Adam Warlock before Infinity War.

Wouldn't he be in Captain Marvel?

Warlock was around and had the majority of his adventures without (the original, or any other) Captain Marvel.  But, that's a good point: for the sake of the films, they could very well introduce him there.   I suspect that the characters would work fairly well together, as they have rather different approaches to the universe in the comics (quite different, actually, which could make for interesting interactions).

And I should feel enheartened... after all, I remember reading a few weeks back that Kevin Feige confirmed that Adam Warlock's coccoon did show up briefly on screen already, in the back of the collector's collection (though it was green instead of orange-brown, like it should have been).

To be honest my main knowledge of him was him turning into a tree from Deadpool ...or possibly X-Force (Cable?)

[Rainbow Dash]

They can easily introduce others, especially with the success of Guardians of the Galaxy opening the door to the whole Celestials stage.  I will be surprised if Phyla-Vell isn't introduced as Quasar, and the movies just ignore that she was ever Captain Marvel.

[LucasM]

Spoilered the whole post, since it is responding to ScottotD about Warlock (a potential/likely future film character), not the Marvel movie lineup per se.

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Looks like a great line-up.  I'll be getting each on Blu, probably on release day (since I can rarely make it to theaters).

They had better introduce Adam Warlock before Infinity War.

Wouldn't he be in Captain Marvel?

Warlock was around and had the majority of his adventures without (the original, or any other) Captain Marvel.  But, that's a good point: for the sake of the films, they could very well introduce him there.   I suspect that the characters would work fairly well together, as they have rather different approaches to the universe in the comics (quite different, actually, which could make for interesting interactions).

And I should feel enheartened... after all, I remember reading a few weeks back that Kevin Feige confirmed that Adam Warlock's coccoon did show up briefly on screen already, in the back of the collector's collection (though it was green instead of orange-brown, like it should have been).

To be honest my main knowledge of him was him turning into a tree from Deadpool ...or possibly X-Force (Cable?)

Starlin introduced the gems via his first Warlock run.  Warlock had the soul gem before any other gems were 'noticed' elsewhere in the Marvel universe.

Check this out if you want some of Marvel's finest cosmic/psychologically-aware/sort-of 'spiritual' work ['spiritual' since dealing with the soul gem and some more esoteric concepts (like those in Doctor Strange, but more grounded in what some people actually believe)].  This is also one of Marvel's earliest story lines with real depth:  [picture is link]
The book collects Strange Tales 178-181, Warlock 9-15, Avengers Annual 7, and Marvel Two-In-One Annual 2.  Unfortunately, despite the cover declaring it "complete", Marvel left out a rather important comic from this collection: Marvel Team-Up 55.  It fit between Warlock #15 and Avengers Annual 7 and provided not only an important transition, but the introduction of another gem (I believe only the second by that point).  It is $25, but is 325 pages of classic cosmic storytelling.  Unfortunately, the only Warlock collection that also contains that issue is the out-of-print Masterwork collection which someone currently is selling for $111.75 on Amazon.

I don't know if you'd consider this a good recommendation or not (depends what you think of his other work), but Joss Whedon (also) considers it one of the best story lines ever in comics.  [I said "also" because I have, as well.  Up til Watchmen I considered it the best story line, period, then it became "one of...".]

[LucasM]

It took me over 48 hours, but something finally registered: it turns out I didn't really need to spoiler the above post, because in the book I discussed in that post was the Jim Starlin creation/introduction of a character that is already part of the Marvel cinematic universe: Gamora, the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy.  Starlin introduced her in the 2nd or 3rd issue in his run on Warlock, and she was Warlock's companion for many years (the two of them, along with Pip the Troll (another Starlin creation), and ultimately Drax (who I don't think was created by Starlin) and more, dealing many times with Starlin's creation Thanos and Starlin's creation the Infinity Gems) before Warlock and Gamora separated and she joined the Guardians of the Galaxy. 

People get it, don't they?   Jim Starlin created a LOT of the mythos that Marvel's cosmic films (starting with The Avengers) are based on.

For the record, here is a history of Warlock's, Thanos' and the Infinity Gems' varied past (there're some varied issues interspersed in it all).  Spoilered because while this is of interest as historic source information for Gem/Gauntlet/Thanos/Gamora/Warlock, it simply isn't about film stuff.

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  With the dates, e.g. "1992_02" what follows the "_" is the month in that year that that series or part of a series started.  Up until Abnett and Lanning started writing in Infinity - Nova, the major stuff (e.g. 'Infinity ___'), which was pretty much the only stuff out of it all really worth reading, was all written by and usually drawn by Starlin (though he had some less-than-stellar stories in there too, like Infinity Crusade).
1972-1982 - Thanos & Adam Warlock Saga [many issues across many series]
1990 - The Thanos Quest
1991 - The Infinity Gauntlet
1992_02 - Warlock and Infinity Watch
1992_06 - Infinity War
1992_12 - Warlock and Infinity Watch Pt 2
1993_03 - Silver Surfer & Warlock - Resurrection
1993_05 - Warlock and Infinity Watch Pt 3
1993_06 - Infinity Crusade + Warlock Chronicles 1
1993_11 - Blood and Thunder
1993_12 - Warlock and Infinity Watch Pt 4
1994_03 - Cosmic Powers
1995_05 - Atlantis Rising
1995_05 - Curse Of Rune
1995_10 - Ultra Force & Avengers
1996_06 - Ultraverse Unlimited
1998_11 - Warlock v2
2001_11 - Avengers - Celestial Quest
2002_08 - Infinity Abyss
2003_05 - Marvel Universe - the End
2003_12 - Thanos  [Starlin's last work on these characters was on the 1st 1/2 of this series]
2004_11 - Warlock v3
2005_11 - Drax the Destroyer
2006_05 - Annihilation
2008_01 - Annihilation Conquest
2008_06 - Guardians of the Galaxy v2
2009_05 - War of Kings
2009_11 - Guardians of the Galaxy v2 [cont]
2010_06 - The Thanos Imperative
2010_10 - Avengers & the Infinity Gauntlet
2011_05 - Annihilators
2011_11 - Annihilators- Earthfall
2013_04 - Nova v5
2013_05 - Guardians of the Galaxy v3
2013_06 - Thanos Rising
2013_11 - Infinity
2013_12 - Guardians of the Galaxy v3 [cont]

I originally had a list of all the comics (all 537 of them) that comprised all of this sub-Spoilered in this Spoiler, but the list exceeded the maximum number of characters for a post, so I had to pull it from the post.  Anyone interested can PM me, as I now have the list easily available.

[EDIT: grammatical repairs]