Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 3 (Movie Lineup Through 2019)

[ScottotD]

"Captain America: Civil War is the best Marvel Studios movie yet. There, we said it. "

*fans self*

[k1]

Read an article on how Fox opened up talks to start crossing over their properties with Marvel. (X-Men & Avengers) as well as starting talks with Sony about the idea of a Deadpool/Spidey meeting.

I would love to see all of that happen but I would be skeptical of them all playing nicely and delivering a movie we fans dream of.

[Edward J Grug III]

Personally I would rather they stuck to their own properties. I have enjoyed (to some degree) everything Marvel have done so far, and the same can't be said of the other studios. If anything is going to taint the MCU it will be letting the others in.

[SJP]

"OK, I have a great idea!  Spider-Man and Deadpool meet, and then they fight!  Then, the Fantastic Four jump in, but they're not the REAL Fantastic Four...they're aliens!  And then a mummy shows up and starts attacking them, but it's not just any mummy, it's Mummstro the Great!  And then everyone reflects on their abilities as superheroes for THREE hours!  And for the climax, Spidey has to fight a super-big, ultra-mega huge, mechanical spider!  Neat, huh?"

"Sharon, would you get somebody to remove Jon Peters from my office, please?"

[LucasM]

Personally I would rather they stuck to their own properties. I have enjoyed (to some degree) everything Marvel have done so far, and the same can't be said of the other studios. If anything is going to taint the MCU it will be letting the others in.

I'm LucasM, and I approve this comment.

[Darth Geek]

I like the fact that they are all willing to play nice with each other now. But we are already getting saturated with comic book movies. And a lot of them are already getting overstuffed with characters, and being overlong partly because of that. I don't need the Fantastic Four included in an Avengers movie if they aren't going to be necessary for the story. I think it'd be more interesting to see smaller movies like Deadpool that have one or two side characters that might be from other studios, that a jam packed event movie. It'd also be a much smaller investment risk for the studios too.

Actually I just had a really interesting idea. What if in the background of one movie you could see the events of a scene from another movie, and vice versa. Maybe in the Spider-man movie you can see Deadpool doing something, and then in the next Deadpool movie Wade tries and fails to get Spider-man to help him because Spidey is dealing with all the stuff going on in his own movie. Deadpool watching from afar the climactic destruction from the Spider-man movie, talking about how he's glad he doesn't have to deal with all of that.

[Kete]

Actually I just had a really interesting idea. What if in the background of one movie you could see the events of a scene from another movie, and vice versa. Maybe in the Spider-man movie you can see Deadpool doing something, and then in the next Deadpool movie Wade tries and fails to get Spider-man to help him because Spidey is dealing with all the stuff going on in his own movie. Deadpool watching from afar the climactic destruction from the Spider-man movie, talking about how he's glad he doesn't have to deal with all of that.

They did something like that Batman v Superman, and that's one of the things I really liked about that movie.

[Darth Geek]

They did something like that Batman v Superman, and that's one of the things I really liked about that movie.

You mean at the beginning when Bruce Wayne sees the destruction from Man of Steel?

[Kete]

They did something like that Batman v Superman, and that's one of the things I really liked about that movie.

You mean at the beginning when Bruce Wayne sees the destruction from Man of Steel?

Yes.

[Johnny Unusual]

I like the fact that they are all willing to play nice with each other now.

Though I have no doubt a lot of the "playing nice" is done with a fair amount of tension (I'd certainly like to be wrong about that).

[Darth Geek]

I like the fact that they are all willing to play nice with each other now.

Though I have no doubt a lot of the "playing nice" is done with a fair amount of tension (I'd certainly like to be wrong about that).

Well, it is all with a lot of money exchanging hands of course. But the fact that they are willing to do it at all is a big deal.

[LucasM]

I like the fact that they are all willing to play nice with each other now.

Though I have no doubt a lot of the "playing nice" is done with a fair amount of tension (I'd certainly like to be wrong about that).

Well, it is all with a lot of money exchanging hands of course. But the fact that they are willing to do it at all is a big deal.

Yeah... I suspect money, and Fox saying, "we've screwed up three Fantastic Four films - if we don't actually have Marvel participate, we'll lose the franchise...  'cuz we sure as hell aren't going to sink hundreds of millions more into our own incompetent attempts that fail so miserably at the box office."  [Though honestly I felt some tiny parts of Rise of the Silver Surfer were OK, but the majority of the first attempt at the FF was garbage because they used too much Ultimate Fantastic Four.  Then of course the most recent so-called FF was total garbage because 'Ultimate' was all they used (and they didn't even do that well... not that Ultimate FF was terribly interesting to begin with).]

[ScottotD]

Hundreds of millions? the first two F4 movies looked like  they cost $12.

[Johnny Unusual]

Yeah, the first two Fantastic Four movies were critical flops, but I think the cheapness and decent enough ticket sales helped them recoup financially, unlike the most recent movie.

[Darth Geek]

Box Office Mojo has the budgets for Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as $100 million and $130 million respectively.