Marvel Shared Film Universe: MCU Theatrical & TV (discussion, crossovers, etc.)

[LucasM]

I certainly hope that the Marvel/Netflix contracts didn't say that the series would always be a joint venture.  I suspect that Marvel, with the previous Spider-man stresses, and the continuing X-Men and FF stresses, would be too smart to permanently tie characters to providers.  So I would hope they can take their toys and go when the contracts run out.


I just updated the Spider-Man: Homecoming entry in my crossovers/release post, and it was substantial enough I felt it might warrant sharing as a new post, since I suspect people don't routinely re-visit the crossover/release post.  Here's what I added:

Spider-Man: Homecoming . . . . July 7, 2017
     There are indications in the film, and vague and obfuscating comments by Feige (sadly can no longer find those to link to), that this film is actually not taking place 'in sequence', and is not meant to be taking place in 2017 (which means Civil War also did not take place when it was released, as Homecoming is just two months later than the events of Civil War).  This also fits with the fact that the second MCU Spider-Man film will not be released until July of 2019, yet is about the school year directly following Peter's 'Homecoming' school year.  [I gotta' say: I always loved the double meaning of that title!  Both referring to the homecoming dance, but also that Spider-Man was FINALLY coming back to Marvel control.]
     Marvel apparently has a huge scroll for film continuity, but since they aren't sharing that (given that it includes where the MCU is going, and things from its past they don't necessarily want to reveal yet), there's no official word on what is going on and how it all fits together.  I do believe that Feige said that it would all make sense (after Avengers 3+4 I think it was), so I guess we just have to wait.

[LucasM]

First look at character 'Old Lace' (the dino) from the Runaways Hulu TV series:

Spoiler

Oh, and she is being done practically for the most part (in contrast to the Inhumans, where Lockjaw was all digital and sucked up all the cash that should have been used for decent scripts and making Attilan look regal).

[Edward J Grug III]

We watched the first two eps last night. Quite promising

[Pastor of Muppets]

I'm not interested in any TV rendition, but a few days ago, after seeing Thor: Ragnarok, I made up an Amazon shopping list of all the movies.

Did I put the wrong thing on my list or was Bruce Banner played by a different actor in the original movie?

[Pak-Man]

If you got Ed Norton and not Eric Bana, you're fine. The story was Norton didn't play well with others, so they booted him when Avengers came to be.

[Pastor of Muppets]

If you got Ed Norton and not Eric Bana, you're fine. The story was Norton didn't play well with others, so they booted him when Avengers came to be.

Any in universe explanation on the sudden change of appearance in Darrin Bruce Banner?

[Pak-Man]

Nope. He's just Mark Ruffalo all of the sudden. Really, they keep it very ambiguous that anything in The Incredible Hulk ever happened at all. Other than the footage of the movie that shows in Iron Man 2, none of the characters or situations from Incredible Hulk are ever mentioned again.

[anais.butterfly]

Nope. He's just Mark Ruffalo all of the sudden. Really, they keep it very ambiguous that anything in The Incredible Hulk ever happened at all. Other than the footage of the movie that shows in Iron Man 2, none of the characters or situations from Incredible Hulk are ever mentioned again.

Also conveniently removing the need to cast Liv Tyler in additional roles.

[Edward J Grug III]

I'm not interested in any TV rendition, but a few days ago, after seeing Thor: Ragnarok, I made up an Amazon shopping list of all the movies.

Did I put the wrong thing on my list or was Bruce Banner played by a different actor in the original movie?

Have you seen many of the other films? None of them are very Thor: Ragnarok-like (Even the other Thor movies).

[Pastor of Muppets]

I'm not interested in any TV rendition, but a few days ago, after seeing Thor: Ragnarok, I made up an Amazon shopping list of all the movies.

Did I put the wrong thing on my list or was Bruce Banner played by a different actor in the original movie?

Have you seen many of the other films? None of them are very Thor: Ragnarok-like (Even the other Thor movies).

Oh yeah.  I've seen all of them.  I think.  It's kinda hard to keep track.  I saw probably about half in theaters, half from Netflix when I eventually remembered.  I didn't see the Spiderman movie though.

I liked most of them okay.  I kinda hated Captain America 3 though, because I felt like I was just watching another Avengers movie.

Something bothered me about Ant Man.  The power of the suit was that the special chemical made you shrink by reducing the space between your atoms.  Okay, I'll suspend disbelief and accept that.  But how did he then shrink beyond the atomic level?

[Darth Geek]

Something bothered me about Ant Man.  The power of the suit was that the special chemical made you shrink by reducing the space between your atoms.  Okay, I'll suspend disbelief and accept that.  But how did he then shrink beyond the atomic level?

Yeah, that annoyed me a lot in that movie too. Even for comic book sci-fi nonsense it's pretty bad.
But by that point I was already so annoyed by that movie anyway.

[LucasM]

Well, the image in the first post of this thread could get a WHOLE lot simpler!

BREAKING: Disney/Fox Deal Gaining Momentum, Could Be Imminent
    November 28, 2017  Charles Murphy
In what should not be surprising but, nonetheless, encouraging news, it appears that after recently walking away from the negotiation table, Disney and Fox have reopened the talks that would see Fox sell its television and films studios to Disney.

According to Deadline, talks have begun to progress rapidly and both sides have gone dark, prompting the speculation that they are close on a deal. Disney made similar rapid and silent progress in its purchase of Lucasfilm back in 2012, so it's possible that fans of the X-Men, Fantastic Four and related characters may be looking at a pretty damn good Christmas present: Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige having access to just about every character ever dreamed up by Marvel Comics creators! With Marvel still able to realign its film slate following Avengers 4, this news could NOT come at a more opportune time.

We don't expect we'll hear much of anything unless the deal either falls apart or goes through, but we've been of the mind that there is no way Disney would let the rights to Doctor Doom, Galactus, the Silver Surfer and more end up in the hands of another studio when they have the opportunity to get them back. Keep your fingers crossed friends! Feige and Stan Lee's dreams of uniting all the characters under one banner could be coming true!

Now wouldn't that be incredible?  It would also - hopefully - mean an uptick to six films a year that were connected to one-another, since FOX has been ramping up to putting out 2-3 a year.  The films would not necessarily be in one continuous storyline, though that would be possible, too.  But at least they would be in the same universe.  An MCU film every other month?  Sounds like heaven to me!

[Edward J Grug III]

I don't want the fox garbage to just suddenly be part of the MCU. They need a hard reboot if those characters are coming in.

[goflyblind]

I don't want the fox garbage to just suddenly be part of the MCU. They need a hard reboot if those characters are coming in.

deadpool, of course, would have to comment on it all the time.

[LucasM]

I don't want the fox garbage to just suddenly be part of the MCU. They need a hard reboot if those characters are coming in.

deadpool, of course, would have to comment on it all the time.

Without question the X-Men and FF would have to be "Spider-Manned" into the MCU (i.e. all prior films and actors ignored completely)!

Not sure if this was being implied with goflyblind's comment, but the only exception I would make would be Deadpool... or, even if continuity was not the same with his two films, keeping on Ryan Reynolds and his creative team (possibly just changing things like Colossus, etc.), because Reynolds is so perfect in the role.  But, as goflyblind said, he'd be making comments on the changes, turning to the camera, "is it just me, or didn't he look and act different the last time I saw him?" and such.