Once Ant Man and The Wasp wraps up it'll be 20 quality movies in around 10 years time... I never imagined Iron Man would kick off such a Marvelous franchise. What a time to be alive.
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It's pretty amazing what they've managed to accomplish with the MCU. I remember when Ironman came out, it was a cool movie but I was suspect about the idea of a shared universe and thought it would crumble under its own weight. Then when Hulk, Thor and Captain America all came out and were pretty underwhelming when compared to Ironman, I thought they'd mucked it up. Then the first Avengers came out and I loved it, it was tons of fun and really filled the promise and potential. At that point I was really excited for the future.
Then the movies leading up to Avengers 2 were pretty bad (with the exception of Winter Soldier and of course Guardians of the Galaxy) and Age of Ultron itself was a bit of a mess. So at that point I thought the universe had peaked and it would all be downhill from here. But since Age of Ultron, the MCU has probably put out their most consistent and best work to date and really reinvigorated my interest in the universe as a whole.
And it shows how difficult this is to pull off when just about every other attempt at a "shared universe" has crashed and burned. I'll give Feige credit, the guy was a visionary, and he had the patience required to make it work. And that's the key, I think, aside from hiring good filmmakers - patience. Something DCEU could learn a thing or two about.
Iron Man is still likely my favorite MCU flick overall. It was new, Downey was perfectly cast, we had a good story and villain and it's aged incredibly well. Can watch it again and it's still great. Might be nostalgia propping it up some though.
Of note, Iron Man was close to being done completely differently, years before; no Downey and on the cheap. If that had happened, we probably wouldn't be where we are now with the MCU: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...wney-jr-1107846
Also interesting, in 1997 Marvel offered Sony a deal to buy the rights to all of their characters' film rights for something like $40 million. Sony passed and just bought Spiderman for a bit less.
That's insane, 40mil is nothing much to a company like Sony, even in 1997. Even if they knew they'd never use the majority of the characters, just a few major ones could have net them profits.
edit: Wait, forgot about right laws, Sony would have to use each character within 10years or so or the rights would revert back to Marvel. Still, they could have ash-canned the more prominent characters until the time was right while letting ones like Maggot default back to Marvel.
I may be off on the numbers, I don't remember. Point is, though, Sony had the opportunity to own them all for only a little more than they paid for Spiderman, and they passed.
Made sense at the time, no one could have guessed that Marvel characters would become so huge, still interesting to think about.
Can’t wait to see the X-men and FF incorporated and Secret Wars at some point
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I honestly can't believe we'll barely be getting the Ant Man and Wasp movie. Two OG Avengers, one of them barely showing up for the first time (as a lead, anyways), and they're barely getting their own real focus. It's a crime.
Still, hard to complain when we've gotten so many MCU movies pumped out in such little time. It was a damn good 10 years.
They're not lacking characters. Even removing Captain America and Ironman won't dent the MCU Juggernaut. I'm looking forward to them incorporating the F4 universe along with their rich chest of villains. And you know once the X-Men are re-introduced into the MCU it'll recapture the original feeling of the first Avengers movie. And finally, once you have the blockbuster F4, X-Men, Avengers, Guardians and Eternals crossover there's no telling where they'll go - New Universe, Shi'Ar, Midnight Sons, New Warriors... etc.
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