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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It's too bad that they're going with movies. I think Spidey would fit in well in the Netflix shows, since he's more street level than the Avengers tend to be (he battles the mob about as much as he battles robots and mad scientists).
If they're gonna put him on a team, I'd rather them put him on the Defenders than the Avengers.
Phase 3's release dates are moving
. Spider-Man 3.0 will now be taking what was Thor: Ragnarok's spot, so all the other MCU films are moving down a spot. The exceptions are the Avengers: Infinity War films, which keep their old release dates, but as consequence Inhumans, not Infinity War, Part II, will be the last film of Phase 3.
edited 9th Feb '15 10:10:08 PM by Tuckerscreator
I'm... Actually kind of conflicted.
On one hand I'm happy. Spider man is awesome and deserves good movies. Seeing him on the big screen again in a film I want to see is great.
On the other hand... Well, I kinda wanted some curveballs thrown at me. Marvel propping up the Inhumans as X-men stand-ins is a neat idea I want to see pan out. And doing the same thing with Spider-Man could have been cool. Plenty of more obscure characters out there could have gotten a cool limelight placed on them because they couldn't use Spider-man.
Basically this just makes everything a bit more predictable. And that's a bit of a shame.
You are not alone.Oh my god, people aren't reading the thread.
Venom/Carnage was cancelled months ago. Don't know why the page says it's still being made.
The shift is happening because Marvel doesn't want to compete with Sony anymore, and Thor isn't a strong enough franchise to be Marvel's summer tentpole. Thor gets bumped to November, so that dominoes the rest of the movies down the line.
None of it is worth getting worked up over.
The funniest thing is, one of the first things I thought of was a hypothetical situation where Captain America fights Doctor Octopus. Simply because of all of Spidey's rogues fighting other heroes, that's a fight I really think would look awesome.
Since they're introducing an already active Spidey, though not the ASM Spidey of course, that means he could also contribute already active supervillains to the verse as well - which, since Spidey supervillains are mostly in a certain niche I think the MCU could benefit from, should be pretty sweet.
Huh.
There is one really good villain to be had here...
Norman Osborn.
Also, as for characters I don't have to worry as much about now, Spider Woman and Cloak and Dagger. But all three are a huge stretch.
Spidey news: I'm still holding to my worry that I always had, that Spidey going to the MCU would be because Sony's solo films aren't doing as well because people are getting tired of him and I don't think yet another reboot would help things. Going with Miles could fix that, I think, but if/since we're still getting Parker I don't have high expectations.
Though if it does go well and they want something for the Avengers after Infinity War it opens up the Ends Of The Earth storyline, which has plenty of things that would look cool adapted to film.
Sony's solo films weren't doing well because they kinda sucked. Amazing Spider-Man 1 did fine, considering it came off the back of Spider-Man 3, which was largely hated, even among non-comic fans. ASM2 was more interested in setting up Sinister Six than anything else, and so it ended up being a bad movie when taken on its own. And Sinister Six was always a terrible idea.
I thought the idea had potential in a Dirty Dozen type of way. The problem was they were hinging it on Harry Osborn who they'd already established as a Complete Monster.
You can make the audience root for villains and antiheroes but they have to evoke some amount of sympathy.
I dunno, I think Sinister Six was a pretty awesome idea if done right, but in all likelihood it wouldn't have been done right with the way Sony was making/planning its movies.
I figure a supervillain-flavored heist movie (a la Ocean's Eleven, which is a good thing to look at for dealing with a lot of characters), or a supervillain-flavored crime/sting movie, is one of those untapped genres that Marvel or Sony should really look into, because a good one would be both genre-busting and awesome - and which Sony is in a better position to do because the Masters of Evil and/or the Thunderbolts aren't really like that.
edited 9th Feb '15 10:56:42 PM by KnownUnknown
I actually think the Superior Foes of Spider-Man would be a better fit for a movie because the whole parody premise is kind of unique. It's about slumming Z-list supervillains and doesn't take itself too seriously.

I wonder how many pages this thread's going to gain as I sleep.
You know they're going to try their damnest to keep the reveal of who is playing Spidey under wraps until he can be unmasked in
Captain AmericaCivil War. Doubt it'll happen, though. Maybe they'll just settle for doing the reveal in a trailer.edited 9th Feb '15 10:05:16 PM by wanderlustwarrior