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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
In regards to the question I asked long ago about using Big Hero 6, and forgive me for asking it again if I may have, but why couldn't it have gotten the Guardians Of The Galaxy treatment again?
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Honestly, the realistic time for something like this would be Phase 5 either way, because, well, there first will be sequels for Spider-man, Captain Marvel, Got G, Black Panther, Dr. Strange and Inhumans...even if one or two of those franchises underperform, there will still be more than enough to fill phase 4. And by the time Phase 5 rolls along, Cassie will be old enough.
edited 28th Oct '15 11:06:12 AM by Swanpride
Conversely, Big Hero 6 has had, I believe, two mini-series, neither of which were any good or sold well.
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Since Big Hero 6 is now a well known property due to the very successful animated adaptation, it's not really comparable to Guardians of the Galaxy anymore.
Long term I'm not going to rule out anything, but Disney might want to keep the focus on the animated franchise for now and the slate is pretty full even with 3 movies a year, so I don't expect to see them in Live Action until phase 5 at least.
edited 28th Oct '15 11:54:29 AM by Falrinn
I was just gonna say yeah I don't think it's them having less faith in it it's that they're not going to confuse the brand by making a live-action Big Hero 6 when there's already a popular animated movie of it.
If you're asking why they didn't make a Big Hero 6 film before the cartoon one that's just because they're a very obscure property. So were the Guardians but there's a lot of characters who were probably higher up on the list.
It's also important to note that Disney has a different focus - while Marvel is making a universe out of its own properties, and thus needs to balance place within the verse and pick teams based on potential and all that, Disney's thing is just adapting standalone tales to standalone films: in this case, the story they picked happened to be a modern one they had access to through Marvel.
While it is a superhero movie, where Disney is concerned it's not much different than Basil Of Baker Street or 101 Dalmatians, which I believe were likewise obscure when they got their hands on them.
edited 28th Oct '15 12:30:19 PM by KnownUnknown
The GOTG were obscure, but a fairly long-running series. It has been around since the 1970s after all, even if the line-up changed in-between. The Big Hero 6 was Marvel trying to cash in on the Manga fans. It is not just obscure, it was virtually unknown, more or less the bottom of the barrel. That's more or less why Disney picked it for an animated movie, because they could basically do with it whatever they want without a lot of fans complaining that they kiddify their favourite comic book.
As if I needed more reasons to see Star Wars.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.I was fully expecting this. I thought it was possible that they'd drop the first teaser on a TV show (either a late-night exclusive premier like the Guardians trailer on Kimmel, or during an episode of Agents of SHIELD), and then do the full teaser trailer with Episode VII, but that was a long shot.
Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2 casts Pom Klementieff.
Let the speculation begin as who she will play. Leading contender: Mantis!
...Correct me if I'm wrong, but last time I checked, Mantis was an Asian earth-woman and the daughter of a Supervillain named Libra who was raised by Kree space-monks in a Veitnam monastery before paling around with the Avengers for a while and shakking the Swordman's possessed glowing corpse, upon which she turned green and gave birth to a cosmic Christ figure. In other words, I'm pretty darn sure she isn't an alien, no offense.
edited 28th Oct '15 3:33:34 PM by kkhohoho

I'd be so down for a Young Avengers movie somewhere down the line, with Cassie Lang, Amadeus Cho, etc.
The downside, at least for Cassie, is that her actress is so very young it would take a long time for something like that to be feasible.