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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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So I guess Taika Waikiti being director for Thor Ragnarok is a 100% done deal now?
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If that was the case, I would have expected them to say something to that effect.
EW had a rundown on one of the CW fight scenes and it sounds epic.
It’s definitely not Iron Man. He’s flying low and locked onto another target: Captain America. Evans raises his shield, slings an upper cut through the air, and gets in one more hit against his invisible foe before he’s almost taken out in real life.
The main camera is on a crane, and it swoops down on the battle scene — following Iron Man’s descent — until it’s right in Evans’s face. The actor has to dive out of the way at the last second to avoid being clobbered.
After a few more takes, Evans comes over to the video screens to check out the shot, laughing at the fact that each one ends with an extreme close-up of his panicked face, dodging the camera. “I can’t keep throwing punches when that’s so close,” he says. The Russos come up with a solution: Go ahead and drop back.
The shot will end with Iron Man knocking Captain America to his knees.
But he’s not going to stay there.
Also among other things T'Challa is one of the politicians who helps craft the Sokovia Accords.
The article also confirms
an earlier rumor about the movie's Stamford-like event.
The fight with Crossbones and his HYDRA goons ends badly and a bunch of people get killed in the crossfire.
@dRoy:
Dangit Steve why did you bank off the wall and jump on to that bureau anyway what was the point of that
Every time I watch that chase and get to 2:13 it just cracks me up.
edited 3rd Dec '15 12:26:56 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectNever heard of Rule of Cool? XD
On another note, I hate to say it, but I have a nasty feeling that next year is gonna be the year in which Marvel finally releases a truly bad film in the form of Doctor Strange. With it being written by two absolutely terrible writers in the form of Thomas Dean Donnely and Joshua Oppenheimer, who wrote such craptastic films like Sahara, Dylan Dog Dead of Night, and A Sound Of Thunder, alongside Jon Spaihts, who has written the absolutely terrible film The Darkest Hour, and directed by Scott Derrickson, who's highest rated film, Sinister, only got a 62% RT rating, I struggle to see how this movie will turn out as anything but a disaster. Even James Gunn and the Russo Siblings had a better track record than the clowns they picked for this film.
But Jon Spaihts did write the draft of Prometheus that was actually supposed to be good. And I believe Kevin Fiege has a special interest in Doctor Strange.
It really depends. There are many reasons movies turn out bad. Maybe the writers, maybe the directors, or studio interference. It's hard to judge. In terms of directors, Peyton Reed doesn't have the best filmography either, but that worked out OK.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI think Kevin Fiege really likes Doctor Strange, so he has a vested interest in making this work.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectThe cast is really good though, maybe one of the best in the MCU so far. That alone will kick the movie up a notch I think.
Sing the song of sixpence that goes burn the witch, we know where you livePerhaps the pitch of the writers they picked was particularly good? Thing is, scripts often change during production and for each script which makes it on firm, there are many which don't. It is possible that those writers have written some good scripts and just got unlucky that their original pitches got messed up by the demands of the studio or the director, or that for whatever reason only their not so good scripts got picked up so far. It is hard to tell. I just can say that based on what I know for sure, I am not confident. Well, at least they didn't pick the guy who wrote Pan.
@Mousa: I've heard that he does. It keeps coming up somehow when I think back on comments he's made and what people say about him.
I'm just saying, there are a few directors and writers in the Marvel lineup who don't really look good on paper, but you can never be too sure.
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Yeah, in terms of raw acting talent this is the best cast Marvel has put together in a while.
edited 3rd Dec '15 3:03:19 AM by edvedd
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectI looked at Winter Soldier's Headscratchers page and I see that I'm not the only one who wondered why Bucky didn't just grab the Shield and ran off. I'm very much of a slowpoke, at that.
I like the explanation that Bucky not knowing the Shield was one of a kind weapon (for all he knew, it was a pretty common piece of weapon in that age) and that Bucky threw it back at him as a distraction to get away.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.As for Doctor Strange, as guess all we can do is trust that Feige will ensure that the film doesn't turn out bad. But then again, he isn't perfect either, as what he desires might not necessarily make for the best films (Iron Man 2 and 3 and Thor The Dark World come to mind, as he couldn't keep those films from being mediocre).
And again, Peyton Reed, The Russos, and James Gunn, while they may not have had the best track records before their films, at least made more acclaimed works than Scott Derrickson. Add to that the three poor writers, and I'm just really concerned.
For the director of Doctor Strange: have we all forgotten that before Winter Solder, the last movie the Russo brothers directed was You, Me, and Dupree? As for the writers, the first Iron Man film was said to actually have been written on the fly as they were shooting (Jeff Bridges said it was a like a giant college film) and the scriptwriters themselves had pretty poor track records previously, but a great cast made it all work.
Not a Marvel example, but I just saw Trumbo, which I highly recommend, and that was directed by Jay Roach who is behind the Meet the Parents and Austin Powers movies and Borat.
In light of Trumbo and the HBO docudramas he's done, he seems to have a gift for political dramas (with a satirical edge) that's superior to his talent for straight comedy.
So yeah, the people behind lousy movies can also make great ones.
edited 3rd Dec '15 8:43:26 AM by Hodor2
