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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The number of villains isn't necessarily the problem, its how they're integrated into the narrative. Where films like Spider-Man 3, or IM 2, or TASM 2, etc started to go wrong, is when you had multiple villains who were played up as trying to be the MAIN villain.
By contrast, the Russo's, or Chris Nolan, etc were able to juggle multiple villains successfully because there was a clear hierarchy. Some were clearly "higher up" than others, and thus got more focus.
Although I'd argue with Nebula was underused in GOTG personally, especially since she was the far more interesting baddie (as compared to Ronan) imo.
There are multiple methods to have more than one villain without any of the overcrowding the movie...you can have them as early bird cameo in a one scene appearance, you can have them as random antagonist or you can have them working tightly together. Got G does all three of them. Between The Collector, Korath, Nebula, Ronan and Thanos the movie is packed with villains, but Ronan is the only one who truly counts. And that is not counting Yondu and Denarian Sal, who both take the role of Antagonists turned somewhat alley.
Rumors they might go forward with a Silver Sable movie again.
Could be interesting, could overlap with any plans for a solo Black Widow film (ha) too.
Being dead will do that.
Granted, Dan Slott reserved the right to go, "She survived!" at a later point via Never Found the Body but nobody's picked up that thread yet.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Not sure if posted, but Michael Mando of Orphan Black/Better Call Saul was cast in Homecoming.
Based on his typecasting, I'm going to guess his character will be involved in organized crime.
Edit- Although I understand that he plays a serious/competent character in the latter, from his character in the former, I can totally see him as Random Crook That Gets Webbed Up.
edited 24th Jun '16 5:03:05 PM by Hodor2
Before TASM 2 nuked Sony's shared universe idea, there were tentative planes for an all-female team movie led by Sable. I wonder if this is similar.
First Ragnarok set photos
. They also mention building space ships for the movie.
So we've got Doctor Strange in November, which has finished filming and is currently in post-production. And Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 just finished primary filming, which should come out in May 2017, while Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok are both beginning filming and they are coming out July and November 2017.
Man, I can't wait.
edited 24th Jun '16 9:34:24 PM by alliterator
Well things like Guardians or Doctor Strange I would be quite happy to see ploughing their own little furrows away from the Avengers proper. But characters like Thor and the Hulk who are already intrinsically linked with the Avengers, I don't think them just ditching that link outright would be a great idea. I mean, don't have the Avengers turn up in Ragnarok or whatever but Thor's fondness for Midgard is a pretty defining characteristic of his, I can't see him just upping and leaving without a question.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."iTunes reduced the price of the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack to $7.99.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.MCU doesn't concentrate creative control of its franchise onto its directors the way the DCCU and XMU seem to. The closest is Whedon and eventually the Russos, but I don't think Whedon is still quite as hated as Snyder is (who surprisingly has a lot of defenders on Tumblr for some reason, ironically many of them heavily involved in SJ type stuff). Singer doesn't really seem to be hated so much as viewed with a giant "meh" by most groups, but lacks the fanbase of vocal defenders Whedon and Snyder do.
edited 25th Jun '16 4:12:39 PM by AlleyOop
Singer doesn't have much of a hatedom, to be honest. He's got a lot of people looking at him funny for possible pedophilia and definite creepiness though. The other Fox directors are Matthew Vaughn (who Singer wanted to direct The Last Stand and who eventually directed First Class), Brett Ratner (typical studio director who isn't really to blame for The Last Stand, I think most people blame Fox anyways), James Mangold (who seems to have some love for directed The Wolverine, I guess, though we'll see how people react to the R-Rated Wolverine film that I'm hyped for), and whoever directed X-Men Origins (who admitted the film was shit and most people blame Fox for it anyways). Tim Rothman directed Deadpool, but most people talk more about Ryan Reynolds pushing for Fox to make the film for nearly twenty years.
As for MCU directors, Jon Favreu, the Russos, and Joss Whedon are the most well known.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Whedon's basically been phased out in favor of the Russos, and then there's Gunn in regards to Got G. Other than that, not a lot of consistency here. But then again, the DCEU will probably jump in the same boat once it gets more movies under its belt.

Or Ronan.