Welcome to the main discussion thread for the Marvel Cinematic Universe! This pinned post is here to establish some basic guidelines. All of the Media Forum rules
still apply.
- This thread is for talking about the live-action films, TV shows, animated works, and related content that use the Marvel brand, currently owned by Disney.
- While mild digressions are okay, discussion of the comic books should go in this thread
. Extended digressions may be thumped as off-topic.
- Spoilers for new releases should not be discussed without spoiler tagging for at least two weeks. Rather, each title should have a dedicated thread where that sort of conversation is held. We can mention new releases in a general sense, but please be courteous to people who don't want to be spoiled.
If you're posting tagged spoilers, make sure that the film or series is clearly identified outside the spoiler tagging. People need to know what will be spoiled before they choose to read the post.
Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Y'know, just that would be enough to wish one of his scripts was made into a movie, but finding out he wrote the first two X-Men really seals the deal for me.
Well, he also wrote the screenplay for The Scorpion King, which was the cinematic debut of a little-known gentleman by the name of Dwayne Johnson, so...
Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other
Edited by MrHellboy on Feb 16th 2019 at 1:34:24 PM
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.Yeah, this is a RE-write, so the original writer has definitely done at least some preliminary treatments. Whether he is meant to be doctoring or tweaking the existing work in some way or doing a grounds-up scrap and rebuild (as was the case in Ant-Man IIRC) I don't know.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."Loads of films go through re-writes. Sometimes the producers or director simply isn't satisfied with the way the script is written, so they bring in someone else to re-write either parts or all of it.
Remember: Jac Schaeffer wasn't even the first writer for Captain Marvel. The original writers were Nicole Perlman and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Then Schaeffer was brought in to rewrite their script and the directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck rewrote that script.
Edited by alliterator on Feb 17th 2019 at 1:14:38 AM
I am aware. Doesn't really happen to Marcus and Mc Feely, though, and the Captain America arc is easily the strongest in the MCU.
Honestly, I don't really have that much interest in Captain Marvel, if only because of the way Brie Larson has been using the film to virtue signal non-stop and all of her comments regarding white men, something that the cast of Black Panther very wisely avoided doing. I'll just let this video explain (please watch before critiquing it):
I really hope Endgame doesn't end with Captain Marvel steamrolling Thanos.
Edited by LDragon2 on Feb 17th 2019 at 11:27:10 AM

I think I like this idea a lot more than the idea of a continuation. There's a lot of interesting space to explore with the Asgardians and their (tenuous) connections to Norse mythology.