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  1. 12 hours ago, dudalb said:

    If Fox thought the film was a lost cause and spending money on reshoots was just tossing more money down the toilet, I doubt Disney management will feel any different.

     

     

    I would tend to think the same.  But I could see them giving the go ahead on a limited amount of reshoots designed to wash out any connections to the X-Men that might be in there.

  2. 5 hours ago, filmlover said:

    Well, how many even semi-famous out 20-somethings are there?

     

     

    Well there's Daniel K. Isaac from Billions.  He's just hair outside of that age range at 30.  But yeah it's not a long list.  That's a side effect of the lack of prominent Asian actors and actresses in the business in general.

     

    Funnily enough (they're both comedians) in response to that story on Twitter, though I wouldn't call either of them semi-famous:

     

     

  3. 5 hours ago, expensiveho said:

    We can have more than one openly gay actor even if it's just one gay character. 

     

     

    Of course.  Wasn't suggesting otherwise.  But I'm also not running on the assumption that the gay actor cast in the gay character role is necessarily for Hercules either.  That's just been speculation up to this point as far as I'm aware.

  4. 11 hours ago, Ororo Munroe said:

    Eh. Marvel should be embracing new/different perspectives at this point, so none of these are huge losses as far as I'm concerned. And as much as I enjoyed IW, it's not a movie without some frustrating flaws. There are other writers/dirclectors out there who could deliver just as well.

     

    I don't disagree with needing to bring in new perspectives.  The rate that Marvel puts out movies certainly requires it.  But it's hard to look at what that group has brought to the MCU and argue that a significant part of the MCU's success hasn't flowed directly out of that combination:

     

    Captain America: The First Avenger (M&M as writers)

    Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    Captain America: Civil War

    Avengers: Infinity War

     

    And of course Endgame, whose success remains to be seen.  I just don't know how you can look at that list and say it's core creatives walking away isn't a big deal.

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  5. On 4/1/2019 at 5:12 PM, Jay Beezy said:

    What are the Russo Brothers’ involvement in Marvel projects after Endgame?

     

    As of right now nothing for either them or Markus and McFeely.  And both duos have formed their own development/production companies within the past couple of years.  Everyone talks about the trinity of RDJ-Evans-Hemsworth moving on but those four are at least just as much if not more of a loss to Marvel should they decide to pursue other projects for the foreseeable future.

  6. 35 minutes ago, Deep Wang said:

     

    Not to keep this going anymore, but when I started thinking about all that it would take for anyone to actually do this, it is beyond ridiculous.

     

     

    Yeah Disney spends millions of dollars financing these movies, ditto on P&A, pays the critics to give them good reviews, pays RT to silence any of the ordinary joes who won't play along, to then turn around and buy up large blocks of tickets to these movies.  I can just picture the executive meeting where this was all concocted.

     

    Bob Iger: Gentlemen, we have a problem.  Our parks are generating entirely too ... much ... money.  What I need from you are ideas on how we're going to dump copious amounts of cash under what would otherwise seem to be a sound business plan.  Hit me.

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  7. 18 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

    OK

     

    I watched the Tesseract YouTube video, checked IM2 and Captain America. 

     

    Unless there’s something external from IM2 I’m unaware of it’s unclear as to whether the new element has anything to do with the Tesseract. It’s called the Tesseract in CA and since Zola was captured Howard Stark would have known it as the Tesseract. His notes in IM2 have a cube like image which he calls the hypercube. Is this or is it not the Tesseract? I don’t know. 

     

    Other then that the YouTube video is pretty much word for word my original post. 

     

    Edit:I’m guessing it’s a link lifted from the comics but never explicitly spelled out in the MCU. 

     

    Howard Stark developed the theories behind the new element from his research on the Tesseract.  So it's related in that way.

     

    It may not be called that in his notes as shown in IM2 because The Tesseract wasn't always going to be the housing for an Infinity Stone in the MCU.  It was originally intended to be a Cosmic Cube, which may explain the hypercube references.  They just decided to go with as the first of the stones and gave it an original (not from the comics) name.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Hades said:

    Cap Marvel has like 3 in her film...and the Ms marvel and not joined the MCU yet...

     

    Kamala Khan isn't really a sidekick of Carol's in the comics, at least from what I've read.  She's inspired by her, occasionally interacts with her, but she by and large seems to do her own thing to the extent that a teenager trying to hide her abilities from her family can.

     

    And Kamala has a sidekick of sorts of her own; a brainiac science guy, who happens to be white.

  9. 11 minutes ago, Slambros said:

     

    Secretariat is a famous race horse from many years ago; I think that's the horse that won the Kentucky Derby. The made a movie about it in 2011.

     

    Yes Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, on his way to winning the Triple Crown.  It was the manner in which he won the Belmont Stakes that ended up making him a legend.  Ron Turcotte was his jockey.

     

     

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  10. 26 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

    You think Disney haven't got their legal team working out the way they can make the most money from Avatar 2 & 3? When something like a merger happens contracts don't stay 100% the same, they're subject to neogiations.

     

    In an acquisition like this I would fully expect them to sit down and broach the topic of a potential renegotiation with someone of Cameron's stature when there is as much on the line as there is with the Avatar franchise.  There may be changes that both parties would consider mutually beneficial that couldn't be reached when Fox was sitting on the other side of the table.  It's not simply a matter of the bean counters and lawyers trying to wring a little more blood out of the existing deal.

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  11. 23 minutes ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

    Infinity War could've been massively frontloaded due to anti-spoiler fan rush and it turned out to have good legs.

     

    It might be frontloaded, but how frontloaded depends entirely on wom.

     

    The ending generated so much buzz for that movie it helped drive people out to see what all of the fuss was about.  There were references to "The Snap" flying all over social media and getting mentioned in circles that don't normally talk all that much about CB movies.  Even the Russos said they didn't expect it to get the reaction it did.  In retrospect you almost wonder how could they not have.

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