I think it was expected to some extent that they would adapt Jane and the God Butcher since those two were the most standout elements of Jason Aaron's run and there tends to be some recency bias with the MCU.
Maybe they could have worked together better had they treated the material more seriously or restructured the movie.
I hope the script is tighter than MoM.
But then you'd basically just turn Zenn-La into Norrin Radd.
I have noticed that tendency to adapt relatively new stories even if some older stories are more iconic. I'm sure I wasn't the only one waiting for some breathtaking adaptation of Walt Simonson's run, instead of such a recent, and, in Jane's case, amazingly drawn but kind of tonally all over the place, story arc. Same with Age of Ultron. A dozen great Avengers stories better than that one, but Age of Ultron was fairly recent, and so it got the nod, even if it had to be totally revamped to account for no Pym, the presence of the Mind Stone, etc.
She’ll be in the next avengers movies at the very least, but yeah, I wouldn’t hold my breath for Captain Marvel 3: The Marvels 2 at this point lol.
I think you mean Shalla-Bal. Zenn-La was the planet. I'm pretty sure you two don't mean to turn the planet into Silver Surfer.
Agreed. The Thor movies had a lot of elements and characters that got under used.
Age of Ultron, the movie had almost nothing in common with the Age of Ultron comic other than the name and the fact that it had Ultron in it.
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In other news WandaVision is now available to buy in physical form. Either Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD
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Ha! Been waiting for this to drop. Got Loki S1, was not disappointed. Don't buy a lot of physical movies these days, but I won't have a hole in my MCU collection and these shows are worth having on disc, against the day when D+ drops them like they did Willow.
So....it dawns on me that the whole "Marvel needs to restructure, and I bet we won't see Carol around after her movie bombed!" sounds a whole lot like what people were saying with Thor 2 and Iron Man 2, AoU and whatever other movies made people think Marvel was headed over a cliff.
Marvel kind of has a problem with sequels, it seems. Other than Ant-Man and Cap, most #2's don't seem to fare terribly well in the MCU do they?
Fiege doesn't usually bend to whatever public opinion is. True, they totally changed their approach with Thor 3, but we still got Thor 3. They didn't stop doing solo films just because Dark World failed to impress, nor did they stop using Thor in the wider 'verse. We've seen Marvel adjust their approach in the past, but not their overall plans. So far, Fiege has mostly done whatever he's wanted regardless of what the fans thought in the moment, and usually time has proven him right. He's changed tactics on occasion, like with Ragnarok, but usually sticks to the overall script. I recall people not being crazy impressed with the first Ant-Man, so what did the sequel do? The same stuff as the first one, just better. I expect that is still largely the case. I expect we'll still get Captain Marvel 3, but they may go in a wild new direction with it like they did Thor. And I expect Carol will still play whatever larger MCU role they planned on, they'll just try to make her more fun, somehow. Word is Disney is slowing their release schedule, but that's not terribly surprising and doesn't really speak to a change in their creative plans, just market limitations.
Do y'all think this runs deeper and requires a bigger shakeup? Even if this is all basically the same stuff people said in the past, is it more true this time around?
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