I’m trying to recuperate from laughing too hard last night at the midnight showing of THE HANGOVER (Check out my review). That movie was totally rad, man! I was not expecting each scene to crack me up so bad, it’s as if my guards were down and they hit me with one joke after another every single time. I can’t believe that now I gotta watch The Land of The Lost at noon, that’s gonna be a drag. May I should just skip it altogether and just watch HANGOVER again but my side’s still hurting, it’s not ready yet.
So let’s make this real quick and painless shall we,.. it’s not really complete details on future Marvel movies but it’s the stuff that slashfilm, UGO, and AICN picked up Marvel studios honcho Kevin Feige at the recent IRON MAN 2 set visit. Here are quick bullet points..
THOR (opens May 20th, 2011):
- Donald Blake won’t be part of the movie
- The story is set in contemporary Earth, not Viking times
- Regarding unknown Chris Hemsworth as THOR, Feige said.. ‘There’s no question that this is our guy.’
THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA (opens July 22nd, 2011):
- Pre-production starts October 2009, Production starts June 28th, 2010
- Features more international actors and locations
- When asked about Will Smith being Captain America, Feige said.. “I think Will Smith is probably one of those handful of international stars”
Will Smith as Captain America, anyone?
THE AVENGERS (opens May 4th, 2012)
- Screenwriter Zak Penn might start his outline for the movie next week
- The scope will be massive, the threat will be global, the budget will be bigger. It would have to take a team of superheroes to handle it.
- Last year, there were talks that Hulk might be the ultimate villain in this movie but Feige actually wants to see Hulk as part of the team instead of the nemesis.
MARVEL Plans For 3 or 4 Films Per Year
Wow, I don’t know if this is such a good idea, after a while, we might get sick and tired of seeing superheroes on screen, on the web, posters, trailers, billboards everywhere. But this is what Feige said might happen, implying that they might come in different genres…
If the films keep succeeding there will be a well from which to pull financing to make two films, three films, four films a year. The question is what those films are going to be. How much are they going to cannibalize the whole notion of a Marvel movie. I think the only way that you could go beyond three movies a year is if they’re different. You do a Dr. Strange supernatural movie in March, two tent poles in the summer, a family comedy in September or October, maybe a fantasy tent pole at Christmas. Something like that, spread them out, but they have to be different.
