I very much hope you’re right. I haven’t enjoyed a Marvel movie since endgame. Spider-Man was alright, I guess.
Yep, and as much as I dislike the recent MCU output I don't think there was that much buildup for Infinity War either. Thanos was built up in Infinity War, any of his previous appearances did jack all for the character, and it is obvious that they changed the direction from his Avengers cameo.
Really? OK but isn't the new F4 from another dimension, not the 616 of the main Canon.
Damn. Thought rdj was a placeholder dr doom until secret wars. Didn't really make sense since he's getting paid $100 million.
Oh, its ridiculous all right. Insane, even. Especially since Doom in full gear is highly likely to be a stand in, so he'll just be doing a VO probably half the time. He'll have the same "pop on, pop off" mask they all do now so you can get a CG or stunt double for anything involving movement but see that $80 mill face for the talkie bits.
RDJ auditioned for Doom in Tim Story’s F4 movie, which Feige worked on.
So the one where he lost out to Julian McMahon? Not sure if that helps or hurts your case that a 20 year old audition is driving the story now. I bet a lot of the mannerisms from that ended up in Tony.
I was paying attention. They even had to retcon the gauntlet in Odins vault. They obviously changed things throughout to tie it together. We don't have to pretend that Antman was always going to be the catalyst for time travel.
The only thing they changed with Ant Man was in Civil War. Had Sony not signed the Spider-Man deal, Tony Stark was going to recruit Ant Man at his kid’s soccer game in the original script.
The original Antman script was written by Edgar Wright. I want to remember Pym being a bad guy in his script. So the idea that Scott getting stuck in the quantum realm and discovering time travel was probably not planned by that point.
Having Hank as the villain in the movie would've left the comics version in an even worse state than he currently is in. So weird that comic character got hit by cancel culture 50 years after the slap.
I love Edgar Wright’s work, but if that’s true about Hank, glad it didn’t go through. Hank Pym fans have to deal with enough crap with the comics. As not everyone may know, the one time early in the comics where he intentionally slapped Janet was not what the writer wanted, he meant for Hank to throw his hand out behind him (in a “leave me alone” sort of gesture) without paying attention to his surroundings and thus accidentally hit her. Not great, but clearly not deliberate abuse. However, the penciller misread the info provided by the writer and thus drew it so Hank is looking at her when he hits her and thus it’s flat out abuse, leading to a swift divorce and other events that cause Hank’s life to fall apart.
The writer did intend for Hank’s life and his relationship with Janet to deteriorate over his time on the book, but Hank was never supposed to have deliberately hit her, and thus Hank fans eventually started getting fed up when it was still sometimes brought up decades (in our time) after it happened, particularly the infamous Avengers Disassembled comic story arc, where among other awful things to happen to the team in that story, a “drunk” Tony Stark (actually due to magic; Tony had swore off alcohol after a low point he hit in the comics) yells at Hank, “back off, man! Don’t you have a wife to go beat?!” This was the 500th issue, what should have been a celebratory milestone for longtime fans, and we get reminded of that shit. *sigh*
Seeing Hank Pym as a flawed but ultimately heroic and sympathetic guy in the MCU was definitely one of the best changes from the comics to the big screen in terms of characterization.
