Iron Man 2, Thor announced for 2010

[Felon]

Certainly not. But remember, we are talking about a character who's physical strength is generally only matched by the Hulk. He has to be able to act, but he has to project "I am physically stronger than anyone else here" as well, and I don't think Pitt does that.

I agree.

I don't want the thunder god to get the Ang Lee treatment. Thor's a big brute. I'm not sure that we really need a superb actor to play a character who, when you get right down to it, has the bombastic, in-your-face persona of a WWF superstar.

It may well be that Thor is handled in the same manner as The Hulk, with all of the heavy-duty acting reserved for his alter ego.

 

[Fast Learner]

Saw Iron Man again yesterday, and despite trying very hard, I didn't see anything even remotely resembling the Cap shield on Tony's workbench in any scene, including the claimed one.

 

[Krug]

With Marvel handling all production from now on, I think the films are going to be more consistent in tone. Definitely not as grave as Ang Lee's Hulk.

 

[Amellia]

Saw Iron Man again yesterday, and despite trying very hard, I didn't see anything even remotely resembling the Cap shield on Tony's workbench in any scene, including the claimed one.

Yeah, I think that one's a big stretch. But there will certainly be the super soldier serum in Hulk, and they're going to be cross-pollinating all their movies more and more because the fans just dig that stuff... but I agree, that shield is a biiig stretch. I plan on looking for it next time I get back to the theaters.

The summer box office is eating all my hard-earned money... x_x

 

[megamania]

I and other s talked about these roles and the ones we thought of were-


Captain America-
Mark Walberg or Matt Damon Both could do it.

Thor-
an unknown or give Triple H some acting lessons and unleash him. Keep in mind- he (as Thor) would only be there for a short time as Donald Blake would do half of the acting time.


The villians would be a completely revised Red Skull and Loki in the back ground directing traffic and taking center stage in the Avengers movie.

 

[Amellia]

Hey guys -- Thor info here.

There's also a link to a script review, but it has spoilers apparently, so I didn't click.

Basically: Asgard, and no Brad Pitt. Guess we'll see.

No director is attached at this time, but Feige says Marvel plans to announce one sometime this summer.

Also, he says they haven't even talked about casting yet for the lead role and have no idea who they plan to cast (Brad Pitt was rumored).

So far as the storyline, Feige says the film will be set in the world of Thor, Asgard, and that it would not be a contemporary story.

 

[Michael R. Proteau]

More on Feige's interview is up at the comics news site Newsarama

http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/05/22/captain-america-movie-will-be-set-in-world-war-ii/

It appears the Cap film will be a period piece set in WWII.

Looks like my speculation on how these two films would be handled wasn't that far off. Cap in WWII being frozen at the end and Thor in Asgard being exiled to Midgard (earth) at the end, both setting up the Avengers film.

Feige also said ruumors of McConaughey as Cap are completely untrue (thank the gods).
There is a link within the Thor story in the post above mine that leads to a bt more info on the Cap movie.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Okay. Forget Thor, Cap, Iron Man 2, etc.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i92601a875cdc02738e60593f7ed44e2b

Runaways. And written by Vaughan, too.

Marvel needs to stop the rest of their movies NOW and make this. NOW. I would have never expected the Runaways to even be CONSIDERED for a movie.

 

[Michael R. Proteau]

The biggest delay in production of the Runaways willnot be Marvel's other slate of films, it will be BKV's comitments to ABC as a writer and co-producer on Lost for the remainder of the show's run over the next season or so. All work on the Runaways screnplay will have to be done without interfering with his work on Lost, which mens it may be a while before he completes the first draft of the screenplay. There's no way ABC is going to let Vaughan out of his committments to Lost, one of their biggst shows, to work on a project for another studio. He will work on it after hours and during breaks inthe show, but I don't expect to see this move beyond the development/screenplay phase and into pre-preproduction before Lost wraps up for good.

 

[Amellia]

Runaways. And written by Vaughan, too.

Marvel needs to stop the rest of their movies NOW and make this. NOW. I would have never expected the Runaways to even be CONSIDERED for a movie.

They've actually been in talks for quite a while to make a Y: The Last Man movie, too. Which I think would be aaaaawesome.

I saw the Runaways news this morning and nearly did a little dance in the middle of the office... no way to explain to my coworkers what was going on.