After a late start on a 2½ hour movie plus a long drive home and writing a lengthy review, I had no juice left for any other comic blogging. So, to celebrate the awesomeness of Marvel's The Avengers and observe the incompetence of Warner Brothers' forty years of mishandling DC projects (like the aborted 2007 JLA film,) here's a reworking of a 1981 George Pérez Pin-Up replacing the Justice Society of America with Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Let me add that I'm a big supporter of the current casting rumor for the Vision, given the events of the movie...
Vibranium sheild, vibranium talk in X-Men, Ironman and Captain America, then the Chitauri show up in the Avengers movie; could the Black Panther be the next member? God I hope so, the Vision would be awesome to see on screen and at one time didn't they want to cast the Rock as the Submariner? With this new cosmic threat they are going to need some mean guns.
ReplyDeleteThey launched a Sub-Mariner series in the early aughts with Sal Larroca on art pretty much solely because the Rock was supposed to do a movie. Wesley Snipes' interest in doing Black Panther probably helped keep that series going, as well. T'Challa ought to be a shoo-in for Phase Two, but I suspect he'll have to wait for Phase Three behind Dr. Strange, Luke Cage, and friggin' Ant-Man. It's going to happen inevitably, though, and I can hardly wait!
ReplyDeleteI think that Marvel has focused on having the movie audience connect with the characters, which I saw in the Dark Knight series but not as much as in some other films. (Batman and Robin, anyone? That was a waste of a lot of talent.)
ReplyDeleteIf audiences do not truly care about the characters and are willing to believe in them in the context of the movie, audiences stay away. I think that Warner Brothers and DC have the same problems with movies that DC has with J'Onn J'Onnzz and a lot of other good characters -- tremendous potential but poor application.
Exactly. To some degree, I think the George Miller movie was a missed opportunity. On the other hand, it could easily have damaged the brand. Marvel has earned its success by slowly, carefully building these franchises with the correct talent. Warner Brothers remains incapable of doing that, and I don't want to see characters like Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter on the screen until that changes in a fundamental way. Marvel conquered movies the way they did comics, and DC continues to fumble in film as they did in print Pre-Crisis.
ReplyDelete"Hey, we've got a universe of characters!"
"Hey, here's Batman some more! And next summer, another pass at Superman!"