Marvel Gets Cash to do 10 Films 604
jmozena writes "Marvel has raised $525 million to independently finance 10 movies based on its comics over seven years. The titles named are Captain America, The Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack and Shang-Chi. The company's also changing its name from Marvel Enterprises to Marvel Entertainment."
Not Too Much Left (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not Too Much Left (Score:5, Funny)
The studio is obviously hoping that swarms will want to watch.
You can't top the original Nick Fury (Score:3, Funny)
Dagger (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't get me wrong, but what? (Score:5, Funny)
Who?
Well, if they said they'd make a superhero movie about Dr. Who, I'd probably say, "Dr. Who? Strange."
Capital Man (Score:4, Funny)
Screw that (Score:4, Funny)
Why jump the shark when you can step over it with hydraulic lifts?
The Avengers (Score:5, Funny)
Uh, I take it we're not talking about John Steed and Emma Peel?
There were four good things about that movie. a)the line "How now, Brown Cow?" b)Emma in her catsuit c)her E-type Jaguar, and d)Emma in her catsuit.
Re:New compnay name (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good Investment (Score:5, Funny)
Captain France? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I can completely understand from your perspective. Who would really be interested in Captain France? A guy that dresses up like a croissant, runs away from German bad guys and blames all his problems on Captain America. Would make for a short, annoying movie...
Re:which sucks less? (Score:5, Funny)
There you have it, folks... the most optimistic man in the world.
Re:Bad Films to be followed by Bankruptcy (Score:5, Funny)
It's all caused by piracy! Piracy I tell you!
Re:Good Investment (Score:5, Funny)
Worse in some cases. Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail were basically the same movie but they forgot to replace the same actors! One comment I've heard was "It wasn't as if the Empire State Building collapsed that they needed to make a new one!"
Cloak & Dagger (Score:2, Funny)
Re:All old characters... (Score:5, Funny)
Exec A:
"I'm thinking "The Sandman" from those cool comics, only in the movie he's not some skinny guy, but a musclebound hero!"
Exec B:
"I'm listening..."
Exec A:
"He's got the power of making people sleep, or hallucinate during the day. He fights crime and recharges his magic bag of sleeping dust every night. And his arch-enemy is his own sister, Desire!"
Exec B:
"Good twist. What about the love interest?"
Exec A:
"Well, his girlfriend is a rock-grrl from New York, street-hip and so marketable. We've got sketches of a clothing line"
Exec B:
"I like it. We need to drop some of that touchy-feely crap from the stories. I want action, and long fight sequences. Is that Woo guy available? I'm thinking of a huge fight scene, where the Sandman fights that sister, starting with fists and then getting swords from a wall or something. It'll end with him cutting off her head just when she's about to skewer him. We'll need some special effects though. Do these guys fly?"
Exec A:
"They do now!"
Exec B:
"Shit we're going to make so much money from this. Maybe there's a sequel, and she's not dead but comes back for revenge. It doesn't matter though."
Ant-Man: Script treatment (Score:3, Funny)
The Flash
The Hulk
Antman
[Doorbell rings, the Flash moves to answer it.]
The Flash: I'll get it, Lois. [opens door, grunts and crouches as if putting his arm around someone] Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl! [laughs] Come on right in! [Spider-Man, looking rather thin, enters and shakes hands with Flash] Hey, Spider-Man! All right... [Antman, wearing a helmet with antennae, enters and shakes hands, but the Flash doesn't recognize him] Ah... Excuse me, I'm not sure if I remember your name. I'm really bad with names, you know.
Antman: [high-pitched voice] You don't remember me? We met several times. I is Antman. A-N-T-M-A-N.
The Flash: Oh, right, right.
Antman: Yeah.
The Flash: Uh, Antman.
Antman: Yeah.
The Flash: What are your super powers again? You - you - you talk to the ants, is that it?
Antman: Well, partly. But, mainly, I shrink myself down to the size of an ant while retaining my full human strength.
The Flash: Really?
Antman: Yeah.
The Flash: [sarcastic] Oooh, that's really impressive. Size of an ant with human strength. You must be able to clean house on those other ants, huh? [chuckles] Hey! Hey, Hulk! Hey, check this guy out.
[The Hulk joins them. He and the Flash can barely keep from laughing at poor Antman and can't help chortling in-between their heavily sarcastic remarks:]
The Hulk: Ooooh!
The Flash: He's got the strength of a human!
This is awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
Can we please go back to making sci-fi movies that suck please? Or how about another Beastmaster?
Re:Not Too Much Left (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good Investment (Score:5, Funny)
And if you know kids, there's no such thing as "Too many times"
Re:Good Investment (Score:4, Funny)
Could be worse. A mild mannered Microsoft employee working 100hr weeks gets fed up with all the software piracy. His only resolve is to put on an Ant constume to fight commercial piracy and spams moral messages to all the kids in....
"You've Got Mail from Sleepless Antman in Seattle"
Don't copy that floppy!
Re:Good Investment (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good Investment (Score:5, Funny)
Shit, I can come up characters just as good as "Ant Man"! Like Slug Boy, Earwig Lad, Captain Fruit Fly, Dung Beetle Man, Pillbug Woman, and the Amazing Aphid.
Anyone care to give me $50 million apiece to develop these properties for the big screen?
Re:classic atheist arrogance (Score:1, Funny)
You need a "Shift" key in yours.
Re:Good Investment (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good Investment (Score:3, Funny)
Re:before there was monotheism (Score:3, Funny)
Re:All old characters... (Score:2, Funny)
"I opened the last one that was sent to me and read the first page, which began:
Camera opens on a dark alleyway, two CRIMINALS are going through a purse. A long dark shadow casts itself over their faces. They draw guns and fire!
SANDMAN
Hah, you fools. Your weapons cannot harm me, for I am sandman..."
NEIL GAIMAN mimes dropping script into dustbin.
"
Re:Good Investment (Score:5, Funny)
"When I said "He was played by David Hasselhoff.", I thought I had pretty much covered that angle.
Actual conversation about the Hulk movie overheard (Score:3, Funny)
White Teen Girl: What about "The Hulk"?
Asian Teen Girl: I heard that the movie had a lot of jumping in it.
White Teen Girl: Jumping?
Asian Teen Girl: Yeah, like the hulk jumps a lot.
White Teen Girl: OK.
Asian Teen Girl: I don't like movies with jumping.