Marvel Studio’s is an exciting company to follow right now as they attempt to carve out the characters that they hope to build a universe around that can keep delivering Iron Man like numbers box office numbers for the next decade and even beyond.

As DC continue to debate, dither and quite simply fail over bringing their superheroes to the big screen that are outside of the big two, Marvel are pushing ahead with at least two movies a year and are making fortune after fortune.

Slight gloating but more to tease and keep us informed about their future, Marvel released a press release this morning indicating their future plans…

• April 30th 2010 - IRON MAN 2 (the movie will also introduce Thor according to the press release)
• June 4th 2010 - THOR (Matthew Vaughn directing)
• May 6th 2011 - THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA (working title - which hints that Cap will be introduced in a slightly different manner to others)
• July 2011 - THE AVENGERS (Hulk, Iron Man, Cap America, Thor, Nick Fury (and rest of S.H.I.E.L.D)… possibly/probably more!

Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Ant-Man is also still in development but no release date is attached as Wright has several projects he is considering as his next feature.

On the Hulk franchise the answer was “we are definitely planning more” which I translate as “we’ll wait and see how much money we pump into the sequel after the first movie has performed”. I’m sure they want to keep the character going though because they want him for The Avengers team-up eventually.

On the Spidey front (which remember is Columbia/Sony’s cinematic character) the answer was that it’s still in development and that they are excited about it continuing. Last we heard James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) was scribing and that Sam Raimi wasn’t going to commit until he had read the completed script.

Exciting times ahead then folks. Marvel are doing everything the right way as of right now and if they keep building these characters and turning in productions as of high quality as Iron Man then they will be the studio to watch over the next four or five years. Hopefully Jon Favreau will be the man given the task to do The Avengers movie because I think he desires it most… and is the best suited for the role.

As for Cap… it’s going to be interesting to see who they cast and get to direct. I believe David Goyer either was or still is writing the screenplay so he may be given the nod to direct also. After how well Iron Man has performed with Robert Downey Jr on board, I also wouldn’t be surprised if they cast a big name for that part.

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It’s taken a long time for Universal to show us a trailer for The Incredible Hulk reboot/restart but I gotta say, they might have been better off from showing us the big reveal of the big green guy completely, Cloverfield style.

He looks CGI crapola. And so does the rest of the movie. Unbelievably, it looks worse than Ang Lee’s film in nearly every department and you really have to wonder if a good Hulk movie is even possible in this current film climate.

I’m stunned Universal have made the same mistakes again. You have to wonder if it would have been more effective just having a real guy, ala Lou Ferrigno (best on screen incarnation of the character for my money) play the character on screen and not CGI him. BETTER YET, this movie maybe should have gone the motion capture or animated avenue, maybe then we might actually get a massive sized Hulk that doesn’t look ridiculous.

Nothing works here. Edward Norton’s a fine actor but he’s totally wrong for this part, especially the way he is playing it. He does not for one minute feel like a superhero, he can’t carry this picture. Liv Tyler is just horrible. William Hurt in that make-up is just weird.

Tim Roth looks good and we haven’t seen this intensity from him since Planet of the Apes but you just know he’s gonna be CGI for most of it. And from the looks of things his CGI Abomination character, looks exactly that - an abomination.

I think we’ve always known that The Incredible Hulk wasn’t going to be able to reach the heavy standards set by the likes of Spider-Man, X-Men or Batman Begins. We also had our reservations as to whether it would be anywhere near as good as Iron Man. But what Louis Letterier and his A-list crew of actors have cooked up here is just hideous.

The movie opens on June 13th. With this trailer, I can’t see it making the money that Ang Lee’s movie made back in 2003. Actually, while I’m here… below is the trailer for Hulk, a film I didn’t like but is on a different level quality wise to the new movie…

Are you going to see this? What do you think of the trailer for the new movie compared to the old one? Should they have even bothered rebooting everything when they are making the same mistakes with actors who don’t fit the roles?