Marvel tease us over SPIDERMAN, THOR, IRON MAN, HULK, AVENGERS…

Posted by Matt Holmes. Last modified on May 5th, 2008 at 06:21pm

Marvel tease us over SPIDERMAN, THOR, IRON MAN, HULK, AVENGERS…

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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Categories: Ant-Man, Captain America, David-Goyer, Hulk, Iron Man 2, Jon-Favreau, Movie News, The-Avengers, thor

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I was surprised to hear about the Thor news. I thought Marvel would have more faith in Ant Man. Wonder when they’ll decide to release it if they want it out before the Avengers film.

Well, let’s get ready for rumors, speculation, praising, and bitching over the next few years.

Where do we go after 2011? More solo films of characters the general audience won’t know about until they see the teaser?

Comment by Lencho | May 5, 2008

Thor would be great in an Iron Man flick. Its actually a brilliant idea introducing characters as major as Marvel’s through other blcockbusters.

Comment by Madhatt3r | May 5, 2008

Marvel is going doing the right thing to set up the team-up film. I’m glad DC pulled the plug on Justice League, that would have been bad.

I’m curious whether any of the other Marvel movie characters would even make an appearance in an Avengers film. Would Spider-man, Wolverine, Daredevil, or Ghost Rider show up and make a cameo.

I know most (if not all) or those characters were part of some bad movies, but I think a cameo will still be interesting and hopefully not ruin the film.

Comment by Phil (the guy) | May 5, 2008

The only Marvel comics I have really enjoyed have been the X Men and Spiderman they have been the ones can relate to. The Avengers I have never really “Got” much like The Fantastic Four, Darevdevil, Ghostrider etc. There isa ready made fanbase but I am really geting tired of comic book movies and apart from The Nolan Batman will give these a miss.

Comment by Chris | May 5, 2008

Proving why they’re the biggest comic book company in the world. DC’s all but dead, acting like the tired old man of the industy they’ve always been. Batman simply isn’t enough.

Hulk will be less than inspiring but not total crap. If Cap and Thor come in stong then stick a fork in DC-they’re done!

Comment by JaySmack | May 6, 2008

If Marvel puts out 2 superhero movies a summer, and WB/DC does 1, and one or more of Fox/Sony/etc puts out superhero movies that they’ve already licensed from Marvel (X-Men/Ghost Rider/Spiderman/etc.) and an indie comic gets made (Spawn/Hellboy/etc.), then the market for superhero films will crash.

You’d have major superhero movies coming out on the same weekend and fighting for that Start of May, and July 4th weekends. A glut of superhero films will cannibalize each other at the box office, resulting in poor performance for all of them.

Comment by Hellen | May 6, 2008

Vaughn’s off of Thor…

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i61e5a1702fe168400bad9fc6dddfccd6

Comment by Lencho | May 8, 2008

What about spider man is there a possibility of him being in the avenger movie?

Comment by Scott | June 16, 2008

so the movie is going to have ironman nickfury hulk spiderman captin america wolverine and thor maybe spider woman as a villian

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