Tuesday, 28 November 2017

Celebrate 10 Years Of Marvel Studios & Their 20 Movies Post Avengers 4 Future

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It looks like Marvel is beginning the journey of an end of an era for plenty of people who are appearing in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4, but it’s also the beginning for those newer boys and girls playing superheroes.

As a clear sign that we’re getting a trailer within the next couple of days (plus the leaked footage pushed Marvel), Vanity Fair has published a multi-page spread celebrating 10 years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that brought joy to audiences around the world and making it a billion-dollar business, $13 billion to be exact.

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Even though I may not be a fan of most of their 17 movies, only liking/enjoying three of them, but you can’t deny Kevin Feige is a Hollywood legend by single-handedly changing the face of Hollywood and how films are seen, for better or worse is a bigger different debate, and for that he should have people’s respect.

As, Avengers 3 & 4 co-director, Joe Russo pointed out the reason why they’re succeeding compare to their rivals is a simple one, “They don’t have a Kevin.”

Black Widow herself Scarlett Johansson added, “At the heart of Kevin is a real fanboy.”

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This is a man who took the ballys move of taking creative control of a minimal number of Marvel heroes and with Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow help released Iron Man starting this crazy ride to the top as Favreau revealed “we were emotional…. thinking about how precarious it all felt in the beginning.”

The baseball cap wearing Feige has admitted (maybe for the first time) this has been a journey filled with anxiety happening “multiple times” on every movie thinking “what is the movie that’s going to mess it all up?”

However, the new anxiety of the 44-year-old studio head as it think about as its entering their second decade is, what’s the film that’s going to keep it going?

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Disney CEO Bob Iger knows what will keep Marvel fresh and long-running will be a mixture of new faces, new approaches and new moods. Basically what Fox/Marvel and Warner Bros/DC are doing now.

"We're looking for worlds that are completely separate - geographically or in time - from the worlds that we've already visited" Iger expected. While Avengers 4 will a turning point in this universe woth the film "bring things you've never seen in superheroes films, a finale" stated Feige.

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This is where the finale, contract wise, come into play with Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye), Johansson (Black Widow) and Downey Jr (Iron Man) contracts coming to an end.

I fully expect and demand deaths in Infinity War and Avengers 4 and guessing a minimum of six of the shit tonne of cast members will be gone. Those dying will be Evans’ Cap, Renner as Hawkeye, Black Widow Johansson, Favreau as Happy Hogan, Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch, Paul Bettany’s Vision and Don Cheadle as War Machine. While I could see Downey Jr’s Tony Stark retire and marry Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow).

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While Phase 4 (or whatever it’ll be called) Avengers will focus on the new blood of Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), Bucky/Captain America (Sebastian Stan), The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), Ant-Man (Paul Rudd). Plus, what’s to say Laura Barton (Linda Cardellini) couldn’t be the new Hawkeye?

Meanwhile, fans got excited about a possible all-female Marvel team-up movie based off this tweet.


It’s not just in front of the camera, they’ll be changes behind with the Russo Brothers probably walking away to focus on other projects post Avengers 4, James Gunn will wrap-up his Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy and I could even see Feige stepping down to focus on other interests and maybe work on Oscar calibre projects at another studio.

Whatever happens with Feige, the next decade of the Marvel story could be an exciting, interesting time as he's already played out the next 20 movies saying "22 movies in, and we've got another 20 movies on the docket that are completely different from anything that's come before it - intentionally".

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I fully recommend reading Joanna Robinson’s fully Vanity Fair article.

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