Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 & 3 thread.

April 25th.

Infinity War is 156 minutes long, the longest MCU movie ever.
(If you're too lazy to do math, that's 2 hours, 36 minutes)

Gallery of 15 Infinity War covers.

https://www.cbr.com/ew-covers-avengers-infinity-war/#gallery=1

Also, Winter Soldier's new name is White Wolf.

What's up with Iron Man's suit on his cover? Are those...wings? Robotech?

Yep.
He's gone anime.
Now that they've built up to getting the audience to accept stuff like Doctor Strange, and Ant-Man, I guess they're going for it, and using some of the wilder suit designs from the comics.
Remember, "Spider-Man: Homecoming", showed he's reverse engineering Chitauri tech, so anything goes now.

Black Panther just hit 1 billion worldwide!!

https://www.cbr.com/black-panther-box-office-1-billion/

They still want Spike Lee for this, and are acting like it's new news.
Maybe they're closing in on signing the deal?
Also, the writer of the Luke Cage series is supposedly on board.

Infinity War trailer 2!!

The poster is also out, but it's animated, and embedded into Twitter, so it'll take me awhile to pry it loose.
Stay tuned.

Got it!!

Holy Shit, go Cap!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prediction,

That’s my hope at least.

I'm actually expecting:

I don’t see both happening.

Okay, where’s the little guy?

Groot?
Right under Thor.

Wow!

Ant-Man.

Hell, he could be resting under the shade of one of Groot's head sprouts, and we wouldn't know it.

I believe he's just above the "R," riding an ant.

He's gone sub-atomic...for the last time.

Spoilered, because you never know, that could fucking happen.
The ending of the comic is no less absurd.

Well... I'm rather sure Iron Man will bite the dust in part 2. Because reasons. Mainly this: both movies together will cost about one billion dollars. 500 million each which is believable given the huge cast and effects work necessary.

It's rumored that 200 million of that billion will go to RDJ alone. Case closed. He dies. He'll not only die, he'll be disintegrated with no chance of resurrection ever.

In other news, Marvel has an incredible movie making machinery in place by now. I mean they churn out film after film, many of them coolly shot in parallel (BLACK PANTHER/INFINITY WAR). I wonder if they'll keep up this speed or if they'll open this up to non-Marvel projects too. Can't go on forever - when this phase is done there's only lesser known characters left, Spidey excluded. I guess revenues will see a downturn.

Yep. And I think that billion is a pretty safe risk. I predict they'll get it all back and another couple of billion on top of it.

RDJ was the start of the MCU, it would be fitting if his character went out in a blaze of glory to conclude the cycle. Yes, I agree he will die, and we'll get a great heroic death scene and a worthy funeral/memorial.

Thor, Cap, and Iron Man are at the end of their runs (though I suppose any or all could re-up for more films); Guardians of the Galaxy are past the half-way mark; Ant-Man and Dr. Strange have a ways to go; Spider-Man and Black Panther are just out of the gate; Captain Marvel hasn't hit yet.

I wonder what the next solo character will be? I'm sure they continue with Deadpool, but will reboot X-Men and introduce a new Wolverine, Professor X, Storm, Beast, Rogue, Cyclops, Jean Grey. If Marvel gets the Fantastic Four back, Dr. Doom can be the big bad that Thanos is in the current cycle. That would be plenty of content for the next 2-3 phases.

At some point, Marvel's got to reboot the primary Avengers (Cap, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man). But it looks like they could go another 10 years before they have to do it.

Marvel has the X-Men now? Wouldn't make me too happy. Those have a very enjoyable, very distinctive look and feel I wouldn't want to have marvelized.

The deal won't be solidified until 2020-2021 at the earliest, so Fox has plans to do business as usual for awhile.

So, these guys asked a simple question

Which makes you ask, "Will they beat Betteridge's Law?" And the answer is.......















No!

And, in fact, it has become tied with Avatar.

Finally. Avatar is such a bad movie .

Yeah, it was much better when it was called Dances With Wolves.