Now all they have to do is have him drive a Penske truck for at least one scene, and that'll canonize that he was indeed in Winter Soldier helping Nick Fury in the car chase.
Unfortunately, yes. Marvel is overplaying it's hand and will burn people out. And I've been saying for a while that my interest in the movies will greatly diminish once it becomes clear that I'm missing backstory because I haven't watched all these Netflix series. It already happened with Age of Ultron.
Elodie Yung was once on the short list (with Gal Gadot and Olga Kurelyenko) to be the big screen Wonder Woman.
Netflix exec hints that Jessica Jones will drop in October. http://www.tv.com/m/news/netflix-tc...sica-jones-arrested-development-143809776024/
Rumors that Marvel might be planning a Thunderbolts Netflix show. Thunderbolts is the Marvel version of Suicide Squad, and has Punisher, Venom, and Red Hulk in their lineup. I'll take it with a giant grain of salt for now, but I remember wanting Thunderbolts as an impossible dream movie a couple years back. Punisher being in the MCU at all was an impossible dream, and it happened, Spidey in the MCU, ditto. We'll see...
Alfre Woodard will be part of the cast of Luke Cage, possibly as a villain. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/38502/alfre-woodard-joins-marvel-s-luke-cage
Jessica Jones premieres November 20th. ...and... Frank Whaley (quite possibly my favorite character actor since Philip Seymour Hoffman died) is going to be on Luke Cage.
Marvel/ABC are doing a sitcom based around "Damage Control". http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/39232/marvel-abc-team-for-a-superhero-sitcom Yeah, it's ABC, but I don't have a Marvel/ABC thread, and I didn't wanna start one just for this.
Yeah, I thought it sounded familiar. DC is doing one called "Powerless", that's a total ripoff of "Damage Control". http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/dc-tv-multiverse.105037/page-12#post-2753442
Uncle Albert suggested Jessica Jones to me. Binge watched that last week. Then decided to give Daredevil a chance. Apparently, I'd attempted to previously. Watched 1.5 episodes and for some reason quit. Must have gotten distracted. I'm about half way through Daredevil, then will pick up with Luke Cage. I'm loving this series of series. Can't wait for more. Has episodes of Iron Fist been released yet?
AKA Jessica Jones just dropped this past weekend. Iron Fist may not happen at all, the story on that one seems a bit confused.
http://collider.com/marvel-iron-fist-netflix-series/ Sounds like it's still on (as of a few days ago, I think). Jessica Jones was incredible; better than Daredevil, IMO. I was a bit skeptical at first, but it makes me look forward to the rest of the Marvel/Netflix collaborations. I'd be interested to know how much they're going to integrate it with the rest of the MCU.
I believe the plan is for all the various series headliners to team up on Netflix as the Defenders, after which the team will appear in Infinity War in some capacity.
I was afraid this would happen. To get the full experience of Avengers: Infinity War, I've got to watch multiple straight-to-internet series about characters I couldn't care less about? Not to mention Agents of Shield, which I've never watched? No thanks. Marvel is spreading itself too thin, watering down the product and cannibalizing itself. Aside from the charm of it's leading man and above-average humor, Ant-Man was mediocre at best. Age of Ultron, despite it's box office, was jumbled, sloppy and badly edited. It made a lot of money, but overall was seen underwhelming.
Oh please, that's a bit like saying you need to have seen The Hidden Fortress to fully appreciate Star Wars, or half of Adult Swim to enjoy Archer. Marvel have been very clever in weaving the various series' into the MCU without making them dependent. It's done through references and visuals, and used to bolster plots. Most action movies will bring in the cavalry at some point, usually with little to no mention of how or why they got there, the series' give Marvel the luxury to actually do that (the Helicarrier in AoU) which is the very reverse of watering it down. You don't have to see the series, it just expands where films can't unless you plan a running time of 6 hours. As for AoU, yeah, there were some bad bits - Whedon was pretty much forced to put in the Thor pool scene, and they've rearranged how do things in response to that, which by itself is pretty impressive. Most places just look at the money raining down on them and go "eh, lets not fix the magic money tree", Marvel have actually taken on board the issues and are trying to do something about it. As to whether it'll work or not we'll see over the next few years. As for Ant Man, I can't disagree more - it was a pretty risky idea, and there were issues with Edgar Wright, and the result was a film thoroughly different than what they've done before. For starters it had more in common with Shaun of the Dead than Iron Man, not something you would usually do if you're planning an international blockbuster. The result was anything but mediocre, and will hopefully get other studios (as well as other Marvel productions) to look at doing things a bit different from the usual boilerplate. Said before, Marvel keep pushing and looking for different ways of doing things. They'll fail in some, but the fact they're actually trying and trying to bust out of the usual action movie themes is something to applaud.
I don't think the Netflix series' are required viewing for the Avengers movies. I've counted perhaps a half dozen references to The Avengers ("alien invasion," "the big, green guy," etc.) in Jessica Jones but they're only there to clue you in that that the series is in the same universe as the films. The films ultimately have to stand entirely on their own as the vast majority of the audience will NOT be watching any of the TV shows. We had a Captain America movie that focused on SHIELD fer cryin' out loud, and there was ZERO reference to Agents of Shield or Coulson that I could detect.
