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Yeah I’m 100% sure Deadpool will reference the avengers/ thanos in some way
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DmC>>>>marvel
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Marvel Almost Sold Off Captain America And Thor Film Rights
Matthew Mueller
05/05/2016
The Avengers as we have come to know them might have been very different if Marvel had continued down their previous licensing strategy. While there is a debate about who started what and who called who, producer David Maisel was still instrumental in changing Marvel's outlook.
After a few successful hits like Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man, Marvel was finally consistently in the black and had no plans on stopping what got them there, which was licensing out their properties to major studios. When Maisel came in, he saw bigger things for the characters and for Marvel, and apparently got to the company right before they were ready to ship off Captain America to Warner Bros. and Thor to Sony, as a recent interview with THR reveals.
"Maisel says the company's focus was on licensing other characters, "the more movies, the better because there's more consumer products to sell. If I had gotten there three months, six months later, those deals (Cap and Thor) would have been done," he says. "And there would be no chance to bring all these characters together." Spider-Man already was at Sony, and Iron Man had been idling at New Line. ("They thought it was a lousy property," says Maisel.) Hulk was at Universal, which had made one semi-successful film."
Seeing a bigger picture with all of these characters under one umbrella, Maisel blocked those deals, coming into conflict with Ike Perlmutter. "Ike will challenge your argument and your logic in a tough way sometimes, but he will listen, and eventually I convinced him to support what I needed to do to at least try to make a studio."
Maisel used the direct to DVD animated films to show the team what a group like that could look like, and ultimately they saw what he saw.
"As an early proof of concept, Maisel says he made a deal with Lionsgate to do low-budgeted animated Iron Man and Avengers movies that would go direct to DVD. Lionsgate financed the films for a distribution fee and half the profit. "It allowed me to say to people: 'Look at the value of our IP. Here's someone paying all the money, and we have creative control and get half the profits,' " says Maisel."
After seeing Captain America: Civil War, I can't imagine Cap being in the hands of any other studio, and regardless of who started the idea behind Marvel Studios, I'm just glad it happened. -
OmegaConflict wrote: »DmC>>>>marvel
Devil May Cry? -
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fortyacres wrote: »
Didn't watch all of it but lol @ "There's a green guy back there. Shrek?" -
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Rumors are making it sound like Eddie Brock will be Agent Venom in the movie, not the Venom we all know and love that fights Spiderman all the time..
Was Eddie Brock ever Agent Venom? Im not too familiar with Agent Venom, but the books i have on him were a Paralyzed Flash Thompson being Agent Venom. -
If that Disney deal with Fox goes through. I'm calling it now. Avengers Vs. X-Men. Give the fans what they want.
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black caesar wrote: »If that Disney deal with Fox goes through. I'm calling it now. Avengers Vs. X-Men. Give the fans what they want.
Won't happen. At least not with these current avengers. Unless some new contracts happens -
I bet Marvel Studios would do a way better AvX Story than Marvel Comics did.
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Nobody like that story it was universally hated
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Lou_Cypher wrote: »Rumors are making it sound like Eddie Brock will be Agent Venom in the movie, not the Venom we all know and love that fights Spiderman all the time..
Was Eddie Brock ever Agent Venom? Im not too familiar with Agent Venom, but the books i have on him were a Paralyzed Flash Thompson being Agent Venom.
Read Remenders run immediately that's one of the dopest comics I've ever read. He definitely doesn't require Spider-Man and it looks like they are combining him and Flashs story as well. They have to since Homecomings Flash is clearly not heading to the military anytime soon lol. -
CottonCitySlim wrote: »Nobody like that story it was universally hated
Hell no
After Thor got disrespected so early I said ? AVX -
black caesar wrote: »If that Disney deal with Fox goes through. I'm calling it now. Avengers Vs. X-Men. Give the fans what they want.
if the deal happens thats gonna be way down the road they gonna milk that for every penny -
After watching Guardians of The Galaxy, who was Yondu selling the infinity stone to?
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Idiopathic Joker wrote: »After watching Guardians of The Galaxy, who was Yondu selling the infinity stone to?
He was trying to keep it once he saw it's power -
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Just watched a video where a dude claims its Pepper Pots in the Iron Man Suit not Tony. Says, the person in the suit puts their hands up to "defend" themselves in a way that Tony never would. Said Tony would take one to the face just to show that he could. Also, said the suit was more curved like it was built for a woman.
When you look at it again, it doesn't even look like the person has their hands up to defend themselves. To me, it looks more like they are pleading not to get hit. -
I need a flash back war scene with wolverine and cap fighting together
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nickel-us P wrote: »I need a flash back war scene with wolverine and cap fighting together
Marvel Studios tried to get Wolverine and Magneto to make cameos in The First Avenger, but Fox wouldn't cooperate. -
New Poster released:
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I'm gonna need this to be a top 3 Marvel Studios movie.
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Fox Marvelverse is now officially part of the MCU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWwPxWcsVHM
https://youtu.be/z_mhDgtYZ38
