The Marvel Initiative
The Marvel Initiative
May 03If you haven’t seen Iron Man yet, do yourself a big favour – sit through the credits. Your thanks can be sent to me in the form of small cash remunerations via PayPal. If you have seen it and you didn’t sit through the credits (and if my showing was any indication, about 95% of you didn’t) I’m sorry. You missed out. You will, in time, through sheer internet osmosis, find out what you missed, and you will be sad. Very sad. You might want to check out YouTube, quick. It may help.
For those of you, my brothers and sisters, who stayed… HOW FRAKING AWESOME WAS THAT?
I will expound shortly – as this is the harbinger of some big things in comic movies – but for the moment, everyone should have a chance to go see the movie
When I say it Thursday night, I could barely hear what was being said beneath the din of half a theater worth of people freaking out like little girls.
Saw it, that is.
I know – the one clip on YouTube is just as awesome for the squeal / load-dropping noise you can hear from someone in the theater when… oh, but I’ve said too much.
Permission to speak freely? (I mean, the spoiler’s everywhere by now…but I’ll hold my tongue.)
I really can’t imagine a world in which the full potential of this brief scene is realized–but I dream of it now. Its awesomeness would be untranslatable into the English language.
Would the Big Team Thing come first, you think, or the Individual Things?
My thought is the Big Team Thing comes firmly in the middle. Set up a few Individual characters, bring them into the Big Team, spin new characters from it off into their own Individual Things.
In that case, it’s possible the Big Team Thing could get started after this summer–presumably the Hulk would be part of it (assuming they go with the Millar direction) and that comes out in June. Thor is, I believe, still in the scripting stage…and I haven’t heard much of anything about Captain America lately.
What is Marvel’s slate for the next few summers, anyway?
Wolverine is next year, Iron Man 2 is projected for 2010. I think the Thor script is basically done the last I heard, and Matthew Vaughn was attached to it pretty recently. The Edgar Wright Ant-Man is still up in the air, as is the Cap movie.
Most people in my screening abandoned ship long before the credits rolled. And of the folks who stayed, the loudest voice said “Well, duh.”
I love people. I was all stoked, though.
HAH!
It seems that every screening was different from the others, crowd wise.
Still, given Iron Man’s weekend, two things are now confirmed;
1) No matter what Rockstar PR fed to the media, GTA4 did not keep gaming nerds from putting down the controller and going to see a movie for a couple of hours (this was an honest-to-god talking point on CNN)
2) Iron Man 2 is a go. Well, maybe that isn’t confirmed, but something sure as hell got greenlit this weekend. $38 million by end of Friday. $199,750,000 estimate, world-wide, for the weekend. DING!
8 minutes of credits just for a 30 second clip. Hardly worth it at all.
Spoken like a man who takes extras like that for granted. Or, you had planned on going to see Baby Mama and wandered into the wrong theater. In either case, the ending wasn’t made with you in mind – the rest of us, however, would offer ourselves up as fleshy nerd bridges so that Jon Favreau wouldn’t have to step into any puddles for the rest of his life.