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Subj: I suppose it depends on whether they signed Gwenyth Paltrow to one of those crazy 9 picture deals... Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 12:09:38 am EDT (Viewed 501 times) | Reply Subj: Makes me wonder if Pepper tags along with Tony Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 at 10:23:05 pm EDT (Viewed 436 times) | ||||||
...that they signed Sam Jackson (Fury) and Chris Evans (Cap) to, in order to have them appear in multiple franchises. Quote: Is the Ant-Man movie still going ahead? I wish Bill Nye was young enough to play Hank, that'd be awesome.Ha! That'd be interesting casting. I'd love to see Bill Nye build a murderous robot. Ant-man is still a go, last I heard. Here's an old interview bit from the director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) from ComingSoon.net: CS: The interesting thing about "Ant-Man" is that after "Iron Man" opened so big, there was this huge Marvel Studios bells and whistles announcement of their movies for the next three years and "Ant-Man" wasn't mentioned. Wright: I think having spoken to Kevin Feige, the "Ant-Man" film I have in mind is a bit more stand-alone, and that's kind of what I wanted to do in a way. I think my take on it is something that may or may not fit into what "The Avengers" would eventually do, but they're very keen on it and they've even talked a release date with me in very vague terms. It looks likely that I will do "Scott Pilgrim" next and then "Ant-Man" straight afterwards. It's interesting that he says it might not fit in with the Avengers. It occurs to me that if they do it afterwards, then Hank and Jan could be introduced in Avengers and then Ant-man becomes almost a spin-off. Conversely, they could make Hank Giant-man from the start, and make Ant-man Scott Lang, keeping it mostly separate as its own thing. Quote: On a more serious note, I imagine that most of the heroes will already be cast, but Whedon will get some input on the villains. I hope they find a way to work in Jarvis, although that could be tough since Tony named his computer system Jarvis. Could still be done though.They could possible have a human Jarvis at the Stark family home in NY, and the Jarvis in California is based on him. Sadly, I doubt they'll go that way though. Quote: One point I saw in an article is they might save some money going with Whedon over another director but still get the fan base support, which is true. Probably not a lot of money, since Whedon is a pretty big name, but less proven on this type of film. While my initial choice for director might have been Jon Favreau, I'm confident with Whedon. I'm sure Whedon comes significantly cheaper than any other name that would excite anyone, considering he has only one feature under his belt, and it didn't light fire to the box office. Marvel seems to be fairly frugal in setting these movies up... they're not going crazy with the casting money and making sure they lock people up for long deals when they do spend some. Quote: On the superhero film topic, I wouldn't mind seeing Kevin Smith direct a Green Arrow film. He had a good feel for Ollie on his tenure writing the book. After "Cop Out" kind of flopped, I think Kevin Smith is going to have a really hard time getting major studio work. All of his movies seem to be capped at around $30m or below (Cop Out being the lone exception, at $44m.) I think he may be stuck as an indie director now. None of which goes to whether he'd actually do a really good job on Green Arrow or not... | |||||||
