By Ken Parker
The TV season is back in full force but
are the super hero shows any good? We have more shake up news for
Marvel and take a look at two documentaries about super hero movies that were never released and one that was never made.
Television - I have to admit
that most of my excitement toward Marvel right now is in the form of
their Netflix TV series. Jessica Jones is teasing us and I
can't wait and now Daredevil will begin to get us thinking
about that show... and I can't wait. With the Marvel Netflix
Universe doing an excellent job establishing itself, I like the
report that there may be a plan down the line to crossover into the
other Marvel TV Universe with Agents of SHIELD. As long as
they don't do it too often, I like this idea.
Arrow and The Flash are
back and are as good as usual. Agents of SHIELD is also
hitting home runs this season. Soon Supergirl will debut and
it will be interesting to see how that show does. I will say that my
faith in Gotham has risen a bit. I have enjoyed this season
quite a bit so far.
The Killing Joke Movie
– first off, I did not know they were making an animated Batman
film based on The Killing Joke storyline. This is probably
because I don't follow the animated product for any super heroes. I
did watch the first The Guardians of Galaxy episode and
thought it was blah. Despite this it has been renewed for a second
season so perhaps it is not that bad. The Killing Joke, this
I might go see. The producers are playing around with the idea of
making it an R rated film and they have the go ahead to do so. My
guess is that it will be PG-13 with an R Rated version also
available.
The Hulk in the next Thor movie? It is possible that the Hulk will be in Thor: Ragnarok. This is great news if true because Hulk needs more love. He needs more screen time! Mark Ruffalo is rumored to have joined the cast for this 2017 movie release!
Marvel Schedule – So, we now have a
Marvel Cinematic Schedule that looks like this -
2016
May 6 – Captain America: Civil War
November 4 – Doctor Strange
2017
May 5 – Guardians of the Galaxy 2
July 28 – Spider-Man
November 3 – Thor: Ragnarok
2018
February 16 – Black Panther
May 4 – Avengers: Infinity War
Part 1
July 6 – Ant-Man and the Wasp
2019
March 8 – Captain Marvel
May 3 – Avengers: Infinity War
Part 2
July 12 – Inhumans
2020
May 1 – Unknown
July 10 – Unknown
November 6 – Unknown
If this schedule stands then the
earliest we could see another Captain America film would be 4 years
after the next one, if any at all and four years for a Doctor Strange sequel. 3
years for any Guardians of the
Galaxy or Spider-Man sequel would be a result with this
schedule.
Obviously anything can change as with
Ant-Man and if Spider-Man does well, I would expect to
see a sequel sooner than 2020. That means that we could see Captain
Marvel or The Inhumans bumped again. If Captain Marvel
plays a part in the Infinity War then that movie may be safe but The
Inhumans could continue to not happen.
Another less likely happening could be
that if Marvel gets to use the rights to Fantastic Four or even The
X-Men then you may see priority with those franchises. In the case
of X-Men, if Marvel can use them again in the movies, The Inhumans
may never see the light of day. The Inhumans is only
being thought of because Marvel cannot use mutants in their movies.
In any of these cases, the connection
with the TV universe could still not materialize because the movies
could continue to ignore the TV universe or Agents of SHIELD
could be off air in the next 3 years, making it less relevant to the
movie franchise. Of course if those Agents of SHIELD characters
are no longer on TV, they could then be in the movies. I would hope
that when The Inhumans is made that Daisy is in it, for
example. They could recast or just not deal with that
character.
character.
On a final negative note, this above is
all reliant on good box office numbers and there is no reason to see
a drop off but Avengers Age of Ultron was not the critical hit
it should have been and Ant-Man
perhaps should have made more money. So we might be seeing early
cracks in the MCU armor.
Doomed – The Untold Story of
Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four – I saw this movie at a
special showing hosted by the documentary's producer Marty Langford
who is a local professional in my area. I was impressed with the
documentary and if you want to know more about it, go here -
The movie goes into depth on the 1994
The Fantastic Four movie that was made but never released. It
includes so much of the business and politics that goes on in
Hollywood even today and is a great insight into the earliest history
of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and how it has prospered today. We
see how the workings of production companies and licenses can shape
how and why movies are made. Excellent stuff.
If you live in the New England area
there will be another showing of the documentary at Bing Con in
Springfield, Ma on October 24.
The Death of Superman Lives –
This is another documentary that covers the demise of a super hero
movie. This movie was to be a 1998 Tim Burton Superman revival that
would star Nicholas Cage. The film went into pre-production but no
further. Again, some Hollywood business and politics on show here,
including more details about writer Kevin Smith's famous sit down
with the producer who didn't want Superman to fly, lose the costume
and for the movie to include a giant spider. The documentary
includes footage of Nicholas Cage trying on various test costumes and
goes into the script and pans for this aborted movie. Neat stuff.
DubSmash War - the final war between team Agent Carter and team Agents of SHIELD are now known. The website has the final three videos, with Agents of SHIELD beating out Agent Carter by a slim amount. The videos have some cool surprise guests.
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