Thor, Captain America and The Avengers: Make My Movie Marvel!

BlankZoe

THOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHBnrJowBZE
Directed by Oscar Award winner Kenneth Brannagh, Thor is the story of, well, Thor (Chris Hemsworth). A Norse God cast to Earth for his arrogance and reckless reignition of an ages-old war by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins). On Earth, aided by Dr. Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) he seeks to reclaim his hammer Mjolnir, and with it his godly powers. Meanwhile, back home in Asgard his treacherous half-brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) plots something sinister in Thor's absence.

It's already out in Australia and releases May 6th in the US.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JerVrbLldXw&
Directed by Joe Johnson (The Rocketeer) and set in the midst of World War 2, it follows Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) a scrawny underweight patriot whose only dream is to serve in the army, despite constant rejection from service. A group of military generals and scientists (Including Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci and Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark) accept him in an experimental program known as Project: Rebirth. Using a cocktail of chemicals and technology he is transformed into the world's first super-soldier but a Nazi assassin's attack on the head scientist makes him the first and last of his kind. Shipped overseas, he is used as a symbol against the Nazi forces such as the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving), head of the Reich's occult and superscience division: HYDRA.

It comes out July 27th.

THE AVENGERS

(Poster is fan-made)
Uniting threads and characters from Iron Man 1 and 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, the Avengers will form the team of Earth's Mightiest Heroes for the first time. All of the actors (minus Ed Norton, who has been replaced by Mark Ruffalo) return as their respective heroes, this time joined by Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Scarlett Johanssen as Black Widow and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.

It releases May 4th, 2012.

HEY THESE GUYS ARE COOL, THEY'RE IN COMICS RIGHT?

Yes they are! Quite a few good ones, actually! Here are some recommendations! Adding in Hulk and Iron Man for good measure.

Captain America:

Captain America: Winter Soldier Volumes 1 and 2 by Ed Brubaker (Start here)
Captain America: Man Out of Time by Mark Waid
Captain America: Red, White and Blue by Mark Waid, Bruce Timm, Howard Chaykin and others
Captain America: American Nightmare by Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek
Captain America: The Bloodstone Hunt by Mark Gruenwald
Captain America: Operation Rebirth by Mark Waid
Ultimate Comics Captain America by Jason Aaron

Thor:

Thor by J. Michael Straczynski, Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Start here)
Thor: Latverian Prometheus by Keiron Gillen
Thor: Ages of Thunder by Matt Fraction
Thor by Walter Simonson Omnibus
Thor: The Mighty Avenger Volumes 1 and 2 by Roger Langridge
Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers by Robert Rodi
Ultimate Comics Thor by Jonathan Hickman

Avengers:

Avengers Assemble Volumes 1-5 by Kurt Busiek (Start here)
Avengers Forever by Kurt Busiek
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes by Joe Casey
Avengers Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis
Avengers Prime by Brian Michael Bendis
JLA/Avengers by Kurt Busiek
Avengers: The Kree/Skrull War by Roy Thomas
Avengers: Operation Galactic Storm Volumes 1 and 2.
Ultimates 1 and 2 by Mark Millar

Hulk

Planet Hulk by Greg Pak(Start here)
Incredible Hulk Visionairies - Peter David Volumes 1-7
Hulk Gray by Jeph Loeb
Incredible Hulk: Tempest Fugit by Peter David
Red Hulk: Scorched Earth by Jeff Parker
Ultimate Hulk vs. Wolverine by David Lindelof
Ultimate Hulk vs. Iron Man: Ultimate Human by Warren Ellis

Iron Man

Iron Man Extremis by Warren Ellis (Start here)
Invincible Iron Man: The Five Nightmares by Matt Fraction
Iron Man: Armor Wars by Bob Layton
Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle by Bob Layton
Iron Man Legacy by Fred Van Lente
Iron Man: Hypervelocity by Adam Warren
Ultimate Comics Iron Man: Armor Wars by Warren Ellis

There are also video games coming out for Thor and Captain America. They do not look very good. I do not think The Avengers is not under Marvel's contract with Sega so maybe it will get a good video game adaptation.

There is an ARG type thingie for Thor where you can join S.H.I.E.L.D. The second game is godawful, but hey you can win tickets to Thor or an iPad.

BlankZoe

I know the other thread is still open but its at 101 pages and I've waited like 3 hours for a mod to lock it and oh god so tired

I HOPE THIS DOESN'T GET LOCKED

Macro9

Reposting this from the other thread

George Takei to Warner Bros.: Don’t Whitewash Akira

Star Trek legend George Takei is leading the charge against Hollywood's whitewashed version of anime classic Akira. He wants Warner Bros. to do the right thing and cast Asian actors in the saga. But will the studio listen?

In March, a leaked casting list for Warner Bros' Akira translation unleashed a fury of WTF across the internet. The rumored list for contenders were as follows: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix for Kaneda. Not a single Asian actor. Naturally, people were furious. Was Akira going to fall victim of the whitewashing that happened to Dragonball and Airbender? All signs are pointing to yes, unless something could be done. Enter Takei and the facebook virtual petition "Don't Whitewash Akira."

http://io9.com/#!5794934/george-takei-to-warner-bros-dont-whitewash-akira

Kick their asses, George.

Sars_Boy

it's gonna be really weird if the avengers comes out

like, watching that movie is going to be a strange experience if they pull it off

BlankZoe

I don't really think its an if anymore

it starts filming in a month and every actor is on board

Zonugal

Am I Doing It Right Blank!?!?!

BlankZoe

Oh god dammit

Macro9

If you don't want you thread locked you must appease the mods.

Larlar likes the fat from the stomaches of newborn babies.

Knob likes to drink the blood of elderly women that look like Blanche Devereaux.

Bogey would like to fuck your mother.

Whippy would like a statue made of farts.

Orik would like to be fucked by literary devices.

potatoe is a ghost and would like to feel the touch of an ogre in heat.

At least that's what is in my thread making newsletter.

TheySlashThem

macro where the hell did you get that newsletter from

Munkus Beaver

You should put the conan thor trailers up.

Kuribo's Shoe

I'm excited for Thor

not so much Captain America, but I'll go see it anyways

Solar

Do we know if there are Avengers sequels planned?

queuewindow

no the first one is going to be terrible

Brainleech

Macro9 wrote: »

Reposting this from the other thread

George Takei to Warner Bros.: Don’t Whitewash Akira

Star Trek legend George Takei is leading the charge against Hollywood's whitewashed version of anime classic Akira. He wants Warner Bros. to do the right thing and cast Asian actors in the saga. But will the studio listen?

In March, a leaked casting list for Warner Bros' Akira translation unleashed a fury of WTF across the internet. The rumored list for contenders were as follows: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix for Kaneda. Not a single Asian actor. Naturally, people were furious. Was Akira going to fall victim of the whitewashing that happened to Dragonball and Airbender? All signs are pointing to yes, unless something could be done. Enter Takei and the facebook virtual petition "Don't Whitewash Akira."

http://io9.com/#!5794934/george-takei-to-warner-bros-dont-whitewash-akira

Kick their asses, George.

Really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI

Weaver

I'm gonna be walking out of the theater after watching the awesome Avengers movie, hearing some butthurt jackass behind me still whining about why is there still no justice league movie.

Hitsuraptor

Saw Thor last night, pretty good movie, didn't enjoy it as much as iron man, but enjoyed it more then hulk (and I liked Hulk for the record). Mind you outside of Thor = thunder god, Loki = mischief god, I knew nothing else about thor going in. Fight scenes where pretty cool and some funny scenes when he first gets to earth

Good line with Agent Coulson

When he talks to agent coulson towards the end he calls him son of coul, which seemed like a nice touch

After Credits Scene

Eric Selvig is shown walking through some underground corridors when you hear Nick Fury talking off camera. They talk about the rainbow bridge (forgot the name) stuff and Nic Fury shows him a briefcase with this blue thing in it that's glowing saying how it can offer limitless power if they can tap into it. Cuts to a side shot of Eric and in the window you see his reflection but also Loki standing next to him saying something along the lines of "This could be interesting" then Eric repeats Loki's line to Nick Fury

Oh and there was one other thing, a few times chris hemsworth accent shifts and he says the odd word here and there with an irish twinge

Weaver

Hitsuraptor wrote: »

Saw Thor last night, pretty good movie, didn't enjoy it as much as iron man, but enjoyed it more then hulk (and I liked Hulk for the record). Mind you outside of Thor = thunder god, Loki = mischief god, I knew nothing else about thor going in. Fight scenes where pretty cool and some funny scenes when he first gets to earth

Good line with Agent Coulson

When he talks to agent coulson towards the end he calls him son of coul, which seemed like a nice touch

After Credits Scene

Eric Selvig is shown walking through some underground corridors when you hear Nick Fury talking off camera. They talk about the rainbow bridge (forgot the name) stuff and Nic Fury shows him a briefcase with this blue thing in it that's glowing saying how it can offer limitless power if they can tap into it. Cuts to a side shot of Eric and in the window you see his reflection but also Loki standing next to him saying something along the lines of "This could be interesting" then Eric repeats it to Nick Fury

Yeah dude, that's the cosmic cube

Macro9

Brainleech wrote: »

Macro9 wrote: »

Reposting this from the other thread

George Takei to Warner Bros.: Don’t Whitewash Akira

Star Trek legend George Takei is leading the charge against Hollywood's whitewashed version of anime classic Akira. He wants Warner Bros. to do the right thing and cast Asian actors in the saga. But will the studio listen?

In March, a leaked casting list for Warner Bros' Akira translation unleashed a fury of WTF across the internet. The rumored list for contenders were as follows: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix for Kaneda. Not a single Asian actor. Naturally, people were furious. Was Akira going to fall victim of the whitewashing that happened to Dragonball and Airbender? All signs are pointing to yes, unless something could be done. Enter Takei and the facebook virtual petition "Don't Whitewash Akira."

http://io9.com/#!5794934/george-takei-to-warner-bros-dont-whitewash-akira

Kick their asses, George.

Really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jafd97yJFOI

Hahaha funny video is funny

Undead Scottsman

ARggg.. Spoilers abound! I must be strong! I can make it two more weeks! I can!

Goatmon

Macro9 wrote: »

In March, a leaked casting list for Warner Bros' Akira translation unleashed a fury of WTF across the internet. The rumored list for contenders were as follows: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix for Kaneda.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Goatmon

Weaver wrote: »

I'm gonna be walking out of the theater after watching the awesome Avengers movie, hearing some butthurt jackass behind me still whining about why is there still no justice league movie.

DC will probably always kinda suck at the movies, compared to Marvel.

I mean, Dark Knight was fantastic, but Batman is one of what? Two DC franchises that have made any big-screen money? They got Batman and Superman, and their last attempt at Superman was hilariously terrible.

On the other hand, DC has the entirety of the DCAU, which Marvel has never really been able to match. So there's that.

But this is about live-action movies. So yeah, DC needs to get their shit in gear.

Bloods End

Green Lantern looks pretty boss from the latest footage

Turambar

That Avengers poster is p cool

Gatsby

Turambar wrote: »

That Avengers poster is p cool

It proves that a modern day Hawkeye costume just looks stupid.

Goatmon

Bloods End wrote: »

Green Lantern looks pretty boss from the latest footage

That it does, I'll give you that.

It'd be pretty rad if it actually turns out as cool as it looks. We'll see.

Turambar

Gatsby wrote: »

Turambar wrote: »

That Avengers poster is p cool

It proves that a modern day Hawkeye costume just looks stupid.

Yeah, but I think he's going to look more like the Ultimate version in the real movie.

Gatsby

Turambar wrote: »

Gatsby wrote: »

Turambar wrote: »

That Avengers poster is p cool

It proves that a modern day Hawkeye costume just looks stupid.

Yeah, but I think he's going to look more like the Ultimate version in the real movie.

Which I am more than happy about.

The_Scarab

Thor was really quite great. Enjoyed it more than Iron Man, have to say. Almost surprisingly so because knowing absolutely nothing about the comic background to any of these films they always look a little silly in the trailers and the stills - but it totally worked somehow.

Don't care about any of this Avengers stuff though. I mean I guess it's something for fans but if all these Marvel movies are going to have it laced throughout and at the end it's actually kinda annoying. The cameo in Thor was so forced.


I can't see The Avengers being successful at all. How the christ are they going to make a profit let alone a good movie with so much content, so many huge, scene stealing characters and so much backstory they have to spread it out over every other film. Is it really the holy grail for comic fans though? Thor and especially Iron Man were great movies that had this other thing tacked on that seemed like it was trying to railroad me into this other thing when the thing they had going standalone was great.

Olivaw

Thor's got 93% on Rotten Tomatoes right now, with thirty reviews

Part of me knows that'll probably change when it actually releases, but even so, that seems a good sign to me

It's a little surprising too, to be honest

Macro9

Olivaw wrote: »

Thor's got 93% on Rotten Tomatoes right now, with thirty reviews

Part of me knows that'll probably change when it actually releases, but even so, that seems a good sign to me

It's a little surprising too, to be honest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM

I had some faith in it.

Centipede Damascus

Goatmon wrote: »

Macro9 wrote: »

In March, a leaked casting list for Warner Bros' Akira translation unleashed a fury of WTF across the internet. The rumored list for contenders were as follows: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix for Kaneda.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

he's actually not a bad actor, despite being in Twilight

just like Kristen Stewart can be a good actress when she's not in Twilight

Olivaw

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Goatmon wrote: »

Macro9 wrote: »

In March, a leaked casting list for Warner Bros' Akira translation unleashed a fury of WTF across the internet. The rumored list for contenders were as follows: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix for Kaneda.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

he's actually not a bad actor, despite being in Twilight

just like Kristen Stewart can be a good actress when she's not in Twilight

This isn't actually true

Grey Ghost

Oh god so excited

The_Scarab

Macro9 wrote: »

Olivaw wrote: »

Thor's got 93% on Rotten Tomatoes right now, with thirty reviews

Part of me knows that'll probably change when it actually releases, but even so, that seems a good sign to me

It's a little surprising too, to be honest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM

I had some faith in it.

Branagh is good times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXPHbHuf04&feature=related

YOU DARE IMPUGN MY HONOUR?!

Grey Ghost

Well you know it's not like the dude wrote the Henry V speech though

Macro9

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Well you know it's not like the dude wrote the Henry V speech though

He didn't?

Damn, all this time I was thinking he did. Any idea who did write it? You got me curious now.

Der Waffle Mous

Goatmon wrote: »

Macro9 wrote: »

In March, a leaked casting list for Warner Bros' Akira translation unleashed a fury of WTF across the internet. The rumored list for contenders were as follows: Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, and James McAvoy for Tetsuo, with Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake, and Joaquin Phoenix for Kaneda.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

well, he's got the hair for it.

Macro9

Fuck the Akira movie. Not only are they whitewashing it they are destroying everything with their ridiculous changes.

May it die in a nuclear fire.

marty_0001

Eh what? How come Australia gets it earlier than you guys? That just seems... far far from the way things usually go with everything and anything.

Anyway I saw it tonight. Can I ask that you go in and try to count the number of slanted camera shots they use.

Gatsby

We got it earlier because Chris Hemsworth is from here.

Still don't know why we also got Iron Man 2 earlier by a week.

DrIanMalcolm

Hulk also came out a week earlier in Australia/New Zealand