Round 2...FIGHT!

So, 2008 was actually a weird entry into the ongoing Marvel vrs DC battle but this time in movie form: The Hulk and Iron Man vrs Batman. Difficult to say who won, probably a score draw if we're honest.

2010, however, is where the shit will go down. Marvel have unveiled their release schedule, as have Warner Bros who own DC. Here it is:

Iron Man 2 (Marvel) : May 7th, 2010
Twilight: Eclipse (Warners) : June 30th, 2010
Thor (Marvel), Inception (Warners, Christopher Nolan's next film) : July 16th, 2010
Jonah Hex (DC/Warners) : August 6th, 2010
Green Lantern (DC/Warners) : December 17th, 2010
The First Avenger: Captain America (Marvel) : May 6th, 2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 (Warners), The Avengers (Marvel) : July 15th, 2011

Obviously, the big one is Potter vrs The Avengers. It will be interesting to see if either studio moves the release date for those films, Iron Man/Thor/Captain America are supposed to bulid towards The Avengers so that could have huge heat. More that Potter though?

Bet none of them get any Oscars.

Intersting

A nice little reason to get the Blu-Ray.

Things I Should Have Blogged About if I Didn't Watch TV

1) The viral marketing that Marvel did for their Secret Invasion crossover.

2) The complete lack of any decent film release at the cinema.

3) The release of GTA IV and the lack of it in my house.

4) The new Hulk trailer.

5) How awesome The Doyouinverts are.

Looks pretty Incredible to me

Hulk trailer now online and it looks pretty cool.

My main bug bear with the Ang Lee Hulk was the hoops it tried to jump through to explain away the Hulk, rather than just saying "Look, it was gamma radiation. Okay?". It seems to be taking a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate version of the Hulk, which can only be a good thing.

Looks like with this and Iron Man it's going to be a Marvel-ous summer of films.

What?

About time too.

Looking forward to it.

But am I the only one that likes the old Ang Lee Hulk film? It wasn't amazing but it was still pretty good!

New Iron Man trailer

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OH.

MY.

GOD.

I still likey Iron Man

Okay, that isn't the movie Iron Man, it's an "advervideo" from a new Marvel website called Marvel Kids promoting the Marvel Adventures line which is basically the core Marvel concepts only without the decades of continuity.

Advervideos. Hmm.

Another fine mess Warner Brothers is dragging us into

So. Warner Brothers have announced the director for the upcoming Justice League movie.

Hmm.

Not sure if this is a good idea. If we take Grant Morrison's JLA as the team benchmark that means this film will star Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter at least. Now, Supes and Bats are sorted out, everyone knows them. Wonder Woman had a TV Series, as did the Flash, but they were cult at best. The others, apart from the Aquaman thing in Entourage, no one will really know about. So let's say you dump GL and the Manhunter and cite budgetary reasons, that's still 3 major origin stories to tell and two recaps in a 2 hour film.

Have these people not seen Spider-Man 3? It's not going to work. Too much story, too little time. They should take a leaf out of Marvel's book with the potential Avengers movie. They've stated that they'll do individual films for the characters first and then, once audience is aware of the characters, make the Avengers film. That's why you've got Iron Man out next year, a Thor movie in the works and a Captain America movie after that.

It makes sense to me.

You can't slip anything past me

This is only really for those who saw tonights episode of Doctor Who, but it had two massive Marvel Comic references:

1) You have the Time Lords referred to as "watchers of the Universe, who vowed never to interfere". Well, that's The Watchers, the ancient race of beings who, well, watch.

2) The US President says the meeting with the new aliens will be on the US aircraft carrier Valiant. So the Doctor and his crew teleport onto the carrier and look out of the window and don't see any water. Well, blimey, it's a only a big rocket powered flying aircraft carrier.

Well, that's SHIELD's Helicarrier. Nick Fury had loads of those.

What next, the Doctor popping this adamantium claws? Or throwing this mighty shield?

Good Lord

Here's a shocker: Ed Norton is reported to be cast as the lead in the new Incredible Hulk movie. That's some big casting, considering the film was previously rumoured to be direct to video with David Duchovny as the lead. Ed Norton is a bit of a step up.

This is, of course, all thanks to the big movie deal Marvel signed a while back. But even with money behind them, getting someone like Norton casted really cements their position in Hollywood.

But you know what, I liked Ang Lee's Hulk. Yeah, it was goofy and a bit daft but I went with it and enjoyed it. Plus, the big ass plastic special edition DVD box was awesome.

I like nice boxes.

I'm going to raise this in the next meeting

Why did no one tell me about this? Hmm? Why did no one mention that a seven and a half minute preview of Spider-Man 3 was on the Internet? I have e-mail, this blog has a facility for leaving comments. Why did no one think to just drop me a quick note, post a link or anything?

I am disapointed in you all.

Leaving that to one side for now, that looks good. Spidey vrs The Gnarly Green Goblin* looks amazing on a teeny video clip on my laptop. I am still concerned about the film, mainly due to the amount of new characters being thrown at this film which reminds me of the worst excesses of the Batman films. But I trust Sam Raimi and that clip has reinforced my faith.

Only a few months to go.




*Why a surfboard? Why? Didn't we leave Bill & Ted behind?

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Captain America may be dead but the battle continues: