JackFetch Posted November 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 Every time I saw him in those insurance commercials, I expected him to start yelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy are getting an animated series! They chose it instead of another Spider-Man series. I think that means they are now considered A list in the Marvel hierarchy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Thank goodness, we really didn't need another Spidey cartoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 But we haven't been without one since 1994 for more than like a year. It's going to feel weird. Also, does this mean Ultimate Spider-Man is done? I just Netflixed the shit out of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Season 3 got announced at San Diego last year but there hasn't been anything said about Season 4. It makes fiscal sense to push Guardians for Disney and Marvel as opposed to another Spider-man cartoon considering they have won't make as much money promoting a Spider-man movie (hence why Ultimate Spider-man is a team-up series instead of just a straight Spider-man series). That said, if Guardians bombs, the upcoming series will probably get scratched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 From everything I've heard, they know it's going to be a hit. Them making a cartoon would be proof enough to me that they know how good the movie is. I would expect a huge toy lineup with it also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Good point. BTW, ff I don't get a Rocket Raccoon plushie out of it, I'll be mightily peeved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 It's cool to see them have confidence that it won't be another Lone Ranger. I'm just wondering how explicit the links with the Avengers are going to be in the marketing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Season 3 got announced at San Diego last year but there hasn't been anything said about Season 4. Current wisdom regarding animated series is that two or three seasons is ideal. Any more than that and the kids who buy the toys and merchandise have outgrown the show. That's not me being snarky, that's actually the case. Very little makes it past season two these days, and virtually nothing makes it past three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 As an adult, that's a damn shame. Utimate Spidey is a hell of a lot of fun, and if it had been on when I was seven or eight, it would have been my favorite show of all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 It's cool to see them have confidence that it won't be another Lone Ranger. I'm just wondering how explicit the links with the Avengers are going to be in the marketing. Lone Ranger had the problem of being everyone's grandparent's or great grandparent's thing. Also, westerns are pretty much dead. Most of the world is starting fresh with GOTG, and let's face it a talking raccoon that shoots guns is better than Johnny Depp with a dead bird on his head any day. Marvel hasn't had a stinker yet either(in the theater anyways, I'm looking at you S.H.I.E.L.D.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Them making a cartoon would be proof enough to me that they know how good the movie is. I would expect a huge toy lineup with it also. So exactly like Green Lantern, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Them making a cartoon would be proof enough to me that they know how good the movie is. I would expect a huge toy lineup with it also. So exactly like Green Lantern, then. WB has no idea what they are doing. Marvel does. They are taking a property that nobody knows except hardcore fans, and turning them into an A list team. WB can't even make a Green Arrow show and call it Green Arrow, or anything on the big screen that doesn't have Superman or Batman and make it good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Well, I hope it works out. My only point was that making something into a franchise before it launches doesn't guarantee that it's going to be legitimately great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Has any MCU movie bombed since they started? I don't think you need to worry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Bombed outright? No. The Incredible Hulk did perform under expectations but that's the closest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 To be fair Iron Man overperformed so much that Hulk never mattered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 5, 2014 Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 Has any MCU movie bombed since they started? I don't think you need to worry.I meant creatively. If Guardians of the Galaxy is on par quality-wise with Iron Man 2, it's not going to be able to kickstart a huge franchise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 This Is Infamous (don't have the link at work) is reporting that Jon Hamm has been signed to play Doctor Strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Link I have not seen Hamm in anything, so I have no comment on his theoretical casting. I do find it odd that Dr. Strange would be the focal point of 'Phase Three'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 If Johnny Depp is Wong, then this will be the greatest trolling in the history of the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Also, if Johnny Depp is Wong, then I don't want to be white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Also, if Johnny Depp is Wong, then I don't want to be white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 If true, that's some supremely weird casting. I look at Hamm and see Superman ala Curt Swan, not Dr. Strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Hotshot surgeon has it all and loses the use of his hands in a devastating car crash. He decides to travel the world to find new meaning in life and make amends for the man he had become. Sounds perfect for someone of Hamm's stoic but ready-to-collapse-under-the-surface oeuvre. Give him a beard and some greying temples and he'd be perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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