New Dates for Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers
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It has been a busy couple of weeks for Marvel. After signing Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury for the rest of the man's natural born life and stalling on Iron Man casting (although that all worked out in the end), their behavior might have looked a little crazy -- but, it appears it was all a part of the plan. Deadline Hollywood Daily has posted a press release from Marvel today announcing "an adjusted release pipeline for its self-produced feature film properties that reflects the first time individual Super Hero characters and story arcs will be inter-woven and culminate in a multi-character motion picture."So what exactly do they mean by adjusted? According to the new schedule, Thor will now be released June 17, 2011 (previously the big guy was slated for July 2010), The First Avenger: Captain America will now hit July 22, 2011 (one year later than expected), and the big bad daddy of them all, The Avengers has been moved to May 4th, 2012. Marvel even got a little feisty and stole some of Sony's thunder by announcing Spider Man 4's release date of May 6th, 2011. The good news for Marvel is this new schedule means that they will have a summer blockbuster entry every year between 2010-2012.
I have to hand it to them, this is a really ambitious plan, but Marvel seems pretty confident. David Maisel, Chairman of Marvel Studios says, "This new schedule strongly sequences Marvel's movie debut dates, big screen character introductions and momentum. It maximizes the visibility of our single character-focused films, leading to the highly anticipated release of the multi-character THE AVENGERS film in 2012," Even if you are not a fan of the Marvel universe, you have to admit that it is going to be pretty interesting to see if they can pull this all off.
So while I'm personally a little bummed that I'm going to be waiting a longer than I expected for Thor and the gang, at least Marvel now has enough time to do it right.
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3-12-2009 @ 10:50AM
craig said...
That's going to be a big superhero month, hopefully at least one of them will be decent. Spiderman will make a lot of money, the last movie sucked though so not looking forward to it at all.
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3-12-2009 @ 2:41PM
vegimorph said...
I think the 4th one's going to pretty good. look at this way, the 4th one could redeem the series from the third and make the series more well rounded so we can just forget Spider-Man 3 and say Harry went on a permanant vacation or something. I think its going to do well cause the Lizard's in it and for the thrid one, Ari Arad pressured Sam Raimi into putting Venom in the movie to please fans
3-13-2009 @ 2:38AM
010111 said...
"Ari Arad pressured Sam Raimi into putting Venom in the movie to please fans"
it wasn't so much Venom i had a problem with... it was the 17 dance numbers.
3-12-2009 @ 11:09AM
morphs said...
This could go VERY well for them. Each and every movie will have to be good and stand on it's own though for this to really work out for the Avengers movie.
I can not wait.
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3-12-2009 @ 11:16AM
Peter Hall said...
Going on the assumption that the world does not devour itself in a recession fed frenzy, an assumption I'm not convinced is a lock, looks like now is the time to pick up on some shares of Marvel stock.
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3-12-2009 @ 11:59AM
ICON! said...
Looks like after Watchmen was released marvel decided they better come fucking hard on these pics if they are going to make all of us wait this long and put up with all their shit! I hope the wait will be worth it, cause right now this all sounds lame, 3 years for all this to finally culminate...*sigh*
This could be the greatest thing Marvel has ever done and take them to a whole different level and status, or could be the death of them forever. they better hope that after some of the utter crap they have put out, this better pan out for there sake.
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3-12-2009 @ 2:24PM
Eric H said...
Boo on Spidey 4, was really hoping they would go the reboot route.
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3-12-2009 @ 5:13PM
PPK said...
I love what Marvel is doing here.... it is a crossover movie series. Comics have been using this technique for decades...to great success. And now finally we will have a true crossover movie project...(Alien vs Predator aside). I say comic-dom unite behind these films... even if they SUCK. Because that way we will send a message to the studios that this type of entertainment continuity and cohabitation is desired, (I don't anticipate too much suckage though based on Iron Man and, to a lesser degree, Hulk). That way we'll get the superteams we've always wanted (hello WB and DC WE WANT Justice League including Batman) and maybe even some surprises we don't expect (ie ghostrider, Blade, Punisher crossover or a spiderman and Daredevil team-up)
I'd love to see it and I know you all would too.
PPK
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