If you are at all like me when it comes to your preference in movies as escapist entertainment, then the recent development of various Marvel Comics characters as movie properties will be welcomed as potential great news. I thought that now might be an appropriate time to take a look at the current road to development that Marvel has chosen to follow up to this point.
The release of the Iron Man movie in 2008 marked the beginning of Marvel Entertainment’s new approach to managing the movie rights to its comicbook properties; Iron Man was the first movie that Marvel went ahead and produced itself instead of effortlessly licensing out a character property to one more studio in exchange for a licensing fee upfront. This change in direction meant that Marvel would be abandoning its usual guaranteed upfront money for the chance to rake in a a decent deal larger potential profit after release. Not surprisingly this in addition meant that Marvel was willing to risk that it might be left holding the bag if a motion picture it independently produced were to end up being a financial failure. In short, Marvel’s new approach could be summed up with the following: higher risk for potentially (much)higher reward.
Starting with Iron Man and proceeding regarding with a variety of other announced subsequent motion picture ventures, Marvel has deliberately chosen a few of its flagship character properties which it beleievs will have the greatest chance of succeeding with moviegoers. Marvel has as well been clear on the subject of the fact that it intends to have its self-produced motion picture ventures fit in to a cohesive film universe which will help to ultimately lay the foundations for a Marvel Avengers movie afew years down the road. Beneath I will take a look at some of the film ventures that are intended to be vital pieces of the Marvel motion picture universe. From Iron Man to the impending Captain America motion picture, they every single one have their part to play.
Iron Man(2008)
With Iron Man, Marvel was creating a new film universe which they had acontrol of the quality of the product. With the huge financial success of this movie, Marvel showed that controling their projects in-domicile could work. Iron Man allowed Marvel to establish a few central Marvel Universe characters, like Tony Stark/Iron Man(Robert downey Jr.) and Nick Fury(Samuel Jackson), that will possibly be included in every single one of the next Marvel movie projects.
The Incredible Hulk(2008)
While not anywhere near the boxoffice success of Iron Man, the Hulk motion picture was successful enough,not costing Marvel within the long operate. It was the first movie that allowed Marvel to establich the commonality or cohesiveness of its motion picture universe by presenting it with the opportunity to have a character from one movie (Downey Jr as Tony Stark) appear in a next movie (the Incredible Hulk) thereby establishing a shared universe for its characters.
Iron Man II(2010)
This will be interesting to watch as well as witness if Marvel is competent to build off of the momentum that they created with the huge success of the firts Iron Man film. Honestly, the gamble starts here since Marvel has established that they can do their characters successfully in relation to screen and now they all have to make sure to keep up the level of success thst they have all previously reached. Iron Man II kind of represents the next wave of films as well as they necessitate to keep the ball rolling vis-à-vis it, then to speak.
Thor(2011)
This could be a thing of a wildcard for Marvel; Thor is a popular character for Marvel, nonetheless not regarding par with Captain America, Spider-Man or Iron Man, and as such I dont believe that there’s as to a great extent presure regarding the creative forces behind this motion picture to have it be a success of the scale of the Iron Man franchise. If anything, Marvel is most likely just using it as abuilding block for their subsequent avengers film venture as well as hoping that it finds itself a nice big receptive audience on the side. It will be intriguing to seehow Director Kenneth Branagh interprets the Mythology angle of this character for the big screen sans getting to bogged down.
The First Avenger: Captain America(2011)
Talking on the subject of movie projects sentiment the heat: the future Captain America film is definitely going to be in that situation. Everything from concerns on the subject of who they cast as the lead (it is now known that it will be actor Chris Evans of Fantastic Four fame), to how they interpret the famous red, white and blue costume and shield onscreen hasbeen fertile ground for comic fan forums over the final year or as a result. Now that the plot has been confirmned as being ready in WWII, we can expect this movie to mainly deal with the back story of the character as well as prepared him up for his participation within the next Marvel Avengers film. Director Joe Johnston will be beneath the gun to come through vis-à-vis this cornerstone film.
The Avengers(2012)
This movie is what it will each and every one have been building up to. The Avengers motion picture is something that if done correct, will be more than the sum of its parts – or at the least that is what Marvel has got to be expecting of this venture. Marvel would be lying if they claimed otherwise: it’s pretty clear that Marvel wants the Avengers to be nothing less than a mega successful motion picture that will become a flagship franchise for them, with potential to spin off so many other ventures. the cast for this film will be pretty a lot decided by the time it goes into production since it will be within the works after the other Marvel motion pictures have every single one been cast as well as the elementary actors of the other Marvel movies will have the Avengers motion picture in their contracts, consequently it will be up to whoever is chosen to direct to make sure the several actors concerned offer up an effort that is indeed more than the sum of its parts. Marvel has a couple of years and counting to make sure they get it correct.
Clearly, with the culmination of the subsequent Avengers film, Marvel will be hoping to have a well established as well as cohesive movie universe framework from which they can launch new franchise ventures for numerous years to come. Also to the motion picture ventures mentioned above, Marvel has in addition acknowledged that they are viewing a few other motion picture ideas, such as Ant Man as well as Doctor Strange; with Marvel’s fresh acquisition by Disney, there’s a few speculation that an Ant Man movie might get an animated venture, while the nearly all likely approach to a Doctor Strange movie could likely well be a movie that shares a reasonable deal in common with the Harry Potter franchise in its look or style due to that series of films success dealing with the subject of magic.
So how well will Marvel fare with its flagship properties in such upcoming projects as the Captain America movie and the Avengers movie ?
Truly, each and every one us comics motion picture fans can do is wait and observe which approaches Marvel chooses for its future film projects and hope that their decisions meet with both of great consequence as well as box office success down the road. As a result far, Marvel seems to be about the right track and following a especially sufficient road map…

