It was a will-they, won’t-they story rivaling the best romantic comedy. Rumors from every where that Sony and Marvel were working together to bring Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I honestly had to remind myself that today is not April 1st when I read… Read More »Spider-man joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Excelsior!
Finally, Marvel has released the first teaser trailer for Ant-Man. Unfortunately, you have to an ant to appreciate it.
Oh Marvel. You’re so funny. Catch the full thing during the two-hour series premiere of “Marvel’s Agent Carter” Tuesday, January 6 beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC!
Update: Marvel has released a human sized version of the trailer trailer too
Over the Christmas holidays, I had set out on a mission, to re-cut the Marvel movies into one coherent continuous film. I had originally came across the concept when my brother had shown me the timeline known as “Fury’s Big Week.” This is in reference… Read More »Geek out with the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in one Mega-Cut
Sherlock is getting stranger. Marvel has announced that Benedict Cumberbatch will enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe in as the star of “Doctor Strange.” Dr. Stephen Strange is one of Marvel’s more unique superheros. He’s a neurosurgeon who, after a horrific car accident, discovers the hidden… Read More »Benedict Cumberbatch to play Marvel’s Doctor Strange
In 2009, a lot of people were upset about Disney purchasing Marvel. They were afraid that their favorite characters were going to become watered down versions of themselves. Five years later, all of those naysayers are the same ones that helped make a movie about a talking raccoon and his best friend the walking tree the highest grossing film of the year.
So, with Big Hero 6 out in theaters (and doing well) and the Avengers Half-Marathon last weekend, I thought it would be interesting to look back and see what Disney has done with Marvel, specifically outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), in the past five years.
One of the first things they did was create a new Avengers cartoon for The Disney Channel. Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes lasted two seasons before being scrapped for a different Avengers cartoon: Avengers Assemble! Disney wanted to create its own animated version of the MCU with all of the Marvel cartoons interconnected like their movie counterparts. Unfortunately for EMH, it had already built its own animated Marvel universe (which was awesome) so they had to cancel it in order to start over.
Now they have Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers Assemble! and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. with a Guardians of the Galaxy cartoon on the way. To me, this is the closest that Disney has come to making those fans’ fears a reality. With the exception of EMH, these shows are all pretty dull and sacrifice compelling storytelling for a “lesson of the week.”
A notable exception to this is the Phineas and Ferb crossover episode that they did with The Avengers which was hilarious. This is also the second time that Disney has done a crossover with Marvel.
Prep & Landing: Mansion Impossible was the first Disney/Marvel crossover. A back up story in three of Marvel’s main titles, this story featured Wayne and Lanny, the main characters from the vastly underrated Prep & Landing Christmas specials, as they attempt the get the Avengers Mansion ready for a visit from “the Big Guy.” It wasn’t heavy on action or complex plot, but the you can imagine the fun of watching the two elves wander through the mansion.Read More »Marvel and Disney 5 years on
Editor: Please welcome guest author Peter Orrestad as he breaks down the big news in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and what it means for our favorite super heros: As was covered on the blog yesterday, Marvel pretty much blew the minds of fans everywhere with… Read More »Behind Marvel’s Big Announcement for Iron Man and Captain America
Last week, while promoting his new movie, The Judge, Robert Downey Jr. teased the audience of The Ellen DeGenerous show by seeming to announce that Iron Man 4 is in the works. Later that day, on the David Letterman show, he denied that announcement. However,… Read More »Iron Man joins Captain America in Marvel Civil War
Ellen DeGeneres had Robert Downey Jr. on her show yesterday and she was able to extract an answer to one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most interesting questions… will there be any more Iron Man movies staring Robert as Tony Stark? Much to every one’s… Read More »Robert Downey Jr. Confirms Negotiations for Iron Man 4