There’s been a little buzz building around Marvel’s efforts to buy up any loose end comic book characters that have already had films made about them, because it is believed that the comic book empire and film studio wants to be able to cram as many characters as possible into future projects. The best example of this is Daredevil, which Marvel Studios recently secured from Fox so that the blind lawyer from Hell’s Kitchen is now a free agent and the No. 1 rumored character to be included in The Avengers 2, even though there’s nothing to base that on.
That said, of course Marvel’s ultimate M.O. would be to have one gigantic epic film franchise that could combine all of their heroes into one colliding plotline, like… oh I’m just reaching here, but The Infinity Gauntlet comes to mind. So put on your loose underwear, because the nerd boners are about to Hulk up.
Now that The Avengers has done so well, it seems like the other studios with Marvel properties can see the advantage of making a deal. Can you see a world where this generation of X-Men could be in an Avengers movie?
[X-Men Producer] Lauren Shuler Donner: I would love it. I would love it. I personally have close ties to Marvel because of Kevin Feige, because Kevin worked for me. But to take our characters and mingle them in the way that they were written, yeah, absolutely. (Via Crave)
With The Avengers earning an amazing $1.5 billion to date, it’s safe to say that, yes, Fox would be willing to come to some sort of an agreement in creating an X-Men/Avengers film, because who the hell wouldn’t want a piece of that sweet action? Obviously Marvel would love it, because it already forced Sony into sh*tting or getting off the Spider-Man pot, and as IFC pointed out earlier this year, Marvel really wanted Spidey in The Avengers.
So here’s the problem – you’ve got Fox and Marvel (Disney) and dozens of A- and rising B-list actors who will all want to be paid, and you’ve got a loyal but limited fan base that will certainly go bonkers over a film like this, but eventually those wallets run out. Where does the money come from to fill so many hands? Short of raising ticket and IMAX prices… sh*, I’m just going to stop right there.
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Just so long as Robin’s not a girl this should work out swell.
I have no idea whether you’re being sarcastic or not.
Pfft, they sold Robin to Paramount to get back the Savage Dragon. Don’t you read?
Civil War! Civil War! Come on, you know Hollywood would love to get their hands on those sweet, sweet analogies.
They’d have to include Spiderman for this though right?
Chris Evans acting off against RDJ would be hilarious though.
Yeah, I’m voting for a plotline that doesn’t feel like getting dickpunched.
Much as I loved Avengers, it was a little too long, and still didn’t have enough time to do all the characters justice. A full-on crossover would be a bad (and expensive) idea.
On the other hand, occasional cross-franchise cameos could well be awesome.
Christ you are a little complainypants, aren’t you?
The Infinity Gauntlet would be like a three movie trilogy and cost $1 billion. It has epic potential, and they certainly were hinting at it at the end of the Avengers with the Thanos cameo.
Keep talking like that and you’ll never get an Infinity Gauntlet movie.
Hey fuckfaces at Marvel, break up the Infinity Gauntlet into three R-rated movies and every comic nerd in the multiverse will pay $150/ticket – twice. Then they’ll buy the Blu-Ray and the Thanos underroos and the video games and the directors cut blu-ray and the alternate Thanos underroos.
Just keep Ben Affleck away from it.
You had me at Ben Affleck
He had me at fuckfaces.
If they can make three movies based on The Hobbit I think Disney and Fox could figure out how to make a 3 movie trilogy based around some sort of “Avengers VS X-Men” plot.
but the Hobbit and LOTR staff devoted like 5 years of their life to that project, not sure you could get the casts of Avengers and X-Men to do the same.
You’re not sure you get the MONEY MONEY MONEY MOTHERFUCKING MONEY Y’ALL.
Comic book movies just need to die already. I can’t believe this has become the highest form of cinematic entertainment.
Do other movies suddenly get better if comic book movies are gone?
comic book movies don’t die, they just get replaced by Krulls or transported to an alternate reality
If this were to go down, Hawkeye will look like even more of a pussy.
no way! he could take…um…no…he could defeat…uh…Dazzler?
I’m glad the film industry is taking away all of the right lessons from the success of The Avengers. Instead of learning that well-defined characters interacting with one another makes for a good movie, even if the antagonists are kind of nebulous and poorly defined, they’ve learned, “MOAR FRANCHISES! CROSSOVERS! SYNERGY!”
Infinity Gauntlet gets pretty weird after like 3 issues, I can’t really see CGI Thanos duking it out with the In-betweener or the Ego the living planet. Civil War sounds like a much safer bet.
Yeah, I agree. I really want a Gauntlet series, but I also don’t want to see Galactus the giant cloud again.
Fear Itself could be pretty awesome.
Can we do Secret Wars?!
Then you can have everyone fighting Galactus. You can have the Spiderman beating up the X-Men. You can show how Spidey got his black costume. You can have general awesomeness.
What happens when you take two franchises about groups overcoming personality clashes to become teams and mash them together as a gimmick? This shit’s going to be PURE clash!
I’ll help them out:
Clash Action
Clash Gordon
Top of the Clash
Clash of the Titans 3
Clash Reunion
Ahead of the Clash
X-Men: Second Clash
Second Clash Citizens
Night Clash
Clash Landing
Clash President
Saved by the Bell: The New Clash
So Sean Connery’s gonna be in it?
Sean Connery and Chevy Chase are both playing Magneto. They’re going to swap in and out, like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in Full House.
(they’ll also be doing the ‘cut it out’ hand gesture every five minutes)
CLASH ACTION LAWSUIT?!
Oh, sorry, you said Clash Action already. Like, first. I’d delete my comment but I can’t, so this will have to suffice.
Whatever they do it will probably need more Hulk.
Well shit why not reboot F F and include the inhumans
Yes please.
Wolverine vs. The Hulk, please.
yes. I mean…yes.
What is “hot goss”?
A segment from the frotcast I usually skip over.
No love for Burnsy? I personally have been lost with out my celebrity gossip. He’s the lone, defiant, black hair on the erect nipple of an otherwise great rack of entertainment news.
OHHHHH, GOSSip. That’s stupid.
What, you thought it meant Luke Goss?
I mean, I’m not saying I can’t see it. He’s actually aged remarkably well, and you do have to wonder about the mechanics of that thing with his sister in Hellboy 2, but, uh… Off topic, I guess.
Oh no, you skip over the random 10 minute appearance I make every few months? However will I endure?
Please don’t say Hulk and boner in the same sentence, it’s bringing up bad memories of a movie I watched last week.
Why can’t they make a really shitty “mail it in movie” where Beast joins the Avengers and QED XMen?
*Burnsy reaches through internet and strangles a Klingon*
Danger must be furious at you Ashley. You’re totally bogarting Gamma Squad material here.
@Leapin
Some reading material for you: [www.uproxx.com]
Yes, Gamma Squad is the movie news site. And Danger runs it.
The money isn’t really an issue. The X-Men movies do well. The Spider-Man movies do well. Avengers obviously did amazing. Combining two or three of those franchises will make people’s heads explode. That movie will make so much money that a $400 million budget would be nothing to the studios. As long as the movie is good, it will make double what Avatar made if they put some X-Men and/or Spider-Man in an Avengers movie. I’m sure if Marvel/Disney gets Fox to play along, it wouldn’t take much for Sony to get in on it.
It be sick to see mutant Avenger’s Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, but it explaining their parentage might take another movie.
Not really, they could just say Magneto decided to breed his balls off back in the 60′s with either Mystique or Emma Frost.
I personally would vote for Daredevil and Ghost Rider to get recast. They deserve better, really.
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Wating for the Asylum version “Ex-Team vs Revengers”. But it will turn out to be more of an A-team / The Losers story line even though the cover art will make it look like super heroes.
Fuck you, you page view whoring bitch of a website. You know this isn’t news. You know this isn’t even a proper rumor. You know you stole this from another bullshit movie blog website earlier this week. You know you offer nothing to the world but a pretty CSS style sheet. You know that, when you go home at night and jerk off into your favorite sock, no one will give a shit about the tears you leave on your pillow afterward.
Well I guess you told us. Shut it down guys this random sentient bowel movement with tourettes just said so.
Yep. That convinced me. I’m done with the internets. Hello outdoors and sunshine!
I love when my family reads my posts.
Ryan Reynolds has to play 3 different characters or GTFO
BTW, combining all these super heroes would make bow and arrow guy and tits mcgee REALLY irrelevant! (I’ll capitalize what i feel like. Fuck you Grammar!)
This won’t happen now that Fox has confirmed a Fantastic Four and X-Men crossover movie in their future: [www.dailysuperhero.com]