I've heard rumors that Kevin Feige was well informed of this deal happening and already has plans to start bringing certain characters into Avengers 4.
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I've heard rumors that Kevin Feige was well informed of this deal happening and already has plans to start bringing certain characters into Avengers 4.
Real Scooby
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I keep reading reports that the sequel to Prometheus/Covenant has been shelved and this exactly mirrors my thought when I first learned about the Disney deal. I was all like "Well, RIP Aliens franchise" 
I keep reading reports that the sequel to Prometheus/Covenant has been shelved and this exactly mirrors my thought when I first learned about the Disney deal. I was all like "Well, RIP Aliens franchise"
Well, to be fair, that's on Ridley. He messed those up. The ALIEN franchise isn't dead but it needs a new creative team.
Father
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Yeah... for what was/is supposed to be prequels, they really went off the rails. The origin story in the Dark Horse comics series was better IMHO.
I'm surprised they didn't find a way to shoehorn Ripley into them somehow.
Well, she's not around yet. We still have one more theoretical movie to cover how the much-larger-than-an-Engineer Space Jockey gets a ship full of facehugger eggs and crashes on LV-426 enough years before the Nostromo toddles along to find him mummified/fossilized into his chair.
As for the MCU... We already had Skrulls confirmed in Infinity War. I'm apparently a little iffy on the particulars. I thought the entire race was part of the Fantastic Four rights package, not just Super-Skrull. Others say, no it's just Super-Skrull. I thought the word itself was out-of-bounds, hence going with the alternate "Chitauri" in Avengers. I'm hoping Galactus and Silver Surfer get worked into the big cosmic fight -- even in cameo, to be developed later.
Meanwhile, while Marvel has Peter Parker, I would love to see an Ultimate-FF-inspired take on their origin overlapping one of the forthcoming Spidey films, where Reed is another student at Peter's school, who disappears, and rumor is that he's been recruited into a secret government think-tank project called "The Baxter Building", which is odd because that building no longer exists -- it was torn down to build Stark Tower. And take things from there. It'd be a nice late-Phase-4/early-Phase-5 addition, I think.
As for the X-Men... This Marvel Earth (199999) seems to have not had mutants manifest the way they did on other Marvel Earths (616 -- the main comic universe, 1610 -- the Ultimate comics, etc.). We could have them start later, triggered by something recent to the MCU. We could have some escape between dimensions thanks to Infinity War or some future use of the Reality Stone, or Reed Richards' experiment-gone-wrong, or they could even have been here all along, and just were better at staying undetected until Something Happens™... There are a lot of options.
--Jonah
I want Peter to have been vaguely aware Reed existed.Awkward nerds tend to be good at spotting our own. But not interacting. And I recommend reading first few trade paperbacks for Ultimate FF before passing judgment. Having Reed cameo at Midtown in an earlier film is a nice way to soft-introduce the character when he was younger, before we get to his story in the MCU. It would also be a neat avenue to answer "what happened to Stark/Avengers Tower?" after Ultron and Tony relocating things Upstate.
What I don't want is the perpetually-mid-40s Reed we had in the comics for decades.
--Jonah
What I don't want is the perpetually-mid-40s Reed we had in the comics for decades.
--Jonah
Lightning
Master Member
I'd still like to see a 1960's set FF period piece. They can disappear at the end, the Baxter building can be sold off and torn down for Stark Tower. Then the FF can show back up in the present day. I know they wont go that route, because you can only have so many heroes disappear and reappear without aging before it becomes cliche.
Laspector
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That's exactly what I do want.
I feel like with some of the things they've shown in Ant-Man that they can totally do this. We've seen that there were super powered humans since Cap disappeared in WWII and when Tony became Iron Man.
robn1
Master Member
Interesting thought, if he owns 51% of Disney stock he'd still have control over the franchise.
Um, Disney's market capitalization (total number of shares outstanding times the price per share) is $168B. So George would need to own about $86B in Disney shares to make that dog hunt.
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He does, not $4B though as I'm sure he received cash as well. And he gifted a lot of those shares away if I recall and will be using his own money to build his new museum in LA. Disney stock was around $50/share when he sold and are now around $112 so he's had nice appreciation on however much he retained. He should have sold the shares and bought Amazon stock and he could really have made money over that time. Or Bitcoin.
This isn’t surprising as Disney’s acquisition strategy has always been buy the best brands and allow them to continue to be run by the same people and strategies which put them there at the top.
https://twitter.com/variety/status/971804576440639490?s=21
https://twitter.com/variety/status/971804576440639490?s=21
Is it true bob iger is retiring as ceo? I saw rumors of this on YouTube but didn’t bother watching the videos.
My friend is a huge Disney nut and I asked him and he said he hasn’t heard anything like that
Is there any truth to him retiring?
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My friend is a huge Disney nut and I asked him and he said he hasn’t heard anything like that
Is there any truth to him retiring?
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His contract was extended to 2021, I believe.
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