Marvel Continues To Explore A New Moviemaking Frontier (At Least For Them)

A few years back, Marvel Comics chose to explore some hitherto unexplored territory (at least for them) with the decision to go it alone and produce their own movie projects based on their comic book licenses. So far this decision has appeared to pay dividends for the company (so much so that Disney chose them as a desirable acquisition target) with the huge success of the Iron Man movie, however how likely is this trending to continue, and what else has Marvel got lined up for us comicbook movie fans in the future?

The release of the Iron Man motion picture in 2008 marked the beginning of Marvel Entertainment’s new approach to managing the motion picture rights to its comics properties; Iron Man was the first movie that Marvel went ahead as well as produced itself instead of simply 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 great deal wider potential profit after release.  Not surprisingly this in addition meant that Marvel was willing to risk that it could 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 very well be summed up with the following: higher risk for potentially (to a great extent)higher reward.

Starting with Iron Man and proceeding on the subject of with a variety of other announced next motion picture projects, Marvel has deliberately chosen certain of its flagship character properties which it beleievs will have the greatest chance of succeeding with moviegoers. Marvel has additionally been clear vis-à-vis the fact that it intends to have its self-produced motion picture projects fit into a cohesive motion picture universe which will help to ultimately lay the foundations for a Marvel Avengers motion picture afew years down the road. Under I will take a look at some of the film ventures that are intended to be weighty pieces of the Marvel motion picture universe.  From Iron Man to the next Captain America film, 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-home could work. Iron Man allowed Marvel to establish  certain central Marvel Universe characters, like Tony Stark/Iron Man(Robert downey Jr.) as well as Nick Fury(Samuel Jackson), that will doubtless be included in each and every one of the next Marvel motion picture ventures.

The Incredible Hulk(2008)

While not anywhere near the boxoffice success of Iron Man, the Hulk movie was winning enough,not costing Marvel in the long behave.  It was the first film that allowed Marvel to establich the commonality or cohesiveness of its movie universe by presenting it with the opportunity to have a character from one film (Downey Jr as Tony Stark) appear in a subsequent film (the Incredible Hulk) thereby establishing a shared universe for its characters.

Iron Man II(2010)

This will be interesting to watch as well as observe if Marvel is capable to build off of the momentum that they created with the huge success of the firts Iron Man film. Sincerely, the gamble starts here since Marvel has established that they can do their characters successfully concerning screen as well as now they have all to make sure to keep up the level of success thst they have all previously reached. Iron Man II kind of represents the subsequent wave of motion pictures as well as they have need of to keep the ball rolling on the subject of it, so to speak.

Thor(2011)

This could very well be a thing of a wildcard for Marvel; Thor is a popular character for Marvel, nevertheless not regarding par with Captain America, Spider-Man or Iron Man, as well as as such I dont believe that there’s as to a great extent presure about 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 in all probability just using it as abuilding block for their next avengers movie venture and hoping that it finds itself a nice big receptive audience vis-à-vis the side.  It will be interesting to seehow Director Kenneth Branagh interprets the Mythology angle of this character for the big screen without getting to bogged down.

The First Avenger: Captain America(2011)

Talking in relation to movie projects sense the heat: the impending Captain America film is definitely going to be in that situation. Everything from concerns regarding 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 as well as blue costume and shield onscreen hasbeen fertile ground for comic fan forums over the last year or consequently. Now that the plot has been confirmned as being prepared in WWII, we can expect this film to mainly deal with the back story of the character as well as set him up for his participation within next Marvel Avengers movie. Director Joe Johnston will be below the gun to come through on the subject of this cornerstone film.

The Avengers(2012)

This motion picture is what it will each as well as every one have been building up to. The Avengers movie is something that if done right, will be more than the sum of its parts – or at least that is what Marvel has got to be expecting of this project.  Marvel would be lying if they claimed otherwise: it’s pretty transparent that Marvel wants the Avengers to be nothing less than a mega successful motion picture that will get a flagship franchise for them, with potential to spin off so many other projects.  the cast for this film will be pretty much decided by the time it goes into production since it will be within works after the other Marvel movies have each and every one been cast as well as the essential actors of the other Marvel motion pictures will have the Avengers motion picture in their contracts, so it will be up to whoever is chosen to direct to make sure the various actors concerned offer up an effort that is indeed more than the sum of its parts. Marvel has a couple of years as well as counting to make sure they become it correct.

Clearly, with the culmination of the impending Avengers motion picture, Marvel will be hoping to have a well established as well as cohesive film universe framework from which they can launch new franchise projects for a lot of years to come. Also to the film projects mentioned above, Marvel has as well acknowledged that they are looking at a few other movie ideas, such as Ant Man as well as Doctor Strange; with Marvel’s recent acquisition by Disney, there is a few speculation that an Ant Man film might become an animated venture, while the most likely approach to a Doctor Strange movie could likely well be a motion picture that shares a adequate 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.

As a result how well will Marvel fare with its flagship properties in such upcoming ventures as the Captain America motion picture as well as the Avengers film ?
Truthfully, every single one us comic book motion picture enthusiasts can do is wait and witness which approaches Marvel chooses for its impending movie ventures and hope that their decisions meet with both important as well as box office success down the road.  Subsequently far, Marvel seems to be on the right track as well as following a extremely decent road map…