Here are some of my latest thoughts on the plethora of upcoming Superhero movies coming from Marvel Entertainment.  There is a lot to sift through here, so let me get right to it.

The Future Road For Marvel’s Big Name Heroes…

The release of the Iron Man motion picture in 2008 marked the beginning of Marvel Entertainment’s new approach to managing the movie rights to its comic book properties; Iron Man was the first film 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 lot wider potential profit after release.  Needless to say 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 be summed up with the following: higher risk for potentially (a lot)higher reward.

Starting with Iron Man as well as proceeding on the subject of with a variety of other announced next 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 additionally been apparent on the fact that it intends to have its self-produced movie ventures fit in to a cohesive motion picture universe which will help to ultimately lay the foundations for a Marvel Avengers motion picture afew years down the road. Below I will take a look at a few of the film ventures that are intended to be important pieces of the Marvel motion picture universe.  From Iron Man to the future Captain America film, they all have their part to play.

Iron Man(2008)

With Iron Man, Marvel was creating a new motion picture universe which they had acontrol of the quality of the product. With the huge financial success of this film, Marvel showed that controling their projects in-home could work. Iron Man allowed Marvel to establish  certain key Marvel Universe characters, like Tony Stark/Iron Man(Robert downey Jr.) and Nick Fury(Samuel Jackson), that will almost certainly be included in each and every one of the subsequent Marvel film ventures.

The Incredible Hulk(2008)

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

Iron Man II(2010)

This will be interesting to watch and observe if Marvel is adept to build off of the momentum that they created with the huge success of the firts Iron Man film. In all honesty, the gamble starts here since Marvel has established that they can do their characters successfully regarding screen as well as now they all have to make sure to keep up the level of success thst they have previously reached. Iron Man II kind of represents the future wave of movies as well as they require to keep the ball rolling in relation to it, consequently to speak.

Thor(2011)

This might be a thing of a wildcard for Marvel; Thor is a popular character for Marvel, however not on the subject of par with Captain America, Spider-Man or Iron Man, as well as as such I dont believe that there’s as much presure in relation to the creative forces behind this movie to have it be a success of the scale of the Iron Man franchise.  If anything, Marvel is perhaps just using it as abuilding block for their impending avengers motion picture project and hoping that it finds itself a nice big receptive audience in relation to the side.  It will be intriguing 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 on motion picture projects opinion the heat: the next Captain America film is definitely going to be in that situation. Everything from concerns on who they cast as the lead (it’s 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 final year or subsequently. Now that the plot has been confirmned as being set in WWII, we can expect this movie to mainly deal with the back story of the character and prepared him up for his participation within the impending Marvel Avengers film. Director Joe Johnston will be under the gun to come through regarding this cornerstone movie.

The Avengers(2012)

This motion picture is what it will every one have been building up to. The Avengers motion picture is a thing that if done correct, will be more than the sum of its parts – or no less than that is what Marvel has got to be expecting of this venture.  Marvel would be lying if they claimed otherwise: it’s pretty transparent that Marvel wants the Avengers to be nothing less than a mega winning movie that will become a flagship franchise for them, with potential to spin off a lot of other ventures.  the cast for this movie will be pretty much decided by the time it goes into production since it will be in the works after the other Marvel motion pictures have every one been cast as well as the underlying actors of the other Marvel films will have the Avengers motion picture in their contracts, subsequently it will be up to whoever is chosen to direct to make sure the several actors involved 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 get it correct.

Obviously, with the culmination of the subsequent Avengers film, Marvel will be hoping to have a well established and cohesive film universe framework from which they can launch new franchise ventures for a lot of years to come. Additionally to the motion picture projects mentioned above, Marvel has as well acknowledged that they are viewing several other film ideas, such as Ant Man and Doctor Strange; with Marvel’s fresh acquisition by Disney, there’s a few speculation that an Ant Man movie might become an animated venture, while the most likely approach to a Doctor Strange motion picture could likely well be a movie that shares much in common with the Harry Potter franchise in its look or style due to that series of movies success dealing with the subject of magic.

Subsequently how well will Marvel fare with its flagship properties in such upcoming projects as the Captain America film as well as the Avengers movie ?
Honestly, all us comic book film supporters can do is wait and witness which approaches Marvel chooses for its future movie ventures and hope that their decisions meet with both central as well as box office success down the road.  Consequently far, Marvel seems to be in relation to the right track and following a incredibly good road map…