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AliasMan02 said:

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Will Marvel be able to resist the comic book trope of using the Infinity Gauntlet to reset/reboot parts of the universe?

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they should totally do that. Team up with Fox and create an alternate MCU with the X Men in it!

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That's one thing I was thinking.

More than that, they could freshen up things (if they wanted to). Some things that would be par for the course to do and might not be terrible:

Restore a destroyed Asgard.
Switch Thor's gender.
Iron Man wakes up married to Pepper, with a kid.
Quicksilver is alive instead of Hawkeye.
Widow is a villain.
Red Skull is alive, or his daughter Sin is.
The sometimes-troublesome issue of AoS and/or Inhumans are wiped away from canon.
Banner doesn't have control of the Hulk or has cured himself or has separated the Hulk from Banner entirely.
Norman Osborn is running SHIELD.

That's all just if they wanted to mix things up.

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Can you fill me in on post-production/pre-production?

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Post-production means a movie has completed filming and is in the editing/effects/scoring stage. Basically, the final stage before being completed.

Pre-production means a director is on board, and the project is actively casting/re-writing/set-building/etc. Basically, the stage just before it starts filming.

Simple enough.

thanks for your insight as always!

Didn't see a summary of the current location of the Infinity Stones so figured I'd throw one in. Of the upcoming Marvel movies only Guardians 2 and Thor: Ragnarok should have anything to do with plot going into Infinity War. We still have one Infinity Stone unaccounted for as well if I've got this all correct.

Space Stone - Tesseract - currently in Asgard
Mind Stone - inside of Vision
Reality Stone - Aether - held by The Collector
Power Stone - The Orb - being guarded by the Nova Corps
Time Stone - Eye of Agamotto - with Doctor Strange
Soul Stone - hasn't been in any of the films to date

James Gunn already said there is no Thanos nor are any Infinity Stones in Guardians 2 so unless the Soul Stone shows up in the first Infinity War movie it should be revealed in Thor: Ragnarok. Perhaps Heimdall possess it, or maybe its inside of Mjolnir, or the villain for the movie Hela has it. Also Hulk and Doctor Strange will be part of Ragnarok so its pretty likely that something major is going down.

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The sometimes-troublesome issue of AoS and/or Inhumans are wiped away from canon.

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While I love the show, I am not a huge fan of it cluttering up the movie stuff...especially with the lame-ass inhumans.

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The sometimes-troublesome issue of AoS and/or Inhumans are wiped away from canon.

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While I love the show, I am not a huge fan of it cluttering up the movie stuff...especially with the lame-ass inhumans.

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Seeing as how the Inhumans have been treated as the MCU's mutants pretty much from the get go, I can't say that what they're doing isn't fine as is. I mean really, other than Magneto, I don't even care at this point if we ever see mutants in the MCU.

The issue with AoS is the lack of explanation for SHIELD still existing in the larger MCU. Inhumans existing is not so much a problem, since it was mentioned in one of the films that more enhanced people are appearing (wasn't it in Age of Ultron?). So Inhumans existing is covered under that umbrella to an extent.

redline248 said:

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The sometimes-troublesome issue of AoS and/or Inhumans are wiped away from canon.

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While I love the show, I am not a huge fan of it cluttering up the movie stuff...especially with the lame-ass inhumans.

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I mostly mentioned it because of the strife between the TV and movie sides. Plus if it sticks around long enough, IW is as good a stopping point as anything.

Imagine if the gauntlet were to tweak reality when destroyed (or whatever) and Colson didn't die. That would pretty much erase AoS, put Colson back in the mix for Phase 3, AND we could slowly rediscover a few cool parts of AoS if we wanted, like having Daisy show up as a justice warrior hacker or something in a film or in Defenders.

Not saying they should do any of this, just wondering what they might tweak if they go this route. Personally I'm a fan of a persistent universe where characters grow up, grow old, retire, die, etc. without cop-outs.

Anyone know why Doctor Strange isn't available for preorder from Amazon? I'm about to pull the trigger elsewhere, because I can't find out when it is expected to release...

https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Strange-Plus-Bonus-Features/dp/B01M744EP3

Maybe I should clarify. Anyone know when the blu ray will be available for preorder from Amazon? No interest in a digital copy.

Dr. Horrible said:

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Maybe I should clarify. Anyone know when the blu ray will be available for preorder from Amazon? No interest in a digital copy.

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Feb. 28th

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This sentence from the article is kind of mind blowing...

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"The Avengers: Infinity War" has a May 4, 2018 release starring Josh Brolin as Thanos. Marvel Studios has yet to officially announce the cast, but the following are thought/confirmed to be a part of the movie: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Chadwick Boseman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Wong, Tom Holland and Brie Larson.

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That's pretty huge. However, have you ever seen It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, World?


Principal cast Edit
Spencer Tracy as Captain T.G. Culpeper
Edie Adams as Monica Crump
Milton Berle as J. Russell Finch
Sid Caesar as Melville Crump
Buddy Hackett as "Benjy" Benjamin
Ethel Merman as Mrs. Marcus
Dorothy Provine as Emmeline Marcus-Finch
Mickey Rooney as "Dingy" Bell
Dick Shawn as Sylvester Marcus
Phil Silvers as Otto Meyer
Terry-Thomas as Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne
Jonathan Winters as Lennie Pike
Supporting cast Edit
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as a cab driver
Jim Backus as airplane owner Tyler Fitzgerald
Barrie Chase as Sylvester Marcus' sexy, laconic dancing girlfriend
William Demarest as Aloysius, Chief of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Jimmy Durante as "Smiler" Grogan, the robber who buried the money.
Peter Falk as a cab driver
Paul Ford as Col. Wilberforce
Cameo appearances Edit
Jack Benny as man driving a 1931 Cadillac Fleetwood (uncredited)
Paul Birch as a Santa Rosita police officer at the intersection (with binoculars) (uncredited)
Ben Blue as the vintage biplane pilot
Joe E. Brown as the union official giving a speech at a construction site
Alan Carney as a sergeant with the Santa Rosita Police Department
Chick Chandler as the policeman at Ray and Irwin's service station
Stanley Clements as a local reporter at police station (uncredited)
Lloyd Corrigan as the mayor of Santa Rosita
Howard Da Silva as police officer at airport (uncredited)
Andy Devine as the sheriff of Crockett County, California
Selma Diamond as Ginger Culpeper, Captain Culpeper's wife (voice only)
Minta Durfee as a crowd extra watching the fire escape rescue (uncredited)
Roy Engel as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer at the intersection (uncredited)
Norman Fell as primary detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site
James Flavin as a crossroads patrolman (scene deleted from general release version, uncredited)
Stan Freberg as a deputy sheriff of Crockett County
Nicholas Georgiade as supporting detective at the "Smiler" Grogan accident site (uncredited)
Louise Glenn as Billie Sue Culpeper, the daughter of Captain Culpeper (voice only)
Leo Gorcey as the cab driver bringing Melville and Monica to the hardware store
Stacy Harris as police radio voice unit F-7 (voice only), and as a detective outside of Mr. Dinkler's hardware store (uncredited)
Don C. Harvey as a Santa Rosita Police Department officer (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway as the Santa Rosita Fire Department fireman
Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Dinkler, owner of the hardware store
Allen Jenkins as a policeman (uncredited)
Marvin Kaplan as service station co-owner Irwin
Robert Karnes as Sammy, a Santa Rosita Police Department officer in helicopter (uncredited)
Buster Keaton as Jimmy, Culpeper's boatman friend
Tom Kennedy as a Santa Rosita traffic cop (uncredited)
Don Knotts as the nervous motorist
Charles Lane as the airport manager
Harry Lauter as a Santa Rosita Police Department police dispatcher (uncredited)
Ben Lessy as George the steward (uncredited)
Bobo Lewis as vintage biplane pilot's wife (uncredited)
Jerry Lewis as the motorist who runs over Culpeper's hat (uncredited)
Mike Mazurki as the miner bringing medicine to his wife
Charles McGraw as Lt. Mathews of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Tyler McVey as a police radio voice (voice only, uncredited)
Cliff Norton as reporter
ZaSu Pitts as Gertie, the Santa Rosita Police Department Central Division's switchboard operator
Carl Reiner as the Rancho Conejo airport tower controller
Madlyn Rhue as secretary Schwartz of the Santa Rosita Police Department
Roy Roberts as policeman Outside Irwin & Ray's Garage
Eddie Ryder as Rancho Conejo air traffic control tower staff member (uncredited)
Arnold Stang as service station co-owner Ray
Nick Stewart as the migrant truck driver forced off the road
The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita) as Rancho Conejo Airport firemen
Sammee Tong as a laundryman
Doodles Weaver as a Dinkler Hardware Store employee (uncredited)
Lennie Weinrib as a police radio voice, and as a fireman (voice only; uncredited)
Jesse White as a Rancho Conejo air traffic controller

So my guess is Vision is the first to get killed by Thanos, and that's how he gets his first stone.

OnlyForNow said:

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So my guess is Vision is the first to get killed by Thanos, and that's how he gets his first stone.

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I've never read IW or much about Thanos in the books, but is he a big enough badass to come kill Vision without any other stones?

No idea, but his stone being stuck in his forehead seems to be the easiest to get and it's known to be there.

He might not know the collector has one.

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Dr. Horrible said:

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Maybe I should clarify. Anyone know when the blu ray will be available for preorder from Amazon? No interest in a digital copy.

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Feb. 28th

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Thats the release date. I can walk into any store and get it on 2/28. Amazon usually has stuff available for preorder months before the release date and will deliver on that day, but for some reason this is different.

aggie1906 said:

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So my guess is Vision is the first to get killed by Thanos, and that's how he gets his first stone.

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I've never read IW or much about Thanos in the books, but is he a big enough badass to come kill Vision without any other stones?

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Thanos in the comics is about as big of a badass as there is, even without any stones. He probably isn't as powerful as, say, Galactus, but he's very high up the power scale. We don't really know how the MCU will handle him, so I dont want to say too much about his origins (although his origin comics are some of my favorites) for fear of spoilers. But basically, he's kind of like Space Hitler.

Comic Thanos could easily destroy Vision, but Vision in the comics isn't powered by an infinity gem.

Wait, I thought that was Daredevil.

I was thinking they were making an Arrow knock off... Which is really just a Batman knockoff for tv...

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Wait, I thought that was Daredevil.

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https://news.marvel.com/tv/59437/marvels-runaways-sets-remaining-cast-television-project-hulu/

noice.

Also, that's the first article of it's kind I've ever seen from the trades (Variety, THR, Deadline, The Wrap). I think it's more of a desperate-for-clicks kind of thing, but one of the big four having an article about test screening scores is pretty unprecedented.

Kind of odd that the two other high scorning examples they list are IM3 and the first Avengers. I (and I think most) would put those at opposite ends of the spectrum of Marvel quality.

I loved IM3 so much, so I probably don't fall in that category.

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For better or worse, let the hype begin...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/guardians-galaxy-vol-2-scores-extremely-rare-100-test-screening-974277

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Do you have any insight into how they come to these internal scores? I didn't realize they rated them on a scale like this.

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IM3 is probably my least favorite in the MCU

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IM2 says hello!

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First half of IM2 is among the best things in the MCU.

I didn't hate IM2 like a lot of people. It is in the bottom 3rd of the MCU, but so is IM3 for me.

CowtownAg06 said:

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Kind of odd that the two other high scorning examples they list are IM3 and the first Avengers. I (and I think most) would put those at opposite ends of the spectrum of Marvel quality.

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The first Avengers movie is still my favorite. I'm a sucker for bringing a team together to fight. More fun than just an individual, to me.

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Fiege outright states "the Avengers meet the Guardians" in that.

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That ruled.