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@Mustangride1

I’ve read the TrueBlood books and I did enjoy them for most of the part. The climax on the last one was a bit lacklustre though. As for ‘Game of Thrones’ I’ve enjoyed the books but I’ve only seen up to series 4. Other TV shows have taken up my occupation so I’ve not watched seasons 5 and 6 yet (I’m NOT watching 7 and 8 until the books come out). When the Harry Potter films were coming out Rowling had just finished the fourth book but she still found time to write the other three books between press events events and working with the films (I’m going to pretend those horrible ‘Fantastic Beasts’ films and books don’t exist). Sadly, times have changed since ‘Game of Thrones’ originally came out and I’m going to assume that the only reason why Martin hasn’t released the last book is because he knows Twatter will be after him.

It is definitely NOT the first movie to be indefinitely shelved.  We had Captain America in the 1990’s, as was a Fantastic Four film in 1994.

When a product is SO bad, it is sometimes better to NOT release it as the negative PR it would generate would tarnish the brand and reputation of the studio.

Have fans talking about Billion dollar successful movies, fun movies, fans being once again excited for a DC film.

They fear (and rightly so), that if this Batgirl films BOMBS as badly as it did in the screen tests, it would be a decade or more before they could recover.

Go Woke, Go Broke.

Well, we finally have someone who is saying, “Enough!  Time to make money!”

A female DJ I was listening to the other day said that her favorite comics growing up were the early Fantastic Four and I saw you mention them as one of your favorites on another thread. A relative of mine told me that comics are what got him into reading and he became a doctor. I kind of agree that comics are juvenile and yet, some substantial people throughout life told me, “Comics are the birthplace of intellectuals.” Chris Claremont is my favorite writer and he went to Oxford, if I’m not mistaken. He was influenced by Kipling and Heinlein. One person to ask might be Tuggs, because she seems to enjoy reading, but don’t know if she’s into comics. Never even though about it from a female perspective. Supposedly, Sandman has a big female base. Would think that a wife would be looking for romantic storylines, so would look for runs like that, where the supers are kind of the backdrop for the relationship storyline.

The best characters in marvel I feel have to be. Daredevil, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and Captain America. They all have amazing runs, two of them are the foundations of marvel, and a lot of them have some of the best character development, or cool powers, many other characters after them have tried to rip off.

my favorite characters are The Punisher and Captain America. The Punisher to me is the only hero with the balls to finish the job, and in a few of the issues I’ve read of war zone he calls people commies, and j love that as an insult. Captain America on the other hand, has a lot of the same attributes that I love in Superman. That being, he is a symbol of good, and is also a stitch in the fabric of Americana. I love my country, so to me if you are a good ‘ol boy rocking the Stars and Stripes with honor and optimism, I have to love you.

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Was watching a motion comic and one comment said that Darth Vader was based on Dr. Doom from the Fantastic Four? Never heard that one before.

@DarthVengeant

Black Panther: Nope, never saw the first one. Got put off it when I felt like they were trying to make it woke. Which was sad because I really liked him on ‘Civil War’.

The Marvels: I had some slight interest in Captain Marvel but after I saw how wooden everyone’s acting looked on the first trailer, I was immediately turned off it.

Thor 4: Definitely NOT! I respect Portman as an actress but she doesn’t scream Lady Thor. I don’t care if Bale is the villain or if they bring back Loki; I won’t watch Thor basically being thrown under a bus. I actually liked ‘Ragnarok’ but I did have a bit of an issue with the forced humour.

Ant-Man 3: Wasn’t interested in the first so no interest here.

Guardians 3: No interest in them whatsoever.

Also barely interested in anything else MCU related after ‘Endgame’. Looking on in dread what they’re going to do the X-Men and Fantastic Four. Especially the X-Men.

@comicsgate

I was really pleased to see the Scarlet Witch finally in her comic-book outfit. I believe the reason why she had to have a costume change was that it wasn’t practical for combat. I always preferred the Scarlet Witch over Quicksilver in the comics. Unfortunately I think the whole time-travel thing is going to confuse a lot of people. I know a lot of people that said that that was what put them off from liking ‘Endgame’, myself included. ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ handled that better than in ‘Endgame’ because they gave a reason why it ended up being Wolverine and not Kitty going back in time. They also did artificial intelligence better than ‘Age of Ultron’.

The X-Men was actually FOX, hence why the studio got bought-out by Disney because the fan-boys wanted the X-Men and Fantastic Four in the MCU without realising what the consequences would be for FOX produced films. I’m still convinced to this day that Disney brought FOX out of spite because they didn’t like the fact that at the time FOX’s X-Men films were doing better than their Avengers films, especially their 15 rated films like Deadpool and Logan.

Admit that I am not that familiar with the character, but what is fortunate is that she was drawn and adopted by the legendary John Byrne. The issues I really loved were when she was with the Fantastic Four.

Here she is by Arthur Adams in Longshot which brings to mind a suggestion for further seasons of the MCU. Longshot and the Mojoverse would be excellent because supposedly Mojo was a parody of Weinstein and Mojo said that Mutants are good for ratings, so he would do anything for ratings. Good libertarian minded writers could have a field day with that topic.

https://people.com/tv/wheel-of-time-author-on-amazon-adaptation-series-exclusive/

 

Author Brandon Sanderson says he’s been waiting for The Wheel of Time book series to be adapted for a “long time.”
Now, Sanderson’s hope has finally been realized with Friday’s premiere of the Amazon Prime Video eponymous TV series, created by Rafe Judkins and starring Rosamund Pike. The first three episodes are available now.
Fans of the epic fantasy have also been (im)patiently waiting since the first book, The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, was published in 1990. The series begins with Moiraine Damodred (played by Pike in the show) and Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) taking a group of five young people on a quest after their village is attacked, in a world threatened by the Dark One. Moiraine believes one of them is the Dragon Reborn, the person destined to save the world — but also break it.

After Jordan’s death at age 58 in 2007, Sanderson was asked to finish the 14-volume series, which he did in 2013. (Sanderson says being asked to complete the series was both exciting and “terrifying.” “At the time, this was the biggest fantasy series of our time,” he says. “I knew there were millions of fans out there and I was asked to become essentially their stepdad.”)
The first book alone is more than 700 pages long. By the end of the series, there are a few dozen main characters. But the shear size of the saga hasn’t scared off fans, and Sanderson describes it as “halfway between Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones” because it’s “half political intrigue, half quest fantasy.” So far, more than 90 million books in the series have sold.

“The big catch-22 of fantasy is people go to the fantasy section for the world building. But they don’t stay for the world building. World building can only do so much,” continues Sanderson, who began reading the series when he was 15 and reread each book before the newest edition in the series was released. “Thirty something years ago, when I picked up The Eye of the World myself … it had the sense of adventure conveyed on the cover. But the reason I read 11 of those books and eventually agreed to finish the series was because I fell in love with the characters.”
Sanderson is a producer on the show and says he’s spent most of his time reading the script and discussing it with Judkins. He thinks the script is “fantastic” and really likes the cast and crew — including Pike. “She’s great,” he says. “She is both terrifying and inspiring at the same time. Which is exactly what Moiraine should be.”
The Wheel of Time adaptation has gotten a fair amount of attention due to its massive budget. For the first season, Amazon reportedly spent $10 million per episode, while the first episodes of Game of Thrones cost an eyebrow-raising $6 million at the time, according to GQ. Sanderson believes it’s worth it.

We knew if Wheel of Time was going to be done right, it would need this kind of budget,” he says. “This is not a series you can just go film in the woods. The setting of the Wheel of Time, it is a world that basically suffered the apocalypse 1,000 years ago and barely survived. Society collapsed and [was] rebuilt over 1,000 years.”
Sanderson explains that time isn’t linear in the book series, and is instead fashioned like a “wheel.” “People are given second and third and fourth chances,” he says. “You can be reborn and you can try again.”
Case in point: the Dragon. One thousand years ago, the Dragon, then known as Lews Therin Telamon, saved the world, but at great cost.
“The book opens 1,000 years later. This soul is going to get another chance, this person that is the Dragon, to do it again, but maybe do it right this time,” Sanderson says. “And you don’t know who it is. You don’t know how it’s going to play out. But you know that they kind of failed once and this is their second chance. One of the big questions of the series is: Who is the Dragon? Who is the Dragon Reborn? And what is their story going to be?”

When Lews Therin Telamon was alive, both men and women could use magic, known as the One Power. Ten centuries later, women are the only ones who can wield it without going insane.
“There’s this power dynamic where a lot of the rulers and a lot of the people in power — because of the magic — are women,” says Sanderson. “This creates a very interesting, different world from our own. It is treated very delicately, at least in the books, for the time. It was an extremely progressive series.”
Moiraine is one of these women who can “channel” the One Power. She’s part of a powerful order called the Aes Sedai, which is searching for the Dragon, the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon, in order to save the world from the Dark One.

In the beginning of the book series, readers “aren’t sure why Moiraine is there hunting the Dragon Reborn,” says Sanderson.
“Moiraine walking that line between noble threat, but still threat, and mentor figure, is just one of the huge selling points of the series,” he says. “She is probably the singular most interesting character in the entire series because it’s not cut and dry. She keeps her motivations close to her heart — and they are complicated. She is the driving force behind everything happening in this series. And that’s the question: Is Moiraine here to help us or hurt us?”
The young people who follow her from their village of Emond’s Field — Rand al’Thor, Egwene al’Vere, Perrin Aybara, Nynaeve al’Meara and Matrim Cauthon — each will have their own battles to face throughout their long journey.

One of them hates the outside world and does not want anything to do with it. She is only there to try to get her friends all back safe, home, where they belong,” says Sanderson. “Others are finding this a wild adventure, everything they dreamed. Others are terrified. Others don’t know what to think.”
“And that dynamic kind of represents the way that all of us feel growing up, right?” he continues. “It’s an adventure, it’s excitement, but home is safe. And yet, we know we can never quite go home again.”
The first three episodes of The Wheel of Time are available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

 

 

 

 

 

If I were rebooting the MCU, or continuing it from Endgame, I would focus on only a few new characters/teams to develop. The existing ones that would make the cut would be Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Thor, Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man, Falcon, Bucky, and the Guardians of the Galaxy. I’d also like to bring back some of Marvel’s old Netflix shows, like Daredevil and Punisher, that would target a more mature audience. Characters I’d like to introduce to the new MCU would probably be the Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze), She-Hulk (classic, not modern), Blade, Namor, Silver Surfer and Moon Knight.

I’d also like to bring in the X-Men and Deadpool, but they would be from an alternate universe so as to not conflict with the world-building. The X-Men lineup would start with Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Beast. I’d also like to bring in Venom as well, especially if his movies can canonically take place in that universe.

As for the villains, I plan on each hero to have an archenemy so there’s a constant threat in their solo movies. They would be Norman Osborn/Green Goblin (Spider-Man), Baron Mordo (Doctor Strange), time-displaced Loki (Thor), Agatha Harkness (Scarlet Witch), Sonny Burch (Ant-Man), Baron Zemo (Falcon & Bucky), Kingpin & Bullseye (Daredevil), Jigsaw (Punisher), Doctor Doom (Fantastic Four), Mephisto (Ghost Rider & Silver Surfer), Titania or the Leader (She-Hulk), Deacon Frost (Blade), Attuma (Namor), Raoul Bushman (Moon Knight) and Magneto/Brotherhood of Mutants (X-Men). That way, there’s a clear obstacle for each hero to overcome in their own story, giving more stakes to the solo films.

Of course, there would have to be an overarching villain for each hero to come together and face, with the most obvious ones being Galactus or Kang the Conqueror. Another possible choice would be the Beyonder from Secret Wars, or even the Grandmaster if he decided to kidnap every hero and force them into participating in his Contest of Champions (that is, if the people of Sakaar still allow him to rule, but he’d probably find somewhere else to settle).

For the characters that would be retired, they’d be Carol Danvers (I’d have Rogue steal her powers and put her in a coma for the entire length of the franchise), the Eternals, Black Panther (because of Chadwick’s unfortunate passing), Shang-Chi, Hawkeye (I just think he should go home and be a family man), and all the yet-to-be introduced characters, like Kamala Khan, Ironheart, Kate Bishop, America Chavez and Jane Foster Thor.

Sorry to go on-and-on, but, as a huge Marvel fan, I am just uninterested in many of the new projects the MCU has in the future. I have no interest in seeing Eternals, I STILL haven’t gone on Disney+ to watch Black Widow, and the only new stuff I’m interested in are Spider-Man: No Way Home and Doctor Strange 2. I hope the fans voice their opinions on Phase 4 and for the people at Marvel Studios to listen to their feedback (which, as we all know, will likely never happen). Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this entire response. Hope y’all have a great day.

I am only excited to see fantastic four, but kinda have no hope about the movie, since MCU went woke.