In case anyone couldn’t be at San Diego Comic-Con this year (like me and a million of other people), there were some interesting new developments about PHASE TWO of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In this year’s Marvel Studios panel in the famed Hall H, just an hour after Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures buzzing panel, Kevin Feige & Co. announced what will be the next step they’ll take for their post-The Avengers take.
Some of these updates are:
- Iron Man 3 is currently filming (halfway through).
- Captain America‘s sequel gets the title Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- Thor’s sequel gets the title Thor: The Dark World.
- Edgar Wright is working on Ant-Man and he’s taking “the Terrence Malick approach to superheroes” to explain why the progress is so slow.
- There’s going to be a new superhero team movie, The Guardians Of The Galaxy.
- The Guardians Of The Galaxy line-up: Star-Lord, Draxx the Destroyer, Groot and Rocket Raccoon and Gamorra)
Now, I am not there personally but I have a Twitter filled with various accounts of movie websites and I followed live-blog from this great site called Coming Soon and Super Hero Hype. Thanks to them, I got to know what happened in the footages that were shown in the panel. A certain Mr. Silas Lesnick live blogged for these two sites from the panel and he gave us a full report of what happened during the Marvel Studios panel. Check it out.
For those of you who are too lazy to look at the live blog report to find out (shame on you, though! They’re worth scrolling for!) I’m copy-pasting the footage breakdown. (This also serves as my personal archive… just so I can compare what happens in the footages to what happens in the actual clips or trailers that will come out in the future.) Please be aware that this is not my live blog text. It belongs to Mr. Silas Lesnick and the websites above.
Ant-Man test footage breakdown:
The costume looks a lot like the IRREDEEMABLE ANT-MAN costume.
The face is completely covered, so we don’t know who the actor is.
It’s a black suit with red highlights.
The scene is a hallway with two guardians (maybe shield agents?) guarding a door at the end.
on the opposite end of the hallway is a vent and, at it, stands Ant-Man at only a few inches high.
He leaps down and we see him running down the massive hallway.
Suddenly there’s a flash and he’s full sized, charging the guards.
He leaps and flashes again. He punches one at his tiny size and one of the guy’s teeth goes flying out of his mouth as he crashed into a panel.
Ant-Man slides down the tie of the other man and returns to full size, flipping him over.
He gets in the door, apparently an elevator, at full size and, with another flash, is gone.
The title comes up, just plain ANT-MAN.
Iron Man 3 footage breakdown:
We begin in Stark’s lab. He’s talking to “dummy” and his suits of armor, telling them he’s about to introduce them to their badass baby brother.
He asks Dummy to play some seasonal music and he turns on a techno version of Jingle Bells.
Stark stands, posing and flexing. Suddenly a piece of armor shoots across the room.
One by one, his armor form, flying at him as he wills it to.
One hits his crotch, through, and he doubles over.
Another slams into his back and he falls, but jet-propels himself back up.
The last piece is the faceplate and, as it comes at him, he flips, propeling himself off the crowd with one hand upside down while the mask comes on.
We see another scene with Favreau as Happy talking to Stark through a video chat.
“You can’t talk to me like that,” he tells Stark good humoredly, “I don’t work for you anymore.”
“That’s because you quit!” says Stark.
He says he can’t deal with Stark being off with the Superfriends these days.
We see a bunch of footage — Guy Pearce’s character — The Iron Patriot armor.
“Some people call me a terrorist,” says a voice (I don’t think it’s Kingsley).
“I consider myself a teacher. Lesson number one: There is no such thing as heroes.”
We see a bunch of helicopters firing on Stark’s house, blowing it off the edge of the cliff.
Inside, every suit of armor is destroyed.
Iron Man falls into the ocean as wreckage comes down on top of him.
Cut to…
Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin.
It’s the costume from the comic almost exactly.
The footage ends and they’re even calling him the Mandarin now.
Mandarin is wearing at least four rings.
And he cocks a gun in the shot.
(Really, many thanks to Silas Lesnick – whoever he is – for typing all of that up.)
During the panel, I noticed on Twitter that “Ant-Man“, “The Winter Soldier“, “The Dark World“, “Ben Kingsley” and “Phase Two” were trending worldwide. I don’t know if my Twitter was faulty during the WB/Legendary panel, but I didn’t notice any of the things from their panel was trending worldwide, except for the Godzilla remake, directed by Gareth Edwards. (I could be wrong and I hope I’m wrong because everything about The Hobbit and Pacific Rim were absolutely awesome and fantastic.) But this, I think might be an indication of just how big still the hype of The Avengers is.
Marvel’s Phase Two is something that’s been bandied about in the past few month since The Avengers played in cinemas and we all know that movie is so far the biggest movie of the year. So many rumors were circling… and now we’ve got confirmation on a few things. Naturally, all the fans are excited about this. Meanwhile, Zac Snyder’s Man Of Steel may have come up with some amazing footage as well, but I’m guessing there’s now a bigger anticipation for movies about Marvel superheroes than about DC superheroes. (But this is a discussion for another time.)
What I want to say is that this Marvel Studios panel has convinced me that they’re taking solid steps in the right direction for The Avengers sequel. (Some people would argue against The Guardians Of The Galaxy but I have a different opinion. And I’ll also discuss this another time because I’ve no time right now.) No matter what will happen with The Avengers 2 – which Joss Whedon is still isn’t sure about directing at this point – I think we’ll get some great films on the meantime.
“Can hardly wait” seems to be an understatement after Marvel’s Hall H panel.
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