Punisher special starts shooting on Thursday

Looks like those DODC rumors were true

I don't remember what those were lmao

But glad Arian is coming back though

so hyped for this show much if i’m being honest i jsur wish they made it a movie

Currently in the midst of doing a full Phase 5 watch/rewatch because I didn’t watch any of the shows and wasn’t really locked in for the movies.

I’m currently at Secret Invasion and… kinda like it? Granted I still have most of it to go and judging from the vitriolic hate it gets, I have to imagine it plummets, but so far I don’t have much to complain about.

It starts decent that’s for sure lol

Do you know if critics got to see the whole show before putting their reviews out or if it was just the first few episodes? Cuz I was pretty surprised to find out that critic scores are pretty on par with the rest of the shows from Phase 5.

First reviews were only first 3-4 episodes i believe, so it started fresh in the low 70s on RT, but after the finale more reviews dropped it and is the only rotten MCU show

Yeah I see that now, RT score is considerably lower. I was mostly referencing the MC score.

Yeah, Secret Invasion was definitely good at first

I would even say it was p good until the finale - that was the biggest pile of dog s*** that I've ever seen in my life

Like I was pissed

They’re funny

Rewatching Iron Man 3.
Love this movie soooo much. One of the most unique superhero movies ever made. Such a step up from 2. I genuinely don't mind the Mandarin change at all.

Also, there's nobody comparable to RDJ/Tony Stark anymore. Like even my sister loved him and would just keep up with the Marvel stuff for him. Don't know if there's any other superhero who appeals to women like that.

The missile striking home scene is probably the most memorable 3D scene I've seen in a theater. Like that s*** really popped out of the screen.

The Airplane fall scene is so cool, an actual scene of the hero saving people, that too in such a cool way. Not just saving them from the attacks of the villain.
This movie genuinely has everything I want in a superhero movie.
Also I'd say the Aldrich-Mandarin change aged well.

Never understood the hate that movie got

agreed. it's a pretty top tier MCU movie for me

Key Quotes:

• On the pivot from Kang to Doom

  Getting access to the Fox Marvel characters has enabled Feige to plus-up the next two Avengers movies with the most notorious antagonist in the comic-books: Dr. Doom. While the original plan for the Avengers movie announced at Comic-Con 2019 was to feature Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror as the main baddie, the character’s future was thrown into question after the actor’s arrest for assaulting his then girlfriend in early 2023.
  Feige says, “Even before what had happened to the actor, we had started to realize that Kang wasn’t Thanos.”

“We had started talking about Dr. Doom even before we officially pivoted from Kang,” he says, “In fact, I had started talking with Robert about this audacious idea before Ant-Man 3 even came out.”

• Blade Update:

  Feige revealed on Friday that while there were four versions of Blade in the works, two of them period (one of them set in the 1930s), “we landed on modern day and that’s what we’re focusing on.”

On pausing Blade after the exit of two filmmakers, Yann Demange, exit and then assam Tariq’s departure, Feige says “We didn’t want to put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires.”

“You can start and have a good script and make it a great script through production, but we didn’t feel confident we could do that on Blade,” he continues, “We didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”

• Movies & Disney+ Connection:

  Feige’s next phase of the MCU are fewer, more quality movies, numbering anywhere from 1 to 3 movies annually with less connectivity between the movies and TV shows.
  Still, while storylines won’t crossover between series and film, characters will, read Jon Bernthal’s The Punisher cameo in the upcoming Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

“Where we have great actors playing great characters, I think it would be fun to see them in multiple places,” says Feige.

• On the MCU Post-Secret Wars

  With Downey Jr. now playing Dr. Doom, are there plans to recast the core Iron Man, Captain America, etc on the big screen? Yes and no. Feige sees a star such as Chris Hemsworth still in his prime to play Thor, and even cherishes the return of thespians (i.e. Tim Blake Nelson’s Samuel Stern in Captain America: Brave New World) who played Marvel characters years ago. But, yes, in the long-term like with many other storied movie franchises, Marvel classic superheros will get new faces. When exactly? “X-Men is where that will happen,” promised Feige.

In addition, post Avengers: Secret Wars, there is a plan he says to “reset singular timelines” and reboot he MCU. Are there more R-rated MCU movies after making the highest grossing R-rated movie of all-time with Deadpool & Wolverine at $1.33 billion? Sure. “Where appropriate and where necessary,” says Feige.

In regard to Feige’s future and whether there’s more Marvel under him, he’s not going anywhere. While his contract is up in two years, he tells us, “Do I want to be making big movies for big audiences in ten or 15 years from now? Yes, that’s all I want to do. Marvel is great way to do that.”

they knew kang was burnt before quantumania even dropped that’s hilarious

This is the only good thing Sony has put their foot down for

They put their foot down so that they can make him the center of their own Sony universe

Sounds awful

No I think it’s so they can’t use him until the Spider-Verse trilogy wraps up

At least that’s what I choose to believe