Iron Man (2008)
>Several directors turned the movie down because they believed it'd flop before Jon Favreau was hired. Louis Leterrier was also interested, and subsequently directed THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
>Sam Rockwell and Clive Owen auditioned for Tony Stark before Robert Downey Jr. was cast.
>Rachel McAdams was offered Pepper Potts, but declined, and Gwyneth Paltrow was cast.
>Early drafts featured the Mandarin as a corrupt Chinese businessman who led the 10 Rings and created the Crimson Dynamo armor to fight Iron Man, before Jon Favreau decided to build up to the character.
>Early drafts featured Obadiah Stane only as Stark's estranged mentor, and his descend into villainy would be explored over several movies.
>In early drafts, Stark would throw Stane into a vat of acid rather than have him caught in the blast of the Arc Reactor's explosion. When the armor is retrieved, Stane's body is gone, indicating he might have survived.
>In early drafts, Stark would fight Stane in the prototype Mark IV armor, which includes a shoulder-mounted gattling gun and would later become the War Machine armor.
>The movie was filmed mostly without a script, with actors ad-libbing most of their lines based on a production guideline. Production was so chaotic that both the cast and the producers believed the movie would be a disaster until test-screenings reported surprisingly positive audience reception.
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
>Mark Ruffalo was Louis Leterrier's original choice for Bruce Banner, but the studio favored Edward Norton.
>Ray Stevenson auditioned for Emil Blonsky before Tim Roth was cast.
>Norton had concerns about the movie's direction and demanded to revise the script. He notoriously clashed with producers and added several subplots that were partially filmed and ultimately cut.
>Stan Lee would originally cameo as the captain of the USS Excelsior, a fishing boat that Banner and Betty hire to take them to Manhattan after the U.S. military blockade the bridge.
>The Hulk would originally decapitate the Abomination with the chain wrapped around his neck. This was changed due to negative reception from test-audiences.
>Norton was a fan of "The Wire" and added a subplot about a man, played by Michael K. Williams, who reaches out to the Hulk during the Battle of Harlem to stop the destruction. The subplot was almost entirely cut and Williams' role reduced to a cameo.
>Norton also added an extended comedic sequence where Banner interacts with a computer geek while trying to retrieve data from the university. Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and Jason Segel were approached to make an appearance as the computer geek, but when they all declined, the scene was scrapped and the geek reduced to a cameo, played by Martin Starr.
Iron Man 2 (2010)
>Emily Blunt was originally cast as Natasha Romanoff, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts and was replaced by Scarlett Johansson.
>Terrence Howard, who played James Rhodes, was the highest-paid actor in "Iron Man", and asked to accept a pay cut for the sequel. When he refused, he was fired and replaced by Don Cheadle.
>Tim Robbins was approached to play Howars Stark, but declined.
>Zhang Ziyi was approached to play Rumiko Fujikawa before the character was scrapped.
>Justin Hammer was originally the main villain, and would've been an older, shrewd businessman. Producers envisioned Al Pacino in the role, but the idea was scrapped when Hammer was made into a younger, more comedic character and the secondary antagonist.
>Ivan Vanko was originally a secondary villain, alongside his brother Boris Bullsky. Vanko would die during the fight in Monaco, and Bullsky would be recruited by Hammer to become Titanium Man and avenge his brother's death. Sam Rockwell originally auditioned for Bullsky before the two characters were merged into one and made into the primary antagonist, played by Mickey Rourke.
>Jon Favreau's original plan was to adapt the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline, with Stark descending into alcoholism due to Hammer's machinations to ruin his public image, government pressure to surrender his technology and Pepper finding a new boyfriend, but the studio felt the subject was too dark and persuaded Favreau to change it to a storyline of Stark dying of Palladium poisoning.
>Hawkeye was featured in early drafts, but was cut due to being superfluous to the narrative, filling the same role as Black Widow.
>In early cuts, Stark and Romanoff had a more flirtatious relationship. Most of these scenes where cut as test-audiences believed it underscored Stark's relationship with Pepper.
>In early cuts, Vanko was a more sympathetic character, but most of these scenes were cut, which displeased Rourke. He disowned the movie and swore never to work with Marvel again.
>Rourke added most of Vanko's quirks such as the hair, the tattoos, the dentures and the bird.
>Favreau notoriously complained about the rushed production schedule that didn't allow him to refine the script as much as he wanted. The cast once again ad-libbed most of their dialogue.
>In the original ending, Vanko would kidnap Pepper to force Stark to surrender to him and be executed, but War Machine intervenes and rescues Stark and Pepper before killing Vanko with the Ex-Wife missile. Test-audiences felt the ending was anti-climatic, and a new version where Iron Man and War Machine fight an armored Vanko was filmed.
Let's have a moment of silence for the fallen.
>>83915499
It's not dead, it's concluded. Minus finished its story.
>>83915499
>death is mercy
This fuck got a kick starter and still doesn't update. Also avas demon seems to admire him.
>>83915499
I really enjoyed BTC when it wasn't attempting multicomic stories.
Anyone else feel like they flounderized Dory in the film? She's becomes more annoying than the last movie. It became irritated.
>>83915391
>flounderized
>>83915391
>flounderized
>>83915391
>flounderized
It's father's day. Post hot dads
See this is a dangerous concept because it could easily turn into a Dick thread as he is Damian's proper father
>>83915181
Father figures are also acceptable
How come he's able to easily shave his beard, yet his hair can withstand millions of degrees and mach 4?
Does he use a kryptonite razor or something?
you could try actually reading the comic and seeing the page where he shaves his beard
>>83914944
He lasers it off with his own heat vision and a mirror and if you actually read a comic or watched a cartoon you would know that, you filthy fucking casual.
>>83915026
Why don't they cover themselves in a reflective subtance to negate his laser vision then?
Dory did it.
"Warcraft", TMNT:OotS, and X-Men;A continue to sink, being duds at the domestic boxoffice. But they're making up for it with strong international boxoffice. Especially "Warcraft" which made $200 M in the Chinese Boxoffice. I have no idea why.
>>83914725
Warcraft is really popular in China, but the movie was hot garbage
>>83914725
Warcraft can't make it's budget back in China. 200 million isn't even enough.
I'm more surprised by how much Zootopia is still making 16 weeks in
When I say "TALENT", you say "SHOW"
TALENT
Just watched a couple episodes. Fucking horrible but I can appreciate that it's parodying its own foulness. Not sure if I can get over the art style.
The Fish episode was pretty good.
>>83914979
reminds me of the old Mondo video shockumentories or the Faces of Death series.
With that said, nothing really stands out as good or amusing for me. Sheriff is coming pretty close in the newer episodes.
>>83914979
>parodying its own foulness
That's not really a thing m8
you can't parody yourself
Can someone explain why Marvel's handicapping the X-Men in the comics? I hear people say it's to weaken the brand so they can get the movie rights from Fox, but that doesn't seem right. They don't have room to put out any X-Men movies. Disney's already putting out 3 MCU films a year, plus a Star Wars movie, plus 2-4 animated films a year. Any more and they start cannibalizing themselves.
Are they doing it for TV? Netflix money probably wouldn't be worth it but I could maybe see them trying to make a broadcast X-Men show.
I don't know man, but I just find it really disappointing how much bullshit like that affects the stories.
Like the whole cramming Mystique centre stage because JLaw is popular, even though it makes no goddamn sense with the intrinsic logic of the world. Like, imagine if in Dragonball they suddenly turned some goober from the Ginyu Force into this universal symbol of heroism for warriors everywhere.
Sure that might be good for a laugh, but when you think about it for more than one second it's just like "fucking what?"
They are just being spiteful
>>83914708
i know it's like shoehorning batman into a superman movie just because batman is more populat
GOAT animated capeshit or radio drama with wiggly paper dolls?
I love the style of the old fleischer superman shorts, but it's hard to deny the animation is way less dynamic and interesting than some of the Popeye material of roughly the same period. Don't get me wrong, there's tons of movement, but there's something 'off' about them that makes me prefer Batman TAS as the definitive animated capeshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1-PjY5tcOI&list=PLhGipfv0juZWw5lM_NyhY1n32UXVSn37Q&index=3
>inb4 clickbait title
Superhero media in general didn't get good until the 2000's.
>>83914299
>but there's something 'off'
It's called rotoscoping. Max Fleischer invented it
Was Motorcity any good? Because that animation combined with an OST by fucking Brendon Small sounds like a great combo.
It was great. So was Tron: Uprising. The ridiculous Sundays at midnight timeslot fucked both those shows.
>>83913880
It was fun, but nothing great.
>>83913880
It was great, but we all know Disney doesn't like great cartoons
>Transformers Beast Wars
>when it frist came it was originally considered garbage and a shit idea
>truk not munky
>overtime it became one of the best Transformers shows to date
>those characters
>that plot
>that 90s CGI
>it ends
>Transformers Beast Machines is announced
>fucking hype
>it comes out it
>it is complete shit
>ruins the characters both predacons and maximals
>the literally only good characters were the vehicon commanders
>they all "die" one by one
Transformers Beast Wars thread
>>83913870
Why did they have to disguise themselves as dinosaurs exactly?
>>83913870
Wasn't Beast Wars ongoing when Machines came out?
>>83913904
dinosaurs are fuckin' cool
Times you almost wet my pants in fear.
>>83913836
I'm sorry if i ever wet your pants OP
>>83913836
That was ONE time, anon!
>>83913836
Fuck you, you told me to piss on you
What went wrong?
>>83913737
The 90's are over, and the Hot Topic crowd is too young for the nostalgia sell.
>>83913737
garbage story devoid of any real emotion or history
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/corpse-bride/articles/25417/title/corpse-bride-original-folk-tale
>>83913750
That doesn't make sense
Corpse Bride came out at the height of the scene-emo-pseudogoth craze
Is anyone watching this? Thoughts? With each new episode we are getting more and more of the comics. It's a slow burn but, hey, chainsaw fights. And Cassidy is one of the best brought to life comic characters.
>>83913643
Third episode in and yeah I like it more than when I saw the pilot. The introduction of the Saint and the angels makes me think they're not going to diverge too much from the comic as far as the main plot goes. I was worried they were going to drop God being a cunt in favor of just having the Grail be the primary antagonist.
Still miffed at the show making Jesse's dad a preacher rather than having that life foisted on him by Grandma.
New episode airing in a few minutes and this is dead. Shame.
>>83913781
I read somewhere they were going to make Genesis an alien and I groaned. But it looks like they are going to the Nephlim, voice of God route. So much better. I never saw the point of taking a book and completely changing everything about it for the big/small screen.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2016/06/19/comic-book-questions-answered-is-cyclops-a-sociopath/
Interesting read
>>83913531
Summarize it not clicking on that shit.
>>83913531
Were is the wolverine version?
>>83913664
he gets 27 out of 30, so no, but damn close