Comic-Con: Marvel Sets Dates For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’, ‘Captain America’ And ‘Thor’ Sequels

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• I wonder if $4 Billion for Marvel is still considered a good deal if the films have peaked with The Avengers. It is hard to imagine any future Marvel films exceeding the success Avengers has had, and the remaining characters that haven’t had their stories told seem at least a step below the films that led to the Avengers (which in turn, where a step below the characters that Marvel sold to other studios to produce).

  I know there are sequels, reboots, spin offs, TV series and the all important consumer product rights involved, but I wonder if we haven’t already seen the best Marvel will offer Disney.

  Comment by No One of Consequence — Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 7:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • But they don’t need to exceed The Avengers. Nobody expects them to exceed it. The Avengers is now the 3rd most grossing film ever with almost $1.5 bil.! If the rest did half as good, Disney would be deliriously happy.

    Comment by timotey — Sunday July 15, 2012 @ 3:22am PDT  Reply to this post

    • That is basically what I am asking, has the Marvel deal already paid for itself with Avengers? If everything else that comes out of Marvel from here on out is nothing more than “moderately successful” and the the bulk are “average” with the occasional “loser” tossed in there, was did Disney make a smart move in paying $4 billion for the company? We’ve likely seen the peak of what Marvel will accomplish (not diminishing that peak, mind you), and there is presumably a lot still to come from Marvel, so disappointment is inevitable.

      Comment by No One of Consequence — Sunday July 15, 2012 @ 4:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Guardians Of The Galaxy and Ant-Man…

  well, we’ve all been wondering when the party was going to end for Marvel. looks like we got our answer.

  Comment by carg0 — Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 9:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • hmmm. so I guess Marvel should just stick with “play-it-safe” material? Stick with the more established characters and you’ll reel in the big bucks and everything will be hunky-dory? Don’t stir the waters? Why don’t they just do Iron Man and Captain American sequels until they bleed white? That should do the trick…

    Comment by david iles iii — Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 10:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Once upon a time, Iron Man was b material. I’m the only person I know who’d ever read those comics. Everyone else said what a stupid idea it was. I told them to wait and see…

    Comment by Scififan — Sunday July 15, 2012 @ 5:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Just because Guardians of the Galaxy isn’t a well known team doesn’t mean they won’t work. Quite the the contrary, it’s actually an exceptional comic book with great potential.

  Comment by Will — Saturday July 14, 2012 @ 10:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• You’re kidding, Disney for once made a killer deal. They will reap in the dough for decades.

  Comment by Joe — Sunday July 15, 2012 @ 8:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• I want to see Marvel do a Villain vs Villain movie! Enough with the Superheroes…how about focusing on villain’s. I find it more interesting, different from all others and fun. If Marvel doesn’t want to do it then DC Comics should give it a try!!!

  Comment by Susan — Monday July 16, 2012 @ 11:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• You guys are so fixated on the comic books and movies you’re forgetting about the THEME PARKS. While USO/IoA owns Spidey and Hulk for a nice long lease (and just upgraded Spiderman spectacularly), Disney can promote the rest of the Marvel universe in all the other parks although how they’ll fit in next to Mickey Minnie & Goofy nobody knows for sure; perhaps they’ll be kept out of the Magic Kingdom and put in Hollywood Studios and California Adventure and the big game changer park Disneyland Shanghai.

  Comment by AJ — Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 7:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Guardians of The Galaxy? I can’t see a superhero team that includes a talking racoon being appealing to anyone not a kid. I don’t understand why they chose that over say Black Panther or especially Doctor Strange, which already has a screenplay ready !

  Comment by Chrisfs — Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 9:16pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Ironically, I have yet to really read this Guardians of the Galaxy. There is another Guardians of the Galaxy that comes to mind made by Marvel. It has Vance Astro as the leader and is set in the year 3000, great team and great book. Only went roughly 61 issues though. They were even honorary avengers, they helped with the original Korvac saga.

  Comment by Nate — Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 3:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I am a fan of Marvel Comics and movies.

  Please keep producing such wonderful movies, and I will always watch those movies.

  Comment by Ajay Chanchal — Friday September 7, 2012 @ 7:14am PDT  Reply to this post