Today marks the five year anniversary of the Comic Movie News thread! Five years and one hundred plus pages. I went and reread the topic from the beginning and made a few observations:
It all started on April 24, 2010 when I made a topic to discuss Iron Man 2. Shortly after, I decided to convert it into a catch all comic book movie (and later, TV) news thread.
There's so many posters who used to frequent this topic (and the forums as a whole) that are now gone. But there's others who've been around since the beginning, such as Bret, Chris Crime, Wicked and Longo.
We used to always speculate on Nathan Fillion playing a character in almost every comic film. He eventually showed up to voice the blue skinned alien that Groot nose raped in Guardians of the Galaxy.
I used to post on a lot more rumors in the past. I eventually quit posting them unless it was a really good one and I boldly prefaced them as rumor.
Chris Evans will play Captain America? You mean the douchey guy who played Johnny Storm? Guess I'll give him a chance.
Aw man, the trailer for Green Lantern looks pretty good!
Hey guys, we'll have a Hulk TV show on ABC in 2012! Guillermo del Toro will be involved too!
Edgar Wright's doing a script for Ant-Man! Can't wait to see that!
There was some sharp debate and division over X-Men: First Class and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Hey guys, according to the Warner Bros president, we'll get a Justice League movie in 2013!
Poor Bretimus fell for my Howard the Duck cameo in The Avengers 2012 April Fools joke.
Pages and pages of debates over what the best and worst comics films are.
SURELY Bane will use venom at some point in The Dark Knight Rises, right?
Ugh was
thisclose to being an extra in The Dark Knight Rises. Stupid Yahoo email.
Holy shit, that first trailer for The Avengers got us all wet in the panties.
Alright, here's the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises!...and I can't understand a thing that Bane's saying. He's still gonna use venom right?
Ghost Rider: FIRE. PEE.
A Green Arrow TV show? That's going to suck and no good will ever come from it.
Ok, that Justice League movie may be pushed back to 2014.
Used on how he thought Guardians of the Galaxy would turn out:
used44 said:
Even then, fully expect it to be the worst comic book movie of all time.
Alright, maybe Justice League in 2015.
I used to just do updates as I got info, often daily, sometimes a few times a day. Thanks go to Dan for saying he liked the larger periodic updates, which is how I generally do them now. Dan always seemed to be one the biggest supporters of my updates and this topic.
A few things I predicted wrong, such as a Planet Hulk movie. Other things I got right, like X-Men: Days of Future Past resetting series continuity, and Ultimate Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
As the cast for X-Men: Days of Future Past grew, I became biased. I was afraid shoehorning so many characters into the film would make every role feel like a cameo. I was wrong and it all fit wonderfully.
What's with all these meetings between Vin Diesel and Marvel? Who's he going to play?
Simon Pegg will be Ant-Man!
Wait, Ben Affleck is the new Batman?
That Guardians of the Galaxy movie actually sounds pretty neat.
Oh no, Michael Bay is doing Ninja Turtles, my childhood is raped, blah, blah, blah.
Quicksilver in Days of Future Past looks lame. They're only squeezing him in to stick it to Marvel and Joss Whedon before Age of Ultron comes out. (Boy was I wrong, he had probably the best scene in the film).
My posting style has changed over time. I think it's become more of a serious and professional style overall.
Alright, Ben Affleck is Batman!
Spider-Man will be in the Marvel Cinematic Universe!
When this topic began, I think the only comic based show was Smallville. Now we have what feels like roughly 80 of them, with more new ones and spin-offs to come.
Deadpool's actually getting a film? Bet it's going to be rated PG-13 thoug--nope rated R bitches!
Thank you all for reading what I post in here and supporting this topic. I plan to keep this thing going for as long as I can.
Now that the mushy stuff is out of the way, I'll add on what news I've gathered in the past week:
A second season of Daredevil is confirmed and should bow on Netflix in early April 2016. I just finished the current run yesterday. It was awesome all the way through.
Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi Morse aka Mockingbird) and Nick Blood (Lance Hunter) are finalizing deals to headline the planned Agents of SHIELD spinoff series.
Tyler Perry is set to play Baxter Stockman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
Also confirmed for the Turtles sequel: Bebop and Rocksteady. Cool.
Previously, I reported that Valiant Comics was getting their own cinematic universe in a similar vein to Marvel and DC. The first film will be Bloodshot and is aiming for a 2017 release. Four other films will follow: a second Bloodshot, two Harbinger films, and fifth film to combine both called Harbinger Wars. Bloodshot already has John Wick directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski attached. If the first five films are successful, production will proceed on films for Archer & Armstrong and Shadowman.
Here's a short video that offers some closeup looks of the
Batmobile from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Here's fan-shot footage from the set of Deadpool of 'Pool giving Ajax
a lift.
I'll leave you with an impact and knife resistant homemade
Batsuit created by a 21 year old university student.
And once again, thanks to all for sticking around all these years and letting me bring the news to you.