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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 #1 movie in the world
Um....F8ck yeah,i guess...(?) ...
It is making more money than any other movie right now,but.....it's only natural.....
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In the past week, Avi Arad vented his anger over a Businessweek.com article that placed most of the credit for Marvel Studios success on Kevin Feige, the current president of Marvel Studios. He especially didn't like being described as someone that doubted Marvel's strategy to leverage film rights of their characters for a half a billion dollar loan, which went to making Marvel's first films. He responded with an email (click here) and even sent out some additional comments to Deadline:"Let’s be clear here. Arad was happy to renew Iron Man with New Line for a total of FOUR years. He was happy with a script by Tim McLanies in which Iron Man was dressed by his toaster. He sat in meetings with Bob Shea who insisted that Iron Man not fly and he was okay with that. His vision for Iron Man was to try to pretty much do anything Shea and Emmerich wanted to do. So how did he get it back from them when the new opportunity arose? Simple. He lied. He lied to New Line and Emmerich for months telling them that they were in negotiations for an extension, leading them to believe the project was going forward, then on the day the option was up he pulled it. Arad so baldy and boldy lied to everyone back in those days, it’s astonishing he wants the unearned credit now. Track record? Outside of Marvel that consists of the Bratz movie. Feige was and remains the waterboy, that was clear then and now, but to talk about “forgiving” Kevin is just hilarious."
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'Amazing Spider-Man 2' director Marc Webb on Gwen Stacy's fate in sequel: 'There's a cost to being a hero'
Image Credit: Niko Tavernise
Warning: If you haven’t yet seen The Amazing Spider-Man 2, then you should absolutely stop reading right now.
As many have predicted for nearly a year, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) does indeed fall to her death in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, much as she did in Amazing Spider-Man #121 – a comicwhich, appropriately enough, is known as “The Night Gwen Stacy Died.” But regardless of speculation and source material that dates back nearly four decades, some audiences were still shocked to see Peter Parker’s first love come to such a terrible end. “I’ve poked my head into theaters in L.A. for that moment just to hear people gasp,” director Marc Webb tells EW. “It’s fascinating. People just don’t believe it.”
Webb understands. He felt much the same way when Gwen Stacy was killed off in the comic. “It stayed with me in a profound way. It broke me. I was anxious and curious to explore it on the screen. From the very beginning I planned on doing it,” he says. “For me, everything in the movie was built around that moment. There’s a cost to being a hero.”
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But there was another theme that greatly interested Webb: “[The movie] is also about time and about valuing the time you have with the one you love,” he says. He points out that the very first shot of the film is a ticking clock, and that its first line is Richard Parker saying, “I wish I had more time.” Time is the underlying theme of Gwen’s valedictorian speech, and her last fateful moments take place where? At a clock tower. “Ultimately, it’s not the Goblin that kills Gwen,” says Webb. “They’re fighting in the cogs, in the machinery of the clock tower, and Spider-Man puts his foot in between the cogs and literally tries to stop time. That’s what causes her death—his inability, despite his enormous efforts, to stop time.”
This is the stuff of classic tragedy. “It’s about trying to do good, and by virtue of trying to do good, bad things happen,” says Webb. “It’s what Oedipus does — he goes out and tries to save the city, and he ends up sleeping with his mother.” Webb laughs. “His efforts are noble! But the irony of it is that he causes damage by trying to do good. That is, to me, the most resonant thing of tragedy. Spider-Man is saving people and the world, but it’s at his own expense.”
Of course, it’s not so easy to sacrifice your very popular leading lady either. “I’m utterly aware of the consequences for us,” Webb says. “Emma is beloved, and that relationship is the heart of these movies. But that’s also why we couldn’t shy away from that. It has to have impact. It has to shock you. It has to be devastating. Anything else would be undermining the truth of it.”
As for Peter Parker, he’ll have another movie to work on healing. “It’s going to be really difficult for Peter Parker to move forward,” says Webb. “But that’s the challenge of it: How do you recover from that? That’s going to play out in the next movie.”
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A comment often heard when it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that it’s too bad Marvel Studios doesn’t own the movie rights to Spider-Man and X-Men. For those that don’t know, the rights to make a Spider-Man movie belong to Sony while X-Men belongs to Fox (Fox also has Fantastic Four but that has yet to prove itself a hit). So as long as Sony and Fox keep making those movies, they retain the rights indefinitely. A lot of fans love the MCU featuring the Avengers and wish that Marvel’s other franchises were a part of it. While I think that it would be cool to see this on the big screen…
Coming to Theaters Never
...I am grateful that it’s currently not possible.
That might sound crazy, especially coming from a lifetime comic lover, but there’s a logic to my lunacy. Only so much time and money can be put into making superhero movies, so a cap exists to how many can be made each year, no matter how big a hit they are. This means that the resources available will go to the safest bets to be a success. As far as Marvel’s comics go, their most popular franchises had always been Spider-Man and X-Men -- it’s why they were sold off in the first place.
Now, if Marvel Studios had the rights to those superhero characters, then they would probably have never even considered making a Guardians of the Galaxy or Ant-Man movie (which now both are slated for release). That’s why I’m glad they don’t have those movie rights -- it’s forcing them to dig deeper into their catalog of heroes that would have otherwise remained untapped.
From a comic reader’s point of view, the fact that Rocket Raccoon -- a wise-cracking raccoon with a machine gun -- is making it to the big screen, voiced by Bradley Cooper no less, is pure insanity. It’s like seeing your favorite obscure indie band suddenly make it big, dominating Top 40 radio and winning a bunch of Grammys (for me, that’s fun.). You thought you’d never see the day, but now you’re happy everyone else is into what you’ve known is cool all along.
I would go so far as to say that if Marvel Studios owned the rights to X-Men and Spider-Man, then the Avengers movie would have never been made. Could you imagine a world without what is arguably the greatest achievement in superhero movie history? Any way you shake it, Avengers characters just weren’t that popular before 2008 when Iron Man came out, but now everyone from Black Widow to Thor is a household name.
Marvel Studios took a risk to make that first Iron Man movie, and it paid off beautifully. But there was always the chance mixing a comedic star in a high-flying superhero movie could have failed -- that’s what we call Green Lantern -- and the entire MCU would have started and ended with that one flick. When spending millions of dollars to make a movie, studios don’t like risk, so it’s easy to imagine Marvel Studios continuing to crank out X-Men, X-Force, and X-Factor movies for years before even considering adapting their one comic about a dude who flies around in a robot suit. Even if they did eventually do an Avengers movie, it wouldn't have been the same: Wolverine would have been the main character.
Suddenly, it sounds pretty great that Marvel’s most iconic characters are spread out among different studios, each with their own plans. With Spider-Man and the X-Men being developed elsewhere, Marvel Studios can continue to dive deeper into their catalog to show general audiences what makes Doctor Strange so cool and, one day if we’re lucky, why Beta Ray Bill is the best character, like, ever.
@amazingspiderman15 said:
ign article
A comment often heard when it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that it’s too bad Marvel Studios doesn’t own the movie rights to Spider-Man and X-Men. For those that don’t know, the rights to make a Spider-Man movie belong to Sony while X-Men belongs to Fox (Fox also has Fantastic Four but that has yet to prove itself a hit). So as long as Sony and Fox keep making those movies, they retain the rights indefinitely. A lot of fans love the MCU featuring the Avengers and wish that Marvel’s other franchises were a part of it. While I think that it would be cool to see this on the big screen…
Coming to Theaters Never
...I am grateful that it’s currently not possible.
That might sound crazy, especially coming from a lifetime comic lover, but there’s a logic to my lunacy. Only so much time and money can be put into making superhero movies, so a cap exists to how many can be made each year, no matter how big a hit they are. This means that the resources available will go to the safest bets to be a success. As far as Marvel’s comics go, their most popular franchises had always been Spider-Man and X-Men -- it’s why they were sold off in the first place.
Now, if Marvel Studios had the rights to those superhero characters, then they would probably have never even considered making a Guardians of the Galaxy or Ant-Man movie (which now both are slated for release). That’s why I’m glad they don’t have those movie rights -- it’s forcing them to dig deeper into their catalog of heroes that would have otherwise remained untapped.
From a comic reader’s point of view, the fact that Rocket Raccoon -- a wise-cracking raccoon with a machine gun -- is making it to the big screen, voiced by Bradley Cooper no less, is pure insanity. It’s like seeing your favorite obscure indie band suddenly make it big, dominating Top 40 radio and winning a bunch of Grammys (for me, that’s fun.). You thought you’d never see the day, but now you’re happy everyone else is into what you’ve known is cool all along.
I would go so far as to say that if Marvel Studios owned the rights to X-Men and Spider-Man, then the Avengers movie would have never been made. Could you imagine a world without what is arguably the greatest achievement in superhero movie history? Any way you shake it, Avengers characters just weren’t that popular before 2008 when Iron Man came out, but now everyone from Black Widow to Thor is a household name.
Marvel Studios took a risk to make that first Iron Man movie, and it paid off beautifully. But there was always the chance mixing a comedic star in a high-flying superhero movie could have failed -- that’s what we call Green Lantern -- and the entire MCU would have started and ended with that one flick. When spending millions of dollars to make a movie, studios don’t like risk, so it’s easy to imagine Marvel Studios continuing to crank out X-Men, X-Force, and X-Factor movies for years before even considering adapting their one comic about a dude who flies around in a robot suit. Even if they did eventually do an Avengers movie, it wouldn't have been the same: Wolverine would have been the main character.
Suddenly, it sounds pretty great that Marvel’s most iconic characters are spread out among different studios, each with their own plans. With Spider-Man and the X-Men being developed elsewhere, Marvel Studios can continue to dive deeper into their catalog to show general audiences what makes Doctor Strange so cool and, one day if we’re lucky, why Beta Ray Bill is the best character, like, ever.
I have to agree. Actually at this point the ONLY characters I want to see back over at Marvel is the Fantastic Four. And even then I'd be fine if Marvel ended up selling them off to Sony, at least that way we get Spider-Man and the FF together which is something I've always wanted to see live action.
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