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    It's also worth noting that when Bob Iger announced his retirement as Disney's CEO and was contemplating his run for president in 2015 he claimed that the main reason he didn't do it was to see the Fox acquisition through before he stepped down as CEO, so the deal was in the works for quite a while before we started hearing about it publicly. The comics division of Marvel had gone to the mattresses with Fox before that by killing off Wolverine and cancelling Fantastic Four, but by 2018 they brought Wolverine back and re-started Fantastic Four, so the idea that the Fox deal would happen was rippling through more places in Marvel than just the MCU. If you're unfamiliar with the tie between the Celestials and the MCU I posted the details earlier this year in the Wandavision thread. All of what I hypothesized about the emergence of the X-Men below is still viable, but it turns out none of it was explicitly ever revealed in Wandavision as I was hoping it might be. But in retrospect that makes some sense...it's a bit early to start teasing the X-Men now given that we won't see them in films for another 4-5 years. I highly recommend reading the six pages linked below, they're a short read and a great overview of the ret-con that Kirby planned out to explain how "evolution" could ever lead to superpowers like the X-Men have.
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    It won't, it will push the narrative towards the X-Men. Which is what Kirby had in mind himself when he created the Celestials back in the 1970s. My guess is that Feige's crew have had Eternals on the creative burner for years just waiting for whenever they were able to re-obtain the rights to the X-Men. We got the Eternals announcement in April 2018, and by then the Fox deal had been on the way to being reality for well over a year.
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    Fun episode. Seeing Thanos as a good guy was particularly fun--that's exactly the kind of reversal that made me always enjoy reading What If back in the day. It's also great to see almost all of the original actors doing their voices. I'd love to know why Dave Bautista wasn't asked. I know he was VERY vocal back when Disney fired James Gunn...did he burn some bridges?
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    Is there any resolution to the film playing in Chinese theaters, or is that still up in the air?
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    Exhibition Buzzing That ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ & ‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’ Are On The Move – Box Office https://deadline.com/2021/08/venom-let-there-be-carnage-hotel-transylvania-transformania-release-date-changes-1234813578/ Three weeks is PLENTY of time to work it all out...surely by October everyone will be far, far safer than they are today.
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    Well, it looks like number two. Number two, number one, number 99...it's all the same number to any studio exec trying to figure out if a superhero franchise is worth continuing.
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    Man of Steel discussion is spilling into this thread, too?
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    Wow, I was giving the stats of the 6' 0" Evans with his 2-inch lifts who is usually between 190 and 200 in the films. I guess Cap's muscles are more dense so he weighs a lot more.
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    Errr...several of the voice actors from this episode aren't there including Josh Keaton (skinny Steve), Ross Marquand (Red Skull), and Darrell Hammond. If that list doesn't include two of the three biggest characters in this episode it can't be close to complete for the whole series...
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    Wonder if they'd try to do her size increase in any live action version. Skinny Steve went from 5' 5" 130 pounds to 6' 2" 190 in First Avenger, and it looked in the cartoon like Peggy went through a similar size increase. I imagine they wouldn't even try that, too much CGI.
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    Wow, didn't realize Ross Marquand does tons of impressions. Seems just as good as or better than Darrell Hammond, who coincidentally was also a voice in this episode of What If.
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    We should assume that the octopus monster at the end WASN'T Shuma-Gorath, correct? It seemed mindless, but Shuma-Gorath isn't mindless. Including a big cephalopod monster in this episode casts a bit of doubt onto Shuma-Gorath as the big bad of Multiverse of Madness. It'll definitely be confusing to put that monster in this episode and another octopus monster in the movie if they're not supposed to be the same being, or at least the same species. Although they introduced similar confusion by making Thanos be from Titan when the moon in our own solar system that many astrobiologists think is the one most likely to have life forms on it is also called Titan.
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    I'm still so shocked over the price jumps on this book over the last few years. Good thing I never sold the copy I upgraded from.
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    The non-invisible Sue has the worst face I've seen Hasbro do in many, many years. Her lower jaw looks like she's jutting it out doing a Jim Carrey impression, and her cheeks look swollen like she's just scarfed a whole bottle of Planter's but has a nut allergy. The good thing about the invisible version is you can't see the terrible face sculpt.
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    Nevermind, it's in the credits. All of the film actors did their voices except Steve Rogers and Red Skull. The Rogers voice sounded different in several scenes, but wow, I thought the whole time that was Hugo Weaving doing Skull, the voice was PERFECT. That one was done by one of the Walking Dead actors Ross Marquand shown below playing Aaron from that series. I didn't realize until I looked at his IMDB credits that he's also who did the Skull's voice in Infinity War and Endgame...he nailed Weaving's voice there, too, had no idea it wasn't him until now.
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    Anyone have an idea who is doing Steve's voice? Sounds pretty much like Evans, but I assume it's not him.
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    All of the articles I had read when Disney fired him just referred to the tweets where he's doing racy jokes that were about such a broad range of gender, sex, race, and religious topics that they could have just as easily come from Daniel Tosh. It seemed clear he was kidding, but about topics some people didn't want anyone joking about. Just went looking for the pics Jaydog is referencing and found them fairly easily:
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    It's MULTIPLE levels above that one. I mentally gave up on that one less than halfway through, but I'm a superhero and CGI junkie, so I watched it through to the end, and the second half sucked a lot.
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    Argh, wrong thread, my bad.
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    Cena was my favorite character which surprised me as well. I thought I'd like King Shark, Idris Elba, and Harley more, but Cena's physicality and earnest delivery made me wonder how that guy isn't already an action star like the Rock yet.
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    Agreed, she was too over the top relative to the rest of them.
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    He's referring to Gunn's cringeworthy tweets about kids that caused Disney to fire him. He's got a weird sense of humor so I'm willing to believe he thought he was kidding, but yea, you don't want to go where he tried to go.
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    Fun movie. About as good as Guardians except that I liked the characters in Guardians more. The Rotten Tomatoes average rating pretty much reflects that with a 7.8 for Guardians and a 7.7 for this. I didn't find Guardians highly re-watchable either, just the kind of movie you watch every 3 or 4 years once you've forgotten most of it. When it's a jokey/campy movie the jokes/camp aren't as fun the second time, but it's definitely great the first. Starro looked quite cool, particularly that stumbly, shambly walk he had.
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    We didn't need an inside perspective to see why Chapek would want to put Black Widow onto Disney Plus, but we definitely need one to know why he would refuse to compensate Scarlett for the income she would lose from that move. It just looks dumb from every perspective I can come at that decision. One thing I'm unsure of is Iger's power as Chairman of the Board. Most giant companies have both the CEO and Chairman of the Board positions, and I've always been unclear about what the Chairman typically does. I know CEOs run the day-to-day operations and the Chairman has more of a 10,000 foot big picture focus, but can Iger still get rid of Chapek if he really wanted to? One of the articles you linked a few days ago suggested Iger may have let Chapek do this specifically so he'd learn from the mistake by "shooting himself in the foot," and that certainly does make sense. But if Iger dislikes him and Chapek keeps making dumb moves can Iger get the Board to replace him, or can Iger just act on his own and do it himself? I'm guessing yes, but I've never been sure that a Chairman's power is, exactly.
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    Where is Suicide Squad getting review-bombed? Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic both turned audience reviews off prior to release a while back.