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  1. fantastic_four
    I agree he was spectacularly good. Two episodes in I like him best as well.
  2. fantastic_four
    I'm two episodes in and loving it. I don't have the time to binge anything, but I'll be watching an episode every day or two for the next week. Listened to Kevin Smith's comic podcast this week and he and Marc Bernardin also love it.
  3. fantastic_four
    Not that surprising if they're going to take forever to start filming it.
  4. fantastic_four
    Why would Sony hold what Bob Iger does against Tom Holland for anything outside of the Spider-Man films?
  5. fantastic_four
    I'm a little surprised neither project had much interest. I'm now unsure if any Marvel project would get funded. With Marvel it's about the heroes and their powers, so I don't know that any one, big thing that's not a superhero or supervillain itself is of great interest to many Marvel fans. Really that 3 to 4 foot Galactus is all that comes to mind as potentially having a wide appeal, but I don't even know if I want it with the 2-foot Galactus already existing and being far more space efficient.
  6. fantastic_four
    Because they credit Marvel for great movies and very little beyond that. Which is one of half a dozen reasons why I assume Iger is making this power play with Sony.
  7. fantastic_four
    Sort of. They had to raise a ton of money in 1996 when they filed for bankruptcy, so they had to sell something. They sold what they had, which is film rights to intellectual property which had barely to that point made money in films. If you're going to blame them for anything, blame them for not foreseeing based upon Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park that CGI would enable superheroes to come to the big screen like never before within just a few years. But meh, the number of people who knew that in 1996 was a tiny fraction of the population. I knew Jurassic Park had changed filmmaking forever, but it hadn't yet occurred to me that it would enable superheroes to finally hit the big screen. Everyone reading this can silently decide if they had more foresight than Carl Icahan and Ron Perelman had circa 1996. I don't mind admitting that it didn't occur to me until X-Men came out in 2000.
  8. fantastic_four
    I'm seeing a trend of fans blaming Sony for this. Which is bizarre since this was ENTIRELY because of Disney demanding more money. And not just a little, a LOT more money. Perhaps an unreasonably lot more...I haven't decided yet, I don't know the financials well enough to say.
  9. fantastic_four
    No, but they also didn't ban X-Men writers from creating new characters for most of that time frame either. Presumably it was Bob Iger or one of his reports who had the idea of doing that at some point after they bought Marvel in 2009. I believe they started doing it with Fox and X-Men in 2013, but at that time there were multiple negotiations conflicts between those two companies in the press that weren't happening with Sony who they soon after signed the agreement to produce Spider-Man films for in February 2015. Marvel was definitely still actively creating Spider-characters in 2014 since that's when the Spider-Verse series came out that eventually landed Sony a fantastic win last year, so if there have been any restrictions on writers it would have been in 2015 or later.
  10. fantastic_four
    One thing seems certain--Marvel's comics division WILL be giving Sony the cold shoulder. Or maybe they've already been doing that for years? I know that Marvel writers weren't allowed to create new mutant characters for years due to their film rights going automatically to Fox, so no new Spider-Man characters from now on, or from some previously-decided point in the past on. I wonder how long Disney's executive team has recognized the mistake of giving Mile Morales away for free? They won't be doing THAT again! Have Axel Alonso or C.B. Cebulski already been prohibiting writers from creating new Spider-characters for a while? I know people love Spidey's rogues gallery--and so do I--but their quality is tied ENTIRELY to Spider-Man as a character. We love them because we love Spider-Man. Truly great villains like Galactus, Doctor Doom, or Magneto cross over into other titles, but which Spidey villains have successfully done that? I can only think of one--the symbiote. Besides Venom, which Spider-Man-related hero or villain has stood successfully on their own as anything other than a C-list character? I can't think of any others, although a limited case can be made for Kingpin who became more of a Daredevil villain than he even now is for Spidey. So I'm not sold on how large a universe Sony really has here. Mysterio, Black Cat, or Kraven standalone spin-offs? Umm, yea, good luck with that.
  11. fantastic_four
    Could be. You'd think so if they gave Lord and Miller all that money. But maybe it's all mostly unspent and still up in the air. Either way I'm sure they've spent millions already. If we assume the Sony Spider-shows are locked in, the idea of ticking off Disney isn't something they can do lightly if they want their television deal eventually renewed.
  12. fantastic_four
    Does Constantin Films still own the film rights to Fantastic Four, or were they paid off for them as a part of the Fox deal?
  13. fantastic_four
    I believe it is to the whole thing... Spider-Man and associated characters... at the very worst scenario Disney/Marvel will still have some form of Spider-Man under their control... but like I said at worst case scenario there may be two iterations of Miles Morales on TV like there were two quicksilvers. This is still the aspect of the story that I find the most interesting. Disney had Fox over this same hump, and I assumed at the time that Iger would really bend them over for Fox to get television rights. Turns out Disney gave up the rights for little or nothing which surprised me, so will they do that again here? Fox barely used them with their weak "The Gifted" show, but it sounds like Sony's plans are grander than Fox's were. Disney is definitely playing hardball even more now than they did with Fox with that 50/50 deal, so denying Sony the rights that they had just given Lord and Miller $100+ million to develop seems like a HUGE bargaining chip. As a Marvel fan, I want Iger to go for the throat and get those rights back, so I'm hoping he just cuts them off in every way possible. Sony's GOING to screw this up, so better to bite the bullet now and let Sony flounder around for however long it takes.
  14. fantastic_four
    I probably replayed that Architect scene a dozen times on Youtube after seeing the film. It ties up a ton of loose ends left by the rest of the film, but it isn't immediately obvious which ones until you mull it over a bit.
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    If that's the case, doesn't the Marvel deal ending also end the Lord and Miller deal?
  16. fantastic_four
    But they don't own Iron Man. So what, they're going to continue to use Iron Man's suit in their movies? Exactly the opposite, they're going to wipe out all ties to Marvel. He's too young to lead the Avengers and I'm not even sure he'd even continue to be in it even if he continues in the MCU, but it's clear from Far From Home that they intended him to become the new Tony Stark. If they had kept going down that road that's a HUGE hook into the MCU.
  17. fantastic_four
    What network would those Spidey cartoons air on? I suppose Disney probably doesn't care about this anyway since they've barely scratched the surface on Marvel cartoons.
  18. fantastic_four
    Is there reason for Lord and Miller to blame anyone else besides Kathleen Kennedy for what happened? I wouldn't be surprised if they never interacted with Bob Iger at all during Solo. And certainly they'd have nothing against Feige.
  19. fantastic_four
    The next chess move for Iger might be to pull Jon Watts away from Sony. Maybe even the Spider-Verse guys. He's got all the money and all the content to attract directors, so I assume he can do whatever he wants.
  20. fantastic_four
    It matters to me because I LOVE Venom and want to see him done well. Avi Arad screwed the first iteration up, and while I enjoyed last year's version it wasn't close to what Marvel would have done, so I want to see him back. Along with all of the other Spider-characters. You'd now have to think that turning Spider-Man into the Iron Spider was planned from the start to get Marvel's hooks directly into fans again. But killing off Stark mostly weakens that grip, so they tried to sink their claws in deeper by setting up Peter to be the next Tony Stark in Far From Home. Now Sony has to reboot AGAIN to an extent just to separate themselves from all of that! I suppose if I were tasked with cleaning this up I'd just pretend the connection to Iron Man never existed and lean into the next story with Tom Holland and the new cast. Eh, it'll take a while for things to go bad no matter what they do. Could take 5 years for things to go south enough, could take 20 if Sony picks good directors.
  21. fantastic_four
    NOT correct. Sony was 100% financially responsible for all Spider-Man solo films. The MCU would produce the films. The MCU was then allowed to use Spider-Man in its films and keep 100% of those profits, with no sharing with Sony. Yea, I thought Sony was paying Marvel to produce. At a markup, I assumed but never really knew. But Marvel's production costs were all being footed by Sony.
  22. fantastic_four
    Which is what made the Sony exec's statement to Deadline all the more ridiculous--he was claiming the main reason for Disney pulling Feige out is because he's too busy with X-Men and Fantastic Four. So that's why they wanted him to have control over Venom and the rest of the Spider-cast, too, because he's too busy? Nice try, bonehead.
  23. fantastic_four
    This is Iger starting down the long path of devaluing Sony Pictures instead of propping them up so he can eventually buy them. Iger pushed this, he pulled Disney out, and I wouldn't be surprised if he has Perlmutter pull the same kind of stuff in the comics he pulled with X-Men and Fantastic Four by ramping down or ending the Spider titles. He may also prevent Hasbro from making future Spider-Man toys from any future Sony-only movies like he did with X-Men for a bit. I wondered if this was coming when there were no Venom movie toys from Hasbro last year. Marvel declining to make money on a Sony-only property like that seemed puzzling at the time given how rosy the relationship looked with Tom Holland on-screen twice a year, but this is probably what he's been thinking about for at least a year or two now. I'm fine with it, let Sony roll the dice for a while until the current executives inevitably get fired. They didn't do anything wrong here...getting steamrolled by the Mouse is inevitable.
  24. fantastic_four
    I'm guessing a 3 to 4 foot Galactus would be $200+. I'm hoping Hot Toys eventually does one if Haslab doesn't. But even though I WANT one, I'm only 50% sure I'd actually buy it and still have it two years later. 3 to 4 feet is awfully big for a display. I love Galactus, but the reason I switched from 1:6 scale statues to 1:12 scale figures is that you can fit so many more characters in so much less space. I suspect Galactus would end up being parked on a floor alone somewhere outside of a display if he were half my height. I have the Surfer that came with the Marvel Universe Galactus I pictured above, here he is next to the recent Legends Walgreens exclusive Surfer.
  25. fantastic_four
    They've already done sentinels and Galactus at that price point, so you'd think a Haslab project would be a far more elaborate and/or larger version of them. And they're both great. They were made for the 1:18 scale for 3.75" figures with Sentinel being 16" tall and Galactus 19"; they mostly share the same body but Galactus is taller with the huge hat. So they could do a Haslab project to up-scale them to the 1:12 scale, although I'm not entirely sure people want 3 or 4 foot tall figures that wouldn't fit into most displays. The Sentinel is still on Amazon now for $100. Here's the Galactus below, when you press the button on his chest he has a dozen or so phrases he says like "I AM THE DEVOURER OF WORLDS!" LOVE this guy, I got him about two months ago, but he was originally released in 2010.