Variety has listed several modern Marvel comics that appear to serve as the basis for future film adaptations rather than old ones:
Although it may seem strange that Downey will not play Iron Man in the MCU in the new Avengers films, there are some reasons for this decision based on previous Marvel comics, namely “What If? Iron Man: Demon In An Armor”. In this story, Tony Stark and Victor von Doom are good friends, but Doom creates a machine that swaps their minds. Doom is in Stark’s body and Stark is in Doom’s body.
Man, this almost sounds like Dan Slott’s switch-up story for Spider-Man and Dr. Octopus (and there’s even a cover of an Iron Man story Slott co-wrote at the top of the article), although it was originally written by David Michelinie, Bob Layton, and Graham Nolan around 2010, a very ill-advised return to Marvel at the time. The CBR reviewer was interestingly disappointed with the story they published, and if it’s used as the basis for another live-action film, that’s definitely a mistake, no matter how highly regarded the three creators used to be. These kinds of film production decisions would have to be symbolic of how ridiculous the reliance on stories published after 2000 has become, while the storylines before that time seem less and less interesting to the screenwriters, if at all. The post-2000 stories cited here also include:
In the meantime, author Robert Kirkman wrote a series of “Marvel Team-Up” stories from 2004-2006 that can play a role a major crossover of Marvel superheroessuch as Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man and others. In addition, author Jonathan Hickman wrote a series of Fantastic Four stories from 2009 to 2012, which ended with his vision for a major crossover event in “Secret Wars,” which was released in 2015.
Also note how crossovers are mentioned without questions or objectivity, just to show that no one in Hollywood cares, that the whole idea has brought down many shared comic book universes over the past 40 years, since the original Secret Wars under the direction of editor Jim Shooter was first published. Interestingly, it highlights the later Hickman event, but not the Shooter-directed 1984 original. I guess even that’s not good enough for them, regardless of the shortcomings of company-wide crossovers?
While we’re on the subject, Breitbart’s John Nolte took aim at Marvel Studios, which allegedly fired activist producers from its division:
After a brutal post-Avengers: Endgame (2019) era, where Marvel Studios produced some flops and lost its overall shine with fans, the Disney division seems to have learned its lesson. Bounding Into Comics says, “Marvel Studios has reportedly learned from its recent mistakes and ‘cleaned up’ on all of its ‘activist’ producers(.)”
Unfortunately, this all remains a rumor for now, and with Pedro Pascal starring in the upcoming FF movie, it’s hard to believe they’re not still off the mark. In any case, Marvel’s movies aren’t a big deal anymore, and special effects-packed live-action movies are already boring. And as mentioned, they seem to be basing their scripts on some of the most overrated post-2000 releases, and if the writers can’t come up with standalone scripts that aren’t inherently based on those post-2000 time-wasters, they’re not being very creative. Sure, a multi-superhero team-up can have potential in and of itself, but not when it’s so clearly based on company-wide crossovers.
And once again, the Marvel movies have passed their peak due to modern wokeness.
Originally published here.
