Have you seen 2?

hands-on

Maybe studios are learning to fight “we have an IP, so we *must* create a movie about it” syndrome? Or maybe they were planning to Baywatch/CHIPs it.

Questions:

If you’re going to criticize someone for not getting their facts write so they could act all cool and outraged, well, I mean ...

The funny thing is that for all the Marvel comparisons, they didn’t seem to actually follow a lot of the key elements to Marvel’s success, like casting young, lesser-known actors.

Eh, the Hellboy/BPRD comics were about a monster fighting organization (with monsters of their own) and could still be scary, so there’s a path there.

I think step 1 would be to follow how Iron Man used SHIELD/Nick Fury, instead of practically building the movie around the equivalent.

Right, this is one of the main reasons — horror doesn’t translate (literally) nearly as well as action in foreign markets.

I read somewhere else she might have been directing an episode?

British actors enjoy working, money.

Will Traval would certainly make a very good Corsair. He might also be the first DC (Human Target ep of Arrow)/X-Men/Marvel (Jessica Jones) triple actor!

Or by Trevor Slattery

It might be helpful for them to take the same approach with her villains as Marvel did with Iron Man — Villain in Name Only, where the bad guy is basically a new character who just happens to share a name with a comic book character.

The “I don’t want to have to think about stuff!” is at the root of so much unjustified white male nerd displeasure, because we’ve had the privilege of not having to think about stuff for so long.

Agents of Atlas

People always say this, but I’d love to hear some examples of characters that haven’t appeared in the MCU yet that could carry their own movie. I’ll even spot you Namor.

In universe though, Ant-Man and Doctor Strange were long-running, well established characters with a lot of material for them to pull from. Abnett and Lanning laid out a foundation for the Guardians.

Oh, and fwiw, according to Gunn, FOX owns Kang because of Rama Tut in the FF. Yes, it makes no sense, but there you go.

At one point, IIRC, Omega was for mutants capable of an Omega-Level, i.e. planet-destroying or conquering, event.