Marvel unviels their next four projects

[Tribal Warfare]

Marvel Unveils CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, THOR: THE DARK WORLD, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and ANT-MAN

Saturday’s Hall H panel for Marvel at Comic-Con was billed as Iron Man 3, but from previous experience we all knew to expect more goodies from Marvel Studios than just IM3. We were right, as the studio announced full, intriguing titles for Thor 2 and Captain America 2, confirmed Guardians of the Galaxy (including which characters will appear), and revealed test footage for Ant-Man with a surprise appearance by Edgar Wright.

Hit the jump for my full recap of this “update” portion of the Marvel panel. [Update: We've updated the article with concept art for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie as well as logos for all the upcoming Marvel films]

Chris-Hemsworth-Thor 2 the dark worldFeige opened the panel by saying that they’re working on four movies in active development. The first is Iron Man 3, hitting theaters on May 3rd, 2013. He then went on to reveal titles for two previously known sequels, and confirmed another property that we’d heard rumblings of in the past few weeks.

Iron Man 3 (May 3, 2013)
Thor: The Dark World (November 8, 2013)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (April 4, 2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (August 1, 2014)

For fans of the comics, the subtitle “The Winter Soldier” should provide a hint as to where the Captain America sequel will go. The title is a reference to a comics storyline that will find Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) taking an integral role.

guardians-of-the-galaxy-movieFeige added that Zachary Levi has been confirmed as the character of Fandrel in the Thor sequel, and revealed the team that will be unleashed for Guardians of the Galaxy:

StarLord
Drax the Destroyer
Rocket Raccoon
Groot
Gamora

In a fantastic surprise, Feige then introduced Edgar Wright to talk about Ant-Man. Wright had been tweeting about being in London for the past few days in an effort to throw fans off, but he came out to a very warm reception.

“I’m taking the Terrence Malick approach to superheroes,” said Wright referring to the long road of development on Ant-Man.
Wright and Joe Cornish wrote two more drafts of the script last year, but they’ve been done for quite a while.

ant-man-movie-logoThey then revealed test footage that Wright shot for Ant-Man, after Wright toyed for a bit with the audience saying they wouldn’t really want to see a clip of stuff with wires and blue screens in it. It’s completely unfinished since they shot it two weeks ago, but they showed the footage anyway because Marvel absolutely owns Comic-Con.

The footage opened with Ant-Man sitting on a ledge in an air conditioning vent that lead to a hallway guarded by two agents. The costume was pretty metallic looking, and he snuck through the vent hole and started running down the hallway. He morphed to normal size, shocking the guards, then morphed back down to ant size and kept running. Still in “ant size” he leapt up and punched one of the guys in the face, knocking the spit out of him, then he ran and attacked the other guard.

The footage was obviously rough, but I thought the big/small effects worked great. Wright found a way to make Ant-Man’s power work in a cool and useful way on screen, while still allowing room for the playful tone that he does so well. While I was hoping we’d see someone like Simon Pegg play the role just for fun in the test footage, the actor was wearing the Ant-Man helmet the entire time so we never saw his face. The lights then came back up.

“I’ve been doing one second of that for the last six years,” quipped Wright
Wright confirmed that the costume seen in the test footage will most likely be what makes the final film. He described it as a mix between the Silver Age and contemporary Ant-Man, adding “Ant-Man will kick your ass one inch at a time.”
Wright said there’s no casting to announce, but “revealed” that Ant-Man has been here in Hall H all day, pulling out an Ant-Man title card and putting it on the table next to him.

Wright then left the stage to make way for the Iron Man 3 panel, but these bits of news from Marvel were met with wild applause from the audience. Hit the comments to discuss the goings-on from today’s Marvel panel, and read Matt’s recap of Iron Man 3 right here. [Update: Simon Pegg tweeted that he, Nick Frost, and Wright start filming The World's End in 10 weeks, then Wright will film Ant-Man sometime next year.]

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by unlurking

We already know Marvel/Disney is in talks with Sony about a Spiderman (CGI/mask only?) crossover. Nobody ****ing cares. Every Spiderman movie and Andrew Garfield / Toby McDouchebag suck cock like little bitches. Surfer is the only character that matters. Spiderman and Andrew and Toby can all sit on a spike and spin for all anybody cares.

Silver Surfer is the ONLY character that matters in Sony's license.

I'd be much more excited for a version of Spiderman with Disney/Marvel's writers/direction rather than Sony's.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by unlurking

Silver Surfer is the ONLY character that matters in Sony's license.

Fox has Silver Surfer (and Galactus, and most characters related to the Fantastic Four). If it was Sony they might be able to work something out, but Fox and Marvel aren't on good terms. Marvel needs the Fantastic Four reboot to bomb hard to even have a chance of getting those characters back in the foreseeable future.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

TV spot from ABC's Agents of Shield

So who is the third woman in the "sitting around" scene? Black Widow is in white; Maria Hill is in the brown leather jacket, and there's a third, in a blue dress. It really doesn't look like Natalie Portman.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by unlurking

We already know Marvel/Disney is in talks with Sony about a Spiderman (CGI/mask only?) crossover. Nobody ****ing cares. Every Spiderman movie and Andrew Garfield / Toby McDouchebag suck cock like little bitches. Surfer is the only character that matters. Spiderman and Andrew and Toby can all sit on a spike and spin for all anybody cares.

Silver Surfer is the ONLY character that matters in Sony's license.

Oh, no. Sony's portrayal of Spider-Man sucks, but if Marvel got the license back and could paint him how they wanted, his character has a million possibilities. Same goes for the Fantastic Four, and that's to say nothing of their associated villains.

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by Jamie

Fox has Silver Surfer (and Galactus, and most characters related to the Fantastic Four). If it was Sony they might be able to work something out, but Fox and Marvel aren't on good terms. Marvel needs the Fantastic Four reboot to bomb hard to even have a chance of getting those characters back in the foreseeable future.

That's entirely possible. Setting the black-Torch debate aside, everything I'm seeing from it looks like it's going to be a festering glob of purest shit.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

TV spot from ABC's Agents of Shield

Heh.

That troubled stare of Thor's as Cap jiggles Mjolnir.

Perhaps a nod to the comics, where Cap actually wielded the damn thing once.

[Direckshun]

Who's the brunette in that scene, by the way?

Character, not the actress.

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Heh.

That troubled stare of Thor's as Cap jiggles Mjolnir.

Perhaps a nod to the comics, where Cap actually wielded the damn thing once.

Some are suggesting it could be foreshadowing a scene in The Infinity Wars..

[Direckshun]

There is no doubt that MCU Cap is just as worthy as comics Cap.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Heh.

That troubled stare of Thor's as Cap jiggles Mjolnir.

Perhaps a nod to the comics, where Cap actually wielded the damn thing once.

It looked like Cap was faking that he couldn't lift it too by Evans' reaction.

[unlurking]

Oh yeah. Fox not Sony. Wow too much drinkage last night.

And yeah, I'm sure Marvel could redeem Spidey, but he and FF have just been so horribly shit on it's depressing. A lot like being a Chiefs fan I guess, I've just reached my limit.

[Bowser]

It's been covered many times how Fox and Marvel's relationship is, but don't the X-Men play a huge role in Infinity Wars? It just feels like the movie universe is jumping to Infinity Wars either too early or too undermanned with its characters with no Spidey, Surfer, Galactus, FF, or X-Men.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Bowser

It just feels like the movie universe is jumping to Infinity Wars either too early or too undermanned with its characters with no Spidey, Surfer, Galactus, FF, or X-Men.

I think so too.

You could get away with spidey by using his "Iron costume" that Stark made him for civil war. To be honest Spidey's dialogue and role could be filled by anyone.

You really need to have the Surfer on board though.

[Jamie]

If you guys think the movie is going to follow the comic that closely, you're setting yourselves up for disappointment. They're going to take the concept and maybe some plot points, but it'll be its own thing. Like Winter Soldier, or the Avengers movie and Avengers #1. Civil War will be the same way.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Jamie

If you guys think the movie is going to follow the comic that closely, you're setting yourselves up for disappointment. They're going to take the concept and maybe some plot points, but it'll be its own thing. Like Winter Soldier, or the Avengers movie and Avengers #1. Civil War will be the same way.

It's no so much the exact story (IG's ending was ****ing stupid and a huge let down - AOU in the comix might have been the worst big event I've read from Marvel) as much as the fact these are big number Marvel U spanning events.