Marvel has three distribution deals, right? One for mutants, one for Spider-Man, and one for everyone else? Or is there a fourth group that covers the Fantastic Four?
There are talks about a Black Panther movie, and I'm trying to work out if he falls into the "everything else" continuity (which is the most lucrative) despite being married to a mutant.
Looking at the IMDB pages isn't the most informative, since there are a shitload of movies listed. I just know Disney is associated with "everything else=Avengers".
Do these distribution deals mean that Spider-Man and the FF won't ever appear with The Avengers on the big screen? Because that would be fine with me, actually.
I would imagine Black Panther would be part of the Avengers pool of potential characteres, since that's the team he was a member of.
I read recently that Scarlet Witch is available for use by either the X-Men or Avengers franchise (but presumably not both once she appears in one or the other).
Sting's daughter is going to play Patti Smith in a movie about CBGB's.
That movie sounds awesome. Slightly sad that Talking Heads don't seem to be in it, but I can't have everything....
eta: For those who don't know, CBGB's was arguably the epicenter of the American punk explosion that started with the Ramones in '76 (or maybe earlier?).
The Ramones played their first gigs at CBGB in ’73 or ’74. They went there because that’s where Television was playing.
They went there because that’s where Television was playing.
Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd actually built the stage at CBGBs, which (of course) originally stood for Country Blue Grass and Blues.
i'm okay with Spider-Man, The Avengers, the X-Men, and the FF never interacting (especially FF/Avengers, since it'd be pretty hard for Cap and Johnny to interact without some serious weirdness), but I do wish that S.H.I.E.L.D. could at least cross the streams. I always liked Fury's interactions in the X-Men books I read. Though since they've pretty much given up on the Modern-era X-Men (and unfortunately probably the old-era too, I think, since First Class didn't do so well) I guess it's a moot point.
Balls. The guys who wrote Green Lantern (that masterpiece of screenwriting) have been hired to write Wonder Woman. Seriously?
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