Avengers: Age of Ultron.

[jgsugden]

Iron Man IV coming 2020... based upon the semenal (yeah, I know) story where his armor fell in love with him, Tony Stark (Keanu Reeves)...

[Ironwood]

Counterpoint :  No, he doesn't really.  It will be much more interesting to see another actor have a go.

[Velorath]

Also Latino Review is pretty bad.

It really is. This is where the rumors jgsugden mentioned came from. I checked some of this guy's earlier columns to see if there was any reason to believe that he'd have access to the endings of Avengers 2, Thor 3, and Cap 3, the basic plot of GotG 2, plot details about both parts of Infinity War, and knowledge of a deal being struck between Marvel and Sony. The answer of course is no. Most of his stuff seems to be fanboy speculation (with no pretense of it being anything else) with clearly no sort of insider knowledge. I find it a bit hard to believe that he recently found a source that has access to this much insider information unless he's got Kevin Feige locked up Misery-style somewhere.

[Ironwood]

fanboy speculation (with no pretense of it being anything else) with clearly no sort of insider knowledge.

We agreed on Jgsugdenesque.

[jgsugden]

Time will tell. 

[sickrubik]

The entire post is all speculation. It's spoiler dowsing at it's finest.

Vague enough impressions and wording that makes it easy to back away from.

[Velorath]

Time will tell. 

We don't have to look any further than the very first post of the Marvel Universe thread to see a shining example of the accuracy of Latino-Review's Marvel rumors.

[K9]

fanboy speculation (with no pretense of it being anything else) with clearly no sort of insider knowledge.

We agreed on Jgsugdenesque.

2015's bloodworthing

[Sir T]

I'll just mention in passing that Banner has gone through 3 actors at this point and no-one gives a crap.

[Ironwood]

That's not true.  The first two were shit.

(But yes, you have a point and one I've mentioned already multiple times in this thread.  No-one gives the remotest crap that The Human Torch and Captain America are the same fucking person either.)

[DraconianOne]

No-one gives the remotest crap that The Human Torch and Captain America are the same fucking person either.)

In Lego Marvel Super Heroes, you get a "Don't I Know You?" achievement if you have both of them out at the same time.

 

[Ironwood]

 

I watched FF again the other day and he plays it so differently, I honestly think you could GGI them in the same room and get away with it. 

That said, I always found Marvel guys to look like each other anyway, simply due to the original art style.

[eldaec]

While I agree with all of that in general, I don't see much of a percentage in it for Disney to recast any of the leads in the near future, when they could instead just not put them in a film for a few years then make a big stink about the return of iron man when the MCU eventually needs a jumpstart. The one thing they are not short on is characters.

[Khaldun]

Yeah, which is also actually kind of loyal to the comics. Characters left the Avengers and then came back pretty regularly, and even early on they had characters quit for a while, be replaced, be disappeared, etc. All staple devices in serial fictions of any kind, including soap operas. It's not like Bond, where he has to be the center of any movie featuring him, or the Doctor (though it would be kind of amusing to have 3-6 episodes of Doctor Who where the Doctor is absent or missing in some fashion). These are stories where they can sub people in and out constantly.

The real choice they're going to face is whether to tell stories in some kind of real time. E.g., to allow Iron Man et al to age if they remain "alive", and to eventually introduce younger people carrying forth the title and costume who are meant not to be the original character. I'm kind of hoping so--that if Marvel just keeps going and going, that the MCU is a universe where time actually passes and the status quo actually changes in persistent, accumulative ways. I would hate a kind of constant soft rebooting where they cast a new guy *as* Tony Stark and then quietly vanish or ignore stuff that's happened to him in the films already made.

This is going to be one of their problems if they introduce Spider-Man, by the way: if it's the Garfield Spider-Man, it's pretty hard to believe that he did all that shit in NYC and nobody else in the MCU noticed or commented on it. MCU Spider-Man will almost certainly have to be a "new" super-hero who appears after the Chitauri attack on NYC, even if it's played by Garfield. The one plus is that they can throw him into the mix and not even have to bother with telling his whole backstory, because by now it's about as well known as Batman's.

[Ironwood]

There are plenty of episodes of Who that did that.

Turn Left LEAPS to mind.  There were tons of others.

[HaemishM]

Some would say the entire Moffat run has been missing the Doctor, since the stories have almost all been about the companions anyway. 

[Ironwood]

Yes, but I gave up doing that.

[Tannhauser]

As someone starting season 5 of binge watching Dr. Who I fully endorse the above comments.

Why the fuck haven't I been watching this?

[sickrubik]

Looks like we're getting a new trailer today. They're doing some dumb "tweet to unlock" thing.

https://twitter.com/Avengers/status/573120716083752960

Edit: It's out. http://www.fandango.com/avengers:ageofultron_157897/movieoverview

Edit 2: I thought that looked old. New Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CieuGZ7TthE

[Khaldun]

Already one pretty killer GIF in it.

Gives away one pretty good funny line. I think this is the last trailer I'm going to watch, keep it fresh.

[sickrubik]

Yeah, I almost didn't want to watch that one.

[Tannhauser]

OH SNAP DAT LAST IMAGE!

[sickrubik]

CBR has a nice roundup of some of the highlights of the trailer.... the after title reveal in a gif seems to indicate another possible reveal.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/avengers-age-of-ultron-trailer-7-biggest-reveals

[Hutch]

[sickrubik]

[Lakov_Sanite]

It would be a great way to explain how vision does his things without having to stretch your super science beliefs to density changing levels.

[Ironwood]

 

[Evildrider]

The yellow gem could be the Soul Gem, which would make sense since the Vision has a soul and that would be a way to explain it.  As for his powers, they could just simplify it down to flight, super strength/toughness, and give him phasing abilities.

[sickrubik]

You should check out the Spoiler tags.

[Maven]

Trailer revealed way too much. Considered writing a note to my future self not to watch the trailer, then get black out drunk.

I didn't think it would work... but, yeah, I didn't need to see that.

[MediumHigh]

I don't think we live in an age where big budget movies can sit back and say "trust us guys this'll be good". Also there marketing this to nerds who who would pay full price for early-access alpha-demo if the entire development process is released in 200 page manifesto.

[sickrubik]

Final trailers are always like this. Always have been, always will. They'll leave out a few key things, but nothing about this should be surprising.

[Trippy]

I don't think we live in an age where big budget movies can sit back and say "trust us guys this'll be good".

That is what they did with Guardians of the Galaxy.

[Samwise]

Also they're marketing this to nerds who who would pay full price for early-access alpha-demo if the entire development process is released in 200 page manifesto.

This.  Everything they dribble out generates a new flurry of obsessive blog posts, which makes the movie keep popping up in Facebook and Twitter feeds.  All of which makes for a more successful opening day.

[sickrubik]

I don't think we live in an age where big budget movies can sit back and say "trust us guys this'll be good".

That is what they did with Guardians of the Galaxy.

That was their attitude, mostly because it was a new property to a lot of people.... but they followed the same conventions for Trailers as they always do.

Hell, there were 7-11 slurpee cups.