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Marbles
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"Marvel is looking to do a movie based off "The Eternals?""


  

          


I'm a fan of the Eternals but I can also recognize when a title is considered B or C list. I doubt there was anyone clamoring for this.

On the flip though, nobody was checking for the Guardians of the Galaxy before the movie made them take off.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/chloe-zhao-direct-marvel-studios-eternals-1143547

  

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Everything Marvel that wasn't Xmen was seen as B list at best
Sep 21st 2018
1
LMAO
Sep 21st 2018
3
Nah, the Avengers were an A-list comic...
Sep 21st 2018
4
RE: Everything Marvel that wasn't Xmen was seen as B list at best
Sep 22nd 2018
7
Tryna beat DC to the New Gods punch.
Sep 21st 2018
2
^^^ That's a damn good point.
Sep 21st 2018
5
They’re clearly attempting to organically explain mutants
Sep 22nd 2018
6
^^^I hate on Marvel doing anything to replace the idea of Mutants
Sep 24th 2018
11
they got the rights back in the FOX deal
Sep 24th 2018
12
You'd have to do a pocket universe story
Sep 24th 2018
15
      well the mutant gene is latent
Sep 25th 2018
18
I drgaf about Marvel shit but I’m psyched they gave this to Chloe Zhao
Sep 22nd 2018
8
we still doubting Marvel in 2018?
Sep 24th 2018
9
No, it had nothing to do with doubting Marvel
Sep 24th 2018
10
They've had at least two series in the last 10+ years
Sep 24th 2018
16
https://twitter.com/matte_bIack/status/1043555936399282176
Sep 24th 2018
13
I cracked up at Deadpool 2
Sep 24th 2018
14
      This clip alone will make me check out Thor Raganork and Dr. Strange.
Sep 24th 2018
17

Cold Truth
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1. "Everything Marvel that wasn't Xmen was seen as B list at best"
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Fri Sep-21-18 04:02 PM by Cold Truth

  

          

Iron Man was considered a risk. Nobody was chomping at the bit for a movie about him or Cap. He's inarguably the most successful and beloved film adaptation of any comic book hero ever, and Cap isn't far behind at this point.

Add to that, they built an entirely unrivaled movie universe around him.

The entire MCU was built on Iron Man.

Green Arrow is a second string player at best, and yet CW wound up building multiple highly successful franchises with green Green Arrow as the foundation.

Marvel has been successful due to consistently reat casting, solid storytelling, and quality long term planning, just for starters.

B,c,d, all that is immaterial. Tell a compelling story about compelling characters, add layers of connective tissue, all processed through a highly refined machine that's proven to excute over and over and kver again, and it's a wrap.

I'd see a Howard The Duck movie on opening night at this point.

  

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3. "LMAO"
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>I'd see a Howard The Duck movie on opening night at this
>point.
>
>

lol... yeah I'd watch that too.

  

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Marbles
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4. "Nah, the Avengers were an A-list comic..."
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>Iron Man was considered a risk. Nobody was chomping at the
>bit for a movie about him or Cap. He's inarguably the most
>successful and beloved film adaptation of any comic book hero
>ever, and Cap isn't far behind at this point.

Yeah, but the the Avengers was much less of a risk than Guardians of the Galaxy or the Eternals. The Avengers were an A-list comic book franchise and consistently one of Marvel's top books. To the mainstream, it may have been a risk. But to those of us who followed the books, it made sense.

>B,c,d, all that is immaterial. Tell a compelling story about
>compelling characters, add layers of connective tissue, all
>processed through a highly refined machine that's proven to
>excute over and over and kver again, and it's a wrap.

I definitely agree with this. Like I said, I love a lot of C & D level characters. There are absolutely a lot of good stories to be told. I think my surprise is that Marvel seems to skip over some of the more popular characters and dig deep for some lesser known ones.

  

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7. "RE: Everything Marvel that wasn't Xmen was seen as B list at best"
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>Iron Man was considered a risk. Nobody was chomping at the
>bit for a movie about him or Cap. He's inarguably the most
>successful and beloved film adaptation of any comic book hero
>ever, and Cap isn't far behind at this point.

You make lots of great points but I’d argue a couple of the Batmans against this.
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>Add to that, they built an entirely unrivaled movie universe
>around him.
>
>The entire MCU was built on Iron Man.
>
>Green Arrow is a second string player at best, and yet CW
>wound up building multiple highly successful franchises with
>green Green Arrow as the foundation.
>
>Marvel has been successful due to consistently reat casting,
>solid storytelling, and quality long term planning, just for
>starters.
>
>B,c,d, all that is immaterial. Tell a compelling story about
>compelling characters, add layers of connective tissue, all
>processed through a highly refined machine that's proven to
>excute over and over and kver again, and it's a wrap.
>
>I'd see a Howard The Duck movie on opening night at this
>point.
>
>

  

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2. "Tryna beat DC to the New Gods punch."
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5. "^^^ That's a damn good point."
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I didn't even think about that angle.

  

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6. "They’re clearly attempting to organically explain mutants"
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And likely introduce the Kree and flesh out the Skrulls before what i imagine is going to end up being Secret War

  

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11. "^^^I hate on Marvel doing anything to replace the idea of Mutants"
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simply because they don't have the movie rights to the X-men.


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12. "they got the rights back in the FOX deal"
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which fits into them doing Eternals since thats why we have mutants in the first place. It explains away why mutants would be just suddenly appearing in the MCU

  

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15. "You'd have to do a pocket universe story"
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Because the whole point of mutant persecution has been that they can't hide who they are. So if they've been there this whole time, you can't really square that with a mutant-less MCU. Have the mutants existing in another universe that get brought to the MCU for some reason.

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18. "well the mutant gene is latent"
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the first mutant didn't show up until 1,000s of years after the Eternals did whatever they did. They'd just shift the timeline. I do think the farther we get away from WWII, it harder it is to have Magneto just show up out of place.

and to be honest, it really doesn't matter what they do as long as its good.

  

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8. "I drgaf about Marvel shit but I’m psyched they gave this to Chloe Zhao"
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9. "we still doubting Marvel in 2018?"
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still waiting for "super hero fatigue" to set in?

  

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10. "No, it had nothing to do with doubting Marvel"
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It was more about wondering why the Eternals are slated for a film when there are way more popular characters out there. It feels like someone pulled their name out of a hat full of old, discarded titles.

Like I said, I'm a fan. But the Eternals haven't had a title in forever. They made a brief appearance in this new Avengers book but before that, I couldn't tell you when I last saw them.

  

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16. "They've had at least two series in the last 10+ years"
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There was the Neil Gaiman/JRJR mini-series right after the first "Civil War," which read like a Marvel Comics PG-13 version of American Gods. And right afterwards there was a series that lasted about 12-13 issues. From the plot description above, it seems like their sorta using some of the elements from those to create this film.

I have no idea if Cersei/Makarri/The Forgotten One still show up in other Marvel titles.

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13. "https://twitter.com/matte_bIack/status/1043555936399282176"
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https://twitter.com/matte_bIack/status/1043555936399282176

  

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14. "I cracked up at Deadpool 2"
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And I absolutely agreed on Capt. America 1-3.

That clip was good for some laughs.

  

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17. "This clip alone will make me check out Thor Raganork and Dr. Strange. "
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I am a bit late to the MCU so I am slowly checking these films out.

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