What if the next string of Marvel flicks were done...

[King Ruler]

I know there's a big chance that most of you all might disagree with this idea, but don't you think it'd be cool if sometime in the future, the next string of marvel movies were done taking place in the years the heroes first debuted? It could start off with Marvel's first 3. Have a Captain America film taking place in the 40s, and a Namor and Human Torch flick in in the 30s. And then from there continue on to a Spider-Man and Fantastic Four film taking place in the 60s, and so forth. Or whichever other way.

Personally, I think it'd be pretty good, if handled well.

[3dman27]

i think it could work

[Katsuro]

Personally, I'd prefer if the next string of Marvel movies were all tied together. Many, many years down the line, when the only people that remember the current Marvel movies are old and gray, and they decide to remake the movies for a new generation, with all new technology (cuz it aint happeneing any sooner than that), I think they should make basically a Marvel Universe on film.

I mean, the current film franchise is past the point where thats possible. Not only are the movies owned by different studios, but the way some of the movies are set up makes it impossible for others to take place in the same universe.

The problem mostly lies with X-Men. If the X-Men films were in the same universe as the Spidey films, we definatley would've heard people assuming Spidey to be a mutant when he first appeared. Same with the Hulk. So I guess while all the rest of the Marvel films could be brought together in a crossover, you'd have to leave out the X-Men, and it's just not the Marvel Universe without the X-Men...

So, yeah. I'd set up the next generation of Marvel movies so that the audience all knew these movies took place in the same world. There'd be refrences to other heroes, cameo appearances, and crossovers like crazy. It'd be awesome.

[Elektrafan3370]

I think that they should make a marvel universe and have each character have their own little 1 hour flick and connect them together for the ultimate showdown of the biggest badd *$$ in the world. let a few characters die and a bunch live. Oh yeah totaly rock.

[K.B.]

I just want the next string of Marvel movies to actually be good.

[sepharih]

Originally Posted by King Ruler

I know there's a big chance that most of you all might disagree with this idea, but don't you think it'd be cool if sometime in the future, the next string of marvel movies were done taking place in the years the heroes first debuted? It could start off with Marvel's first 3. Have a Captain America film taking place in the 40s, and a Namor and Human Torch flick in in the 30s. And then from there continue on to a Spider-Man and Fantastic Four film taking place in the 60s, and so forth. Or whichever other way.

Personally, I think it'd be pretty good, if handled well.

With the sole exclusion of Captain America I’m going to say no. I don’t honestly see the point in it. These characters are designed to have a floating timeline anyway so I think that they should exist in whatever timeline the film is being produced in.

As for Captain America though, I don’t really think there’s any other way to actually do the movie except to set it during the 40’s. It’s an ingrained facet of his character. They should set the majority of the entire film during World War II, and then end it with him being frozen. At that point (depending on what works better in the context of the film) you can either: end it their and pick it up later in “The Avengers” movie that’s being made, show his body being discovered and build off it later, or even go so far as to show him being revived and then get a Cameo of Nick Fury.

Originally Posted by Katsuro

The problem mostly lies with X-Men. If the X-Men films were in the same universe as the Spidey films, we definatley would've heard people assuming Spidey to be a mutant when he first appeared. Same with the Hulk. So I guess while all the rest of the Marvel films could be brought together in a crossover, you'd have to leave out the X-Men, and it's just not the Marvel Universe without the X-Men...

I don’t think it’s a big problem at all. Just because we never saw anything onscreen where he was thought to be a mutant doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t happen in the films universe. If you recall, Spider-mans entrance in the film was actually shown through a montage of various events, and it was clear that he had been operating in NY for a decent amount of time before he had his fight with the Green Goblin. Same thing with the Hulk. If we ever got a crossover, you could just have Xavier say something along the lines of:

Xavier: “Ah yes, Spider-man. I do recall that when he first appeared several years ago the initial public reaction was that he was a mutant, but after checking with Cerebro I confirmed that simply was not the case. I’m uncertain as to the exact nature of his extraordinary abilities, much less how he acquired them, but he does not posses the mutant X gene.”

Of course before that even becomes an issue Marvel will need to regain control of the movie rights to Spider-man and X-men, so that's probably going to take a little time.

[Chris Wallace]

Originally Posted by King Ruler

I know there's a big chance that most of you all might disagree with this idea, but don't you think it'd be cool if sometime in the future, the next string of marvel movies were done taking place in the years the heroes first debuted? It could start off with Marvel's first 3. Have a Captain America film taking place in the 40s, and a Namor and Human Torch flick in in the 30s. And then from there continue on to a Spider-Man and Fantastic Four film taking place in the 60s, and so forth. Or whichever other way.

Personally, I think it'd be pretty good, if handled well.

Uh-uh.

[Chris Wallace]

Basically, period films & sci-fi/superheroes don't mix well.

[Chaos Bringer]

Originally Posted by K.B.

I just want the next string of Marvel movies to actually be good.

"Sweet dreams are made of these"

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by King Ruler

I know there's a big chance that most of you all might disagree with this idea, but don't you think it'd be cool if sometime in the future, the next string of marvel movies were done taking place in the years the heroes first debuted? It could start off with Marvel's first 3. Have a Captain America film taking place in the 40s, and a Namor and Human Torch flick in in the 30s. And then from there continue on to a Spider-Man and Fantastic Four film taking place in the 60s, and so forth. Or whichever other way.

Personally, I think it'd be pretty good, if handled well.

Besides Cap and Maybe Namor I doun't see that happening.....

But done right I could see that beaing really awesome.

I don't think that the idea would work because with the movies that are being done today which take place in modern times to make it realistic we the filmmakers have to use modern science. Certain scientific things that were'nt discovered in the 60's wouldnt really allow alot of freedom in terms of realism if they were to do a movie that takes place in the 60's.

[Mr. Socko]

Capt America should DEFINITELY take place in the 40s/50s but nothing else.

While I am a fan of Captain America, by the way I'm anti-Registration-it's like I said sockman the film industry looks for as much realism as they can get without getting too real. But for a superhero like Captain America where in the origin story the professor that created the chemical died and the formula died with him that may not be to farfetched to put into a film.
By the way I don't think they would take out Captain America's World War II origin out in the upcoming film.