King Ruler said:
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.
Katsuro said:
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.
