@ru1977 Its an anthology. He's in the newest season. He's really good; as is a one time considered Reed Richards; Jon Hamm.
Fargo is great. All time classic TV. Definitely far better than it should be considering making a TV universe out of a beloved classic film should be a landmine. Season 3 and 4 while still very good suffer a little bit from Hawley's pacing indulgences. Still Hawley is very talented and an engaging writer. His stuff is always top notch thematically and performance wise.
I've never heard a bad thing about it and I knwo it's always got amazing people in there. I just keep forgetting to check it out. Thank you for the recommendation!
That logo is definitely giving a 50's/60's vibe, I cannot quite place the right time, but the font, not capitalizing the "t" in the, the way Marvel is done - it looks really familiar to me. Something is up about that.
I concur with PanchaMaestro, I don't quite see Pedro Pascal as Reed just yet, but he can win me over I'm sure. I am not that familiar with the rest of the cast, which is good actually...
Fargo is worth watching - I need to get going on Season 5. I liked Seasons 2 and 3 quite a bit, was less enamored with Season 4.
Seems like the cast's talents all around are as solid as the Thing's.... Arm.
Can't say that I'm familiar with Kirby or Bacharach, but I'm a fan of both Pascal and Quinn. Though I still think Pascal would have made an interesting Doom. The very 50's styled logo is a nice departure from the usual super hero stuff these days, and I actually kind of hope that's what at least Reed's and Sue's main suits look like.
I would recommend Kirby's performance in the 1st 2 seasons of the Crown as Princess Anne and Bacharach in the Bear to get a sense of their impressive talents.
Second on The Bear. It's an intense show but he is amazing on it, along with everyone else. If you want to see only one episode though, maybe season 2 episode 6. It's a flashback set before the rest of the show with a bunch of guest stars but it's my favorite episode despite being emotionally exhausting. And won't ruin anything if you decide to go watch the show from the beginning after.
Some fine internet sleuths have determined that the Thing is reading a Life Magazine with a cover of LBJ, from Dec 1963...
That's incredible. And awesome. Thank you, diligent nerds!
Some fine internet sleuths have determined that the Thing is reading a Life Magazine with a cover of LBJ, from Dec 1963...
Was just catching up on the thread and was gonna post this same thing! Really loving that they're going retro with this.
I suspect there is some misdirection here - I can't believe the team will be in 1960s by the end of the film, they have to integrate them into the current MCU going forward I would think - the question is how?
So that could indicate that the film starts in the 1960s, but will Ben Grimm already be "The Thing" at that point, or will the mishap that changes them fling them into their future as well? I could see for promo purposes showing the Thing even if he is regular old Ben Grimm, NASA astronaut in the 1960s.
If I recall one of the rumors during the Ant-Man 3 plans was that the FF were stuck in the Quantum Realm. Certainly a Kang could have imprisoned them somewhere out of time back in the 1960s and they reappear now.
FF and X-Men related stuff were my favorite Marvel titles as a kid, with Thor and DD in the mix (I mostly ignored the Avengers, Hulk and Spidey apart from crossovers and so on). I think my interest in those was because I came on board just as the Claremont/Byrne X-Men, then Byrne FF, Frank Miller DD, and Walt Simonson Thor runs were getting going - which even with nostalgia as a factor you can make a case was the peak for those titles apart from Lee/Kirby FF - so I am pretty excited about the FF and X-Men phase of the MCU, and DD being pulled in as well.
I suspect there is some misdirection here - I can't believe the team will be in 1960s by the end of the film, they have to integrate them into the current MCU going forward I would think - the question is how?
I imagine you're right. Cap and Cap both ended, at least with credit scenes, with them in the present, but I wonder if the FF will get there a lot sooner. I also wonder if they could do the Negative as an offshoot of the Quantum Realm. Before Quantumania, I would have said "that'd be interesting if they spent most of the movie there", but I would be wrong.
but also, I try to assume marketing stuff, especially for Marvel, is full of misdirection.
So that could indicate that the film starts in the 1960s, but will Ben Grimm already be "The Thing" at that point, or will the mishap that changes them fling them into their future as well? I could see for promo purposes showing the Thing even if he is regular old Ben Grimm, NASA astronaut in the 1960s.
I said in the MCU figure thread, but I'm always okay with not including an origin. If it directly ties in with that the plot is about, great. if not, there's plenty of movies where they jump right to the character in the point of their life where the story is set. Cop movies don't show them in the academy, unless it's a part of the plot. So I'm kinda fine if he is the Thing for the entire movie.
If I recall one of the rumors during the Ant-Man 3 plans was that the FF were stuck in the Quantum Realm. Certainly a Kang could have imprisoned them somewhere out of time back in the 1960s and they reappear now.
And that could be an exciting first act.
I'm still not entirely sure who the main villain is, but there are rumors/leaks about casting for
Galactus, along with one of his heralds that sounds like it isn't Silver Surfer. For Galactus, the two names I kept seeing were Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem.
If Doom appears, I expect it to be minimal. Maybe even a credit scene cameo.
FF and X-Men related stuff were my favorite Marvel titles as a kid, with Thor and DD in the mix (I mostly ignored the Avengers, Hulk and Spidey apart from crossovers and so on). I think my interest in those was because I came on board just as the Claremont/Byrne X-Men, then Byrne FF, Frank Miller DD, and Walt Simonson Thor runs were getting going - which even with nostalgia as a factor you can make a case was the peak for those titles apart from Lee/Kirby FF - so I am pretty excited about the FF and X-Men phase of the MCU, and DD being pulled in as well.
That's funny. You were a Fox person before that was a thing!
FF, X-Men, and Thor were all characters I knew about only because they showed up on the Hulk or Spider-man cartoons, and/or their involvement in Secret Wars. That was my big introduction to most of those heroes and I got into X-Men after Secret Wars but gave it up after Claremont left. My first San Diego Comic Con, I ran all over the place on that Sunday collecting back issues and reprints (Mostly X-Men Classic) so I eventually had the entire Claremont run.
Daredevil I admit I didn't get into until the whole Dark Reign thing. The Dark Avengers is what got me back into comics for that year, but Daredevil ended up being the only title I stuck with after Siege, and I also went back for pre-Dark Reign issues as well. He became my favorite Marvel character as an adult. FF and Thor I've only ever read the Dark Reign stuff. I'm sure that's doing both a massive disservice but now I'll probably never be able to spend the money or the time reading any that are worth checking out.
But I'm ready for the FF movie to win me over the same way the Thor movies did.
If they do do it in the 60s I bet Peyton Reed is gonna really be burned. Haha!
If I were in charge of the MCU as it is now, I'd have Doom be working on a time machine to go save his mom from selling her soul to Mephisto; in which Reed notices a flaw. The rest of the 4 are there when the machine goes ka-blooey and they all end up 60y in the future-present. Doom's lost Latveria, the Four are bankrupt as was a common tale for them, none of them fit into society quite the same - Ben's situation actually improves from the more-obvious prejudicial 60s era as he's no longer the only 'monster' out there and the public sees his heart of gold. Doom blames Reed for everything going wrong.
Maybe have Franklin left in the 60s but he's been isolated by the government since then, and his age and powers keep skipping around until his parents come back and he reverts to the same age he was when they left him so he can be a child again.
I also wonder if they could do the Negative as an offshoot of the Quantum Realm. Before Quantumania, I would have said "that'd be interesting if they spent most of the movie there", but I would be wrong.
It would tie things together if the negative zone was another "realm", but wonder if Quantumania has sort of kibashed going that way. I feel like they need to re-ground the stories just a bit. I really hope they don't go with Galactus yet, in part because the whole "end of the world" bit may be played out, but also that you can't have that level of threat show up and not include Avengers, etc.
So I'm kinda fine if he is the Thing for the entire movie.
Part of the Thing character is his coping with being transformed and that he thinks of himself as a monster for that reason, with a ruined life, and that Reed also feels guilty about being responsible for his situation in particular. I think it would be like just unthawing Cap and having Peggy being just a flashback - or not seeing frail Steve Rogers - you need that for the character and the audience to connect. Otherwise Thing is just another impervious strong guy.
That's funny. You were a Fox person before that was a thing!
Its true. It was actually Star Wars and then Micronauts and Battlestar Galactica comics that got me first, then X-Men, followed Byrne to his FF run from there, followed Simonson who I liked from BSG to Thor a few years later, and somehow got in on Miller Daredevil early...
So when the MCU started, I did not have high hopes as I thought Iron Man and Cap were pretty dull characters, but was hopeful about Thor... That Tony and Steve ended up with the best character arcs and best portrayals is kind of surprising to me.
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