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There Was A Different Idea: An MCU Producer Quest

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It's still obviously incredibly premature, but for Wonder Man I'm thinking about Stan Lee as some office drone rolling his eyes when Williams or someone else does a rant.

"I want that Wonder Man caught if it's the last thing I do!"

Pull out to the fact that it's muffled by the door and some clerk or whatever is just rolling his eyes and trying to work in the office.
 
I'm feeling 7/8 over 21/22. The latter is the weekend that Paranormal Activity 2 came out which made close to 200M in the box office. That and the over Halloween vibe may draw more people away from the movie. Meanwhile 7/8 doesn't have strong competition.
 
Zvonimir said:
I'm feeling 7/8 over 21/22. The latter is the weekend that Paranormal Activity 2 came out which made close to 200M in the box office. That and the over Halloween vibe may draw more people away from the movie. Meanwhile 7/8 doesn't have strong competition.
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You know what, that sounds like a good idea. I'll change my plan to fit this.
 
I wanna do a She-Hulk movie that focuses on the fact that she's a lawyer. It's got all these scenes of her, like, benchpressing heavy things, and lifting people's cars out of the ditch, and using her ludicrious strength for every day stuff, but she never once punches anyone and the entire dramatic arc occurs in a courtroom.

And I want it to be about her taking on a megacorp that's doing something bad, not anything to do with murder or stuff like that.
 
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Imvincible will likely be a hit and hopefully be seen as better than Iron Man, rather our 2 and 3 which has been mixed opinions. Those two movies have good parts, especially 3's PTSD secedes, but they're not universally as positive as 1 was.
 
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Tithed_Verse said:
I wanna do a She-Hulk movie that focuses on the fact that she's a lawyer. It's got all these scenes of her, like, benchpressing heavy things, and lifting people's cars out of the ditch, and using her ludicrious strength for every day stuff, but she never once punches anyone and the entire dramatic arc occurs in a courtroom.

And I want it to be about her taking on a megacorp that's doing something bad, not anything to do with murder or stuff like that.
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I agree, one of the problems in the OTL MCU is that it got into the pattern of valuing grand spectacles and scale over substance. Something that became more visible over the years like with Shang-Chi and Eternals.



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Stan Lee, in the background behind Niel Patrick Harris, talking to someone off screen "And that was how I met your mother"
 
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One thing I really hope for "our" MCU, is a better/more consistent continunity.
One already mentionated how Stark PTSD was barely touched and never appeared again.
And I can think of Tony abandoning his suit in IM3, only to return as if nothing happen in AOU.
This is are the first movies so it isn't an issue yet, but for a world that truly feels real, the consequences (glorious or tragic) must be carried on.
 
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I agree, one of the problems in the OTL MCU is that it got into the pattern of valuing grand spectacles and scale over substance. Something that became more visible over the years like with Shang-Chi and Eternals.
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I actually kinda want She-Hulk's first major villain to be Stark Corp. The plot is that a factory in an impoverished area that was built for supposedly humanitarian reasons malfunctions and causes damage to the workers and the surrounding environment. Maybe a poisonous gas leak, maybe an environmental hazard, maybe something else.

Stark Corp insists that, whatever else happened, they're not to blame. Tony Stark himself does not want to take blame for this, he's lashing out at the government, at his supplies, at basically everyone except his own decisions. He's depressed and stressed and not thinking rationally.

She-Hulk has got to go in and prove that, yes, stark corps knew that the training was insufficent, that the materials being provided were substandard, that there was this problem and that problem and so on and so forth. Finally she wins a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Stark Corps. That, yes, Tony was aware of all of these difficulties and he pressed ahead anyway because he thought he was doing a Good Thing.

Iron Man shows up at her door, drunk as fuck and refusing to take responsibility in the personal sense. Instead of getting into a punchout dragdown brawl she gets him seated on her couch, makes him some coffee, calls Pepper, and they have a serious TALK about how sometimes, even with the best intentions, sometimes you still fail and all you can really do is to do better next time.
 
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It might be interested to do a War Machine film in phase two, with Tony Stark, just as Tony or as Rhodie's guy in the chair, and show Tony trying to deal from his friends pov.
 
Have she-hulk take on vultures work crew as clients after they get screwed by the government and stark Co.

She can fight Spider-Man when he starts harassing her clients only to find the vulture has been doing super heists behind her back and team up with Spider-Man.

Her last lines could be something like "We had a good case, we still do, but you had to break the rules..."
 
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Zvonimir said:
I agree, one of the problems in the OTL MCU is that it got into the pattern of valuing grand spectacles and scale over substance. Something that became more visible over the years like with Shang-Chi and Eternals.
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The eternal problem of sequels and filmmaking right there, escalation. People like there to be big stakes, and if you go from massive stakes to nothing people are likely to be disappointed.

Ends up encouraging sequels to try and do 'bigger and bigger' before anything else.
 
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