You guys know I hate reporting rumors, but occasionally there's a rumor that I desperately want to be true, and I try to will it into existence by reporting on. This is one of those times. The Hollywood database The Grid lists Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy plot synopsis as:
About a U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.
Now, I have no idea how accurate The Grid is, how good their sources are, if they even have sources, or who actually updates it. All I know is that if the above plot is true, then there's a pretty good chance...
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...Carol Danvers is the U.S. pilot in question. This is a phenomenal idea in many ways, and I'm going to list them: 1) As the Kree-powered Ms. Marvel, Carol already has ties to the cosmic Marvel-verse, and would work extremely well in a GotG movie. 2) The Marvel movie-verse could use a higher profile (and more powerful) superheroine than Black Widow. 3) She could immediately be added to the Avengers, which is another great way to tie the Marvel movie-verse together. 4) Carol is getting a pretty big push from Marvel right now as the new Captain Marvel, so there's synergy there. 5) Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel/Captain Marvel is awesome, and I would really, really like her to get her movie due and her movie debut.
So again, there's no telling if this is at all accurate. But I think it makes a lot of sense on many, many levels for Marvel, and if it's not true, it goddamn should be. Also, the idea of Marvel making a Captain Marvel movie before DC manages to make a Wonder Woman movie is fucking hilarious to me. (Via io9)
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So in other words, if you dress up a hot blond woman like Power Girl, she would look like Power Girl. Wow.
Could be possible that they introduce S.W.O.R.D. in this film, thus allowing Carol to be in the film in a minor role. then after the credits we see her get her powers. Cause it would be the Marvel thing to do to get all the fanboys excited at the end of the movie (Thanos at the end of Avengers)
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earthling pilot, caught in galactic issues, running with ex-cons in space. are they remaking farscape?
The concept art and the synopsis seem to suggest Star-Lord, instead. http://marvel.com/images/gallery/story/19067/sdcc_2012_guardians_ant-man_films_on_the_way/image/926481
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you would actually think they would want to totally jump on that. then if JLA ever actually comes out all the kids will just be like "fuck that it's just a ripoff of Squadron Supreme!"
There has been a few suggestions...mostly of the Kathee Sackoff (SP?) variety...my own taste would be more of the Charlize Theron Variety.
Sorry, didn't realize having standards made one an elitist. I forgot, you're a fan of Topless Robot, so I'll put it in a way you can understand. Rob don''t report on the sometiems only rumors report on. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! But can...hell and yes!!!! There, incoherent enough for you? I mean, is words bsad and stuff good?
If she becomes anything, it'll be the new head of SHIELD after Nick Fury does something in the second movie to honk off the World Security Council so bad that he's either fired or goes on the run.
a U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic outlaws that's the plot from Guardians of the Galaxy when they first appeared in 1969...
Setting up new characters in a movie should not be hard now in the Marvel Movieverse. Especially if you're doing an Avenger's tie in. All you have to do is a scene at Shield where Fury or whatever Shield agent you choose is giving a briefing. They can show a brief bio on the screen and cut to a brief scene of the character as the recruit contact them. She-Hulk for example, they give the bio, ties to Banner, blood transfusion. Then cut to her trying a caseand a Shield agent approaching her outside of the courtroom.
Just curious, did you read any of the Annihilation and modern Guardians of the Galaxy stuff? Most of it was really great because of the focus on characters, humor, and personal stakes. I honestly have rarely gotten too into "cosmic" comics, myself, for similar reasons to what you mentioned...but when Keith Giffen really got cosmic Marvel rolling a few years ago with these characters, and Abnett & Lanning (and others) continued the push almost as well, I was hooked.
I feel the same way. I like the more "experimental" style art in non-superhero books, but I prefer my supers books to have nice clean, energetic illustrations. It's the reason I stopped collecting Daredevil when Alex Maleev took over (the story wasn't doing enough to overcome the art), and the reason I collected Hulk for much of McGuiness's run (despite Loeb's idiotic story).
Can someone explain to me why that woman has six fingers on her right hand? Check that... seven fingers.
also worth pointing out: the only reason there's a new Captain Marvel book is so that Marvel could renew the rights to the name again.
"Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy plot synopsis as:About a U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants."This has probably been said a few times in these comments, but that's the plot from Farscape. Is Marvel that desperate that it's starting to raid the canceled shows from the SciFi channel for ideas?
wouldn't they have to introduced the Kree and Mar-vell to do Ms Marvel and Carol wasn't a pilot or a Guardian :)
I'm gonna add a #6 here, or at least an extension of #4: Thanos, the villain revealed in the Avengers stinger scene, is traditionally the nemesis of Captain Marvel. Since they're playing up Ms. Marvel to take the Captain's place, Carol would be an ideal pick to add to the Avengers to do battle with the mad titan in Avengers 2.
Femshep has by far a better voice than Manshep, at least when it comes to playing Paragon. She has a very heroic voice. Manshep, on the other hand, always sounds like a jerk and is the better voice for a Renegade playthrough.
Marvel is positioning Captain Marvel as the female Superman of the Marvel Universe. I'd love to see that come to the big screen. It would be funny to see Marvel make a better Superman movie than WB.
The Bay is one of the more frightening of the Great Old Ones. "Fhal'ta naht grh'anst jhalt'll Bay ganl'tirrl yllraht" "Trapped by the seal, The Bay dreams of explosions"
To be fair to Rob, I'm much more familiar with Carol Danvers than Star Lord, so it's not a mistake that would be out of the question for me to make.
think they even showed that very same pic here before, which makes this all extra odd
What? I still can't hear you. You'll have to come down here if you really want your message to be heard.
Promote this comment. I was trying to think who would play her best. You nailed it on the head.
Jon Benjamin would be the best. His voice work (outside of Bob's Burgers) is the best in the industry.
Hey! The Gurus of the Internet themselves gave me permission to bring that box over here. Be careful with it!
Except that Star Lord is a current member in the comics and appeared in the promo image they've already shown.
Yah right. Next thing you're going to tell us the internet is in that little box... I mean c'mon... it doesn't even have wires!
My bad. Somehow I just read that as "Asian" rather than "Asian-American". I think you're right about Sunfire though. Of the ones you mentioned, I only recognize the names of Komodo and Karma, though I don't know anything about them. And yeah, I guess in a best of all possible worlds we get both. I've just never been a big cosmic fan. I can't think of a cosmic story I've read that seemed like it was trying to appeal to the reader beyond, "Look how epic/cool this is!" which just strikes me as kind of dull.
sounds clever until you realize the Guardians of the Galaxy started with the concept back in 1969.
