Avengers sequel will be called Age of Ultron

~~Leo656~~ · 07-25-2013, 09:56 AM

Man, I wish the guys behind the Marvel movies had more foresight back in 2000 or so. By letting the rights to Spider-Man and others slip away before Marvel Studios was formed, they completely shattered their film universe and made it impossible for all the Marvel characters to be under one corporate film banner. It's as dumb as when Warner Bros. let the rights to Superman get licensed by the Salkinds beck in the 70s, to the point where WB didn't even own the rights to their biggest character's films until 2000 or so.

I know back in 2000 there was no Marvel Studios yet, and in fact just getting the Spider-Man and X-Men movies made at all was the biggest challenge, but I find it hard to fathom they weren't at least thinking about the *possibility* of one day doing joint films, and that maybe having their characters all licensed to different companies wasn't a great idea.

I mean, it's not world-breaking, or anything, but it sucks that we can never, ever see stuff like Spider-Man join the Avengers, or an X-Men/Avengers movie. Sony has flat-out said that the world will perish in flames before they even think about letting go of Spider-Man, and you can't really blame them. It's just the usual corporate nonsense.

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~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	Man, I wish the guys behind the Marvel movies had more foresight back in 2000 or so. By letting the rights to Spider-Man and others slip away before Marvel Studios was formed, they completely shattered their film universe and made it impossible for all the Marvel characters to be under one corporate film banner. It's as dumb as when Warner Bros. let the rights to Superman get licensed by the Salkinds beck in the 70s, to the point where WB didn't even own the rights to their biggest character's films until 2000 or so. I know back in 2000 there was no Marvel Studios yet, and in fact just getting the Spider-Man and X-Men movies made at all was the biggest challenge, but I find it hard to fathom they weren't at least thinking about the possibility of one day doing joint films, and that maybe having their characters all licensed to different companies wasn't a great idea. I mean, it's not world-breaking, or anything, but it sucks that we can never, ever see stuff like Spider-Man join the Avengers, or an X-Men/Avengers movie. Sony has flat-out said that the world will perish in flames before they even think about letting go of Spider-Man, and you can't really blame them. It's just the usual corporate nonsense.