Rumor: A Whole New Team For Avengers 3?

[Rituro]

If the next phase is a set-up for Secret Wars, I will be all kinds of giddy. Sure, it'd require a serious rewrite or a coffers-draining repurchase of all non-Marvel Studios film rights to make things happen (Doom, FF, Galactus, Spidey, Doc Oc and X-Men off the top of my head would need to be re-acquired) but if they pulled it off? Incredible. The nerd-hype alone would be...

...hm. Actually, that much nerd-hype could kill the film based on over-inflated expectations. Curious.

 

[KazeAizen]

...a big hit with new characters would certainly give them some levaerage in negotiating any future contracts.

Guardians of the Galaxy says "Hi!"

If you think Disney's shareholders are happy that 3 very expensive Marvel films have failed to even make 50% of what the Avengers did I've got some magic beans to sell you.

Shareholders care about growth and after Avengers and the IM3 both easily broke way over $1billion for the next 3 to struggle to even make $700 million they will want better results with future films or they will want changes that will not make comic fans happy.

Remember making money and being profitable is not good for these people they want MORE profit every year.

Still its Disney. If the voices that actually matter are the ones that come out on top in the end it will be fine. I mean Nintendo share holders hate how the company has been doing the past two years but Iwata and Miyamoto have just plowed ahead and committed to making good and fun products which, if the world was ideal, they will be rewarded for. Disney also is trying to keep these movies relatively cheap instead of bloating them unlike Sony with The Amazing Spider-man if reports are to be believed. To Sony $800 million sounded like it was just barely above even where as to Disney even $500 million is a huge profit off the movie. Sadly shareholders and investors don't seem to have a brain when it comes to the nature of fan culture and franchises, especially mega franchises like this.

Iron Man was one of those lightning in a bottle superhero movies like The Dark Knight was for DC that same year. Both rewrote the book on how a superhero movie can be done and both also had great actors handing in defining performances for the characters they were chosen to play. Its hard to make lighting strike twice. While I think the Captain America movies are the best of the solo bunch so far it is clear that Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr. are the break out stars of the whole enterprise. Those are the two names that will draw the money in. They shouldn't expect the same returns from Captain America, Thor, or Hulk. I know if I was in their position I wouldn't expect it. Still if Kevin Feige is left to his own devices and the shareholders do the proper thing and stay out of his way I don't think we have anything to worry about.

 

[Sylocat]

At first I thought this sounded absurd, but then I realized that it's probably the best way to break it to the fanboys that Downey, Evans and Hemsworth won't be around forever.

I'm predicting that a major theme of this new A3 will be, that the second-stringers feel insecure about living up to the example set by Cap, Tony and Thor, and the big character arc will be about proving to themselves that they can be just as good, just as heroic, and won't need their heroes to hold their hands forever, &c.

 

[angel85]

Maybe Marvel Studios can launch a kickstarter to raise money to pay the new salaries of all the Avengers actors after they re-negotiate their contracts. OH! Or maybe the world is going so well that all of the actors will just decide that being those super heroes is so super awesome in itself that they'll decide they don't need extra money to keep playing them.

I'm not delusional, I just couldn't decide which one of those 2 sounded more hilarious/preposterous.

 

[bigdork]

This problem won't even manifest until it's time to cast Avengers 4, and they already have a lot of options.

They've got Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch already established (a little bit). They've got Falcon and Bucky as plausible replacements for Cap. Vision comes naturally out of the next movie's Ultron storyline. If Don Cheadle is up for it (or even if he's not, ask Terrence Howard), they have War Machine. Toss in a She-Hulk and I'd say they have a team.

 

[softclocks]

The only real trouble I can see is that the Avengers without HULK would pretty much suck.

That's as logical as saying "the Avengers without Spiderman would pretty much suck" since Spiderman is one of the most iconic Avengers team members. Same could possibly be said for Wolverine, but neither of them could possibly be in any future Avengers because of legal bulls-it. I'm also currently operating under the assumption that Marvel could make Avengers 3 staring Rosie O'Donnell and it would still be awesome.

Hmm, I don't think I made that post.

 

[ryukage_sama]

So Marvel wouldn't need to pay for ALL of the original cast. It's already true that Robert Downey Jr gets paid leagues better than the rest of the cast, so trimming him out would go a long way to budgeting for some of the other originals. They'll try to keep Scarlett Johansson until they bring on more women to the cast.