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ruadh
ruadh - 5/19/2013, 10:16 AM
"Possible Meaning: Marvel is obviously happy these characters are back but Disney may be holding them back because Disney frowns upon darker, R-rated movies like these and prefers to max out its films with a PG-13 rating."

I don't think it's Disney so much as Marvel themselves. Disney has been pretty hands-off with Marvel Studios.

The biggest hurdle for these characters isn't the rating as much as their record so far. Violence won't get you an automatic R-rating, especially if there's not a bunch of blood etc. Nudity and vulgar language will guarantee R more than violence, and that shouldn't be an issue for these movies.

Punisher and Ghost Rider, while both getting sequels, haven't performed nearly at the level Marvel Studios expects. Incredible Hulk made $263 million, but wasn't viewed as a success by the studio, so Ghost Rider and Punisher, and even Blade, just don't seem too viable.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 5/19/2013, 10:33 AM
What Feige is really saying the whole time is... These movies are expensive to make we have to chose which characters marvel studios devolp into movies wisely... Considering the fact that a movie studio puts up all of the money for production and advertising, then they split the box office earnings with the movie theatres. Marvel didn't make their money back with the incredible hulk and barely if at all with captain america.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 5/19/2013, 10:49 AM
...and any characters that marvel has regained the rights is out of the question because tey have already proven to be unprofitible at the box office...
superherofan21
superherofan21 - 5/19/2013, 11:41 AM
Marvel Zombies?
Maybe as an animated film.
TheManFromMars
TheManFromMars - 5/19/2013, 12:02 PM
I never read Runaways, so excuse me if I got this wrong, but aren't their origin that they are a bunch of kids with supervillain parents? How would that work? The MCU is still too young for that. It works in the comics because the Earth-616 is huge with 70 years of history and gazillions of characters. So, we can believe that there are a bunch of "secret" supervillains who had time to raise children till their teen years, but in something as young as the MCU? I don't think so.

Their story will need MASSIVE tweaking. (I'm a aware that "massive tweaking" is an oxymoron)
SpoonWielder
SpoonWielder - 5/19/2013, 1:22 PM
While I like that Blade, Punisher and Ghost Rider are all back with Marvel, not really any of them fit in the current MCU.

If you have Blade come in, it means that there's vampires in that universe. Can you imagine Tony Stark standing beside a vampire? It's just ridiculous.

Punisher and Ghost Rider aren't impossible to put in but again they both don't fit with the tone of the MCU. Ghost Rider will be easier to do after they do Dr. Strange.

The MCU has to take baby steps while doing these movies. The Avengers could not of happened if they haven't made Thor first. Not just to establish characters, but to establish mystical and cosmic elements. It's the same with the future. They can't jump totally into the deep end with far-fetched ideas they have to lay ground-work both tonally and story-wise.
TheManFromMars
TheManFromMars - 5/19/2013, 1:32 PM
I actually think that the problem with the Punisher to fit the MCU is not that he's too violent, but that he kind of lost a bit of his relevance.

The big deal about the Punisher when he was first introduced is that he didn't have any qualms about killing which made a contrast with the other heroes.

In the MCU however, NOBODY has qualms about killing. Hulk kills. Thor kills. Stark kills. Cap kills. The contrast is gone. They really need to amp up his brutality for him to offer something different, which only creates another obstacle.

Shame, because I like Frank.
thebearjew
thebearjew - 5/19/2013, 9:40 PM
compared to hulk does anyone give a sh1t about banner i mean come on hulks a lot of fun now that theyve finally ot his personality right on screen
TheManFromMars
TheManFromMars - 5/19/2013, 11:41 PM
^I do. I've always did. That's why I've always prfered Marvel over DC: It makes me care about the MAN more than the SUPER
TheAbomination
TheAbomination - 5/20/2013, 8:35 AM
All I care about are the Inhumans and Black Panther. Put them in Phase 3 and I'll be a happy camper.
Tainted87
Tainted87 - 5/20/2013, 9:15 AM
Possible meaning to this article: stop trying to over-think things.
EdgyOutsider
EdgyOutsider - 5/20/2013, 10:32 AM
A character like Ghost Rider and DareDevil have proven they can work well without the R rating. Everything else, I pretty much expected.
mook
mook - 5/24/2013, 3:55 AM
"...standalone movie in the MCU but outside of the phases of films. Just a hunch on this but eventually we will see Marvel Studios releasing non-Phase movies..."

I think between Avengers2 and Avengers3 we will see at least 6 films instead of 4.

Some will be sequels to established franchises (Cap3, Thor3 etc) whereas others can be standalone but set in the MCU (under the sea with Namor, off in space with The Inhumans). Others can be origins for new chracters but more linked in to helping move the Phase3 story arc forward.

The end result will be all the introduced characters being involved in some way in Avengers3 for an Infinity Gauntlet style story.
TonyMasters
TonyMasters - 6/10/2013, 6:56 PM
@Crossbones

Are you saying that Ghost Rider and Daredevil did alright as movies? Because after watching both Ghost riders I was disgusted by what they did to the franchise. Daredevil was retarded, the only thing that was done right was the casting for Kingpin... RIP Michael Duncan... :(
EdgyOutsider
EdgyOutsider - 6/26/2013, 1:31 PM
@TonyMasters: No, they obviously weren't good but by no means is an R rated movie necessary for them. I meant it in the sense that they've proven they could work without the R rating, they just need the right creative team.
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