Marvel Studios may be planning more MCU for the small screen

Sadly, in today's world of massive superhero films, that is a bit of a disappointment. It's the lowest grossing Spider-Man film ever, and on top of that Sony blew a ton of money on both the budget and marketing.

 

I blame the system that expects these movies to break a billion and the marketing alone is a joke to be honest - most people didn't want what they got with TASM 2. MOS made $668,045,518 PANIC! add Batman for the next film. Ugh.

 

This news makes me very happy. I love her on True Blood.
The only reason this disappoints me is I was really hoping somebody would do an adaptation of Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series, and that she would be Rachel. This was just a dream though, since nobody is actually an adaptation right now.

 

Well we know for a fact that Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle, & Terry Pratchett's Shannara Series have all been picked up recently for Film/Television in various stages of Production. So there's always hope.

 

Report on the Daredevil/Netflix panel at NYCC...

Of all of the characters that I thought Rosario Dawson might be playing, I never expected it it to be...

Spoiler: Dawson's character

...Night Nurse?

 

Ugh. I love the books, and I do like the 2007 series. But they realised they could never adapt the books to the screen properly and created something different for it.

Movies...could have the budget and R rating needed to depict them, if you could convince a large cast to sign on for the time necessary to do all 20+ books.

TV, what, a season a book? 20 years or so as well, don't see it happening, no budget today could manage it.

So I'm dreading the inevitable watered down, heavily edited, PG-13, budget-Harry actor (lets face it, few people could play him), rubbish they'll make.

 

Our first official look at Matt Murdock both in-costume and out, courtesy of Cinema Blend. But before you get too excited, Murdock isn't in his iconic red costume, here. For now they're only giving us a glimpse of him in what appears to be an early, very basic costume.

 

I saw the panel today and the footage was awesome. Cox said that you wouldn't see cliffhangers since you can just click the next episode and that it would be like a 13-chapter movie. He also said that DD's audience is generally slightly older and they would play to that more while not isolating the rest of the fanbase.

 

I'm thinking that when they finally get around to the Punisher, they'll be going with designs from the books written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Marco Checchetto.

 

The Punisher: War Zone movie's Punisher was close to the comic, but the movie just sucked.

I think the released photos look daring so far. I hope he does dawn the costume we're all familiar with, but that costume looks pretty cool.

Spoiler: First look photo (Thanks for sharing Jar Jar)

 

I'm would like to see a unique fighting style used in this series. Murdock doesn't need to see his opponents to fight them; it would be good if the action scenes reflected that.

And as for the costume, Marvel's done a pretty good job with their interpretations of costumes so far but it wouldn't surprise me if we don't see the final version of the costume until toward the end of the series or even in a future season if there is one.

 

Daredevil to drop on the same day as Age of Ultron? Are you f****g kidding me? How am I supposed to binge watch Daredevil twice on the opening weekend if I have to see A:AoU three times in the same weekend?

ETA-- Not an officially announced release date, but based on the PS3 Netflix listings.

 

They also kind of hinted that there's wouldn't be a huge gap between Daredevil and Jessica Jones.

 

Speaking of Jessica Jones, any word on casting/crew for that yet?