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The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX

Turtletrekker

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Time for this to get its own thread.

Marvel's The Inhumans, which will feature the MCU debut of the Inhuman Royal Family, will be coming to IMAX theaters in September before making the jump to ABC, has released its first official casting information. Iwan Rheon, who played Ramsay Bolton on Game of Thrones, has been perfectly cast in the role of Maximus the Mad.

Also, there was a rumor that Elysia Rotaru ("Arrow" S4) had been cast as Medusa.

Going over what we know, Scott Buck, who worked previously with Marvel as the show-runner on Iron Fist, will again be performing show-runner duties on Inhumans.

We also know that Dutch filmmaker Roel Reine will direct the first two episodes(or "The Movie").

They will be filming out of a former US Naval base in Hawaii, and large portions of the story will take place on the Moon (Presumably the Blue Area, where presumably Attilan is located).

The show will have minimal, if any, connection to Agents of SHIELD and their Inhuman based story-lines

Thoughts? Hopes? Fears? Irrational outrage? Let it all out...
 
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I don't know any of the actors that have been cast, but I'm an inhuman fan so I've been waiting to hear more about the show. I wish we'd get an AoS crossover eventually, but I like the royal family inhuman stuff better then the kind of inhuman stuff AoS has been doing anyway, so as long as this show is good then not having a crossover will be unfortunate, but not a huge deal.
 
At first I wasn't interested, but now I'm really looking forward to this since there will be no/minimal AoS connection. The show runner is a good sign too.
 
I don't know the show runner, so I'll reserve judgement until I see Iron Fist.

Iwan Rheon's casting does raise some interest for me, going from "Meh" to "Okay, I'm listening..."

Turtletrekker said:
A fifth season for AoS seems like a longshot at this point.
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Beagleman said:
Sadly, it does.
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More reason to bring the cast over for a visit or two. If the show does get cancelled, perhaps common sense will prevail?
 
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Starscream2112 said:
How many episodes does AOS need for rerun purposes? Maybe we will get another season just to get to that number?
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Is rerun syndication that much of a factor anymore? I'd think that DVD sets and streaming video had largely supplanted its role in the marketplace. And the classic "100-episode minimum" was never a hard and fast rule; two of the most successful and enduring shows of all time in syndicated reruns were Star Trek with 79 episodes and Gilligan's Island with 98.
 
Turtletrekker said:
Preaching to the choir. I really do fail to see how they could do this show and not have some minimal acknowledgement of the history established on AoS.
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Starscream2112 said:
Agreed. This seems like the perfect opportunity for a cross-over episode.
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I'm with you guys here too. After so much of last few years of AoS has revolved around the Inhumans, it just seems like a weird idea to do an Inhumans show and not tie it into AoS. They could have gotten a big story arc out of setting up Attilan and the Royal Family.
 
It ought to be interesting at any rate. I have always been a fan of the Inhumans. Black Bolt is my favorite.
 
So... we will get a spectacular IMAX-quality feature film followed up with a TV series on a TV budget. That sounds like a recipe for letdown.

Kor
 
^ As I joked in a previous thread, and Christopher rebuffed, they can amortise costs by utilising many of the SFX work created for the IMAX pilot into the remainder of the show, keeping quality up whilst stretching their budget a little.

Lockjaw will be a tricky transition if they decide to add him to the cast, though. An expensive special effect to create week on week. Or a large set of "reaction shots" created with the budget of the pilot which can be then recycled throughout the show when needed. As long as it doesn't come across like the endless replays of Space-SFX on the original BSG.

Or maybe they could put a chimp in a costume too like they did for Muffet ;)

And now I have the image of a Lockjaw-Daggett in my head.

Hugo - Muuuhhhffiiittt!!
 
Kor said:
So... we will get a spectacular IMAX-quality feature film followed up with a TV series on a TV budget. That sounds like a recipe for letdown.
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Not necessarily. Starting with a feature budget can allow a subsequent TV series to use that budget for things that will continue to make the show look better on an ongoing basis, for instance, sets, props, vehicles, digital models, etc. Some examples:

  • The '66 Batman series intended to start with the feature film so they'd have the budget to build the Batcopter and Batboat and use stock footage of them in the show. When the first season was rushed into production ahead of the movie, they had to wait until season 2 to introduce those vehicles.
  • Filmation's animated Flash Gordon and BraveStarr both began with feature films allowing the creation of elaborate, fully animated sequences that could be recycled as stock animation in the TV episodes, letting them look better than if they'd been done entirely with TV-budget limited animation (although in both cases, the movies' releases were quite limited and delayed until after the respective TV shows for which they'd been pilots).
  • Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius began with a feature film whose budget let them create the extensive "digital backlot" and character models that they used on the TV series, making it a bigger, better-looking world than it otherwise could have.
  • Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie introduced sets, props, and monster costumes that were subsequently used in the Power Rangers Turbo series, giving it a slicker look than previous seasons -- which was a bit of a problem with the regular monster characters, since their costumes looked significantly better and more detailed in the American footage than in the recycled Japanese TV footage.

Hugo Rune said:
^ As I joked in a previous thread, and Christopher rebuffed, they can amortise costs by utilising many of the SFX work created for the IMAX pilot into the remainder of the show, keeping quality up whilst stretching their budget a little.
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How did I rebut that? That's pretty much what I'm saying now, although they might not be able to use the digital models as heavily or with as much resolution as a film could.


Lockjaw will be a tricky transition if they decide to add him to the cast, though. An expensive special effect to create week on week.
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Supergirl manages to feature Martian Manhunter as a digital effect on a fairly regular basis, and it and The Flash (and sometimes Legends of Tomorrow) frequently have massive CGI action sequences that would've been impossible outside of features just a few years ago. If it's a short season, they might be able to include Lockjaw for at least a few shots per episode, and occasionally give him a bigger role.
 
Poorly worded post. I made a joke comment about transitioning from an IMAX film to a badly drawn cartoon and you rebuffed that with the amortisation comment, which I accept as the best model.
 
Christopher said:
Not necessarily. Starting with a feature budget can allow a subsequent TV series to use that budget for things that will continue to make the show look better on an ongoing basis, for instance, sets, props, vehicles, digital models, etc. Some examples:

  • The '66 Batman series intended to start with the feature film so they'd have the budget to build the Batcopter and Batboat and use stock footage of them in the show. When the first season was rushed into production ahead of the movie, they had to wait until season 2 to introduce those vehicles.
  • Filmation's animated Flash Gordon and BraveStarr both began with feature films allowing the creation of elaborate, fully animated sequences that could be recycled as stock animation in the TV episodes, letting them look better than if they'd been done entirely with TV-budget limited animation (although in both cases, the movies' releases were quite limited and delayed until after the respective TV shows for which they'd been pilots).
  • Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius began with a feature film whose budget let them create the extensive "digital backlot" and character models that they used on the TV series, making it a bigger, better-looking world than it otherwise could have.
  • Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie introduced sets, props, and monster costumes that were subsequently used in the Power Rangers Turbo series, giving it a slicker look than previous seasons -- which was a bit of a problem with the regular monster characters, since their costumes looked significantly better and more detailed in the American footage than in the recycled Japanese TV footage.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th century is another.
 
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