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Thor: Ragnarok

With that extent of future plans, have the studios ever contemplated a case where the comic book movie genre would prove a temporay phenomenom, like cowboy movies, for example? Without Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, who guarantees that the films of the Marvel universe will collect as much money as they do nowadays?
 
I suspect as social media and entertainment marketing become more fluid that the record views will keep getting broken for the foreseeable future. I'm certain the first trailer for The Last Jedi will break this record with ease.
 
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Sebastian Stan apparently signed a nine-picture deal with Marvel way back when this whole thing started, so if Rogers buys it in one of the Infinity War movies (yeah, yeah, I know only one of them is actually called Infinity War now), it's possible that Bucky Barnes might take over for him, as he briefly did in the comics.
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I doubt there is room in the MCU as currently established for a former brainwashed supervillain to officially take up such a prestigious mantle. I'd watch the hell out of a Sam and Bucky movie though.
 
Frigga, Hela, Loki...ack who came up with those name changes??
Frigg, Hel, Loke.
Hel is Lokes daughter, her sibling are the Midgard serpent and the Fenris wolf....
Other than that...Cate as the goddess of nine realms of death...half rotten flesh and half normal flesh...Niflheims ruler!...

Hehe should be fun!
 
It annoyed me a little bit that Stellan Skarsgård didn't pronounce Mjölner properly, I'm sure he can.
 
Ridcully said:
Frigga, Hela, Loki...ack who came up with those name changes??
Frigg, Hel, Loke.
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Huh, in my all my years of reading Norse Mythology (in fact, I recently read two particular books in preparation for Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, which I'm reading right now) and I've never seen Loki spelled as Loke.
 
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KyleRaynous said:
With that extent of future plans, have the studios ever contemplated a case where the comic book movie genre would prove a temporay phenomenom, like cowboy movies, for example? Without Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, who guarantees that the films of the Marvel universe will collect as much money as they do nowadays?
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It's probably worth noting that cowboy movies were a staple of Hollywood, and arguably its most popular genre, for at least forty years. And even before that, they were going strong as far back as the silent era.

We should all be such a "temporary" phenomenon. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Western_films
 
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Greg Cox said:
It's probably worth noting that cowboy movies were a staple of Hollywood, and arguably its most popular genre, for at least forty years. And even before that, they were going strong as far back as the silent era.
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True, but the peak of success was in the 60s, with good presence in the 70s and particularly in the 50s. The superhero genre began having a remarkable presence during the 00s, and achieved throughout our current decade the highest peak of popularity (The Avengers being the most successful one in box office numbers back in 2012). Even so, no new movie in the genre managed to top The Avengers ever since, and the only one I see has a concrete possibility is Infinity War. In the next decade, will the audience level substantially drop? Nobody says that the genre will be extinguished by then, but who knows if it will maintain its popularity...
 
KyleRaynous said:
True, but the peak of success was in the 60s, with good presence in the 70s and particularly in the 50s. The superhero genre began having a remarkable presence during the 00s, and achieved throughout our current decade the highest peak of popularity (The Avengers being the most successful one in box office numbers back in 2012). Even so, no new movie in the genre managed to top The Avengers ever since, and the only one I see has a concrete possibility is Infinity War. In the next decade, will the audience level substantially drop? Nobody says that the genre will be extinguished by then, but who knows if it will maintain its popularity...
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I don't know. The Sixties was when westerns hit their peak on TV, but they were a movie staple long before that. Just looking at John Ford alone, he started making westerns in the silent era and made many of his most famous westerns in the 30s, 40s, and 50s: Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, Rio Grande, The Searchers, etc. (Yes, I watch way too much TCM.)

Westerns were no passing fad. Here's hoping comic-book movies prove equally durable.
 
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Thor gets a haircut...? :wtf: :eek: :lol:
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Yep. Being trapped in Sakarr and being forced to become a gladiator, Thor loses both his hammer and hair. As always, a character suffers a drastic change of look along a major loss or a rediscovery of his identity. In Unworthy Thor, he also has short hair. I guess they took it from there.
 
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