I'm just looking forward to seeing the actors try to say "Blackagar Boltagon" with a straight face...
The Inhumans Marvel/IMAX
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Fortunately, Mount won't have to say it.
"Medusalith" "Crystalia" Funny that Triton, Gorgon and Maximus didn't get name "upgrades".
They do if, both times, they're doing what was requested of them.
I'm sort of wondering if the characters will adopt more conventional-sounding names for everyday use -- like maybe Blake, Melissa, Trent, George, Max, etc. (Crystal already works fine.) Then again, the set photos give the impression that they're being very faithful to the comics, so maybe they won't do that.
Any word on how the "outside world" will be featured? I think one character is a regular human. I assume she'll be our way of meeting the Inhumans.
They don't generally hire someone who does one to do the other. The only person I can think of off the top of my head who has done both (at least in the "modern" superhero movie era, I don't know about, say, people who worked on hero stuff pre early 2000s) is Simon Kinberg as a writer, and his stuff varies wildly in quality (and his "grounded" attempt, Fant4stic, was bad even for a "grounded" comic book movie). Plus, the IF guy seemed really into Iron Fist not being like the comics. Plus, for the millionth time, he's pretty much already bombed his Marvel netflix show. Inhumans shouldn't be made by someone who has worked on what is basically the Anti-MCU, and certainly not by someone who has apparently been the first failure of the Marvel netflix stuff.
Well, they are shooting on location, so I'd assume the show doesn't just take place on Attilan. I expect there to be a lot of interaction with normal humans in everyday locales. After all, it'd be far more expensive to do the whole series in an entirely constructed location filled with prosthetically or digitally altered characters.
First, I'm not sure why you limit it to superhero shows.
Second, not only would I argue Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow are dramatically different in tone, but I would certainly say Trollhunters is very different. It's possible to hire a producer for all three shows since showrunners have lots of responsibilities, including effectively running a writer's room and making sure a show gets out on time, independent of tone.
But why would an ancient hidden city have modern-looking buildings and streets? Besides, the look of Inhuman cities has already been established in Agents of SHIELD. We've seen a set photo of an obelisk prop with the same Kree writing used in AoS, so evidently they're continuing to use that aesthetic.
Exactly my point. They'd be writing it with budget considerations in mind, so they'd write it to take place largely in the real world, so that most of the characters would be normal people wearing normal, off-the-rack clothes and using normal props, vehicles, etc. Why wouldn't they? Even aside from the budgetary and logistical reasons why an everyday setting is preferable, there are creative reasons as well. They want to tell a story that general audiences would engage with, and that means a story that takes place in the everyday world and has stakes that are relevant to the everyday world. Even if Attilan has been isolated from the world until now, the story will be about the end of that isolation.
Depending on the architecture, the interiors of some buildings can look pretty exotic and out there. A little set extension and some clever dressing and I think it wouldn't be too hard to sell such a one as being on an alien city. Of course I use alien in the loosest term here since, yes, Inhumans have extra terrestrial origins, but for the vast majority of cases they're still going to be basically human shaped. So doors are doors, stairs are stairs and floors generally run parallel to ceilings in about the same proportions one might expect in human buildings.
Indeed, for all we know Attilan itself wasn't built by Kree at all but by the ancestors of the Royal Family centuries after the Kerr left. It may have even been incrementally rebuilt over the intervening millennia (you know, like real cities?) so the aesthetics of modern day Attilan has about as much in common as that of a ancient Kree temple architecture as a Neo-futurist skyscraper does with a Mesopotamian palace. In short: not a lot.
Indeed, for all we know Attilan itself wasn't built by Kree at all but by the ancestors of the Royal Family centuries after the Kerr left. It may have even been incrementally rebuilt over the intervening millennia (you know, like real cities?) so the aesthetics of modern day Attilan has about as much in common as that of a ancient Kree temple architecture as a Neo-futurist skyscraper does with a Mesopotamian palace. In short: not a lot.
The aesthetics of Attilan aren't the point. As I've said, there are a number of other reasons why it seems likely to me that the series will be set largely in the everyday world, not exclusively in Attilan.
They could have chosen a real-world location that they thought might pass for Attilan at street level, a la the locations used as a 23rd-century colony city in "Operation: Annihilate!"
I've actually been expecting the opposite, that the majority of it will be in Attilan.