THE COMIC BOOK MOVIE UNIVERSE
MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE & DC CINEMATIC UNIVERSE
Let me first of all start off by saying i am a fan of both comicbook companies,
From DC Comics,my favourites are The Justice League and its famous members. Mainly Superman,Batman,Aquaman,Green Lantern and Shazam.
From Marvel Comics,My favourites are ...Well...almost everyone actually.
But i do not want to sound bias,Both comic companies seemingly got inspired by each other.They were and are still having a helthy competition.
DC Cinematic Universe
DC Comics were the first i believe to venture out into Cinema (Feel free to correct me if i am wrong in the comments section below).Superman and Batman were the first Mainstream Super heroes that got made into a feature film
I am not so sure about the 60's but from my knowledge,
The first super hero movie made was Superman,directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeves.This movie was a Box office blockbuster.
This was followed by the bigger blockbuster (once again correct me if i am wrong) Superman 2.
Superman 3 and Superman 4 Followed all staring Reeves,but failed to make an impact like its predecessors.
Even the Bryan Singer Directed Superman returns in 2004 failed to make an impact.
However,Zack Synder revived the franchise in 2013's Man of Steel.
Once the Superman fever ended,Tim Burton Created the Epic Batman Film in 1989 starring Michael Keaton.
Batman Returns followed in 1993
and
Batman Forever starring Val Kilmer released in 1996 with both films earning higher than its predecessors.
Batman and Robin which starred George Clooney effectively killed the franchise in 1998
Untill Christopher Nolan Revived the Franchise with Batman Begins,The Dark Knight And The Dark Knight Rises.
The Green Lantern film Starring Ryan Reynolds Was a Failure and stalled the intended DC Universe.
However,Zack Synder decided to make another attamept to finally bring the Justice League together by directing Batman vs Superman Dawn Of Justice (Currently Playing in Cinemas All around the world).
The next Movies Lined up are ;
Suicide Squad (2016)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Justice League Part 1 (2017)
The Flash (2018)
Aquaman (2018)
Shazam (2019)
Justice League part 2 (2019)
Cyborg (2020)
Green Lantern Corps (2020)
What a Fanboy Wants;
After Watching Batman v Superman ,i just plead to Warner Brothers and DC Comics,please stop making your superhero films so grim and dark.I know DC Comics needs to be dark as in comparision with Marvel but not humourless and totally grim.I believe Batman v superman has also suffered because of this.
This is your last roll of the Dice DCComics.Please Make it count.
As a fanboy i just want this DC Movie Universe to Suceed.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel on the other end tried to enter mainstream films with
Spider Man in the 70's which was only moderatly sucessfull.
They tried again with a Captain America Movie in 1990 but failed again.
Marvel then sold their rights to ;
Sony Pictures
(Spider Man,Spider man 2/3,
Amazing Spiderman,
Amazing Spider man 2)
The Ang lee Directed
Hulk
and
Ghost Rider
And
Fox Studios
(Fantastic 4,
Fantastic 4 Rise of Silver Surfer),
X-Men ,X2,X-Men Last Stand,
X-Men Origins Wolverine,
X-Men First Class ,
X-Men Days of Futures Past
The Movies were sucessfull but Marvel did not have an identity for themselves.
What the Marvel CEO Kevin Feige did next,changed the Entire Landscape for Comic Films in Hollywood.
The Birth Of the Marvel Cinematic universe Started with Robert Downey jr's Iron Man in 2008 directed by Jon Favreu.
Feige had already concocted The Avengers movies earlier by coming up with the intriductory films for the other members of the Avengers in 3 phases,with The movie based on the Avengers coming into each phase.This was Genius,This man planned evrything way ahead of time and so far each phase has been executed brilliantly with the Box office collection outdoing each other day by day.
Feige was also instrumental in bringing Spider Man back to the Marvel Cimeatic Universe.With Spidey back where he belongs,Rest Ensured that The Marvel Cimeatic Universe is going to go places even higher than before.
Lets have a look at the MCU Phases
Phase 1 (Avengers Assembled)
Iron Man (2008)
Incredible Hulk (2008)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Thor (2011)
Captian America The First Avenger (2011)
The Avengers (2012).
Phase 2
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Thor The Dark World (2013)
Captain America Winter Soldier (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Avengers Age of Ultron (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
Phase 3
Captain America Civil War (2016)
Dr Strange (2016)
Thor Ragnarok (2017)
Guardians of Galaxy vol 2 (2017)
Spider Man (2017)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers Infinity War Part 1 (2018)
Ant Man and the Wasp (2018)
Captian Marvel (2019)
Avengers Infinity War part 2 (2019)
You have a look at the Phases above and tell me that its not genius. Every Single character has his backstory before he appears in a multihero film.Nothing is jumbled up.Marvel are way ahead of their time and have really made use of Disney's backing as well.
What a Fanboy wants;
Continue the good work Mr Feige.
Everything that you have done so far has been super sucessfull.
Please do not change anything.
The Blueprint is perfect and you have made the dream of every Marvel Fan Come through.
Thank you Mr Feige,
Thank You Marvel and Thank You Disney.
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