5 Movies That Marvel Will Develop After "The Avengers"

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Iron Man 3: Still on track for May 2013, Shane Black is attached to direct.

Thor 2: The big news around this film is that it's close to landing Patty Jenkins (Monster) to direct the film project that will explore the Nine Worlds.

Ant-Man: The magazine says it's "still nebulous but definitely in the works." Edgar Wright has "developed an excellent draft recently," says Marvel's President of Production, Kevin Feige. Wright has been working on said script with collaborator andAttack The Block director, Joe Cornish for a long time now.

Guardians of the Galaxy: The comic was created in 1969 and is set in the distant future, revolving around a group of alien beings who travel back in time to protect the earth from alien invasion. This newly rebooted pack of heroes is made up of members who are the last of their kind, including a crystalline being from Pluto and a soldier from Jupiter. Feige says "There's an opportunity to do a big space epic, which Thor sort of hints at, in the cosmic side of the [Marvel] universe." This has the potential to be a big epic space sci-fi adventure, and it's a film I would love to see get made, so I hope it happens.

The Inhumans: The last we heard on this project was the studio was out looking for writers. And this was the description given, "Aliens who were put on Earth as sleeper cell aliens to eventually call back their race to take over the planet. Ultimately, the group of aliens fully assimilates and don’t want to cause war." Millions of years ago the alien species Kree started experimenting on early humans looking to build a race of super soldiers they could use to fight The Skrulls (the rumored alien baddies from the Avengers movie). After the aliens abandoned their human test subjects, the mutants eventually formed their own society, and are now what Marvel calls The Inhumans. If either this one or Guardians of the Galaxy becomes a film, Feige says you should expect an X-Men style ensemble, along the lines of The Avengers. The Inhumans were first introduced in the pages of "Fantastic Four" #45 back in 1965 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. A few members appeared in earlier issues, but they were given a high-profile mini-series in the late '90s.

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The First Official Trailer for "The Avengers" Will Be Released on Tuesday!!!

It was revealed today on "The Avengers" Facebook page that the official trailer will be released this Tuesday!!

Here's the official quote:
"We’re counting down to the release of “Marvel’s The Avengers” first official trailer! 5 days to go!"

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George R.R. Martin Discusses the Differences Between Marvel and DC Comics

Martin says:

"George R.R. Martin: I liked Wonder Man. And you know why? [Laughs] Now it’s coming back to me vividly! Wonder Man dies in that story. He’s a brand new character, he’s introduced, and he dies. It was very heartwrenching. I liked the character — it was a tragic, doomed character. I guess I’ve responded to tragic, doomed characters ever since I was a high-school kid.

John Hodgman: Especially those who might die at any minute.

George R.R. Martin: That’s right. Of course, being comic books, Wonder Man didn’t stay dead for long. He came back a year or two later and had a long run for many, many decades. But the fact that he was introduced and joined the Avengers and died all in that one issue had a great impact on me when I was a high-school kid.

John Hodgman: I imagine it was pretty surprising, in a comic book at that time, to see a whole story arc resolve tragically in that way in one issue.

George R.R. Martin: Yes. It’s hard to understand, I think, from the vantage point of 2011 exactly what was going on in comics back in the early ’60s. The Marvel comics that I was writing letters to were really revolutionary for the time. Stan Lee was doing some amazing work. Up until then, the dominant comic book had been the DC comics, which at that time were always very circular: Superman or Batman would have an adventure, and at the end of the adventure they would wind up exactly where they were, and then the next issue would follow the same pattern. Nothing ever changed for the DC characters.

The Marvel characters were constantly changing. Important things were happening. The lineup of the Avengers was constantly changing. People would quit and they would have fights and all of that, as opposed to DC, where everybody got along and it was all very nice, and of course all the heroes liked each other. None of this was happening. So really, Stan Lee introduced the whole concept of characterization [chuckles] to comic books, and conflict, and maybe even a touch of gray in some of the characters. And boy, looking back at it now, I can see that it probably was a bigger influence on my own work than I would have dreamed."

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