Posts Tagged ‘Marvel’
Marvel comics has some of the most popular characters around right now. Especially thanks to their dominance in the film industry with huge successes such as Spider-man, Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk (not so much the first one). So chances are even if you’ve never picked up a comic book you are probably aware at least of some of Marvel’s bigger characters.
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Are theme parks still popular?
With the way that home entertainment is changing the way that we live I wondered the other day about how theme parks were coping. I mean most of these parks aren’t cheap to go to, from what I can tell a ticket to Disneyland is around $72 which is interesting as our own Warner Bros Movieworld tickets are $69.95 for what I can only imagine is a lot less (I’ve never been to Disneyland).
So if you are taking a few people to the park it is going to add up in cost and in the current economic climate I’m surprised that theme parks are still a popular choice. Certainly not for repeat business, you can only go to Movieworld so many times before it get’s old and in my case it only takes two visits.
But as you may have seen on the interwebs spreading like wildfire the concept illustrations from the proposed Marvel Super Heroes theme park in Dubai. I do wonder whether this is something I would be interested in, i mean I assume I would but some of these images don’t inspire me THAT much.
This is possibly the most interesting of the images, I like how they’ve captured an average day in the Marvel New York day. I can really see this working, it would be awesome for photos! I’m going to assume that that’s Iron Man way off in the background standing (or flying) on top of that building.
Obviously my bias to Iron Man being featured heavily will affect my judgement.
So this gives an idea of the break up of the mini-worlds of Marvel World (this is the name that I’ve dubbed on it not the official name). I personally would have made it more location driven, Avengers HQ, The Baxter Building, Asgard, Stark Enterprises etc.
But it looks like most of the bases have been covered.
Where’s Iron Man?? Why is Magneto so big? There is one member of the audience that I instantly dislike. This is only a concept image… pfft.
Now this is a really interesting idea, one of those tower drop rides as part of some sort of Spider-Man story. I dislike themed rides that are in name only, you know like a roller coaster named after Superman and that’s all. It’s not creative. So I like the concept of taking part in a storyline that eventually has you stuck in one of those tower drops or even some sort of train carriage.
Finally!! A Stark Enterprises themed section of the park. I dunno about the giant Iron Man head or how interesting SE would actually be but at least he’s being acknowledged.
There are a bunch more images floating around in the interweb tubes, I guess Dubai is pretty much the only place that has the money to build something like this right now which is a shame because I doubt I’ll get a chance to check it out. I suspect though with the purchase of Marvel by Disney that we can expect to see more rides showing up with a Marvel theme.
Director Joss Whedon
This past week has been extremely busy, so much so that I completely missed the news that Joss Whedon was confirmed to be the director of Marvel’s upcoming The Avengers. In fact I found out via a follow up story that said that he would be re-writing the scripts for The Avengers and a little more surprisingly Captain America.
Now I’m torn completely.
I love Joss Whedon’s television work with the exception being Dollhouse which in fairness I have not watched past the magic sixth episode where I’m told that things become actually good so I reserve judgement. His one directorial role is one of my favourite films, Serenity the big screen adaptation of Firefly so I know that he can direct even though it’s only been once. It’s not like he doesn’t know comics with his run on Astonishing X-Men simply one of the best X-Men runs ever although on the flip side his ‘season’ on Runaways was in my opinion one of the weakest.
So on paper at least you’ve got to imagine that Whedon would be an excellent choice and that I would be slam dunked into geek joy.
But I’m not.
See Serenity is set in the Whedon ‘verse. Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse are all Whedon created environments, I admit I’m a little concerned that what happened on Runaways is going to happen on Avengers, Whedon’s unique voice is going to overpower the storyline. He’s going to mould them into the way that his characters speak which admittedly worked perfectly on the X-Men, but the Avengers are a different bunch.
But of course I don’t know, maybe his style will work as he’s done a variety of writing gigs from Toy Story to Alien Resurrection (which I don’t hate – but let’s not start on that) and maybe Marvel will keep a close rein on the characterisations.
That’s not my only concern though.
It’s well known that Whedon likes to use the same actors over and over till it almost becomes a running joke to wonder what role Summer Glau is automatically going to walk into in The Avengers? Don’t get me wrong I love them all in their respective roles but then I usually have one character I’ll identify them with. I just don’t want to see Nathan Fillion showing up as Giant Man or worst case scenario Eliza Dushku as a from the wrong side of the tracks Wasp.
I reiterate before the hating begins that I love all of these actors in their roles but brilliant casting is what has been working for Marvel of late and I want that separation from the Whedon universe so I hope it isn’t a “let me think about what roles my stable of actors could do first” situation.
So what do you all think of the news that in the future Joss Whedon will be telling Iron Man what to do?
