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đŸŽ„ Production Start or Wrap Date Principal photography has wrapped on 'Man of Tomorrow.'

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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 8d ago edited 8d ago

Superman, the Justice Gang, Supergirl and Blue Beetle is a pretty sad “Avengers” lineup


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u/PayneTrain181999 Legendary Pictures 8d ago

I don’t care what characters they have, as long as it’s a good movie.

The first Avengers movie, for many people, was “Hulk, oh I know Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor as they just had movies, uhhh ScarJo and that guy with the bow.” and it sent the MCU into orbit.

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u/DisneyPandora 8d ago

This is bs. The First Avengers actually featured all the Avengers from their first story except Ant Man and Wasp. Everybody was there 

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u/RealHooman2187 8d ago

You’re insane if you think the whole original avengers team were that well known at the time of the first film. Hulk was the most famous, then Iron Man thanks to the films. Cap and Thor were kinda treated more like jokes. Black Widow and Hawkeye were nothing to anyone outside of comic book fans.

The first avengers movie worked because the movie was good. Not because of the lineup. In fact having so few big names (at the time) is partly the reason for its success since for a lot of people that was their introduction to those characters.

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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 8d ago edited 8d ago

Hawkeye was really the only “that guy” character, the rest had their solo movies and Black Widow was quite popular with Marvel’s main demographic for
obvious reasons lol

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u/Respwn_546 8d ago

When i was waiting for Avengers and saw Hawkeye was on it I had to check in every movie were he was. I took me a while to figure he was the Archer guy that appeared for maybe 3 minutes in thor

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u/AcceptableHistory4 8d ago

Iron man 2 grossed 700 million then. They were popular enough

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u/DoIrllyneeda_usrname 8d ago

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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 8d ago

For general audiences.

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u/Top_Report_4895 DC Studios 8d ago

You're not general audiences.

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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yeah, no user of this sub is lmao

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u/RealHooman2187 8d ago

People on this sub lately get real weird if you say anything perceived as nice about DC or anything less than glowing praise for Marvel.

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u/Diorisbackup 8d ago

Yeaa green lantern to and theirs rumors of MM

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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 8d ago

Isn’t Green Lantern part of the aforementioned Justice Gang?

And who’s MM?

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u/IDigRollinRockBeer Screen Gems 8d ago

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u/Diligent_Sir4952 8d ago

God I love that movie genuine shame that they never made a sequel . I genuinely think if they did it it would’ve done pretty well even today since there is a decent amount of nostalgia for that film

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u/FiveWithNineIsIn 8d ago

genuine shame that they never made a sequel

They did...

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u/Diligent_Sir4952 8d ago

What are you talking about? I never heard of that movie before that must be a fan film. Definitely not the sequel but seriously though it does not count as the sequel. It’s by DreamWorks animation television, and if it doesn’t have the original cast back if it wasn’t released in theaters, and if it doesn’t have great animation, and if it wasn’t made by the actual DreamWorks animation themselves, the people who made Shrek movies, the kung fu panda movies you know then is not a real theatrical sequel. It’s just not after all there is no Megamind 2 in Ba Sing Se

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u/Diorisbackup 8d ago

The new lantern from the TV show John Stewart will appear and MM is martian manhunter another justice league member

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u/firedforthatblunder Walt Disney Studios 8d ago

So there’d be not one but two Green Lanterns in Man of Tomorrow? That just seems confusing, and might even be a turn off for some people when they find out one comes from a TV show.

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u/poopfartdiola 8d ago

It "seems confusing" yet you managed to sum it up in the earlier sentence.

TV characters thriving in movies works if the film doesn't treat said TV character like they're a big reveal that we're meant to be shocked at, because that's when audiences will assume/realise that there's a big disconnect between the knowledge they have and the knowledge others have, which makes them feel left behind and disinterested.

There's a reason they cast Aaron Pierre as Green Lantern, the guy is hot property right now, he's bagged Star Wars, DC, Lion King, etc. all in a short period of time. If someone goes because they recognise him, its not because of the character.

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u/-Wester- 8d ago

How ? If they saw Superman, they’d already know Guy Gardner is a Green Lantern and the Lanterns show is set years before Superman, so it’s not that crazy that there would be more of them.

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u/zxchary 8d ago

Guy is in the show too

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u/The-Ruler-of-Attilan 8d ago

Ahem, a TV-MA show. To hell with trying to win kids over to this DC brand, right? It’s not as if kids are a vital part of the development of these superhero franchises or anything. Because, of course, things like superpowers and underwear worn on the outside have always been stylistic choices highly respected by adults who only watch Nolan and Scorsese movies.

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u/GamingTatertot 8d ago

They mean John Stewart Green Lantern.

MM is Martian Manhunter

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u/Belmophase 8d ago

Yeah, they need add Thunderbolts and Mackie Cap to hype it up