![]() With DoFP set in 1972, the timeline of X-Men, X2: X-Men United, The Last Stand, and even X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine never happened. Producer Simon Kinberg confirmed recently that Days of Future Past has essentially pressed the reset button on the X-Men franchise. Which is actually the genius of what happened with Days of Future Past. Audiences had already invested a damn good amount of time in these stories, and they just weren’t ready to give up on that so soon. Besides the quality of filmmaking, this may be credited to the fact that one was a complete reboot while the other remained loyal to the continuity established in the first three films. What’s interesting is that both Amazing and X-Men: First Class came five years after a trilogy ended on a sour note ( Spider-Man 3 and X-Men: The Last Stand, respectively), but one has clearly been more successful than the other. Jamming the Sinister Six in there, announcing plans for Venom and Black Cat movies before working out how to seamlessly insert any of them into that world ended up with a bloated, funless film and the death of a franchise. The Amazing Spider-Man worked for a second, until the sequel tried to create a massive universe in one fell swoop. As a result, anyone who isn’t Marvel has been attempting to create something similar, with various degrees of success. We love that Ant-Man battles the Falcon and that the MacGuffins in so many of those Marvel films all turned out to be Infinity Stones. ![]() ![]() Where the hell were the Avengers when the freakin’ President of the United States got kidnapped by Aldrich Killian? If Mystique and Charles Xavier have this deep, complicated relationship throughout the 1960s and 1970s, why do they act like total strangers when they meet in the 2000s?Įven with those flaws, it’s been fairly well established that continuity works and that it’s something audiences crave. As messy as the books can be, two-hour films open the door for even more convolution, and Marvel isn’t immune. We’re talking 70-plus years of events affecting storylines not even conceived until decades later, characters that have grown alongside and interacted with each other for thousands of issues. And it hasn’t always been easy.Ĭomics have had decades of practice maintaining intricate continuities. Fox’s X-Men series, Sony’s Spider-Man franchise, and Warner Bros./DC’s Batman films each had established well-run series, but if they wanted to compete in Marvel’s league, they’d have to change their game plans. Modern superhero movies had already been around for a decade (here’s looking at you, Blade). However, the massive success of this template put a hitch in other companies’ plans. Sequels are one thing, but the closest thing to what Kevin Feige and his team had pulled off is maybe Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse. Iron Man beget Incredible Hulk beget Thor beget Captain America: The First Avenger beget Marvel’s The Avengers - cohesive, progressive stories in which different characters are interconnected into one universe. Marvel started something unheard of in cinema when it launched Phase I of its film slate in 2008. This time, he speculates on how Fox and DC could catch up to Marvel’s universe. To go far is to return.” Smith also clarified that filming will begin on August 2, his birthday.Comics to Screen is a recurring feature in which Ben Kaye analyzes the constantly evolving leap from comic books to screens of all sizes. Smith tweeted out the announcement, writing, “To be great is to go on. The plot description sounds suitably meta for this band of geeks: “In Clerks III, following a massive heart attack, Randal enlists Dante, Elias, Jay, and Silent Bob to make a movie immortalizing his life at the convenience store that started it all.” They’ll film entirely on location in New Jersey. The major cast from the first two films will reprise their roles, including Jeff Anderson (Randal), Brian O’Halloran (Dante), Jay Mewes (Jay), Rosario Dawson (Becky), and Smith as Silent Bob. Today, Deadline announced that Smith will expand the View Askewniverse with Clerks III, which is already in preproduction in New Jersey. Remember how in Kevin Smith’s 1994 breakout Clerks, one of the clerks was playing hooky on his job as a video-store clerk to hang out with that other clerk? Now, video stores are a historical relic akin to Mayan pyramids only not as well-preserved, and all those slacker-youth main characters have reached middle age. Photo: Darren Michaels/Weinstein Company/Kobal/Shutterstock
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