Marvel Comics has updated the release dates for their upcoming superhero movies, pushing all of their most anticipated movies back by nearly five years.
Actually, the news isn’t nearly so dire. While 2010 only offers one major Marvel movie release – Iron Man 2, the one film on the list that wasn’t shifted in the schedule – 2011 will see not one, not two, but three major releases from May to July. Talk about packing a punch. The only downside is that The Avengers is now coming out in 2012.
Here’s the Marvel movie release schedule for its comic book adaptations:
- Iron Man 2 – May 7, 2010
- Spider-Man 4 – May 6, 2011
- Thor - June 17, 2011
- The First Avenger: Captain America – July 22, 2011
- The Avengers – May 4, 2012
- Venom – TBA
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 – TBA
- Deadpool – TBA
I’m pumped for Iron Man 2. Despite the bitter twist that still lingers at the back of my throat from the third movie, Spider-Man 4 is unquestionably a good idea. Thor, however… really? I just don’t see how this movie will end up working – in a day and age where the darker and grittier superhero flicks are all the rage, it’s hard to picture a movie about a shirtless, Fabio-esque God being any good. Captain America has much more potential, but please, please, please get rid of that “The First Avenger” part of the title. The Avengers also has potential… though we have yet to see a superhero team consisting of a bunch of characters with their own movies. How this one will play out is anyone’s guess at this point.
You can view upcoming DC Comics movie release dates here.
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April 18th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
What happened to the Ant Man flick??
April 20th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Fabio! lolz, thats gonna be..weird
April 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
According to IMDB, Ant-Man is still slated for 2010. I don’t see a movie called Ant Man opening to $100 million.
May 15th, 2009 at 10:25 am
the avengers sounds like a movie i wanna see
May 15th, 2009 at 10:26 am
i wanna see the iron man and the avengers.but not the spiderman
May 29th, 2009 at 2:27 am
Thor is pritty sick i think they will give him more aditude for the movie kinda like they did in the sion of asgard serriers its gunna be sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 29th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
will jason statham actually do daredvil, and will there be another ghostrider movie?
May 30th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Ther is supost to anouthe ghost rider movie it will probuby suck like the first one
May 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
The first Ghost Rider movie was absolutely horrific.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Show me an Iron Fist movie and I’ll be happy.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
i think the best way to make a captain america movie is to make it about captain america during world war 2….they could make outstanding war movie about him..an mayby change the costume up a little bit to where its more of a tweeked up army uniform..the bright colored outfits dont cut it anymore
June 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
hopefully they wont make the thor movie cheezy…but makin it cheezy is gonna be real easy 2 do with a character like thor
June 15th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
@Grey – Captain America during WWII would be the way to go; I agree Thor is going to be tough to pull off.
July 5th, 2009 at 4:38 am
sigh.. this will be a long wait.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
a friend told me that their making a marvel ultimate alliance movie. is it true ?
July 14th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Hi Ella, I have not heard anything to that regards. I would be highly surprised if that were the case so no, there is no live-action Marvel Ultimate Alliance movie planned in the near future.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Ghost rider ruled
August 31st, 2009 at 12:06 pm
tHE BEST WAY TO GO IS FOR MARVEL TO EITHER LEAD UP TO AN INFINITY GAUNTLET MOVIE OR SECRET WARS. 1 SUPER HERO ISNT GOING TO CUT IT FOR TOO LONG IN THE MARVEL MOVIES. THERE ARE TOO MANY CONNECTIONS AND ALLIANCES BEING MADE. RELATIVES AND FAMILY SQUABBLE. ALIENS AND IMMORTALS. SOONER OR LATER HULK THE THING WOLVERINE SPIDERMAN XMEN DR. STRANGE IRONMAN WILL CROSS MORE THAN PATHS. ESP CONSIDERING HOW ALL OR MOST RESIDE IN NEW YORK CITY.
August 31st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
hey marvel fans what do you think about disney buying out marvel? personally im kinda scared ,wondering if the comics and movie’s are gonna be less adult. i mean it took stan lee a while to grab an adult demographic …guess im afraid disney and all theyre coalitions will take that away , is any body else worried?
August 31st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
@jay, I would be highly surprised if Disney affected the content of Marvel Comics to make them more Disney. They’re a business and they have a vested interest in keeping things how they’ve been working – profitably.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Ghost Rider was ok. The fights were over to fast in that movie thou. I like the idea of a Thor movie. But of corse there going to change it up a bit so he is not chezzy. like they did with the X-men movies. The X-Men comics they all had on bright colors because that was the thing then but dark is in now and i think they with make Thor more dark then in the comics.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:53 am
ghost rider had the best story, better than every other marvel movie they just spent to little time in the good parts and too much in the bad parts like blaze chasing girls
September 4th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Sam, I didn’t even realize Ghost Rider had a plot.
September 7th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
captian America realy should best during WWII Thor could be quite dark if you think about it he is a Norse god and vikings were not known for being fun people with a fondness for pink fluffy bunny slippers. Ghostrider was NOT a good film bad plot and wrong actor Xmen3 was awful the thing I did not like was juggernaut he was too small and why did he not say any thing to his stepbrother Now Disney own Marvel we can have the greatest show down in history two of the most nasty guys ever Donald Duck Vs Howard the Duck feathers will fly it would be a fowle fight no holds bard and no pants either lol
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 am
Norway calls for a nice realistic portray of Asgard and the old Norse gods. Looking forward to a nice Thor movie, or “Tor” without the “H” which is his real name.
But when is the strongest woman in the Marvel universe, and the most successful woman in so many ways get her own quality movie? Is it true that Megan Fox is going to play her in a movie? I and I’m sure that lots of others would like to see some real girl power and kick some ass sson. It’s about time that there comes a She Hulk movie of quality. There are so many good females in the Marvel Universe and they’re not even in the supporting roles in the latest movies or just barely included in the games. Except for in “Storm” in the X-men movies, and Sue Storm in F4. But where are the others? I suppose there’ll only be guys in the Avengers movie? This is rubish! The girls should have their share. And She-Hulk which has sold most books and is so well known, snd is so cool and strong. She would be excellent material for a good movie with plenty of good stories and the Marvel Universe should show the fans that they’re not an old gentlemen’s club living in the 1950s. Let the women through, and let the strongest and best of them first – namely the She-Hulk!
October 4th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
well there ya go another self help reading woman crying about equal rights until her car needs to be fixed then she is shaking her ass to get a man to do it lol
yea i mean you (holding worlds smallest violin:) why is it that if the women arent crying the blacks are crying and if they arent crying the arabs are killing themselves in the name of some other stupid arab that refuses to get with the times and cut his beard ? hmmmmmmmmm jesus if the present fact that stan lee is a man bothers you shake yer ass in front of his face and offer him some of your green baseball mitt crying ass dam woman get back in the kitchen ya got no shoes on lol nothing new ok lets talk about another HULK movie id like to see him make she hulk and then bank the hell out of her admit it girlfriend you always wondered about the size of the the hulks wang havent you lol yall have yer just to scared to even type it lol the hulk probably has a 4 footer lmao and hed probably make linda lovelace gag thats a fact lmmfao
October 19th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
On a different note: In general I think for the most part marvel has dropped the ball on their movies. The x-men series was disappointing. wolverine movie sucked. I really only liked Iron Man and Hulk and didn’t mind spiderman. Fantastic 4 was so\so..didn’t like the guy that played dr.doom. I have to say that I don’t have much faith in these marvel movies. I’ll just stick to the comics i remember from the 80s\90s\early 2000s. At times Marvel gets the characters right..(eg. I thought Silver Surfer was done awesome. But dropped the ball on Galactus). Mind you I’ll probably see the movie but I won’t be excited about it.
October 20th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
@shazzam – besides the two latest Batman films, the first two X-Men movies are pretty damn good.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:57 am
Its seem that 2011 will be a great year for the marvel-heads lol
October 25th, 2009 at 12:27 am
The problem with getting adult audiences is we know how the stories are supposed to be and unlike the LOTR following the book over 90% – most of these movies are changed to make them new and unique. Like when you read a book and then see the movie- but only worse cause want that purity and can almost taste it from the still comic images. So I am just left disappointed by the results but have to give out props for the effort on making the movies. I enjoyed all of them- but the plots left me needing more true to original. Hulk is the man. I don’t think it’ll ever be made but I’ve been writing a screenplay for X-factor where the team is put together to go after the Hulk. I have all these pictures in my head of scenes in the movie.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I wonder if there would ever be a movie based on the game, Marvel Ultimate Alliance? I’ve been playing through that game lately and is a pretty interesting game.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Hey Ryan,
There have been some rumors about a Marvel Ultimate Alliance movie; however, I believe it’s unlikely you’ll ever see something beyond a direct-to-DVD cartoon, simply because of the costs and logistics of doing such a story.
Erik
October 26th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Hey Ben, I understand. As a purist, that can bug me on some things, but for some reason it didn’t for the X-Men films.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
X-Men (2000), Hulk (2003) and Ghost Rider (2007) were bad; Spider-Man (2002), Fantastic Four (2005), X-Men 3 (2006), Fantastic Four 2 (2007), Iron Man (2008) and The Incredible Hulk (2008) were average; and X-Men 2 (2003), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) were good. I haven’t watched Daredevil (2003) so I don’t know if it’s good or bad. I also think Iron Man 2 (2010) will be average, Spider-Man 4 (2011) will be good, Thor (2011) will be average, The First Avenger: Captain America (2011) will be good, The Avengers (2012) will be good, Venom (TBA) will be average, X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 (TBA) will be average and Deadpool (TBA) will be average.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 am
For the fighting and action in the Marvel movies, the top 5 in order is: The Incredible Hulk vs The Abomination (The Incredible Hulk – 2008), Iron Man Desert Fight [Fight 2] (Iron Man – 2008), Spider-Man vs The New Goblin [Fight 1] (Spider-Man 3 – 2007), The Incredible Hulk vs General Ross’ Army (The Incredible Hulk – 2008) then Wolverine and Sabertooth vs Weapon XI/Deadpool (X-Men Origins: Wolverine – 2009).
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Hey Marvel Fan, thanks for the comments. I can see we don’t see eye to eye. Here are my rankings of comic book movies already done:
1. The Dark Knight
2. X-Men 2
4. Spider-Man 2
4. Batman Begins
5. Iron Man
6. X-Men
7. Spider-Man
8. Batman (Tim Burton)
9. Batman Returns
Bad:
1. (Worst) Elektra
2. Ghost Rider
3. Fantastic Four
4. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
5. Fantastic Four 2
6. Spider-Man 3
7. X-Men 3
Looking forward to:
1. Iron Man 2 – excellent
2. Captain America – good
3. Spider-Man 4 – good
4. The Avengers – OK, but questionable
5. X-Men Origins: Wolverine – OK
6. Deadpool – OK
7. Venom – bad
8. Thor – bad
November 4th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
top 5 comic book films: 1.Dark Knight
2.X-Men Origins(way more action than the boredom in Iron Man and Incredible Hulk)
3.Spiderman 3
4.Blade
5.Thor(it hasn’t come out yet but i don’t care it will blow Iron Man and Not So Incredible Hulk out of the water lol)
November 4th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
top 5 comic book films i simply hated were: 1. Hulk
2. Ghost Rider
3. Blade 2&3
4. Spawn
5. Watchmen(put me to sleep)
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Hey Mike, well, I’m glad I agree on the Dark Knight. We definitely didn’t see the same movie when we watched Wolverine (bad editing, rushed story, terrible special effects, lots of action but not a lot of good action) or Spider-Man 3 (cheesy, too many villains). Blade was pretty good.
I have no strong arguments on your “hated” list. I liked Watchmen, but I’m not going to defend it.
November 8th, 2009 at 6:51 am
The need to do a Kingdom Come Movie. Rich plot, timeless issues and lots of heroes.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Hey Smitty234,
That would be super challenging to do – but that’d be awesome.
Erik
November 11th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Cannot wait for these movies, long time marvel fan and really looking forward to Iron Man 2 and Spiderman 4!
November 11th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
All I know, is that Marvel needs to move on these movies before they loose there continuity – the fans, like my self are hungry for this awesome entertainment.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
No offence guys but i liked most of movies so far with a few exceptions that i will not name due to respect for the comic series! what i would really love to see is a movie made from the warcraft game series!! i think it would be awesome!