Translation: "Me Likey Marvel, All others Baad"

I have to laugh at the laying the groundwork part, Marvel rushed Avengers out the gate at the same rate WB & Sony are, they tossed in needless elements into Iron Man 2, Thor and Cap to set-up The Avengers in just 3 years and it hurt those movies. "Captain America WWII Hero" was reduced to a 2-minute montage and quick death to force him to the future for Avengers rather then proper development.

"Well, Universal has one character and one shot. Namor is both a super hero and a super villain, so imagining him as a morally complex character? They can’t leverage anything Marvel outside of the Namor world, but maybe they can reimagine the character a little bit and make him a stand-alone project? Whether you think it’ll work or not is not the question."

Shyeah because movie-making requires other franchise and cinematic universe fads to work, it's not like there's more than a hundred years worth of self-contained stories in movie history or anything.

True. We also live in a world where Latino-Review posted that Cumberbatch had been cast as Khan … despite later denials from Abrams and Bad Robot. The Playlist's response? "So, remember when the Internet was convinced that KHAAAAAAAAAN would be the villain in "Star Trek 2" because Benicio Del Toro was intially (sic.) tapped to play the role, and then Edgar Ramirez and Jordi Molla were being tossed around to replace him after he bounced? Well, guess again."

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