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Nah, he'll be Professor Schlong, to go with his other Wandavision transplant, Ralph Bohner.

That Strange trailer has me worried. Looks like another Eternals, where it needed to be a series with an additional 3-4 hours of runtime to establish what's going on and why anyone should care.
Preferably without having needed to watch Spiderboy 3.

Looks nothing like Eternals, and all these characters are already established.

Anyway, some hawk eye'd fellow spotted something interesting in the official poster:



What's that towards the bottom right? Some sort of shield, but not the shield we're used to. More of a...

I wouldn’t say All the characters are established. We’ve got a Shuma Gorath, and I believe I spotted an America Chavez, both of whom haven’t appeared in the MCU yet.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Looks nothing like Eternals, and all these characters are already established.

Anyway, some hawk eye'd fellow spotted something interesting in the official poster:

What's that towards the bottom right? Some sort of shield, but not the shield we're used to. More of a...

Spoiler:

The plot for Multiverse was leaked a while back and based on the trailer it looks accurate so yeah, it's probably what you expect.

 AduroT wrote:
I wouldn’t say All the characters are established. We’ve got a Shuma Gorath, and I believe I spotted an America Chavez, both of whom haven’t appeared in the MCU yet.

Every movie introduces new characters. That doesn't make it Eternals.

I am now considerably more hype for Dr Strange.


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Also, I suspect they’ve got quite a lot riding on this one.

Between it and No Way Home, we are of course seeing a concerted effort to stitch the various existing film series together, expanding the MCU Sandpit.

NWH showed the possibility, and seems pretty well received. But this one? Oh boy. It’s not at all often I’m pessimistic (just my idiot nature) but I think this is gonna be either an Absolute Triumph, or a Massive Damp Squib, which could endanger the overall cohesion of what is yet to come.

I’m confident it’ll be the former though. But….you never know.

Mon Capitaine !

There's also been this pointed out from the trailer

Always take the trailers with a pinch of salt.

One of my favourite things about MCU trailers is just how often they’re somewhat misleading. Not in a rug pull way, more a “we’re keeping stuff secret, look at this particular monkey”.

In the pic above, I figured it was Danvers. But, with a pretty simply CGI reskinning, it could be anyone. So what we’ve just seen isn’t necessarily what we’re gonna get.

I know others find such Naughty Fibs irritating, and I can appreciate that. But I find them somewhat enjoyable.

Marvel trailers straight lie on occasion. Showing Hulk at the battle of Wakanda for example, plus messing with which gems Thanos actually had in any given scene. They do do it in a good way though.

I certainly prefer it to “the trailer is basically the movie in potted form” trailers.

Or back of VHS blurbs which tell you who the murderer is. Yes I’m looking at you, Valentine…

I gained a lot more respect for the film when I saw it was directed by Sam Raimi.

I wonder who Ted Raimi. Bruce Campbell, and Lucy Lawless will be?

Bruce Campbell for M.O.D.O.K.!!

MODOK is apparently supposed to be making a MCU appearance. Now Darren Cross returned from the Microverse as a giant head.

 AduroT wrote:
Marvel trailers straight lie on occasion. Showing Hulk at the battle of Wakanda for example, plus messing with which gems Thanos actually had in any given scene. They do do it in a good way though.

The big one was probably Thor's eye in Asgard along with a few shots of Mjolnir past the point it exists. I do quite like the way they do these, as they in no way sell you on a different movie than what you get, but they keep the surprises intact.

 Baragash wrote:
There's also been this pointed out from the trailer

Serious spoiler in tags.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Looks nothing like Eternals, and all these characters are already established.

Ok, wow. No idea how you made that jump- I said nothing about characters.

Just that its a big sprawling plot with multiple locations, and like Eternals, will probably need more time than its given to establish any reason to care about... whatever is going on.
A frantic mishmash of CGI action scenes doesn't promise anything but a really poorly paced but oddly dull story.

It doesn't help that its building on one of the more mediocre MCU films- Strange 1 was a somewhat plodding show with too much backstory and not enough reason to care about the characters- especially the non-entity passing as a 'villain'

 LunarSol wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
Marvel trailers straight lie on occasion. Showing Hulk at the battle of Wakanda for example, plus messing with which gems Thanos actually had in any given scene. They do do it in a good way though.

The big one was probably Thor's eye in Asgard along with a few shots of Mjolnir past the point it exists. I do quite like the way they do these, as they in no way sell you on a different movie than what you get, but they keep the surprises intact.

This is what I was trying to convey!

Not outright lies. Just deliberate misdirection.

Or trailers are spliced from raw footage rather than a final cut of the movie

Well, not RAW, but certainly like.... rare. They certainly didn't film the eye scene on location in Asgard.

Looks quite interesting - loads of people I had no idea who they were but vids told me

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
Or trailers are spliced from raw footage rather than a final cut of the movie

Nah, they’ve said they do it intentionally for the very reasons being spoken here.

Most trailers are put together by other companies that have nothing to do with the movies production.

I am pretty sure Marvel is one of if not the first studio to take control of their own trailers to hide what they want to and present what they want to without ruining the big bits of the movies.

So there's three different Multiverse of Madness trailers, right? Trailer, Teaser and Super Bowl / TV Spot?

Yeah.

Teaser from the end of the last Spooder-Man movie.

The recent trailer.

A shorter Super Bowl spot that has some of what's in the trailer, but also a few new shots.

Empire have just confirmed that the Netflix Marvel series leaving at the end of Feb will be appearing on D+ from March 16th.

Only confirmed in Canada so far for some reason, but what looked likely now seems inevitable.

Is Ironfist S2 worth a go ? its the only gap* in my Netflix Telly Universe as dont have D plus atm as waiting for a backlog to build up, or at least Moon Knight and Ahsoka

*or I might have watched it and just forgot, which might be worse

No.

Eh. I'd say S2 is better than S1 in a couple ways, I think Jones does better with the role and I think it benefits from being better established as part of the Defenders-verse Netflix were building.

However, better than S1 is a pretty low bar to clear.