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Marvel has revealed it's to release a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy in 2017.

The announcement was made at the Comic Con event in San Diego during a discussion about another of Marvel's franchises, the Avengers.

Josh Brolin has been confirmed to play super villain Thanos and will feature in both Avengers: Age of Ultron and Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

The first Galaxy film is about to be released in UK cinemas.

The sequel has been scheduled for July 28, 2017.

So, 2014. DC are struggling to get their biggest names into the same film, Fox are rebooting the Fantastic Four in what may be the movie train wreck of the decade, and Marvel announce a SECOND film whose lead cast include a talking racoon and a monosyllabic alien tree... Before the first is even released.

There's also some sort of interesting info on Age of Ultron in the article, and a mention of the Infinity Gauntlet.

To be fair, Marvel and the Mouse have found the formula to transmute digital filming into money, they can make almost anything they want.

Oh man, one more movie I get to make the wife sit through

Blimey, the film isn't even out yet and they are already consider it successful enough to justify a sequel?

 LuciusAR wrote:
Blimey, the film isn't even out yet and they are already consider it successful enough to justify a sequel?

Well the buzz has been pretty good.

 LuciusAR wrote:
Blimey, the film isn't even out yet and they are already consider it successful enough to justify a sequel?

That is a little interesting don't you think?

Well, that makes me happy, unless the first ends up sucking, which all things point to not being the case.

Wow, that's some good buzz. Anyone know how the other more recent Marvel films did pre-release buzz wise. 100% is pretty impressive even if it is only out of 27 reviews.

Well if they wait until it's a success they will have to pay all the actors even more

since the buzz/prescreens etc all seem to be positive

signing them early (probably via clauses in their contracts from the first movie) they probably save a bit of cash, and make sure none of them are busy doing something else

It is a toss up for the actors. Generally getting cast as an actual hero with the marvel films almost guarentees work for the next decade. But you know they aren't paying anyone except people like RDJ super high numbers. Especially the newer kids on the block.

But yeah, announcing early means they could likely save themselves some decent cash on the actors since they wouldn't be able to point to how much it made the studio during negotiations.

It's also a very effective way to raise hype just before the first one comes out.

Telling people there will be a sequel makes them more invested and probably guarantees higher numbers.

I can't wait to watch the movie this weekend.

 kronk wrote:
I can't wait to watch the movie this weekend.

I have to wait at least 2 more weeks.

Poor wife already knows what we're doing Saturday

 Soladrin wrote:
It's also a very effective way to raise hype just before the first one comes out.

Telling people there will be a sequel makes them more invested and probably guarantees higher numbers.

Yeah, you see that a lot. It doesn't really matter if it's crap, so long as the opening weekend is really strong. You also see things like "leaks" of how test audiences loved it, etc. The new thing seems to be inflating opening box office numbers.

 gorgon wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
It's also a very effective way to raise hype just before the first one comes out.

Telling people there will be a sequel makes them more invested and probably guarantees higher numbers.

Yeah, you see that a lot. It doesn't really matter if it's crap, so long as the opening weekend is really strong. You also see things like "leaks" of how test audiences loved it, etc. The new thing seems to be inflating opening box office numbers.

Yep, because sadly, large studio's don't look further then box office numbers to decide if something was a flop or not.

 Soladrin wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I can't wait to watch the movie this weekend.

I have to wait at least 2 more weeks.

I'm mostly excited because it's been a bland summer for movies in my book.

I hadn't considered the "sequel news = people more interested to see the first one" angle. Anyway, from the things I've listened to from a few places (not those reviews) this one hits it out of the part, and is very Avenger-y in the "fun" department, rather than needing to be dramatic, gritty, dark, brooding and all those other things DC seems to think comic book movies are about.


Anyway, this Friday I'll be seeing it. Or Saturday. One of the two. Some people in our group want to see Hercules which is ok - I ambivalent to that - but more want to see GotG.

Also, it is rather good for the actors involved; Sure, no one but RDJ is getting paid super amounts of money, but can you imagine what having "Most Successful Comic Book Film Adaptation of All Time" on your resume as an actor would do for you?

I'd imagine quite a bit.

Anyone watch the Marvel panel from Hall H?

I mean, just look at this:



... and then add Scarlet Johansson on top of that. And this was after they had Michael Douglas on stage. And Glenn Close is in this new film. And Robert Redford was in the last one. Anyone who says the Marvel films aren't something special is just deluding themselves.

I want RDJ's shoes

Agreed HBMC. It's absolutely insane.

Also looks like Evans is in full swing for Avengers 2 and anybody notice that Spader seemed to be the only guy with zero enthusiasm when he came out on stage.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Agreed HBMC. It's absolutely insane.

Hell, just having Sam L, James Spader and RDJ in a single movie would be enough to sky rocket it. Add the rest of the cast and it's pure insanity.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Anyone watch the Marvel panel from Hall H?

I mean, just look at this:

... and then add Scarlet Johansson on top of that. And this was after they had Michael Douglas on stage. And Glenn Close is in this new film. And Robert Redford was in the last one. Anyone who says the Marvel films aren't something special is just deluding themselves.

I suspect that contracts offering generous gross points have a lot to do with Marvel's ability to lure the biggest stars. It ends up being a lot of money in the case of summer blockbusters. In other cases (Evans, Hemsworth) they managed to get rising talents who hadn't hit it big yet, so the opportunity to star was appealing. And to be fair, Nolan's Batman films had great casts, and Man of Steel's wasn't exactly shabby either. Cavill falls into the 'catch a rising talent' category like Evans and Hemsworth. The formula isn't Marvel's alone.

Again, it's probably about compensation for some, and opportunity for others. It's pretty unlikely a superhero movie is going to get any of them Oscar consideration and vault their careers into that stratosphere if they haven't been there already. It's only happened once, and in that case both the performance and film were very, very special.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Also looks like Evans is in full swing for Avengers 2 and anybody notice that Spader seemed to be the only guy with zero enthusiasm when he came out on stage.

I think he was overwhelmed by the reaction, and considering where he was and who else he was sharing that table with, it's easy to see why.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Some people in our group want to see Hercules which is ok - I ambivalent to that - but more want to see GotG.

Hercules was absolutely terrible. Stay far, far away.

Funny that this news comes on the tail end of a conversation I had about WWE the other day, joking that Batista probably disappeared to start filming on this.

So, Guardians came out in the UK today and it was pretty fun - not the second coming, not even quite as good as Cap 2 but fun.

It definitely kept the Firefly spirit going.

And, it did end with the classic 'Bond' line of.

"The Guardians of the Galaxy will return."

Watched it. Was ok, but was expecting more considering several of my friends were raving about how good it was.

 Ouze wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Some people in our group want to see Hercules which is ok - I ambivalent to that - but more want to see GotG.

Hercules was absolutely terrible. Stay far, far away.

I was curious but saw the "Directed by Brett Ratner" and quickly lost interest.

Guardians was good. I'll try not to overhype it so people aren't hurt like, like Sining, but you probably won't regret buying a ticket to see it.