User blog comment:HombreHormiga/Avengers-Phase 3/@comment-1895174-20130209052705/@comment-1895174-20130210022012


 * 1) They can make a decent film out of it, but that doesn't mean it has to be part of the current MCU.
 * 2) Tone is a problem.  If he doesn't fit, he doesn't fit.
 * 3) Compare The Incredible Hulk to Captain America: The First Avenger.  Both heavily involve the American military and super-soldier formulas, albeit in different ways.
 * 4) Even compare Iron Man to Iron Man 2, and I reckon the tone will change even more with Shane Black taking over for Iron Man 3.  All three films involve Tony Stark fighting terrorists with high tech equipment, and Stark having to upgrade his equipment in order to defeat the threat.
 * 5) All of the properties Marvel Studios are releasing in their MCU they want to give a different feel, which is why they are looking for properties that are fairly different to things that we've seen time and time again in a superhero movie.  Yet they're all interconnected.  And not just through S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers movie, but also through similar story elements.  You can share these elements with Ant-Man, or the Guardians of the Galaxy, or Dr. Strange, but you can't meaningfully connect Daredevil with the rest of them in a way that actually adds to the universe's mythology.
 * 6) Yeah, but not a lot of franchises make it to 6 films. Neither has anything in the MCU.  So far, the only one that's even made it to three films is Iron Man.
 * 7) And Marvel's done that in 5 years. Exactly why you should be worried about exhaustion and oversaturation.
 * 8) It doesn't seem right to assume that "oversaturation" and "exhaustion" will happen just yet, because there's absolutely no sign of it.  The "sign of it" is the at least 13 superhero films that are confirmed to come out between now and the end of 2015.  Superhero films are coming out at a much faster pace now than they ever have been.  In fact, more superhero films are coming out in the next 3 years than the entire 1990s.  The train may be moving at full steam, but any train that goes too fast derails.