Let's pretend you're in charge of a total reset of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We've done this post before, but I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts given the new context we have about the MCU's reboot. We won't be doing a soft reboot in this post, we're starting from scratch.
What would your Phases look like? Who would you cast? What would the movies be about? Experiment with some ideas and have fun!
Phase 1: History
The First Morning Light - An Apocalypse origin story set in ancient Egypt. Centers around a power struggle between En Sabah Nur and Rama-Tut.
Jade Hassoune as Apocalypse
Oded Fehr as Baal of the Crimson Sands (dies)
Mena Massoud as Nathaniel Richards/Rama-Tut
Ghassan Massoud as Ozymandias (dies)
Alexander Siddig as Logos (dies)
The Wolverine - Wolverine origin story ripped straight from the comics, but focused on his early life in 19th century Canada.
Gabriel LaBelle as James “Logan” Howlett/Wolverine
Rachel McAdams as Elizabeth Howlett (dies)
Robert Maillet as John Howlett Sr. (dies)
Julian Hilliard as John Howlett Jr. (dies)
Bradley Cooper as Thomas Logan (dies)
Wyatt Oleff as Dog Logan
Lyric Kennedy as Rose O’Hara (dies)
Freedom's Five - WWI period piece centered around the world's first public superhero team.
Daniel Radcliffe as James Falsworth/Union Jack
Lucas Bravo as Jean-Luc Batroc/Crimson Cavalier (dies)
Daniel Bruhl as Karl Kaufmann/Phantom Eagle (dies)
Jude Law as Hugh Dare/Sir Steel
Tom Felton as Gordon Dare/Silver Squire (dies)
Tom Hiddleston as John Falsworth/Baron Blood
Captain America and the Invaders - WWII period piece involving Captain America, Human Torch and Namor teaming up with their respective sidekicks to fight Brain Drain and his alien trio.
John Krasinski as Steve Rogers/Captain America
Justin Hartley as Jim Hammond/Human Torch
Alden Ehrenreich as James Buchanan Barnes/Bucky
Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Thomas Raymond/Toro
Andrew Koji as Namor the Sub-Mariner
August Diehl as Werner Schmidt/Brain Drain
Adam Beach as Donar (dies)
Boris Kodjoe as Froh (dies)
Luis Guzman as Loga (dies)
Magneto: Origins - Magneto origin story set in the concentration camps.
Daan Lennard Liebrenz as Max Eisenhardt/Magneto
Jeremy Irons as Jakob Eisenhardt (dies)
Diane Kruger as Edie Eisenhardt (dies)
Lisa Vicari as Ruth Eisenhardt (dies)
Antony Starr as Erich Eisenhardt (dies)
Seyneb Saleh as Anya (dies)
Johnny Sequoyah as Madga (dies)
Flula Borg as Fritz Kalb (dies)
Team X - Shady government organization Weapon X forms a team of mutants to assassinate a dictator. Set in the 1970s and very much looks like it.
Gabriel LaBelle as James “Logan” Howlett/Wolverine
Dylan Schmid as Victor Creed/Sabretooth
Marco Ilso as David North/Maverick (dies)
Trevante Rhodes as John Wraith/Kestrel (dies)
Rico Rodriguez as Mastodon (dies)
Anna Lambe as Silver Fox (dies)
Chris Diamantopoulos as Major Arthur Barrington (dies)
Zbigniew Suzynski as Vladimir Fortunov (dies)
Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters - Animated short film set in the 90s about Ulysses Bloodstone assembling a team of monster hunters to stop a vampire businessman from converting the entire world into vampires.
Ralph Ineson as Ulysses Bloodstone (dies)
Dennis Haysbert as Robert Hellsgaard (dies)
Michelle Rodriguez as Claudia Belles
Lupita Nyong’o as Zawadi (dies)
Michael B. Jordan as Eric Brooks
Laurence Fishburne as Darius Venginian (dies)
Tom Hiddleston as John Falsworth/Baron Blood
Ooh I will need a bit to compile my full thing
Oh boy, have I been working on one o these
That's a lot of thought baby girl put into this. I'm too old to be familiar with the new thespians involved, but I applaud the effort.
I would love to see your version of each phase. This is interesting
I would start with 4 movies. One would focus on the Avengers side, one on the supernatural, one on mutants and one to introduce the main antagonist of the phase (Doom). Then introduce other groups and solo movies
Phase One: (stage one)
Captain America (can't build a Marvel Universe without him)
X-Men (with Cyclops as the main character)
Fate (a movie to introduce vampires and magic though the eyes of Captain Fate, the immortal pirate)
Fantastic 4 (here, we would introduce Doctor Doom but not as the main villain yet)
Phase One: (stage two)
Inhumans
Thor (different pantheons would be introduced or at least mentioned)
Black Panther
Iron Man
Phase One: (End)
Avengers (main villain will be Doom, it's too early for galactic threats)
Then we can start the second phase
Fate feels really inspired, I like it! Who would you cast as Captain Fate? I would like to see David Oyelowo in the role but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
I would make Agents of Shield like X Files. The team would be investigating street level crime and oddities. The way to introduce b list characters ideas introduced in the movies cou,d be fleshed out in the show.
They would interact with other agencies like the Department of Damage Control and Global Repatriation Council
What do you think?
