New Marvel Movies: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, etc...

Slimdust

Source: Marvel.com

Los Angeles, CA (April 28, 2006) – Aggressively pursuing its strategy to develop and produce a new slate of feature films, Marvel Studios - a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL) - has engaged director/actor/writer Jon Favreau to direct the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of Iron Man. Additionally, the studio has tapped several screenwriters to pen scripts based on some of its marquee Super Hero franchises. The projects to which screenwriters are now attached and have officially begun development include Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Ant Man, Captain America, Nick Fury and Thor. The announcement was made today by Avi Arad, Chairman of Marvel Studios.

• Iron Man (character bio)
  For the legendary Super Hero Iron Man, Jon Favreau will direct the film and develop the script with the writing team of Arthur Marcum and Matt Holloway (Convoy). Favreau's directing credits include Elf and Zathura: A Space Adventure.
• Incredible Hulk (character bio)
  Zak Penn, who previously collaborated with Marvel on X2, Fantastic Four, and the upcoming X-Men: The Last Stand, will write a new Incredible Hulk film, inspired by the larger-than-life green giant. Under Marvel's arrangement with Universal, Marvel will develop and produce the Incredible Hulk as a major theatrical release, with Universal retaining various distribution rights.
• Ant Man (character bio)
  Writer/director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) will direct, and co-write with writing partner Joe Cornish, the feature film based on cult-favorite Ant Man. Edgar will also co-produce with his Big Talk Productions partner Nira Park.
• Captain America (character bio)
  David Self has been tapped to write Captain America, inspired by Marvel's venerable all-American super soldier. Self's credits include Thirteen Days and Road to Perdition, in addition to numerous rewrites on various studio films. He also worked with Marvel on two other projects: Namor, the Sub-Mariner for Universal, and Deathlok for Paramount.
• Nick Fury (character bio)
  Marvel's Super Hero with military roots, the iconic super spy Nick Fury,
  will be brought to life by action/adventure screenwriter Andrew Marlowe. Marlowe's
  credits include Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man.
• Thor (character bio)
  The legendary Norse Thunder deity, Thor, will hammer his way to the big screen with the help of screenwriter Mark Protosevich. Protosevich wrote one of this summer's highly-anticipated films, Poseidon. His credits also include The Cell.

Slimdust

This is great. Hopefully they do a good job with them all. After X-Men, I think they should start some movies with just Wolverine.

Mr. Kennedy

Ant Man? I'm not sure why they would a movie based on him, maybe it will be straight to DVD like the Ultimate Avengers movie.

I'm excited about Captain America though, 2009 seems so far away but at least it gives them plenty of time to make sure it's good.

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Chewy

I actually heard they were already making plans with that idea.

hahaha I thought that was the dumbest idea too.
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I'm looking forward to:

Captain America - This guy is straight up awesome, all he uses is a shield and his larger then life grapefruits to beat up evil.

Iron Man - I hope they make this a good movie, invest alot of money and deck it out good special effects because if they don't this movie will blow goat balls.

Thor - Ohhhh give me a Hell Yeah. I've been waiting a long time for them to do a Movie about Thor.

Shining Wizard

I don't think his ego would let him wear a mask for all the action set pieces but Tom Cruise looks a lot like Tony Stark. I'm just saying...