Iron Man, coming soon to a theater, near you! Or is it? Or will he? That was the plan at least, or part of it. To be more specific, they were thinking about Iron Man as part of a bigger Advengers...Adventures...Adventurers project. But is Iron Man going to go in for that now, after his solo joint hit so hard and so big? Can a hero once acclaimed as the summer time jam blockbuster man step one step back and take one for the team? And Tony Stark may be too big a star now, to want to be involved. His career is resurgent, he's a big-time celebrity industrialist with a lot of irons in the fire plus a burgeoning flirtation/romance with Blossum, the Wonder-Assistant. He's also likely to demand more screen time for his whole drinking-problem subplot, and that's going to sit at odds with the more straightforward boffo action fun needs of a hero team group movie such as this.
To fill in all of you less "filled-in" on all the ins and outs of superherodome, here's the scoop: The Adventurers was a classic team book back in the 2nd Glory Age of Comics (which was preceded by the 1st Glory Age, but there was a gap between). It was a pretty light-hearted, world-in-the-balance, one-for-all-style team showcase, only with a lot of grandstanding, infighting and soap-opera dramatics to go with your more de rigueur derring-do-ery. And what did you expect with a line-up like this? There was Thor! "Goldilocks" some call him, the mythic Norse god of thunder, son of Odin, wielder of mighty Mjolnir (that's a BIG hammer he'd hit people with, or throw at them, or twirl fast to show off). Thor was a big student of Shakespeare and was always trying to talk that way - I guess as an immortal, he'd had plenty of time to bone up on all the passing fads of the stage, and who can blame him for picking Shakespeare to settle on?
There were also other people in there besides Thor, so you can imagine the kind of conflict you'd get with those kind of highly-charged personalities all on one team, fighting it out amongst the bad guys to save mankind, by and by.
But it bodes doubly awesome if somebody can convince Iron Man to take part! He's a smart guy, he can see the potential with him on board. Maybe if he agreed to work for scale, in exchange for 2 extra points of the back-end gross nets - it's still worth it! This team thing could be proverbially the rising tide that floats all boats.
"Adventurers Assemble!"
To fill in all of you less "filled-in" on all the ins and outs of superherodome, here's the scoop: The Adventurers was a classic team book back in the 2nd Glory Age of Comics (which was preceded by the 1st Glory Age, but there was a gap between). It was a pretty light-hearted, world-in-the-balance, one-for-all-style team showcase, only with a lot of grandstanding, infighting and soap-opera dramatics to go with your more de rigueur derring-do-ery. And what did you expect with a line-up like this? There was Thor! "Goldilocks" some call him, the mythic Norse god of thunder, son of Odin, wielder of mighty Mjolnir (that's a BIG hammer he'd hit people with, or throw at them, or twirl fast to show off). Thor was a big student of Shakespeare and was always trying to talk that way - I guess as an immortal, he'd had plenty of time to bone up on all the passing fads of the stage, and who can blame him for picking Shakespeare to settle on?
There were also other people in there besides Thor, so you can imagine the kind of conflict you'd get with those kind of highly-charged personalities all on one team, fighting it out amongst the bad guys to save mankind, by and by.
But it bodes doubly awesome if somebody can convince Iron Man to take part! He's a smart guy, he can see the potential with him on board. Maybe if he agreed to work for scale, in exchange for 2 extra points of the back-end gross nets - it's still worth it! This team thing could be proverbially the rising tide that floats all boats.
"Adventurers Assemble!"
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