First look at the SHIELD Helicarrier from Joss Whedon's The Avengers.
Concept art of Nick Fury's flying fortress. In related news, Walt Disney Studios just bought the rights to distribute The Avengers and Iron Man 3 from Paramount Pictures for $115 million.
Paramount will still distribute next summer's Thor and Captain America:The First Avenger.
October 18 2010
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Brasilian Chaos Man | October 18, 12:32 CET
Well, not yet anyways. Heh. I think we are all going to be learning a lot about The Avengers in the next year and a half. ; )
So... how do you think that heavy looking thing manages to fly with those ultra dinky copter blades?
BreathesStory | October 18, 12:48 CET
embers | October 18, 13:16 CET
Charmuse | October 18, 13:20 CET
Tin Ear Tom | October 18, 13:22 CET
alexreager | October 18, 13:47 CET
gossi | October 18, 13:50 CET
@theonetruebix | October 18, 14:15 CET
baxter | October 18, 14:28 CET
Hee. Well, the woman's played a lion, a bull, and a set of scales--all in the same film. So playing an armored proto leviathan might not be too much of a stretch. Although the costume's not up to her usual sexy standards...
BreathesStory | October 18, 14:52 CET
No. Apparently, Disney is going to leave the productions alone in terms of story content and so forth.
Not to mention there have been several movies released under the Disney banner that were PG-13. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" films and "Prince of Persia", for example. Plus Paramount had no say over story or ratings, they just did P&A and distribution.
Mcjw_serenity | October 18, 18:10 CET
IrrationaliTV | October 18, 18:40 CET
jclemens | October 18, 18:52 CET
The same way any helicopter flies. They're so ugly that the earth rejects them.
Is it just my eyes, or does that thing look like a cross between that dirigible in New Cap City and the Beatle's Yellow Submarine?
[ edited by MissKittysMom on 2010-10-19 04:10 ]
MissKittysMom | October 18, 19:07 CET
Mcjw_serenity brought up "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Prince of Persia", but I think an even better example would be that Disney was the distributor of Miramax Films which they released movies such as violent Pulp Ficiton. There were times that Disney refused to distrubute movies that Miramax made, such as Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Kevin Smith's Dogma. Both cases Disney didn't want to distrubute them because of the controversy surrounding the films and sold the distrubution rights to other companies. However, those controversies aside, they didn't get involved with Miramax. I imagine that Disney will have the same hands off approach with Marvel, especially since they have so far proven to be quite successful on their own.
Matt_Fabb | October 18, 19:51 CET
jettamesis | October 18, 21:23 CET
I think this is a pretty convincing SHIELD Helicarrier. It pretty much looks just like it always does in the comics. So as long as the CGI's convincing, I'll be happy.
GVH | October 18, 22:22 CET
Kaan | October 18, 22:30 CET
Nope. Not The Avengers at any rate. I know nothing but what I've read through WHEDONesque myself. Marvel killed any title exploration for me waaay back when they started having every title in their stable crossover with every other title. My paycheck couldn't support it. (It was bad enough trying to keep up with the X-men.)
So, it's cannonically accurate? Well, I wouldn't want them to fall into the trap of redesigning the batsuit/mobile for every new outing, but maybe they could just... think about aeronautics. Just a little. They don't need to show hyper realistic fetish engines or anything.
ETF: early morning brain malfunction
[ edited by BreathesStory on 2010-10-19 12:55 ]
BreathesStory | October 19, 03:53 CET
Actually I seem to remember one of these crafts from Joss' run of the X-men. True to the policy of "crossover with every other title" not only Fantastic Four and Spiderman made an appareance, but also SHIELD, if I'm not mistaken.
I also remember worrying about the areonautics, but I decided the propellers were only for stability and manouvering, whereas the lift itself must come from a future-designed so called "thingy" or even a "gadget".
OldSwede | October 19, 04:09 CET
I think there will always be issues with comic book cannon and/or continuity/historical accuracy because most comic books that have had 500+ issues have had plenty of retcons over the years
I mean, how many origins can a character or team have?? How many times can The Punisher be rebooted? How many times can they "reclassify" The Beyonder as a mutant, as an Inhuman, as a Cosmic Cube? Did Spiderman make a deal with the devil in Brand New Day? And was he married to MJ for 25 years or what? Will Han Solo ever shoot first again? (that last one depends on which dvd I pop in the player...but you get my point)
I'd be happy just to see a superhero story told the way it should be by a big purple guy that really knows how to tell superhero stories...Barney. Um, I mean Joss!
alexreager | October 19, 07:02 CET