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Unless I'm misreading the article, I don't think it says that Thor: The Dark World was a prequel to The Avengers. Rather, it says that the Thor movies were plan
by jonnathanson 12y ago
Unless I'm misreading the article, I don't think it says that Thor: The Dark World was a prequel to The Avengers. Rather, it says that the Thor movies were planned as part of the "Avengers initiative." The confusion arises from the phrase "set the stage for The Avengers." I think what the writer means is that all of these movies, including their sequels, were set into development as part of a single initiative, meant to culminate in the Avengers franchise.
Yes, the events of the second Thor movie take place after the events of The Avengers. But that may have been planned well in advance.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoI am particularly amazed at the co-ordination of the movies and the TV series Agents of Shield. Way back when I was at USC professor Arthur Knight used to joke about movies "You can know when it will be done, or you can know it will be good, but not both." because of the challenges of managing a movie production schedule. That Marvel could pull off Thor: The Dark World, have it hit theaters when events in the TV series matched up, that floored me.
- jonnathanson 12y agoYes, they are an incredibly well-oiled machine. An old friend and former colleague of mine is one of their producers and development executives, and I can say without hesitation that he works harder than anyone else I know in that business. Marvel is in a state of continuous production on all of its properties, all of which are centrally coordinated. This wasn't always the case. Historically, Marvel has had different licensing deals set up at different studios: X-Men and Fantastic Four with Fox; Spiderman with Sony; etc. When it set about creating the Avengers initiative, it realized the logistical benefits of keeping everything under one roof. The Disney acquisition helped with that. The company still does projects under the terms of its legacy deals (see: the Spiderman reboots still being made at Sony, presumably at Sony's request, to exercise and thus keep its deal active). But the magic seems to be happening with the more centrally coordinated projects, like Thor/Iron Man/Cpt America/SHIELD/Avengers.
- xionon 12y agoNot only that, but they did it a second time with Captain America: Winter Soldier.
- ChuckMcM 12y agoYour right, not once but twice in a single TV season. That is seriously amazing planning.
- danielweber 12y agoI think lots of people would balk at those constraints, but Joss Whedon sees them and thinks "this is awesome!"
- oddevan 12y agoWhich was the bigger tie-in, as the episode the week before ended with the already-released scene of Nick Fury's car chase, and the episode the week after dealt with the (very significant) aftermath. For many reasons, it was one of the best moments in the series.
- klackerz 12y agoIt is amazing but Agents of SHIELD did suffer due to that. Most of the episodes until the Captain America 2 tie over episode was very lackluster. Let's see how they will handle the new season.