Weirdly, people get really hung up on the whole secret identity thing. It has nothing to do with secret identities. Who cares if two guys who’ve spent a couple of days together (and shared an order of shawarma) have a beef? Low stakes, and nothing to be gained by manipulating viewers to hate Tony (face it, nobody’s going to take Tony’s side over Steve’s).What Civil War Is (And Is Not) About“The important thing really is the Superhero Registration Act essentially. As far as we know, the movie Avengers have assembled exactly once (twice after Avengers 2). “Civil War” and “Wrath of Khan” built their emotional resonance on the characters having years of history together. It’d also be unearned, in much the same way the drama in “Star Trek: Into Darkness” was unearned. Nobody wants to see a movie where two people they love fight to the death for two hours. Moviegoers–many of whom have never read a comic–love Tony and they love Steve. Just from a narrative/storytelling angle, it’s a bad idea. I’m hoping this Civil War talk is just a trial balloon from the studio to see how people react. I can’t think of one with a secret identity. Thad has a good point: there’s no more than a dozen superhumans in the Marvel movie universe, even counting a few from Agents of SHIELD, and everybody knows who they are. I was paid well for the comic.Īnyone excited by Marvel’s Civil War movie announcement yesterday can pick up my book RIGHT HERE: Ĭivil War is currently the #2 graphic novel on Amazon and #235 in Books. Mark Millar October 14, No, Ultimates and Civil War were written work for hire, which is absolutely fine. In addition, all the rumours about Spider-Man joining the MCU for a bit in a deal with SOny would suggest that he could be recruited to play the cenral role in a movie he plays in the comics.įinally, what about Mark Millar, who wrote Civil War? Millar is very busy with his own cinematic universe, including the upcoming The Secret Service., When the news broke he tweetedĭelighted to hear Marvel will be adapting my Civil War comic as a movie. Mark Sampson at ScreenCrush suggests how all the movie and comics storylines might tie together. In my experience as both a fan and a retailer, Civil War is often cited as the reason a lifelong reader dropped Marvel for a while. But it is true that Civil War has long been one of the most contested and disliked events in Marvel history, with the major critique being that the behavior of all the characters involved was way off the map and that it dismantled years of continuity for what ultimately was not that compelling of a story.

Let’s be real: Civil War was a hamfistedly allegorical post-9/11 pseudo-intellectual machoist posturing slapfight between Tony and Steve. Librarian Ivy Noelle Weir suggested Dear Marvel: Literally No One Wants a Civil War Movie:

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