Well that didn’t take long. One really strong weekend barely over with and Marvel Studios is already announcing a sequel to Iron Man according to the folks at /Film:
Hot off the $100 million opening of Iron Man (nice job Steve!), the ever powerful Marvel Studios opened its war chest up today, revealing the company’s in-house feature roll out through 2011. Here’s what it looks like…
2010
April 30th: Iron Man 2
June 4th: Thor (directed by Matthew Vaughn)
2011
May 6th: The First Avenger: Captain America
July (day N/A): The Avengers
So, two Avengers films in 2011, eh? Unprecedented. DC’s Justice League is bummed. In addition to the line-up above, Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man is still in the planning stages at the studio, and obviously June brings us The Incredible Hulk, followed by Punisher: War Zone in December.
Let’s hope the rest of them are half as good as Iron Man turned out to be.
Actually, given the rewrite of the Hulk over the Ang Lee film that everyone seemed to hate (I thought it was good…), and the “secret” ending of Iron Man, it looks a lot like these movies will be modeled after the extremely awesome Ultimates (Ultimate Avengers that is).
There was an issue of the Ultimates in fact where the team was discussing who would play each of them in the movie, and at the very least, Nick Fury chimed in that Samuel Jackson would be the one to play him (perhaps because the character was actually modeled after Jackson?). Then at the end of Iron Man, who do we see but the Man himself in a really short cameo introducing himself as Nick Fury. I’m a total comic book nerd (in case you couldn’t guess), and this whole thing has me pretty excited.