10 Things We Learned From Marvel's 'Assembling A Universe'
4. It's Still Too Early To Talk About Ant-Man
Phase Three kicks off the same Summer that the Age of Ultron will reign, and it's already a lock that Ant Man will be the property to start things off. So naturally there'd be a slight mention involving the already developing next step, right? Wrong. Unless you count a small flash of Edgar Wright at Comic Con, there was no mention of the rapidly developing new property that could use all of the public exposure it could get. Even if they just showed the test footage everyone's seen, with a couple remarks from Wright, that would have been passable. Throw in some kind words from stars Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, and you could have carried the message that Marvel is now in the two-movies-a-year business. By showing how the next step in the line is always in development, Marvel could have driven home the point that they've truly arrived. At the very least, fans would have taken to the Internet and helped build buzz for the second ranking property in need of an image boost.
Mike Reyes may or may not be a Time Lord, but he's definitely the Doctor Who editor here at What Culture. In addition to his work at What Culture, Mr. Reyes writes for Cocktails and Movies, as well as his own personal blogs Mr. Controversy and The Bookish Kind. On top of that, he's also got a couple Short Stories and Novels in various states of completion, like any good writer worth their salt. He resides in New Jersey, and compiles his work from all publications on his Facebook page.
