Captain America:
Civil War
Comic to
Movie
Disney &
Marvel’s next Silver Screen adaption is of the hugely popular Civil War
storyline. However, the movie we get on April 29th in the UK, will
likely draw inspiration from the comics, but ultimately differ greatly in terms
of some major plot point and characters. This is mainly a result of Marvel
selling off movie rights for certain characters or franchises between the 1970’s
and 1990’s just to stay afloat.
Here’s a
list of things that won’t be done by the book.
Spiderman –
Wall crawler, Peter Parker, was 30+ years old during the comic book Civil War
storyline. He’d been a superhero for more than 15 years and was all loved up
with Mary-Jane Watson. With the argument surrounding secret identities and lack
of accountability, Parker publicly unmasks himself to the world risking putting
MJ and Aunt May in trouble. None of that will come to pass in Captain America:
Civil War. Sony owns the rights to Spiderman and has kept him out of the MCU so
far. But Marvel & Sony struck up a deal in 2015 to bring Spidey into the
Avengers line up. Casting a 30 year old Spiderman to fill the role could have
been possible but not ideal for Sony rebooting the franchise with individual
movies starting 2017. So Sony cast a teenager to play a teenager and allow
Marvel to bring him in alongside Tony Stark. Stark will be kitting Parker out
with an advanced Spidey suit but everyone’s favourite friendly neighbourhood –
you know – could still defect to Caps team as per the book.
Fantastic 4
– Reed Richards & Sue Storm play a pivotal role in the comics. Reed helps
Hank Pym (Ant Man) create Prison 42, an interdimensional prison for any
superheroes opposing the registration act. After the death of Goliath at the
hands of a Thor clone Sue Storm leaves Reed and their child to join Caps team.
Unfortunately, Fox owns the rights to Fantastic 4 and the Negative Zone (where
prison 42 resides) and have been butchering them for years.
Hank Pym – Ant
Man will feature in this film but it will be Scott Lang in the suit. So don’t
expect a great deal of intellectual input from him.
X-Men – Fox.
Again. How great would Wolverine have been in this film! We’d even be able to call
Scarlet Witch a mutant instead of an “enhanced”. The X-Men did their best to stay
neutral in the comics but it was great to have them involved.
Daredevil,
The Punisher , Jessica Jones & Luke Cage – Despite the roaring success of
these Netflix television series’, and the role these characters play in the
comics, Marvel seems to want to keep them separate from the MCU. I still hold hope that
these guys come into play in the Avengers: Infinity Wars as heroes on the
ground.
Thor – Okay,
so Thor technically wasn’t involved in the comic series but his likeness was
used. Stark, Richards and Pym combined to create a Thor clone that ended up
killing Goliath resulting in Sue Storm defecting to Team Cap. This will
absolutely not happen in CA:CW.
Who will die?
A death is
all but confirmed with IMDB crediting a couple of actors as “Funeral Mourner”.
If the trailer is to be believed, it could be James Rhodes, War Machine. He
seems to be blown out of the sky and falls to the ground and left unconscious.
I think this is simply misdirection. Characters that won’t die are and all that
are due solo movies. Ant Man, Black Panther & Spider Man. Crossbones is in
this film and famously killed captain America in the subtly named comic: The
Death of Captain America, which came to pass at the end of Civil War. But the
could easily flip the script and kill Iron Man. RDJ is contracted to one more
movie after CA:CW and it could be Infinity War II. Bucky might end up killing
Tony Stark causing Steve Rodgers to abandon him and seek out the infinity
gauntlet to resurrect him. A bit farfetched, perhaps. A lot of people expect Hawkeye.
We’ve just bee introduced to his family and he came close to death in Age of
Ultron.
At this
point, it’s anybody’s guess.
Anticipation:
4.5 Grenades
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