I didn’t care for the trailer. Way too talky/angsty. Needs more SMASH.
I don’t want to be but a part of be is pretty stoked.
I am cautiously optimistic.
They probably won’t screw it up too badly. “Cautiously optimistic” pretty well sums it up for me, too.
I suspect that Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen are being over represented in the trailer. I think in the movie they will mainly only appear in a framing story in the beginning and the end and the bulk of the story will be in the past withe the First Class actors and Wolverine. I am fine with that as I really liked First Class but just making a prediction.
Marvel pushed the Comics Code Authority into a 1971 revision of its content rules by publishing an issue of Spider-Man featuring a (for its time) very frank depiction of drug use and sending it into distribution without the CCA’s stamp of approval on the cover. It sold well enough to prove no-one much cared what the CCA thought anymore, thus showing the code’s managers they must adapt or die.
When the code was rewritten, it dropped its ban not only on drug depiction, but also on horror characters (werewolves, mummies, vampires etc), and Marvel leapt on this chance to launch hybrid superhero/horror books on all those themes. Werewolf by Night, Tomb of Dracula, Morbius the Living Vampire and many other such books were launched as a result. They were pretty popular for a while too and some - most notably Tomb of Dracula - are still fondly remembered today
According to Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, Stan Lee even considered (but ultimately rejected) a book called The Mark of Satan, which was to feature the adventures of the Devil himself.
The CCA rules swept away in 1971 had their roots in Frederic Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent witch-hunt of the 1950s, which panicked comics publishers into creating the CCA and hobbling themselves with such ridiculous rules in the first place. DC’s main response to the 1971 rewrite was its famously “relevant” Green Lantern/Green Arrow run discussing social issues such as racism, birth control and drug use (again) far more trenchantly than the old CCA would have allowed.
Hulk isn’t in this one.
AFAICT, that promptly morphed into the Son of Satan project, published in '73.