Marvel Versus Marvel

The untold Marvel story behind Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1982 Conan The Barbarian movie! We’ll explore the tragic life of Robert E Howard, the creation of the Sword & Sorcery genre, and how Conan The Cimmerian came to be! We'll take you behind-the-page on how Marvel Comics got hold of Conan and how he became one of the BIGGEST comic book success stories of the Seventies, and one of Marvel’s most popular characters! Plus, we'll go behind-the-scenes on the making of the 1982 movie, to examine all the influence Marvel Comics had on the film, and find out what it takes to bring The Hyborian Age to life! Then we’ll pull apart the original Conan movie scene-by-scene to bring you all our reactions and opinions! This deep-dive also has some of the BEST Marvel Connections we've ever found in a movie! And it’s jam-packed with tons of trivia and history about Conan in the Marvel Universe, from the monsters to the magic, the fall of Atlantis, the Crimmerian god Crom, and how exactly Mary Jane Watson is involved! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

The 90's were a bad decade for Marvel's Mutants, and it took some seismic changes and bold creative risks to save the franchise, the biggest being the 2001 reboot of the franchise - Ultimate X-Men! Marvel Comics hit the reset button and created a brand new imagining of Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and the rest of the X-Men’s huge cast of characters. Mark Millar and Andy Kubert re-imagined Marvel’s mutants and positioned them in the middle of a world in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks and waging a war that violated a lot of personal rights. Social and political satire wrapped up in a sci-fi package! Every month on Patreon we take a special deep-dive into a Marvel comic book, event, or timeline to examine all the highs and lows of the Marvel Universe. To celebrate our 6th Anniversary we’re releasing this episode from behind the paywall. For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

Sam Raimi is back and it's the 6th MVM Anniversary so we’re bringing you damn-near 6 hours of Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness! We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on how all the plans for this MCU sequel changed radically, why the original director and writer left the project, how Sam Raimi returned to direct his first movie in a decade and why he came back to the Marvel Universe after FIFTEEN YEARS! We’ll dig into the 33 rapid re-writes of the script, the conflicts and synergy between the movie and WandaVision, and how the MCU brought together The Illuminati in live-action! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, we'll pull the movie apart scene-by-scene to bring you all of our reactions and reflections on all the good and the bad! Plus the movie is jam-packed with deeeeep cut Marvel Connections, and we'll explore the Marvel comic book history and trivia behind Wanda’s insane and ever-changing origins, her spectacular fall from grace, her greatest crimes, the history of the Darkhold, what the hell is Wundagore Mountain, and what happens when Dr Strange goes to war?! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

It’s 1978 and in The New Fantastic Four cartoon Johnny Storm has been replaced by an RDD2 knockoff - was the Human Torch too dangerous for TV? Were children really at risk of setting themselves on fire? We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the DISASTROUS making of this infamous Seventies cartoon and everything that went wrong, including TWO legal battles over the right to Marvel’s characters! We’ll also take you behind-the-page on the Fantastic Four in the Seventies to look at the seismic split between Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, the split between Sue Storm and Reed Richards, and how the FF came to reflect the rise of feminism and divorce rates in America! Then we’ll deep-dive 3 episodes of the series to bring you all our reactions and thoughts, all the history and trivia, and all the Marvel Connections hiding in the IMDB pages of the cast! Plus we'll spend time with the Impossible Man, the strange death of Galactus, the darkest Human Torch story ever told, the last comic book Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ever did "together", and the worst Magneto ever committed to page or screen! Episodes In The Deep Dive Include;Ep. 2 - The Menace of MagnetoEp. 9 - The Frightful FourEp. 11 - The Impossible Man For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head back into the MVM Archives to bring you the story of the making of Marvel’s first ever X-Men movie - Generation X! Before Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart reinvented the superhero movie in the year 2000, Marvel teamed up with the Fox Network to make this low budget 1996 TV movie. Jubilee, Emma Frost, Banshee, and a whole host of young X-Men characters were brought to live-action for the very first time, but with a budget so low the action and special effects became painful to watch. For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

To celebrate the 85th Anniversary of Captain America, we’re exploring Cap’s 1979 TV movie, and Marvel’s 70s Cinematic Universe! We’ll dig into the deal between Marvel Comics, Universal Television, and CBS that brought us TV movies and TV shows starring The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Dr Strange, and Captain America! We'll get into how the deal began and how it all fell apart, how the Captain America TV movie was made, why Reb Brown was cast as Steve Rogers, and how the film nearly ended the career of the director before it had ever begun! We'll also pay special attention to the Captain America comic books of the 1970's, how they took influence from the shifting sands of America's social and political climate, and how the Seventies transformed Captain America into a true rebel! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, pull it apart scene-by-scene and dig into everything this movie got right (the bike) and everything it got wrong! Plus we've packed the episode with tons of unexplored Marvel history and trivia about the Super Soldier Serum, the SECOND origin of Captain America, the Super Soldiers who also got powers in the war, how Marvel tied their Golden Age characters into their Silver Age characters, and tons more! Plus we've got all the Marvel Connections of every actor in this movie, no matter how tenuous or strenuous they may be! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

ct the terrible wigs, the special effects, the script, the acting, and everything else! We'll get to the bottom of what this show did right and what it did so terribly wrong! Plus we'll bring you TONS of Marvel history and trivia on Black Bolt, Medusa, Maximus, the Terrigen Mists, the city of Attilan, and the secret history of every single Marvel superhero! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head into the MVM Archives to find out what happened to Edgar Wright's Ant-Man movie? The acclaimed "Shaun Of The Dead" writer/director was attached to the Marvel project for 8 years, and was the entire reason Paul Rudd was cast as the superhero. So what was Edgar's vision for Ant-Man, and why did it never happen? For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

This week we take you for a wild ride uncovering the forgotten Marvel TV show from 1997 - Nightman! A jazz playing superhero that Marvel absorbed into the Marvel Universe when they purchased their rivals, Malibu Comics! We’ll explore the history of Malibu Comics and the creation of “The Ultraverse”. We’ll dig into the relationship between Marvel and famed TV producer Glen A. Larson, the man behind hits like Knight Rider, Buck Rogers, and Magnum PI! Then we’ll pull apart this low budget action-adventure TV show scene-by-scene to break down all of its bad acting, terrible special effects, and saxophone playing! Plus, we’ll bring you the history of Nightman and the Ultraverse, his crazy origins and powers, and the wild Marvel crossovers where Nightman fights Loki, Gambit, and Wolverine! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

Rob and Will take a deep-dive into what is easily the worst X-Men movie ever made, the 2019 Dark Phoenix! The 19 year Fox X-Men saga comes to a sad end as we explore the disastrous production process of this movie - from the plans to the executions, from the disagreements with the studio, to the painful test screenings, the re-writes and the re-shoots, all through to the god-awful reviews! We'll also go behind-the-page on the history of the Dark Phoenix comics, and what makes it the greatest Marvel story of all time! Then we take a deep-dive into the Dark Phoenix movie, pull it apart scene-by-scene, bring you all the obscure Marvel Connections, debate everything good and everything crappy about the film, see how it compares to X-Men Last Stand, bring you tons of X-Men history and trivia, and FINALLY decide on what is the WORST Marvel movie we've ever covered on the podcast! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head back into the archives to dig into the history of the comic book superteam and find out how the Avengers were created! From DC Comics putting together The Flash, Green Lantern, and their other heroes and creating the Justice Society Of America, to Marvel borrowing the concept and creating Captain America’s All Winners Squad during World War II. We’ll chart the debut of the Justice League and the Fantastic Four, the rise of Marvel Comics, and how that all led to the creation of The Avengers! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk

Strap in for a mega episode as Rob and Will deep-dive into the 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home! It’s the biggest Marvel movie since Avengers Endgame, so we leave no stone unturned in this huge episode! We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the making of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the divorce between Marvel & Sony and how they got back into bed, and what it took to unite 3 generations of Spider-Men and their villains! We’ll take you behind the page on ONE MORE DAY the comic book story that inspired this movie and has become the most controversial and hated Spider-Man story of all time! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, pulling it apart scene-by-scene to bring you tons of history and trivia! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.comhttps://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvelhttps://twitter.com/marvelversushttps://twitter.com/robhaldenhttps://robhalden.comhttps://will-preston.co.uk