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Variety listed several modern comics from Marvel that appear to be serving as the basis for more upcoming movie adaptations, rather than old ones:

Although it might be strange that Downey will not play Iron Man in the MCU in the new “Avengers” movies, there is some reasoning behind this decision based on past Marvel comics, namely “What If? Iron Man: Demon In An Armor.” In this story, Tony Stark and Victor von Doom are good friends, but Doom creates a machine that swaps their minds. Doom is inside of Stark’s body and Stark is inside of Doom’s body.

Gee, this sounds almost like Dan Slott's switcheroo story for Spider-Man and Dr. Octopus (and there's even a cover from an Iron Man story co-written by Slott at the top of the article), though it was originally written around 2010, by David Michelinie, Bob Layton and Graham Nolan, in a very ill-advised return to Marvel at the time. The CBR reviewer, interestingly enough, was disappointed in the story they put out, and if it's being used as the basis for another live action film, that's decidedly a mistake, no matter how well regarded the 3 creators used to be. These kind of film production choices would have to be symbolic of how laughable the reliance on stories published post-2000's become, while the storylines before that time seem less and less interesting to the screenwriters, if at all. The post-2000 stories cited here also include:

Meanwhile, writer Robert Kirkman did a series of “Marvel Team-Up” stories from 2004-2006 that may playing into a larger crossover of Marvel superheroes, like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man and others. Additionally, writer Jonathan Hickman wrote a series of Fantastic Four stories from 2009-2012 that concluded with his vision for a major crossover event in “Secret Wars,” released in 2015.

Also notice how crossovers are alluded to sans question or objectivity, just to show how nobody in Hollywood cares the whole idea brought down many shared comics universes over the past 40 years, ever since the original Secret Wars overseen by editor Jim Shooter was first published. On which note, curious the later event by Hickman's emphasized here, but not the Shooter-helmed original from 1984. I guess even that's not good enough for them, the faults of company wide crossovers notwithstanding?

Since we're on the topic, John Nolte at Breitbart addressed Marvel studios allegedly dismissing activist producers from their division:

After a brutal post-Avengers: Endgame (2019) era that saw Marvel Studios produce a few flops and lose its overall luster with fans, the Disney division appears to have learned its lesson. Bounding Into Comics says, “Marvel Studios has reportedly learned from their recent mistakes and ‘cleaned house’ of any and all of its ‘activist’ producers[.]”

Unfortunately, for now, it all remains a rumor, and with Pedro Pascal cast in the upcoming FF movie, it's hard to believe they aren't still fumbling the ball. In any event, Marvel's movies aren't exactly a big deal any longer, and special effects-laden live action movies are tiresome already. And, as mentioned before, the source material they're apparently relying on for screeplays is of some of the most overrated post-2000 publications, and if the writers can't develop stand-alone screenplays that aren't based on these post-2000 time-wasters per se, they're not being very creative. Certainly a team-up for several superheroes can have potential in itself, but not if it's being based on company wide crossovers so noticeably. And again, Marvel movies have been brought past their prime by modern wokeness.

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