Why don't Marvel movies stick to canon?

taco_truck_tom

It seems strange that Marvel allows liberties to be taken with established events and stories while making its movies. Why does it do this? Why don't they get script writers to stick to the comic book facts? For eg: In the Iron man comics, the arc reactor was created much later in the story line. In Days of future past, it is Wolverine that is sent to the past. In the comics An adult Kate - Pryde transfers her mind into her younger self (Kitty...

Originally asked by bobbyalex on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Why don't they get script writers to stick to the comic book facts? And what comic book facts are these, exactly? Marvel have repeatedly ret-conned and rebooted the majority of their characters at some point in the past: even within the same Universe its almost impossible to find a character with a totally non-contradictory history. There have been over 30 different versions of Spider-Man,for example: and even recently, many of these are published concurrently: Superior Spider-Man , Ultimate Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man are all supposed to be the 'Same' individual, but there are still off-shoots like Scarlet Spider ... In order to address these discrepancies, Mark Gruenwald created a...

Full answer by John Smith Optional: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/23992 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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