Hey Hollywood, we’d like a break.
It is time to press pause on the manufacturing of all superhero/comedian guide associated motion pictures. “The Marvels” hit theaters final weekend, to little or no noise.
Granted, this could possibly be as a result of we’re coming off a SAG-AFTRA strike that killed Disney’s potential to correctly promote the movie. Nonetheless, it is extra probably that we’re all burned out.
Its opening weekend acquired very mediocre critiques and a dismal field workplace gross of $46.1 million. I’ve but to see the movie, so I will not rush to evaluate the standard. Nonetheless, it is clear that the MCU is struggling to maintain folks .
And it is not simply Disney and the MCU. “The Flash,” which got here out earlier this yr for DC and WB, additionally bombed spectacularly, and the upcoming “Aquaman and The Misplaced Kingdom” already seems like a large number.
What am I really ?
It additionally seems like each announcement of a brand new superhero film is met with apathy or confusion.
The trailer for Sony’s ‘Madame Internet’ starring Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney dropped earlier as we speak. It looks like he has no concept what he is attempting to be. To the Sony government who pitched ‘Fringe of Tomorrow meets Morbius’? – I promise you: THIS IS NOT THE MOVEMENT. Outdoors of essentially the most die-hard comedian guide followers, I doubt anybody has any curiosity in these characters or this story.
All this comes as Disney, Warner Bros. and Sony are rearranging their launch date calendars. There additionally appears to be a brand new headline each 5 minutes saying administrators or writers leaving tasks.
It is simply tiring. It seems like we have flashed previous the “golden age” of comedian guide motion pictures, and we’re again within the mid-2000s, the place most comedian guide motion pictures launched have been simply filthy nonsense.
The issue could be solved.
My recommendation: simply take a five-year break. No extra motion pictures, no extra TV exhibits, no extra specials. Let’s get our heads above water.
Give us just a few years of horrible, big-budget, non-comic guide associated IPs and we promise we’ll come working again to the theaters on your motion pictures. 4 or 5 years of simply Quick
In the event you’re purported to “strike whereas the iron is scorching,” I can guarantee you: the iron is presently colder than the cease signal I caught my tongue to within the useless of winter in eighth grade.
UPDATE
This information has dropped and every part I simply mentioned is being taken again.
