Marvel Planning Wolverine TV Show For Disney Plus, Won’t Star Hugh Jackman

Marvel Planning Wolverine TV Show For Disney Plus, Won’t Star Hugh Jackman Jan 30, 2019 1:18:24 GMT Spooky Ghost Ackbar likes this

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Post by Lord Death Man on Jan 30, 2019 1:18:24 GMT

Jan 30, 2019 0:21:46 GMT Spooky Ghost Ackbar said:

Jan 29, 2019 23:16:36 GMT Lord Death Man said:

A Marvel without Wolverine is like a DC without Batman. He had to be reintroduced in some way that would appease his fans. With Logan being virtually immortal, a long-format series that explores his life makes perfect sense. It also makes it possible to tell X-Men stories without needing to involve him (directly). I'm up for a prestige-format limited series that recounts his earlier years in Canada and his involvment with their intelligence community.

Another plus (no pun intended) of a Disney+ Logan series is, if you're really tired of seeing Logan on the big screen, this virtually guarantees that you never see him there again in your lifetime.

Now, sit back and wait for Mr. Backlash to do his work regarding casting. Absolutely no one will be good enough for the transitioning XMU diehards unless he's a clone of Jackman.

Fans of the comic can tear Jackman's version down for not being completely faithful to the source material. And for what it's worth, that is a fair argument to make... But nonetheless, his version is iconic and endured through almost two decades of comic book movies. The MCU would be wise to let the entire X Men roster rest for at least half a decade. They were done... And done well... Then overdone with the "younger" cast movies. Now, Marvel's urge to captalize on the property under the pretentious pretense of the "we can do it better" mantra is going to really play out these characters. How many X Men movies do we really need?

Nothing you've said is untrue but, a lot of it feels like bias and conventional thinking. Where do you get that Marvel Studios has a "we can do it better" attitude? Fox never has, and now never will, factor into how Marvel Entertainment runs its film and TV divisions. When you've got as much of lead as Marvel Studios has, you don't stop to look at the folks who are a distant third or fourth as competitors behind you (especially when you just absorbed them). If Marvel wants to produce a Wolverine series for Disney+, you can be sure it's because it will make sense business wise. Disney's only real competition is Netflix.

Disney has re-acquired a business asset that they've been long separated from. Their desire to leverage it either now or later is perfectly reasonable and to be expected.

The X-Men do need a rest. The same isn't necessarily true of Wolverine because of his diehard fanbase. People never get tired of the character just like people never get tired of Batman or Spider-Man. It is what it is. Ripping the band-aid off of casting a new Wolverine now makes more sense than letting Jackman's legend continue to grow over a period of years to the point where it creates a schism amongst fans (similar to the Burton/Nolan factionalization of Batman).

A streaming show about Wolverine is a Disney+ subscriber draw. Period. People will sign up to see a show featuring the hairball. That's like gravity - it's an immutable fact of existence. People will watch it if it's good, bad excellent or somewhere in between.

In their Deathrace against Netflix, Disney has to use every weapon they have almost immediately. Nothing less than their total extinction is at stake. The Hollywood system with its bizarre and ineffectual accounting, talent fetishism and Kafka-esque bureaucracy is dying.

I can back the idea of a prestige show about James Howlett that doesn't necessarily focus all of its time on him as Wolverine. His history stretches all the way back to the late 1880s. He's been a spy, an assassin, a drifter, a soldier, a test subject and a superhero. Can you cover all of that meaningfully in a single movie? How about a trilogy of movies? The answer is no if you're being faithful to the source material. There's no reason the show couldn't move through time similar to the way True Detective does without ever needing to address his time as a superhero.