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 Feb 1, 2019 17:57:17 GMT Vassaggo likes this

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Post by Lord Death Man on Feb 1, 2019 17:57:17 GMT

Feb 1, 2019 17:18:05 GMT Vassaggo said:

Feb 1, 2019 16:29:17 GMT Lord Death Man said:

The decision may not have been right for Netflix but, in the long run, I think it was good for Marvel. Marvel, as we all know, isn't regarded for its variety in tone across mediums. They are, by now, well regarded for creating a shared universe populated by many characters. Luke, Danny, Jessica, Frank, and Matt all contribute to that legend.

I guess what I'm asking for is an anthology series which makes the Marvel Universe the central character and rotates the heroes, villains and locations per season. Heroes and villains can be revisited in future archs based on popular demand.

Marvel's future as the dominant force in cinemas will come to an end - probably sooner than a lot of us want to believe possible. 2018 was a peak year for them; there is no place to go but down. They will produce one or more flops. It's inevitable.

The future of Marvel live-action content is streaming.

I just saw the Hobbs and Shaw trailer. The villain is a superhumanly-augmented Idris Elba. We are reaching a tipping point.

And let's be clear about Netflix's business goals. They are chiefly concerned with subscribers. Ratings are things that you, myself and other third parties obsess over, the gold standard for a show on Netflix is can it attract new subscribers. Even if the Marvel shows maintained their "ratings," without contributing to adding new subscribers, they'd still be seen as a failure (or loss leader at best) in Netflix's worldview.

Also I never understood the infinity growth model of business. Seems like a pyramid scheme. Especially when dealing with attracting more users or subscribers. There is a finite number of people on the planet and yes new customers are born everyday, but come on. There is an inevitable plateau that the growth model seems to vehemently deny.

That's modern-day capitalism; quarter-over-quarter growth - forever. You're only as good as your last earnings sheet. "Flat" is the new slipping and, the plateau you speak of is the consumption of every natural resource on the planet until there is nothing left.

I hope we get to see an X-Men film (without Wolverine) within the next three to five years. I think the secret to success for the X-Men in the MCU is to start small and to treat the Mutant populace as an emerging species. We could also give the "fear and hatred" mantra a (desperately needed) rest.

If the X-Men debuted on the world scene tomorrow as superheroes - they'd be well received by the human populace. At a glance, they'd be not much different than the Avengers. It is only after the world learns that those optic blasts are a random gift of birth that the world populace would feel threatened.

The X-Men, in their first incarnation, all looked like human beings. They should start out as heroes who, over time, get outed as freaks of nature and then an imminent threat to human existence. Marvel needs to embrace what Stan was trying to convey when he created the team. The X-Men are strange and weird. Encoded in their genetic makeup is an evolutionary mystery that could teach us about the world and ourselves. Not all mutations are beneficial or useful in combat. In fact, I would imagine that the vast majority of them aren't.

I'd like to see an origin story with the original team pitted against someone like a modernized version of the Vanisher or Mimic. A traumatized mutant villain who has been poked and prodded and, finally decides to use their powers to act out their own sadistic revenge would be a nice change. I don't want to see mutants all acting on two sides of the same ideological argument.

Smaller stakes and more intimate character studies are what I'm after. What if the Vanisher could vanish things other than his/herself? Where do they go? What kind of pain and trauma would that power have caused if you unintentionally banished a friend or family member to nowhere - forever? Mutancy has to be examined more closely as both astonishing gift and horrifying nightmare.