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Post by Vassaggo on Oct 1, 2018 17:27:02 GMT
We will have to disagree here. Playing it safe would have been to take the 500m they got and start with one of those properties. Playing it safe would've been taking that 500m and get a proven Director who does blockbuster movies. Using that cash to get a bankable star without recent drug addiction that got him fired from gigs because he wasn't able to stay off of drugs. Playing it safe would be not to risk losing the rights of all the IP you have left on Ironman an IP you just got back. I know your opinion on the MCU and neither one of us are going to sway the other's basic opinion. You will never see that even with their prior successes that doing a GotG movie instead of doing another sequel in it's place was a risk. I remember even ardent MCU fanatics saying it was a mistake to do it. That's fine we have different opinions. If we all had the same ones this site would suck. Little known fact; if Iron Man had been a failure, Marvel would have lost the cinematic rights to ALL of their remaining characters - every last one of them - in perpetuity - to Meryl Lynch. That's all that was on the table. Only everything. And while Little Lord Fauntleroy here feels the MCU should toil away in genteel poverty making "risky" films, there is zero acknowledgment that a movie studio dedicated to a single genre of films is inherently risky. Detractors love to fetishize creative risk while failing to acknowledge unprecedented innovation in business and serious financial risk. It's so easy to make Marvel movies that every single detractor of the model has gone out and done it twice over in the heads. Yup, they worked the deal with Merrill Lynch and they put up highest value IP's they had left at the time as collateral. During the deal an IP reverted back to Marvel so it wasn't part of the deal. Ironman had been with New Line, but 2 months after Marvel Studios announced the deal with Merrill Lynch it reverted back to Marvel. If Ironman bombed most agree that Marvel Studios would've folded shortly there after defaulting on the deal and losing what little rights they had left. At the time they didn't have a huge backer like DC has with WB and like Marvel has now with Disney. To be honest part of me marvels at the set of balls it took to go with Ironman, Favrearu, and RDJ the other part thinks it was irresponsible to do so.
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Post by Larcen26 on Oct 1, 2018 20:49:19 GMT
Wouldn't they just go watch the movies, to see if they are any good? Many hardcore DCU fans claim to hate Feige and everything he stands for. I think you are thinking of one DC-Fan... Nobody with any sort of love for comic books hates Feige for any logical reason.
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Post by NormanClature on Oct 1, 2018 21:46:04 GMT
Many hardcore DCU fans claim to hate Feige and everything he stands for. I think you are thinking of one DC-Fan... Nobody with any sort of love for comic books hates Feige for any logical reason. It isn't just DC-Fan.....
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Post by Larcen26 on Oct 2, 2018 14:09:39 GMT
I think you are thinking of one DC-Fan... Nobody with any sort of love for comic books hates Feige for any logical reason. It isn't just DC-Fan..... It's 99% DC-Fan.
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