Post by Lord Death Man on Feb 27, 2018 16:28:51 GMT
Apparently not...
This is irksome in the extreme. What is Fox playing at here? I can understand them continuing to make X-themed product but, tripling their output? Is this a numbers game? Do they actually expect every single one of these films to be a hit? They can't - that defies logic and economic reality. At this point, they have to be sapping resources from mainstream projects to power this unholy "X" factory.
I disagree with most of their character selections for team-based and solo films. The creative choices they're making are also suspect but, I endorse their X program overall because it ensures Marvel supremacy - the brand above all else.
That said, worse than a Disney-style "formula," someone at Fox has an algorithm. It's designed to exploit premier source material and popular characters - hard and fast - at a relatively low budget for maximum return. They know all of these films can't be hits but, all it would take is one or two billion dollar entries to justify the whole program. The failures will just be sacrifices on the altar of mass X production.
If you think you should adapt Demon Bear right out of the gate for the New Mutants, you likely don't understand the property and, furthermore, you don't care to understand it. I don't know if NM will be a hit but, what I do know is that it will diverge further and further from the source material as soon as its second outing.
You build to Demon Bear - can't lead with it. What's the sequel, a Cypher and Warlock road-trip comedy? "Ha ha! You shape shifting, alien bastard! We're getting too old for this shit!"
Hmmm.... Feast on my fan man tears and be restored. I must go away and contemplate this further.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/will-disney-disrupt-foxs-x-men-movie-mega-plans-1088623
This is irksome in the extreme. What is Fox playing at here? I can understand them continuing to make X-themed product but, tripling their output? Is this a numbers game? Do they actually expect every single one of these films to be a hit? They can't - that defies logic and economic reality. At this point, they have to be sapping resources from mainstream projects to power this unholy "X" factory.
I disagree with most of their character selections for team-based and solo films. The creative choices they're making are also suspect but, I endorse their X program overall because it ensures Marvel supremacy - the brand above all else.
That said, worse than a Disney-style "formula," someone at Fox has an algorithm. It's designed to exploit premier source material and popular characters - hard and fast - at a relatively low budget for maximum return. They know all of these films can't be hits but, all it would take is one or two billion dollar entries to justify the whole program. The failures will just be sacrifices on the altar of mass X production.
If you think you should adapt Demon Bear right out of the gate for the New Mutants, you likely don't understand the property and, furthermore, you don't care to understand it. I don't know if NM will be a hit but, what I do know is that it will diverge further and further from the source material as soon as its second outing.
You build to Demon Bear - can't lead with it. What's the sequel, a Cypher and Warlock road-trip comedy? "Ha ha! You shape shifting, alien bastard! We're getting too old for this shit!"
Hmmm.... Feast on my fan man tears and be restored. I must go away and contemplate this further.
On the Fox lot, phrases like "it's business as usual" reverberate in conversations with agents and execs. "We actually have way more in development and production in Marvel IP than at any point in the history of the studio," says a Fox insider. "There's been zero slowdown on that front given Disney."
Fox will release two X-Men movies this year: Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool sequel on May 18 and X-Men: Dark Phoenix on Nov. 2. The studio also is planning three X-Men movies for 2019, with another three expected the following year.
Meanwhile, Channing Tatum's long-in-development Gambit is still looking for a director. A new draft of the script is expected in March and it is greenlit, meaning that the studio has budgeted it. And the horror-themed New Mutants will undergo a round of additional photography this summer that will insert a new character into the thriller that is dated for Feb. 22, 2019.
X-Force, a Deadpool spinoff from Drew Goddard, is set to begin shooting in October, with Reynolds and Josh Brolin expected to star. The studio is still focusing on developing both the X-Men and Fantastic Four brands, including a Doctor Doom movie from Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley.
As for Marvel's plans, deals for many of its key castmembers are expected to expire with 2019's untitled Avengers 4 — a movie Feige has indicated will shake up the status quo for his universe, though it seems unlikely that the already-in-production sequel will be used to sow the seeds for integrating the X-Men in there, even if the merger closes this year.
"They have to proceed as business as usual in case the merger doesn't go through," says one agent whose clients work on Fox's Marvel movies. "It's a unique position to be in."
Fox will release two X-Men movies this year: Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool sequel on May 18 and X-Men: Dark Phoenix on Nov. 2. The studio also is planning three X-Men movies for 2019, with another three expected the following year.
Meanwhile, Channing Tatum's long-in-development Gambit is still looking for a director. A new draft of the script is expected in March and it is greenlit, meaning that the studio has budgeted it. And the horror-themed New Mutants will undergo a round of additional photography this summer that will insert a new character into the thriller that is dated for Feb. 22, 2019.
X-Force, a Deadpool spinoff from Drew Goddard, is set to begin shooting in October, with Reynolds and Josh Brolin expected to star. The studio is still focusing on developing both the X-Men and Fantastic Four brands, including a Doctor Doom movie from Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley.
As for Marvel's plans, deals for many of its key castmembers are expected to expire with 2019's untitled Avengers 4 — a movie Feige has indicated will shake up the status quo for his universe, though it seems unlikely that the already-in-production sequel will be used to sow the seeds for integrating the X-Men in there, even if the merger closes this year.
"They have to proceed as business as usual in case the merger doesn't go through," says one agent whose clients work on Fox's Marvel movies. "It's a unique position to be in."
