That makes sense, hire some young talent (who are cheaper) for a multi picture deal. Traditional wisdom still holds that you want a “movie star” or “strong IP” when making a film. That’s what gets the average movie goer into the theater.
Black Panther doesn’t have any huge names attached to it and I’m guessing the plan is to pass the title on to someone young.
X-Men are obviously the next big phase, so bring in some new young folks.
Blade seems like a logical film, but they’ve struggled to get a script together. We also don’t know what deals have been made with Mahershala Ali.
Deadpool depends on Ryan Reynolds. Taking some time to develop is fine and if the overall plan is fewer films then taking a little while is fine.
The problem is that when the audience is bored of the shovel-wear you been making for the past few years you cannot rely on that to motivate people to go to the cinema if the cast isn’t well know and an attraction in themselves. Its why they paid buckets of money to get Downey and the like back after their previous attempt to reboot the cast failed.
Disney need their big tent pole films to make over a billion, otherwise they wont waste a prime cinema release spot on a film making less than that as they have other franchises they can spend the money on for that spot. Last thing you want is your big four quadrant film competing against another film you made in the same release window.
I get dropping the budget for these films reduces the expectation of how much money they need to make, but thats irrelevant when you have other products you can sell for the limited consumer dollar that month for more money overall because its more popular.
Deadpool 4 might be dead because Disney pissed of Reynolds and the crew with D&W.
I wish Maximum Effort could have bought the rights before DP1, we would have fewer movies but the passion for the projects would have been maintained.
What happened?
The short of it is Disney kept toning it down and cut cameos and jokes.
Reynolds was so beat down by it that he didn’t do his typical end of filming shoot speech/thank you to the crew and didn’t do much promotion for the film. The crew was apparently also pretty beat down by Disney’s involvement. There were some mentions of Reynolds not being allowed as much creative control against Disney’s meddling in the editing booth.
So DP4 might be dead or they may recast and ruin it with people who aren’t passionate about the film.
Do you have a source for that? I wasn’t able to find anything like that when I was looking earlier
Let’s just call it unsubstantiated industry gossip that the Mouse doesn’t want public.
The MCU has lost my interest at this point. I wanted to give f4 a try but can’t be bothered. I don’t care about x-men and couldn’t stand the bad guy in BP2 so they can keep 3.
I’d watch Blade if they made it but they don’t seem to want to.
I miss Ms Marvel. She’s awesome.
i assume you mean fantastic 4, it looks as generic as the 2015, even though the first 2 were bad in the 2000s they had interesting actors to do it. X-men franchise is the one movies cant seem to do justice for a reason. i prefer the mutant shows that were there prior to the disney cancelling them, they flesh out the stories much better.
wakanda 2 was kinda weak, having a 3rd one wont save the sequel. DP 1 and 2 seems much better than 3, because it dint have the multiversal trope.
“Am I out of touch, and that pushing out rushed, quick cash, probably AI scripted, crappy movies are killing our audiences?”
"…no, it’s the audiences that are wrong. "
