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badlands > April 16th, 2023, 07:10 PM
Should the Marvel Universe be rebooted? -
RE: Marvel reboots
Michael > April 20th, 2023, 02:48 AM
Well, portions of it have been rebooted several times. But I think it's a little early for the Disney/Marvel MCU to be rebooted as they're still telling new stories that connect to the first Iron Man film. -
RE: Marvel reboots
badlands > November 22nd, 2023, 05:37 PM
Should DC comics be rebooted? -
RE: Marvel reboots
august > November 22nd, 2023, 10:20 PM
They constantly are already. There are the cartoon versions, the CW versions, the new JLA extended universe...that's a lot of reboots already!
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RE: Marvel reboots
Michael > November 23rd, 2023, 01:53 AM
The DC cinematic universe is a mess. And while I hope James Gunn can do something interesting with it, he's probably fighting an uphill battle. -
RE: Marvel reboots
simonponting67 > January 5th, 2024, 12:30 PM
they're still making good movies, if anyone needs to rebooted then it must be DC. -
RE: Marvel reboots
Boomstick > January 6th, 2024, 05:35 PM
DC is in the process of rebooting, but in general the bubble has burst. There will still always be Batman and Spider-Man movies, because those are huge and have always been able to stand on their own. The days of the huge planned "phases," tons spinoff movies, and regular billion dollar box office hauls is likely over. -
RE: Marvel reboots
Michael > January 10th, 2024, 12:18 AM
(January 6th, 2024, 05:35 PM)Boomstick Wrote: DC is in the process of rebooting, but in general the bubble has burst. There will still always be Batman and Spider-Man movies, because those are huge and have always been able to stand on their own. The days of the huge planned "phases," tons spinoff movies, and regular billion dollar box office hauls is likely over.
For this generation, most likely those days are over. But I hope we get to see another giant franchise again (done well, of course). -
RE: Marvel reboots
Boomstick > January 11th, 2024, 09:59 PM
(January 10th, 2024, 12:18 AM)Michael Wrote:
(January 6th, 2024, 05:35 PM)Boomstick Wrote: DC is in the process of rebooting, but in general the bubble has burst. There will still always be Batman and Spider-Man movies, because those are huge and have always been able to stand on their own. The days of the huge planned "phases," tons spinoff movies, and regular billion dollar box office hauls is likely over.
For this generation, most likely those days are over. But I hope we get to see another giant franchise again (done well, of course).
I'd love to see a massive, franchise spawning success, too. But I'd like to see something like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Flash Gordon, The Shadow, or some other thing that's probably completely obscure and irrelevant to the current generation of trendsetters.
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RE: Marvel reboots
august > January 12th, 2024, 06:28 AM
What if they shared a League of Gentlemen-like universe?
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RE: Marvel reboots
Michael > January 20th, 2024, 05:19 PM
I loved League of Extraordinary Gentlemen too, despite its many flaws. The concept was intriguing. But I guess there were just too many creative challenges for the producers and studio to do a generally satisfying job. -
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august > January 22nd, 2024, 02:07 AM
I think they really just had two challenges: working with a terrible script, and trying to take something made for a niche audience of fans of Victorian fantasy and sell it to a mainstream ticket-buying public. Sell a million comic books and you're a smash success. Sell a million movie tickets and you have bombed. -
RE: Marvel reboots
Boomstick > January 24th, 2024, 06:47 PM
(January 20th, 2024, 05:19 PM)Michael Wrote: I loved League of Extraordinary Gentlemen too, despite its many flaws. The concept was intriguing. But I guess there were just too many creative challenges for the producers and studio to do a generally satisfying job.
I love Connery as Allan Quatermain. It's a shame we didn't get more of him in that role. Stuart Townsend was really enjoyable as Dorian Gray, and Richard Roxburgh was good, too. Everyone else could be replaced with pretty much any other actor and you'd have the same movie, I think.
(January 22nd, 2024, 02:07 AM)august Wrote: I think they really just had two challenges: working with a terrible script, and trying to take something made for a niche audience of fans of Victorian fantasy and sell it to a mainstream ticket-buying public. Sell a million comic books and you're a smash success. Sell a million movie tickets and you have bombed.
I think there were disagreements between the director and studio, and there was also a big set fire if memory serves. So a troubled production that probably didn't go to budgeting, too. -
RE: Marvel reboots
RobRoy > January 24th, 2024, 06:55 PM
(January 24th, 2024, 06:47 PM)Boomstick Wrote: I think there were disagreements between the director and studio, and there was also a big set fire if memory serves. So a troubled production that probably didn't go to budgeting, too.
There's a really good JoBlo WTF Happened to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Lots of problems, but I do think that the script was the biggest issue, and perhaps the fact that Connery had passed on LOTR and backed this. Might not have gotten as big a budget if not for his name:
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RE: Marvel reboots
Boomstick > January 27th, 2024, 07:59 PM
(January 24th, 2024, 06:55 PM)RobRoy Wrote:
(January 24th, 2024, 06:47 PM)Boomstick Wrote: I think there were disagreements between the director and studio, and there was also a big set fire if memory serves. So a troubled production that probably didn't go to budgeting, too.
There's a really good JoBlo WTF Happened to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Lots of problems, but I do think that the script was the biggest issue, and perhaps the fact that Connery had passed on LOTR and backed this. Might not have gotten as big a budget if not for his name:
JoBlo YouTube
I'll have to check that out. The video probably touches on this, but if I remember correctly, Connery passed on LOTR because he didn't understand the script. He passed on that and it was a big hit, so when he got the LXG script and didn't understand it, either, he decided to take a gamble on it.
Edit: Good video, I guess it was a flood on set, rather than a fire! In any case, it sounds like it's mostly down to the director, which is a shame. He torpedoed his own career by the sound of it. I didn't know/had forgotten that Monica Bellucci had been cast as Mina Harker. That would have been amazing. I have no problem with Peta Wilson, but Bellucci would have been far better for what they were going for with the role.
Personally, once I read the comic book, I found it to be massively overrated, and I've always been glad that they didn't follow it too closely. Making Quatermain an opium addict is lazy and cynical. If you've read any of the Quatermain novels, it's just not true to his character. Good on Connery for refusing it. Frankly, while Alan Moore is a wonderful writer, he never gets any criticism when he deserves it, because he's into occult stuff, and everyone in the comic book industry is scared to death of him.
Is it a good movie? No, not really. It has character arcs for some of it's character, though, which is more than can be said for the modern Star Wars movies.
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RE: Marvel reboots
RobRoy > January 29th, 2024, 02:11 PM
(January 27th, 2024, 07:59 PM)Boomstick Wrote: Is it a good movie? No, not really. It has character arcs for some of it's character, though, which is more than can be said for the modern Star Wars movies.
I think that sums it up well. I rewatched it a year or so back, and I love certain aesthetics and moments, but the entire thing together, not so much.