“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” arrives everywhere tomorrow, and while Disney thought it was probably savvy to officially announce their Fox deal today, perhaps they didn’t anticipate that the conversation would pretty much overwhelm the press cycle. Everyone is weighing in on what this might mean for the future of movies and, at least for the purposes of this article, Marvel.
Bob Iger has already said that Disney won’t try and mess with the R-rated success of “Deadpool,” but the larger question is whether or not a behemoth-sized mouse house would even dare to make something like that movie to start with. It’s something “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman” creator Mark Millar is wondering about, though he does think that X-Men getting fresh life at Disney is probably the best thing for the franchise:
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Ultimately, he has mixed feelings. That’s the general spirit out there right now. There are lots of possibilities on the table, but Disney’s new, massive media size does raise questions about how fleet-footed and creative they can be with so many checks and balances to account for.
Thoughts? Will X-Men fare better at Disney? Is it possible for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to get too big? Let us know below.
I think he’s right about Ant-Man and Guardians. If Disney/Marvel had FF and X-Men 5 years ago there is a good chance those two movies don’t get made or those characters get relegated to the small screen like Daredevil, Luke Cage, Inhumans, etc.
The first X-men movie was in 2000. Deadpool came out in 2016. It took 16 years and 7 other movies to get to that point. Also, they only greenlit the movie because test footage was leaked and fans demanded the movie….the studio didn’t want to do the movie until they saw how much interest there was and that they already had a built-in audience. So let’s not act like a Fox studio execs have been some sort of paragon of creative filmmaking.