Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe by Slider_Quinn21
Will Marvel's former chairman, the man who nearly drove Kevin Feige to DC, regain control of Marvel and Disney?
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Will Marvel's former chairman, the man who nearly drove Kevin Feige to DC, regain control of Marvel and Disney?
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Ike Perlmutter has failed in his bid to regain control of Marvel and failed in his second attempt to fire Kevin Feige.
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However, Disney plans to lay off 7,000 employees which is pretty terrible.
Well, that's a good thing. Perlmutter, besides being an ass, also is bad at content. I think Feige has made some missteps recently, but there's no doubt he's better in every way from a fan perspective.
What have you disliked from Feige?
I have a lot of respect for Ike Perlmutter up to a point. Perlmutter hired Joe Quesada, a terrific storyteller, to become editor in chief of Marvel Comics, and Quesada turned Marvel Comics from a bankruptcy to being a desperately sought after haven of properties for TV and movies.
Perlmutter established a solid financial foundation for Marvel Studios to produce its own movies rather than selling the rights to FOX, Sony, Universal and whatever direct to video junkyard outfit produced those Captain America TV movies. Perlmutter hired Kevin Feige to run the film division.
Perlmutter is the reason why the MCU exists. Without him, Iron Man would still be a D-list character in some comic books that only Temporal Flux and I would read.
However, Perlmutter's contempt for content and insistence that a highly successful movie studio run itself like a student film operation was ridiculous, and Perlmutter trying to fire Robert Downey Jr. for offering to do more work on CIVIL WAR was absurd. Perlmutter's INHUMANS was a national embarrassment, Perlmutter's sexism and homophobia are shameful, and Perlmutter was rightly removed after AGE OF ULTRON.
It leads to me wondering why someone so disdainful towards artists and creativity hired Quesada to run the comics, hired Feige to run the movies and signed off on Robert Downey Jr. to do IRON MAN.
I think that when hired, Quesada was a middle-of-the-road editor, Feige was a middle management producer, and Downey Jr. was a disgraced actor who would probably work for scale. Perlmutter didn't care that he was hiring comic book fans; he saw that they would work really hard for relatively low pay.
Then Feige and Downey Jr. wanted to expanded on their successes and Perlmutter's controlling nature couldn't stand it. Disney executives, while as soulless as Perlmutter, thought it ridiculous that Perlmutter was trying to fire Feige and Downey Jr. when they, not Perlmutter, were the ones bringing in the box office.
Quesada is curious: he was clearly grateful to Perlmutter and when promoted out of comics to act as a creative consultant on the films, he followed Perlmutter's orders. Quesada once remarked that he was hired by someone with whom he had little in common and that it was an example to him of how people need to build bridges to accomplish anything.
When Disney sidelined Perlmutter, Disney also isolated Quesada from the film division. Quesada continued to offer consultation to the TV division, but in 2019, Feige was appointed the head of the TV branch as well as movies.
It looks like Quesada could have stayed on as a consultant or even taken a demotion to comics, but he elected to leave Marvel last year. I'm a big fan of Quesada, but a lot of Marvel comic book readers aren't, perhaps not recalling how badly Marvel Comics was run before Quesada turned the company from a nearly bankrupt operation into a shining gem of intellectual properties.
Anyway. Perlmutter absolutely had to go and I personally haven't disliked anything Kevin Feige's done since Perlmutter's era ended. Certainly, there are films that haven't been to my taste. CAPTAIN MARVEL should have been better than it was, but not every film can be a masterpiece. THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER's political commentary was so spineless as to be meaningless, but any TV show aiming not to offend can stumble into blandness.
MOON KNIGHT felt really detached from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it was a well-intentioned stab at telling its own story. WANDAVISION was brilliant and hilarious,
DR. STRANGE II was enjoyable, all the Feige SPIDER-MAN films have been a delight. Feige fought hard to get a BLACK WIDOW movie made and that was a great ride. Feige also let Taika Waititi go nuts with THOR RAGNAROK and LOVE AND THUNDER and gave us James Gunn unleashed with the joyfully ridiculous GUARDIANS films.
I think it's likely that any other Marvel creative chief could make just as many mistakes as Feige (or Quesada), but other executives might make them while having no real respect or appreciation for the source material and the characters.
Okay, I have a complaint about Feige.
I don't understand why Disney+ is reviving the Netflix DAREDEVIL series but not hiring Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page) and Elden Hensen (Foggy).
Doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, they've hired Vincent D'Onofrio to play the Kingpin, so why aren't Karen and Foggy in the show?
What have you disliked from Feige?
I wrote a long rambling thing about Feige, but I ended up arguing against my own point. I think my main point was that he's oversaturated the MCU market so it doesn't feel so much like an event. It doesn't feel special as much anymore. I was going to say that the D+ shows needed to serve the greater MCU more, but I think that they have. I think where oversaturation has hurt the MCU, other than a loss of "specialness" is a decrease in CGI quality because Marvel is making a dozen projects a year instead of two.
But I prefaced my whole thing with talking about how much I like Feige and how much I respect what he's done. So let's just leave it at that. The argument I was going to make was either going to be forced or cliche - I think Feige is doing a great job.
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I watched Black Panther. I thought it was really well done for what they had to do. I won't get into spoilers, but while I thought it felt long (because it's very long), I thought it handled T'Challa's death with the weight it deserved. It made me realize (again) what a big hole was left when Chadwick died.
Happy to speak more to it when more people have seen it.
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I'm going to try and see Quantumania before it hits Disney Plus, something I failed to do the last two movies.
Hoping to catch up on the MCU with BLACK PANTHER II this weekend. However, I just read: the Disney+ DAREDEVIL series will feature Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle -- but Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson have not been hired to return as Karen Page and Foggy Nelson and have not been approached at all.
I'm not one of those people who declares that a project is worthless just because it doesn't meet my criteria. I will say, however, that to me, DAREDEVIL is Matt, Karen and Foggy the way SLIDERS is Quinn, Wade, Rembrandt and Arturo. I'm not sure I understand why Marvel Studios is bringing back Daredevil and the Kingpin and the Punisher but not Karen and Foggy; it seems hurtful and insulting.
I will concede that there have been more Daredevil comics without Karen Page than with her; I also concede that Foggy, while a vital supporting cast character in the comics, could possibly be any civilian friend in a TV adaptation. But it's a huge disappointment to me that Karen and Foggy aren't in a DAREDEVIL TV show featuring Charlie Cox as Daredevil. It feels very counter-intuitive to me, especially when both Woll and Henson have expressed a burning desire to play those roles again.
I know that titles, especially in the MCU, don't necessarily mean that they're borrowing from similarly-named comics....but wasn't Karen crucial to the Born Again storyline? Or am I thinking of something else?
At the same time, maybe the storyline is that Matt gets exposed as Daredevil and has to go on the run. Maybe it doesn't take place in New York. I think there are some reasonable explanations for them not to be involved story-wise.
Of course, there are very easy narrative ways to include those characters. Maybe Kingpin strikes while the three of them are on an apple-picking excursion in upstate New York, and now they're on the run together. It is disappointing. I thought the three of them were very good together.
Everything disney does is designed to move merchandise, so they need to show characters whose merch will sell. Profit leads to movie sequels and 2nd seasons of shows.
I know that titles, especially in the MCU, don't necessarily mean that they're borrowing from similarly-named comics....but wasn't Karen crucial to the Born Again storyline? Or am I thinking of something else?
DAREDEVIL's third season was largely an adaptation of "Born Again"'s plot elements, albeit repurposed to being set after DEFENDERS and rewritten to suit the Netflix version of Karen Page. As of the third season, DAREDEVIL had used pretty much every usable aspect of the "Born Again" storyline and the unused aspects of that storyline wouldn't be applicable to the post-Season 3 versions of the characters.
There is a rumour about why DAREDEVIL on Disney+ will not feature Foggy and Karen: it takes place between INFINITY WAR and ENDGAME when Thanos had disappeared 50 percent of all life in the universe. This rumour was based on a location shoot with a church sign dated 2020, but fans and journalists later noted that this church sign was actually a real sign at a real church that had in real life not been updated.
However, I have to say: DAREDEVIL on Disney+ being set during the Blip would be a story worth telling and it would make sense if Foggy and Karen weren't in the show if this were the timeframe.
If 50 percent of the human race were erased, it's impossible that no one in Matt's social circle was affected. From a dramatic standpoint, the most story possibilities fall with the direction where Matt is the one to survive and now he has to live in a world without Foggy, without Karen, and one where Wilson Fisk could stroll out of jail and begin rebuilding his life as the Kingpin.
I hope this rumour is true because it's the first thing I've heard that would make me accept and embrace a DAREDEVIL without Karen and Foggy.
I watched both Ant-Man and Guardians Vol. 3. I'll get into some quick spoilers so I'll set up spoiler tags:
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
I thought this movie was...fine? I thought the Quantum Realm was a bit confusing. When we first see it, Janet is living by herself in some kind of cave? Then Kang comes and they work together for a long time. Then Kang gets his powers back and she gets rid of his power core...then we flash forward to the present. I know she worked with Bill Murray in some sort of resistance before she was rescued.
But....were there people before Kang got there? Did Janet not know there were other people and lived by herself because she didn't know any other way? If so, did she bring the weapons she had (were they Wasp weapons?)
Or was Janet some kind of exile/recluse?
I know this type of story happens all the time where we get dropped into this fantasy universe and we meet all these societies and learn about their conflicts. But this felt really confusing because I don't understand either side. Some of the resistance people are basically humans and some are jelly monsters. Are they both native to the Quantum Realm? Are some of the humans other people who developed their own Pym particles? Are Kang's people different? Or were they created/cloned?
Also what a waste of William Jackson Harper!
I also am struggling to get Kang. We have spent way more time with Kang than we did with Thanos, but I'm struggling to understand what makes Kang scary. He's got powerful tech, but I would think the scariest thing about Kang is how much future information he knows. But is his future info limited? Because he was surprised a number of times.
But I thought he was good, and the movie wasn't boring. I just thought it was fine.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
I recently found out that James Gunn didn't like some of the character beats in the Avengers movies. He thought Quill wasn't dumb enough to punch Thanos and risk half the universe (I think that's the weakest moment of Infinity War). I know that he didn't love Thor being with the Guardians. I don't know if he was a fan of the alternate Gamora.
So I feel like the story felt hamstrung by some of those ideas.
But I thought it had a lot of heart. I felt like they probably could've left out Adam Warlock, who I felt wasn't developed much. I thought the breakup at the end of the movie felt unnatural, but I'm interested to see what (if anything) they do with these characters going forward. But the Rocket stuff was great, and I found myself to be emotionally invested quite a bit. Every one of the characters had a nice moment. I think James Gunn is great, and I'm very excited to see what he does with DC.
I'm shocked none of the Guardians died.
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