Disney/Iger's stubbornness and inability to learn from their mistakes is truly fascinatingits right fukking there
It's worth studying
Disney/Iger's stubbornness and inability to learn from their mistakes is truly fascinatingits right fukking there
This is a part no one is discussingIt's ironic in a sense, people forget just a handful of years ago the MCU was supposed to save the X-Men and not the other way around. But now the perception is that they need to hurry it up and bring on the mutants to fix things, when the current IPs (altho not great) aren't the root cause problem.
Hell, the general public got 15 years worth of live action x-men movies under their belt, with the tone and main/popular characters already established if not overexposed (Wolverine, Xavier, Magneto, Jean Grey) and a laundry list of every familiar face you could have making an appearance at some point... and the IP wasn't poppin like that box office wise. We talkin the same era as Sam Raimi Spider-Man, The Matrix, LoTR, Nolan's Batman, and early to prime MCU.
They'll actually have to put a good amount of effort bc the general audience aren't actually inherent x-men stans. If it's compelling, they'll come thru otherwise it'll be whatever to them/more of the same.
BasicallyThis is a part no one is discussing
X-Men stans have largely aged out of the target demo. All the people begging for X-Men to save the MCU are 30s and up
Meanwhile the X-Men model has been copied endlessly in the YA genre. Group of outcast teenagers with magic powers/special abilities in a school has been done to death and has been on a down turn in recent years so that has to be taken into consideration as well
Yea I'm not saying X-Men couldn't be successful, butBasically
I agree a MCU X-Men movie is going to make bank regardless. I just don’t get the “X-Men and F4 is going to save the MCU” talk. When their recent output of movies/Tv shows other than GOTG 3 was trash. Like people act like they can’t release a trash ass X-Men movie. It been done before lol.Yea I'm not saying X-Men couldn't be successful, but
1. I don't trust Disney
2. Like I said previously the YA market, built on the X-Men blueprint, is already oversaturated
‘Daredevil’ TV Series Lands New Showrunner, Directors (Exclusive)
Following a creative overhaul, the superhero crime series gets a team that has deep ties to other Marvel series.www.hollywoodreporter.com
‘Daredevil’ TV Series Lands New Showrunner, Directors (Exclusive)
Following a creative overhaul, the superhero crime series gets a team that has deep ties to other Marvel series.
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OCTOBER 27, 2023 2:22PM PDT
Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead and DAREDEVIL, 2015.
Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead and DAREDEVIL, 2015.
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Marvel Studios’ Daredevil television series has a new creative team.
Dario Scardapane, whose recent credits include Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan as well as Netflix’s Marvel show The Punisher, has been tapped to act as the new showrunner for the series, which is in the midst of a creative overhaul.
Additionally, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, the co-directing team behind indie genre thrillers who are coming off of directing episodes of Loki season two, have been hired to helm the remaining episodes that will constitute the first season on Disney+
Daredevil: Born Again was in mid-production in New York when the writers and actors strike forced it to pause. When Marvel execs reviewed the footage, they had a change of creative heart and decided to go into a new direction. The show was being spearheaded by Chris Ord and Matt Corman who were acting as head writers, but have since departed.
Daredevil is one of Marvel’s longest-running creations and previously headlined a successful three seasons on Netflix in the mid-2010s featuring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer turned superhero. The series, as well as its spinoff Punisher, was known for his action and gritty violence. Marvel decided it wanted to harken back to the tone of that first series.
Marvel will keep some scenes and episodes that have already been shot, though other serialized elements will be injected. Scardapane will write the new episodes and new scenes, incorporating what was already shot.
Benson and Moorhead will direct the new episodes to bring this first season to a close. It is unclear how many episodes it will encompass. Corman and Ord will become executive producers.
The hiring of a showrunner is part of Marvel’s larger overhaul of how it makes its television series. The company previously made its shows much like it made its movies. But as THR previously reported, Marvel has reconfigured its model, embracing traditional TV concepts such as showrunners and pilots and series bibles.
Benson and Moorhead had a breakthrough with cult and festival circuit hits The Endless, Spring, and Synchronic. They sometimes do all the heavy lifting on their movies, from writing to acting to directing and producing to shooting, editing and visual effects. The duo directed two episodes of Marvel’s Moon Knight, which starred Oscar Isaac, and two episodes of season two of Loki, which is currently unfolding on Disney+.
Scardapane, a journalist turned screenwriter who got his breakthrough when he co-wrote the Mario van Peebles Western Posse, has considerable TV experience in the thriller genre. He created and executed produced the NBC medical drama Trauma and served as consulting producer on the Peabody-award-winning F/X crime drama The Bridge which starred Demian Bichir and Diane Kruger.
Returning to NBC, Scardapane served as showrunner on the Katherine Heigl-Alfre Woodard political drama State of Affairs before moving into streaming television, serving as writer and executive producer Punisher. Most recently he was a writer and consulting producer on Amazon’s Jack Ryan series starring John Krasinski.
Benson and Moorhead are repped by CAA and Ziffren Brittenham. Scardapane is repped by WME, Entertainment 360.
They must have seen some of the backlash. So I guess this is getting pushed back again. At least the new showrunner worked on The Punisher series.