Time for some Sunday morning catch-up...
It looks like both
Superman and
Fantastic Four are gearing up for healthy opening weekends, which honestly tickles me pink (sorry). I've seen lots of chatter on social media about how neither film has a chance of attracting that coveted young male demographic because both Superman and Fantastic Four (the characters) lack the 'cool' factor that Deadpool, Venom, Batman, and Wolverine all enjoy. As far as I'm concerned, dear friends, that's the responsibility of the filmmakers.
Guardians of the Galaxy on its surface is one of the dorkiest concepts out there (sentient trees and talking racoons??), yet James Gunn and Marvel made it work through a combination of creativity, inspiration, quirkiness, and empathy. Can Gunn and Shakman pull off the same trick with Supes and FF, respectively? We'll talk again in July
Speaking of Gunn, I read his Rolling Stone interview and liked a lot of what he had to say. I like how he will consider
Superman a success if the movie grosses enough to earn back its budget, and how no DCU project will proceed to the production stage without a completed, quality script. I liked his assertion that the pandemic has conditioned people to consume content at home so studios need to stop phoning it in and start offering exciting enough products to get butts back into theatre seats. That of course vibes with what folks here have been saying all along...
I recently bought a copy of
Sinners at full price on Prime Video, because I felt bad for not seeing the film theatrically and wanted to support it on digital. I'm sure it will be awesome but I really like what the movie represents: that an artist with vision can still create an original work that resonates both critically and commercially. Hopefully we'll continue to see more films like this get made in the future as a respite from the unending onslaught of franchise releases...
So Marvel is reportedly prepping a
Midnight Suns film? Count me in! And there's speculation that the December 2028 mystery film will be the debut of the MCU
X-Men. I too fear that Marvel might be spooked by the commercial performance of
Thunderbolts* and give us the safest, most sanitized version of the
X-Men possible. Hope I'm wrong...
I recently added both
Black Panther and
Wakanda Forever to my digital collection. I wondered why they were the only MCU movies on sale this week and then I remembered, duh,
Ironheart lol! I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed
