GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Passes $835M Worldwide Ahead Of Digital Debut This Friday

@tylerzero - Yeah, and i think they know it in a way. The move to streaming content aswell has been a very mixed bag, though i'm actually liking secret invasion so far.

Long term though i think the writer's strike might help them, i just hope Daredevil doesn't suffer a delay or get a shortened season because of it.

@UniqNo - no way home was pretty damn good. nothing else has come close post Infinity.

@UniqNo @Origame - Agreed that the subscription paradigm in and of itself does necessitate as much content be cranked out as quickly as possible to retain subscribers (or at least return subscribers) and that is a good point. I mean, for as deep as Disney's catalog is, you can only watch "X-Men: TAS" so many times. And while it's nice having all the MCU and related content in one handy "so I don't have to get off my ass and go all the way upstairs to my movie room to get a disk" location, they know that most of us have already seen that content one or more times by now. So I get it.

That being said, from what I understand the main source of the whole "quantity over quality" debacle was was Chapek. Disney needed someone to fill Iger's shoes once he left, and being as that coincided roughly with the D+ launch it kinda made sense to appoint Chapek as he was the former president of Disney Parks, and I would think that in that role you are more focused on your daily park visitations vs. long-term goals (I mean, how often does a Disney park add a new ride?). The problem, as I see it anyway, was that he was TOO focused on cranking out new Marvel and Star Wars content (and likely took decision-making power away from Feige in the process) which resulted in the "quantity over quality" issue that we've seen since he took over (and the reports of Feige being stretched too thin). I kind of imagine that conversations between Chapek and Feige went something like this:

Chapek: So, Kevin, Kev-Dog, the Kevster, what new MCU content ideas do you have for D+?
Feige: *Ahem* Well, I was thinking about a show about-
Chapek: Do it.
Feige: Well, don't you want to know what it's about?
Chapek: Nope. Just do it.
Feige: Um, well, okay. Then I was thinking that we could-
Chapek: Do it.
Feige: But how about-
Chapek: Do it. Do d-do-do-do it. Do it all.
Feige: Well, that's going to mean a bunch of different projects going on simultaneously and-
Chapek: Don't care. Do them all.
Feige: And you know that we're in the middle of a pandemic, so-
Chapek: Don't care. Get a f**king mask and some Purell and DO THEM ALL.
Feige: Well, okay. I'll see who I can get to oversee at least some of these projects because I can't-
Chapek: No, I want you overseeing all of them. You've got the golden "billion dollar movie" touch. C'mon Kevin-ator!
Feige: But I have a wife and kids and I like spending time with-
Chapek: Kevin? Kevin? Do you like your job, Kevin?
Feige: Well, yeah, but-
Chapek: No "buts" Kevin, unless it's your ass sitting in one of those little folding movie chairs with your name and "Producer" on the back. You got me?
Feige: (mumble mumble go f**k yourself asshole mumble mumble)
Chapek: I'm sorry, what?
Feige: I said "you got it chief!"

Or something like that. So now that Iger's back and it looks like they're starting to correct the ship (time will tell on that) what I want to know is how large of a dump truck full of money did Disney have to back up to Iger's house to get him to come back after he had retired to his nice, kooshy retirement of playing golf and book tours to get him back? I mean, was it like the kind that comes around and picks up my trash every week, of more like the kind that you have to climb a ladder to get inside? Kinda thinking the latter.

@UniqNo - Frankly I'm surprised when ANYONE makes it through some of my more "TL;DR" posts (It's all about the journey, see? 😉).

As for the X-Men on D+, I've said in other posts that they should definitely be a combination of D+ shows and big movies. And within the D+ shows, they should be a combination of one-shot series/Special Presentations and ongoing series to introduce the characters and then keep their stories going independently of the big movies. Pretty much like the comics. For example, Wolverine should be a multi-season anthology series that goes through Logan's past and finally culminates in him joining the X-Men in the SECOND X-Men movie (along with the rest of the "Giant-sized X-Men" characters). Let the first movie be the OG 5 characters with the Logan origin series running on D+ concurrently. That way folks can satisfy their Wolverine craving without him being part of the X-Men yet.

Scott and Jean can be introduced in a SP, as can Bobby and Hank. The Scott and Jean one can start with them hating each other but being forced to team up and end with them NOT falling in love but just not hating each other as much (thereby subverting expectations) and setting up the possibility of a romance on down the line. Meanwhile the Bobby and Hank one can be more of like a buddy-cop one with two guys who pay well off of each other and go on adventures together. That leaves Warren to introduce in the first movie, which kinda makes sense because he's usually more of a rich, aloof, loner guy anyway.

Then you do the same thing after the first movie with the new characters (while the Wolverine show is in like Season 2). Nightcrawler should also totally get his own anthology series, as he's another swashbuckling adventurer.Maybe a SP for Storm. And so on and so forth. You get my point. Bring them all together for the big challenges but let them do their own thing otherwise. Basically the same approach that led up to the first Avengers movie.

And like you said, there are SO many X-Men stories to tell, both before and after the big movies that they'll have plenty of material to draw from. For example, even after you introduce Wolverine in the second X-Men movie and we're up to speed with his past, you can keep going with his own show and what he does in between the big X-Men challenges. Works in the comics, so it should work on-screen. I mean, who WOULDN'T want to watch a show like "The Mandolorian" but with Logan?

@UniqNo - Well I appreciate the effort 😊. I'll take it easy on you this time, as I'm just taking a break from my "sweaty-as-hell" outdoor work.

I don't think that Marvel is ever going to do a full "reboot" of the MCU, but can add/modify/delete certain things as needed via mechanisms such as the Multiverse Saga. Whether they bring back old characters with new actors remains to be seen, but they're not going to do it just to do it. They have plenty of characters to play with without having to have a new Tony Stark emerge as a result of "A:SW". They may eventually get there, but I think that it's too soon. Especially with the X-Men on the horizon and all that that brings with it.

I agree that they should leave the X-Men proper out of it prior to concluding the MS, and I think that that's the plan (although they are obviously planting the seeds). As far as the fear and hatred typically associated with mutants goes, keep in mind that so far all the heroes in the MCU that are celebrated are humans, so the rest of humanity looks up to them as like themselves but better. Enter mutants en mass. All it takes is one terrorist attack or other atrocity that is supposedly perpetrated by mutants and the next thing that you know you have government figures like Henry Gyrich going on and on about the dangers of mutants and how they are different than normal humans and normal superheroes, etc. Just look at American politics and how easy it is these days to trigger an "us vs. them" movement about any damn thing (which actually makes now or soon a VERY timely time to tackle X-Men in earnest). So I'm not too worried about how Marvel will be able to logically introduce the mutant fear and hate. And the contrast between the mutant heroes and the "normal" superheroes might just be what eventually leads us to a version of... "Avengers vs. X-Men". One can only hope 😊.

@Shivermetimbers - uhhh that’s not, no.

@Shivermetimbers - hahahaha you are good at this! Have a good day, may the 4th of Juliar!

@AmazingFILMporg - that’s what I am saying. It’s says a lot about how films are down overall including (and maybe especially cbms).

@Shivermetimbers - i thought it was in line with 2, more meh than good. GOTG1 still the best.

@TheWalkingCuban - thx!

@Shivermetimbers - Jenny Lawrence in blue make up... perfection.

@GunnISaClunge -yeah, from DC at least, only one movie i think has been lucky to hit that much or more after they wrapped up their Dark Knight Trilogy. I bet Aquaman 2 doesn't make as much but will still outperform the last few DC attempts.

@AmazingFILMporg - they're probably shaking in their boots. One of their cash cows is failing to bring in break even numbers. Ironically, the last time a film featuring batman performed this bad was when Clooney the flamboyant crusader.....and guess what 😅🤣

You did this to yourself 'padeo tweet' Gunn 🫵🏿...the Clooney Batman curse lives on 🤣

@GunnISaClunge - Yeah, and he's not having a terrible year so far, he's also less controversial.

From the majority of the reviews on Fast X, good or bad they highlighted his character as the best part aswell.

Also Christmas movies tend to have legs and there looks to be less competition in term of action/adventure. This is why I believe the 1st one did so well.

@iceballsreborn - The High Evolutionary was not very nice. He deserved it.

@TheWalkingCuban - Spacehub haahahahahaha!