Recent reports claim that the audience is getting sick of superhero movies that are currently dominating the box office. A new argument supporting the Marvel oversaturating box office has surfaced on the internet. MCU’s aspiring plans to bring life to their multi-hero complex alive continue. There has been an ongoing buzz regarding the audience growing tired of so many MCU productions.
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Is Marvel Oversaturating Box Office Real?
Marvel will kick off its phase 5 with Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania but the future of MCU is now looking cloudy as Marvel fatigue kicks in for fans. Movies like Eternals, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Black Widow, and even Thor: Love and Thunder didn’t generate as much profit as previous Marvel releases. This can be seen as a major sign of the declining Marvel craze.
The profit generated by superhero movies continued to remain at its peak during the past years. It didn’t seem like a bad idea to increase the output of these movies to generate even more revenue. Marvel did pretty great work in overtaking DC while producing some of the best superhero movies. It looked like Marvel will never follow the downward trajectory. But fans can already be seen getting fed up with Marvel releasing so many superhero movies and series. With the bunch of projects lined up for release, the news that Marvel oversaturates the box office sounds even more real.
I’m not tired of Superhero movies I’m just kinda tired of MCU movies. It’s really that simple, Kevin. https://t.co/R6XWVnWM1f
— Mauricio | Browntable (@Browntable_Ent) January 25, 2023
There is no franchise that has avoided franchise fatigue in cinema, people interest always twiddles, especially at the rate Disney is pumping out content.
Whilst it's difficult to compare pre-covid sales, post covid has indicated these films don't have legs. With large drops
— Gudluckfale (@PopcultureCuck_) January 23, 2023
80 years of groundbreaking stories, but let's ignore those and pump out crap based on the revisionism of the 2010s.
— John Cyrano (@John_Cyrano) January 24, 2023
I can already tell that these are going to be full of pointless cameos
— Snek 🐍 (@LegoSnek) July 24, 2022
*looking at the MCU and the comics that inspired them*
But you aren't interested in telling those exact stories, are you Kev?
— Softcouping to save Democracy (@WilBunchanumbas) January 24, 2023
Kevin Feige Feels Fans Will Never Get Bored of Marvel Movies
While Kevin Feige kicked off MCU phase 5 with utter enthusiasm during the comic-can and revealed plans for the upcoming Avengers movies. If you look at the timeline of MCU phase 5, then it is pretty evident that the list of upcoming Marvel movies and series will result in Marvel oversaturating the cinema. Yet Kevin Feige denies the true saturation of Marvel movies as he remains confident of 80 years of Marvel comics legacy.
“I’ve been at Marvel Studios for over 22 years, and most of us here at Marvel Studios have been around a decade or longer together. From probably my second year at Marvel, people were asking, ‘Well, how long is this going to last? Is this fad of comic book movies going to end?’ I didn’t really understand the question. Because to me, it was akin to saying after ‘Gone With the Wind,’ ‘Well, how many more movies can be made off of novels? Do you think the audience will sour on movies being adapted from books?’”
The Marvel boss continued,
“There’s 80 years of the most interesting, emotional, groundbreaking stories that have been told in the Marvel comics, and it is our great privilege to be able to take what we have and adapt them. Another way to do that is by adapting them into different genres, and what types of movies we want to make. I found that if we tell the story right, and we adapt them in a way that the audience still — knock on wood so far — is following us along 22-plus years later… we can [make] any type of movie that shares two things: the Marvel Studios logo above the title and a seed of an idea from our publishing history.”
Though it looks like Feige is nowhere to accept any news about Marvel oversaturating the box office. The complete truth regarding the Marvel oversaturation will be made clear in the coming time, as per the performance of upcoming Marvel movies at the box office.
Source: Variety
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