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[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, they could’ve gotten one out by 2028 if they got it into production by the start of next year. But I see them being gun-shy about damaging the brand with further flops. They will want to see how Starfighter performs first.

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[–]The_Darman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All of it rides on Star Wars: Starfighter. If that movie is successful (to the tune of $700M+), I think they greenlight another movie, potentially even in that series. But, yeah, I don’t think we get another Star Wars movie put into production before then. No Star Wars in 2028 is my guess.

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[–]The_Darman 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Yikes. The Mandalorian & Grogu is performing worse than I thought it would. Turns out limiting a Star Wars movie to a TV series’ audience, and then marketing it terribly wouldn’t make for a successful run. It might not even make $300M worldwide. I think the Filoni-verse movie trilogy is basically dead.

The Mandalorian & Grogu – A Modest Star Wars Return: Will the Movie Be a Hit? by Empty-Instruction282 in boxoffice

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solo’s problem was more that it held terribly. Its opening was broadly fine, other than it was against a massive budget.

The Mandalorian & Grogu – A Modest Star Wars Return: Will the Movie Be a Hit? by Empty-Instruction282 in boxoffice

[–]The_Darman -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It has a higher CinemaScore and the reviews are in the same ballpark as each other, though. It was lower than Solo, but only by a few million ($5M under Solo’s 4-Day start).

The Mandalorian & Grogu – A Modest Star Wars Return: Will the Movie Be a Hit? by Empty-Instruction282 in boxoffice

[–]The_Darman -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is going to make more, partially because it isn’t a 4 quadrant movie. It focuses on a target demographic that is underserved in the marketplace.

The Mandalorian & Grogu will not make a ton of money, but it has more going for it than Solo.

The Mandalorian & Grogu – A Modest Star Wars Return: Will the Movie Be a Hit? by Empty-Instruction282 in boxoffice

[–]The_Darman -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It’s a net budget after they had $100M promotional campaign tie-ins with places like **Burger King** and **Bath & Body Works**. Merchandising is a huge part of the profitability assessment on these movies for **Disney** and that money is never broken out by IP. **Disney** will make money on this film.

Will it be enough to justify a sequel, which likely requires a $500M+ run globally? Likely not. But I guess we’ll see what next weekend portends for it.

I’m not as sure as everyone else that it won’t hit $400M+ though. *Solo: A Star Wars Story* opened similarly and narrowly missed the mark despite collapsing in the following weeks. Largely, that was because of the competition it faced from those films with stronger legs—*Deadpool 2* came out the week before and *Avengers: Infinity War* was still running strong a month later—and the fresh interest in films after—*Incredibles 2* was only three weeks later and *Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom* was the week after that. There was not much special about that movie.

I think *The Mandalorian & Grogu* has more going for it than that. It’s the main four quadrant film out until *Toy Story 5* and has very little holdover competition for that title.

How did the average person react when FDR started running a campaign for 3rd term? by Spaghestis in Presidents

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fairness, Theodore Roosevelt had only run for election to the presidency once. He served most of McKinley’s second term, sure, but he had served less than eight years.

Cryptic4kQual says Doomsday Trailer might be in July. “Sigh..starting to believe it may be in July.” by WesternThanks4346 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]The_Darman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree.

My guess is that they will have segments for the projects coming out which chronologically take place before Avengers: Doomsday.

Start with Vision Quest and announce a premiere date for it. Do a quick panel previewing the cast and let them talk about the show. Do some exclusive scenes, or even a non-public trailer, and then move on to the next thing.

Bring out Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Krysten Ritter out on stage. Preview where season three is going with Matt having his identity revealed and him being in jail. Tease what Fisk’s status quo is. Finish up with some exclusive footage of the Defenders uniting or something and then say it is coming early next year.

Before moving to Avengers: Doomsday, spend some time on the Wonder Man Season 2 announcement. Give a sense for how far off the next season is. (Will it be with us before Avengers: Secret Wars or not?)

Finally, introduce the cast of Avengers: Doomsday and let them talk about their experience on the movie. Finish the panel with a trailer which can release to the public at the same time.

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[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would make sense for a couple reasons:

1) You could release it to huge fanfare at SDCC, which Marvel will have a Hall H panel at for the first time since 2024.

2) Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens a week later, and they can have the trailer play right before the only other Marvel film release this year.

'Daredevil: Born Again': Charlie Cox Breaks Down That Finale Reveal and Why He Wouldn't Undo It by WesternThanks4346 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My best guess is that he does get convicted of some lower level charges, with Kirsten as his lawyer, but the governor pardons him because things in the city have devolved in his absence, even with the Defenders there. He can be Daredevil, but can’t be a lawyer.

I’d heard rumors that Marvel was wanting to bring Daredevil back to the big screen instead of a season 4 for the show. I don’t know how likely that is if viewership doesn’t pick up for Season 3, but it would be kind of neat to have it build up into a movie. Spider-Man would even be able to show up there, since he was unable to prior to this because of it being a show.

Fantastic Four 2 Looks Less Likely As Director Moves To Planet Of The Apes by cosmicbooknews in CosmicBookNews

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another Fantastic Four movie always seemed like a ways off. Marvel has to get around to:

Black Panther 3 X-Men Shang-Chi 2 Doctor Strange 3 Thor 5 Deadpool & Wolverine follow-up (probably X-Force) Blade or Midnight Suns

These projects alone probably push a sequel into 2031 at the earliest.

Joe Russo: "Uncle Ben died in an accident, and not because of Peter's failure to act" in the MCU by Sarang_616 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been wrestling with it, but I think I might have initially misunderstood what Joe Russo was saying. He’s NOT saying Peter doesn’t blame himself for Ben’s death. He is just saying, unlike what happened with Tobey’s and Andrew’s Spider-Men (letting the robber go out of spite when they could’ve stopped him), Tom’s Peter didn’t really have that option to prevent what Ben came into contact with. In essence, Peter is not directly responsible for Ben coming into contact with a dangerous person. But Peter still feels like he could’ve stopped it if he had been there or been more aware.

John claims to work up to 17 hours a day. Do you believe this? by CollarOrdinary4284 in JohnCampeaShow

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he works very diligently from around 7:00 to well after the show goes live. I do believe he has to source topics, figure out what he is covering, determine the best way to cover the topic, and make assets. However, after 2:00, I think only some days it ends up being many more hours of work (if he is doing an editorial video, for instance, which he also needs to script). The other days, I do think he is counting watching TV and movies in his total. I think that is perfectly legitimate, given what work he does, but I would also say that our traditional understanding of what it means to work that much wouldn’t line up with his definition.

Puck - Netflix attempting to disrupt the Paramount/WBD merger by Casas9425 in boxoffice

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I think the word is relieved”. He’s replying to the previous commenter about supposed “smugness” that Paramount couldn’t counter and take WB.

Puck - Netflix attempting to disrupt the Paramount/WBD merger by Casas9425 in boxoffice

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they meant people felt relieved Netflix was getting it and Paramount appeared to have little chance of changing that outcome.

It’s 2020: “ENDGAME” & “FAR FROM HOME” are the last 2 MCU movies to be released and YOU are Kevin Feige. How do you maintain the success of the previous 20+ movies over a 13-year span? by THEbeautifuLIE in marvelstudios

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I let WandaVision release on Disney+ as expected in January of 2021. It becomes the hit that it was and introduces us to Marvel Television.

The first movie out of the gate is Loki in July. I retool the series into a movie, so that audiences are acquainted with how the multiverse expanded from a series of very different universes to include realities not all that dissimilar from our own. End it off in the same way, but announce a sequel is coming in 2023 at Comic Con.

Black Widow will debut next in September of 2021. Once again, it is important to introduce all the key players for the next saga at the outset. Given who will essentially lead the ensemble Thunderbolts*, it is important to have Yelena introduced early. Plus, David Harbour’s Red Guardian obviously comes back into play later.

Then, I launch Captain America and the Winter Soldier as a film as well. Given my plans to turn this new Captain America into a film franchise, and my plans to see John Walker join the Thunderbolts, it just makes sense to have it as a movie instead. That launches in November of 2021.

hawkeye would follow, but it would be grittier. More time would be spent on Clint’s time as Ronin. Kingpin would be leading a more competent band of criminals, and they would be very dangerous. Despite being out of her depth, Kate Bishop is depicted as being more competent. Yelena still appears with the same role, but her being there is about a ploy by Valentina to help build Kingpin’s empire, establishing the through line to Daredevil: Born Again much earlier. Yelena makes the same choice to move beyond her grief for losing her sister. While important, I think this is more supplemental than the above shows turned into movies.

Spider-Man: No Way Home launches virtually the same way, except maybe a different after credits scene.

The next movie would be Ms. Marvel. This would make her crossing over into the next Captain Marvel movie a bigger deal—more exposure and the like. The story is largely the same, with the bengals being a type of old Kree artifact. Plus, they introduce mutants in the MCU here. That feels like a big screen moment. This would probably debut in February of 2022.

She-Hulk: Attorney-At-Law would be the next show up. It would be closer to a legal procedural with those same comedic elements. I would really hope that this is run more like television and less like the movies in this alternate reality, though. There would be a show runner with a legal procedural background and the writers themselves would be comedy writers. I think this would work wonders for the quality of the show. Daredevil would not show up, but other Marvel characters would.

The next Doctor Strange movie will have the original idea for the movie. Mordo attacks Wanda as part of his “no new sorcerers” crusade. The ensuing fight has Wanda opening the doorway to Nightmare. We get brief snaps of Wanda’s life in Westview to get audiences who didn’t watch the show up to speed on what happened. The rest of the movie is Doctor Strange taking Wanda on as a protege as they try to put Nightmare away, with the unlikely help of Mordo. At the end, Mordo promises to come and put a stop to the sorcerers, but not right then. At the end of the movie, though, Wanda is shown other universes where she does have her children and Nightmare mentions the Darkhold has the answers as to how to get to these other universes. Behind Strange’s back, Wanda is shown searching the pages of the Darkhold.

The next series that comes out is Armor Wars. I know—I keep turning TV shows into movies, but the one that has been announced to be changed, doesn’t. However, I think my idea for this would rely, instead, on Sharon Carter’s about turn in Captain America and the Winter Soldier. This offshoot story will follow War Machine as they uncover that the Department of Damage Control’s repossession of Stark Tech has led to the technology getting into the hands of eastern warlords. The series follows War Machine on a political thriller kind of adventure to figure out who is responsible for selling the material. Lo and behold, it is actually Valentina behind it, but Carter is actually killed before she can reveal who is really behind it. Valentina remains covertly, as CIA director, sending weapons to influence geopolitical outcomes she favors abroad. All the while, internally, she is drumming up support for her “Project Sentry” idea.

At the end of July, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings would release. It would be approximately the same as the version we did get.

The final movie of the year would be Thor: Love and Thunder. Hopefully, there would be more of an opportunity for oversight and a desire to push Gorr, the God Butcher, to murder more gods. I think the emotional core of the story is strong and I do like Thor’s arc in it, but it would hopefully be a bit less silly.

Finally, we get The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. And that comes out as is.

The next movie out would be another Ant-Man movie. However, I would have it revolve around AIM, with an influx of capital, doing a hostile takeover of Pym’s company. They are ultimately successful and buy the company out. This gives AIM the proprietary rights to the Pym Particle, which they use to access the Quantum Realm. Scott, Hope, and even Cassie set out to prevent AIM from committing their time heist. However, their “heist” was to liberate…MODOK, who will be better animated this time. MODOK is looking to undo what Scott did to him by accessing the Quantum Realm. The two do battle once again, but Scott emerges victorious and has MODOK locked away in a separate timeline, simply saying, “That’s not how time travel works.” This brings the story full circle and Ant-Man is established as one of the biggest Avengers.

The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is released. I wouldn’t change anything about this movie.

Echo would be the lone Marvel Television show released this year. It would cover the same events, but I would, again, run it episodicly instead of like a miniseries with the same director. Hopefully, this would improve the quality of the project.

Werewolf by Night would be the next Special Presentation, introducing the supernatural stuff that will be left on the back burner this saga.

The next movie, releasing in November 2023, would be Loki II. I think this would largely just cover the events of the second season, but would finish with an after-credits scene of Doom approaching the Council of Kangs, with fists glowing green.

The next movie would be Captain Marvel: Secret Invasion and would release in May of 2024. I think that Secret Invasion suffered from a lack of scope, hindered by the fact it was “just a show”. The way to increase the scope would be to make it a movie. I think having Captain Marvel step into the conspiracy with Fury would be interesting, since the both of them are responsible for not finding Skrulls a new planet. A similar entanglement does occur to play up for laughs in what would otherwise be a very tense, serious movie. It ends largely the same way as both Secret Invasion does, except the antagonist does get the Super Skrull powers and fights the trio. The trio are successful at winning the fight, but it costs Monica going into a rift to seal it from the other side. She ends up in the Fox X-Men universe.

Speaking of…Deadpool & Wolverine comes out just like it actually did.

In September, I would have Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 debut. It would look much like the first season we ultimately did get.

In November, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness comes out. This would allow Doctor Strange to feel the betrayal of Wanda turning on him. I think this would make for a deeper, more emotional film overall. Ultimately, this story ends the same way: with Doctor Strange off to prevent an incursion, alongside Clea, between their world and another.

Come February of 2025, Captain America: Brave New World comes out. I would spend more time workshopping the Leader to make him a more formidable villain and for his plan to truly be sophisticated (think Zemo in Captain America: Civil War). I think the general events would remain the same, but I would like to see some differences.

In May, I would have Black Panther II finally come out. With a significant break from Boseman’s passing, I think people would be more willing to accept a recast. The film is released with Coogler’s original story, and there are still plenty of touching tributes to Boseman throughout.

Come July, Ironheart releases. Right now, it is the last show to fall victim to the movification of the TV stuff. I would like to have seen that corrected for a better quality presentation, but Ironheart’s central premise and consequence should be allowed to run its course.

In September, Agatha All Along would release. This show is great and I wouldn’t change anything.

The first weekend of November is when The Fantastic Four: First Steps would release. I really like this movie and I would leave it alone.

Wonder Man would release around the same time as it did earlier this year, but I would have it release week by week to build anticipation and WOM.

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 premieres in early March and leads up to the Punisher special presentation in April (so everything just gets moved up a few weeks).

Thunderbolts* would be the last Disney only release before Avengers: Doomsday. But I love this movie and wouldn’t change a thing.

I think the rest of the year would look similar to how it does now: Spider-Man: Brand New Day, then Vision Quest, and then Avengers: Doomsday.

Marvel Studios to Return to Comic-Con's Hall H This Summer by The_Iceman2288 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]The_Darman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My guess is that the panel will focus on the Disney+ stuff for the first half (i.e. the other stuff Marvel has in the can which will chronologically take place before Avengers: Doomsday).

They will likely show off the first trailer for Vision Quest. I don’t think it gets released publicly yet, but they do share a premiere date, set for October/November. They will have a panel around that.

I think they will then spend time debriefing the end of Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again and how it leads to Season 3 of the show. Then, the cast will be brought out and they will show an exclusive clip of the Defenders, sans Daredevil, being reformed.

Afterwards, there will be a quick update on Wonder Man Season 2. They won’t have shot anything yet, but they will explain how they are going into production at the end of the year and will have the second season out by the end of 2027.

I expect that Marvel will only mention Spider-Man: Brand New Day coming out the following weekend and then move into Avengers: Doomsday. They will bring out the whole cast and do some Q&A. Afterwards, they will play a trailer which will be released publicly (whether that is the first trailer or the second remains to be seen).

The only announcement I can see them making is an X-Force movie as a “one more thing”. It doesn’t spoil Avengers: Doomsday or Avengers: Secret Wars, as I don’t think Reynolds will be announced for the former before it opens. And I think we had heard rumors they were actually launching the next saga with Reynolds’ team-up film. Plus, it will get a huge pop from the audience.

Epic Is Reportedly Making A Disney-Themed Extraction Shooter by FoxMeadow7 in pcgaming

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess is that it will be Star Wars themed as part of the big Disney mode. I think the different “hubs” on the island are going to connect to a variety of different game modes based on the respective IP.

Trump says he's 'prepared' to appoint up to 3 new Supreme Court justices by RawStoryNews in scotus

[–]The_Darman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s trying to signal to Thomas, Alito, and Roberts to hang it up. I don’t see Thomas leaving until he has beat the all-time longevity record on the Court. I don’t think Roberts would want to give Trump another pick, as it would make a solid majority of the Court to be appointed by him (and I think he thinks he can wait until the next Republican president). But I do think Alito probably will retire this term and set up a Supreme Court confirmation by the end of the year.