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10 hours agoOh I agree, I was just being pedantic because OP said “Marvel”.
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Since I’m already being pedantic, technically produced by Marvel Entertainment.
My guess is no?
We used to have direct to VHS/DVD sequels to a lot of Disney films. In fact Lilo & Stich had both a film and TV series.
I’m guessing someone ran the numbers and remaking existing films must be the most profitable. Plus I’m guessing the watch numbers for older content, like Lilo & Stich and sequels, increases which improves Disney+ retention.
I think George Lucas would agree with you.
While he directed the first film, Empire and Jedi had other directors. When it came to the prequel series Lucas really tried to get someone else to direct, but everyone turned him down as the project was “too daunting”.
Lucas is best as the idea guy.
Since you phrased it ambiguously, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is amazing.
2·14 hours agoBad shows are best when binged, good shows are best when watched week to week.
Many people like to only watch shows by binge and will wait for them to fully be released. Usually this is a mistake, especially for good shows.
(Good/bad is also a poor phrasing, but in general week to week is a more enjoyable way of watching shows.)
6·16 hours agoMy character makes a sandwich. I reach for the peanut butter…
41·1 day agoI mean this in the nicest way, but your cat would make an excellent replacement for the current governor.
Bro fr just making things up.
Yes, “you think” based on… What?
My source is the CEO of DC, your source is…?
Gunn was clear why the screen time was limited, they hadn’t yet decided how they wanted to use Batman.
Of course that’s specifically for their universe.
There is no quote of him saying that the Matt Reeves Batman film can’t do X. Or that The Penguin TV show couldn’t include Batman. In fact, here’s another article about Batman not showing up in The Penguin . No one is taking about Disney/Marvel being the reason.
And in case the thought process is, well maybe they don’t want to talk about that stuff, here is an article talking about Spider-Man not being in a live action TV series .
If Disney/Marvel we’re involved with Batman, we would know. There would be articles. At the moment, no such article exists. If you want to believe something based on no information, that’s fine, just be aware that there is nothing to support that claim.
The danger is expectations. It’s easy to overhype things. It’s easy to believe something should happen the way you want it to happen.
Sometimes you’re right.
Sometimes you’re wrong.
And sometimes that just isn’t what the creator was going for.
If someone says “Cake is coming” and you start to think about delicious chocolate cake with layers of chocolate and coffee, topped with a light whipped frosting, and then a carrot cake shows up, it doesn’t mean the carrot cake is bad. It just means it wasn’t what you were expecting. Now this metaphor is bad because if I implied a chocolate cake, I should probably deliver a chocolate cake. It’s unfair to tease one thing, then offer something completely different. In reality the cake isn’t carrot, it’s chocolate but the coffee flavor is darker than you expected or the frosting is heavier.
So in going to disagree by comparing Severance to the show Silo. If you’ve seen both shows I think one does an excellent job of slowly world building and the other does a terrible job at it.
First, Spoilers for Silo season 1 & 2, and for Severance up to episode 8 (the most recent episode). Also I acknowledge that Silo season 2 is finished and it’s possible Severance season 2 will finish poorly, but I don’t think it will.
Tap for spoiler
When we watch Silo, the first episode of season 1 has our main character go outside and discover that the dead outside we see is in fact green and alive. That’s a great start to a series. We now want to know why. Why is this information hidden?
The finale of the first season has our new main character go outside and discover actually… The outside really is death. There is a hologram of green life outside, but outside actually really is dead.
Then we have all of season 2. Season 2 isn’t going to even address anything I’ve mentioned above. Sure there is a conspiracy about the head of IT knowing about all this, but we don’t get much. Also back in the second episode of season 1 we learned about a secret pipe, but the show ignored it until the finale of season 2.
Then season 2 ends with an explosion and the only guy who knew anything probably just died. Also he learned a secret at the end of the season, but we’re not going to reveal that either.
The entirety of season 2 is just a setup for season 3. I liked the story. I think having to get back home before they all kill themselves is an interesting story idea. However it was basically a big pause button.
Now Silo is based on books, so maybe it’s the authors fault, maybe it’s the adaptations fault, but the point is that season 2 of Silo, while interesting, avoids answering any questions.
NOW, Severance. Season 1 ends with “She’s alive”. That’s a fucking twist.
And what has season 2 done to further that plot? First Mark’s sister acknowledges it even though Mark does not, but after an episode or two he is willing to accept it as true.
Mark then tries to get a message to himself to learn more. A woman shows up and says that she can reintegrate him so he can learn more, Mark immediately agrees (no wasting of time). Then we get a whole episode where we learn where Mark’s wife is and what she is up to (but we don’t know why).
And that’s just one twist. Helly is revealed to the rest of the work group. Irving meets Christopher Walken. We just learned that Cobel plays a big role in all this. We’ve learned a shit ton.
Silo walked back it’s twist and ignored it, saving it for a future season. Severance answered all our main questions, but asked a few new ones.
My point is that they don’t require permission anymore. Disney does not own Batman in any of his recent work. Batman can pop up anywhere and anytime and Disney does not need to OK anything, they are not involved.
So the argument that the reason we don’t see Batman on TV and movies recently is because of Disney is false. Both because Disney is not involved and because yes, yes we have seen him on both big and small screen recently.
There are no existing articles to support the idea that Disney owns/controls current day Batman.
There are rumors that they do, but even those rumors confuse things like the Gotham TV series airing on Fox having anything to do with who owns the rights to Batman. For example as I stated earlier, an animated Batman show ran on Amazon, that doesn’t mean Amazon owns the rights to Batman either, just those specific streaming rights.
The Day of the Jackal is a weird name for a show (or book, that it’s based on), but a fun show.
I wasn’t sure Eddie Redmayne would be able to be a believable international assassin, but he’s got the quiet killer vibe down.
I also liked Lashana Lynch and her “complex hero character”.
Lashana Lynch mild character spoilers
Since Eddie Redmayne is our main character, and he’s a villain, it means Lashana Lynch had to be our villains antagonist. She’s the “hero” of the show, but a deeply flawed one that I found interesting to watch. I think she makes choices that are human and realistic and justifiable…but not ones a hero would make.
I know you’ve said you’re not convinced… But then you also called it a rumor that won’t die?
For Creature Commandos here is a whole interview where James Gunn says Batman again and again. He has made creative decisions to limit his appearance, but it’s 100% Batman.
If course that article isn’t even 100% correct best we actually see a dead Batman earlier in the same series as part of a premonition.
Also James Gunn isn’t just “some guy” he’s the Co-chairman and Co-CEO of DC Studios. This isn’t Kevin Feige having to drag out Amy Pascal or Sony Everytime they mention Spider-Man. This is a clear statement.
Disney does not control the rights to Batman. MAYBE they have some residual rights to older content, but nothing recent.
Porter’s advantage is her ability to communicate. I think she could easily convince moderates and Republicans to swing her way.
Up against someone like Harris it would be a tough battle. Harris has the money and is already well established both state and country-wide.
The animated Batman cameo was Creature Commandos.
The Amazon show was Batman: Caped Crusader.
James Gunn recently (a year ago) debunked the rumor that Disney owns Batman in some way, https://screenrant.com/batman-tv-rights-james-gunn-disney-rumor/
31·2 days agoBatman is a DC character, not Marvel. So Disney doesn’t own them.
Batman had a live action film in 2022, with a sequel in production.
Batman cameoed in an animated TV series earlier this year.
Batman had his own animated TV series on Amazon last year, with a second season planned.
Batman appears in animated films about once a year.
Nothing new
It’s 99% new and different from the MCU. The 1% are small nods to the MCU.
For example in both Peter is out and finds a broken DVD player, then he brings it home and tells May how excited he is that someone threw away a perfectly functioning (obviously broken) DVD player. All the while missing that his future mentor is on the couch, talking to May.
Or as the series progresses we learn that certain events that occured in the MCU also exist in this world.
Overall however it is a completely new Spider-Man. (Yes, Spider-Man interacts with well know Spider-Man characters, but not following any previously written story.)
Season 1 was great and glad to see season 2 coming out so soon in May. I’m not sure what makes a season with only 4 and then 3 episodes upcoming. Maybe the show will become a regular series of seasonal specials.