With respect to all Imagineers -- some of the coolest and most hardworking and creative people ever -- I believe there's an easy fix here:
"New York streets" are very do-able on any studio backlot or theme park.
A Disney "Marvel Manhattan" could have an Avengers Tower, Sanctum Sanctorum, Baxter Building, Wakandan Embassy, Josie's Bar... (maybe also Oscorp & Daily Bugle pending clearance).
Alternatively, Mutant Campus is a solid theme park setting. The X-Mansion as the landmark + Danger Room + Cerebro + quad of statues of iconic heroes.
You could go the Radiator Springs approach and build Wakanda or the TVA or Latveria or Knowhere or Xandar or Asgard or the Blue Area of the Moon. You could go the Batuu approach and invent a whole new land / dimension where all fun Marvel landmarks can exist. Call it a new region of Battleworld.
I don't know why this is treated like an impossible issue.
Happy TRON Day, Programs!
44 years ago today, Alan Bradley’s group 7 access was suspended at Encom, leading to Kevin Flynn’s discovery of the game grid!
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@DiscussingFilm I literally thought something was wrong with my screen, because where is all the color?? It feels like there's a filter over the whole thing that looks awful.
Iman Vellani on the statement that Gen Z doesn’t care about superhero movies:
“I don’t agree that Gen Z has stopped caring about superheroes. Maybe they’ve just stopped feeling obligated to show up.
Our generation has grown up with an abundance of superhero stories, so perhaps the novelty has worn off — which is natural.
The bar is higher now. We’re looking for stories that feel specific and emotional — especially in the age of AI. We want honesty from our storytellers. We want our intelligence respected.
If anything, I think Gen Z responds incredibly well to superheroes when they’re treated as people first. The themes of grief, identity, legacy, belonging — they’re timeless and will never age out.
Every genre goes through cycles. Westerns did. Musicals did. Romcoms did. So the answer isn’t to abandon the genre, but to find new stories that only be told through THIS genre.
At the end of the day, I think we just want these films to evolve and grow alongside their audience.”
@aemondseyepatch Wow really? Because of all the shots of the whole entire trailer, I thought these were the worst ones. The lighting looks super weird and cheap for some reason. The rest of the trailer, though, looks absolutely phenomenal.