I dunno, I don’t think it’ll do well in theaters.
Trying to take off from where the show was and expect people to pay up to see it in theaters rather than just wait until it’s streaming alongside all the rest of the MCU seems dubious.
Tbh, I can’t see any of the characters that moved to series doing well in theaters as individual movies. I’m not even sure people would go if it was supposed to be all the ? -remaining movie avengers moving the “universe” forward to a next stage.
Right now, it’s all fractured, and Thor is probably the only one left that could pull big numbers into seats simply because he’s the only one that hasn’t switched formats.
Spider-Man could, but he’s also not a TV/streaming immigrant, nor is he as constrained by the MCU aqs a whole, as far as audiences are probably concerned.
I never watched Falcon & Winter Soldier. The American military industrial complex corner of the MCU is dreadfully boring. I guess there are Call of Duty people out there who might be into this, but I want more weird shit. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 living space stations, Dr Strange dimensions shuffling, Sandman, Preacher. If you’re making comic book movies and not ripping my concept of reality to shreds, you’re not showing up ready to play.
I’m mostly with you there.
The key difference for me being that I’m fine with small amounts of the political/military stuff here and there to give a bit of perspective. That’s why I liked the show, it brought the scale of things back to a relatable level. But it should have been just that, then moved back into where the MCU was going.
We can get political thrillers and conventional action/adventure anywhere. The MCU is really the only place for the, as you said, weirs shit. Even in horror, fantasy and sci-fi, getting the kind of genre crossing strangeness that’s MCU can provide just isn’t common.
