Marvel Studios president defends comic book adaptations against alleged audience burnout.
Marvel executive, Kevin Feigehas defended himself against the supposed general boredom of audiences with superhero movies, stating that he doesn’t think people ever get tired of comic book movies.
Recent surveys and studies affirm that fans are saturated by the number of Marvel releases and the sheer volume of superhero movies generally. Feige has denied that this is happening in statements to the Spotify program The Movie Business Podcast stating the following: “Since my second year at Marvel, people were asking, ‘Well, how long is this going to go on? Is this trend for comic book movies going to end?”
Feige said, “I didn’t really understand the question. Because For me, it was like saying after ‘Gone with the Wind,’ ‘Well, how many more movies can be made from novels? Do you think the audience will get tired of movies adapted from the books?‘ You would never ask that because there is an inherent understanding among most people that a book can be anything. A novel can have any kind of story. So it all depends on the story you’re adapting. A lot of people don’t understand that it’s the same with comics..”
Kevin Feige added that movies based on comics will endure because they can be easily adapted to different genres. “There are 80 years of the most exciting, moving and innovative stories ever told in Marvel comics, and it’s a great privilege for us to be able to take what we have and adapt it. Another way to do it is to adapt them to different genres, giving rise to different types of films..”
The truth is Feige is quite right with his arguments, but he ignores one of the reasons (the main one) for the supposed exhaustion of the fans: continuity. The MCU is like a great Bible in which the movies and the series are interconnected with each other, and many times it is necessary to have seen the previous product to fully understand the next one. The complaints of many fans is that there was too much annual content and that, regardless of whether you are more or less interested in a character or that the work you are watching does not attract your attention, you have to “swallow” it whole to avoid being left off the hook..
This strategy at the moment is giving Marvel spectacular box office results, but It’s a matter of time before people start to get off the bandwagon if the quality of Marvel releases isn’t up to the quantity. First notice, Kevin.
Source: Fotogramas
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