Opinion | Ani Bundel: Fox's 'Dark Phoenix' is the end of a mediocre era. Can Disney make Marvel's X-Men great again? - NBCNewsTHINK
. Unlike companies like Fox, Marvel trusted the stories and characters in the catalog, and believed the audience would love them the way comic readers did.in 2015 to allow “Spider-Man” to join the MCU crossover films, it was precisely because of a lack of imagination. After the first trilogy ran its course by 2007, Sony tried rebooting the franchise in 2012.
Unlike companies like Fox, Marvel trusted the stories and characters in the catalog, and believed the audience would love them the way comic readers did. Fox initially fared a bit better, betting first on standalone “Wolverine” films, and then accidentally landing on theBut the central “X-Men” films have remained plagued by the same unwillingness to experiment, once again simply recasting the same characters, just younger and more attractive. This is a bizarre choice, considering “The X-Men” comics have a cast of thousands, and the company could have gone in any direction it chose.
for doing something inventive with the Marvel stable, and yet on the"X-Men" side, the producers continued cleaving to what viewers already knew.
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