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"It certainly seems to be keeping their makers (“architects” feels like a more accurate term than “creators”) from any sense of joy"
13/08/15 16:11 Filed in: Link
Mark Harris;
The ‘Fantastic Four’ Fallout: The Future of Comic-Book Franchises
When, in the space of three months, all three movies in a genre arrive with very public news that they are not the movies they could have been, something has gone wrong. There is, I think, an increasing sense that every mark the comic-book genre is forced to hit — origin stories, Easter eggs, big-picture continuity, action beats, fan service, world-stakes battles, potential sequels, post-credit sequences — is obstructing them from being movies.
The ‘Fantastic Four’ Fallout: The Future of Comic-Book Franchises
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