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What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the reboot-retool-recycle dept.

mattnyc99 writes "In the wake of a not-that-exciting Comic-Con come some (perhaps premature) reports on the so-called "Death of Superheroes" — what one financial group calls "the top of the (comic book) character remonetization cycle." In response, Esquire.com's Paul Schrodt has an interesting look down Hollywood geek road. From the article: "What happens after The Avengers, or Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman movie — after we've seen all there is to see of the best comic-book blockbusters ever made?""

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  1. Reboot by SamSim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They'll reboot the franchise and start again. Just like with Batman and Spider-Man.

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    1. Re:Reboot by dmomo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's been working for the comic books themselves for the past 70 years, so I guess the movies are sort of being faithful in this respect.

    2. Re:Reboot by Artraze · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Exactly. Super heroes stories are the modern mythology; they never die they just keep being told and retold just like people have been doing for thousands of years before. And, despite all the haters hating the lack of "originality", I personally think that's pretty cool.

      Sure the popularity will fade a bit and the more B+/A- movies (e.g. Green Hornet) will probably segue into B+/A- spy thrillers or whatever the next genre of the decade is (sci-fi please? hahaha), but I do expect that super hero movies are here to stay.

  2. duh, hollywood finds something else by alen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    we've had disaster movies, monster movies, historical, fantasy, sci-fi and others.hollywood will find another genre and milk it.

    plenty of books out there that haven't been made into movies or in need of a modern CGI refresh. Bible movies anyone?

  3. Oh noes! by pak9rabid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Heaven forbid they have to *gasp* come up with original material!

  4. Sequel Bubble by Nidi62 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Independence Day 2 and 3, Men in Black 3, Jurassic Park 4, Twister 2(Supposedly Bill Paxton is pushing for this), Ghostbusters 3, etc. Seems they want to pull out franchises that are at least a decade old(or at least a decade since their last good movie) and start again. Supposedly they're even looking at making another Evil Dead sequel.

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