User blog comment:HombreHormiga/Avengers-Phase 3/@comment-1895174-20130209052705/@comment-1895174-20130210050437


 * 1) He doesn't have to, but if it works stylistically and logistically, then there's not really any reason not to. Plus, having all of these guys in the same universe is pretty cool. And I'm telling you that he doesn't do either of those.
 * 2) So, if indeed you mean to say that Daredevil would have such a different subject matter that it wouldn't fit, you'd be wrong. Because a Daredevil movie would be about being a hero, trying to set things right, fighting evil.  For one, none of the heroes of the MCU fight the same type of evil Daredevil does.  As I've said before, the heroes of the MCU have fought terrorists, conquerors, aliens, supernatural creatures, etc.  Daredevil fights simple crime bosses, which is a lot less threatening than the others.
 * 3) Secondly, none of the MCU heroes have secret identities.  There's no difference between Steve Rogers and Captain America, while there's a clear difference between Matt Murdock and Daredevil.  This is one of the reasons I want to keep Spider-Man out of the MCU as well.  Why add a hero who doesn't fit and doesn't offer anything?  Heck, John McClane is a better fit for the MCU than Daredevil is.
 * 4) Uh, yeah you can. The mythology that focuses on the smaller scale bad guys, along with heroes that are trying to fit into society.  But that doesn't add anything meaningful to the mythology, especially as these films up the ante with how dangerous their villains are.
 * 5) Make up your mind, dude. I said "6 films" considering "MCU" as the franchise, in response to you talking about 20 or so films in the franchise.  I did make up my mind.  MCU is not the franchise.  It is a franchise of franchises, that's why it's called "interconnected".  It's not like Iron Man 2 is a sequel to The Incredible Hulk and not Iron Man.  But you said "Phase 4", which means there must be an Avengers 4.  A fourth Avengers movie means there would be close to 20 films in the MCU, and in order for the gap between Avengers 3 and 4 to not be too long, it means Disney has to keep churning out films at far too incredible a pace.  This is a problem The Avengers as of now is alone in having.
 * 6) But not yet.  I don't know, I think if you need to worry about something before it becomes an immediate issue.
 * 7) And it's not like it's that dangerous to test it out like this, because we've been building up to it for a while. The number of superhero movies released per year has been fairly steadily increasing.  Actually, these are the worst films to try that out on because of their huge budgets.  As for the comparison to romantic comedies, you're neglecting how different the bar for success is for these films.  Romantic comedies are cheap to make, so if one makes only $30 million it's not that big a deal.  Most superhero films need to make at least $150 to be considered successful.
 * 8) And the number of films has not been steadily increasing.  In fact, it almost collapsed just a few years ago.  Just look at the Marvel releases - 2 out of 3 in 2008 were commercial failures, there was only 1 release in 2009 and again in 2010, and all three of the 2011 films underperformed (successful, but not as successful as they hoped).  With the Spider-Man and X-Men franchises in decline, the Nolanverse Batman films coming to a conclusion, and everything else but the MCU and Superman being dead in the water, we should be talking about the end of the last wave of superhero films, not something at full steam.
 * 9) If they start to lose interest, the number will come down, there's no pressure.  To reiterate what I just said two points ago, these films are significant financial investments for the studios that produce them.  If/When superhero movies start to tank, these studios are not going to be happy that they sunk all that money into a movie they don't even think will be a success when it releases the next year.  So they become less anxious to greenlight any more, and instead of just seeing the number of films tapering off after a point, there's a risk of a full-scale shutdown.
 * 10) I think at this point I should state that I don't want all this to happen, but I'm considering a real possibility.  And it doesn't matter if the train halts or derails, Marvel, Disney, and any other company involved in making superhero films should look into changing tracks before it's too late.
 * 11) Kick-Ass 2.  I suppose you might also want to consider the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie that's currently in development hell, as well as Guillermo del Toro's "Dark Universe" project for DC. If you look a bit broader and consider the other comic book based movies that you might not be considered superhero movies, like R.I.P.D. and Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For, the number shoots even higher.