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Bloodletting at Marvel
Posted on 4/14/26 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 4/14/26 at 7:53 pm
Disney Layoffs Hit Marvel Hard
Well, that won't suck at all...
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One division hit hard is Marvel, which is losing staff from both New York and Burbank, across most areas of the organization including film and tv production, comics, franchise, finance, and legal. That includes the nearly the entire Academy Award-winning visual development team at Marvel Studios.
Well, that won't suck at all...
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Posted on 4/14/26 at 7:56 pm to udtiger
They've got to think how much fricking money the actors and studios made on all those movies, and they get laid off. frick
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:03 pm to udtiger
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:03 pm to udtiger
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That includes the nearly the entire Academy Award-winning visual development team at Marvel Studios.
Tragic until you remember that a Marvel movie hasn't won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects since 2004's Spider-Man 2.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:07 pm to udtiger
Every year but they just hire more of the same. Nothing will change, this is just PR bullshite.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:28 pm to udtiger
Every area of the Marvel division needs to be rebooted
I hope Gail Simone, and her entire whisper network is among the canned
Everything she touches turns to shite
Uncanny X-Men is her latest victim
I hope Gail Simone, and her entire whisper network is among the canned
Everything she touches turns to shite
Uncanny X-Men is her latest victim
Posted on 4/14/26 at 8:45 pm to udtiger
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:35 pm to udtiger
No doubt there's bloat in a large organization but my perception is the bigger problem is organizational. Not just the messaging and replacement of more loved characters. Also the poor storytelling and too many cooks in the kitchen.
It seems routine for the big Disney (Marvel and other) films to have multiple hundred million dollar budgets and months of reshoots. That's a function of poor planning (or meddling from above).
If you put a competent director and writer in place there will still be editing but you should not be going back to recreate the movie from scratch. Most of the hero themed movies are fairly uniform plots anyway. You aren't making Gone With The Wind.
And yes, just try using the popular characters and let them be heroic.
It seems routine for the big Disney (Marvel and other) films to have multiple hundred million dollar budgets and months of reshoots. That's a function of poor planning (or meddling from above).
If you put a competent director and writer in place there will still be editing but you should not be going back to recreate the movie from scratch. Most of the hero themed movies are fairly uniform plots anyway. You aren't making Gone With The Wind.
And yes, just try using the popular characters and let them be heroic.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:47 pm to molsusports
There are two things in American pop culture that are almost impossible to frick up: beer commercials and superhero movies. Yet, our marketing and entertainment industries have managed to achieve that feat.
Beer commercials: pickup trucks, hot chicks, a couple ex-jocks with personality, a country or rock song with a good hook. Maybe throw a dog in there somewhere. That's it.
Superhero movies: a masculine male that can throw a convincing punch, cool costumes and gadgets, a hot chick who fills out her superhero tights, have the hero do heroic things. The villain has to be either evilly charming or charmingly evil. A plot that makes sense. And, the hardest thing of all, no pandering or ham-handed preaching of The Message. That's it.
Beer commercials: pickup trucks, hot chicks, a couple ex-jocks with personality, a country or rock song with a good hook. Maybe throw a dog in there somewhere. That's it.
Superhero movies: a masculine male that can throw a convincing punch, cool costumes and gadgets, a hot chick who fills out her superhero tights, have the hero do heroic things. The villain has to be either evilly charming or charmingly evil. A plot that makes sense. And, the hardest thing of all, no pandering or ham-handed preaching of The Message. That's it.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 9:58 pm to Roaad
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hope Gail Simone, and her entire whisper network is among the canned
Gail Simone doesn't work for Marvel Studios. Or Marvel comics. She's a freelance writer currently writing one Marvel book.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 10:15 pm to udtiger
After they take the work and feed it to the AI. People are overhead
Posted on 4/14/26 at 10:16 pm to Jay Are
One can dream
Posted on 4/15/26 at 7:38 am to SoFla Tideroller
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Superhero movies: a masculine male that can throw a convincing punch, cool costumes and gadgets, a hot chick who fills out her superhero tights, have the hero do heroic things. The villain has to be either evilly charming or charmingly evil. A plot that makes sense. And, the hardest thing of all, no pandering or ham-handed preaching of The Message. That's it.
This is the easiest of things. There are written guides out there that the superhero public already love and want to see on screen. Just do that. Like its written. Easy.
Posted on 4/15/26 at 9:35 am to udtiger
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That includes the nearly the entire Academy Award-winning visual development team at Marvel Studios.
Literally the only team there doing good work... when they weren't being rushed. Every shitting CGI job was rushed, and every time they were given time to cook it looked gorgeous.
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