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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It's also not likely because the sword-and-sorcery genre is ungodly expensive and doesn't perform great at the box office. Guardians and Ant-Man were gambles because they're properties people generally aren't as familiar with, but when you get the actors out in the press and have them say "it's a space opera, kind of like Star Wars" or "it's a heist movie with superpowers" people understand that, and go see the films, because people like Star Wars, and they like heist movies.
The fact that it barely resembles the source material is, in and of itself, proof that it's meant to be a Disney movie first and foremost.
edited 30th Oct '15 2:37:01 PM by TobiasDrake
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Well, Disney is still a quality label when it comes to animation. A lot of animation fans might or might not go to the movies of the other studios, but they won't skip Disney or Pixar. Plus, good marketing campaign. That was a little bit the problem with ant-man, the trailers were not bad, but they had a really hard time to convince that audience that this will be fun. It was different with Got G, which had the catchy song and Big Hero 6 which had Baymax.
Disney didn't even put that much emphasis on the fact that Big Hero 6 was a Marvel property.
edited 30th Oct '15 2:36:57 PM by Swanpride
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True, but in comparison, Guardians of the Galaxy was different, but still objectively similar to the comic. Big Hero 6, on the other hand, changed everything so much that it didn't resemble the comics in the slightest - from the setting (changed from Tokyo to San Fransokyo) to the characters (where Fredzilla goes from a guy who can actually transform into a giant lizard to...someone with a suit) to...well, everything else.
It was basically an original movie with the name Big Hero 6 slapped on. Which is great, because the comic book Big Hero 6 was terrible.
edited 30th Oct '15 2:38:27 PM by alliterator
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Yep.
Big Hero 6 has more in common with the likes of Disney's Hercules, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, etc. than Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man, or The Avengers. It's been run through the Disney machine.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.With Big Hero 6 versus Guardians, I think it's also important that Guardians is tied to the MCU in that Thanos is the overarching Big Bad (and the Collector ties the space setting into Asgard). Not to mention, Captain Marvel has ties to the GOTG.
On the other hand, the comic book Big Hero 6 team are a combination of unconnected characters and ones that are more well known- but probably couldn't be used because they are X Men characters.
In any case, if they wanted to do a sword-and-sorcery movie, they could just do Man-Thing and have him encounter Wundarr.
edited 30th Oct '15 3:21:32 PM by alliterator
All this talk of sword and sorcery has me wanting Marvel to recover the film rights to Doom so that he and Iron Man can go back in time and meet King Arthur.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I like the nod to that story from the recent Invincible Iron Man book, where Doom is trying to prove he is Doom to Tony:
Doom: We once went back in time to King Arthur's court. I look back on that adventure fondly.
Iron Man: You left me to die there.
Doom: I said I look back on it fondly, not that you do.
edited 30th Oct '15 3:24:23 PM by alliterator
Nothing new
but Ruffalo says any solo Hulk film is "even further away" now.
Which is fine. I suspect Ragnarok is their way of doing a Hulk movie without actually doing a Hulk movie.

I doubt they would go with Weirdworld, though - for one thing, the current Weirdworld is very new, only coming out this year, while the old Weirdworld was a very, very obscure comic (much, much more obscure than the Guardians of the Galaxy).
edited 29th Oct '15 10:15:08 PM by alliterator