I mean, if we really wanted comic book movies to be faithful to the source material, rather than spending $100 million on one movie, what you’d do is give $20 million each to five different directors, release all five resulting movies in theatres at the same time, and make sure that each movie’s plot refers to the events of all the other movies’ plots in such a way that whichever of the five movies you watch first will be entirely incomprehensible and every possible viewing order is wrong.
One of the movies rolls out fine, one changes directors mid-production but turns out ok, one gets delayed multiple times before releasing as part of the next wave, one goes through five directors in as many months, and one gives a token nod to the rest, but is really just a sequel to another of the director’s movies, which was produced at a different studio fifteen years ago.
None of the five films bother to explain what the overarching story’s central MacGuffin actually does – to find that out you have to watch the bonus material on the remastered Blu-ray edition of an otherwise unrelated movie that came out in 1991. Somehow Wolverine is there.
The sequels remove all previously adored side characters and replace them with new actors/friends.
(snicker)
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