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What grade would you give the Marvel Cinematic Universe? (Ever-Changing Question)


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That's hard to believe. I mean how did they not know about Superman from the Christopher Reeve movies? I understand not understand the comics but it seems like for awhile at least most people must have at least been familiar with Superman and of course Batman. Also their was "Lois and Clark" the tv show.
The biggest thing is just content. The sheer amount is intimidating. Despite my enjoyment of Superman I had not seen Reeve and knew more from cartoons or Lois and Clark than anything in comics or films.

Batman was always Adam West.
 
I've been a big superhero fan my whole life and I never saw any of the Reeve movies in full until last year.

Not everyone goes back to watch every film that used to be massively popular before their time.

I guess that might be the case. I keep forgetting I am old!
 
Smallville's target demographic was like....16 year-olds.

Well, older teens and college students, probably, but otherwise, that's exactly the point. There are many different demographics out there, so it's unwise to expect everyone in the audience to have the same knowledge and interests. One of the first rules of writing I learned was, never assume your audience knows what you know.

Way back in the '90s, I submitted a spec script to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and got an invitation to fly out to LA and pitch ideas to the show. While I was there, I stayed with my cousin who works in the film industry; he founded a company that's responsible for providing most of the bicycle, skateboard, skating, etc. equipment and stunts in Hollywood productions, or at least was at the time. At one point during my stay, I got to talking about how I'd gotten nowhere with my spec script to The Next Generation and was hoping to get a chance to pitch to Voyager, and it gradually came out that my cousin had no idea that the shows I was talking about were related to each other, or to Star Trek. He was actually part of the film and TV industry, but was unfamiliar with one of the biggest and most successful franchises on TV at the time. (To be fair, there haven't exactly been a lot of bicycle or skateboard scenes in Trek.) I learned then that you can never make assumptions about other people's media knowledge. Even someone that you'd expect to have the knowledge might actually have a narrower focus than you realize.
 
I’ve never seen Gone With The Wind but I know who the main characters are and the iconic lines. I was aware of much of Casablanca before I saw it. I am admittedly something of a geek but I would hazard a guess that many people who never actually saw the Reeve films still know of Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, etc. because the character and the iconography of the film have been so prevalent over the last 40+ years.

Sure. But many people is not all people.
 
^Seriously? I didn't know that.
So who's more famous as a Archer SuperHero?

Marvel Comic's - HawkEye (Clint Barton)
DC Comic's - Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)

From a comic point of view, I'd say Green Arrow. From media like tv/movies, I'd say Hawkeye.

That's hard to believe. I mean how did they not know about Superman from the Christopher Reeve movies? I understand not understand the comics but it seems like for awhile at least most people must have at least been familiar with Superman and of course Batman. Also their was "Lois and Clark" the tv show.
I don't know, MCU is more popular than the Arrowverse, but Green Arrow does have a lot more screen time, so there's more of a chance of people seeing him.
Smallville's target demographic was like....16 year-olds. There were people in that age group at the time that only new of Star Wars Episodes 1-3, and then discovered there were three movies made before them. Kids don't know everything right away.
Yeah, and Smallville started at a time before superheroes and comics had permeated the popular culture the way they have no, so there were probably still a lot of non-nerds out there, especially younger people, who wouldn't have been aware of the details of characters like Superman.
 

While speaking exclusively with ComicBook about the launch of Daredevil: Born Again next month, Marvel Television head Brad Winderbaum explained that the Marvel Cinematic Universe absolutely has future plans for Moon Knight — they just likely won’t come in the form of another TV season.


“So I think Marvel Television has happened in waves, and I think Moon Knight happened in a wave of shows that were going to establish characters that would tie-in to the future,” Winderbaum told us. “And moving forward our priorities have shifted. We’re making shows as shows that can exist as annual releases, more like television. I would love to see a Moon Knight Season 2, but there are plans for Moon Knight down the road.
 
I'm not surprised but it's likely for the best. Moon Knight feels like a perfect side character to pop in to movies and shows when it makes sense to use him.
 
The contents of that article don't actually say "Moon Knight won't get a second season", which makes that headline more than a little 'clickbait'-y.

I haven't watched Moon Knight yet, so I can't say whether or not getting confirmation of the character returning in some capacity is a good thing or not, but we'll see.
 
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Marvel Studios exec Brad Winderbaum confirms that Tom Holland’s Spider-Man cannot appear in any live-action Marvel series on Disney Plus.“[Sony has] the long-form television rights, we can do 30 minute animation.”

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He can be in the movies but not the shows? that's bizarre

It really isn't. People forget that Marvel Studios was only licensing the character of Spider-Man for his appearances in Civil War, Infinity War, and Endgame and that his 3 other MCU film appearances are wholly owned by Sony. In order to have Spider-Man show up in live-action TV, Marvel Studios and Sony would have to either amend the current licensing agreement to include television appearances or agree to a new licensing contract that exclusively covered said appearances.
 
Speaking of the Russo Brothers, I recently found out that they had a channel on YouTube. I discovered this a couple days ago when this interview with MCU unsung hero, Marvel casting director Sarah Haley Finn, appeared in my YouTube feed.

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A 'PUNISHER' special presentation is officially in the works at Marvel Studios.

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