In 1999-2000 most people had never heard of the X-Men unless they were comic book fans or kids who’d grown up watching the cartoon.

I did, but then I found out that it was a different, 30 year old movie.

Theater box office = $$$

There are plenty of creative types in Hollywood who have perfectly exemplary behavior. I have to wonder what someone like Hugh Jackman would have to say about all this. He became a real star from those X-Men movies and has an impeccable personal reputation. I would imagine that he saw Singer as a lesson in what not to…

Well, there’s also Bay’s penchant for casting women out of the Victoria’s Secret catalog and pairing them with dorky guys like Sia LaBeouf. Yet another signature. He does have a highly evolved visual sense, but his senses of story and character are generally obliterated by his crassness and lack of taste. Still, you…

I’m not saying he was the only one who could, but the genre was not as dominant as it is now. Not as many directors wanted to take it on. At the time, a lot of people still saw superheroes as too hoaky and campy for a serious director. Singer was coming off The Usual Suspects and bringing in high caliber talent like…

I’m sure it would’ve been easy to find a replacement who was just as talented, if not more so

Grant has definitely outgrown the whole rom-con thing. I think he would have made a perfectly fine Hannibal Lecter, but he would have seemed like a version of another Anthony Hopkins type. Mads Mikkelson bears no resemblance to Hopkins, which makes Hannibal seem much more like its own thing rather than a…

Obviously it’s Lucille Ball.

Don’t forget the cool bonus face tattoos.

Kinberg had a fixation on that story. e knew X-3 was bad, so he thought, and clearly managed to convince Fox execs, that if he could retell it better that it would somehow redeem himself and the franchise. He might have been right, but since he did not actually make a better movie, it doesn;t matter anyway. He simply…

I’m fairly certain that Halle Berry (whether you liked her in the films or not) felt similarly that she never got the opportunity to portray Storm expressing her full power.

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I am actually expecting New Mutants to be good. There must be something to it if Marvel keeps insisting that it will get a theatrical release despite the increasing advantages to the company of releasing it for VOD and streaming. I think that the existing contracts and agreements that would send it to HBO after…

. . .our plan was always to put him (Warlock) in the second one. So I hope everybody watches the movie

Never been to a ComicCon, so I don’t have a real-life experience of what they are like, but I’m not sure that the SDCC organizers had any illusions that they were going to be able to replicate the event online. I think they tried their best to schedule virtual panels via zoom recordings and . . . . well, what else were…

I’m not excusing anything that Loeb has allegedly said, just noting that Daredevil, along with the other Netflix Marvel series, was not able to fully complete the story that it had intended to tell. I have no idea what was in store for the next season or beyond, but I would have assumed that there was more to come…

Contracts run out. It’s true that Netflix had a 2-year exclusivity clause from the date of cancellation which began with Iron Fist in October 2018 and ended with the axe-ing of The Punisher and Jessica Jones in February of 2019. By then, everyone knew that the cancellations were a foregone conclusion, but the Iron Fist…

I think that he was pretty clear that he was trying to lean more towards pagan and Wiccan nature based concepts of witchcraft in the story as opposed to the Devil worship that happens to be at the center of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, for example. It’s a valid distinction, and, of course, we are talking about…

One of the biggest problems is that all of the final seasons were essentially under the shadow of knowing they were getting cancelled.