There’s a reason why despite decades of trying Marvel has yet to make a watchable Fantastic Four movie.
By definition, the Marvel Cinematic Universe can’t last as long as the Marvel Comics Universe. Alex Ross can make acomic decades after Kirby’s death and it comes off as a tasteful homage because the characters whose lives he’s prolonging are drawings, not actual human bodies. That’s not a feat anyone can duplicate on the silver screen, as Disney demonstrated so forcefully with its horrifying computerized golems of Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing in.
But it has no Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, no uniting visual artist whose unmistakable style makes the individual installments worth returningSome of this is accelerated by the Disney Rot that infects every property the company buys and then micromanages to death—when was the last time you were truly hyped about a newmovie? Or Pixar? Or—and I’m genuinely sorry to remind you of this—anything involving the Muppets? The homogenizing impulse that has destroyed so much else that Disney owns has not...
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