So. Morbius. There’s 3 possibilities for the future of this franchise:

1: due to the film being a complete financial failure, Sony will not want anything to do with the film, and quietly euthanise the character.

2: they make a sequel that references the memes surrounding the film constantly. Decide for yourself if this is a good or bad thing.

3: they continue with their original plan for the character, and put him into the venom cinematic universe. The bad ending.

Which do you think is the most likely ending.

  • wire [it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Universal Warner Brothers hasn't stopped trying to make DC movies even after all their DC expanded universe slop Snyder made. So my bet is that Sony keeps burning money making Spiderman expanded universe movies in a futile attempt to compete with Disney

      • wire [it/its]
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        2 years ago

        Fuck is that really how it works? Wait is that why they make a Fantastic Four movie every decade or so?

        • wire [it/its]
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          2 years ago

          Why would a capitalist voluntarily give up ownership over something for free? Really hard to justify cutting that loss to the board, even if the movies will probably never be profitable

        • Socialism_enjoyer [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Also I love how the late-capitalist definition of profit is “does it make a billion dollars”, very sustainable mindset.

        • HornyOnMain
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          2 years ago

          keeping them in the public view sells comics and toys which are the real money makers

            • HornyOnMain
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              2 years ago

              yeah you're right, I kind of just smashed keys to write words without thinking to answer your question. I stand by my statement on the toys though

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      You're thinking of Warner Brothers, Universal blew their cinematic universe load with the Tom Cruise Mummy

    • Socialism_enjoyer [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The Snyder stuff was obviously a viable way to obtain Growth, whereas Morbius was terrible financially (at least from the capitalist’s perspective) it’s likely that after seeing how bad it sold, and how much critics disliked it, the ghouls in charge of Sony decided not to touch the property with a barge pole.

      Unless the various memes about the film gave the execs hope that a sequel might be profitable.

      Also wb not universal