Cinema Spider-Man No Way Home breaks all records with its presales
Expansion The Marvel Universe expands towards the conquest of audiobooks
Before the pandemic, it was rare that a Marvel premiere didn't shoot above the $ 1 billion mark at the global box office. Out of all of Phase 3, in fact, only
Doctor Strange
and
Ant-Man and The Wasp
fell below 700 million, which could be considered a puncture only compared to the
nearly 3 billion in
Avengers: Endgame
, the second movie. most profitable ever.
After the forced hiatus of 2020, which postponed the premiere of
Black Widow
in an infuriating way - then we already realized that it was not so bad, but in the meantime it was a nuisance -
the superhero franchise has returned to theaters,
It has been unfolded into a handful of series on Disney +, and
Phase 4
has begun to work, but something is not working as before: the box office performs today at the level of the first
Captain America
, the least seen movie of the saga without counting that strange thing of
Hulk.
And, for the first time, there is a consensus among critics and fans that
Eternals
- released a month ago - is the worst installment of the franchise
. On
Rotten Tomatoes
, the most borderline affect meter on the internet, his note borders on suspense.
Therefore, it
is legitimate to wonder if the Marvel Cinematic Universe is going astray
.
It is not so much about the income, but about the feeling that the new story has not yet been defined: among the
fans
the feeling floats - judging by the analyzes dumped on the net - that something is twisted or, in
Marvelian
slang
.
, that history is going down a wrong branch of the multiverse.
And to get it back on track,
the burden falls this Friday on the premiere of
Spider-Man: No way home
, where it should begin to be clearly intuited what the next great threat on Earth is, and against what kind of villains the heroes.
Still from the series 'Hawkeye' Disney +
The beginning of Phase 4 -which is completed with
Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings
, for now the most solid film of the new section, and
the series on Disney + of the
Scarlet Witch and Vision
,
Falcon and The Winter Soldier
,
Loki
and the recently released
Hawkeye
- it seems to be repeating the pattern of Phase 1 started with
Iron-Man
(2008), and perhaps also its mistakes: releasing circumstantial films that present
characters and villains that are sometimes a bit seedy.
, and that they leave isolated clues of a complex plot that will not develop until the arrival of the great group chapter, which in that case was the first meeting of The Avengers. Now we are at the same point.
What is intuited is that
the new axial hero of the Marvel of the future will be Spider-Man
, undoubtedly the most popular asset of the franchise, and that the fat menace will come, no longer from the confines of the universe, like that Thanos to whom many wanted to identify as a cosmic George Soros, but from a parallel universe. The multiverse has been showing its paw in different films: Doctor Strange has visited him frequently -Benedict Cumberbach returns to the role as a secondary in
Spider-Man: No way home
, and will star in his second title as a protagonist in May next year-, and in
Spider-Man: Far from home
(2019) it was an element that articulated the plot. The most hopeful thing about this story arc is that it can allow it all:
the return of dead heroes - who still live in another branch of space-time - and of defeated villains
.
This should all be a meta-referential orgy, if the producers keep the best cards for themselves.
About the plot of the new Spider-Man, hardly anything is known -the secret has been well kept-, but the trailer advance confirmed, for example,
the rumor that warned of the return of Alfred Molina as Doctor Octopus
-a villain who had appeared for the first time in the celebrated Sam Raimi trilogy of the early 2000s - albeit rejuvenated and thus derived from a parallel universe.
The great speculation is
whether the Spider-Man of our time plane - that is, Tom Holland - will coincide on screen with the Spider-Men of the past, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield
.
This possibility was already pointed out in the 2018 animated film,
Spider-Man: A New Universe.
Simu Liu, protagonist of Sang-ChiDisney +
The problem with the franchise, right now, is that that potential is taking time to materialize, and
the quality of recent products sows doubts
.
Eternals
presented several possibilities for the future - such as the presentation of worrisome cosmic villains and the future addition of the black vampire killer Blade to the saga - but it is a tedious movie and the formula feels very well-worn.
Black Widow
seemed unnecessary
, unless we only asked the life of Scarlett Johanson for two hours on screen, which is not a bad plan either.
And in the Disney + harvest there is everything from
the Christmas fun that
Hawkeye
aims to ,
to the upgradeable action of
Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
, mere firewood so that the fire does not go out.
According to the producers of the franchise, the current narrative arc will last until 2028. There is time for Marvel to once again be the greatest show in the world, but not too late.
All responsibility rests, of course, on the power of Spider-Man.
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