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As Comic Book Movies Scale Back Releases, Marvel and DC Look to This Summer to Decide the Future of Superhero Cinema
With Marvel Studios scaling back its release schedule, and DC Studios going all in on "Superman," the future of comic book movies rests on this summer.
“,” written and directed by co-DC Studios chief James Gunn, will be the first time the Man of Steel headlines a movie in which he is but one of dozens of other superhero characters — a decades-long comic book conceit that hasn’t ever really been tested with audiences that don’t know their Metamorpho from their Mister Terrific. For “ The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” the second feature film from “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman, Marvel is taking the opposite approach, reintroducing the company’s First Family in a retro-futuristic 1960s New York City that exists in separate reality from the MCU, no prior knowledge required. Given the pedigree of the creative forces behind these movies and the cultural currency of the marquee characters at their center (like Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and Black Panther), the odds are strong that moviegoers will continue to turn out for the kind of the popcorn thrills that have made superhero films such a reliable blockbuster engine for the last 25 years.
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