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The Franchise Series-Premiere Recap: The Toyman Cometh
It’s time we looked at who superhero movies hurt the most: the below-the-line, pull-up-your-sleeves folks.
The insecure young buck who plays the titular lead, Adam (Billy Magnussen), is very much in his pocket; Richard E. Grant’s Waspy Peter, a curmudgeonly theater actor with a chip on his shoulder, is not. The real spanner in the works is a surprise visit from the franchise’s head honcho, Pat “The Toy Man” Shannon ( Ozark ’s Darren Goldstein), who is an obvious parody of comic-book megaproducers like Kevin Feige. • While the broader satire seems targeted more at Marvel — Maximum Studios is described as having a similarly tough time, relatively speaking, at the box office, and it is talked about as the dominant superhero-movie brand — Tecto itself gives big, bad DC-movie vibes.
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