Marvel has popularized the concept of a shared universe with what seems to be a failure, but the Monsterverse seems to be on the right track.
Kodoani.com – The pandemic has changed the audience’s relationship with the big screen a lot. With many moviegoers still hesitant to go to the movies, when they want to choose what to watch at local cinemas, they often have to have a good reason for viewers to spend time and money going to see them. The major justification can be summed up as grand: big stories, with big characters, in big settings and even bigger things will continue to pursue that brand’s path. That’s why many local multiplex channels are dominated by remakes, reboots, and franchises. In the eyes of many moviegoers, if they are going to watch a movie on the big screen, the movie itself has to be large to be viewable on the big screen.
It’s clear that Marvel is the blueprint for today’s cinematic trends with stories spanning over a decade with the ultimate reward of as long as they’ve been there in previous installments. Now that Marvel has released names like Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: No Way Home, and they’re the movies that audiences are wanting to see on the big screen. It’s a success for Disney and Marvel as most companies are trying to create their own ‘cinematic universe’. This often backfires with most companies that grow too large and quickly throw the development out. Mainly because instead of taking lessons from Marvel about how they created their universe, they just ended up seeing the big reward success and immediately wanting to get there without taking years. to earn those moments.
Patience seems to be key and if another company can do it, it’s Legendary Pictures with their ‘Monsterverse’. In 2010, Legendary Pictures acquired the rights to the King of Monsters, Godzilla, from Toho. For many fans, the sale of Godzilla back to the US is providing eerie flashbacks to another Kaiju-sized disaster from another Western attempt at the famous beam-shooting monster, 1998’s Godzilla. Roland Emmerich. But amid the superhero origin story trend, Legendary Pictures will be making their own origin story for Godzilla, this time bringing the monster closer to a hero than the path of nuclear destruction it was made of. out initially. Godzilla is now the force of nature that it once was as well as the keeper of balance among the other Kaiju.
But contrary to what other studios had done, only Godzilla rebooted in the work at the time with King Kong rights coming a year after Godzilla’s 2014 release and rights to Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah will arrive in 2014, again from Toho. The goal isn’t just to make a movie that leads to more sequels, but to make a good Godzilla movie that will satisfy audiences and keep them coming for more. That’s when the studio saw the success of Godzilla, they started demanding Kaiju rights that would eventually make up the complete Monsterverse that would develop in the Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs Kong sequels. .
But even then, Legendary Pictures hasn’t bombarded local theaters with monster movie after monster as opposed to one-year mutants. The average time between Monsterverse installments is two years, creating some space and time for audiences to enjoy the current seasons and slowly build anticipation for the sequel. This is especially effective when trying to create excitement for the ever-escalating scale of films. But like Marvel is doing now, Legendary has once again drawn the correct lessons from them and grown their franchise patiently and expansively with one show.
In January of this year, it was announced that Legendary would bring Monsterverse to Apple TV+. While not much is known about the show at this point, only the synopsis states that it takes place after the events of the 2014 Godzilla movie. But from what we’ve seen from the previous two seasons, it’s possible. says that many Monarchs and Kaijus exist in the slowly building universe. Although Legendary Pictures has used Godzilla’s most popular enemies, there are still a large number of unused Godzilla villains like Gigan and Destroyah, but Legendary has also shown that they are completely stripped. open in creating their own monsters for the Monsterverse.
But only time will tell who or what Legends images can be included in their Monsterverse. But with the roster so far, it looks like they will continue to take their time which seems to be the best.
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