The Suicide Squad Perfectly Mocked Marvel And Warner’s Superhero Strategy
The Suicide Squad came out more than a year ago, however, the current landscape for superhero movies and shows suggests James Gunn’s first DC work might live on to become a seminal piece of cinema that, in the future, could teach the studio, and Marvel as well, a lesson or two about how to handle their intellectual properties.
Gunn’s Hollywood career has always been irreverent, yet it took him very little to establish the kind of tone he wanted for DC’s second go atThe Suicide Squad, and that included killing off enough obscure characters to make more than a few Marvel series. See, while the first few minutes of The Suicide Squad may appear to be nothing more than a gory showcase of special effects, they also remind us there are comic book properties better left in print.
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Although new Warner Bros. management has started to correct the previous administration’s course, over the past few years the company had endlessly (and unsuccessfully) tied to replicate the Marvel formula. That is, make a growing number of superhero movies whose well-thought interconnection makes even less popular names like Ant-Man, for example, incredibly marketable and profitable films.
On the face of it, it’s pretty self-evident why any executive would want to follow that path, nevertheless, afterAvengers: Endgame even Kevin Feige’s MCU master plan has hit a few roadblocks, which makes it all the least surprising that his DC rivals would experience the same. Is it still possible to pull that off? Sure, Gunn’s Peacemaker brought a ton of D-listers into the spotlight, but at the heart of it, what makes John Cena’s Peacemaker so good is portraying him as little more than a joke.
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