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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1129856" data-attributes="member: 3649"><p>Apparently not. I'm certainly not 'up' on how either Marvel or DC conducts that part of their business, but a few things occur to me. </p><p> </p><p>Marvel if anyone remembers, also had a string of terrible adaptations. The Captain America TV movies, the first Punisher movie, etc.. Marvel, in an attempt to get cash, licensed themselves to hell and back. THis resulted in cheap studios buying rights then making bad movies that negatively impacted perception of Marvel as a good property to use. I seem to remember they spent a lot of time and money tracking down as many of those agreements as they could and buying them out, nullifying them, whatever, so they could then be pickier about who made a movie based on a Marvel property. I'm not sure when they formed Marvel Studios.</p><p> </p><p>Also, it seems Avi Arad has a major impact on their success. CEO of Marvel Studios, he seems to have the golden touch right now. </p><p> </p><p>From IGN: </p><p> </p><p><em>Under Arad's leadership, Marvel Studios has been, in many ways, responsible for turning around the "Marvel curse" that plagued most of the film and TV adaptations of their characters throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Of course, it helped immensely that Marvel stopped whoring out their best properties to the lowest bidders as they'd done throughout the 1980s (Cannon Films, anyone?) and pushed for established filmmakers that treated Marvel's source material with respect and intelligence.</em></p><p> </p><p>This kind of leadership, having an arm that oversees your properties and makes sure that someone can't do a 'Batman and Robin' to you, or Roger Corman doesn't get near you, seems to be the key. Batman 5 might, might, be the thing that gives Warner the clue if they get it right. On the other hand, Warner seems almost embarrassed that they have a comic book division since they seem to like giving projects to people that will 're-imagine' their properties (see the recent buzz about the new Flash incarnation, which basically turns a costumeless Wally West into Sam Beckett).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 1129856, member: 3649"] Apparently not. I'm certainly not 'up' on how either Marvel or DC conducts that part of their business, but a few things occur to me. Marvel if anyone remembers, also had a string of terrible adaptations. The Captain America TV movies, the first Punisher movie, etc.. Marvel, in an attempt to get cash, licensed themselves to hell and back. THis resulted in cheap studios buying rights then making bad movies that negatively impacted perception of Marvel as a good property to use. I seem to remember they spent a lot of time and money tracking down as many of those agreements as they could and buying them out, nullifying them, whatever, so they could then be pickier about who made a movie based on a Marvel property. I'm not sure when they formed Marvel Studios. Also, it seems Avi Arad has a major impact on their success. CEO of Marvel Studios, he seems to have the golden touch right now. From IGN: [i]Under Arad's leadership, Marvel Studios has been, in many ways, responsible for turning around the "Marvel curse" that plagued most of the film and TV adaptations of their characters throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Of course, it helped immensely that Marvel stopped whoring out their best properties to the lowest bidders as they'd done throughout the 1980s (Cannon Films, anyone?) and pushed for established filmmakers that treated Marvel's source material with respect and intelligence.[/i] This kind of leadership, having an arm that oversees your properties and makes sure that someone can't do a 'Batman and Robin' to you, or Roger Corman doesn't get near you, seems to be the key. Batman 5 might, might, be the thing that gives Warner the clue if they get it right. On the other hand, Warner seems almost embarrassed that they have a comic book division since they seem to like giving projects to people that will 're-imagine' their properties (see the recent buzz about the new Flash incarnation, which basically turns a costumeless Wally West into Sam Beckett). [/QUOTE]
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