billd91
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If every company had a Kevin Feige, then you wouldn't get Suicide Squad.
But the success of the MCU isn't just because of the source material; it's because the movies have some fan service (easter eggs, call outs), but, more importantly, tell fresh stories that appeal to the general movie-going public that doesn't care about canon or lore, and just wants to see a good movie, with some funny dialogue, good acting, and lots of people hitting each other with explosions.
In the end, what matters more is whether the story is good; not whether Heimdall ever looked exactly like Idris Elba in the comics.
The movies could be successful, but they wouldn't be Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man and so on. They'd be something else. That something else might be successful, but without the essential character of the originals, translated for the now and the screen, they wouldn't be the same intellectual property.
Edit: Importantly, the people running the MCU recognize this and actively manage this with an eye to maintaining more than just lip service to the originals or just preserving names.
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