James Gunn would like a word as ‘The Marvels is chosen as the MCU’s savior after a string of disappointments

Marvel Studios has a shot at owning the box office this November, and it’s all thanks to Warner Bros. With Dune: Part Two postponing its release until next March, The Marvels not only has full reign of IMAX cinemas it may also move forward by a full week and drop on Nov. 3 instead to fully make use of its new free run to the top of the charts. As such, the Marvel fandom is already bowing down before the Brie Larson sequel to declare it the new savior of the MCU.

The only thing is, didn’t we just have a new savior of the MCU a few months ago? One user got the discussion going on the r/MarvelStudios subreddit by asking: “Will The Marvels save the MCU from its current ‘MID’ sentiment?” On the one hand, this seems a fair question, given that 2023 has given us both Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Secret Invasion, two of the worst-reviewed entries in the franchise ever.

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On the other, though, let’s not forget that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 came out this past May, only narrowly missing bringing home $1 billion globally and earning widespread praise from the fans. Like one commenter put it, “it took exactly one project for people to forget they loved GOTG 3.”

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Another argued that maybe Guardians 3 is the exception that proves the rule as it was very much the baby of (new DC chief) James Gunn, rather than a typical Marvel Studios product.

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However, if we stretch our minds back only a little further to last November, we have the equally financially successful Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a literal multi-Academy Award nominee.

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The MCU might be less in need of a savior than you’d think, then, but, hey, if there’s one thing the Marvel universe can never have enough of its heroes. So, fingers crossed The Marvels nails the landing this fall.

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Afghanistan Bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi Stuns Pakistan’s Shadab Khan At The Non-Striker’s End

While bowling the first delivery of the final over, Farooqi stopped near the stumps to run Shadab out. Afghanistan celebrated as Shadab remained on the pitch as the decision had been directed towards the third umpire who later confirmed the wicket.

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‘The Marvels’ now has nothing to blame but itself if it doesn’t restore the MCU to $1 billion box office domination

Although it likely wasn’t the intention, Warner Bros. has just cleared the runway for Disney’s Marvel Studios to end its tumultuous 2023 on a high this fall. As you may have heard, much-anticipated sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two has been forced to delay its release until next March amid the ongoing strikes, with WB preferring to hold off until they can get Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and the rest of the cast to help promote the movie. This means that, as things stand, what could’ve been our next Barbenheimer-like battle of the blockbusters has been cancelled, as The Marvels will now go it alone this November.

On the face of it, this is wholly good news for the Brie Larson vehicle. The Marvels looked to be seriously in trouble when it was confirmed that Dune 2 would hoover up all the IMAX screens, causing the MCU movie to lose out on a seriously lucrative and sizeable slice of its revenue. With its rival out of the way, though, and with Marvel seemingly set on moving forward with its planned release date, The Marvels has nothing standing in its way as it attempts to match the success of its predecessor and cross the coveted $1 billion mark on the box office.

And yet this might just come back to bite the film in the long-term. If The Marvels had underwhelmed financially when it was up against Dune, its defenders could always have argued that it wasn’t the movie’s fault and it was just the unfair IMAX competition that impacted on it. Now, however, if the sequel can’t do the same kind of numbers as Captain Marvel did in 2019 then Marvel will be forced to look inwards at why it couldn’t recapture the global gross of its forebear and ask whether that’s anything to do with changing opinions about the MCU.

As I’ve argued before, though, The Marvels is actually coming out at the perfect time to be in with a shot of hitting $1 billion, as those that loved Barbie may well be on the hunt for another feminist adventure film. So, with any luck, Nia DaCosta’s film will embrace the fact Dune Part Two has failed to turn up to the fight and turn a default win into a well-deserved victory. Obviously, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was no slouch, but it is a fact that no non-team-up MCU movie has reached $1 billion since Captain Marvel. If The Marvels — unchallenged as it is — can’t break this trend, then what can?

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Asia Cup 2023: Sanjay Manjrekar Picks His India XI for Pakistan Clash

India will next be in action at the Asia Cup 2023 which will be held in the one-day format this time around.

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‘It doesn’t make any sense’: ‘Gran Turismo’ director was understandably confused when he was offered the video game adaptation

PlayStation Productions has access to a vast wealth of popular IP that’d make great movies and TV shows. We’ve already gotten the award-winning The Last of Us, Uncharted was a swashbuckling blockbuster romp, and Twisted Metal is absolutely a TV show.

But eyebrows were rightly raised when Sony unveiled Gran Turismo. The venerable franchise is one of its best-selling series, but is still a dry car racing simulator with no real characters, no plot, and a focus on making sure engine noises and car interiors are captured with scarily perfect attention to detail.

Understandably, director Neill Blomkamp has admitted he had the same confused reaction when speaking to TheWrap.

“I was going to go and do another film. And then Sony said like, ‘Whoa, whoa, before you go, we want to make Gran Turismo into a movie. Do you want to look at this?”

His answer:

“There’s no way that you can make a movie out of Gran Turismo. It doesn’t make any sense.”

After Blomkamp read the script (and presumably also took into account the large amount of money he’d be paid) he agreed that this would indeed be an artistically fulfilling creative pursuit:

“I was struck by this notion of treating a video game film like the way that The Social Network dealt with Facebook in that you’re not inside the lore of the game, you’re external from it. I thought that was a really interesting way to make a video game film. And then also that it was biographical to Jann Mardenborough, so it had this biopic element, which is a different kind of filmmaking than I had done before.”

The fact that Gran Turismo is based on a true story is something Sony clearly wants audiences to be aware of. The movie has already released in several international markets under the title Gran Turismo, though its wide domestic release has seen a slight alteration to Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story.

Reviews are broadly positive, with many underlining that it’s only theoretically a video game movie, and is instead (as Blomkamp intended) more of a biopic of Jann Mardenborough. Either way, domestic audiences can now find out for themselves, as Gran Turismo is in wide release.

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