There's an interesting story behind that, actually. See, Disney's takena hands off approach to Marvel, so when they wanted to incorporate Marvel into Disney Infinity, they told the DI staff to follow the orders of the head of Marvel entertainment, Isaac Perlmutter. Perlmutter had very little experience with toys to life and drastically overestimated the demand for Marvel stuff. He ordered two million hulk figures be made at a time when DI had an install base of one million, shut them down when they suggested X-Men sets, and vetoed any idea of big crossovers. When it turned out the team had some extra development time in the cycle and could add another character, Perlmutter insisted on Yondu, a figure which Disney literally couldn't give away. Sales for DI 2.0 continued at a brisk pace, but they had overproduced WAY too much and had a glut of characters, warehouses full of Yondus, Iron Fists, and Hulks. That didn't help their case when Iger was looking at expenses and trying to decide what to cute after Shanghai went awry.
You got sources for this? I do remember a weird focus on promoting Hulk. Wasn't he supposed to be a temp exclusive like Boba Fett was in the next installment?
Wasn't there also some rumor that for Marvel vs Capcom Infinite, Marvel's side was for some reason really pushing Capcom's marketing team to show off Ryu vs Hulk in the marketing, as if it was some long time dream team/fan service cross over that people were just dying to see?
I mean, Hulk is very easy to market to kids. Almost every small child I've known sees him as their favorite avenger. But it's still a very strange choice, especially since they don't fully own his film rights and they treat anyone they don't own 100% like they don't exist
If you cut the fat on TLJ it becomes a top 3 star wars movie easy.
Axe literally the entire B-Plot of Finn and whoever the fuck going to the casino place. It added literally nothing.
Make the movie end at Kylo extending his hand to Rey. B. EXTREMELY compelling ending that makes me get excited for episode 9.
Make Leia the one to do the sacrifice and die. The character who took her place in the whole movie was wasted potential. Developing Poe through Leia would have made so much more sense.
There are other things, like slightly more gritty and candid filmography (why was this movie so fucking visually darkm it was in space/at night 80% of the time), better set design on the ships, etc. that could have improved things, but it's core issues come from a few unnecessary pieces of bloat and poor decision making that, if taken care of, would put it up there with Empire for me.
They actually already did a lot of fixing it in a comic book adaptation that adds/alters scenes
any highlights?
Luke's reaction to Han, context for Leia floating in space through thought captions, Holdo telling Poe she has a plan in the first place, longer sequence of Luke on Crait and him back on Ach-To, showing that Luke didn't get beaten by Rey but rather slipped, more time for Luke to think etc.
There's an article outlining a lot of them
I think the question that we need to ask about the direction of these movies and world building is this, who in the Prequels was a Mary Sue? It's very easy to give an answer to that question with the new trilogy.
I’d say Anakin, especially if you’re playing without the 3rd entry like we are for sequel trilogy
Even if you only take into account the first 2 prequel movies, Anakin is shown to have a large amount of negative traits and fails at quite a few (very significant) things, he's still a very flawed person.
rey wasn’t, and still isn’t, a Mary Sue.
I'm glad they didn’t end TLJ on another cliffhanger. Having to immmediately pick up where TFA ended did not do it any favors.
That first scene though is beat by beat, a call back to the original Star Wars where a farmer kid with zero piloting skills somehow blows up a super massive war station.
I just want to point out to all the people complaining about Mary-Sues that a Mary-Sue is an author insert character first and foremost. A character who is poorly written and over powered is not a Mary-Sue.
"I used to bullseye Womp Rats in my T-16 at home. They're not much bigger than 2 meters."
That being said, Luke is pretty mary-sueish in Ep 4. Even if he has trouble using the force.
Part of that probably stems from the fact that Poe was originally meant to die in the first act, but got rewritten to survive after Oscar Issac got hesitant about taking the role because of it (having done a similar role before in the Bourne Legacy).
Yeah, that always felt like a mistake on Abram's part to me. Makes for a nice ending scene in TFA but now returning straight to there's the only reasonable option for the next film - just skipping over Rey and Luke's first meeting would have been a big mistake.
I guess they could've jumped ahead, and have Rey suddenly reappear having been training with Luke all this time, but I think that would be an annoying cheat. What they should've done instead, is have more of Luke in TFA. The first non-title words of Episode 7 are "Luke Skywalker is missing," so the climax should've been "Luke Skywalker is found."
I definitely agree with that, it's just a shame that they decided to write him back in as the most perfect pilot ever.
Not to mention he's 8 years old. Talk about false equivalence lol, Luke was 24
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