Robserecaps Nine – episode 39 at the Comic Book Movies
by Joe
With the recent announcement of several theater chains closing down during the pandemic, this week’s Robsevations has pivoted from the planned origin of Image Comics, so let’s see where this takes us!
- The Rob plugs Snake Eyes Dead Game #2 out this week, I liked the first issue, check it out!
- The Rob reminisces about old John Romita GI Joe ads that predated the 80’s revival
- While the Rob enjoyed the 1977 Star Wars movie, it was the expanded comic book series that he fell in love with
- The Rob states after the Joel Schumacher “Batman & Robin” movie (released in 1997) Hollywood stopped making comic book movies, which I don’t think is true Men in Black, Spawn and Steel came out in 1997 as well.
- the Rob hand waves Blade citing it wasn’t a comic book movie, but a cool vampire flick that did nothing for comic book movies, again, agree to disagree
- Marvel not having a movie in theaters for two years is going to have a huge effect
- The Rob was meeting with company executives from Legendary Pictures and Apple when the word came down that the Infinity War movie budgets would be over $200 million each, thinking they would make a billion each of them
- The Rob likins the look to movie Optimus Prime, Iron Man and the JJ Abrams Enterprise to something that came from the Apple Store (in a good way) the focus on white, and blue light and smooth edges, which I don’t recall Iron Man looking that way
- The Rob felt the early Marvel movies (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor) ‘ran out of money’ by the third acts
- As a child, the Rob would hide his comic books from ‘Karate Kid or Can’t Buy Me Love’ style bullies at school, now the entire varsity football/basketball teams go to see the Marvel movies
- “If Deadpool is shooting you with a gun and slicing your head off while cracking a joke, that’s my Deadpool”
- When a Marvel movie makes 1.2 billion and a DC movie makes 800 million, it gets people at DC fired
- the Rob states when “Dark Knight Rises” didn’t top “the Dark Knight” or “Iron Man 2” at the box office, that shook DC/Warner
- Because of this two year (plus?) break in Marvel movies, coupled with the amount of streaming services, that fever they experienced before will never come back
- The Rob’s idea to get people to watch new releases at home is to start the price low ($10 for the first weekend) then increase the price by $5 per week after that
- Marvel and DC need to figure out how to make the comic book movies also sell comics books not just comic book stuff
- the Rob states the X-Men 2000 movie was a cast of largely unknown actors, outside of Halle Berry
- the Rob credits the success of Guardians of the Galaxy with Deadpool being made
- “Jimmy G” and “Simon, my good friend from the X-Men movies” helped move Deadpool along in development
- A tease for the return to the 90’s, before Image was a thing, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane and the Rob go to DC separately with Batman pitches, but Paul Levitz said no to all of them!
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