This sounds fun…
https://ew.com/star-wars-marvel-crossover-hope-assembles-comic-event-kevin-smith-exclusive-12037318
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I haven’t bought a comic book since I was a kid. For the collectors out there, would these be good “investments”?
Not a clue. I think it might be more of a fun read, otherwise you never know in the long term.
within five years some sort of marvels/star wars crossover team up movie will be made; there is too many people that will line up for it.
I doubt it. The comic book would have to be extraordinarily popular.
I think best you’ll get is some Easter Eggs like in the Indiana Jones movies…
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We can we just get a good Alien v Predator movie first.
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I’ve seen a couple of those, not sure how many there are but none were particularly memorable.
a possible billion dollars to be made if the movie is a hit and multi billions if it becomes multiple movies, too much money not to be tried.
I doubt that. I think it would be generally panned and rejected by the fan base of both and just be a loss. The comic book, on the other hand, is much more palpable but it’s still going to be more niche. I would bet they have market tested the idea.
Overall, doing it as a limited series comic book is safe. If the comic book takes off, maybe you consider a movie or something but it would be an expensive gamble. The Rise of Skywalker cost $600 million to make all in on what was originally reported as a $275 million budget.
The Mandalorian and Grogu movie was reported to have a production budget of $165 million and grossed $300 million. Hardly a success at all. Some other recent Marvel flops…
It just won’t be worth it. You have two different but overlapping fan bases that you’re trying to serve, two different creative heads of the respective studios within Disney, it would end up being a creative cluster. You’d have to have an amazing script to hit that out of the park vs. damaging the fan base for both brands.
Brand wise, it’s likely more of a risk for Star Wars than Marvel, Star Wars now is in the post Kathleen Kennedy era and needs to show the fans it can overcome the issues that made those last three movies (I guess 4 including Mandalorian) a creative disappointment.
Marvel, well admittedly I don’t follow the brand as much and I do not care to see all the movies they push out, but Marvel while inconsistent has enough winners that their flops don’t hurt the overall brand.
You’d have to be really careful to not tick off the hardcore Star Wars fans doing that. It would be risky.