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Here’s how Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 sets up an Adam Warlock movie, without promising anything
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It’s part Power Rangers and part Creepshow, and there’s really nothing like it
Toward the end of 2019, the Arrowverse was firing on all cylinders. Much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe but on a microscopic scale, Greg Berlanti and the CW television network had assembled a surprisingly huge cast of superheroes into a shared universe that began with one unexpectedly successful project. A year later, though, the project was on life support. In 2023, we’re just trying to enjoy the time we can as The Flash–and the Arrowverse along with it–comes to an end.
It wasn’t the Anti-Monitor and his Crisis on Infinite Earths. It wasn’t money, the pandemic, superhero exhaustion, or actor trouble, either–but rather a combination of all these factors hamstringing one of the weirdest and coolest projects we’ve ever seen on broadcast television.
Money was always going to be a problem. Despite 35+ seasons of Arrowverse shows–and successful series like Supernatural, Riverdale, and Walker–the CW was never profitable. Instead, the network made money by selling its shows to streaming services like Netflix, which would then give the network a bump at the beginning of their series’ next season. However, you can only spend money for so long before you have to make it–and it’s a miracle that the Arrowverse got as far as it did within this environment.
A few weeks ago, Anthony Mackie got the passcode to read the upcoming script for Captain America: New World Order. During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Mackie describes procedures for reading Marvel scripts, which seem to require about the same security clearance as nuclear code access. “We literally get a…
We all know about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the newly rebooted DC Universe, and even Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. But maybe, just maybe, one day we’ll get the Tobacco Verse. If that happens, it would all start here, with the release of the absurdist French superhero comedy Smoking Causes Coughing.
Some of 2023’s genre series have already premiered or picked back up after a holiday hiatus—see: Quantum Leap on NBC and Peacock; Ghosts on CBS; Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Disney+, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches on AMC, Servant on Apple TV+, The Last of Us on HBO, and Miracle Workers: End Times on TBS. But you’ll need…