Amid a creative slump, Marvel Studios’ solution is to play it safe
In March 2023 Jonathan Majors, one of Hollywood’s fastest-rising prospects, received a text. He was sitting beside his then girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, in the back of a car in New York, when, by her account, she saw a message from another woman on Majors’s phone: “Wish I was kissing you.”
Electric Picnic 2024 highs and lows: Kylie has an ‘absolute moment’, drink-laden plastic-cup missiles Marvel ended the year not only with Majors’s conviction for reckless assault but also with its lowest-grossing film to date. The Marvels, a sequel to Brie Larson’s 2019 film and two Disney+ shows, flopped hard, with this newspaper calling it
Of course, diehard fans went ballistic, but such regression in casting shows a spectacular lack of imagination for a company dominating a supposedly creative industry. Marvel has shown it will drag back any old sock from its multiverse if it boosts sales.
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