Open Channel: What Marvel Show Should’ve Been a Film, or Vice Versa?

Earlier within the week, Marvel up and shocked everybody with the announcement that its Don Cheadle-led miniseries Armor Wars was transitioning right into a full blown film. The obvious reasoning for this was that the studio realized with a purpose to get the story proper, it may higher be realized as a theatrical launch. Given that the present will certainly contain a number of individuals in many fits of armor (which might be costly and time consuming to make!), it’s exhausting to argue in opposition to that, but it surely now presents one thing of an attention-grabbing query.

Ever since Marvel Studios put their eggs within the canonical TV basket with WandaVision in 2021, the varied reveals have been hit and miss by way of feeling like an precise TV present. There’ve been some characters and ideas that slotted into the format fairly simply, resembling Ms. Marvel and What If?, however others haven’t had the identical luck. At their worst, Falcon & Winter Soldier or Loki can come off like a movie that’s been sliced into six to eight 45-minute chunks after the very fact. Honestly, it’s not even unique to Marvel: you may simply degree this criticism at different Disney reveals like Obi-Wan Kenobi, or any present inside the final handful of years that one would take into account “prestige TV.”

Since Marvel’s bought about a dozen reveals in varied levels of manufacturing for the time being (that we learn about), it stands to purpose that a few of these collection will really feel like they need to’ve been films, and the reverse will maintain true for incoming movies. Surely we’ve all watched an MCU factor and had the idle thought, “What if this were the opposite of its current format?” Be it the pacing or normal plot, a movie like Eternals or one of many Spider-Man films in all probability would’ve been higher served as a present, in order to let the characters breathe and knuckle down on no matter themes it’s going for.

Let us know within the feedback beneath what MCU present you assume ought to’ve been a film, or MCU film may’ve been higher as a miniseries.

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