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It seems that Mar­vel may be plan­ning to throw a big curve-ball in the realm of its comic book films that could give some of the “B-Team” of its ros­ter a chance to finally shine in the­aters along­side their A-List brethren. Accord­ing to Latino Review, a trusted source is telling them that the recently-unified Marvel/Disney jug­ger­naut are plan­ning to make a series of 10-minute fea­ture films star­ring “sec­ondary” Mar­vel heroes like (by their exam­ple,) Black Pan­ther, Luke Cage, and Dr. Strange.

The Mar­vel Uni­verse of the big screen con­tin­ues to grow at a rapid rate. While it’s been a legacy of mega-hits (Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men,) it’s also no stranger to the con­cept of fail. (Dare­devil, Ang Lee’s Hulk, and just about any Pun­isher movie.) The idea of short films was actu­ally dis­cussed a few months ago on CHUD. How­ever, if LR’s source is telling the truth, then it could have the poten­tial to change the model by which comic films are released. It could be an excel­lent oppor­tu­nity to not only expand the con­sis­tent canon of the Mar­vel Movie Uni­verse that we’re finally see­ing take shape in the Avengers movies, but it could also be a help­ful way for the stu­dio to gauge the ever-changing moods and tastes of the movie-going audi­ence. If you’re a stu­dio who’s not will­ing to risk $150 mil­lion to find out if peo­ple would pay to see — let’s say, Moon Knight at the­aters, then a far less risky $20–40 mil­lion ven­ture of a 10-minute short would seem like a great com­pro­mise between a money-making project and fan­boy placation.

While this is still very much just a rumor, it actu­ally makes the field of comic films a poten­tially more lively place where the pos­si­bil­i­ties are nearly end­less. The thought of going to the the­ater to catch not only a fea­ture, but the lat­est “Mar­vel Short” evokes a very old-school kind of feel to a time (long before my time, I might add,) when a trip to the the­ater was an event filled with orig­i­nal short films and car­toons rather than just the same old trail­ers we see online and on TV. They’re always talk­ing about revving-up the movie indus­try, well this would be a nice start!

Source: Latino Review

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