A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Someone - naturally - on Quora asks: Is the MCU based on anything? If you’re asking if the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is based on a single book or comic book story, the answer is  no.  As far as I know, there is no single source for the various films and television series produced by Marvel Studios over the past 11 years. The first film in the current MCU was 2008’s  Iron Man.  The latest entry in the series is  Avengers: Endgame.  In addition, ABC-TV (which is owned by Marvel Enterprises’ corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company) airs  Secret Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,  which is also integrated into the MCU. That having been said, the MCU is based primarily on the characters created by Marvel Comics and the various comic book series that shared a common fictional universe. Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, Hulk, Doctor Strange, Nick Fury, and Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel are all characters created originally for Marvel Com...

Are the rumors that Disney is buying Captain Marvel tickets and there being many empty theaters showing Captain Marvel true? Absolutely not. Those rumors, are just that: rumors. Malicious rumors, dumb rumors, and definitely childish rumors. Let’s look at the numbers, shall we? Per  Box Office Mojo:  In 10 days since its release,  Captain Marvel  has earned  $264,884,063  in the United States alone (as of yesterday, anyway). That’s a bit more than  Star Wars  took in its year-long run in 1977–78,  without adjusting for inflation.  ($220 million, more or less, in 1977 dollars). There’s no way on Earth that a studio, even one as ginormous as Buena Vista (the distributor for everything Disney), is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying tickets to its own product. Seriously. The film cost between $152–175 million to  make:  do you really believe that Disney investors are going to get a nice payoff if th...