![]() ![]() Having the utmost respect for what they continue to achieve, he believes that, if anything, Valiant’s cornucopia of characters complement those offerings. Mintz doesn’t look at Marvel and DC as direct competition despite them both deriving their content from comic books. For us, it’s about also building a consortium of characters and worlds, the box office will be fine, but the key for us is the reverberation because when that comes, it allows many things to happen.” If you look at films like John Wick, they are films that didn’t do brilliantly at the box office but became cult classics they grew into franchises. The third thing for us here is that this film is like John Wick meets Memento, kind of. Number two is it is half IP, half star with that star in Bloodshot being Vin Diesel. He’s not our Iron Man he’s not our X-Men, he’s not our Spider-Man. There was a time when the value placed on this kind of thing was very different.” The shifts are along the lines of how the industry looks at filmmaking from a corporate standpoint. “I see the key shifts in Marvel as Howard the Duck, Blade, Spider-Man, Iron Man, you have to look at the success of things like the first couple of X-Men movies, but once they launched the connected universe, it went through the roof.
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