Marvel TV department has made many Marvel fans feel sorry, because everyone knows that Marvel TV series have not been without potential, but have not been well developed. On December 16, Beijing time, the full interview with the Hollywood Reporter by Marvel TV chief Jeph Loeb was announced, although Jeph Loeb has determined that he will leave after his term ends. However, during his tenure, he still has to "stand well on the last post." In the interview, Jeph Loeb regretfully revealed an important thing: the collaboration between Marvel and Ultraman originally hoped that Ultraman, a famous character in the form of a TV series, could save Marvel's TV department. However, Tsuburaya Production has not been able to save Marvel's TV series, and the final result is regrettable. Jeph Loeb said: "Marvel and Ultraman were bound to save Marvel's TV department."
From the information disclosed by the TV chief, we can conclude that Marvel chose to cooperate with Tsuburaya Production. Not only does Tsuburaya hope to promote the role of Ultraman to the Western market, Marvel also hopes to restore Marvel's TV department through the TV series model of the Ultraman series. It's just that the wish is good, but the addition of Ultraman in the end did not bring the Marvel TV project back to life. When Ultraman was not "out of Asia", although there were also classic movie versions, the Ultraman series mainly survived by the TV series model. Audiences who have watched Ultraman know that the format of this kind of TV series is actually very simple-each episode has one monster, and each Ultraman is almost more than 50 episodes (that is, more than 50 monsters), but It is this kind of monotonous and tedious shooting format that has carried many Asian audiences as "childhood heroes for half a century".
It seems that Ultraman is the pinnacle of the TV drama model, so Ultraman joined the Marvel family, but could not restore Marvel's TV department. What caused it? Jeph Loeb's answer to this: "Maybe this cooperation is a bit late. If you start the cooperation a year and a half ago, two years ago, maybe you can keep the TV department." The person in charge told the truth: the Marvel TV series appeared "to be closed down." The omens of "this year" did not start this year, but the trend began a few years ago. The only TV project currently being produced by Marvel is a reality TV show by Hulu. It is estimated that this is also the last TV project of Marvel, but its theme is actually a reality show, which is biased towards variety shows, indicating the Marvel TV project. The decline of the movie industry has been foreshadowed, so the Marvel universe movie is so brilliant, why is this film industry not able to make TV series?
This is a question that the audience needs to think about. The author believes that this is related to the Western film market. Ultraman is particularly popular in TV dramas in the East. Although Ultraman movies are gorgeously produced and rich in plot, their ratings are not as good as TV dramas. This is because the Asian film and television drama market is relatively stable and suitable for TV dramas such as "one-in-one" Ring, the story that binds people’s hearts". But the Western film and television circles are very different from the East, especially in the American film world, which is an extremely unstable field. If you want to prepare a TV series, once you prepare for at least dozens of episodes, the investment cost is much higher than that of a large production movie.
But what about the TV ratings? In fact, this is not guaranteed in the West. If the first few episodes are not popular and the entire TV series starts to be produced, at least the cost of two or three big movies will be wasted. Under such objective factors, Marvel might as well devote itself to the universe movie seriously! Especially nowadays, superhero movies basically use series of movies to “make money”. First, invest a small amount of money into the first one to see how the audience reacts, and then make the second and third movies. It’s a “stable profit”. So Marvel and Ultraman's bond, originally this move was to save Marvel's TV department. However, the differences between Eastern and Western cultures, as well as the fundamentally different situations in the Asian film world and the American film world, make the alliance between Ultraman and Marvel irreparable to Marvel's TV series.
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