Rebooting the MCU (A Fan Animated Remake)
I love the idea of a connected universe (and many others do too), and I'm really sad that Marvel had so much good content and potential that was wasted. I've been working on my own MCU fan rewrite that I want to animate. The goal isn’t to directly copy the current MCU but to create something good and show what it could have (potentially) been like if they had handled it properly. The aim is to fix these core issues:
1. Marvel had a real opportunity to build a cohesive, emotionally rich cinematic universe, but relied on hype, nostalgia, and luck from the early Iron Man successes. They mostly built on momentum.
2. They lacked a solid plan from the outset. The original goal was to make successful standalone movies that occasionally featured characters from other films. They didn’t actually plan out the Infinity Saga from the start. They reacted to success and retconned things like Thanos, cosmic arcs, and Infinity Stones into the universe as they went along, which often weakened earlier stories. They still could have built something good — but they obviously didn't.
3. Marvel uses trauma as a lazy emotional weight. Instead of organically developing character depth, they added tragic backstories, then ignored them until convenient (or until the character was killed off without resolution).
4. Marvel often introduced characters with compelling setups only to drop them.
5. Marvel movies rarely (and consistently) explore their own emotional, relational, or political consequences. Characters go through significant arcs but then walk into the next film with barely a trace of what happened before.
6. This is a big one. GREED. Once Marvel proved they could make money from early success, they chose quantity over quality, franchise fatigue, shallow expansion rather than meaningful development, and relied on cameos and spectacle instead of good stories.
There are more issues, but this post is already lengthy. My fan rewrite/animation is a reimagining of what the MCU could have been if it truly committed to:
* Actual character development
* Emotional continuity
* Thematic resonance
* Good female characters
* A solid narrative plan
And a side note: the reason I listed 'good' female characters is because many female characters introduced in the MCU kind of suck because they're annoying. That's not to say flawed female characters are bad. But there is a difference between a flawed female character and a badly written one, especially in modern media. The female characters I'm writing won't serve any agenda because they serve the story.
But back to the main topic—
Would anyone be willing to watch this? I want to eventually start a crowdfunding to help with resources and animation. I came up with this idea a few months ago, and I already have 24 films in progress. They aren't finished yet, but I'm close.
If I manage to produce this fan animation, it would (of course) be completely free and available on YouTube.
Let me know what you all think! :)
1. Marvel had a real opportunity to build a cohesive, emotionally rich cinematic universe, but relied on hype, nostalgia, and luck from the early Iron Man successes. They mostly built on momentum.
2. They lacked a solid plan from the outset. The original goal was to make successful standalone movies that occasionally featured characters from other films. They didn’t actually plan out the Infinity Saga from the start. They reacted to success and retconned things like Thanos, cosmic arcs, and Infinity Stones into the universe as they went along, which often weakened earlier stories. They still could have built something good — but they obviously didn't.
3. Marvel uses trauma as a lazy emotional weight. Instead of organically developing character depth, they added tragic backstories, then ignored them until convenient (or until the character was killed off without resolution).
4. Marvel often introduced characters with compelling setups only to drop them.
5. Marvel movies rarely (and consistently) explore their own emotional, relational, or political consequences. Characters go through significant arcs but then walk into the next film with barely a trace of what happened before.
6. This is a big one. GREED. Once Marvel proved they could make money from early success, they chose quantity over quality, franchise fatigue, shallow expansion rather than meaningful development, and relied on cameos and spectacle instead of good stories.
There are more issues, but this post is already lengthy. My fan rewrite/animation is a reimagining of what the MCU could have been if it truly committed to:
* Actual character development
* Emotional continuity
* Thematic resonance
* Good female characters
* A solid narrative plan
And a side note: the reason I listed 'good' female characters is because many female characters introduced in the MCU kind of suck because they're annoying. That's not to say flawed female characters are bad. But there is a difference between a flawed female character and a badly written one, especially in modern media. The female characters I'm writing won't serve any agenda because they serve the story.
But back to the main topic—
Would anyone be willing to watch this? I want to eventually start a crowdfunding to help with resources and animation. I came up with this idea a few months ago, and I already have 24 films in progress. They aren't finished yet, but I'm close.
If I manage to produce this fan animation, it would (of course) be completely free and available on YouTube.
Let me know what you all think! :)
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