Disney has a high demand for movie scripts, and with the advent of Hollywood's streaming era, Disney Channel needs a large number of original films and episodes, and the studio has relaxed their standards for scripts. The Hollywood Reporter reporter Allen revealed that Disney pays attention to the script of "Solar Wind", which is a "Transformers" character, whose attributes and value are close to superheroes. Cosmic cinema is very popular in the new century, many online writers have published original novels and scripts of "Solar Wind", these self-entertaining works have value, Disney can make the scripts created by online writers into movies. "Mutants" is a new work planned by Marvel, which is a spin-off series of "X-Men", but Hollywood critics are not optimistic about this work, and Allen believes that "Mutants" is difficult to identify.
Allen pointed out that Marvel needs to have recognition of the work, not box office or ratings, otherwise it will be difficult for the MCU superhero series to find follow-up development momentum. Many fans feel that "X-Men" belongs to the series of tigers and tails, and the first few films are very popular and have high social value. Since the release of "Wolverine", the quality of the series has declined along with the ratings, and Marvel plans to create "Mutants" to save the trend of the "X-Men" series, after all, Disney works have tasted sweetness in this regard. Before Disney officially purchased Star Wars, Star Wars movies had entered a period of box office downturn, and in several important film forums, the degree of discussion of the work was basically equal to zero. As a derivative of Star Wars movies, "The Mandalorian" has not only gained a large number of users for Disney Channel after the launch of this series, but also made "Star Wars" re-enter people's vision.
"Obi-Wan" has also become Disney's key plan in the next stage, which fully proves that single-player series or spin-off works can play a role in promoting and even "turning red" for the film. When Marvel planned to launch "Mutants", many fans hoped that this spin-off would return "X-Men" to the "exciting series". Allen is not optimistic about this scene, but also because he has seen the script of "Mutants", from the script point of view, this work lacks recognition, how does the film produce novelty? It seems that the MCU working group has gone into a misunderstanding in terms of creation, they seem to have to continue to launch popcorn movies to see which series has better social significance, so the focus is on this series to "eat the old book", "Spider-Man" and "Captain America" are typical examples, Allen does not want Marvel to go on this repetitive route.
As a partner of Marvel, Disney pays more attention to the recognition of works, which can be seen from the scripts that the film industry pays attention to. "Transformers" for most fans, this is already a very old work, even in the era of streaming media, in order to "recharge" their own streaming platforms, many classic series have been flopped or even ghosted. However, among the creators and fans, there are not many people who can think of "Transformers", so why did Disney choose to pay attention to the script of "Solar Wind" instead of the film's powerful character "Bumblebee"? The author (smugly watching movies) understands that when Disney selects scripts from the network, the selection method is similar to that of AKB48, and the producers will not choose the "ceiling roles" in terms of popularity, nor will they let the non-existent supporting roles appear in single-player episodes.
The role of "Solar Wind" can just represent the average level of "Transformers" and also evoke the childhood memories of some fans, which is the main reason why Disney pays attention to the "Solar Wind" script, after all, disney channel works are more abundant in terms of sources. Previously, the film industry has conducted a survey of the fan group, and because Hulu is also a streaming platform owned by Disney, many people hope that the two online platforms can be "evened" in terms of work style. Some users are bored with the Marvel universe movies such as "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier", and the sci-fi films with freshness are what many Disney Channel users like. Therefore, Disney's attention to the script of "Solar Wind" is also to bring a different feeling to the streaming platform.
For a series that is gradually sinking, the MCU working group wants to launch a single-player series to save, which makes some sense. But Allen's point is clear, and if the work is not recognizable, it will still be difficult to reverse the downward trend of "X-Men". The critic speculated that "Mutants" is still difficult to identify, mainly because he is familiar with Marvel's creative pace - in order to make the work recognizable, the MCU working group can only temporarily put aside the commercial value and box office, and it is clear that the working group led by Alonso cannot give up these things. Marvel can't wait to create a new version of "American Team", as can be seen, ratings are still the top priority at this stage. Therefore, Allen thinks that Mutants are difficult to identify.