As we said yesterday, the latest Marvel series Secret Invasion didn’t quite impress the fans. A very promising game with a wonderful cast, which in addition to Samuel L. Jackson included Martin Freeman, Daenerys from Game of Thrones Emilia Clarke and, above all, the already very popular Oliva Colman, the announced budget exceeds 200 million, the series failed to win the attention of the fans who punished it with a low vote on IMDB, exactly that much (6.2), but above all, it was successful . disappointed critics who called it insufficient. In school grades, failure can mean “postponing to September”, but in the case of series, everything is exactly the opposite, which means that the series will be very difficult to see on the screens again.
Created by Kyle Bradstreet and based on the comic book of the same name created by Steve McNiven in 2008, the six-part series was directed by Ali Selim. Just Selim diversity thought to respond to negative criticism: ù
I don’t read reviews. With all due respect. For me, all storytelling is a dialogue with the audience. When the show is over and on screen, that’s my half of the dialogue. And the audience begins its response. I think it’s a value, but I don’t know. I don’t know how to answer the question.
I don’t feel guilty about the mixed reviews. If reviews were unanimously positive, each film would make $10 billion, a trillion dollars, right? (Projects are called in different ways at different times and for different reasons, and Marvel has very dedicated, even rabid fans who have expectations, and when those expectations aren’t met, they move in the opposite direction; they don’t approve…
I don’t know, our job is to live up to their expectations? Or tell the story we tell? So, this is a difficult thing. I would like everyone to like it, but I do not have such expectations, so I am very pleased with the answer.
Now they certainly don’t expect the director to say “but, sorry, it didn’t turn out as good as we thought.” The production house itself would have excluded him from any future project. It is also true that often negative reviews and ratings do not necessarily correspond to a negative audience result, quite the contrary. Let’s say on KinoTV movie Barbie it has a relentless 4.7 (out of 10, not 5) and yet, after two weekends, it’s grossing three-quarters of a billion dollars at the box office.
But to think that a Marvel series can pretend that it doesn’t necessarily live up to Marvel fans’ expectations seems a bit over the top. It’s not that the whole family watches Marvel series, accidentally switching channels. Marvel fans watch them.
If we want to make things a little easier, we can note that Secret Invasion (which will also be the first MCU “phase five” product) fits into an already long list of disappointing Marvel titles. That spark that was ignited years ago when Tony Stark said “I am Iron Man” is languishing under the embers, and it will not be easy to make it shine again.