“Honestly, the first thing that strikes me is that they pulled it off,” says screenwriter and producer Charly Parlapanides, co-writer of movies like Immortals, Death Note, and executive producer of Netflix’s Blood of Zeus alongside his brother Vlas. On creative terms, writers speak highly of The Avengers and its achievement to execute on its ambitious premise. While there have been instances of fictional shared universes, “the mainstream implication of the crossover event doesn’t happen without The Avengers.” Without The Avengers, that just doesn’t happen,” Shankar says. “In terms of the business paradigm, a lot of suits are running around trying to create a shared universe to cross-pollinate IP. romantic comedies, dramas, and adult thrillers - that are now supported by streamers like Netflix and Amazon. These became the norm, edging out theatrical releases of mid-budget, star-driven vehicles – i.e. Marvel Studios/Shutterstockīesides The Avengers’ creative merits, which Shankar says taught mainstream culture to pivot from gritty superhero stories a la The Dark Knight and “embrace comic book absurdity,” Avengers clued the rest of Hollywood into the potential of intellectual property (IP) and event releases. In 2012, Marvel proved its shared universe experiment was worthwhile when The Avengers broke historic box office records with its union of different superhero stories, featuring characters from films like Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). If Hollywood had long been a foot race, The Avengers inspired everyone to drive sports cars. That’s the biggest secret, Cap – movies were changing, anyway.īut Marvel undoubtedly cemented many trends as the new standard. The never-ending popularity of superhero films, the changing costs of production and marketing, the disappearance of mid-budget films in theaters, and even the expectations that blockbusters must make a billion dollars are not all The Avengers’ doing. Shankar, and others interviewed for this story, tell Inverse that The Avengers is not solely responsible for all of today’s trends in Hollywood.
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Shankar is also the producer of films like Dredd, The Grey, and TV shows like Castlevania. “It was a tipping point,” says screenwriter and producer Adi Shankar, whose satirical superhero drama The Guardians of Justice (Will Save You) launched on Netflix in March. In 2022, The Avengers is one of the most influential releases ever – and depending on who you ask, for better and for worse. But the film’s enterprising consequences are a bit more complex.
Screenwriters and producers not involved with Marvel Studios celebrate The Avengers, for its narrative cohesion, balancing act of opposing ensemble characters, and crowd-pleasing spectacle. Written and directed by geek icon Joss Whedon, whose alleged misconduct has since diminished his reputation, the 2012 movie transformed the culture and economics of cinema forever, or at least for the next decade. The behemoth success of The Avengers changed Hollywood.
With Marvel’s The Avengers, released a decade ago on May 4, 2012, the idea paid off – and then some. Bring together a group of remarkable movie superheroes to see if they could be something more.
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