The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a world in which movie productions are now something that seem almost foreign. No productions are currently running because groups of people are not allowed to gather together. With no productions running, it is no surprise that we have no proper release dates for new films, especially the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. The MCU is a universe where the films must be released in a proper or and with the virus around, premiere dates have had to moved around.
‘Black Widow’ has currently been pushed back to a November release date, which is when ‘The Eternals’ was meant to make its premiere. Now the entire lineup of Marvel films has been pushed back and changed their entire production schedule. That is, of course, whenever productions are able to start up again. There is no official production schedule because they don’t know when they can restart the productions again. So productions are currently cancelled until further notice and now even Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek isn’t sure about when they will restart.
Marvel films are entering an entirely new era because of the end of the Infinity Saga last year. As such, this new phase, Phase 4 of the MCU, is meant to start an entirely new chapter for it, but this isn’t a great start for it at all. Phase 4 has a number of films that people are interested in due to it being full of characters that haven’t been seen by most people before. Lesser known characters being a part of the MCU isn’t a bad thing and could could give us a really interesting saga going forward. After all, the Guardians of the Galaxy were a lesser known group of heroes that became a big part of the MCU.
Sadly, it will be a while longer before we get to see how these films will end up playing out and what story we will get to see them tell. There are plenty of sagas that we can see the stories for in the future, but the set-ups need to be made. The domino effect caused by delaying ‘Black Widow’ has changed everything about the way Marvel Studios must approach the universe moving forward with everything being push by about six months. Even when they are able to restart production there will surely be new rules in place for them to follow which could change the entire way that the films play out. Hopefully something will happen that can help things go back to normal soon.
Over the past few years, the Star Wars franchise has had a resurgence beginning with ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens.’ The idea that Lucasfilm had following that film was that they planned on making spin-off films for every off year that there wasn’t a main film. After only the second spin-off film’s release, Lucasfilm scrapped the idea to continue to make spin-offs. With the spin-offs not on the docket anymore, there were a lot of issues that came up with any future films. There was only one more spin-off that was supposed to be made after ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ and that was the Boba Fett movie.
There was no one who knew what was going on with that film other than the people working on it. ‘Solo’ didn’t do as well as Lucasfilm and Disney thought it would and decided that it just wasn’t worth making another spin-off film. With that in mind, the director left the next project and they called off the Boba Fett movie. Josh Trank was the director who was supposed to be working on the film, but decided to leave of his own accord. He recently made a statement about why he left the project in the first place.
Trank has said recently that the only reason that he quit the project of making the Boba Fett movie in the first place was because he was going to be let go. When ‘Solo’ under-performed in theaters Lucasfilm was cancelling movies on the docket, so it would only make sense that they were going to be letting him go. So before they could fire him as the director, he quit ahead of time. It has essentially become known by this point that Lucasfilm has had issues keeping directors due to “creative differences.” Whether this is why he actually quit is unknown, but it doesn’t change the fact that he quit due to the plans LucasFilm had in place.
Despite the fact that they said no more spin-off films would be made and the new trilogy is finished, Lucasfilm is continuing the franchise. Of course there are shows in development for the franchise, but there were no other films lined up. That is, until recently when Lucasfilm announced that they would be having Taika Waititi directing the next Star Wars film. No one other than those working directly on the film have any idea what kind of film it will be, but with Waititi directing, there is some hope. The only question now is whether he will be staying on the project by the time filming begins.
Very recently, we discovered that Tom Cruise was planning to talk with NASA alongside Elon Musk to try and make a film in space. The film would be the first feature length movie filmed in outer space and would be a technical achievement for the movie industry. The movie was only revealed at the time to be an action-adventure film. Cruise’s new unnamed film will see Cruise working with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and alongside NASA who have now confirmed that they would help with the project. This film will be unlike any other film that has ever been shot before and will be a landmark achievement for many.
Tom Cruise is an actor, at this point, who has tried to push the boundaries of everything that he does. The ‘Mission: Impossible’ series is a perfect example of him doing just that. Every one of those movies has some kind of insane stunt that most people, let alone actors, would try and attempt even with all of the safety equipment on set. Due to Tom Cruise not liking the idea of using stunt doubles, he did a few stunts that easily could have killed him. In the most recent films ‘Rogue Nation’ and ‘Fallout,’ Cruise did a number of stunts that put him in a lot of danger.
Cruise has had to complete an action shot underwater with no way of breathing, he’s had to make approximately 100 jumps from an airplane to get a three minute scene done, and he had to hold onto an airplane while it was taking off. Not to mention, he has had to get certified to make the skydiving jumps and he has had to get certified to pilot a helicopter for a chase scene. It is obvious that Cruise has no aversion to crazy stunts and putting everything into the role and scene he is given. So now that he will be going to space, what can we expect from the big-time actor in this upcoming film.
Not much is really known about the new film except that it is an action-adventure narrative film. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine sent out a tweet saying that the movie would be filmed aboard the International Space Station, or ISS. Bridenstine has hopes that Cruise’s new film will “inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists.” The ISS is a low orbit space station, which is operated and manned by five different nations and their respective space agencies. So, with this in mind, it will be interesting to see how they decide to approach the filming of the movie. With so much work needed for the film, it will certainly be an interesting project to see a final product for, and it will definitely be worth a watch.
Today is Revenge of the Fifth, the second part of the annual celebration of the Star Wars universe by its fans. I was reading a couple of articles, and it seems like there is something a few people got off their chest within these past two days. The new Star Wars trilogy doesn’t measure up to the original trilogy. So now I pose the question above, was it worth starting up the mainline films again. Fiscally, it made all of the sense in the world and restarting the series’ main films gave a good excuse to start selling new merchandise as well. While the movies generate a lot of revenue for Disney, most money comes from the merchandising.
Fans have often said in the last few years that this trilogy just doesn’t measure up to the original trilogy. So, the question posed above is best answered with another question. Was the story of the new trilogy worth it? Were there a lot of people who went to see all three films and come out of it feeling satisfied in the end? The movies themselves managed to sell a lot of tickets and get people excited enough to go out and buy merchandise. Critically, the new trilogy did fairly well and it was only ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ that did do so well critically.
One of the biggest problems with the way the new trilogy ended was that the ending was considered a let down by many fans. The film itself helped to validate some stuff about previous films, but there was so much going on in the film that more questions were brought up. To put it bluntly, the movie just ended up as a disappointment by many because there was so much hype for it. People have said that out of all three trilogies, this one ended up being the least satisfying. The satisfaction of the ending is the biggest thing that can change how people feel about a movie.
‘The Rise of Skywalker’ answered a lot of questions that fans were left with by the end of ‘The Last Jedi.’ However, there were a lot more questions that ended up being posed by fans at the end of it all that make the third film feel worse than the previous two films. Most of the feelings people have towards the movie stems from them not properly coping with how it ended. So, people end up saying that the way this new trilogy ended wasn’t as good as the original trilogy, but in a few years that will be subjective. In the end, was the film worth it to the fans.
The Mouse House is losing a lot of potential revenue on a regular basis due to their parks shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Disney is still bringing in a lot of revenue off things like films and music, but mostly from Disney+. Their premium service has nearly their entire collection of shows and movies available for people to watch online for an affordable cost. With this in mind, they knew that now more than ever that people would be using their service more frequently. Disney is one of the largest industries in the world and it is no joke that they will be losing a lot of money due to the pandemic.
Disney Parks are among some of the first places to shut down when all of this pandemic business started back in mid-March. Theme parks are the perfect place for a virus to proliferate, so that makes sense. The downside is the fact that parks rely solely on visitors while other businesses might still be able to work. Some parks are hoping that they will be open in time for the summer while others are choosing to stay closed until January of next year. Disney Parks are trying their best to re-open as soon as they possibly can.
Even when the parks do decide to re-open, they will end up having to follow the same guidelines that are currently in place for other businesses. These new measures include things like limiting the park’s capacity, mandatory face masks, more sanitizing stations, and temperature screenings at security checkpoints. This is what people have to look forward to if they want to go to the parks, but they are not limited to just those things. People need to pay close attention to things going on around them in the world, including how this might be changed in the future.
Not only must Disney Parks follow all of these procedures, but they must also try and instill confidence into their market. People will not want to go out to a public place since it is now ingrained in a lot of people that going out to a place that is known to have a lot of people in it is a bad idea. The fact that they won’t be able to re-open the parks for awhile and they then have to get people to come to their parks makes everything difficult for them. With these things in mind, Disney Parks will lose out on a calculated $21 billion for the year.
There are many different and interesting ways for movies to be filmed and there are always new frontiers to be explored. Space is often seen as the final frontier, so maybe the same can be said about filming movies. Among the actors that always try to push to get better shots to make their films feel more authentic is Tom Cruise who is known for doing his stunts on his own. Now, Tom Cruise is working together with Elon Musk and SpaceX to try and figure out a way to start filming in space. There is no way they could try and do that without the help of NASA however, so they are also trying to get a discussion going with them.
Tom Cruise is always going to be known for being an action star in a number of films since the 80’s and a few other roles he played. He has always tried to take his acting to the next level when it came to playing roles in his films. Cruise is known for doing his own stunts in films, whether that be jumping out of an airplane or clinging to the side of one. He always tries to one up himself in some way to make what he does even more entertaining and authentic for people to watch. Now, he is really trying to outdo himself by doing something that has never really been done before by any others.
Elon Musk and Tom Cruise are now trying to work on a way of bringing the filming process itself into outer space to make a movie. What would be a better way of making a film that takes place in space than actually being in space. Musk and Cruise are having the discussion with NASA in order to find out whether or not this feat can feasibly be done and, if so, how it would be possible. This would be an achievement in the film industry that is sort of unprecedented, other than filming a movie at the bottom of the ocean. Space would be more doable by comparison because there is more interest in that nowadays anyway.
There is no doubt that, somehow, they could find a plausible way of making a film entirely out in space. The problem that arises is the fact that the people who are currently allowed to go to space need to know exactly what they are doing up there and they need to be in good physical condition. This would mean that the cast and crew for the film would have to meet these criteria, and they must have a proper escort with them. The movie, if it gets made, is meant to be a new action-adventure narrative, but who knows if such a feat will be possible. All we can do now is hope that something works out and they are able to make a movie like that after all.
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