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It was also a perfect storm of nostalgia, a gap in the market of "epic cinema" (LoTR / Harry Potter were ending), and a huge library of IP to run with.
by lbotos 5y ago
It was also a perfect storm of nostalgia, a gap in the market of "epic cinema" (LoTR / Harry Potter were ending), and a huge library of IP to run with.
- dragonwriter 5y agoLOTR ended 5 years before Phase I.
- thenewwazoo 5y agoThe Hobbit?
- dragonwriter 5y agoThe Hobbit was roughly contemporaneous to MCU Phase 2. (Its hard to view the LotR and Hobbit trilogies as single ongoing “thing” that the MCU came in at the end of when most of the time between the first LotR release and the last Hobbit release, including the time the MCU rose to prominence, is the time between the last LotR release and the first Hobbit release.)
- antupis 5y agoGenerally companies/funds sleep on IP, I am rather surprised that there is not more companies that acquire IP that has strong fandom and start pumping new stuff across media landscape.