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But what is behind this trend?

Have audience appetites altered?

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Has the quality of MCU shows and films hit a new low?

Does it have something to do with one of Hollywood’s favorite buzzwords right now superhero fatigue?

It’s difficult right now, it’s an interesting time.

Brie Larson as Captain Marvel in The Marvels

“There’s a big generational divide about how you consume media.

You know, it’s a very different moment in time than it’s ever been.

And so I think everyone, including Marvel, is experiencing the same thing, this transition.

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And I think that really is probably what’s at play more than anything else.”

it’s a very different moment in time than it’s ever been.

I think everyone, including Marvel, is experiencing the same transition.

Robert Downey Jr. during the Doctor Doom announcement at Marvel�s SDCC 2024 panel

I think that creates problems, where we over-process and don’t care about context anymore.

So, there is something happening again and that form is repetitive.

As he explained: “I think its fatigue in general.

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The superhero fatigue question was around long before the work we were doing.

People used to complain about westerns in the same way but they lasted for decades and decades and decades.

They were continually reinvented and brought to new heights as they went on.”

Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, and Ke Huy Quan in The Electric State

It’s here and it’s moving at a pace of weeks, not months or years.

So, it’s going to move exponentially fast.

I think thats the most important line in the sand to draw.

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Let’s keep humans who control this stuff moving forward."

In the same way that the iPhone is used as a creative tool.

That was a new piece of technology that allowed people to communicate in ways they never could before.

Wyatt Russell, Sebastian Stan, Hannah John-Kamen and David Harbour in Thunderbolts

Steven Soderbergh shot a whole movie on it[2018’s Unsane].

Its the same with CG or Avid, or every other piece of technology.

So that’s our intersection point with it."

Captain America: Brave New World

Avengers: Endgame

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Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman

Will Poulter in Warfare

A meeting inside one of Chrono Cross� cathedrals

Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed

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Gabriel Luna as Tommy in The Last of Us

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The cast of Thunderbolts standing in an elevator during the trailer for the upcoming Marvel Phase 5 movie.

Jonah Hauer-King as Conrad in Doctor Who: ‘Lucky Day’.