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MoogleKupo141 posted...

its kind of a stretch to cal the League popular characters like the Avengers unless youre posting from 1900 or something

the youth of post-9/11 America were not going crazy for Dorian Gray and Captain Nemo. come see all your favorite public domain characters from your local library team up wasnt an inherently compelling sales pitch

Yeah, you know, this actually a really interesting conversation from a cultural and numbers perspective. Is there a place anymore for literary characters to have great success? I think part of the issue is just how bad LXG was written, how lambasted (deservedly) it was. You look at its cast and really, it's reliant entirely on Connery for starpower, too. You have all of these characters with connections to major cultural touchstones - but the issue is that you have to have some momentum. I look at it's box office, and I'm like, "Hell, it did really good for the reaction it got!" It made 180 million worldwide on an 80 million dollar budget. That's pretty impressive, especially considering we were still in this early period of testing the waters of superheroes. It was a cottage industry, and the quality was still wildly variable.

Sometimes, I think the problem is just that a movie sucks. I wonder about a world where, say, you've got Guy Richie directing a Steve Zaillan written League. Maybe it rejuvenates the classic characters.