No return! Why the Superhero Multiverse Is a Totally Crazy Idea | Films

TThe Multiverse, or should it be Multiverses, since there are now Marvel and DC versions? – is clearly a good Thing for superhero movies. Just when naysayers had begun to suggest that comic book movies might have used up all their hype and excitement comes Spider-Man: No Way Home, a movie that uses the introduction of alternate realities to restore characters like Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin. and the original wall. -tracker Tobey Maguire with all the enthusiasm of a nine-year-old who just realized he can have He-Man and Jabba the Hutt fighting a team made up of Snarf from the Thundercats and the Care Bears?

The problem is that the internet has now figured out that if Maguire and Andrew Garfield can return to the big screen despite never having been on the big screen before? none Marvel superhero movies fans can really have whoever they want in future episodes. Dig deep enough and there are rumors all over the web that the next Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness could feature the return of Robert Downey Jr. like a version of Iron Man from another universe who didn’t die in Infinity Wars. Not flashy enough for you? Some reports have even suggested that Tom Cruise could play a third version of Iron Man.

There is a danger here that we are entering Snakes on a Plane territory, where the fans end up almost writing the script for the filmmakers. Andy Muschietti’s upcoming The Flash will see Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton return as alternate versions of Batman. And, let’s face it, there would hardly be any gasps of surprise if the new kid Robert Pattinson showed up in Gotham at some point too. Thanks to the marvel of modern technology, DC might even be able to re-enlist 1960s Batman Adam West if the late actor’s estate were willing to do so. It’s not like it hasn’t happened before.

It even seems like the Hollywood A-list is starting to get involved. This month’s GQ features Willem Dafoe presenting the tantalizing prospect of him and Joaquin Phoenix as the dueling clown princes of Gotham in a future that is yet to be, but let’s face it. sequel to the Oscar-winning Joker.

“There’s something interesting about, like, there’s a Joker impostor,” Dafoe pondered. “So it would be possible not to have dueling jokers but someone who [claims] to be the Joker who is not the Joker.

“And that opens up the possibility of an interesting story, particularly if you have Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and then you have someone who was mimicking or imitating what he did. I fantasized about it. But other than that, I don’t talk to anyone. [about it], you are the first.

But, in the current climate, the GQ interviewer probably won’t be the last. And again, why not? We’re not entirely sure how Phoenix’s Joker really connects to the DC Extended Universe, where Jared Leto is still apparently Batman’s nemesis. In fact, we’re not really sure if there’s one more DC Universe, but there certainly is a Multiverse if The Flash is anything to go by. And that means everyone can have everything they’ve ever wanted. now, even if it’s six different actors playing Batman in the same movie, like a gothic version of the James Bond movie spoof Casino Royale (1967 version) in which everyone from Peter Sellers to Woody Allen played versions of 007.

Don’t you think this fan-satisfying version of reality is the one we live in now? Let me point out that the biggest current show on Disney+ is an entire series based on a minor Star Wars character who barely had more than a few lines in George Lucas’ original trilogy. And, yeah, I love it too, green-skinned, pig-faced minions and all.

So why shouldn’t Dafoe release his own Joker sequel? And why shouldn’t Iron Man be played by Cruise in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness? Except eventually this entire Multiverse-inspired stunt cast will tire as well, and DC and Marvel will have to come up with something even crazier. Which, of course, we’ve all probably figured out by now.

First, we had superheroes. who appeared in each other’s movies. then we had superheroes from different studios appearing in each other’s movies. The next logical step is a massive DC-Marvel crossover event in which Disney and Warner Bros triple their stock overnight by sending Batman into battle against Spider-Man and Wolverine against Superman. In fact, let’s throw out Luke Skywalker and Ethan Hunt from Mission: Impossible for good measure. At this rate, Tom Cruise could end up fighting himself, and all in the name of good old-fashioned entertainment. it’s going to be like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on steroids and LSD. I personally can’t wait.