If the DC movie universe hadn't been complete dogshit from the beginning they could have made a movie like this work. Absolutely nobody knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were before that movie came out and it was so good it transformed Chris Pratt from "schlubby comedy guy" to "good looking action hero".
Absolutely nobody knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were before that movie came out
Not just the name, but that specific team. The original GotG team from 1990 was Nikki, Vance, Charlie, Yondu, Martinex and Starhawk, of which only one name would immediately stand out to MCU viewers until the point gets made that Starhawk was Sly Stallone's character from the movies. Of the rest only Charlie and Martinex appeared in the MCU, both being raceswapped oddly enough, while Nikki's cameo was cut and Vance wouldn't have been allowed at the time due to being a mutant.
That said it's not the worst MCU adaptation of a group, that honour goes to the Eternals which is meant to be more than just 10 randoms slumming about Earth for all of human history.
It was 100 randoms slumming about Earth for a million years 👀
Also IIRC Pratt lost the weight for his role in Zero Dark Thirty originally, if just the went on to help him with quite a few other roles afterwards. Parks and Rec even called attention to it when he returned from his absence from the show.
The flash had name recognition and multiple previous movies working in its favor too
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If the DC movie universe hadn't been complete dogshit from the beginning they could have made a movie like this work. Absolutely nobody knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were before that movie came out and it was so good it transformed Chris Pratt from "schlubby comedy guy" to "good looking action hero".
Not just the name, but that specific team. The original GotG team from 1990 was Nikki, Vance, Charlie, Yondu, Martinex and Starhawk, of which only one name would immediately stand out to MCU viewers until the point gets made that Starhawk was Sly Stallone's character from the movies. Of the rest only Charlie and Martinex appeared in the MCU, both being raceswapped oddly enough, while Nikki's cameo was cut and Vance wouldn't have been allowed at the time due to being a mutant.
That said it's not the worst MCU adaptation of a group, that honour goes to the Eternals which is meant to be more than just 10 randoms slumming about Earth for all of human history.
It was 100 randoms slumming about Earth for a million years 👀
Also IIRC Pratt lost the weight for his role in Zero Dark Thirty originally, if just the went on to help him with quite a few other roles afterwards. Parks and Rec even called attention to it when he returned from his absence from the show.
Ted Kord, right? 👀