What would be your top 3 biggest entertainment blunders in the last 15 years that had they done it better it would've made a lot more money?
Obviously without saying, the virus that is DEI/obsession with representation has ruined a lot of stuff, but here are my top 3.
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Not having Luke training Jedi students as one of the opening scenes of episode (could have easily had Han/Luke/Leia and maybe Lando reunite at the beginning, also you could've had Rey be one of his top students and the other Jedi provide an outlet for future stories)
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Not doing an inspirational Superman movie with Henry Cavill (speaks for itself)
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Marvel deciding to follow the All-New All Different crap instead of years of better source material for their movies. Why not do a Kirby inspired F4 or the X-Men, Silver Sable, Black Cat, actual Defenders, etc. But of course it makes more sense to push characters who are self inserts whose comic books keep getting cancelled like how they are really pushing Ms. Marvel to be the face of the company. (I know the comic book industry has had issues in the past, but to constantly push crappy female characters or race swapped characters that nobody asked for as well as telling actual comic book fans to piss off is beyond insanity)
Honorable mention: letting some moron showrunner be in charge of Wheel of Time when he cares more about girl power/lgbt representation.
Not sure it cost them money but not having Jon Snow fight the Night King was dumb or at least him and Ayra fight him together.
Lucasfilm not continuing the EU in it's own continuity instead of telling a group of very loyal fans to piss off.
What are yours?
Dr Who: Take a franchise that printed money for 50 years and not only systematically remove all the things that people loved about it, but also retroactively and irrevocably alter the established lore so that those things are no longer canon.
Kathleen Kennedy
On a meta level, all the remakes, reboots, prequels and sequels. The woke trend is what killed Hollywood, but it was sick for decades before that because they refused to take a fucking risk and finance a new idea or two. Anyone with an iota of creativity was beaten down or driven out long before the Woke Wave.
I also agree with Mpetey about the Snyderverse, and with you about Marvel. I have never seen a franchise piss away so much audience goodwill so quickly as what Disney Marvel have done these past few years.
I hate what they did to Dr Who. So glad all the classic who is on Tubi. I watched Nu Who up to Capaldi and got annoyed with Bill. Gave Jodie and hated the Rosa Parks episode. I heard how they retconned everything and did an episode glorifying a delusional boy who thinks he is a woman