Welcome to the Age of Heroes: Whether ‘Spider-Man, “” Iron Man, “” Captain America “or” X-Men “- superhero movies are as popular as hardly ever before and with sales between 500 million and more than one billion dollars a crucial factor in the market for Hollywood movie industry. Thanks to the industry, however, has blockbuster blessing especially an independent studio, the film department of the comic publisher Marvel. What began with a cash injection of an investment bank and the daring idea of telling the story of a not too well known in comic circles distant Playboys in iron armor, has grown today to be one of the most successful and innovative theater companies.
As for decades practiced in the comic books, Marvel created film department, now part of the Disney Group, numerous connecting plot elements and sat recurring personnel involved in the so-called Marvel Cinematic Universe, to the individual superhero adventure related to, serial Total narrative link. Summit of this stretched over several films team formation was 2012 blockbuster “The Avengers”. By 28 August oncoming “Guardians of the Galaxy”, a sympathetic, cosmic underdog variant of the “Avengers”, Marvel proves that it can make even obscure backbencher his hero universe to movie stars. In the spring of next year, follows with “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” the completion of the second stage of development of this unprecedented entertainment company.
The development and expansion of this unknown terrain of the cinematic narrative, which extends also to long on television, opens up exciting opportunities, but also risks.
SPIEGEL ONLINE looks back on the amazing genesis of the Marvel Universe, takes a look at the competition of DC Comics, which brings their own personal heroes in position – and takes a look into the future. (Click it to individual parts for more …)
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