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People have been saying that audiences will get sick of Disney live-action remakes for ten years now, and there have been far more of those than there have been nostalgia bait MCU movies. This will do big numbers IMO.
Counterpoint: the real bombs were those that didn’t cater to nostalgia and changed things up
Except Little Mermaid
Which didn't cater to nostalgia, at least in the casting department.
Yeah the film was still profitable by the end.
Was it? $570 million gross on a $240 million production budget is borderline.
Reportedly the merch was very popular. Studios tend to add that to profitability.
I think they're referring to Disney live-action remakes.
Yeah but those are remakes of different movies. This is a continuous story where a lot of the audience is already out the door. I think people will come back for this one but there’s only so many times you can do something like this and have people care
Is 6 years even enough to build nostalgia though? Ep VII had 30 years since the original cast was last together, Lion King '19 was 25 years post-OG, even Jurassic World was 14 years post Lost World.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, sure, but have these characters even been sufficently absent?
part of the 1% of this reddit that still has logical thinking.