Call of Duty Shared Movie-Verse Announced

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As the 2010s dwindle down to their twilight years, the battles of culture and trend within the blockbuster landscape have all been pretty much decisively won.  Superheroes are here to stay, horror is a viable blockbuster source and also good again, ‘90s nostalgia wasn’t as big as we all thought it would be, Kaiju films are surprisingly popular, fantasy is now a succession of up-jumped Disney fairy tales, and shared universes are a bad idea that people just can’t get enough of.  

Now, as we enter the last three years of the decade, we prepare for the period where the culture of the 2020s will emerge, much the same way Facebook, Twitter, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe have defined the 2010s even though they started 3 years before the decade did. 

One of the emerging trends is a renewed interest in mining the world of video games for lucrative franchises in a Hollywood that’s still very much defined by pre-existing brands.  Now I could comment on how Hollywood always makes the same mistake of adapting video games that draw from movies for inspiration, so they end up the third part of an idea human centipede.  

Or I could talk about how the AAA games industry is so committed to crashing that they’ve more or less given up on pioneering new, lasting intellectual property, but both of those are arguments for another day.  Instead, we’re going to focus on how this new trend is hoping to blend with an old one thanks to the recent announcement that a Call of Duty cinematic universe is in the works. 

Panel Vision - 5 Things to Expect from Suicide Squad 2

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Edited by Robert Beach

After three weeks in the #1 spot on the box-office charts and a comfortable spot as the 8^th highest grossing film of the year, Suicide Squad is a bona fide hit. Granted, it’s one of those hits like Godzilla (2014) or Cinderella where it makes a ton of money, but the cultural impact is a lot more questionable. Given DC’s track record, monetary success coupled with anything less than audience loathing seems to be enough to register success. With that, DC still has two open slots in their cinematic schedule; it’s probably that time where we all start speculating about what the sequel might bring. 

However, that’s going to be a little different for DC as their films don’t boast much interconnectivity, and Suicide Squad, in particular, wasn’t founded on a franchise mentality. Regardless of quality, the structure of the film was such that any sequel would be more or less free to be another “villains on a mission” movie, swapping out the villains and the mission. And yet, I believe it could do more. I’ve put together a list of 5 things to improve on the first movie in Suicide Squad 2.