Endgame’ Sets A High Bar For Cinema’s Next Era (Podcast)

“Avengers: Endgame” units a excessive customary for franchise movies and universe-building. But is {that a} good factor? We focus on within the new “Low Key” podcast, which you’ll hearken to on Apple or proper right here.

Every week on “Low Key,” we discuss popular culture tales we expect others could have missed. No one has missed “Endgame” — it just about engulfed popular culture over the weekend. But we haven’t seen a lot dialogue of what the movie will imply for non-Marvel motion pictures publish-“Endgame.”

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Will the Avengers encourage a slew of imitators, searching for to create their very own huge, interconnected universe? Will smaller movies disintegrate with a snap? What will turn out to be of lower-budgeted movies which might be primarily based on wholly authentic concepts, and never current IP?

Keith Dennie, Aaron Lanton and I focus on these and different questions, utilizing the DC cinematic universe and Christopher Nolan’s spectacular “Dark Knight” movies as a doable mannequin for what may come subsequent. We additionally discuss universes that don’t maintain collectively fairly in addition to the MCU.

We additionally discuss whether or not our “Avengers: Endgame” predictions from final week got here true. (Some did.)

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Spoilers abound, so don’t say we didn’t warn you. In truth, there’s a really minor trace of what occurs within the movie within the subsequent paragraph.

The podcast is sprinkled with nerd-outs. We speak concerning the wonderful “Avengers: Endgame” callback to the elevator scene in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” and ponder whether or not Thor’s consuming is low-key liable for a really unhappy factor that occurs in “Endgame.”

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