Sega's Golden Axe is getting an adult animated series by Titmouse. An adult comedy series.
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/golden-axe-animated-series-mike-mcmahan-comedy-central-matthew-rhys-danny-pudi-1235973820/
Sega's Golden Axe is getting an adult animated series by Titmouse. An adult comedy series.
It’s gonna be butthole cancer.
I've never been so let down by a spoiler before.
But Golden Axe WAS comedy. You had all kinds of ridiculously looking enemies suiciding into pits and the heroes punting leprechauns across the screen for shits and giggles.
Anon these people moaning never played the games, just saw the poster with manly men and sexy girls and thought it was a legit serious drama.
Look up the motivation of the main characters and then have a nice day.
I've played golden axe a lot and it is definitely not a comedy
This is the kind of moron who would classify The Godfather as a comedy because he chuckled at the “take the cannoli” line.
Golden Axe was just an adventure game, just because you kick a gnome for loot from time to time doesn't mean the story wasn't taking itself seriously.
SHUT THE FRICK UP butthole OR I'LL RAPE YOU
Having a sense of humor doesn't make something a comedy. The Conan series, the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, and The First Law books all have a sense of humor, but are serious fantasy adventure stories rather than comedies.
>what is bathos?
>Original arcade game ends with all the monsters emerging from the machine and chasing the players off, with the heroes following
More like tongue-in-cheek humor than full-blown parody.
>adult animated series
cool, can't wait for it to be nothing but dick jokes and fart jokes made for 13 year olds!
Also saying "shit" and "frick" as many times as they possibly can.
I'm not even a big fan of Golden Axe but this sounds like a disaster. Considering that this is a comedy and what Titmouse has worked on lately, the art style will look like cheap garbage. A Golden Axe animation would be better suited as a one off video filled with heavy metal, ass kicking, and eye candy. Maybe have a reference to this ending if you really want some humor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZTzltMjKo
It's McMahan, the show will use the Rick and Morty base/pipeline.
>Golden Axe animation would be better suited as a one off video filled with heavy metal, ass kicking, and eye candy.
Seriously just take the fantasy parts of Heavy Metal and use it as a baseline.
Sweety, that stuff was problematic. The magazine itself renounced that sort of material. Just before it went out of business.
It’s so funny, like they get close to what people want then add on “comedy” and it’s a shitty Family Guy ripoff
The Simpsons sincerely destroyed western animation permanently. Every animation for adults just tries to be The Simpsons and when people want more serious fare they don’t know how to respond, nor want to. Especially with how poorly written and animated The Simpsons always has been yet Joe popular it got
Shows like The Bad Batch are starting to become socially acceptable for respectable adults to watch, but these things have a lag effect of several years, so it will be a while before the entertainment industry clues in that adults will watch animation other than comedy.
Sure, why not.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
I fricking hate that America is conditioned to think that Family Guy is a stable for all adult cartoons. Jesus frick.
They don't, Titmouse is just incompetent.
Again, blame The Simpsons
That show has permanently doomed western animation and how it’s approached
Reminder that this should be the stable for all adult cartoons.
You are no different to Bluey fans
No, far from it.
This is what Tiny Toon Adventures fans are like.
According to Animaniacs the fans were like this
That was before political correctness was a requirement in society.
99% of Animaniacs fans are like this.
>Reminder that this should be the stable for all adult cartoons.
That the only good parts were the ones appealing to perverts and were animated by the Japanese?
No, appealing to sakuga otaku and were BOTH produced and animated by the Japanese.
The perverts didn't happen until Tiny Toons Looniversity.
And that’s why Elmyra was animated in lingere
That was Japan being themselves, and people just spotted who animated that scene.
Which was a ripoff of the Flinstones another adult animation that was pretty mid but for some reason animators had to copy it and we can’t move past this Simpsons/Family Guy phase as a result.
>Mike McMahan
Right because everything he's touched so far has been a ratings juggernaut
They’re obviously rewarding him for making the only decent ST series in the last twenty years. I mean barely but not it’s not a high bar to reach.
Anon if his series' were a success he'd still be working for Paramount/AS/Hulu
The fact that each company dumps him like hot garbage instead of giving him more work should tell you everything.
>spoiler
Boo! Boo, I say!
Ya know, at least Sega is giving a shit about their old IPs again.
Only because they saw the bank Nintendo made off the Super Mario Bros movie. Otherwise they’d just care about pachinko machines in Yakuza bars otherwise.
>the staple for adult cartoons should have been a baby version of looney turnes
Tiny Toon Adventures =/= Baby Looney Tunes.
They're not, it's going to be like every other "Adult Cartoon" where everything is ugly, simple, tweened and flat.
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Yeah they're gonna give her typical R&M derived design unless some real GA fans will do what Sonic fans did after seeing Ugly Sonic: Protest and/or boycott
please at least make Tyris Flare sexy, Titmouse.
She’ll be a girlboss who can do no wrong and always wins even if she’s insufferable while doing it. They’ll make her a black lesbian dyke, voiced by a man probably a non binary or transgender and she’ll talk about being in bikini chainmail is literally rape. For a “joke”. Also they’ll tease her pairing up with the white lead only to pair her with some random fugly woman. There ya go.
Anon, you know they won't.
She's going to be the only character they heavily redesign, like in Thunder cats roar.
>Lisa Gilroy will play Tyris Flare, a fearsome battle sorceress, deadly in a fight and even deadlier with her sharp wit.
>her sharp wit
Ironically, they hired a voice actress that could pull off playing her IRL, but my prediction is that we'll get a lampshading scene where they acquire these outfits, she complains that hers barely covers anything, Ax says something along the lines of "mine covers less than yours. What is problem?" she then offers him the top as a "joke" and declares that she's going to find some "real clothes."
Someine photoshop Flare's boots/outfit on her
They said they're drawing buff scantily clad warriors. Note that they said warriors, not men.
as if it matters what they say
>as if it matters what someone who works on the show says
Alright
>work
lmao even, you call that a WORK?
>a WORK
Spent too much time unemployed anon?
If it goes for the tone of the Sonic the Comic series, that could actually work.
Its commissioned by comedy Central. Also they are introducing a rookie adventurer named Hampton Squib.
I don't know if there is enough lore in GG to make a series like Sonic or Lower Decks. I mean, how many jokes can you get out of riding a city sized bird to get to a castle?
Sega commissioned it, Comedy Central just picked it up for broadcasting.
>I don't know if there is enough lore in GG to make a series like Sonic or Lower Decks. I mean, how many jokes can you get out of riding a city sized bird to get to a castle?
I guarantee you they'll just make Dungeon's and Dragons-inspired jokes.
Three. Three jokes.
>Mention Titmouse
>Famicom spurges out instantly
Lol
Reminder this should have been the staple for all adult cartoons
>Tom and Jerry Kids
>Flintstone Kids
> A Pup named Scooby Doo
>Tiny Toons
I kinda miss the 90s turn them into kids cartoon phase
Kinda weird they didn’t do that exactly with Disney, Marvel and DC? Like Muppet Babies with Mickey, Goofy and Donald? Or Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman as kids? Or Spiderman, Hulk and Spiderwoman as kids? Not teens but barely tweens? That’s 80’s 90’s cartoon cash right there. God American television producers are the laziest most untalented fricks ever.
I'm not the only one who has their brain trying to overlap these posters am I?
No, it's not just you. There is a science to posters like that. Sexiest in forefront center then to either side, dragon in the background.
Anyway, there is a golden axe reboot coming so I wonder if they will use these designs or the originals. I really hope for the original, Blaze looks too much like a dyke
>That female design
Why not make a comedy series based on something known for comedy? This is Thundercats Roar-inf the property when it never had a proper Thundercats to begin with. They can’t even use the “your original series still exists” excuse now. Why even bother?
If they aint shy with my girl Dora I could give it a chance
God, what a treat playing as her was.
Dora, my beloved.
I think how good or bad it could be will be determined entirely by how the end product looks. Mike McMahan shows all have a Rick and Morty art style, and it would be a bummer if they end up looking like that.
But if they make it a legit cool action show that just happens to be a comedy, then that's alright. Titmouse has worked on Vox Machina, which also had a lot of comedic moments in between serious action. So just a goofier version of that with Golden Axe could be really cool.
Yeah I'm surprised no one else thought Vox Machina clone.
Isn’t that the show where every character is a homosexual? Not really giving much reason this won’t be shit.
is Golden Axe even relevant in this day and age?
that game was a product of it's time, how would you make a Golden Axe sequel even fun or exciting in the modern age?
Sega is making a reboot along with other titles like Shinobi
Does anyone still have faith in SEGA when half their games are disappointing?
I never played Golden Axe but isn't it similar to Dragon's Crown minus the RPG elements?
It's a very standard beat em up. The only notable deviation from the Final Fight/Streets of Rage formula is that occasionally there's mounts. So basically if you played Captain Commando, same thing.
Yeah it’s the same sort of game. There’s “3D” movement instead of Dragon’s Crown’s 2d movement but it lacks the cool verticality and fluidity that Crown has. Only real pickups are mounts, mana, and food. Overall I think the closest game to Golden Axe is probably Castle Crashers.
They're both fantasy based beat'em'ups and that's where the similarities end. I do wish more people would look at Vanillawares sprite work and art and make more 2D games in that vein.
If it means Tyris Flare gets naked, I'm down.
Do you think Ax Battler will still be named Ax Battler? Or will they give him a new name?
Monkey paw is the R&M derived design
Maybe they can save the action series for streets of rage
>Sega's Golden Axe is getting an adult animated series by Titmouse
Great another ugly and boring western anime wanna be anime show
>An adult comedy series.
Oh no...
I was excited for a total of two seconds and then immeasurably disappointed
there gonna use this to make a bunch of tired hallow done to death jabs at the barbarian milieu that don't actually fit to any really series beyond the most casual observer knowledge aren't they?
So Thundercats Roar for adults?
I wish western animated television would just fricking die already.
>I wish western animated television would just fricking die already.
It basically has. It's telling that the only actually popular western animated show from the past 5 years is probably fricking Hazbin.
It's not even the most popular animated show of this year.
That would be another revival of an old property that takes itself seriously with some comedy in it.
SpongeBob is still much more popular.
I meant in terms of new shows
stfu moronic weebs
Don't really know or care about this game but I already know the show is just going to be dumb Family Guy-tier jokes with a thin veneer of whatever the setting demands, just like that shitty Dan Harmon Greek gods show.
Fun bit of trivia, renowned fantasy artist Boris Vallejo did the cover for Golden Axe 2, also he used his wife as reference since she was a bodybuilder.
>she was a bodybuilder.
And a painter of the same style as him. They collaborated often.
>, also he used his wife as reference
that's literally 90% of boris vallejo's repertoire.
Next time someone b***h about women not looking like that just point them at her.
>that's literally 90% of boris vallejo's repertoire.
If I'm not mistaken he's been married twice, which is the only thing that's prevented his female figures from suffering sameface.
(He's also used himself as a male model, but far less than 90% of the time.)
>no Golden Axe adult action cartoon where the final battle is everyone both good and evil teaming up to beat the shit out of the Golden Axe itself
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You people are pathetic. You’ve already got Primal and Invincible for le edgy action series. What’s wrong no with some comedy for a change?
Because as we all know there was never any comedy in Golden Axe
your disingenuous homosexual, you know damn well why we groan at comedy handle by americans
>one second gag negates hours of gameplay
Bravo.
any show that faithfully follows the gameplay rather than the backstory will be comedic by default, because hundreds of hours of players developing the metagame results in characters acting like insane maniacs to maximize points
its why TF2 is an overt comedy when TFC was a strait-laced military shooter
because its better to lean into the insanity of a soldier propelling himself at mach speed by shooting his own legs with a missile launcher than it is to pretend there is anything resembling a serious story
>I have never heard of the word "tone"
Hi McMahan.
Your shows suck.
Sonic For Hire has made it impossible for me to not think of ass-wine when Gillius is mentioned. But the real question is what they will do with DEATH=ADDER.
maybe a fusion dance of Cobra Commander, Skeltor, Thulsa Doom, and Mumm-Ra?
Adult comedies are a dime a dozen
>An adult comedy series.
Boy, I hope somebody was fired for that blunder.
if male mc is blonde then he's gonna be a retrad making the female brown, flat and smart but if male mc is dark skinned then fem mc will be his love interest while the dwarf watched their sex behind bushes, oh yeah and dwarf is gonna be like drunk or be the quirky one
Why the frick would Sega give the rights to Titmouse and Adult Swim? Have an anime studio make it. Are they just high off the farts from the live action Sonic movies? Goddamn this will be worse than Fallout. This is like a Monkey Law’s situation. I’m like the guy who wanted a Golden Axe animated series but it going to current year CN on HBO Max is fricking cancer. Great job there Sega.
Telecom rejected it because no one watched Shenmue, you should've watch Shenmue, but to be fare Animaniacs was butchered for it reboot, Telecom badly needed Animaniacs and no one asked for a Shenmue series so thats fare.
>because no one watched Shenmue
Because shenmue is boring and had already collossaly fricked up its revival by that point.
And a certain dumbasses statements meant that everyone knew that no, you're not getting any closure from this series, anime or videogame.
I mean Titmouse can be ok. They’ve made good stuff in the past. Their recent Frog and Toad series for Apple+ was good. ST Lower Decks started ok but when to Tumblr hell. But they’ll just make Rick n Morty or Adventure Time clones given the chance. Looking at what LD is like I’m not optimistic on this.
Good, Dungeon Meshi finally has competition
Discount Tower of Druaga
Tower of Druaga had kind of a stupid ending though.
Altered beast
RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE
Altered beast has even less of a plot than Golden Axe.
>get killed
>rise from grave to get revenge
That plot is solid. Just look at The Crow.
Awful, what a fricking waste of talent.
This is a completely stupid and bad idea that should've never been conceived.
It didn't take revealing the spoiler to know that. There is absolutely no good reason to make a series based on Golden Axe.
There was also no good reason to make a series based on Shenmue either, and look what happened.
You think there’s going to be the obligatory “lol lets piss off the original’s fanbase for not liking a bastardization” bullshit?
Absolutely.
Is it gonna be noodle armed heckin chunguss shit that subverts the (admittedly thin) source material?
Yes.
Thin source material is precisely the reason. It gives a recognizable name (granted, not one which has been relevant in many years, but it's still something which will draw in some older gamer viewers and retrogaming youngsters), character designs, a setting, a general plot, and some specific events to serve as starting points, but the whole thing is thin enough that they can still have a number of generic adult comedy plots.
I just realized this will be Comedy Central which is objectively worse than CN because at least on AS it might be memorable. CC only known for South Park which is totally out of their hands they don’t tell Trey or Matt anything on how to ran their series. All their other animated productions were basically Brickleberry tier. Ugly animation edgy and cringey unfunny jokes. Were Sega so out of money after the Sonic movies they had to sell off their properties now?
Sega for a number of years was own by Paramount, they then sold them off to CSK Corporation (now known as SCSK Corporation) in 1984 due to the video game crash of 1983.
It's likely that Paramount after whoever ends up buying them (say Skydance or NBC Universal) wants SegaSammy back.
Aw for fricks sakes Paramount already fricks over Star Trek and Halo glad to see they can frick up Sega too.
>Were Sega so out of money after the Sonic movies they had to sell off their properties now?
No, they're out of money after acquiring Rovio (Angry Birds) for over half of their market cap.
Oh shit imagine paying that money for a mobile game?
I'm sure it was to leverage something Rovio had that they didn't, no idea what though.
Why would they doooo thaaaat? Sega has a catalog of some of the greatest games ever made. They just need to, you know, actually make more and market way better.
>making an adult animated comedy about barbarians and sorcerers in a fantasy world
>not getting the Korgoth crew back together
No you see Teen Titans Go, Steven Universe and Rick n Morty needed those budgets instead.
Isn't Primal just the evolution of Korgoth?
if your name is Thunderhead then your story is not meant to be taken seriously.
"Thunderhead: a rounded, projecting head of a cumulus cloud, which portends a thunderstorm." Sounds pretty badass and serious to me.
I hate that I live in a world where news of a game I like getting a cartoon fill me with dread instead of excitement.
why would a comedy series starring conan-ripoffs be a source of dread?
Because the source material, what anon likes, is serious epic fantasy, not comedy. The dread is because hollywood writers will make it a comedy at the expense of the original tone and will disrespect the characters, which will understandably upset genuine fans. Hollywood writers are disgusting and awful and only exist to shit on everything normal people love.
>why dont you want something you love turned in to an joke for people that dont care about it?
I only hope at least it has a nice artstyle
$10 says it's going to look like Krapopolis.
How about we get a new golden axe game like streets of rage 4 instead?
you live under a rock or what?
they did it
>people ITT even trying to defend this at all
You know pattern recognition is a thing, right?
Yes, but this could've been avoided is the thing.
>adult comedy
FRICK THAT SHIT. have a nice day I AM SO FRICKING ANGRY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
That is fricking weird considering what we've seen of the golden axe game seems to be playing it completely straight
just fricking make Korgoth of barbaria
How do we stop IP regurgitation?
Aside from the fact it's doomed to suck, Why GOlden Axe of all things? We could've finally get a Jet Set Radio cartoon?
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/golden-axe-animated-series-mike-mcmahan-comedy-central-matthew-rhys-danny-pudi-1235973820/
Oh god the character descriptions make this sound like absolute ass.
> Matthew Rhys will play Gilius Thunderhead, a grumpy battle dwarf with exceptionally poor hygiene and a chip on his shoulder.
>Danny Pudi will play Hampton Squib, a naive, inexperienced first time adventurer who has dreamt of questing his entire life. He hopes his can-do attitude can make up for his inability to actually do stuff.
>Lisa Gilroy will play Tyris Flare, a fearsome battle sorceress, deadly in a fight and even deadlier with her sharp wit.
>Liam McIntyre will play Ax Battler, a barbarian warrior with a strict code of honor and sweet golden retriever demeanor. His brawn outweighs his brains, but his heart outweighs his brawn.
>Carl Tart will play Chronos “Evil” Lait, originally from “Golden Axe III”, is a 100% badass humanoid panther. At least that’s how Chronos describes himself. In reality he’s uncomfortably cheesy and can’t read a room.
Sounds fine, don't know what you're on about.
have you even read them?
>Pathetic Comedy Character
>Pathetic Comedy Character
>STRONG BADASS WOMAN WHO IS THE BEST AT EVERYTHING
>Pathetic Comedy Character
>Pathetic Comedy Character
It's all so tiresome
Almost as tiresome as you saying it in every thread
I beg to differ
Besides Hampton and Chronos those descriptions sound fine if badly worded. Hampton and Chronos's bios are hot trash though. Like they're not even mentioning the fact that Chronos is beastman because he got cursed by the Golden Axe. In fact inclusion of Hampton at all when they're willing to use player characters besides the original trio is strange. Honestly I want to know more about their ideas for the story if there even is one, Golden Axe has some weird lore and stories outside the first game.
>Mike McMahan
Dead on arrival, pure cancer, avoid at all costs
>Dead on arrival
5 seasons for each of his shows.
This will break that trend.
Never underestimate an audience's ability to consume slop.
That won't be the case here, this isn't like The Loud House or Big Mouth where it's nothing but e-girlcons and shotacons watching it.
Golden Axe's market won't touch it because they deserve better.
>Shotacons watching Loud Mouth
I'm not a shotacon myself, but why would they? The designs are fricking hideous.
Doesn't matter to them, they wouldn't last as long as they did if e-girlcons and shotacons didn't watch them.
>Golden Axe's market won't touch it because they deserve better.
Golden Axe's market barely exists in the first place lmao
Exactly.
I'm still holding judgment until I see what they do to DEATH=ADDER. I mean, just that name alone has a cheesy charm to it.
The Worst Part? Imagine the shilling on Cinemaphile. As if Cinemaphile wasn't unusable enough
This is my first time participating in a Cinemaphile thread since Samurai Jack's finale. Golden Axe 1 & 2 remains some of my most replayed Mega Drive games ever.
Too bad the show will likely suck.
I liked 3, I didn't think it was THAT bad, the music was certainly great
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That's art for Beast Rider right? Is that game any good? The footage I've seen doesn't look so hot.
dumpster fire fueled by kerosene and plutonium.
What accel is trying to say is that game is open swampasx and the reason SEGA's been mostly queefing out Sonic, Yakuza, and Persona games
Jesus Christ who asked for this
who knows but SEGA is pimping out their neglected children after the moderate success of the Sonic movies.
It's too bad it's a comedy. This is actually a series where you can adapt stuff without worrying about lore rape because this series constantly steps over it's own toes with contradicting canon anyways.
Isn't it getting a new game that looks pretty serious? Seems like a weird decision marketing wise, like Megaman 11 coming out while Fully Charged was airing. And that didn't go over well for ether.
while capcom still milks SF, RE, and MH even when the udders are raw and bloody
Golden Axe should be animated by Genndy Tartakovsky, imagine a Golden Axe cartoon with designs sorta like Primal.
Nice trips Satan, Genndy almost did work on a project but the executive fricks at [AS] said no. They even took the pilot down from youtube and their own website (used to be hidden deep in the Specials section along with some of the other old pilots that didn't get picked up)
Man korgoth could have been something special. But they were too fricking cheap
Boston would've made things worse for Korgoth
I hope they use Jamm, she's a Cham-Cham ripoff but she was cute so I don't care
peak design
The Golden Axe stage in "Sonic & Sega all star racing transformed" had the best music in that game
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Best Golden Axe theme is always best.
Since it is Comedy Central there's a chance we might get naked female butts like their Futurama episodes did, nowadays Fox no longer allows naked female butts in their shows, only male ones
Might be decent. But since this is comedy central, they'll likely cancel it after one season.
Should've been like that Castlevania show.
This is not what I wanted when I painted these minis.
this is fricking stupid. Golden Axe is old hat now, a fricking obsolete relic of the ages.
that's like trying to make a cartoon of John Carter of Mars.
Sega announced they're making new installments to a number of older IPs on a slate a little while ago. Golden Axe was among them, so I suppose this is the cross-medium synergy to promote it.
They said the same thing about Shenmue and look what happened.
>That's like trying to make a cartoon of John Carter of Mars.
Bob Clampett himself already tried doing that.
Why do you keep bringing up Shenmue out of nowhere
Because that too got a series no one asked for.
>don't make sequels to video games because... JUST DON'T, OKAY?
Compelling.
John Carter would make a great cartoon though.
>that's like trying to make a cartoon of John Carter of Mars.
Barsoom is not obsolete just because later space opera ripped it off. Accurate art of Burroughs' visual descriptions would still challenge the bounds of American acceptability.
SEGA now realizing they can only use Sonic for so long.
I would have loved a serious Sword and Sorcery animated series of Golden Axe.
The entertainment industry seems to have a negative attitude towards Sword and Sorcery these days. I think the reason is because several Hollywood S&S movies failed in the 2010s. The Conan movie, Seventh Son, and a few other scattered low fantasy movies here and there all underperformed. John Carter, in the closely related Sword and Planet genre, also bombed disastrously. The Scorpion King series degenerated into cheap direct to video trash immediately after the first movie. Hollywood will probably continue to take occasional stabs at serious S&S two or three times per decade until something works, then it'll be trendy again for a bit and some good S&S cartoons and videogames will come out. For now though it's a dead genre.
Sadly so anon
You're forgetting the big budget fantasy and sci-fi series that are made elsewhere (Amazon, Netflix). Those have huge budgets and bomb terribly. They suck and bomb because they are adapted for modern audiences (whoever the frick those are), but exec brains will tell them "fantasy and sci-fi = bad".
Didn't that Critical Role show perform well? Castlevania also seems to have been a hit.
yeah they did but it's been a long time for Golden Axe
Vox Machina was ultimately only a minor hit though that may have to do with it being on Amazon Prime. Castlevania was a much bigger hit but ultimately ate itself alive when the woker changes and poorer writing later on started to get the audience to argue and eventually peter out.
Let’s not forget Willow, which had the usual “men bad/women good/lesbians better” messaging for modern era and performed so poorly that Disney erased it from the servers.
I really like Willow but in no place was there a "men bad" message.
>I really like Willow
I really DISlike Willow. F me in the A with a big rubber D, that was an awful typo
>John Carter
That mostly failed because Disney decided to go all in on buying out other franchises and ignoring inhouse shit. That led to them pulling a Treasure Planet and giving the movie no advertisement and no PR to help quell the false rumors surrounding the movie. And of course this worked out for Disney as Marvel was a huge hit and Stars Wars made bank even if they crashed and burned the franchise. But you know what negative ramifications John Carter flopping did have? That's right all those phoned-in live action movies, all because of John Carter losing over 200 mil.
A shame, as John Carter was better than all of Disney’s Star Wars movies. Not great, but certainly better than those.
and an asylum knockoff
With a name like "John Carter", people probably thought it was a procedural crime drama or some shit. How hard was it to keep "of Mars"?
Oh man, that reminds me of their shitty ad campaign that focused on how this was sci-fi and superheroing before Star Wars and Marvel. I remember wondering what out of touch nerd through THAT would be a good selling point. “It’s based on something OLD so you should watch it!” Man, if you can’t sell an adventure on its adventuring, you screwed up.
Hollywood believes audiences won't want to see a movie unless it has brand name recognition. The poorly conceived "Come see the ancient rough draft of your favorite modern sci-fi franchises" marketing for John Carter was their awkward attempt to trick people into thinking Barsoom is a property they were, or should be, already familiar with.
Apparently Disney thought it would sound to silly so they shortened the name. How the frick executives thought the name of one of the most important book series of all time is “silly” is beyond me. Like I get executives are usually out of touch but come on.
>An adult comedy series.
How woke will it be
If the show doesn't use the death screams from the games, I'm going to be disappointed
You fricks would cry about the Fleetway comic Golden Axe.
Another medieval fantasy show?
There are so many other games they could have adapted.
biuo
Why