Comic book movies are absolutely huge at the moment – nobody can deny that. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time, five comic book movies have grossed over $1 billion (something only twenty-three movies in total have ever done) and seven of the top fifty highest-grossing movies ever made have been comic book offerings.
However, some people still think that the genre’s bubble will burst very soon – after all, up until the end of the 1990s/the start of the new millennium, comic book movies weren’t really very popular, prominent or frequent at all.
That being said, here at DailySuperheroes.com, we can’t see the genre ever dying – and we certainly hope it doesn’t. There are too many factors in the genre’s favour for it to ever disappear permanently and that’s what this article is going to be about. Here are ten reasons the comic book movie genre will never die…
A Huge History Of Source Material
When you ask people which comic book story arcs they’d like to see adapted on the big screen, they’ll give you a huge variety of answers; Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, Final Crisis, The Death of Superman, House of M, Kraven’s Last Hunt, Secret Wars, Hush, Flashpoint and Siege are just some of the stories you’ll hear them tell you.
The reason you’ll get such varied answers from different people is because the history of comic books is teaming with epic stories. There are enough comic book stories arcs already in existence to effectively keep the comic book movie genre going forever!
Even if Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse and company were to stop publishing comic books right now, movie producers would never run out of material to work with.
