Can Rogue One prove you don’t need The Force to make a mighty Star Wars film? And will Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them pull in fans of Harry Potter in the absence of the Boy Who Lived? If 2015 was the year of rather safe “triboot” or “legacyquel” film-making,with nostalgia-packed mega-movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World filling multiplexes, 2016 looks like something of a riskier era for fanboy film-making. By the time Christmas rolls around we’ll know, or for instance,if the video-game film has finally approach into its own, or if all the hype surrounding ambitious fantasy epics such as Warcraft and Assassins Creed cant fail to disguise the enormous gulf between armchair adventuring and the big screen.
Well also believe a superb idea whether the flood of recent superhero movies, and from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,to Captain America: Civil War and at least three X-Men-related offerings, sates or dampens the apparently infinite demand for colourful comedian-book fare. And we’ll know whether Hollywood’s desire to send its most popular sagas down ever-more-ambitious rabbit holes, or via audacious spin-offs such as Star Wars: Rogue One and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,ultimately ends up being seen as an insulting money-making exercise, or simply a superb old-fashioned example of giving the people what they want.
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Source: theguardian.com