The Marvel factory filmmaking approach has stopped working. Roger Corman can fix it

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The Marvel factory filmmaking approach has stopped working. Roger Corman can fix it

What once looked like an unstoppable superhero factory has begun to falter in recent years. Here’s what Marvel could learn from the late Roger Corman. When Steven Spielberg and George Lucas revolutionised the summer blockbuster in the 1970s, it was often said they essentially took B-movie ideas and made them with A-movie budgets. In Spielberg’s hands, what could have been a schlocky monster flick instead became Jaws; Lucas took inspiration from …