A New HBO Comedy Series Will Skewer Superhero Movies

It ’s not rare to see asuperhero so powerfulthat a bullet train ca n’t get through their skin . shortly though , the whole music genre is go to need skin that thickset becauseArmando Iannucci is occur for them .

The man behind such genre send - ups as Veep and Avenue 5 ( time of year two when ? ) , as well as likewise satiric feature films The Death of Stalin and In the Loop , has just scored a airplane pilot order for a new HBO show called The Franchise . Directed by Sam Mendes(Skyfall , Road to Perdition ) , it ’s a half - minute comedy set in the world of superhero franchise filmmaking . Jon Brown ( Avenue 5 , Succession ) is the showrunner .

According toDeadline , The dealership “ follows a hopeful crew entrap inside the dysfunctional , nonsensical , joyous hellscape of franchise superhero movie - devising . If and when they at last make the day , the question they must face — is this Hollywood ’s new dawn or movie house ’s last bandstand ? Is this a pipe dream factory or a chemical industrial plant ? ”

The making of superhero films such as Doctor Strange will be at the heart of a new HBO comedy.

The making of superhero films such as Doctor Strange will be at the heart of a new HBO comedy.Image: Marvel Studios

So manyfilm rooter and movie maker love to talk abouthow the rise of superhero photographic film in the retiring 15 years has marked the end of cinema as we once cognise it . One would imagine that idea has to be at the sum of Iannucci ’s show : what it might experience like to be making pic that the general world lie with , but that you yourself might not . Or how it might affect someone who feels like they ’re bear some responsibility for change the face of film history one dealership sequel at a time .

Of course , that The Franchise only has a pilot order think it may never see the light of twenty-four hour period . HBO executive will have to check the pilot light and decide if they want to adorn in more episodes . But the theme of Mendes directing Iannucci ’s biting humor in the human race of superhero films is too fertile to ignore .

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