The once-mighty MCU has fallen and it can’t get up.
Even non-Comic Con types know the Marvel Cinematic Universe no longer lords over Hollywood. Last year’s mega-flop, “The Marvels,” put an exclamation mark on that sorry state of affairs. The film made $206 million globally compared to the $1.1 billion the original earned four years prior.
Could Ryan Reynolds and his foul-mouthed alter ego, Deadpool, bring the MCU back from the cinematic grave? He might, assuming the powers that be follow the Reynolds Method, a heady blend of marketing ingenuity and old-fashioned charm.
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The next big MCU film drops this summer. Reynolds returns as the “Merc with a Mouth” in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” out July 26. The film unites the unlikely mutants in an R-rated romp that got Comic Con nation all hot and bothered.
The film’s trailer generated 365 million…
