Here's an idea: Put Professor X, Magneto, Wolverine, Mr Fantastic, The Thing, Deadpool, Captain America, Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, Ant Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Hawkeye, Mystique, Cyclops, Falcon, Jean Grey, Gambit, Black Widow, and Nightcrawler into one movie, give them all approximately 10 minutes of screen time, and you have a three-and-a-half-hour superhero movie with 21 individual superheroes.
Now, considering The Avengers grossed $1,519,479,547 worldwide with six superheroes, which equals $253,246,591 per superhero, that would mean our hypothetical X-Men meets Marvel Studios movie would gross approximately $5,318,178,414. This would make it nearly two times more profitable than the highest grossing movie of all time!
The formula is so simple: As long as these films can retain the lowest common denominator of quality, more superheroes = more money. Plot, dialogue, overall tone, narrative logic, and even who directs the damn thing doesn't matter as long as the studio adheres to this magic formula. While aggregated review percentages have stagnated, frequency and box office results of superhero films have skyrocketed.
And 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios are reportedly in talks to make this bold new vision for filmmaking a reality. The two are allegedly in early discussions to combine X-Men with the Marvel Universe.
By the year 2025, we'll sit down in a movie theatre and be dazzled as single frames of 7,200 superheroes flash before us at a rate of one frame per second. This film will gross the future's singular hyper conglomerate Hollywood studio $2,023,375,455,200, adjusted for inflation.
