Originally Posted by
Superkreep
I really think at least part of the reason Marvel Studios went cosmic was to beat DC to the punch. DC is in a "me too" position right now when it comes to their films. Marvel going a route like Cosmic in which they aren't even close to as fleshed out as DC's essentially puts them in front on that end, even though they logically shouldn't be. But that's on DC/WB for dropping the ball on GL. Plus the Infinity Gauntlet and Annihilation era's were both awesome! They "felt" very cinematic in scope from the beginning and were self contained enough and mainly focused on less popular characters for them to not worry about relying on actor's/character's from the other films/series to carry it. Kevin Feige also made it very clear that they want to hit ALL genre's. They have traditional super hero on lock with Iron Man/Avengers, they have Fantasy(kind of) with Thor, Spy/Espionage with Cap, Cosmic/Sci-Fi with GotG, and it appears pretty soon they'll have supernatural/horror with Dr.Strange. The idea is to let the other studios like Sony, Fox, WB fight for the scraps while Marvel/Disney will always "get there first".