Marvel movies... are made by the same company.
I'm gonna go off on a bit of a tangent here, so mods feel free to mod if you feel that's best.
Marvel Studios is a wholly separate company from
Marvel Comics. They share leadership now (
finally), but until 2018 they had different executive boards, different in-house talent pools, and each often didn't know what the other was doing until it was done.
That Marvel movies work so well is rather a sign of content creation being led by uber-fans like Kevin Feige. Feige in particular is a once-in-a-lifetime superfan who has been involved in just about every Marvel-related multimedia project since the early 1990's, working his way from basically a Kitchen Boy to head of Marvel Studios, to now basically director of All Marvel Creative Content over at the comics company while retaining his top spot at Marvel Studios. Feige was able to gradually turn fandom into increasingly surefire business decisions, which flat out wasn't possible when he first got into the business as a lowly set-worker.
Castlevania doesn't have that (or even anything close; Adi Shankar might be as close as we have today), though it came reasonably close once upon a time.
For a good long while, Konami
had their own Feige analog (
or as close as could reasonably be mustered) in Koji Igarashi, but Iga was unfortunately controversial with a sizable plurality of fans throughout his run and Konami never gave him the leadership positions and resources he needed to really do what he really wanted to do; he got a taste of that when he took over Symphony's development but that "spare no expense" production value would elude him more and more for the rest of his run.
Castlevania NEEDS a Kevin Feige. It probably won't ever get one.
Not unless one of us manages to somehow con Konami into giving us creative control, anyway.
Fingers crossed, amirite?Anyway, no real point. Here's a wall meat for y'all's trouble.