1. Don't Pinch Pennies, Hire Good People
I don't know that much about Marvel's reported penny-pinching habits. It's all over the internet, but those kind of stories never interest me. Disney and Netflix are our new entertainment overlords, and there's no excuse they could make now for why they couldn't empty a few Scrooge McDuck money pools into creating a landmark television franchise. And Marvel is going to have to spend HBO-levels of money for these shows to work on the small screen. Maybe more. Anyway, the divide between the big screen and the small screen is quickly vanishing. In a lot of ways, TV is more respectable than film these days. Netflix's House Of Cards was a true game-changer, and we still haven't felt the full repercussions of that show's success. And forget about the sets or the monsters or the computer graphics, Marvel needs to spend the money they have on hiring the right people for the job on talent equivalent to Kevin Spacey and David Fincher, who are now willing to work in television thanks to the opportunities that Netflix can provide. Kevin Feige deserves a lot of credit for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but I think we owe it all to whoever hired Jon Favreau and Robert Downey, Jr. for Iron Man. That movie was also a game-changer, and it's obvious that those two were steering the ship. We need another director/actor pairing as strong as Favreau and Downey Jr. to kick off this grand experiment, to set a new standard of television for its successors to follow. Like Iron Man in 2008, Daredevil is the right character at the right time to make it happen.
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