NBC shared Universe?

Folks, I apologize for not sending any new posts for a while now…I’ve been caught up in business.

But now I come to you with a brand new post and a new subject up for discussion.

People, with the success of Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, why hasn’t anyone else tried to make their own shared movie continuity?
It has been shown many, many times in the past that if a particular genre or films proves very successful, other studios will try to cash in on this new trend with their own resources. For example, when Star Wars proved extremely successful, many different studios tried their own different films to try and take a sweet chunk of the money made by Lucas. Among these were the movie Moonraker, which postponed filming of the James Bond movie ‘For Your Eyes Only’ because of this. Another good example was how during the eighties and ninties, Disney’s animated films raked them in a shitload of money.

 Somebody's gonna be snorting a shitload'a cocaine.

Disney’s colossal success led other studios to try and get their own animated films up and running, and for this called in the talented Don Bluth to try and out-Disney Disney, and in some ways, it kind of worked since he created several awesome animated films…but not all of them were successful, and this failure came in differing ways, such as the film ‘We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Tale’, as the Nostalgia Critic will tell you.

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So with that in mind, I don’t think I have to explain that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is highly successful, this massive film franchise is still comparatively young, but despite having only been around for five years, it has raked in an assload of money.

I’m pretty sure everyone reading this has seen at least one of their films, especially ‘The Avengers’ and you can agree with me that Disney’s got a pretty good setup here.

Now DC, true to form, has decided to carry it’s rivalry with Marvel Comics on into the silver screen by creating their ‘DC Cinematic Universe’, which is currently comprised of Superman: Man of Steel and possibly Green Lantern: First Flight. Though it’s not as impressive since it appears to take much longer for them to produce these films, let alone make them.

So, now DC and Marvel are devising these shared universes and making them into films, but the question remains…why the fuck isn’t anybody else trying this?
Several studios, who have just as much capability to make these kinds of films and TV shows haven’t so much as tried to make their own universes, the closest we have to this is 20^th Century Fox’s plans to adapt Alan Moore’s ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ into a television series, and even then it doesn’t even look like they have plans for a shared universe (though a massive crossover of Victorian fiction looks likely.)
This is, quite frankly, infuriating for me, because NBC could easily make such a series. How? You may ask. Well it’s simple chaps, they already made one, though by accident…this place is called the Tommy Westphall Universe.

As I’ve mentioned in an earlier post, the Tommy Westphall universe is a shared universe that is comprised of dozens, if not hundreds, of TV shows, it was created unintentionally through the process of continually crossing over TV shows, such as the hospital of St. Elsewhere being shown in Homicide: Life on the Street, or Steve Urkel’s gust appearance in Full House. Through all of this, the writers of the world have created a shared universe that expands vastly, and contains a very, very large amount of fiction. I’ve even measured it and discovered it even extends to anime and comic books as well.

So as I write here, I just gotta ask…why the Hell hasn’t NBC realized this yet? If they took advantage of this fan based project and listings (especially since I’m sure a lot of the crossed over TV series are owned by them) they could make a killing out of their own shared universe.
    

 

They could even incorporate stuff from the USA Network, the ScyFy Channel, and Universal pictures if they wanted. The first two are owned by them, and Universal has connections to them. It should be so easy just to make this, because they have enough properties to create hundreds of interesting films, or three whole crossover TV shows.

Anyways, those are my thoughts on the matter. NBC has the potential to create a great franchise through crossing over their many properties, but doesn’t for some inexplicable reason. It’s truly mind boggling.

 Not even Giygas can comprehend the reasons for this.

Anyways, I apologize for not having anything to post for a while; I’ve been a bit busy. I’d like to end this with some news, one, I’ve gotten very close to getting my webcomic made, the details of which shall be revealed soon.

I’d also like to add that a fanfiction I’ve made that has gone non hiatus for a long while is about to see new life again…more in a little while.

For now, so long and best of luck to you.