This sounds awful, and also like an amazing opportunity. I'd love to be the devil on the shoulder who causes the focus group to devolve into a prolonged shouting match. All I'd have to do is insinuate any character is queer.
"so my idea to change this is dr doom comes in and kills brie larson and says "stupid bitch" and then from a dr strange portal out comes Sydney Sweeny and she is the new captain marvel and much sexier and she kisses me. She hulk also dies"
we're about to enter an era where no character ever dies in any movie not even the villains since the internet was /not/ happy about kylo ren dying
Actually insane that this is a thing. One of the things that makes a piece of media good is the fact that it takes a risk, not cowering over fan reaction.
LOTR being here hurts.
Do... do studios not know that superfans - aka Mega Nerds - only ever make up like 99.9999% of any fan base...? Sure, they'll probably throw the most money at a franchise, but I dunno if that'd still be more than what the rest of the fan base would do. Suspiciously rich furries aside.
Something tells me that this is gonna fail spectacuarly