Zack Sharf Digital News Director Stephen King is not a Marvel movie fan, but that didn’t stop him from expressing frustration over the “adolescent fanboys” who are taking pleasure in “The Marvels” flopping at the box office.
The latest Marvel tentpole, with a reported budget in the $225 million range, is a box office disaster after opening to $47 million, the lowest start for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The film’s global debut wasn’t much better at $68 million. It appears some toxic trolls have been celebrating the film misfiring since it’s centered on three female superheroes and is directed by a woman.
King is having none of that. “I don’t go to MCU movies, don’t care for them, but I find this barely masked gloating over the low box office for ‘The Marvels’ very unpleasant,” King wrote on X/Twitter to his 7.1 million followers. “Why gloat over failure?” He added in a separate post, “Some of the rejection of ‘The Marvels’ may be adolescent fanboy hate.
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