NBC created the show Heroes and immediately seemed to know that it would be a hit. Their marketing reflected this and, as a matter of fact, it's now the most popular new show on television. Why did this happen? Would this have been possible in the 90's? Why has it taken this long for a show like Heroes to get on TV?
Comic book films are the entire vogue, if you hadn't noticed. They have become, by themselves, the obvious choices for annual summer blockbusters. They have the largest budgets, the biggest stars and, inevitably, make a lot of money. This trend was begun when, in 2000, a little movie called "X-Men" was released by a skeptical studio. "X-Men" was not allowed the type of budget it probably should have been, but, nonetheless, Bryan Singer helmed the project and created the template for how comic book films were supposed to look and feel in the new millennium.
