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Major Grom: Plague Doctor, is Russia’s effort to get in on the action, before the MCU does the same with whatever version of the country they put up on screen in Black Widow.
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We’re in some kind of multi-generational moment with the superhero genre, 14 years after Robert Downey Jr and Marvel Studios began their efforts to upend everything, and more niche production origin points appear to be catching up in terms of ambition and cinematography ability, married to an audience that, for the time being at least, remains ravenous for every comic book going to get some form of adaptation treatment. I know little of Major Grom beyond the very basics – St Petersburg detective, with a tendency to run into costumed bad guys with disturbing regularity – but it wasn’t hard to get me intrigued with this. Sure it had a tortuous road to the big screen, and eight credited writers – yikes by the way – but here it is.
#The plague doctor review series#
Major Grom: Plague Doctor, an adaptation of a Russian graphic novel series from Artyom Gabrelyanov, appeared to fit the bill quite nicely: a different setting than we are used to, a mix of the hard-boiled crime detective with more “traditional” costume-wearing supervillains and a subscription service happy to give the project an airing, even with that surprising 140 minute running time. Yes, yes, I will get onto Black Widow eventually, but this week I wanted to branch out a little and explore something a bit more unique in the general sub-genre of comic book adaptations/superhero stories.