Likely not from Marvel or DC, if you end a movie with Superman or Captain America dead, and have the villains win, especially since comic book villains tend to be over-the-top evil, in the way that means the Earth will likely be destroyed as well, you're going to end up with a lot more people going "well that was fucking stupid" versus people liking it just for being different.krazykidd said:
What works for horror movies doesn't necessarily work for every other movie.
If you set up a specific movie with its own heroes and villains, you could probably make it work, especially if the tone is fairly dark right from the beginning. You would have a ***** of a time selling the idea though, and I still doubt even if it's done well that people would flock to it the way they do for other hero movies. People generally don't go into superhero movies interested in IF the hero wins, they want to see HOW the hero wins.
But still, there's no way in hell Marvel or DC is going to hand the villains a permanent win, that is way too risky a move for the kind of money these companies are pouring into movie series that have multi-year tunrarounds, they pretty much never do it for comics outside self-contained stories, and those are cheap and easy to produce compared to a Hollywood movie.
