Curated category
Fictional universes
- Marvel Cinematic UniverseIn 2005, Marvel Entertainment planned to produce its own films independently and distribute them through Paramount Pictures.
- Sony's Spider-Man UniverseIn December 2013, Sony Pictures revealed plans to use The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as a launchpad for an expanded universe featuring villains like Venom.
- Middle-earthJ. R. R. Tolkien first encountered the word middangeard in an Old English fragment he studied during 1913 and 1914. The text read Éala éarendel engla…
- Star Wars in other mediaThe first Star Wars spinoff material appeared in 1976 as a novelization titled From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker. George Lucas later commissioned Alan…
- World of DarknessMark Rein-Hagen began developing the World of Darkness series in 1990 at White Wolf Publishing. His goal was to create a new major role-playing game project…
- Universe of Star WarsGeorge Lucas began developing what would become Star Wars in the early 1970s while seeking to construct a large-scale narrative that drew on historical…