Alternate Capital of Nerd Culture

Also, I'm just going to drop here some wikipedia articles about some internationam movements/genres that may be relevant to this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giallo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchador_films

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantaserye_and_telefantasya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianxia_novel

Do you guys think any of these things have potential? How to make them popular?
Now that I think about it, there is indeed a long tradition in France for sci-fi, fantasy and action/adventure novels.
This tradition spread to the comics and some of them were adapted in movies or video games (I can think of Michel Vaillant, Valerian, XIII, Blueberry, Enki Bilal's work).
French cultural scene often rewarded a kind of elitist self-centered image. What you would need is an early (or several) Luc Besson, which could focus his/their work to appeal to a more popular audience, wider than just french one.
Though I don't know who could fit for this role nor how that person could achieve it.
 
The problem with the Philippines as a candidate is that by the time fantaserye became a thing (arising from the bursting of creative energy resulting from the fall of Marcos) Japan already took over the niche.
 
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