The IP is in a terrible place in general public opinion and you are releasing a film intentionally with no overall plot significance with a 50s “pulpy” cheesey/cute adventure story in a way that looks blatantly like a TV to movie low budget production. Just not sure what they expect to happen here… Do they really expect this to bring the masses back?
I doubt people will come back for this, they can barely get people to see new MCU releases now. In reality this feels more like “8 episodes are expensive what if we cut the vfx down to what we need for 2 and dump it”. Rather than any serious attempt to get a large audience excited.