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Marvel may be enlisting one of 2015's biggest breakout directors
CREED is indeed a very good movie. Stallone, who emerges as a nuanced character actor with this film, deserves a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
This actually kinda bums me out.
He’s obviously a talented storyteller who’s been able to carve his own path so far.
It’s a shame to see him sucked up by such a heavy handed studio.
I don’t doubt for a second that a Coogler Black Panther would be a far better movie if it had zero input from Marvel Studios.
That’s not to say Marvel hasn’t churned out some damn entertaining movies, just none that showcase the directors.
Marvel tightened its grip on directors in the 3 years between THE AVENGERS and AGE OF ULTRON — as Joss Whedon learned the hard way. Not even Scorsese or the Coen Brothers would have any power on a Marvel set today.
This Wired article explains that auteurs have no place in today’s franchise-crazy Hollywood. Paramount has patterned its Transformers team explicitly on the writers’ room of a TV series, with a showrunner and a “bible” explaining the characters and even the plot twists. Disney and Warner may not be that extreme, but they’re getting there.
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/building-the-star-wars-universe/
That’s a good piece George, thanks for cluing me into that.
I’ll say this much about Marvel, they don’t make artful films and they certainly haven’t done anything with the same verve and vision as The Dark Knight trilogy. On the other hand, they also haven’t produced outright bombs like Green Lantern. I really dislike Iron Man 2, Thor: The Dark World, and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but those aren’t movies that I’d be actively embarrassed to watch either.
On the other hand, that lack of narrative and visual ambition also just becomes deadly stale after awhile. I guess it just depends on if you prefer the risk or not, I certainly do. Marvel doesn’t seem to. With the former mindset sometimes you’ll get Skyfall and then other times you’ll get Spectre. Of course, I still think it’s only a matter of time before we see the first actively “rotten” Marvel studios production. All good things…