All the reports coming out about reshoot after reshoot because Disney execs think the film is a total mess that isn’t worth releasing.
And at the center of it is an incompetent guy who only directed a handful of shorts nobody saw, two low budget feature dramas nobody saw, and a Cloverfield sequel few people saw and that bombed.
Why the hell did they hire this guy?
Besides the fact that he’s black?
Marvel usually uses inexperienced directors, so the studio can have more influence on how things are presented. Established directors usually won't take that.
These are not director movies, they are studio movies, that is why they are so consistent on overall feel of them.
But in the beginning they had real directors.
Brannagh, Favreau, even Louis Leterrier, Joe Johnston... They tried to get Edgar Wright.
All of these are somewhat reputable directors.
James Gunn and the brothers also made great work with some personal touch.
The Black Panther director also has quality.
On the other, more recent IPs, though... It's true, it's a mess of nobodies that could be directors for TV shows.
I think their obsession with hiring no-name directors began with the Russo brothers who only did an Owen Wilson comedy prior to 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' (2014) and that was a huge hit.
shareI don't know what Marvel calls their management style, but in IT I think it is called agile development.
From what I understand they do incremental development, shoot a bunch of scenes, which then get reviewed by the studio, then shooting more scenes, reviewed, and so on.
It is micromanagement, and re-shoots are very common, due to this practice their costs of making movies are substantially higher than before.
The advantage of this practice is to avoid situations like "The Last Jedi" because of director Rian Johnson, he changed the vision of the trilogy entirely, and J.J. Abrams had to come back and fix it. It could have been devastating for the studio.
Marvel is far bigger than a trilogy, it is a huge collection of film and TV shows, you don't want directors doing their own things, have their own ideas and perceptions.
So I kind of understand why they did it.
The director was cheap, and for hire. More than half of these movies are CGI now, so the director only has to tell the actors when to say their lines in a green room, then the director is allowed to shout "cut".
The rest of the movie is made on a computer screen, and the producers edit it.
I remember hearing that apparently Nia DaCosta (director of The Marvels) mentioned that she only directed the dialogue scenes (all the action was done by other people) and that she wasn't involved in post-production.
That's how Marvel roll. They have a universe and brand and they don't want some director coming in and doing their own thing. They hire some bums and let them direct a handful of dialogue scenes and that's it. These movies are all basically director-less. Made by the Marvel Studios team.
'They hire some bums and let them direct a handful of dialogue scenes and that it's.'
And I suppose for that new/inexperienced director it's an easy way of getting a big budget movie on the CV/resume.
And their movies suck because of it.
shareIt's Hollywood? What do you expect?
You expect them NOT to be woke? They literally INVENTED woke.
Hollywood will always be making this liberal woke nonsense because they are the most liberal people in the country, it's California ffs, and they run all the studios. This stuff will keep getting made, doesn't matter who's elected, or what new DEI policies the govn't tries to enact.