So it rides a lot further Thunderbolts*The next MCU film, due in early May. And Marvel seems to be a little more than wanting to sell Marvel: This week Florence Pugh (who will return as a Yelena in Thunderbolts*) claimed that the film was a “”A24 feeling Assassin film with Marvel superheroes. ““ Then, later a week, the film review app Letterboxd published an exclusive teaser cut with film fans, which emphasizes the cinematic family tree of those who are involved with the film.
And it should be. Nothing has to be wrong with that. There was a time when a new Marvel film could excite the masses, even if the goals, methods and results would largely be what they expected. When Phase 1 Marvel was in full swing, it was about stinging creative people in wrestling with the specific sound and the needs of a film; Joss Whedon avenger Little has the same tone as Kenneth Branagh's Thor. Wherever they crossed, the Grand Marvel was ambition, the common universe, which was built in some films and thousands of comics.
A handful of McU phases later, a Marvel film still feels like “largely what you expected”. It doesn't matter whether I know what the villain of Thunderbolts* Looks like From a radio base After the trailer had deliberately unveiled a complete costume because I already know the movements too often. There is no longer much person to differentiate these heroes, but only a few genre conventions – often they are also summarized in the Marvel machine.
But doing an unmistakable, interesting work is more than just a few interesting people to collect and let them play with house money. You have to be able to do your thing (what is all before we even believe that people contain a variety of people who bring them to their projects; George Miller did not have the same wild importance baby that he was brought to the Mad Max series, which is the right choice for this project!). Marvel can move in so many pop stars and Oscar winner And directors and A24 bonafides as they want. But if the studio wants to increase the use, its creative people have to play.
