After more than a month of silence, Marvel exec Kevin Feige calls Martin Scorsese's MCU critiques 'not true' and 'unfortunate' in a recent interview.
for the New York Times. His latest critique lamented the lack of “risk” taken in Marvel franchises void of “revelation, mystery or genuine emotional danger.”
Two more Marvel heavyweights, Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans, also recently weighed in on the controversy while participating in “At first I thought that seems kind of old-fashioned, and somebody had to explain to me, because it seemed so disappointing and sad in a way,” Johansson said in response to accusations from Scorsese and other veteran filmmakers, such as Francis Ford Coppola, that tentpoles are edging out smaller films. “It made me think about how people consume content now, and how there’s been this huge sea change with their viewing experience.
Like any well-trained Disney exec, Feige later turned the podcast conversation about the eventual possibility of superhero fatigue into an opportunity to plug some of the brand’s forthcoming installments, including “WandaVision,” a spinoff based on Elizabeth Olsen’s and Paul Bettany’s familiar MCU heroes , which is“It’s unlike anything this genre has done before,” he said.
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