Directors like Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Francis Ford Coppola took shots at Marvel and DC films in recent months. Chris Hemsworth addressed their comments in a recent interview for ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ with The UK Times:
“Those guys had films that didn’t work too — we all have. When they talked about what was wrong with superheroes, I thought, cool, tell that to the billions who watch them. Were they all wrong?”
The Actor Admits Failure
Hemsworth’s last appearance as the God of Thunder in 2022’s ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ was one of the subjects of criticism. The actor himself admitted that the film was ‘too silly’ for its own good in a chat with GQ.
He later took on some of the blame and told Vanity Fair:
“I got caught up in the improv and the wackiness, and I became a parody of myself. I didn’t stick the landing.”
Marvel’s 2023 films, ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ and ‘The Marvels,’ received a lot of negative feedback and underperformed at the box office, as well. The studio’s only release for 2024, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ is expected to turn things around.
Marvel’s Plans To Change The ‘Fatigue’
Kevin Feige told Empire that last year’s failure set them up to ‘exceed expectations’ with the new project. He said Ryan Reynolds’ lines about being the ‘Marvel Jesus’ gained ‘more of a meaning’ and explained:
“You’d have to live under a rock not to know that the last few Marvel movies have failed to ignite the world in the way that so many did. We do come along at an interesting time. And we are decidedly something different. Whether it is of Messianic proportions, time will tell.”
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ will hit theaters on July 26. Marvel will return with four new movies next year but reduce the number of their yearly releases in the future.
