{"id":115904,"date":"2020-11-20T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-he-turned-them-down-film\/"},"modified":"2020-11-20T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T22:00:13","slug":"why-he-turned-them-down-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-he-turned-them-down-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why He Turned Them Down \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why He Turned Them Down \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Marvel Studios<\/strong> has no shortage of directors who would gladly work for them \u2014 and vice versa, as there\u2019s no shortage of directors who would quickly turn them down. Directing a Marvel movie might offer a great boost for many filmmakers, but\u00a0Hitman<\/em> director\u00a0Xavier Gens<\/strong> doesn\u2019t want to be one of them. The French director behind genre films like\u00a0Frontier(s)<\/em>\u00a0and Gareth Evans\u2019 currently-airing crime series<\/a>\u00a0Gangs of London<\/em> revealed that he was in discussions with Marvel to direct a project, but turned down the studio after he realized he \u201cwould be there to take care of only the direction of the actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0\u00a0French outlet,\u00a0Le Point<\/a>\u00a0(via\u00a0The Playlist<\/a>), Gens revealed that he was in brief discussions with Marvel Studios about an unnamed project. But he was quick to turn it down, after realizing that he wouldn\u2019t have complete creative control over the entire filmmaking process:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in discussion [with Marvel], but I understood that the previews of the digital effects and action scenes were done by a box in London, and that I would be there to take care of only the direction of the actors. It is not very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gens clarified with The Playlist that he was in \u201cdiscussion with\u00a0different studios,\u201d one of them being Marvel. He expanded that \u201cthe previews of the digital effects and action scenes are done by VFX companies like the Third Floor in London, and that I would be there to take care of only the direction of the actors.\u201d This would not do for Gens, who wanted full directorial control over the entire process of the film. He added:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs director living in Europe, we are in charge of the entire process of the film. This is, I believe, why most of the European directors decline U.S. studio movies. Because at one point, on these productions, you are reduced to just directing fields\/reverse fields on actors in front of a green background. In Europe, we are responsible for the film from the beginning to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gens is not the only director, European or otherwise, to decline Marvel. Argentinian director\u00a0Lucrecia Martel turned down\u00a0Black Widow<\/em>\u00a0for the same reasons that Gens gives, and Edgar Wright famously walked away from\u00a0Ant-Man<\/em> well into pre-production. Gens speculates that this divided way of filmmaking \u2014 between the directors, the second-unit directors, the VFX artists \u2014 is partially what led Wright to leave\u00a0Ant-Man<\/em>. \u201cThis is, I believe, why\u00a0Edgar Wright\u00a0declined \u2018Ant-Man,\u2019 because at one point, on these productions, you are reduced to just directing fields\/reverse fields on actors in front of a green background,\u201d Gens said.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cDirecting a Marvel film can make a great calling card, but I\u2019m not even sure that the names of the directors of Captain Marvel are remembered today\u2026 I have already had a catastrophic experience with a studio, Hitman, and I don\u2019t want to do it again, especially at 45\u2026 Besides, I refuse all American orders.\u201d
\nAside from hilariously saying he \u201crefuses all American orders,\u201d Gens is probably right to be suspicious of working in Hollywood again after his 2007 adaptation of the\u00a0Hitman<\/em> video game<\/a> franchise was a massive box office bomb and critical failure. And, while Marvel can afford rising filmmakers a nice platform, Gens kind of has a point: Marvel\u2019s formulaic app<\/a>roach can prevent its films from forming a real identity, leading them to start to\u00a0bleed together in their sameness. Though with directors like Taika Waititi and James Gunn ensuring that their own personal stamps remain on their films, that might be changing.<\/p>\n

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