The Marvels director Nia DaCosta will be the first to admit that the 2023 Marvel Cinematic Universe movie could have turned out better.
What did The Marvels director Nia DaCosta say about her time in the MCU?
Speaking at Dublin’s second annual screenwriting festival Storyhouse this week, DaCosta opened up about helming the Captain Marvel sequel, revealing that the finished movie was not the one she originally set out to make.
“They had a date, and they were prepping certain things, and you just have to lean into the process hardcore,” she stated. “The way they make those films is very different to the way, ideally, I would make a film, so you just have to lean into the process and hope for the best. The best didn’t happen this time, but you kind of have to trust in the machine.”
The director continued, “It was interesting because there was a certain point when I was like, ‘Ok, this isn’t going to be the movie that I pitched or even the first version of the movie that I shot’ so I realised that this is now an experience and it’s learning curve and it really makes you stronger as a filmmaker in terms of your ability to navigate.”
The Marvels serves as a sequel to the 2019 movie Captain Marvel and the Disney+ limited series WandaVision (2021) and Ms. Marvel (2022), which introduced audiences to Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers, Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau, and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan, respectively. After their powers become entangled, this unlikely trio is forced to team up and learn how to work together to stop the villainous Dar-Benn and save the universe.
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While The Marvels was a rare box office flop for Marvel Studios, the 2023 superhero movie may soon be revisited by fans ahead of the release of Avengers: Doomsday in 2026. With Kelsey Grammer reprising his role from The Marvels’ post-credits scene as X-Men member Beast, it’s been theorized that all of the returning X-Men actors will be playing variants from the universe that Monica Rambeau ends up in at the end of the 2023 movie.
The Marvels is available to stream on Disney+.
(Source: ComicBookMovie)
