Why didn't Marvel Comics choose a famous director to direct the film?

The reasons why Marvel Comics can choose an unnamed director are mainly reflected in two aspects: 1 and the brand advantages that Marvel Comics has built for more than ten years. 2. The perfect industrialized film system in America.

From Iron Man in 2008 to the final release of The Avengers in 20 19, in just ten years, 23 films have been released in Marvel Movie Universe, including Raytheon, Captain America and The Avengers.

And admirably, the production level of these 23 films is above the benchmark, and there are almost no bad films, so that Marvel comics can occupy half of the box office list.

The Avengers: The Final Battle, which was released on 20 19, pushed Avatar to the top of the global box office, and the The Avengers series became the most popular movie series in the world.

In other words, in addition to the influence of comics, Marvel Movie Universe has formed its own brand appeal on a global scale. With the growth of Marvel comic films, the protagonists have become global movie stars.

For example, Robert Downey Jr., the actor of Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., the actor of Black Widow, and Captain America, Thor and Doctor Strange, which have long been well-known.

Marvel comics have made these international stars, and these stars who grew up with Marvel comics have also expanded the brand appeal of Marvel comics to the greatest extent through their own efforts and persistence.

In fact, before Robert Downey Jr. joined Marvel Comics, he had made some achievements. After the release of Iron Man, which grossed as much as $580 million in 2008, Marvel Pictures was on the verge of bankruptcy.

During the ten years of Marvel Comics, Robert Downey Jr. participated in more than ten films, including Iron Man, Captain America and The Avengers. This persistence and stability is hard to achieve in domestic film and television circles.

If brand influence and star appeal are the soft power for Marvel Comics to choose famous directors, then the degree of industrialization of American movies is the potential hard power of Marvel Comics movies.

As a multi-ethnic immigrant country, the history of the United States is only 244 years. American movies have a history of 100 years, and have formed an industrialized system represented by Hollywood.

Hollywood not only gathers the best filmmakers in the world, but also has a clear division of labor and guarantee system.

Under the industrialized system, most film participants appear in the form of occupation or work, and it is difficult to see the phenomenon that the film is stopped because of the salary or attitude of a star.

In the film industry assembly line, no one is irreplaceable, and Hollywood's security system and the professionalism of employees have greatly weakened the "authority" of directors and star groups.

Therefore, for Marvel comics that have formed their own style and brand, a conscientious and passionate director is obviously more cost-effective than a well-known director.

For well-known directors, the assembly-line Marvel movie universe is also difficult to satisfy the director's own creative desire and inspiration.

In other words, Marvel comics, which have formed a stable ecology, are more suitable for directors and actors who need a stage.

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This involves the planning and strategy of Marvel Comics for its own film "Universe".

Marvel Comics' strategy for its films is to seek "stability"

For a movie universe, the most important thing is stability.

Because only continuous "stable output" can make the brand gradually absorb popularity and improve its popularity.

In other words, most of Marvel Universe's movies belong to the same level, and occasionally there are excellent works.

If we use numbers as a metaphor, it is that most of Marvel's movies are hovering around 70~80 points, the worst ones are not less than 60 points, and some high-quality movies can reach 90 points. It can also be seen from the Marvel comic film index of rotten tomatoes on the external network that the Marvel universe is really "stable".

If there are children's shoes, shouldn't we find some famous directors to direct the film in order to ensure the "stability" of the film? Don't you think Marvel comics are worried about choosing some unknown people and making mistakes?

This actually involves the overall planning direction of the Marvel universe.

Marvel Universe = Marvel Comics Series

Obviously, Marvel Comics intends to make its own movies into a series-like model, but this is not a TV series, but a movie series.

So what is the most important point of serial mode? It's a unified style.

After all, if this movie (this episode) is miserable and another movie (the other episode) is more interesting than Feng, it is fine to say that they are the same movie universe, but it will obviously weaken the correlation between the two.

Therefore, most people say that Marvel Comics movies are family-friendly, which is why Disney and Marvel Comics intend to unify their movie styles.

However, we know that each director's personal style is different. Some directors pursue special effects, some pursue plot connotation, some like cool colors, and some like big scenes. Especially famous directors like James Wan and Nolan have stronger personal characteristics when making movies.

Want these famous directors to abandon their own style to cater to the family interest style designated by Marvel comics executives? This is almost impossible.

Take James Wan as an example. After filming Speed and furious 7, he said that he would not shoot Speed 8 again, because he was disturbed by some restrictions on his own play during the filming process. Even though Universal Pictures promised him "a reward that could change his life", he resolutely refused.

It can be seen that for these famous directors, they make movies for their own pursuit, which does not mean that they will be willing to shoot if you give them more money (in fact, they are not short of money)

What's more, even if someone really manages them, these directors are both powerful and popular, and it's not good for Marvel comics executives to manage too much.

On the contrary, it is very convenient for Marvel Comics executives to control their films by selecting some little-known directors or ordinary directors, and to implement Marvel Comics' strategy for their films-weakening the director's personal style and enhancing the unity of Marvel Comics' film style.

There are children's shoes again Weakening the style is one thing, but what if these young directors are not strong enough to smash the film?

This has to talk about the "assembly line" movie strategy of Marvel Universe today.

Many accessories of Marvel comic films are decided by the top management.

Because every movie in Marvel Comics actually involves the direction of future planning, the big framework and plot direction are not decided by the director, but decided by the top management in Marvel Comics.

Take Ant Man 1-2 as an example. How many "accessories" in Marvel comics are written by senior officials?

First, quantum field, because this is the key to the infinite inversion in Reunion 4, so the movie Ant Man must closely follow this point and unfold the plot around this point to pave the way for the time travel of Reunion 4.

Second, Ant Man must be given a daughter, because Marvel Comics has plans for the future film Young The Avengers, and Ant Man's daughter, Ant Girl, is one of them.

Thirdly, the timeline of Ant Man 1 is the final work of the second stage after the reunion of 2, so it can be basically determined that the pattern is very small. After all, it's impossible to have a fistfight just after getting back together 2. Is your Ant Man having a fistfight again?

The timelines of Ant Man 2 and Reunion 3 are basically carried out at the same time, which also proves that even if you can make Ant Man huge, you can't make it a big war. After all, Reunion is fighting Thanos's army.

Although in Marvel comics, it seems that only three "accessories" are decided by the top, and each of these "accessories" has great influence.

The first point directly leads to the fact that the whole plot trend of Ant Man movie must revolve around quantum field, and it cannot be played freely or deviated too far; The second point is that it is basically certain that the film "Ant Man" must take a warm family style; The third point determines the size of the film.

From this point of view, compared with the directors who make ordinary movies, the directors in Marvel comics actually have to do relatively little work. You know, many unknown directors themselves may not be able to make the whole film in order, but now there is so much less work to be done, which is also very beneficial to their own play.

This is the way that Marvel Comics executives control the quality of their films, the mature Marvel Comics brand, and the reason why Marvel Comics films have been so "stable".

To sum up, the requirements for selecting directors for Marvel Comics are obedient, well managed, and willing to give up their personal style and turn themselves into a member of the assembly line for Marvel Universe. Obviously, it is impossible for some very famous directors to accept it.

For Marvel comic films, it is not that some well-known directors are not selected to direct their own films, but it is completely unnecessary, and it is not necessarily a good thing for Marvel movie universe for many well-known directors to direct Marvel comic films!

As a representative film series that adopts the film universe system at present, it can be said that the films of Marvel Comics have great appeal in the global market, so that many other films choose to "avoid" when the films of Marvel Comics are launched, and the delayed release mode is staggered with the films of Marvel Comics.

This is also because most of the works released at the same time as Marvel comic films will be reduced to cannon fodder in nine cases out of ten due to factors such as the number of films arranged in cinemas, and even the quality of the films themselves may be good.

And this is the "hunger strike" release style of Marvel comic films-

With their own film quality and huge fan base, they can get a large number of films and compress the living space of other films in the same period, but there is nothing they can do. After all, the style of Marvel comic films can really attract the viewing motivation of most fans.

But, interestingly:

If you look closely, you will actually find that in many movies of Marvel Comics, there are more "ordinary" directors instead of internationally famous directors, the most typical of which is the director of Eternal Family, and Zhao Ting is used in Marvel Comics.

Obviously, if you search the works of "Director Zhao Ting" a little, you will find that before taking over "Eternal Family", there were only two works directed by Zhao Ting, but the standards of these two works are not low-

Therefore, what we need to know is that when Marvel Comics chooses its own film director, the so-called "ordinary" is actually compared with those international directors, such as Christopher Nolan Great God and James Wan, and these so-called "ordinary directors" are actually very powerful.

Of course, we can also see another implicit requirement of Marvel Comics for their own films to choose Marvel Comics, that is-

Control!

Obviously, fans who are familiar with Marvel comic films or most Hollywood films should know that in many big budget stories, the top management of film production needs to have great control over the films.

For Marvel comics, this kind of "control" actually does not mean how to shoot the film itself, but the position arrangement of the film in the whole Marvel movie universe, and the setting of some elements that can be linked with other Marvel comic films in this film.

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This is actually the reason why many fans who have seen Marvel comic films like to study Marvel comic films, because Marvel comics are the kind of film companies that can insert a "plot egg" into one of their own films a few years in advance, and then feed back the origin of this egg setting through a film a few years later.

Typically:

In "The Avengers 2", the Chinese and American teams shook the setting of Thor Hammer in the The Avengers Party, and the decisive battle in "Avengers 4" gave the corresponding plot setting.

Similarly, some small details will be used in Marvel Comics movies to suggest that some new heroes of Marvel Comics may be online later, such as the "cocoon" of warlock Adam in "Galaxy Guard 2", suggesting that warlock Adam may be online in the third "Silver Guard".

In fact, this is the main intervention of Marvel Comics executives in the film. Of course, what we need to know here is that Marvel Comics is different from the settings between DC and Warner next door. Marvel comics will only "intervene" in the planning between a single movie and the whole movie universe, but Marvel comics will not particularly intervene in the shooting and screening methods of the movie itself.

Because Marvel Comics adopts the "director-centered system", correspondingly, Warner's intervention in DC is not only the overall planning of the film, but also some intervention in how to shoot and what to shoot some series of works.

This is also the main reason why the DC movie world (excluding DC independent movies) is still "half dead".

Therefore, for Marvel comics, the use of these "ordinary directors" is actually more often to facilitate his own timely adjustment in the planning of the entire movie universe.

However, it is a big question whether it can meet the demand of control if Marvel comic films are made by well-known directors.

After all, most well-known directors still have their own ideas about their own works, and many times this idea does not necessarily fit the overall planning of the Marvel movie universe, which is one of the reasons why Marvel comics are rarely directed by well-known directors.

The style of famous directors is actually a big problem!

For film directors, the style of each film is greatly influenced by the director's style, which means that in many cases, we will see the director's own extremely strong personality elements in some films.

This is actually a good thing for a single independent film, because it can distinguish this film from other films of the same type, but it may be a disaster for Marvel comics who are committed to the film universe system!

Why do you say that?

As mentioned earlier, well-known directors have their own styles. Many times, if they meet some big-name directors, they may not necessarily shoot the current films according to the requirements of the later planning of Marvel film universe. Obviously, this potential hidden danger contradiction will cause unnecessary production consumption.

For example:

If Marvel Comics asks Nolan to direct a Marvel Comics film, perhaps the Marvel Comics film will be sought after by fans in plot and special effects, but this film is likely to be "independent" from the Marvel film universe system.

The same problem is rare in Washington, DC-

Whether it is Batman's The Dark Knight Trilogy or The Clown before it, the quality of a single work is nothing to talk about, but from the perspective of DC movie universe architecture, the correlation between these two works and DC movie universe is difficult to meet the requirements.

Obviously, for Marvel comics, this situation will naturally not be allowed.

Therefore, to avoid this situation, we should also consider the planning and development of the whole film universe. In fact, it is much more convenient to choose the "directors" of these top directors and even the new generation directors.

Take a step back and say-

In terms of actor selection and script requirements, Marvel Comics adopts the principle of choosing only the right ones, not the most expensive ones, and the latter chooses top screenwriters to create scripts.

Then, under the condition that the actors are suitable and the scripts are top-notch, in fact, as long as the directors with the right level and some elements of their own style, a Marvel comic film with good quality and interesting points can be produced, which is also a practice of seeking stability.

Of course, more importantly, this film can have the attribute of "connecting the preceding with the following", and can assist the previous or subsequent movie plots on the premise of its own box office.

This is the main appeal of Marvel comic films in most cases. Obviously, we don't rule out that there will be top directors in Marvel comics who can meet this demand. But on the whole, in most cases, the strong style of these directors will still have the potential to destroy the whole system of Marvel comic films.

Marvel comics take the plot system style, while famous directors take the personal system style!

In fact, both Marvel comics and DC movies have their own style settings. For example, many movies in Marvel Comics adopt the "family entertainment" style, while DC movies adopt the "dark" style, which many fans can perceive.

In fact, this style setting that can be perceived by fans is also true between the film and the director. Usually, we take James Wan as an example-

Fans who are familiar with the director know that James Wan is known as the "horror film movie master" because most of James Wan's films have their own horror element style, which is different from ordinary horror films, but belongs to James Wan's own understanding of horror element films.

Even in Akuaman directed by James Wan before DC, although the overall style is biased towards Marvel's family style, when it comes to the plot of "seal clan" in the film, the painting style of the film is typical of James Wan-style horror element style.

In fact, if it is only a part of a film, it will be very good, but I am afraid the whole film is full of such strong elements of the film director's own style.

This, in fact, is contrary to the planning of Marvel comics taking the plot system style.

Because, for Marvel comic films, the overall style is not only "relatively unified", but more Marvel comics hope that fans and fans can attach their recognition and love to this style to the whole Marvel movie universe system, not the director. After all, top directors can't make movies for Marvel comics all their lives.

Therefore, if the director's style is too strong to cover the film, it may reappear that fans follow the film director and the universe of Marvel movies will be reduced, which is obviously what Marvel comics don't want to see, but what Marvel comics prefer to see is actually the opposite rhythm.

In this regard, the same truth can actually be seen in the relationship between Marvel comic films and actors-

There are many popular characters like Iron Man. In fact, Marvel Comics will let them go offline at the right time, which is also an operation to ensure that fans' attention is always in the movie universe system, rather than a single "element" that may be separated at any time.

However, in general:

Although Marvel comics rarely use top directors, on the other hand, this operation can also find some directors with new vitality and new ideas to join the Marvel movie universe, so that the Marvel movie universe has always maintained a continuous vitality attribute.

Of course, in addition, although the directors of Marvel Comics are not the best, many screenwriters are top-notch, and many such screenwriters have written scripts for All!

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